‘Fiddle!’ said the Leopard. ‘I remember them perfectly on the High Veldt, especially their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golden-yellow from head to heel; and Zebra is about four and a half feet high, of a ‘sclusively grey-fawn colour from head to heel.’
‘Umm,’ said the Ethiopian (м-да, — сказал Эфиоп), looking into the speckly-spickly shadows of the aboriginal Flora-forest (вглядываясь в пятнисто-пятнашные тени леса с туземной Флорой). ‘Then they ought to show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smoke-house (тогда они должны бросаться в глаза в этом темном месте, как спелые бананы в коптильне;
But they didn’t (но они не бросались). The Leopard and the Ethiopian hunted all day (Леопард и Эфиоп проохотились весь день); and though they could smell them and hear them (и хотя они чуяли их и слышали их), they never saw one of them (они так и не увидели /ни/ одного из них).
‘For goodness sake (для пользы дела[45];
banana [bq'nRnq], though [Dqu], scandal [skxndl]
‘Umm,’ said the Ethiopian, looking into the speckly-spickly shadows of the aboriginal Flora-forest. ‘Then they ought to show up in this dark place like ripe bananas in a smoke-house.’
But they didn’t. The Leopard and the Ethiopian hunted all day; and though they could smell them and hear them. they never saw one of them.
‘For goodness sake,’ said the Leopard at tea-time, ‘let us wait till it gets dark. This daylight hunting is a perfect scandal.’
So they waited till dark (и они подождали до темноты), and then the Leopard heard something breathing sniffily in the starlight (а потом Леопард услышал, как кто-то дышит насмешливо в свете звезд) that fell all stripy through the branches (который падал совершенно полосатый сквозь =
branch [brRnC], quiet [kwaIqt], person [pWsn]
So they waited till dark, and then the Leopard heard something breathing sniffily in the starlight that fell all stripy through the branches, and he jumped at the noise, and it smelt like Zebra, and it felt like Zebra, and when he knocked it down it kicked like Zebra, but he couldn’t see it. So he said, ‘Be quiet, O you person without any form. I am going to sit on your head till morning, because there is something about you that I don’t understand.’