 Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:48 am Some more questions from 'The Jungle Book' |
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Hi,
I am sorry to bother you again with all these endless questions. 
| Quote: | Kaa said nothing, but, strive as Bagheera might, the huge Rock-python held level with him. When they came to a hill stream, Bagheera gained, because he bounded across while Kaa swam, his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water, but on level ground Kaa made up the distance.
"By the Broken Lock that freed me," said Bagheera, when twilight had fallen, "thou art no slow goer!"
"I am hungry," said Kaa. "Besides, they called me speckled frog."
"Worm—earth-worm, and yellow to boot."
"All one. Let us go on," and Kaa seemed to pour himself along the ground, finding the shortest road with his steady eyes, and keeping to it. |
1. I guess that 'his head and two feet of his neck clearing the water' means 'his head and two front feet passing the stream'. If so, what happened to his two rear feet and haunches?
2. Could I suggest 'speckled frog' alludes to Kaa's no slow goer?
3. Does 'All one' mean 'All these words are one thing, that's me. ?
| Quote: | | But the walls were made of screens of marble tracery—beautiful milk-white fretwork, set with agates and cornelians and jasper and lapis lazuli, and as the moon came up behind the hill it shone through the open work, casting shadows on the ground like black velvet embroidery. |
4. Does 'set with' mean 'decorated with' ?
5. Could I suggest from this passage that the walls were penetrable by light like a Gothic window?
Thanks a million in advance!
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