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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 —

By means of a grating I have stopped your ating.

For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an (что касается Моряка, он был еще и Хирландец; Hibernian — ирландец, ирландка). And he stepped out on the shingle (и он вышел на берег, покрытый галькой), and went home to his mother (и пошел домой к своей маме), who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water (которая дала ему разрешение болтать ногами в воде); and he married and lived happily ever afterward (и он женился и жил счастливо всегда впоследствии = с тех пор). So did the Whale (и Кит тоже). But from that day on (но с того дня и впредь), the grating in his throat (решетка в его глотке), which he could neither cough up nor swallow down (которую он не мог ни выкашлять, ни проглотить), prevented him eating anything (мешала ему есть что-либо) except very, very small fish (кроме очень-очень мелкой рыбешки); and that is the reason why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls (вот причина того, что = вот почему киты сейчас никогда /не/ едят мужчин = /взрослых/ людей или мальчиков или маленьких девочек).

Hibernian [haI'bWnIqn], water ['wLtq], cough [kOf]

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 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 (маленькая Хитренькая Рыбка ушла = уплыла) and hid himself in the mud under the Door-sills of the Equator (и спряталась в иле под Порогом Экватора; to hide oneself — прятаться). He was afraid (он = она боялась) that the Whale might be angry with him (что Кит может на нее рассердиться; to be angry with — сердиться на).