So he went on till he came to some Black Berries, and said, "Berries, how would you agree with me if I should eat you?" "Badly indeed, Master Coon," they replied, "for we are Choke-berries." "Choke-berries, indeed! Then I will have none of you." And then further he found on some bushes, Rice-berries. "Berries," he cried, "how would you agree with me if I should eat you?" "We should make you itch, for we are Itch-berries."
"Ah, that is what I like (а, вот это я люблю)," he replied (он ответил), and so ate his fill (и наелся; to eat one’s fill — наесться досыта). Then as he went on he felt very uneasy (затем, когда он пошел дальше, он почувствовал /себя/ очень нелегко; to feel): he seemed to be tormented with prickles (казалось, его мучили иголками; prickle — иглы /животного/, острие, шип, колючка), he scratched and scratched (он чесался и чесался), but it did not help or cure (но это не помогало и не /приносило облегчения/; to cure — излечивать, исцелять). So he rubbed himself on a ragged rock (тогда он потерся о шероховатый камень); he slid up and down it (он двигался/скользил вверх и вниз /по/ нему; to slide) till the hair came off (пока мех не сошел; to come off).
Now the Raccoon is bare or has little fur (теперь Енот голый или /у него/ мало меха) where he scratched himself (/там/, где он чесался), to this very day (до этого самого дня = до сих пор). This story is at an end (рассказ окончен: to be at an end — кончаться).
uneasy [An`JzI], torment [tO:`ment], cure [kjuq], bare [beq]
"Ah, that is what I like," he replied, and so ate his fill. Then as he went on he felt very uneasy: he seemed to be tormented with prickles, he scratched and scratched, but it did not help or cure. So he rubbed himself on a ragged rock; he slid up and down it till the hair came off.
Now the Raccoon is bare or has little fur where he scratched himself, to this very day. This story is at an end.
The Ants That Pushed on the Sky (Муравьи, которые оттолкнулись от Неба; to push on — толкать; пихать /тж. употребляется с различными предлогами направления и местными наречиями — push back, down, in, out, onward, open, etc./)
Once upon a time there lived in one of the prehistoric pueblos (однажды/давным-давно/ жил-был в одном из доисторических пуэбло/индейских поселков) east of the Manzano Mountains (к востоку от гор Манзано) a young Indian named Kahp-too-oó-yoo (молодой индеец по имени Кахп-ту-ó-йу;
