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CHAPTER XII.BACK AGAIN AT WHY.
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 Kis-smee was overjoyed to get out of the train, and eagerly strained at the chain which his Majesty1 had affixed2 to his collar, in his endeavor to get through the barrier.
 
The porter, however, who pretended not to know us, demanded our tickets.
 
“It’s all right,” said his Majesty, smilingly. “I’m the Wallypug, you know.”
 
“Nonsense,” said the porter. “The Wallypug was ugly enough, goodness knows, but he hadn’t a blue face like you; besides, Wallypug or no Wallypug, you don’t get through here without a ticket, I can tell you.”
 
Here was a pretty pickle3. We had not thought in the least about tickets, and in fact had no idea that any would be required.
 
“I certainly shan’t let you pass the barrier without,” said the porter, in answer to our explanations.
 
“But what are we to do?” asked the Wallypug. “Can’t we pay at this end?”
 
“Certainly not. My instructions are to demand a ticket of every one passing this barrier, and unless you give me one you cannot go through.”
 
“But I tell you we haven’t any. Can’t you tell us what to do?”
 
“Go back for them, I should say,” said the porter, yawning unconcernedly. “Now then, one thing or another. Are you going to give me the tickets or not?”
 
“How can we give them to you if we haven’t any?” demanded the Wallypug. The porter slammed the door to impatiently, and went a little way up the platform, turning around to call out warningly, “If we find any suspicious-looking characters hanging about the station premises4 we shoot them.”
 
“What nonsense!” cried the Wallypug, rattling5 and kicking the gate. “We can’t stop here all day. Let’s call the station-master. Hi! hi! station-master!” he shouted.
 
No one answered for a few minutes, but eventually a door some little distance up the platform opened, and the old station-master made his appearance, puffing6 and blowing, and followed by the porter, carrying a huge blunderbuss.
 
“Now then, what’s all this noise about?” he demanded.
 
“We want to get out, if you please,” said the Wallypug.
 
“Where are your tickets,” demanded the station-master.
 
“We are very sorry,” I began in explanation.
 
“Hold your tongue, and speak when you are spoken to,” interrupted the station-master.
 
“Where are your tickets?”
 
“They haven’t any,” explained the porter officiously. “They are trying to defraud7 the company.”
 
“H’m, funny-looking lot of people, too,” remarked the station-master. “Who are they, do you know?”
 
“That,” said the porter, pointing to his Majesty, “says he is the Wallypug.”
 
“What! that color!” objected the station-master. “The Wallypug! Indeed, what nonsense!”
 
“But, indeed, I am the Wallypug,” declared his Majesty, “and we turned this color after we drank the tea, you know.”
 
“Turned blue through drinking tea!” said the station-master incredulously.
 
“Ha! ha! a likely story,” laughed the porter derisively8.
 
“Perhaps it will wear off in time,” said the Wallypug, “like being sunburnt does.”
 
“Very well then, you had better stop here till it does,” said the station-master. “Look here!” he cried, turning to the porter, “you stop here at the barrier, and don’t let them through until they have turned a respectable color, and you can recognize them.”
 
“But it may take weeks,” began his Majesty.
 
“Hold your tongue!” said the station-master sharply. “If you have any nonsense with them, shoot them,” he added to the porter, depositing the blunderbuss beside the barrier, and going back to the other end of the platform.
 
Whatever we should have done I cannot think, if just at that moment the porter’s wife had not put her head out of the signal-box and called to him to “come in at once and mind the baby,” while she “did a little shopping.”
 
“But he’s on duty, ma’am,” expostulated the station-master.
 
“I don’t care anything about that; you come in at once, Bill,” shouted the woman, and the porter meekly9 left the barrier and disappeared within the signal-box.
 
Of course we all rushed through the gate at once, and the station-master catching10 sight of Kis-Smee, who had meanwhile slipped his chain, fled up the platform in dismay.
 
Kis-Smee, evidently thinking him fair game, started off in pursuit, and it was not till the station-master had bolted into his office and locked the door that we could get him to come back to our call.
 
So soon as we got into the street we met the Turtle and the Pelican11, walking arm-in-arm, and each smoking a cigarette.
 
“Hullo, Wallypug!” exclaimed the Pelican. “Why, we thought you were at Wei-hai-wei.”
 
“Wer-har-wei, you mean,” laughed his Majesty.
 
“It’s all the same,” announced the Pelican. “Well, how have you been getting on?”
 
His Majesty explained as briefly12 as possible the adventures we had passed through, and then inquired how affairs were progressing at Why.
 
“Oh, not very well, I’m afraid,” said the Pelican. “You see, there has been no one to take the lead since you’ve been away. We tried a Republican form of government, and elected Oom-Hi as president, but he became so extravagant—wanted a new top-hat every day, and insisted on a gilded13 coach to ride in; and at last we caught him tampering14 with the public funds, so we had to dismiss him. Have you heard about Broncho?”
 
“No,” said his Majesty.
 
“Well, it didn’t answer as a cough mixture, so Oom-Hi turned it into a patent meat extract, and called it Vimbril, and it killed ever so many people.”
 
“Indeed!” exclaimed the Wallypug, anxiously. “Any one I know?”
 
“Madame and a few other folk,” was the reply; “and the Doctor-in-Law is not expected to recover.”
 
“Good gracious! Why, we thought them at the other end of the world. However did they get back to Why again?”
 
“Oh, they sent us a cablegram when they got to China, and we let down an enormously long rope and pulled them up the shute again, you know. But it was a very long journey, and they had nothing to eat on the way. So as soon as we hauled them up we gave them each a large dose of Vimbril. Madame expired at once,” he added, with a sob15.
 
