I declare , I should n't know you from one of my own family . Two holes , I think , you said ? A little more expression , please , and do n't grunt quite so much , or Painted Jaguar may hear us . When you 've finished , I want to try that long dive which you say is so easy . Wo n't Painted Jaguar be surprised ! ' And so Stickly-Prickly dived , and Slow-and-Solid dived alongside . ` Excellent ! ' said Slow-and-Solid . ' A leetle more attention to holding your breath and you will be able to keep house at the bottom of the turbid Amazon . Now I 'll try that exercise of putting my hind legs round my ears which you say is so peculiarly comfortable . Wo n't Painted Jaguar be surprised ! ' ` Excellent ! ' said Stickly-Prickly . ` But it 's straining your back-plates a little . They are all overlapping now , instead of lying side by side . ' ` Oh , that 's the result of exercise , ' said Slow-and-Solid . ` I 've noticed that your prickles seem to be melting into one another , and that you 're growing to look rather more like a pinecone , and less like a chestnut-burr , than you used to . ' ` Am I ? ' said Stickly-Prickly . ` That comes from my soaking in the water .
Oh , wo n't Painted Jaguar be XXXXX ! '
's comes declare hear holding keep overlapping said soaking surprised