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. We were in error. The
gnomes had discovered that the ship COULD be turned by
means of releasing the air in both casks simultaneously.
This caused the ship to revolve, but at such an alarming rate
that most of the crew was flung overboard and those that
remained could never afterward walk a straight line. These
unfortunates were promptly hired by the gnome Street
Designers Guild.)
The name of this remarkable vessel was THE GREAT
GNOME SHIP OF EXPLORATION AND QUESTING
MADE OF WOODEN PLANKS HELD TOGETHER BY
THE MIRACLE OF GNOME GLUE (OF WHICH THE
LESS SAID THE BETTER) INSTEAD OF THAT PALTRY
HUMAN INVENTION THE NAIL WHICH WE HAVE
DESIGNED MORE EFFICIENTLY ANYWAY AND
DRIVEN BY STEAM CREATED BY BRINGING WATER
TO A RAPID BOIL and so forth and so on, the full name
taking up several volumes of text in the gnomes' library.
This name, or rather a shortened version, was carved upon
the hull and, when the gnomes ran out of room, the deck as
well.
Needless to say, traveling upon the MIRACLE (the
shorter human version of the name) was not conducive to
either peace of mind or keeping one's dinner down. The
ship wallowed in the water like a drunken sea elf when the
sail was underneath it, surged forward with a stomach
wrenching jolt when the sail was sweeping along the deck,
and rocked sickeningly when the sail hit the water behind
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