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(29)
"The pirates shut me in there when they were ①(to / going / steal / off )things from another ship. When I heard some one chopping on the door, I didn't know who it could be. I was very glad to ②(it / find / you / was ). Do you think you will be able to find my uncle for me?"
"Well, we are going to try very hard," said the Doctor. "Now what was your uncle like to look at?"
"He had red hair," the boy answered—"very red hair, and the picture of an anchor tattooed on his arm. He was a strong man, a kind uncle and the best sailor in the South Atlantic. His fishing-boat was called The Saucy Sally—a cutter-rigged sloop."
"What's 'cutterigsloop'?" whispered Gub-Gub, turning to Jip.
"Sh!—That's the kind of a ship the man had," said Jip. "Keep still, can't you?"
"Oh," said the pig, "is that all? I thought it was something to drink."
So the Doctor left the boy to play with the animals in the dining-room, and went upstairs to look for passing porpoises.
And soon a ③(dancing / whole / came / school) and jumping through the water, ④(to / way / their / on) Brazil.
When they saw the Doctor leaning on the rail of his ship, they came ⑤(see / over / how / to) he was getting on.
And the Doctor asked them if they had seen anything of a man with red hair and an anchor tattooed on his arm.
"Do you mean the master of The Saucy Sally?" asked the porpoises.
"Yes," said the Doctor. "That's the man. Has he been drowned?"
"His fishing-sloop was sunk," said the porpoises—"for we ⑥(it / saw / on / lying) the bottom of the sea. But there was nobody inside it, because we went and looked."
"His little nephew is on the ship with me here," said the Doctor. "And he is terribly afraid that the pirates threw his uncle into the sea. Would you be ⑦(to / so / as / good) find out for me, for sure, whether he has been drowned or not?"
"Oh, he isn't drowned," said the porpoises. "If he were, we would be sure to have heard of it from the deep-sea Decapods. We hear all the salt-water news. The shell-fish call us 'The Ocean Gossips.' No—tell the little boy we are sorry we do not know where his uncle is; but we are quite ⑧*(awake : certain : frequent : mental) he hasn't been drowned in the sea."
So the Doctor ran downstairs with the news and told the nephew, who ⑨**(crammed : clapped : mocked : captured)his hands with happiness. And the pushmi-pullyu took the little boy on his back and ⑩*(took : made : had : gave) him a ride round the dining-room table; while all the other animals ⑪*(prepared : followed : floated : aimed) behind, beating the dish-covers with spoons, pretending it was a parade.
THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER
SMELLS
"YOUR uncle must now be FOUND," said the Doctor—"that is the next thing—now ⑫(know / that / he / we) wasn't thrown into the sea."
Then Dab-Dab came up to him again and whispered,
"Ask the eagles to look for the man. No ⑬(creature / living / see / can)better than an eagle. When they are miles high in the air they can count the ants crawling on the ground. Ask the eagles."
So the Doctor sent one of the ⑭(get / swallows / to / off) some eagles.
And in about an hour the little bird came back with six different kinds of eagles: a Black Eagle, a Bald Eagle, a Fish Eagle, a Golden Eagle, an Eagle-Vulture, and a White-tailed Sea Eagle. Twice as high as the boy they were, each one of them. And they stood on the rail of the ship, like round-shouldered soldiers all in a row, stern and still and stiff; while their great, gleaming, black eyes shot darting glances here and there and everywhere.
Gub-Gub was ⑮**(prevailed : leaped : stripped : scared) of them and got behind a barrel. He said he felt as though those ⑯*(thick : sound : terrible : positive) eyes were looking right inside of him to see what he had stolen for lunch.
And the Doctor said to the eagles,
"A man has been lost—a fisherman with red hair and an anchor marked on his arm. Would you be so kind as to ⑰(can / you / if / see) find him for us? This boy is the man's nephew."
Eagles do not talk very much. And all they answered in their husky voices was,
"You may ⑱(that / be / we / sure) will do our best—for John Dolittle."
Then they flew off—and Gub-Gub came out from behind his barrel ⑲(go / to / them / see). Up and up and up they went—higher and higher and higher still. Then, when the Doctor could only just see them, they parted company and started going off all different ways—North, East, South and West, looking like ⑳**(grateful : tiny : fake : silly) grains of black sand creeping across the wide, blue sky.
※(29)の解答①(going off to steal)②(find it was you)③(whole school came dancing) ←ここでのschoolは「群れ」の意味④(on their way to)⑤(over to see how)⑥(saw it lying on)⑦(so good as to)⑧(certain) ⑨(clapped)⑩(gave)⑪(followed)⑫(that we know he)⑬(living creature can see)⑭(swallows off to get)⑮(scared)⑯(terrible)⑰(see if you can)⑱(be sure that we)⑲(to see them go)⑳(tiny)
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(29)
"The pirates shut me in there when they were ①(to / going / steal / off )things from another ship. When I heard some one chopping on the door, I didn't know who it could be. I was very glad to ②(it / find / you / was ). Do you think you will be able to find my uncle for me?"
