「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(82)

　大学入試や英検やTOEICに童話が出題されることはまず考えられないとはいえ、童話には英語の基礎がたっぷり詰まっています。童話を「読まずに」英語試験でいい結果を出すことはあっても、童話を「読めずに」英語試験でいい結果を出すことはまずありえません。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(81)の解答①(perform)②(to making peace between)③(that were brought before) him④(ordinary)⑤(ignorant)⑥(host　of　other　subjects)⑦(keen) ⑧(to make himself heard)⑨(attending)⑩(so unwilling to become)⑪(dignified)⑫(reign)⑬(preserved)⑭(round to look at)⑮(composed)⑯(landed on our shores)⑰(distress)⑱(leapt from cloudless skies)⑲(rejoiced)⑳(bless)

(82)
THE SECOND CHAPTER. THOUGHTS OF HOME
IN the Royal Palace Bumpo and I had a beautiful suite of rooms of our very own—which Polynesia, Jip and Chee-Chee shared with us.

Officially Bumpo was Minister of the Interior; while I was First Lord of the Treasury. Long Arrow also had quarters there; but at ①*(static : civil : academic : present) he was absent, traveling abroad.

One night after supper when the Doctor was away in the town somewhere visiting a new-born baby, we were all sitting round the big table in Bumpo's reception-room. This we did every evening, to talk over the plans for the following day and ②*(inevitable : various : dumb : voluntary) affairs of state. It was a kind of Cabinet Meeting.

To-night however we were talking about England—and also about things to eat. We had got a little ③(of / food / tired / Indian). You see, none of the natives knew how to cook; and we had the most discouraging time training a chef for the Royal Kitchen. Most of them were champions at ④*(bursting : healing : spoiling : conserving) good food. Often we got so hungry that the Doctor would ⑤(downstairs / us / sneak / with) into the palace basement, after all the cooks were safe in bed, and fry pancakes secretly over the dying embers of the fire. The Doctor himself was the ⑥(ever / cook / finest / that) lived. But he used to make a terrible mess of the kitchen; and of course we had to be awfully careful that we didn't get caught.

Well, as I was saying, to-night food was the ⑦(at / subject / discussion /of ) the Cabinet Meeting; and I had just been ⑧*(worrying : reminding : missing : deciding) Bumpo of the nice dishes we had had at the bed-maker's house in Monteverde.

"I tell you what I would like now," said Bumpo: "a large cup of cocoa with whipped cream on the top of it. In Oxford we used to be able to get the most wonderful cocoa. It is really too bad they haven't any cocoa-trees in this island, or ⑨(cream / give / to / cows)."

"When do you suppose," asked Jip, "the Doctor ⑩*(deals : intends : sustains : restores) to move on from here?"

"I was talking to him about that only yesterday," said Polynesia. "But I couldn't get any satisfactory ⑪(of / answer / him / out). He didn't seem to want to speak about it."

There was a ⑫*(code : virus : spectacle : pause) in the conversation.

"Do you know what I believe?" she added presently. "I believe the Doctor has given up even ⑬(going / of / home / thinking)."

"Good Lord!" cried Bumpo. "You don't say!"

"Sh!" said Polynesia. "What's that noise?"

We listened; and away off in the distant corridors of the palace we heard the sentries crying,

"The King!—Make way!—The King!"

"It's he—at last," whispered Polynesia—"late, as usual. Poor man, how he does work!—Chee-Chee, get the pipe and tobacco out of the cupboard and lay the dressing-gown ⑭(chair / ready / his / on)."

When the Doctor came into the room he looked ⑮*(typical : serious : mental : contemporary) and thoughtful. Wearily he took off his crown and hung it on a peg behind the door. Then he exchanged the royal cloak for the dressing-gown, dropped into his chair at the head of the table with a deep ⑯**(interval : core : donation : sigh) and started to fill his pipe.

"Well," asked Polynesia quietly, "how did you find the baby?"

"The baby?" he ⑰**(digested : murmured : sneezed : dared)—his thoughts still seemed to be very far away—"Ah yes. The baby was much better, thank you—It has cut its second tooth."

Then he was silent again, ⑱**(awaiting : staring : plunging : wandering) dreamily at the ceiling through a cloud of tobacco-smoke; while we all sat round quite still, waiting.

"We were wondering, Doctor," said I at last,—"just before you came in—when ⑲(would / you / starting / be) home again. We will have been on this island seven months to-morrow."

The Doctor sat forward in his ⑳(looking / uncomfortable / chair / rather).

「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(81)

　和訳せずに理解度を確認するような英文の読み方をすれば英語の学習効率は大幅に向上します。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(80)の解答①(ruled)②(have people bow down)③(properly)④(was chosen for it)⑤(without danger from storms)⑥(garbage)⑦(large lake by damming) ⑧(suffered)⑨(shape)⑩(all manner of things)⑪(to do away with)⑫(thoroughly)⑬(provided)⑭(insisted)⑮(let him have his)⑯(employed)⑰(compelled)⑱(was put away in)⑲(expedition)⑳(flying behind him in)

(81)
There was no end to the kinds of duties the Doctor had to ①*(depend : search : perform : destroy)and the questions he had to decide upon—everything, from settling disputes about lands and boundaries, ②(between / peace / making / to) husband and wife who had been throwing shoes at one another. In the east wing of the Royal Palace was the Hall of Justice. And here King Jong sat every morning from nine to eleven passing judgment on all cases ③(brought / that / before / were) him.

Then in the afternoon he taught school. The sort of things he taught were not always those you find in ④*(magnificent : informal : ordinary : military) schools. Grown-ups as well as children came to learn. You see, these Indians were ⑤**(distinct : ignorant : dynamic : eternal) of many of the things that quite small white children know—though it is also true that they knew a lot that white grown-ups never dreamed of.