The tears were streaming down the Turtle’s nose as he sympathetically joined in the Pelican’s weeping.
 
“What about the Doctor-in-Law?” inquired his Majesty, solicitously16.
 
“Oh, he has a very strong constitution, you know, and he may pull through. We’ve got him back at the palace in his old quarters.”
 
“Poor fellow! Poor fellow!” said the Wallypug, sympathetically. “Let’s go and see what we can do for him.”
 
I thought this very kind of his Majesty, considering all he had suffered through the Doctor-in-Law’s ingratitude17; but the good-hearted little fellow was full of sympathy, and hurried towards the palace with all speed.
 

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1 majesty MAExL     
n.雄伟,壮丽,庄严,威严;最高权威,王权
参考例句:
  • The king had unspeakable majesty.国王有无法形容的威严。
  • Your Majesty must make up your mind quickly!尊贵的陛下,您必须赶快做出决定!
2 affixed 0732dcfdc852b2620b9edaa452082857     
adj.[医]附着的,附着的v.附加( affix的过去式和过去分词 );粘贴;加以;盖(印章)
参考例句:
  • The label should be firmly affixed to the package. 这张标签应该牢牢地贴在包裹上。
  • He affixed the sign to the wall. 他将标记贴到墙上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 pickle mSszf     
n.腌汁,泡菜;v.腌,泡
参考例句:
  • Mother used to pickle onions.妈妈过去常腌制洋葱。
  • Meat can be preserved in pickle.肉可以保存在卤水里。
4 premises 6l1zWN     
n.建筑物,房屋
参考例句:
  • According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定,场内不准饮酒。
  • All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行,不用送到外面去做。
5 rattling 7b0e25ab43c3cc912945aafbb80e7dfd     
adj. 格格作响的, 活泼的, 很好的 adv. 极其, 很, 非常 动词rattle的现在分词
参考例句:
  • This book is a rattling good read. 这是一本非常好的读物。
  • At that same instant,a deafening explosion set the windows rattling. 正在这时,一声震耳欲聋的爆炸突然袭来,把窗玻璃震得当当地响。
6 puffing b3a737211571a681caa80669a39d25d3     
v.使喷出( puff的现在分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧
参考例句:
  • He was puffing hard when he jumped on to the bus. 他跳上公共汽车时喘息不已。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe. 父亲坐着心满意足地抽着烟斗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 defraud Em9zu     
vt.欺骗,欺诈
参考例句:
  • He passed himself off as the managing director to defraud the bank.他假冒总经理的名义诈骗银行。
  • He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government.他卷入了这起欺骗政府的阴谋。
8 derisively derisively     
adv. 嘲笑地,嘲弄地
参考例句:
  • This answer came derisively from several places at the same instant. 好几个人都不约而同地以讥讽的口吻作出回答。
  • The others laughed derisively. 其余的人不以为然地笑了起来。
9 meekly meekly     
adv.温顺地,逆来顺受地
参考例句:
  • He stood aside meekly when the new policy was proposed. 当有人提出新政策时,他唯唯诺诺地站 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He meekly accepted the rebuke. 他顺从地接受了批评。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 catching cwVztY     
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
参考例句:
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
11 pelican bAby7     
n.鹈鹕,伽蓝鸟
参考例句:
  • The pelican has a very useful beak.鹈鹕有一张非常有用的嘴。
  • This pelican is expected to fully recover.这只鹈鹕不久就能痊愈。
12 briefly 9Styo     
adv.简单地,简短地
参考例句:
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
13 gilded UgxxG     
a.镀金的,富有的
参考例句:
  • The golden light gilded the sea. 金色的阳光使大海如金子般闪闪发光。
  • "Friends, they are only gilded disks of lead!" "朋友们,这只不过是些镀金的铅饼! 来自英汉文学 - 败坏赫德莱堡
14 tampering b4c81c279f149b738b8941a10e40864a     
v.窜改( tamper的现在分词 );篡改;(用不正当手段)影响;瞎摆弄
参考例句:
  • Two policemen were accused of tampering with the evidence. 有两名警察被控篡改证据。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • As Harry London had forecast, Brookside's D-day caught many meter-tampering offenders. 正如哈里·伦敦预见到的那样,布鲁克赛德的D日行动抓住了不少非法改装仪表的人。 来自辞典例句
15 sob HwMwx     
n.空间轨道的轰炸机;呜咽,哭泣
参考例句:
  • The child started to sob when he couldn't find his mother.孩子因找不到他妈妈哭了起来。
  • The girl didn't answer,but continued to sob with her head on the table.那个女孩不回答,也不抬起头来。她只顾低声哭着。
16 solicitously 85625447fd9f0b4b512250998549b412     
adv.热心地,热切地
参考例句:
  • Eyeing Hung-chien he said solicitously, "Hung-chien, you've lost a lot of weight." 他看了鸿渐一眼,关切的说:“鸿渐兄,你瘦得多了。” 来自汉英文学 - 围城
  • To their surprise Hung-chien merely asked Jou-chia solicitously, "Can the wine stains be washed out? 谁知道鸿渐只关切地问柔嘉:“酒渍洗得掉么? 来自汉英文学 - 围城
17 ingratitude O4TyG     
n.忘恩负义
参考例句:
  • Tim's parents were rather hurt by his ingratitude.蒂姆的父母对他的忘恩负义很痛心。
  • His friends were shocked by his ingratitude to his parents.他对父母不孝,令他的朋友们大为吃惊。


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