Just So Stories Vol. I

Just So Stories Vol. I — page 7 — Just So Stories and he bit and he leaped and he creeped and he prowled and he howled and he hopped and he dropped and he cried and he sighed and he crawled and he bawled and he stepped and he lepped and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn’t and the Whale felt most unhappy indeed Have you forgotten the suspenders So he said to the Stute Fish This man is very nubbly and besides he is making me hiccup What shall I do Tell him to come out said the Stute Fish So the Whale called down his own throat to the ship wrecked Mariner Come out and behave yourself I’ve got the hiccups Nay nay said the Mariner Not so but far otherwise otherwise Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of Albion and I’ll think about it And he began to dance more than ever 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 with both flippers and his tail as hard as he could for the hiccups and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white cliffs-of-Albion and he rushed halfway 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

Just So Stories Vol. I — page 8 — Now you know why you were not to forget the suspenders

Just So Stories Vol. I — page 9 — Just So Stories the Whale had been swimming the Mariner who was indeed indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating 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 By means of a grating I have stopped your ating For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an And he stepped out on the shingle and went home to his Mother who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water and he married and lived happily ever afterward So did the Whale But from that day on the grating in his throat which he could neither cough up nor swallow down prevented prevented him eating anything except very very small fish and that is the reason why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls The small Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under the Door-sills of the Equator He was afraid that the Whale might be angry with him The Sailor took the jack-knife home He was wearing the blue canvas breeches when he walked out on the shin

Just So Stories Vol. I — page 10 — And he married and lived happily ever afterward So did the Whale

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