Bumpo and I helped with the teaching as far as we could—simple arithmetic, and easy things like that. But the classes in astronomy, farming science, the proper care of babies, with a ⑥(subjects / host / other / of), the Doctor had to teach himself. The Indians were tremendously ⑦**(durable : tame : keen : democratic) about the schooling and they came in droves and crowds; so that even with the open-air classes (a school-house was impossible of course) the Doctor had to take them in relays and batches of five or six thousand at a time and used a big megaphone or trumpet ⑧(make / heard / to / himself).

The rest of his day was more than filled with road-making, building water-mills, ⑨*(leaking : attending : sailing : departing) the sick and a million other things.

In spite of his being ⑩(to / so / become / unwilling) a king, John Dolittle made a very good one—once he got started. He may not have been as ⑪**(revised : dignified : extracted : endangered) as many kings in history who were always running off to war and getting themselves into romantic situations; but since I have grown up and seen something of foreign lands and governments I have often thought that Popsipetel under the ⑫**(congress : reign : prefecture : jail) of Jong Thinkalot was perhaps the best ruled state in the history of the world.

The Doctor's birthday came round after we had been on the island six months and a half. The people made a great public holiday of it and there was much feasting, dancing, fireworks, speech-making and jollification.

Towards the close of the day the chief men of the two tribes formed a procession and passed through the streets of the town, carrying a very gorgeously painted tablet of ebony wood, ten feet high. This was a picture-history, such as they ⑬*(lifted : preserved : impressed : affected) for each of the ancient kings of Popsipetel to record their deeds.

With great and solemn ceremony it was set up over the door of the new palace: and everybody then clustered ⑭(to / round / at / look) it. It had six pictures on it commemorating the six great events in the life of King Jong and beneath were written the verses that explained them. They were ⑮*(urged : composed : addressed : distinguished) by the Court Poet; and this is a translation:

I
(His Landing on The Island) Heaven-sent, In his dolphin-drawn canoe From worlds unknown He ⑯(on / shores / landed / our). The very palms Bowed down their heads In welcome to the coming King.

II
(His Meeting With The Beetle) By moonlight in the mountains He communed with beasts. The shy Jabizri brings him picture-words Of great ⑰**(analogy : distress : prey : testimony).

(He liberates The Lost Families) Big was his heart with pity; Big were his hands with strength. See how he tears the mountain like a yam! See how the lost ones Dance forth to greet the day!

IV
(He Makes Fire) Our land was cold and dying. He waved his hand and lo! Lightning ⑱(skies / from / leapt / cloudless); The sun leant down; And Fire was born! Then while we crowded round The grateful glow, pushed he Our wayward, floating land Back to peaceful anchorage In sunny seas.

V
(He Leads The People To Victory in War) Once only Was his kindly countenance Darkened by a deadly frown. Woe to the wicked enemy That dares attack The tribe with Thinkalot for Chief!

VI
(He Is Crowned King) The birds of the air ⑲*(confined : interfered : rejoiced : contradicted); The Sea laughed and gambolled with her shores; All Red-skins wept for joy The day we crowned him King. He is the Builder, the Healer, the Teacher and the Prince; He is the greatest of them all. May he live a thousand thousand years, Happy in his heart, To ⑳**(revenge : bless : exert : dispatch) our land with Peace.

「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(80)

　「つまらない勉強でも継続すれば力がつきます」という趣旨の記載をある英語学習サイトで見つけました。それは一面の真理にしても、楽しいに越したことはないと思います。
　そんなわけで著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(79)の解答①(began to speak in)②(recited)③(waving his hand towards)④(deeds)⑤(what)⑥(appearance)⑦(took it from him) ⑧(splendid)⑨(content)⑩(die away as it)⑪(topple)⑬(legend)⑭(standing up looking at)⑮(anxiety)⑯(creep)⑰(come to rest on)⑱(matter)⑲(land sinking beneath them) ⑳(to do him honor)

(80)
PART SIX
THE FIRST CHAPTER. NEW POPSIPETEL
JONG THINKALOT had not ①*(praised : ruled : injured : tackled) over his new kingdom for more than a couple of days before my notions about kings and the kind of lives they led changed very considerably. I had thought that all that kings had to do was to sit on a throne and ②(down / have / bow / people) before them several times a day. I now saw that a king can be the hardest-working man in the world—if he attends ③*(ultimately : properly : merely : barely) to his business.

From the moment that he got up, early in the morning, till the time he went to bed, late at night—seven days in the week—John Dolittle was busy, busy, busy. First of all there was the new town to be built. The village of Popsipetel had disappeared: the City of New Popsipetel must be made. With great care a place ④(chosen / it / was / for)—and a very beautiful position it was, at the mouth of a large river. The shores of the island at this point formed a lovely wide bay where canoes—and ships too, if they should ever come—could lie peacefully at anchor ⑤(danger / without / storms / from ).

In building this town the Doctor gave the Indians a lot of new ideas. He showed them what town-sewers were, and how ⑥*(council : garbage : bribe : nutrition) should be collected each day and burnt. High up in the hills he made a ⑦(by / large / damming / lake) a stream. This was the water-supply for the town. None of these things had the Indians ever seen; and many of the sicknesses which they had ⑧*(respected : filled : suffered : failed) from before were now entirely prevented by proper drainage and pure drinking-water.

Peoples who don't use fire do not of course have metals either; because without fire it is almost impossible to ⑨*(search : digest : shape : cram) iron and steel. One of the first things that John Dolittle did was to search the mountains till he found iron and copper mines. Then he set to work to teach the Indians how these metals could be melted and made into knives and plows and water-pipes and ⑩(manner / things / all / of).

In his kingdom the Doctor tried his hardest ⑪(with / do / to / away) most of the old-fashioned pomp and grandeur of a royal court. As he said to Bumpo and me, if he must be a king he meant to be a ⑫*(anxiously : thoroughly : curiously : superficially) democratic one, that is a king who is chummy and friendly with his subjects and doesn't put on airs. And when he drew up the plans for the City of New Popsipetel he had no palace shown of any kind. A little cottage in a back street was all that he had ⑬*(clarrified : worried : provided : congraturated) for himself.

