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Clecky: Really? Well, that was jolly observant of her, wot? I'll wager she used to go on about how flippin' light the day was. -Pearls of Lutra; Chapter 5 (Mariel of Mossflower Woods) -Pearls of Lutra, Chapter 5 (Mariel of Mossflower Woods) -Pearls of Lutra, Chapter 5 (Mariel of Mossflower Woods) -Pearls of Lutra, Chapter 9 (Mariel of Mossflower Woods) Matthias: Pretty much what you'd expect. Either she, or the leader King Bull Sparra is going to kill me. Evidently she looks on anything that can't fly as an enemy. -Redwall, Book 2, Chapter 11, Methuselah to Matthias on the captive Warbeak. (I am that is) Cornflower: Right! Basil: Last one in bed and fast asleep's a rotten egg. Yaaaah! Foremole: Oi jus' bin a-runned over boi a mad creatur'. Hurr. -Mattimeo, Book 3, Chapter 53, Basil, Cornflower, and Foremole on cooking through the night for a feast. (I am that is) Tarquin Woodsorrel: Bally unthinkable, poor little blighter bein' drowned in a plate of pudden. Do not worry, young sire, help is at spoon. I'll save you. Gromff! -Mariel of Redwall; Book 1, chap. 11, page 93 (Riverlily Wavetail) Ambrose Spike: Good, then here's a few more to remember, you pot-bellied, cross-eyed, feather-bottomed excuse for a duck! -Mattimeo; Book 2, chap. 33, page 265 (Riverlily Wavetail) -Jess Squirrel, to Orlando the Axe, Mattimeo; Book 3, chap. 38, page 298 (Riverlily Wavetail) -The Bellmaker, Book 3, Ch. 28, p. 299 (Foremole) -Mattimeo, Ch. 6 Pg. 34 (Arrow the Hare) -Salamandastron, Book One, Chapter 4, Page 38 (Brother Durwood) -Mattimeo (Mike of Redwall) Runn: Teeheehee! I'll say we have. We told him so many whoppers he said he's not carrying us off anymore. -Mariel of Redwall, Chapter 4 (Joseph) Dibbun: No, Don't like sala, wanna pudden! Mother Mellus: Salad first, pudding later. You want to grow up big and strong like me, don't you? Dibbun: No, wanna stay lickle and eat pudden alla time! -Mariel of Redwall (Joseph) -Legend Of Luke, Chapter 11 (Joseph) -Mariel of Redwall, Chapter 16 (Joseph) Drooney [dibbun mole]to Dumble: "Bohurr, you'm heagle do be a-talking funny loik. Oi carn't unnerstan' a wurd 'ee be sayen, Dumble. -Salamandastron (Mosspaw the Hare) "Why, of course you will Mr. Hare. What a bore you must think me. I'll probably sit around on the common here and teach the rats to make daisy chains." -Redwall, Book 1, Chapter 19, Matthias to Basil Stag Hare. (Pear the Warrior) Basil Stag Hare: What's the matter? Isn't your own head good enough? No, I don't suppose it is. Ugly-looking brute, aren't you? -Redwall, Book 2, Page 207 (Basil Stag Hare) (Russa the Badger) Mellus: Listen, doodlehead, if I hear you mention Hon Rosie one more time... -Mariel of Redwall (Russa the Badger) -Pearls of Lutra, Book 2, Chapter 34 (Mask) Sister Sloey: What seems to be the matter, mister Florian? Ellayo: You never reported a wound. Sit down an' tell us about it. Florian: Er, er, rather not sit down, Ellayo, marm. (Florian backs up against the wall) Sister Sloey (with an understanding nod): Oh, I see, you were wounded in the tail area. Why didn't you come in here yesterday? Florian: Er, well er, didn't feel so jolly bad then, you understand, just today though, been givin' me a bit o' gyp. Must've been a few arrows or a couple o' spears got me. Forgot all about it in the heat of battle, you know. Chap doesn't like to cause a fuss. Rimrose: Oh, you poor creature, you must have been in great pain! Florian: Oh, 'twas nothin' really. Stiff upper lip, wot! (Bargle and Mayon enter, each tossing a broken half of a wooden salad fork on the