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 surprised ! ' They went on with their exercises , each helping the other , till morning came ; and when the sun was high they rested and dried themselves . 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 XXXXX -- to say nothing of being able to swim .
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