But this the Indians would not permit on any account. They had been used to having their kings rule in a truly grand and kingly manner; and they ⑭*(insisted : blowed : owed : reflected) that he have built for himself the most magnificent palace ever seen. In all else they ⑮(have / let / his / him) own way absolutely; but they wouldn't allow him to wriggle out of any of the ceremony or show that goes with being a king. A thousand servants he had to keep in his palace, night and day, to wait on him. The Royal Canoe had to be kept up—a gorgeous, polished mahogany boat, seventy feet long, inlaid with mother-o'-pearl and paddled by the hundred strongest men in the island. The palace-gardens covered a square mile and ⑯*(proceeded : employed : accorded : lectured) a hundred and sixty gardeners.

Even in his dress the poor man was ⑰**(compelled : expanded : incorporated : abided) always to be grand and elegant and uncomfortable. The beloved and battered high hat ⑱(in / put / was / away) a closet and only looked at secretly. State robes had to be worn on all occasions. And when the Doctor did once in a while manage to sneak off for a short, natural-history ⑲*(sin : coward : expedition : mammal) he never dared to wear his old clothes, but had to chase his butterflies with a crown upon his head and a scarlet cloak ⑳(him / flying / in / behind) the wind.
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「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(79)

　やさしいものをしっかり習得してから上に進めば英語学習はそれほど大変なものではありません。しかし、童話が読めない段階でシェイクスピアを読ませるようなことをしてしまうと、英語力養成はきわめて困難な作業になります。効率的英語力養成の必須条件は子ども向け読み物を楽に読めるようにするとことで、大人が楽しめる童話は結構あります。
　そんなわけで著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(78)の解答①(fortune)②(murmured)③(formed up to leave)④(impressed)⑤(dizzy)⑥(for)⑦(disturbed)⑧(sent chills running up) ⑨(took his breath away)⑩(represents)⑪(decorated)⑫(signify)⑬(represent)⑭(proud to be known) ⑮(enormous)⑯(polished)⑰(ascending)⑱(halted)⑲(accompanied)⑳(dangled six inches from)
(79)
Then the old man turned round and looking up at the people ①(in / began / speak / to) a quiet even voice; but every word he said was easily heard in the furthest corner of the Whispering Rocks.

First he ②**(erected : recited : contrived : arosed) the names of all the great Popsipetel kings who in days long ago had been crowned in this ivory chair. He spoke of the greatness of the Popsipetel people, of their triumphs, of their hardships. Then ③(his / waving / towards / hand) the Doctor he began recounting the things which this king-to-be had done. And I am bound to say that they easily outmatched the ④**(clues : deeds : eruptions : counterparts) of those who had gone before him.

As soon as he started to speak of ⑤(where : that : what : when) the Doctor had achieved for the tribe, the people, still strictly silent, all began waving their right hands towards the throne. This gave to the vast theatre a very singular ⑥*(means : biology : appearance: poverty)acres and acres of something moving—with never a sound.

At last the old man finished his speech and stepping up to the chair, very respectfully removed the Doctor's battered high hat. He was about to put it upon the ground; but the Doctor ⑦(from / took / him / it) hastily and kept it on his lap. Then taking up the Sacred Crown he placed it upon John Dolittle's head. It did not fit very well (for it had been made for smaller-headed kings), and when the wind blew in freshly from the sunlit sea the Doctor had some difficulty in keeping it on. But it looked very ⑧*(available : splendid : absolute : spiritual).

Turning once more to the people, the old man said,

"Men of Popsipetel, behold your elected king!—Are you ⑨**(numerous : sound : appropriate : content)?"

And then at last the voice of the people broke loose.

"JONG! JONG!" they shouted, "LONG LIVE KING JONG!"

The sound burst upon the solemn silence with the crash of a hundred cannon. There, where even a whisper carried miles, the shock of it was like a blow in the face. Back and forth the mountains threw it to one another. I thought the echoes of it would never ⑩(as / die / it / away) passed rumbling through the whole island, jangling among the lower valleys, booming in the distant sea-caves.

Suddenly I saw the old man point upward, to the highest mountain in the island; and looking over my shoulder, I was just in time to see the Hanging Stone ⑪***(avert : revolt : topple : adore)slowly out of sight—down into the heart of the volcano.

"See ye, Men of the Moving Land!" the old man cried: "The stone has fallen and our ⑬*(legend : syndrome : utility : desert) has come true: the King of Kings is crowned this day!"

The Doctor too had seen the stone fall and he was now ⑭(at / standing / looking / up) the sea expectantly.

"He's thinking of the air-chamber," said Bumpo in my ear. "Let us hope that the sea isn't very deep in these parts."

After a full minute (so long did it take the stone to fall that depth) we heard a muffled, distant, crunching thud—and then immediately after, a great hissing of escaping air. The Doctor, his face tense with ⑮**(flavor : anxiety : gender : paradox), sat down in the throne again still watching the blue water of the ocean with staring eyes.

Soon we felt the island slowly sinking beneath us. We saw the sea ⑯**(decay : glow : creep : breed) inland over the beaches as the shores went down—one foot, three feet, ten feet, twenty, fifty, a hundred. And then, thank goodness, gently as a butterfly alighting on a rose, it stopped! Spidermonkey Island had ⑰(on / rest / to / come) the sandy bottom of the Atlantic, and earth was joined to earth once more.

Of course many of the houses near the shores were now under water. Popsipetel Village itself had entirely disappeared. But it didn't ⑱*(advance : matter : achieve : perform). No one was drowned; for every soul in the island was high up in the hills watching the coronation of King Jong.