table) Bargle: Mister Florian, sir, wot's Brother Melilot goin' t'say when he sees wot y'id to 'is salad fork? Mayon: Aye, I'll wager it smarted a bit when y'fell an' sat down on it like that. Must've give yer a nasty jab in the backside, sir? Ellayo: You great flop-eared fraud! Wounded by spears an' arrows durin' the fightin' eh? Yore a fiddle--faceed fibber an' a trickster! (Infirmary door slams shut, blocking Florian's escape.) Florian: Er, I'll come back t'morrer, marm. What're you doin' with those bally great tweezers? No, please, I beg you. Yaaaah! Sister Sloey: Bargle, Mayon, hold him still. There may be splinters. Don't want to leave them in there, do we? Florian: Ooooh! I say, go easy there! Yowchouch! Ellayo: Is that water hot enough yet, Rimrose? I want to make a nettle poltice. Can't be too careful with tail wounds! Florian: Yeeeek! Assassins! Help me, somebeast, they're torturin' me t'death! Owowowowowwww! Bargle: So brave an silent, ain't 'e, Mayon? Florian: Wooooooh! Fiends! Gerrof, lemmego! Oohoohooh! Mayon: Stiff upper lip, mister Florian, that's the jolly ole spirit. Chin up and never say die, ole chap, wot wot! -Marlfox, Chapter 22, Pages 229 and 230 (Rinow Ordine Swiftwind) Cregga: I didn't notice it. Mayhap mister Florian can throw some light on the subject? Florian to Bargle: Flippin' spiky-mopped water beatle, mind your own business, wot! Chap has the right t'stand or sit if he jolly wants to, without your flamin' inquiries, you bottle-nosed fatbellied boat-bobber! Shove some salad down that great gob of yours and give it a flippin' rest! Bargle: I was just about to do that, sir, but i can't find the salad fork nowheres. But I trust you, mister Florian. You'll find it! Mayon: Aye, you'll get to the BOTTOM of this. Florian: A frog's feather for you lot. I'll dine elsewhere. I'm not standing here to get insulted! Bargle and Mayon: Then sit down if you dare! -Marlfox, Act/Book 2, Chapter 22, Page 233 (Matthias II) A few moment later: Basil and the rats. "Grab that big skinny rabbit, lads." "Big skinny rabbit yourself! Catsmeat!" "I'll stick his ------ guts on my pike." "Temper, Temper! Tut, tut! Such language! If your mother could hear you!" "Blast, he's as slippery as a greased pig." "Some of my best friends are greased pigs, bottlenose. Oops! Missed me again, you old butterfingers, you." -Redwall, Book one, Chapter 17, Page 78 (Jezebel) Gonff: Mmmfff, shoulden talk wiff y'mouff full. -Mossflower, Book 1, Chapter 13, Page 76 (Tess Churchmouse) -Pearls of Lutra, Book One, Chapter 5, Page 32 (Arra Skysong) -Mariel of Redwall, Book 1, Chapter 17 (Treerose) -Salamandastron, Book 3 (Mystalia Tranquilheart) -Mariel of Redwall, Book 1, Chapter 17 (Ercestina) -Marlfox (Beefaroni the Hare) I'll bet my bally life, With your cute little nosie, beautiful Rosie You'd make a lovely wife... Hmm, lessee now, what rhymes with wife? Strife, knife... life. That's it! -Mariel of Redwall, Book 1, Chapter 9 (Ercestina) An' give 'm food to scoff, 'Cos he's my great big matey an' 'E won't let me fall off! -Salamandastron, Chapter 18, Page 151 (Lichen Swiftblade) -Mossflower, Book 1, Chapter 6 (Gillian) Grumm: Oi bain't no deer, oi be a mole, an' doant 'ee forget it, mizzy -Martin the Warrior (Snowrose Badger) "Gurr, youm toiny rascal, wot do 'ee want ter fallen in honey furr?" Grubb wavy a sticky carefree paw. "Hurr, better fallen in honey than mud, oi allus says. Bain't nothen wrong wi' honey. Bees makes et." Foremole wrinkled his button nose, nodding in agreement. "Ho urr, the choild be roight, he'm be growen up woisley clever." -Mariel of Redwall (Sandstar