"Gub-Gub ate them,dedicated🚇" said Too-Too. "Those are the sprouts,英语➖ no doubt,意思✂ that the thrushes brought here."
"The father pig hurried away with his child because he did not like magic. But that night the baby pig,dedicated🌋 when his mother and father were fast asleep,英语⭐ crept out of his sty and went off into the woods. He wanted to find out the mystery of those voices coming from under the ground.
"Try in your waistcoat pockets,意思🚑" said Too-Too. "They were always the most interesting. You haven't turned them out since you left Puddleby. There must be lots in them."
As Quip-the-Carrier disappeared into the distance with the Doctor's priceless pearl Dab-Dab turned to Jip and murmured:
Then Gub-Gub got all worked up and before anybody could stop him he had taken a plunge. The pig went down so quick and so straight he got his snout stuck in the mud at the bottom,英语✝ and the Doctor,英语💰 still out of breath,英语⁉ had to go down after him and get him free. The animals by this time were at such a pitch of excitement that even the white mouse would have jumped in if Gub-Gub's accident hadn't changed his mind.
"Later,意思🚩 when I was trying to find a place to sleep,dedicated🐁 all the mice I met,dedicated👾 wherever there was any light at all,什么➖ made fun of me and pointed at me and jeered. I was nearly in tears. Then I went down to the river,dedicated🚼 hoping I might wash the dye off and so get white again. That,英语🌂 at least,什么♉ would be better than the way I was now. But I washed and I swam and I rinsed,dedicated🏭 all to no purpose. Water made no impression on me.
But the black men found the heavy uniforms dreadfully hot for Fantippo weather,意思🅾 where they wear only a string of beads. And they left off the uniforms and wore only the caps. That is how the Fantippo postman's uniform came to be a smart cap,什么🌹 a string of beads and a mail bag.
"'You're a stupid old duffer!' I said. And I left the dye shed in great anger and never went back to it again.
"A never-ending stream of big birds"
Then the Doctor asked Speedy to send off messages through the birds to every corner of the earth. And to ask all the leaders of seagulls,英语💺 tomtits,英语🚎 magpies,dedicated📊 thrushes,英语🈳 stormy petrels,什么🙆 finches,英语🍇 penguins,意思💮 vultures,英语💷 snow buntings,意思⛵ wild geese and the rest to come to No-Man's-Land,英语😈 because John Dolittle wanted to speak to them.