The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth. H. G. Wells

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СКАЧАТЬ said Mr. Bensington; “how are the hens?”

      “We fed ’em up to yethterday, thwelp me,” said Mr. Skinner, “But thith morning we didn’t dare, Thir. The noithe of the waptheth wath—thomething awful, Thir. They wath coming ont—dothenth. Ath big ath ‘enth. I thayth, to ‘er, I thayth you juth thow me on a button or two, I thayth, for I can’t go to London like thith, I thayth, and I’ll go up to Mithter Benthington, I thayth, and ekthplain thingth to ’im. And you thtop in thith room till I come back to you, I thayth, and keep the windowth thhut jutht ath tight ath ever you can, I thayth.”

      “If you hadn’t been so confoundedly untidy—” began Redwood.

      “Oh! don’t thay that, Thir,” said Skinner. “Not now, Thir. Not with me tho diththrethed, Thir, about Mithith Thkinner, Thir! Oh, don’t, Thir! I ‘aven’t the ‘eart to argue with you. Thwelp me, Thir, I ‘aven’t! Itth the ratth I keep a thinking of—‘Ow do I know they ‘aven’t got at Mithith Thkinner while I been up ‘ere?”

      “And you haven’t got a solitary measurement of all these beautiful growth curves!” said Redwood.

      “I been too upthet, Thir,” said Mr. Skinner. “If you knew what we been through—me and the mithith! All thith latht month. We ‘aven’t known what to make of it, Thir. What with the henth gettin’ tho rank, and the earwigth, and the canary creeper. I dunno if I told you, Thir—the canary creeper …”

      “You’ve told us all that,” said Redwood. “The thing is, Bensington, what are we to do?”

      “What are we to do?” said Mr. Skinner.

      “You’ll have to go back to Mrs. Skinner,” said Redwood. “You can’t leave her there alone all night.”

      “Not alone, Thir, I don’t. Not if there wath a dothen Mithith Thkinnerth. Itth Mithter Benthington—”

      “Nonsense,” said Redwood. “The wasps will be all right at night. And the earwigs will get out of your way—”

      “But about the ratth?”

      “There aren’t any rats,” said Redwood.

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