Swiftarrow) -The Pearls Of Lutra, Book One (Beefaroni) -The Pearls of Lutra (Riverwind Oceanspeck) -Salamandastron (Beeble Watervole) -Marlfox, Chapter 34, Page 382 (SpeedySwaf) Early in the morning of the third day, they arrived at the junction of the river and the slipstream. Immediately the bankvole Ilfril poked his head out in high bad temper. "D'ye know yer trespassin'? Who are yer?" The metal-studded end of a huge battle mace thudded down near the hole entrance, and Ilfril found himself staring into a great, gold-striped badger's face, who boomed out, "I am Sunflash the Mace, Badger Lord of Salamandastron, and I like a bankvole for breakfast each morn. Who are you?" There was a frantic scuttle of paws as Ilfril fled down into his home, followed by a nervous squeak. "Er, haha! Just a pore creature who lives down here an' minds his own business, Lord, feel free to walk anywhere!" -Outcast of Redwall, Book 3, Chapter 45, Page 343 (Arven the Second) Throwing themselves headlong, the three friends pounced on the miscreant. "Yow! Ouch! Whoo! Eeek! Yarrgh! Lerrimgo! Gerroff!" Young Durry Quill watched them as they hopped and leapt about like boiled frogs, yelling in pain at the spikes, embedded in paws and bodies, that they had collected from their plunge. He twitched his nose. "Serves 'ee right fer jumpin' on a young lad like that. Ain't you beasts got no manners at all?" Mariel hopped about in agony and frustration. "Ah, Ah! You sure you haven't brought the rest along with you. Ooh, ooh! I wouldn't be surprised to see Mellus, Simeon and the Abbot leap out from behind that hornbeam, yonder. How many more of you are there? Am I taking the whole population of Redwall with me? Ow ooch." -Mariel of Redwall, Chapter 14, Page 140-141 (Deodar) An' oi wuddent give to you Supper nor dinner, brekfis' nor tea Oi'd spank the dayloights out of 'ee An' oi'd make 'ee wash ten toimes a day 'Til you'm bad manners wurr scrubbed away -Martin the Warrior, Book 1, Page 101, Grumm singing to the Squidjees (Dumble Foremole) Sergeant Clubrush: Strange y'should say that, young sir. H'I've just 'ad a dream that you was on potwashin' duty an' you volunteered to carry my pack all day. Wot d'you say to that, young Trowbaggs? Trowbaggs: Er, haha, silly beastly things dreams are, Sarge, er, that is unless Lady Cregga dreams 'em up, wot! -The Long Patrol (Springrain Streambattle) There's no roof mouse, nor chimbley mouse, No winder mouse or floor mouse, An' I ain't gotta nokker on me nose but I'm a likkle dormouse. There's a fieldmouse anna 'arvest mouse, An 'edgemouse an' prob'ly a shoremouse, But I'm the bestest of the lot, 'Cos I'm a likkle dormouse. Ohahaha an' heeheehee, Yes I'm a likkle dormouse. So I'll me dinner an' grow big, An' then I'll be enor-mouse! -Salamandastron, Chapter 21, Book Two (Dartpaw) Ambrose:Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there! -Mattimeo (Firepaw) [to Jess squirrel] "War wound," Basil muttered as he demolished a plateful of quince and elderberry pie. "Got to keep the old strength up, y'know. Lashings of Nourishment; only way to heal an honorable injury. Feed it, what, what!" Silent Sam hopped upon the table. He showed Basil a tiny scratch on his unsucked paw. The kindly hare inspected it gravely. "Egad! Looks like another serious war wound! Better sit by me, little warrior. Feed it well, that's the ticket!" -Redwall (Scurl Droptail) Rosie: Sat? The blighter was standing. -The Bellmaker (SteelClaw the Fox) Vurg: You didn't say wot wot. Beau: Wot wot? Why the deuce should I say wot wot? Vurg: 'Cos you always say wot wot! -The Legend of