said Stickly-Prickly , -- ` Ca n't curl , but can swim -- Stickly-Prickly , that 's him ! Curls up , but ca n't swim -- Slow-Solid , that 's him ! ' Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round Painted Jaguar till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head . Then he went to fetch his mother . ` Mother , ' he said , ` there are two new animals in the woods to-day , and the one that you said could n't swim , swims , and the one that you said could n't curl up , curls ; and they 've gone shares in their prickles , I think , because both of them are scaly all over , instead of one being smooth and the other very prickly ; and , besides that , they are rolling round and round in circles , and I do n't feel comfy . ' ` Son , son ! ' said Mother Jaguar ever so many times , graciously waving her tail , ' a Hedgehog is a Hedgehog , and ca n't be anything but a Hedgehog ; and a Tortoise is a Tortoise , and can never be anything else . ' ` But it is n't a Hedgehog , and it is n't a Tortoise . It 's a little bit of both , and I do n't know its proper name . ' ` Nonsense ! ' said Mother Jaguar . ` Everything has its proper name . I should call it `` Armadillo '' till I found out the real one . And I should leave it alone . ' So Painted Jaguar did as he was told , especially about leaving them alone ; but the curious thing is that from that day to this , O Best Beloved , no one on the banks of the turbid Amazon has ever called Stickly-Prickly and Slow-Solid anything except Armadillo . There are Hedgehogs and Tortoises in other places , of course -LRB- there are some in my garden -RRB- ; but the real old and clever kind , with their scales lying lippety-lappety one over the other , like pine-cone scales , that lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon in the High and Far-Off Days , are always called Armadillos , because they were so clever . So that ; all right , Best Beloved . Do you see ? I 'VE never sailed the Amazon , I 've never reached Brazil ; But the Don and Magdelana , They can go there when they will ! Yes , weekly from Southampton , Great steamers , white and gold , Go rolling down to Rio -LRB- Roll down -- roll down to Rio ! -RRB-
And I 'd like to roll to Rio Some XXXXX before I 'm old !
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