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‘You had better take him home,’ said the ‘Stute Fish to the Whale. ‘I ought to have warned you that he is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’

So the Whale swam and swam and swam (и Кит поплыл, и плыл, и плыл), with both flippers and his tail (/работая/ обоими плавниками и /своим/ хвостом), as hard as he could for the hiccoughs (изо всех сил, насколько ему позволяла икота: «так упорно, как он мог из-за икоты»); and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion (и наконец он увидел родной берег Моряка и белые утесы Альбиона), and he rushed half-way up the beach (и он выбросился наполовину на пляж), and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide (и распахнул свой рот широко-широко-широко), and said (и сказал), ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road (/здесь/ пересадка на Винчестер, Эшуэло(т), Нэшуа, Кин и станции по Фитчбургской Дороги = по Дороге на Фитчбург);’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ (и как раз когда он сказал Фитч) the Mariner walked out of his mouth (Моряк вышел из его рта = у него изо рта). But while the Whale had been swimming (но пока Кит плыл), the Mariner, who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity (Моряк, который в самом деле был человеком безграничной находчивости и сообразительности), had taken his jack-knife (взял свой нож) and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss-cross (и разрубил плот на маленькую квадратную решетку = и разрубив плот, сделал из него мелкую квадратную решетку, всю пересекавшуюся = где все дощечки пересекались крест-накрест), and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (и он связал их крепко своими помочами) (now you know why you were not to forget the suspenders (теперь вы знаете, почему вам нельзя было забывать о помочах)!), and he dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale’s throat (и он затянул эту решетку хорошенько и плотно в глотку Кита), and there it stuck (и она там застряла; to stick)! Then he recited the following Sloka (потом он прочел вслух следующую Слоку), which, as you have not heard it (которую, так как вы не слышали ее), I will now proceed to relate (я сейчас расскажу; to proceed — приступить (к), приняться (за)) —

By means of a grating (посредством решетки) I have stopped your ating (я прекратил твое обжорство).

So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road;’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ the Mariner walked out of his mouth. But while the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner, who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (now you know why you were not to forget the suspenders!), and he dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale’s throat, and there it stuck! Then he recited the following Sloka, which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate —