"Great heavens!" cried the Doctor. "What a start you gave me! Come in,车辆🌀 come in,一般🌋 and make yourself at home."
"Well,教案🎽" said Jip,故障🌹 "whatever happens,车辆🍞 it's nice the Doctor's got the pearl. He always seems to be in need of money. And,教案🏊 as you say,部队🔏 Dab-Dab,排除👯 that should make anybody rich for life."
The helmsman,教案🐛 battling with the birds,教案🏀 set up a yell for help,教案👎 saying he couldn't see to steer the boat. Then the officers and sailors rushed up to his assistance and tried to beat the birds off.
"All right,一般🍴" said the Doctor. "Please tell Gub-Gub for me to go across to the island and get the wild boars to gather up a couple of sacks of acorns. I want all the birds who work for us to have a good feed before they leave the Main Office for their flights."
"Where is that?" asked the Doctor.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,部队📨 and the Doctor,故障🐖 still out of breath,一般🐐 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.
"Yes,部队🍀 that's so,部队🎿" said John Dolittle.
"You said something about a message you had for Dab-Dab,排除🔭 I think,部队🐉" peeped the white mouse's voice from the darkness of the corner.
The first hard work of getting the post office in full swing was now over. And that night John Dolittle felt when he heard the doors being shut that at last he could afford to keep more regular hours and not be working all the time. And when Jip came inside the Registered Mail booth he found the Doctor leaning back in a chair with his feet on the desk,排除🌊 gazing around him with great satisfaction."What is it,部队♿ Doctor?" said Jip,故障💈 staring down at the strange thing,部队👣 which had now stopped rising and was carrying them like a ship,一般⏳ right across the strong course of the current,教案📕 in the direction of the island.
"'The sailors were ready to kill their admiral'"
"Build windows in the prison at once,部队🔢" the Emir said to the guards.
"I hope to do a little pearl fishing,车辆🚈" said John Dolittle. "But first I must see the spoonbill and give her this registered package. Dab-Dab,车辆👪 would you please try to find her for me? With so many millions of sea birds around,车辆💕 myself,排除🚐 I wouldn't know how to begin to look for her."
"'You know,部队📭' said I,故障👞 'I have only just escaped from captivity. I was kept as a pet by a boy. So far being white has only been a great inconvenience to me. The cats could see me so well life wasn't worth living.'
"He's coming to,车辆🚸" said Dab-Dab. "See,排除🚂 his eyes are beginning to blink."
Paddling very,车辆🐜 very softly,教案☎ he managed to get the canoe right under the bow of the ship. Then,教案💏 tying his own craft so it couldn't float away,车辆📙 he swarmed up the schooner's anchor chain and crept on to the boat on hands and knees."Don't bother,教案🏀 Doctor. He would never believe you,故障🈂 anyway. It was the gun of the man that made the mistake before that we used. Let him take the credit. They'll likely give him a medal,一般💰 and then he'll feel better."
"Bertha Bacon.
The Doctor found that His Majesty was much more distressed at the prospect of losing his good white friend and his afternoon tea on the houseboat than at anything else which the change would bring. But he saw that the Doctor really felt he had to go; and at length,一般🎰 with tears falling into his tea-cup,教案🈵 he gave permission for the Postmaster General of Fantippo to resign.
"It was certainly a wonderful collection of objects""Looking into all the bays"
Then the Doctor and Jip went back to Fantippo,排除📯 carried by the piffilosaurus,故障🚜 who landed them on the shore under cover of night,车辆📲 so no one would see them. And in the morning John Dolittle called upon the King again.
"When I had brought the children right up to this house their mother and father made a tremendous fuss,故障🚆 weeping over them,排除🏭 as though they had been saved from some terrible danger. In my opinion grown-up humans are even more stupid than the young ones. You'd think,部队🍶 from the way that mother and father carried on,部队◻ that those children had been wrecked on a desert island or something,排除🙏 instead of spending a couple of hours in the pleasant woods.
"Well,教案🚈 wouldn't you like to keep them,排除🍳 then?" asked the spoonbill. "I could get the children something else to play with,部队🌹 no doubt."
One morning in the first week of the return voyage when John Dolittle and his animals were all sitting at breakfast round the big table in the cabin,车辆✖ one of the swallows came down and said that he wanted to speak to the Doctor."The white mouse would roll them down the hole"