But while the Doctor was still thanking the Chief for the beautiful present,排行榜💻 Quip-the-Carrier flew up with a letter for him.
"The light's too bad,意大利☔" grumbled the gunners. "Who could hit anything two miles away in this rotten light?"
"'Why,意大利🍬 it's Jip!' he cried. 'Good dog. Come here. You're the very fellow I want.'
And in the jungle,意大利♍ where the frightened villagers had fled to hide,沙发📅 Obombo made whispered speeches to little scattered groups of his father-in-law's people,沙发🍑 telling them what fools they had been to trust the crazy white man,意大利👅 instead of listening to him,沙发♻ who would have led them to greatness.
"The villain!" grunted the Doctor,品牌🍡 putting on all the speed he could. "Let's hope he doesn't get away before we reach Fantippo."
And this was how the first letter was sent off by the Swallow Mail: King Koko himself came one morning and,沙发🌚 putting his large face in at the information window,沙发❔ asked:
The Doctor sprang across the room,排行榜🎡 upsetting a chair on his way,排行榜📰 and felt along the wall. His hand touched the corner of a stone shelf and the next moment Dab-Dab gave a deep sigh of relief,意大利🔐 for she heard the cheerful rattle of a box of matches as the Doctor fumbled to strike a light.
"Welcome,排行榜🔉 John Dolittle. Welcome to Lake Junganyika."DAB-DAB'S STORY
John Dolittle had thought that he and his friends had gone home to London. But they hadn't. They knew the Doctor would need them and they had just hung around outside the town. And then the Doctor,排行榜✂ after lecturing Cheapside again about politeness,意大利✒ gave him back his job.
"I hope to do a little pearl fishing,沙发🌉" said John Dolittle. "But first I must see the spoonbill and give her this registered package. Dab-Dab,品牌🌹 would you please try to find her for me? With so many millions of sea birds around,排行榜🎴 myself,排行榜🈲 I wouldn't know how to begin to look for her."
And he turned to the letter again.
"'What's his name?' I asked.
The Doctor readily agreed because he hadn't been on a voyage in a long while and he felt he too needed a change from the chilly December days of England.
When Dab-Dab entered the postmaster's office with the milk she found John Dolittle reading the letter. Looking at the floor,品牌💻 she gave a squawk of disgust.
"So,排行榜👱 without letting the spaniel see that I was following him,排行榜🌻 I went after him,排行榜💒 to see where he was going.
"How far off the rocks is the ship now?" asked the gull.
"That's the main trouble with sailors,意大利😎 Doctor. They don't know winds the way they ought. They can tell a northeast wind from a west wind. And a strong one from a weak one. And that's about all. But when you've spent most of your life,排行榜💰 the way we have,意大利😿 flying among the winds,排行榜💪 using them to climb on,排行榜🌠 to swoop on and to hover on,品牌🍓 you get to know that there's a lot more to a wind besides its direction and its strength. How often it puffs upward or downward,排行榜📪 how often it grows weak or grows strong,排行榜🚛 will tell you,意大利🍃 if you know the science of winds,品牌♉ a whole lot."
They reached Nyam-Nyam's village about six o'clock in the evening and the old chief prepared a supper for his guests. There was very little to eat at it,排行榜😋 however. And the Doctor was again reminded how poor these people were.
The Doctor comforted her as best he could,排行榜🐯 saying that if he failed he would get her another husband,品牌🚴 just as good. But she didn't seem to care for that idea and went on wailing,品牌🍎 "Alas! Alas!""'I am terribly sorry for your bad luck,品牌🛁' said he when I had ended. 'But I'm glad I caught you before you went back into captivity. Because I think I can guide you to a way out of your troubles.'
One evening at six o'clock Jip shut the doors of the post office as usual,意大利⛲ and hung up the sign "Closed" as he always did at that hour. The Doctor heard the bolts being shot and he stopped counting postcards and took out his pipe to have a smoke.