The Indians themselves did not realize at the time what was taking place, though of course they had felt the ⑲(beneath / land / them / sinking). The Doctor told us afterwards that it must have been the shock of that tremendous shout, coming from a million throats at once, which had toppled the Hanging Stone off its perch. But in Popsipetel history the story was handed down (and it is firmly believed to this day) that when King Jong sat upon the throne, so great was his mighty weight, that the very island itself sank down ⑳(do / honor / to / him) and never moved again.
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「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(78)

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　「楽しい読書を通して英語力をつけて試験も余裕でクリアーしましょう」といった趣旨で書いてきたことにご賛同頂けているとすれば素直に嬉しいです。そのため本日も「ドリトル先生航海記」からの練習問題を続けます。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(77)の解答①(murmur)②(right out of his)③(bother)④(satisfy) ⑤(worthy)⑥(fitted)⑥(fulfil)⑦(people behind him in)⑧(have none but you)⑨(get me out of )⑩(excuse)⑪(witness)⑫(do must go undone) ⑬(grant)⑭(interfere)⑮(relieve)⑯(white man to get)⑰(thick)⑱(solemn)⑲(appeal)⑳(muttering beneath his breath)

(78)
"Farewell!" called Long Arrow from his bed, "and may good ①*(fortune : phenomenon : cause : negotiation) ever stand within the shadow of your throne!"

"He comes!—He comes!" ②*(scanned : wandered : murmured : pierced) the crowd. "Away! Away!—To the Whispering Rocks!"

And as the procession ③(up / leave / formed / to) the village, the crowd about us began hurrying off in the direction of the mountains to make sure of good seats in the giant theatre where the crowning ceremony would take place.

THE TENTH CHAPTER. THE CORONATION OF KING JONG
IN my long lifetime I have seen many grand and inspiring things, but never anything that ④*(concerned : impressed : confirmed : reminded) me half as much as the sight of the Whispering Rocks as they looked on the day King Jong was crowned. As Bumpo, Chee-Chee, Polynesia, Jip and I finally reached the ⑤***(explicit : obsolete : dizzy : vulnerable) edge of the great bowl and looked down inside it, it was like gazing over a never-ending ocean of copper-colored faces; ⑥(although : for : unless : so) every seat in the theatre was filled, every man, woman and child in the island—including Long Arrow who had been carried up on his sick bed—was there to see the show.

Yet not a sound, not a pin-drop, ⑦*(relied : disturbed : pleased : allowed) the solemn silence of the Whispering Rocks. It was quite creepy and ⑧(up / sent / running / chills) and down your spine. Bumpo told me afterwards that it ⑨(his / took / away / breath) too much for him to speak, but that he hadn't known before that there were that many people in the world.

Away down by the Table of the Throne stood a brand-new, brightly colored totem-pole. All the Indian families had totem-poles and kept them set up before the doors of their houses. The idea of a totem-pole is something like a door-plate or a visiting card. It ⑩**(undertakes : comprehends : represents : conceives)in its carvings the deeds and qualities of the family to which it belongs. This one, beautifully ⑪*(performed : decorated : estimated : imported) and much higher than any other, was the Dolittle or, as it was to be henceforth called, the Royal Thinkalot totem. It had nothing but animals on it, to ⑫**(compose : signify : resort : bend) the Doctor's great knowledge of creatures. And the animals chosen to be shown were those which to the Indians were supposed to ⑬*(retire : persist : appreciate : represent) good qualities of character, such as, the deer for speed; the ox for perseverance; the fish for discretion, and so on. But at the top of the totem is always placed the sign or animal by which the family is most ⑭(known / proud / be / to). This, on the Thinkalot pole, was an ⑮*(elementary : external : enormous : evil) parrot, in memory of the famous Peace of the Parrots.

The Ivory Throne had been all ⑯*(polished : saved : lifted : ruined) with scented oil and it glistened whitely in the strong sunlight. At the foot of it there had been strewn great quantities of branches of flowering trees, which with the new warmth of milder climates were now blossoming in the valleys of the island.

Soon we saw the royal litter, with the Doctor seated in it, slowly ⑰**(accumulating : merging : dissolving : ascending) the winding steps of the Table. Reaching the flat top at last, it ⑱**(mediated : halted : stooped : navigated) and the Doctor stepped out upon the flowery carpet. So still and perfect was the silence that even at that distance above I distinctly heard a twig snap beneath his tread.

Walking to the throne ⑲*(established : accompanied : fastened : permitted) by the old man, the Doctor got up upon the stand and sat down. How tiny his little round figure looked when seen from that tremendous height! The throne had been made for longer-legged kings; and when he was seated, his feet did not reach the ground but ⑳(from / inches / six / dangled) the top step.

「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(77)

　楽しみながら学べば学習効率は大幅に向上します。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(76)の解答①(election) ②(was given out at)③(proper)④(govern) ⑤(disappointed)⑥(united)⑦(do wish they wouldn't)⑧(wish)⑨(drop them again when)⑩(to go on doing)⑪(end of me as)⑫(announce)⑬(throng)⑭(with long handles underneath)⑮(addressed) ⑯(clamor)⑰(desire to bask beneath)⑱(considered)⑲(so upset by anything) ⑳(known him to get)

(77)
"Oh dear!" I heard him ①**(tease : decline : murmur : inspire), looking around wildly for some escape. "What SHALL I do?—Did any of you see where I laid that stud of mine?—How on earth can I get this collar on without a stud? What a day this is, to be sure I—Maybe it rolled under the bed, Bumpo—I do think they might have given me a day or so to think it over in. Who ever heard of waking a man ②(of / right / his /out) sleep, and telling him he's got to be a king, before he has even washed his face? Can't any of you find it? Maybe you're standing on it, Bumpo. Move your feet."

"Oh don't ③**(suffer : bother : launch : cease) about your stud," said Polynesia. "You will have to be crowned without a collar. They won't know the difference."

"I tell you I'm not going to be crowned," cried the Doctor—"not if I can help it. I'll make them a speech. Perhaps that will ④*(satisfy : prevent : commit : reveal) them." He turned back to the Indians at the door.

