Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так

The Little Girl Daughter is sitting quietly in the middle of the canoe. She knows she is quite safe with her Daddy. The Eldest Magician is standing up at the other end of the canoe beginning to make a Magic. He has left his magic throne on the beach, and he has taken off his clothes so as not to get wet, and he has left the Magic Cloud behind too, so as not to tip the boat over. The thing that looks like another little canoe outside the real canoe is called an outrigger. It is a piece of wood tied to sticks, and it prevents the canoe from being tipped over. The canoe is made out of one piece of wood, and there is a paddle at one end of it.

THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF

Кот, который гулял сам по себе

Hear and attend and listen (слушайте, и внимайте, и воспринимайте); for this befell and be-happened and became and was (ибо это случилось, и приключилось, и произошло, и было; to happen — случаться, происходить; to become — происходить), O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild (О мои Самые Любименькие, когда Домашние животные были дикими). The Dog was wild (Пес был дикий), and the Horse was wild (и Лошадь была дикая), and the Cow was wild (и Корова была дикая), and the Sheep was wild (и Овца была дикая), and the Pig was wild (и Свинья была дикая) — as wild as wild could be (такая дикая, какой только могла быть) — and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods[143] by their wild lones (и они гуляли во Влажных Диких Лесах[144] в своем диком одиночестве; lone — одинокий, уединенный; to be by one’s lonesome — быть в одиночестве). But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat (но самым диким из всех диких животных был Кот). He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him (он гулял сам по себе, и все места были одинаковы для него).

wild [waIld], horse [hLs], alike [q'laIk]

Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild — as wild as wild could be — and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.