Luke (SteelClaw the Fox) Gonflet: Wot was his name, miz Bell? Bella: If I recall rightly, his name was Gonff! Gonflet: Heeheehee! Jus' wait 'till I tell my daddy! You a scamp! Raskill! Pickler! That's wot miz Bell call you! Heeheehee! -The Legend of Luke (SteelClaw the Fox) Trimp: Was it not? Who do you think was responsible, then? Gonff: Dinny's singin', of course. It drove the rats wild an' they attacked just to stop the 'orrible noise, missie. Dinny: Hurr, you'm turrible crool, zurr Gnoffen. Moi ole granmum allus said oi 'ad a voice loik ee lark at furst loight. Gonff: Haha, that's 'cos yore ole grandmum was deaf as a post, Din. Dinny: Aye, an' thy ole grandad allus said you'm wurr ee most gurtly 'andsome creature. Noice ole beast ee wurr. Oi used to take 'im furr walks lest ee bump into trees. Bloind ee wurr, pore creetur! -The Legend of Luke (Jess) Gonff: Oh good, I do hope he saves some for me. -Mossflower (~*Seek*~) Thrugann sniffed slightly, and wiping her eyes on her tunic, she asked in an apologetically tender voice, "What was that, brother o' mine?" Thrugg: "What's for tea? Me an' me mates is fair famished!" -Salamandastron, Book Three, Chapter 41, Page 365 (Mite Metalfist the Fierce) Abbot Bernard took a deep breath and said, 'Now, as you may know, there have been some VERY naughty creatures hanging about outside our Abbey, but there's no need for you to be worried or be frightened - we'll take care of them. Meanwhile, I want all you Dibbuns to be good little creatures and do what you are told by those who look after you, Mother Mellus, Sister Sage, Sister Serena, Simeon, Brother Saxtus, myself...' 'An' Bruvver Hoobit, too?' 'Yes, and Brother Hubert too.' 'An' Foremole as well, Habbit?' 'Yes yes, Foremole as well.' 'An' Muvver Mell's too?' 'Yes, I've already said Mother Mellus. Now listen to me please...' 'An' the fishies inna pond?' 'Don't be silly. Listen to wha-' 'An' a big red srawberry too?' 'Big red strawberry? What big red strawberry? Simeon, help me, please!' The blind herbalist spread his arms wide and cried out, 'The Grockledeboo eats noisy Dibbuns!' -Mariel of Redwall, Book 2 (The Strange Forest), Chapter 22, pages 209 & 210 (Mariel of Redwall) Bigfang strode about the camp, nodding his head knowingly. 'So it was a tunnel, eh, mates-that's how they did it. Prob'ly got some o' those squirrels to do their diggin' for 'em. I thought so!' Graypatch grabbed Bigfang by the nose. Digging his claws in tightly, he twisted with cruel ferocity. 'Moles, muckhead, they used moles! [Graypatch gets in a BIG fight with Bigfang "the great, stupid oaf!"] Hon Rosie: 'I say, slobberchops, you shouldn't have twisted the poor chap's nosie like that-he was right, we used squirrels!' -Mariel of Redwall, Book 3 (The Sound of a Bell!), Chapter 31, page 298 (Mariel of Redwall) Basil: Grmmmfff, munch. Beg pardon, old mouse, can't hear you. Must be me old war wound, snchhh, gulp! Oh, no, it's a stick of celery in me ear. How'd that get there, chompchomp, grumphhh! -(Acainah) -Mariel of Redwall, page 241 (Misteyes) -Mariel of Redwall (Roseblade Fleetpaws) Bryony: Where did this come from? Togget- Ow shudd oi know, missie, et be thoi own biznuss if you'm want to roam aroun' all noight a-picken flowers, hurr aye! -Outcast of Redwall (Acainah) I'd love to lay you all out with a punch. How do you win a mother's heart With a squiggly trunk like an eel's back part? Is that awful smell the reason? You haven't been washed all season. So go to sleep in your scruffy beds, May nightmares enter your beastly heads, And when sunlight heralds the new daybreak, May you wake with