"My friends," he said, "I am not ⑤**(incredible : worthy : vivid : bold) of this great honor you would do me. Little or no skill have I in the arts of kingcraft. Assuredly among your own brave men you will find many better ⑥*(involved : fitted : emerged : persuaded) to lead you. For this compliment, this confidence and trust, I thank you. But, I pray you, do not think of me for such high duties which I could not possibly ⑥*(ignore : predict : demand : fulfil)."

The old man repeated his words to the ⑦(him / people / in / behind) a louder voice. Stolidly they shook their heads, moving not an inch. The old man turned back to the Doctor.

"You are the chosen one," said he. "They will ⑧(you / but / none / have )."

Into the Doctor's perplexed face suddenly there came a flash of hope.

"I'll go and see Long Arrow," he whispered to me. "Perhaps he will know of some way to ⑨(me / of / get / out ) this."

And asking the personages to ⑩*(attend : excuse : address : display) him a moment, he left them there, standing at his door, and hurried off in the direction of Long Arrow's house. I followed him.

We found our big friend lying on a grass bed outside his home, where he had been moved that he might ⑪*(punish : witness : consume : define) the holiday-making.

"Long Arrow," said the Doctor speaking quickly in eagle tongue so that the bystanders should not overhear, "in dire peril I come to you for help. These men would make me their king. If such a thing befall me, all the great work I hoped to ⑫(undone / do / go / must), for who is there unfreer than a king? I pray you speak with them and persuade their kind well-meaning hearts that what they plan to do would be unwise."

Long Arrow raised himself upon his elbow. "Oh Kindly One," said he (this seemed now to have become the usual manner of address when speaking to the Doctor), "sorely it grieves me that the first wish you ask of me I should be unable to ⑬**(grant : irritate : convert : speculate). Alas! I can do nothing. These people have so set their hearts on keeping you for king that if I tried to ⑭*(flourish : endure : achieve : interfere) they would drive me from their land and likely crown you in the end in any case. A king you must be, if only for a while. We must so arrange the business of governing that you may have time to give to Nature's secrets. Later we may be able to hit upon some plan to ⑮*(found : relieve : describe : arrange) you of the burden of the crown. But for now you must be king. These people are a headstrong tribe and they will have their way. There is no other course."

Sadly the Doctor turned away from the bed and faced about. And there behind him stood the old man again, the crown still held in his wrinkled hands and the royal litter waiting at his elbow. With a deep reverence the bearers motioned towards the seat of the chair, inviting the ⑯(to / white / get / man) in.

Once more the poor Doctor looked wildly, hopelessly about him for some means of escape. For a moment I thought he was going to take to his heels and run for it. But the crowd around us was far too ⑰*(thin : common : thick : lazy) and densely packed for anyone to break through it. A band of whistles and drums near by suddenly started the music of a ⑱**(weary : solemn : secure : multiple) processional march. He turned back pleadingly again to Long Arrow in a last ⑲*(task : notice : appeal :creature) for help. But the big Indian merely shook his head and pointed, like the bearers, to the waiting chair.

At last, almost in tears, John Dolittle stepped slowly into the litter and sat down. As he was hoisted on to the broad shoulders of the bearers I heard him still feebly ⑳(his / beneath / muttering / breath),

"Botheration take it!—I don't WANT to be a king!"

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「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(76)

　大学入試であれTOEICであれ英検であれ童話が出題されることはまずないとはいえ、童話の英語が理解できない段階で良好な試験結果を出すのは困難です。日本人英語学習者は童話が満足に読めないにもかかわらず難しい教材に取り組んで苦労するケースがあまりにも多いです。あせらずに、まず童話が理解できるようにしてから教材レベルを上げていけば余計な苦労をせずに済みます。そんなわけで、子どもが読んでも大人が読んでも面白い著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。
　コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。楽しみながら英語力を伸ばしていただければ幸いです。ドリトル先生航海記で学ぶ語彙・読解をクリックするとまとめて読めますのでご利用下さい。
　いままでにここのブログで連載した「オズの魔法使い」から学ぶ頻出語彙と読解、ドリトル先生アフリカゆきで学ぶ語彙・読解もクリックすると全文読めます。
　英英辞典を使いながら問題を解くようにすると、日本語を介在させず効率的に英語力を養成できます。ただ、多少なりとも自力で英文を理解するよう努力してからの辞書の利用がおすすめです。考えずに辞書を引くような横着をしていては英語思考力が伸ばせません。

※(75)の解答①(explained)②(those on floating islands)③(stone towering above us) ④(escape)⑤(where)⑥(sticking)⑦(let us hope that)⑧(ahead of us in)⑨(hours before we could)⑩(anxious)⑪(went on traveling by)⑫(gathered)⑬(landed)⑭(election)⑮(announced)⑯(paid)⑰(proceeded)⑱(whole crew of us)⑲(appeared)⑳(curious)

(76)
We found Polynesia—who while we slept had arrived back from Bag-jagderag—sitting on our door-post watching the show. We asked her what all the holiday-making was about.

"The result of the ①*(function : election : displine : justice) has just been announced," said she. "The name of the new chief ②(given / at / out / was) noon."

"And who is the new chief?" asked the Doctor.

"You are," said Polynesia quietly.

"I!" gasped the Doctor—"Well, of all things!"

"Yes," said she. "You're the one—And what's more, they've changed your surname for you. They didn't think that Dolittle was a ③**(harsh : wicked : proper : secure) or respectful name for a man who had done so much. So you are now to be known as Jong Thinkalot. How do you like it?"

"But I don't WANT to be a chief," said the Doctor in an irritable voice.

