S’posing you could trot (предположим, ты мог бы пробежаться рысью;
half [hRf], importunate [Im'pLtjunqt], marvellous ['mRv(q)lqs]
S’posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific, For an afternoon’s run — Half what these gentlemen did — You would feel rather hot, But your legs would develop terrific — Yes, my importunate son, You’d be a Marvellous Kid!
THIS is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo (это изображение Старины Кенгуру) when he was the Different Animal with four short legs (когда он был Другим Животным с четырьмя короткими ножками). I have drawn him grey and woolly (я нарисовал его серым и пушистым), and you can see (и ты можешь увидеть) that he is very proud (что он очень гордый) because he has a wreath of flowers in his hair (потому что у него венок из цветов в его волосах). He is dancing on an outcrop (он пляшет на обнажении пород) (that means a ledge of rock (это означает скалистый уступ) in the middle of Australia at six o’clock before breakfast (посреди Австралии в шесть часов до завтрака). You can see that it is six o’clock (ты можешь видеть, что сейчас шесть часов), because the sun is just getting up (потому что солнце как раз поднимается). The thing with the ears and the open mouth is Little God Nqa (существо с ушами и открытым ртом — Маленькое Божество Нква). Nqa is very much surprised (Нква очень удивлен), because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before (потому что он никогда прежде не видел, чтобы Кенгуру танцевал так). Little God Nqa is just saying (Маленькое Божество Нква как раз говорит), ‘Go away (убирайся),’ but the Kangaroo is so busy dancing (но Кенгуру так занят танцем) that he has not heard him yet (что он его еще не услышал).
The Kangaroo hasn’t any real name except Boomer (у Кенгуру нет настоящего имени кроме Бумера[80];
wreath [rJT], outcrop ['autkrOp], drawn [drLn]
THIS is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was the Different Animal with four short legs. I have drawn him grey and woolly, and you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers in his hair. He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in the middle of Australia at six o’clock before breakfast. You can see that it is six o’clock, because the sun is just getting up. The thing with the ears and the open mouth is Little God Nqa. Nqa is very much surprised, because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before. Little God Nqa is just saying, ‘Go away,’ but the Kangaroo is so busy dancing that he has not heard him yet.
The Kangaroo hasn’t any real name except Boomer. He lost it because he was so proud.