tummyache. -Martin the Warrior (Blawal, Starblade the Hare) O if I feel sick or pale, What makes my old eyes shine? Some good October ale And sweet blacurrant wine. I'd kill a dragon for half a flagon, I'd wrestle a stoat to wet my throat, I'd stangle a snake, all for the sake Of lovely nutbrown beer.... Nuhuhuhut broooowwwwwnnnnn beeeeheeeyer! -Mattimeo, Chapter 6, Page 41 (Log a Log James) I strangle a snake an' wet his throat, I wrestle a dragon an' steal his coat- -Mattimeo, Chapter 6, Page 45 (Log a Log James) -Mariel of Redwall, Page 137 (Silverfur) Friar Hugo: What sad news? Jess: I fear that Cluny tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall Abbey will never see it wipe another plate! -(Starclimber the Squirrelmaid) Burble sniffed."All watervole songs make sense. Lissen."
"A watervole grows like an ould bulrush stalk,
Dippler tried to keep a straight face as he nodded wiself."Burgle me doodle an' frumple me plogg? Makes perfect sense. Wot d'you think, Dann?" -Mattimeo (Patricia) -The Long Patrol (Lyriam the Knifethrower) Cramsy and I can no longer put up with Dorothea, so I am sending her to you. Your Badger Lord has our permission to deal with the wretch as he sees fit, short of slaying her; you also may do likewise. Please keep her captive upon your mountain until such time as she is civilized enough to live amoung decent creatures. Teach her to cook and other domestic skills. I know it is too much to ask that she be taught etiquette, deportment and other maidenly pursuits--she is a fiend in hare's fur, believe me. Sister dear, I implore you to take her off our paws while we still have a roof over our heads, which are grey with care and worry. I would be fibbing if I said Dorothea does not eat much. She is an empty sack on legs--her appetite would frighten a flock of seagulls. Grant her father and me this one favor, and you will have our heartfelt thanks, plus the beaded shawl that Mother passed down to me and a flagon of palest old cider from Cramsy's drink's cabinet. Please write to let me know that she has arrived safely, and if she has not returned by winter I will take it that she has settled down to her new life. Cramsy sends his love to you, Blench. I remain your devoted sister. Sighned, Daphane Duckfontein Dillworthy. -- Lord Brocktree, book one, chapter 4, page 19 (Methusla) Gonff: Best I ever tasted, pipin' 'ot an' delicious! Dinny: Burr aye, gurtly noice an' turrible tasty et be's! Gonff: Any chance of second 'elpin's there, cooky? Log-a-log: If'n you wants to end up in the sea wid yore crabmates, Gonff, just keep callin' me cooky! Gonff: Oops, sorry, O well-furred an' beautiful Guosim Boss! Log-a-Log: Oh, all right, pass yore plate 'ere! --The Legend of Luke, p. 118, Book 1 (Birch Arrowsong of Mossflower Woods) Dwopple:Wahaaah! Nasty wabbit gonna eat Dwopple's tail. Boohoohoo! Me on'y a likka baybee. Wahhaahaa! --Marlfox, Chapter 2 (Violett) Martin: Me too. I suppose the only way we'll find out is by following him. He seems to know the country well enough. Rose: Oh yes, and d'you know why that is? (Martin smiled knowingly. Leaning close he whispered into Rose's ear so that the Warden could not hear.) Martin: Because he is the law! --Martin the Warrior, Book Two, Chapter 23, Page 198 (Songrose Snowfur) Mariel of Redwall (?) (Tsikrin and Arka) --Marlfox, page 85 (Sandy Reaberta Freefoot) Wot would happen if a poor ole dibbun falls. You bump your head and die and than start to cry. -- Taggerung (Allie the Leveret) -Gonff, to the dancing crab, Mossflower (Songbreeze) |
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