What shall I do ? ' ` Tell him to come out , ' said the ` Stute Fish . So the Whale called down his own throat to the shipwrecked Mariner , ` Come out and behave yourself . I 've got the hiccoughs . ' ` Nay , nay ! ' said the Mariner . ` Not so , but far otherwise . Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion , and I 'll think about it . ' And he began to dance more than ever . ` You had better take him home , ' said the ` Stute Fish to the Whale . ' I ought to have warned you that he is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity . ' So the Whale swam and swam and swam , with both flippers and his tail , as hard as he could for the hiccoughs ; and at last he saw the Mariner 's natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion , and he rushed half-way up the beach , and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide , and said , ` Change here for Winchester , Ashuelot , Nashua , Keene , and stations on the Fitch_burg Road ; ' and just as he said ` Fitch ' the Mariner walked out of his mouth . But while the Whale had been swimming , the Mariner , who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity , had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss-cross , and he had tied it firm with his suspenders -LRB- now , you know why you were not to forget the suspenders ! -RRB- , and he dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale 's throat , and there it stuck ! Then he recited the following Sloka , which , as you have not heard it , I will now proceed to relate -- By means of a grating I have stopped your ating . For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an . And he stepped out on the shingle , and went home to his mother , who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water ; and he married and lived happily ever afterward . So did the Whale . But from that day on , the grating in his throat , which he could neither cough up nor swallow down , prevented him eating anything except very , very small fish ; and that is the reason why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls . The small ` Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under the Door-sills of the Equator .
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Equator Fish Fitch Hi-ber-ni-an Keene Road Whale Winchester ating whales