Then they saw that they were both of them quite different from what they had been . ` Stickly-Prickly , ' said Tortoise after breakfast , ' I am not what I was yesterday ; but I think that I may yet amuse Painted Jaguar . ` That was the very thing I was thinking just now , ' said Stickly-Prickly . ' I think scales are a tremendous improvement on prickles -- to say nothing of being able to swim . Oh , wo n't Painted Jaguar be surprised ! Let 's go and find him . ' By and by they found Painted Jaguar , still nursing his paddy-paw that had been hurt the night before . He was so astonished that he fell three times backward over his own painted tail without stopping . ` Good morning ! ' said Stickly-Prickly . ` And how is your dear gracious Mummy this morning ? ' ` She is quite well , thank you , ' said Painted Jaguar ; ` but you must forgive me if I do not at this precise moment recall your name . ' ` That 's unkind of you , ' said Stickly-Prickly , ` seeing that this time yesterday you tried to scoop me out of my shell with your paw . ' ` But you had n't any shell . It was all prickles , ' said Painted Jaguar . ' I know it was . Just look at my paw ! ' ` You told me to drop into the turbid Amazon and be drowned , ' said Slow-Solid . ` Why are you so rude and forgetful to-day ? ' ` Do n't you remember what your mother told you ? '
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