"I'm afraid you'll have hard work to get out of it now," said she—"unless you're willing to put to sea again in one of their rickety canoes. You see you've been elected not merely the Chief of the Popsipetels; you're to be a king—the King of the whole of Spidermonkey Island. The Bag-jagderags, who were so anxious to have you ④*(fix : resolve : govern : search) them, sent spies and messengers ahead of you; and when they found that you had been elected Chief of the Popsipetels overnight they were bitterly ⑤*(encouraged : disappointed : determined : hesitated). However, rather than lose you altogether, the Bag-jagderags were willing to give up their independence, and insisted that they and their lands be ⑥*(divided : blamed : united : annoyed) to the Popsipetels in order that you could be made king of both. So now you're in for it."

"Oh Lord!" groaned the Doctor, "I ⑦(wish / wouldn't / do / they) be so enthusiastic! Bother it, I don't WANT to be a king!"

"I should think, Doctor," said I, "you'd feel rather proud and glad. I ⑧*(bother : wish : quit : attempt) I had a chance to be a king."

"Oh I know it sounds grand," said he, pulling on his boots miserably. "But the trouble is, you can't take up responsibilities and then just ⑨(again / drop / when / them) you feel like it. I have my own work to do. Scarcely one moment have I had to give to natural history since I landed on this island. I've been doing some one else's business all the time. And now they want me ⑩(on / to / doing / go) it! Why, once I'm made King of the Popsipetels, that's the ⑪(of / end / as / me) a useful naturalist. I'd be too busy for anything. All I'd be then is just a er—er just a king."

"Well, that's something!" said Bumpo. "My father is a king and has a hundred and twenty wives."

"That would make it worse," said the Doctor—"a hundred and twenty times worse. I have my work to do. I don't want to be a king."

"Look," said Polynesia, "here come the head men to ⑫*(deliver : affect : gather : announce) your election. Hurry up and get your boots laced."

The ⑬***(scrutiny : throng : spouse : sibling) before our door had suddenly parted asunder, making a long lane; and down this we now saw a group of personages coming towards us. The man in front, a handsome old Indian with a wrinkled face, carried in his hands a wooden crown—a truly beautiful and gorgeous crown, even though of wood. Wonderfully carved and painted, it had two lovely blue feathers springing from the front of it. Behind the old man came eight strong Indians bearing a litter, a sort of chair ⑭(long / underneath / with / handles) to carry it by.

Kneeling down on one knee, bending his head almost to the ground, the old man ⑮*(released : replaced : addressed : reflected) the Doctor who now stood in the doorway putting on his collar and tie.

"Oh, Mighty One," said he, "we bring you word from the Popsipetel people. Great are your deeds beyond belief, kind is your heart and your wisdom, deeper than the sea. Our chief is dead. The people ⑯***(abstain : clamor : paralyze : renounce) for a worthy leader. Our old enemies, the Bag-jagderags are become, through you, our brothers and good friends. They too ⑰(bask / to / beneath / desire) the sunshine of your smile. Behold then, I bring to you the Sacred Crown of Popsipetel which, since ancient days when this island and its peoples were one, beneath one monarch, has rested on no kingly brow. Oh Kindly One, we are bidden by the united voices of the peoples of this land to carry you to the Whispering Rocks, that there, with all respect and majesty, you may be crowned our king—King of all the Moving Land."

The good Indians did not seem to have even ⑱*(insisted : considered : ruined : applied)the possibility of John Dolittle's refusing. As for the poor Doctor, I never saw him ⑲(by / so / anything / upset). It was in fact the only time I have ⑳(him / get / known / to) thoroughly fussed.

「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(75)

　「英検準１級の過去問でコンスタントに九割取れれば１級は遠くありません」と言ったところ、「準１級の過去問で九割取るのが難しいんです」と怒られたことがあります。「それならば、２級の過去問で九割取れるようにしてから準１級レベルの英文を高い精度でたくさん読めばいいだけの話でしょう」と応じておきました。速く正確な音読ができるようにしておけば、読解よりはるかにやさしい英語が出題されるリスニングでも苦労はしません。
　準１級レベルの英文とはおおむね英語圏の小学高学年レベルの英文で、具体的には子どもニュースや童話です。童話が読めないようでは英語上達はきわめて困難になります。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(74)の解答①(change of heart in)②(impression)③(effect)④(remedy)⑤(foreign lands from which)⑥(several canoes filled with) ⑦(turmoil)⑧(faithfully working away with) ⑨(up our boat lest)⑩(climates)⑪(exploring)⑫(us what they called)⑬(striking piece of scenery)⑭(why it was called)⑮(merely)⑯(owned)⑰(in which they sat)⑱(ceremony)⑲(legend)⑳(examine)

(75)
And when we were come to the lip of the volcano (it took us half a day to get up to it) we found the stone was unbelievably large—big as a cathedral. Underneath it we could look right down into a black hole which seemed to have no bottom. The Doctor ①*(persisted : explained : reflected : searched) to us that volcanoes sometimes spurted up fire from these holes in their tops; but that ②(floating / those / islands / on) were always cold and dead.

"Stubbins," he said, looking up at the great ③(us / stone / above / towering), "do you know what would most likely happen if that boulder should fall in?"

"No," said I, "what?"

"You remember the air-chamber which the porpoises told us lies under the centre of the island?"

"Yes."

"Well, this stone is heavy enough, if it fell into the volcano, to break through into that air-chamber from above. And once it did, the air would ④*(escape : solve : provide : delay) and the floating island would float no more. It would sink."

"But then everybody on it would be drowned, wouldn't they?" said Bumpo.

"Oh no, not necessarily. That would depend on the depth of the sea ⑤(that : where : which : what) the sinking took place. The island might touch bottom when it had only gone down, say, a hundred feet. But there would be lots of it still ⑥*(insisting : falling : waking :sticking) up above the water then, wouldn't there?"

"Yes," said Bumpo, "I suppose there would. Well, ⑦(us / let / that / hope) the ponderous fragment does not lose its equilibriosity, for I don't believe it would stop at the centre of the earth—more likely it would fall right through the world and come out the other side."

Many other wonders there were which these men showed us in the central regions of their island. But I have not time or space to tell you of them now.

