"the-beginning-of-the-armadilloes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kipling Rudyard)

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'Can't curl, but can swim-
Stickly-Prickly, that's him!
Curls up, but can't swim-
{BEGINNING_OF_ARMADILLOES ^paragraph 70}
Slow-Solid, that's him!'
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Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round
Painted Jaguar till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head.
Then he went to fetch his mother.
'Mother,' he said, 'there are two new animals in the woods to-day,
and the one that you said couldn't swim, swims, and the one that you
said couldn't curl up, curls; and they've gone shares in their
prickles, I think, because both of them are scaly all over, instead of
one being smooth and the other very prickly; and, besides that, they
are rolling round and round in circles, and I don't feel comfy.'
{BEGINNING_OF_ARMADILLOES ^paragraph 75}
'Son, son!' said Mother Jaguar ever so many times, graciously waving
her tail, 'a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog, and can't be anything but a
Hedgehog; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise, and can never be anything
else.'
'But it isn't a Hedgehog, and it isn't a Tortoise. It's a little bit
of both, and I don't know its proper name.'
'Nonsense!' said Mother Jaguar. 'Everything has its proper name. I
should call it "Armadillo" till I found out the real one. And I should
leave it alone.'
So Painted Jaguar did as he was told, especially about leaving
them alone; but the curious thing is that from that day to this, O
Best Beloved, no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called
Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo. There are
Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places, of course (there are some
in my garden); but the real old and clever kind, with their scales
lying lippety-lappety one over the other, like pine-cone scales,
that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off
Days, are always called Armadillos, because they were so clever.
So ®that'sЇ all right, Best Beloved. Do you see?
{BEGINNING_OF_ARMADILLOES ^paragraph 80}
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THIS is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in Red and Black
(see illustrations). It hasn't
anything to do with the story except
that there are two Armadilloes in it- up by the top. The inciting part
are the adventures that happened to the men who went along the road
marked in red. I meant to draw Armadilloes when I began the map, and I
meant to draw manatees and spider-tailed monkeys and big snakes and
lots of Jaguars, but it was more inciting to do the map and the
venturesome adventures in red. You begin at the bottom left-hand
corner and follow the little arrows all about, and then you come quite
round again to where the adventuresome people went home in a ship
called the ®Royal Tiger.Ї This is a most adventuresome picture, and