"When I was born I was one of seven twins. But all my brothers and sisters were ordinary mouse color and I alone out of the whole family was white. My color worried my mother and father a great deal. They said I was so conspicuous and would certainly,山河🚝 as soon as I left the nest,山河🍀 get caught by the first owl or cat that came along.
"Yes,原唱🐚 yes,原唱🌚" said the Doctor. "Go on. I remember Columbus writing of land birds in his diary. Go on."
And he had letter-boxes made,原唱👇 just the way the white trader had told him they had in England,原唱🚷 and he set them up at the corners of the streets and told his people that all they had to do was to put one of his stamps on their letters,原唱🎐 poke them into these boxes and they would travel to any corner of the earth they wished.
OBOMBO'S REBELLION
But,山河🐩 being a full-rigged man-o'-war,原唱📱 the Violet was still a pretty speedy sailer. And on she went,奥特曼👈 furiously plowing the waves and slowly gaining on the slave ship.
"I don't like that,山河🚡" said the King,原唱☠ frowning.
The morning sun peeping in at the window of the lighthouse found the Doctor still working over the keeper where he lay at the foot of the tower stairs."Well,山河🌗 if it's a slave ship,山河✈ it's not the one we're looking for,山河🐕" said the Doctor,奥特曼🐽 "because it's in the wrong direction. The one we're after went northward."
"Turn back,奥特曼🏪 Jip,原唱📎" gasped the Doctor. "Don't bother about me. I'll be all right. Turn back and try and make the shore."
"All right,山河🈹" said the Doctor. "I'll mention that."
The work,山河🗼 the Skimmer calculated,奥特曼🐶 would take three days. All birds had been ordered to pick up a stone or a pebble or a pinch of sand from the seashore on their way and bring it with them. The larger birds (who would carry stones) were to come first,山河🚲 then the middle-sized birds and then the little ones with sand.
Now,原唱🐎 it happened one day that the Doctor came to the post office,原唱🔗 as usual,山河🔪 at nine o'clock in the morning. (He had to get there at that time,山河♨ because if he didn't the postmen didn't start working.) And outside the post office he found Jip,奥特曼🏇 gnawing a bone on the pavement. Something curious about the bone struck the Doctor,山河🍏 who was,山河🐅 of course,山河🔑 being a naturalist,原唱🚲 quite a specialist in bones. He asked Jip to let him look at it.
"But that takes a long time,山河😐 doesn't it?" asked the Doctor.
"Jip hung up the sign"
"Sincerely yours,山河🍃
"'What's his name?' I asked.
"'What ails the dog?' he murmured to himself. 'Can't be anybody drowning,原唱🉐 because there's no river near.... Oh,奥特曼😟 all right,山河🚑 Jip,原唱📁 I'll come. Wait a second till I get these brushes cleaned.'"Why,山河🌕 this is extraordinary!" said the Doctor,奥特曼🌼 examining the bone with great care. "I did not know that this class of animals were still to be found in Africa. Where did you get this bone,奥特曼💅 Jip?"
The leader,奥特曼🍸 who already knew the Doctor,原唱🍍 of course,原唱📃 came forward to get orders and to see how much mail there was to be carried.
The Doctor threw a tomato skin out of the canoe and the gull caught it neatly in the air before it touched the water.
"Go on,原唱🌙 Gub-Gub,山河🏮" said the Doctor. "Don't take any notice of them. I'm listening."In a very short time the ship presented a curious and extraordinary sight,山河📞 with the mud nests stuck all over her and birds flying in thousands round her masts,奥特曼🌽 coming and going,山河🐖 building homes and feeding young ones.
But after many hours of terrific labor,山河😓 trying to get letters sorted and the place in order,奥特曼🍷 John Dolittle saw that such a tremendous job as setting the Fantippo post office to rights would not be a matter of a day or two. It would take weeks at least. So he told this to the King. Then the Doctor's ship was brought into the harbor and put safely at anchor and the animals were all taken ashore. And a nice,原唱🎺 new house on the main street was given over to the Doctor for himself and his pets to live in while the work of straightening out the Fantippo mails was going on.