Descending towards the shore again, we noticed that we were still being watched, even here among the highlands, by the Bag-jagderags who had followed us. And when we put to sea once more a boatload of them proceeded to go ⑧(in / of / ahead / us ) the direction of Popsipetel. Having lighter canoes, they traveled faster than our party; and we judged that they should reach the village—if that was where they were going—many ⑨(before / hours / could / we).

The Doctor was now becoming ⑩*(envious : anxious : correct : incredible) to see how Long Arrow was getting on, so we all took turns at the paddles and ⑪(traveling / went / by / on) moonlight through the whole night.

We reached Popsipetel just as the dawn was breaking.

To our great surprise we found that not only we, but the whole village also, had been up all night. A great crowd was ⑫*(pleased : obtained : gathered : caused) about the dead chief's house. And as we ⑬*(claimed : landed : sensed : survived) our canoes upon the beach we saw a large number of old men, the seniors of the tribe, coming out at the main door.

We inquired what was the meaning of all this; and were told that the ⑭*(appetite : election : agent : landscape) of a new chief had been going on all through the whole night. Bumpo asked the name of the new chief; but this, it seemed, had not yet been given out. It would be ⑮*(conquered : desired : contained : announced) at mid-day.

As soon as the Doctor had ⑯(felt : paid : left : got) a visit to Long Arrow and seen that he was doing nicely, we ⑰**(distracted : proceeded : spared : matched) to our own house at the far end of the village. Here we ate some breakfast and then lay down to take a good rest.

Rest, indeed, we needed; for life had been strenuous and busy for us ever since we had landed on the island. And it wasn't many minutes after our weary heads struck the pillows that the ⑱(crew / whole / us / of) were sound asleep.

THE NINTH CHAPTER. THE ELECTION
WE were awakened by music. The glaring noonday sunlight was streaming in at our door, outside of which some kind of a band ⑲*(compared : adopted : warned : appeared) to be playing.

We got up and looked out. Our house was surrounded by the whole population of Popsipetel. We were used to having quite a number of ⑳*(partial : curious : essential : equal) and admiring Indians waiting at our door at all hours; but this was quite different. The vast crowd was dressed in its best clothes. Bright beads, gawdy feathers and gay blankets gave cheerful color to the scene. Every one seemed in very good humor, singing or playing on musical instruments—mostly painted wooden whistles or drums made from skins.

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「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(74)

　暗記中心の英語学習、たとえば英単語を暗記するだけである程度英語力を伸ばせても、頭が良くなることはあまり期待できません。しかし、実力相応の英文を英英辞典を使いつつ考え考え読めば思考力も伸ばせます。シンプルな設問が組込まれていれば学習効果はさらに向上します。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(73)の解答①(weak from his wound)②(accompanied)③(make themselves understood to)④(with)⑤(our canoes we passed)⑥(satisfaction)⑦(with his chin in)⑧(tribe)⑨(address)⑩(allowing)⑪(cry for mercy went)⑫(submit)⑬(peace as he dictated)⑭(of paint were used)⑮(solemn)⑯(rest)⑯(tremendous)⑰(themselves at his feet )⑱(wisdom)⑲(proved)⑳(government)

(74)
THE EIGHTH CHAPTER. THE HANGING STONE
BUT the ①(heart / change / in / of) the Bag-jagderags was really sincere. The Doctor had made a great ②*(inquiry : budget : complaint :impression) on them—a deeper one than even he himself realized at the time. In fact I sometimes think that that speech of his from the palace-steps had more ③*(guarantee : demand : effect : taste) upon the Indians of Spidermonkey Island than had any of his great deeds which, great though they were, were always magnified and exaggerated when the news of them was passed from mouth to mouth.

A sick girl was brought to him as he reached the place where the boats lay. She turned out to have some quite simple ailment which he quickly gave the ④*(remedy : project : reputation : remark) for. But this increased his popularity still more. And when he stepped into his canoe, the people all around us actually burst into tears. It seems (I learned this afterwards) that they thought he was going away across the sea, for good, to the mysterious ⑤(which / foreign / from / lands) he had come.

Some of the chieftains spoke to the Popsipetels as we pushed off. What they said I did not understand; but we noticed that ⑥(with / canoes / several / filled) Bag-jagderags followed us at a respectful distance all the way back to Popsipetel.

The Doctor had determined to return by the other shore, so that we should be thus able to make a complete trip round the island's shores.

Shortly after we started, while still off the lower end of the island, we sighted a steep point on the coast where the sea was in a great state of ⑦***(tumor : sophomore : turmoil : thesis), white with soapy froth. On going nearer, we found that this was caused by our friendly whales who were still ⑧(with / away / working / faithfully) their noses against the end of the island, driving us northward. We had been kept so busy with the war that we had forgotten all about them. But as we paused and watched their mighty tails lashing and churning the sea, we suddenly realized that we had not felt cold in quite along while. Speeding ⑨(our / lest / up / boat) the island be carried away from us altogether, we passed on up the coast; and here and there we noticed that the trees on the shore already looked greener and more healthy. Spidermonkey Island was getting back into her home ⑩(reasons : climates : residents : negotiations).

About halfway to Popsipetel we went ashore and spent two or three days ⑪*(overcoming : exploring : reserving : suspending) the central part of the island. Our Indian paddlers took us up into the mountains, very steep and high in this region, overhanging the sea. And they showed ⑫(what / called / they / us) the Whispering Rocks.

This was a very peculiar and ⑬(piece / striking / scenery / of). It was like a great vast basin, or circus, in the mountains, and out of the centre of it there rose a table of rock with an ivory chair upon it. All around this the mountains went up like stairs, or theatre-seats, to a great height—except at one narrow end which was open to a view of the sea. You could imagine it a council-place or concert-hall for giants, and the rock table in the centre the stage for performers or the stand for the speaker.

We asked our guides ⑭(it / why / called / was) the Whispering Rocks; and they said, "Go down into it and we will show you."