"Well, we are going to try very hard," said the Doctor. "Now what was your uncle like to look at?"
"He had red hair," the boy answered—"very red hair, and the picture of an anchor tattooed on his arm. He was a strong man, a kind uncle and the best sailor in the South Atlantic. His fishing-boat was called The Saucy Sally—a cutter-rigged sloop."
"What's 'cutterigsloop'?" whispered Gub-Gub, turning to Jip.
"Sh!—That's the kind of a ship the man had," said Jip. "Keep still, can't you?"
"Oh," said the pig, "is that all? I thought it was something to drink."
So the Doctor left the boy to play with the animals in the dining-room, and went upstairs to look for passing porpoises.
And soon a ③(dancing / whole / came / school) and jumping through the water, ④(to / way / their / on) Brazil.
When they saw the Doctor leaning on the rail of his ship, they came ⑤(see / over / how / to) he was getting on.
And the Doctor asked them if they had seen anything of a man with red hair and an anchor tattooed on his arm.
"Do you mean the master of The Saucy Sally?" asked the porpoises.
"Yes," said the Doctor. "That's the man. Has he been drowned?"
"His fishing-sloop was sunk," said the porpoises—"for we ⑥(it / saw / on / lying) the bottom of the sea. But there was nobody inside it, because we went and looked."
"His little nephew is on the ship with me here," said the Doctor. "And he is terribly afraid that the pirates threw his uncle into the sea. Would you be ⑦(to / so / as / good) find out for me, for sure, whether he has been drowned or not?"
"Oh, he isn't drowned," said the porpoises. "If he were, we would be sure to have heard of it from the deep-sea Decapods. We hear all the salt-water news. The shell-fish call us 'The Ocean Gossips.' No—tell the little boy we are sorry we do not know where his uncle is; but we are quite ⑧*(awake : certain : frequent : mental) he hasn't been drowned in the sea."
So the Doctor ran downstairs with the news and told the nephew, who ⑨**(crammed : clapped : mocked : captured)his hands with happiness. And the pushmi-pullyu took the little boy on his back and ⑩*(took : made : had : gave) him a ride round the dining-room table; while all the other animals ⑪*(prepared : followed : floated : aimed) behind, beating the dish-covers with spoons, pretending it was a parade.
THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER
SMELLS
"YOUR uncle must now be FOUND," said the Doctor—"that is the next thing—now ⑫(know / that / he / we) wasn't thrown into the sea."
Then Dab-Dab came up to him again and whispered,
"Ask the eagles to look for the man. No ⑬(creature / living / see / can)better than an eagle. When they are miles high in the air they can count the ants crawling on the ground. Ask the eagles."
So the Doctor sent one of the ⑭(get / swallows / to / off) some eagles.
And in about an hour the little bird came back with six different kinds of eagles: a Black Eagle, a Bald Eagle, a Fish Eagle, a Golden Eagle, an Eagle-Vulture, and a White-tailed Sea Eagle. Twice as high as the boy they were, each one of them. And they stood on the rail of the ship, like round-shouldered soldiers all in a row, stern and still and stiff; while their great, gleaming, black eyes shot darting glances here and there and everywhere.
Gub-Gub was ⑮**(prevailed : leaped : stripped : scared) of them and got behind a barrel. He said he felt as though those ⑯*(thick : sound : terrible : positive) eyes were looking right inside of him to see what he had stolen for lunch.
And the Doctor said to the eagles,
"A man has been lost—a fisherman with red hair and an anchor marked on his arm. Would you be so kind as to ⑰(can / you / if / see) find him for us? This boy is the man's nephew."
Eagles do not talk very much. And all they answered in their husky voices was,
"You may ⑱(that / be / we / sure) will do our best—for John Dolittle."
Then they flew off—and Gub-Gub came out from behind his barrel ⑲(go / to / them / see). Up and up and up they went—higher and higher and higher still. Then, when the Doctor could only just see them, they parted company and started going off all different ways—North, East, South and West, looking like ⑳**(grateful : tiny : fake : silly) grains of black sand creeping across the wide, blue sky.
※(29)の解答①(going off to steal)②(find it was you)③(whole school came dancing) ←ここでのschoolは「群れ」の意味④(on their way to)⑤(over to see how)⑥(saw it lying on)⑦(so good as to)⑧(certain) ⑨(clapped)⑩(gave)⑪(followed)⑫(that we know he)⑬(living creature can see)⑭(swallows off to get)⑮(scared)⑯(terrible)⑰(see if you can)⑱(be sure that we)⑲(to see them go)⑳(tiny)
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