The great bowl was miles deep and miles wide. We scrambled down the rocks and they showed us how, even when you stood far, far apart from one another, you ⑮*(rarely : hardly : merely : strictly) had to whisper in that great place and every one in the theatre could hear you. This was, the Doctor said, on account of the echoes which played backwards and forwards between the high walls of rock.

Our guides told us that it was here, in days long gone by when the Popsipetels ⑯*(screamed : owned : ruined : suffered) the whole of Spidermonkey Island, that the kings were crowned. The ivory chair upon the table was the throne ⑰(sat / in / they / which). And so great was the big theatre that all the Indians in the island were able to get seats in it to see the ⑱*(adventure : ceremony : consumption : emotion).

They showed us also an enormous hanging stoneperched on the edge of a volcano's crater—the highest summit in the whole island. Although it was very far below us, we could see it quite plainly, and it looked wobbly enough to be pushed off its perch with the hand. There was a ⑲*(obstacle : legend : mystery : promotion) among the people, they said, that when the greatest of all Popsipetel kings should be crowned in the ivory chair, this hanging stone would tumble into the volcano's mouth and go straight down to the centre of the earth.

The Doctor said he would like to go and ⑳*(flourish : examine : guess: export) it closer.

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「ドリトル先生航海記」から学ぶ大学入試・英検・TOEIC頻出語彙と読解(73)

　楽しみながら学べば学習効率は大幅に向上します。そんなわけで、著作権の切れた童話「ドリトル先生航海記」から、シンプルで、大学入試にもTOEICにも英検にも有効な練習問題を作成しています。コロンで区切られているのが四語選択問題、スラッシュで区切られているのが四語整序問題です。＊印は難易度の目安で、＊印が多いほど難しい単語になっています。無印は語法・文法等の問題です。

※(72)の解答①(parrot screech with anger)②(nasty)③(command) ④(method)⑤(hair with their claws)⑥(them anywhere else except)⑦(to get out of)⑧(no use their trying)⑨(managed)⑩(presented) ⑪( beyond)⑫(proof)⑬(how this people came)⑭(turned his attention to) ⑮(got him to bed)⑮(gave)⑯(mountains from which they)⑰(terms) ⑱(greeted)⑲(set)⑳(ceased)

(73)
Long Arrow had not come with us for he was as yet too ①(his / weak / wound / from). But the Doctor—always clever at languages—was already getting familiar with the Indian tongue. Besides, among the half-dozen Popsipetels who ②*(investigated : accompanied : maintained : objected) us to paddle the canoes, was one boy to whom we had taught a little English. He and the Doctor between them managed to ③(to / make / understood / themselves) the Bag-jagderags. This people, ④(with : unless : untill : after) the terrible parrots still blackening the hills about their stone town, waiting for the word to descend and attack, were, we found, in a very humble mood.

Leaving ⑤(passed / we / canoes / our) up the main street to the palace of the chief. Bumpo and I couldn't help smiling with ⑥*(solution : expression : satisfaction : process)as we saw how the waiting crowds which lined the roadway bowed their heads to the ground, as the little, round, angry figure of the Doctor strutted ahead of us ⑦(chin / with / in / his) the air.

At the foot of the palace-steps the chief and all the more important personages of the ⑧*(view : tribe : wage : task) were waiting to meet him, smiling humbly and holding out their hands in friendliness. The Doctor took not the slightest notice. He marched right by them, up the steps to the door of the palace. There he turned around and at once began to ⑨*(occupy : address : exhibit : follow) the people in a firm voice.

I never heard such a speech in my life—and I am quite sure that they never did either. First he called them a long string of names: cowards, loafers, thieves, vagabonds, good-for-nothings, bullies and what not. Then he said he was still seriously thinking of ⑩*(founding : allowing : obtaining : rejecting) the parrots to drive them on into the sea, in order that this pleasant land might be rid, once for all, of their worthless carcases. At this a great ⑪(for / cry / went / mercy) up, and the chief and all of them fell on their knees, calling out that they would ⑫(admit : submit : predict : regain) to any conditions of peace he wished.

Then the Doctor called for one of their scribes—that is, a man who did picture-writing. And on the stone walls of the palace of Bag-jagderag he bade him write down the terms of the ⑬(as / dictated / peace / he) it. This peace is known as The Peace of The Parrots, and—unlike most peaces—was, and is, strictly kept—even to this day.

It was quite long in words. The half of the palace-front was covered with picture-writing, and fifty pots ⑭(paint / used / of / were), before the weary scribe had done. But the main part of it all was that there should be no more fighting; and that the two tribes should give ⑮***(rotten : solemn : sly : gross) promise to help one another whenever there was corn-famine or other distress in the lands belonging to either.

This greatly surprised the Bag-jagderags. They had expected from the Doctor's angry face that he would at least chop a couple of hundred heads off—and probably make the ⑯*(best : charge : rest : crop) of them slaves for life.

But when they saw that he only meant kindly by them, their great fear of him changed to a ⑯*(ideal : tremendous : patient : negative) admiration. And as he ended his long speech and walked briskly down the steps again on his way back to the canoes, the group of chieftains threw ⑰(feet / themselves / his / at) and cried, "Do but stay with us. Great Lord, and all the riches of Bag-jagderag shall be poured into your lap. Gold-mines we know of in the mountains and pearl-beds beneath the sea. Only stay with us, that your all-powerful ⑱*(territory : wisdom : efficiency : candidate) may lead our Council and our people in prosperity and peace." The Doctor held up his hand for silence.

"No man," said he, "would wish to be the guest of the Bag-jagderags till they had ⑲*(confused : proved : cared : commanded) by their deeds that they are an honest race. Be true to the terms of the Peace and from yourselves shall come good ⑳*(contact : labor : government : promotion) and prosperity—Farewell!"

Then he turned and followed by Bumpo, the Popsipetels and myself, walked rapidly down to the canoes.

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