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"Jimmie Bones,传播🍟 the slaver?" cried the Captain. "That's the man the government has sent me after. Where is he?"
So the Skimmer sped off into the darkness toward the tiny light far out to sea,传播📤 while the Doctor fell to wondering how his own ship was getting on which he had left at anchor some miles down the coast to the southward.
"I have told you,传播⚓" said the Doctor,传播📋 "that I don't desire any further conversation with you. Not a single pearl shall you ever get from the Harmattan Fisheries."
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,传播➿ gazing around him with great satisfaction.
"Oh,传播🐎 yes,传播⛵" said the gull,传播⚪ "it wastes a little time. But,传播👷 you know,传播🈴 we very seldom let ourselves get caught by a storm."
"Let yourself drift,传播✅ Doctor,传播⛽" panted Jip. "Don't waste your strength fighting the current. Let yourself drift. Even if we're carried past the island out to sea we can land on the mainland further down the coast,传播💅 where the current isn't so strong."
"He led me to a lonely old farm out on the hills. And there,传播🚱 concealing myself in some bushes,传播🌜 I watched the great Morland painting one of his famous farm scenes.
CHAPTER III
"But I was not so happy. I had noticed a peculiar thing: none of the invalids ever seemed to get well and go away. And finally I spoke of this to Phipps.
Then the Doctor put down the letter and,传播🈸 taking his penknife,传播👰 he cut the seaweed strings that neatly held the oyster shells together. And when he opened the shells he gave a gasp of astonishment.
"Don't worry,传播🎻 Doctor,传播🚖 I'll get it to her,传播📡" said the mouse. "I've just found an old rat hole over here in the corner. I popped down it and it goes under the wall and comes out by the root of the tree on the other side of the road from the prison."
After he had listened to the description of the man's cross-eyed,传播🛁 ugly face,传播⛵ the King said,传播😽 yes,传播🌕 he knew him very well. He was a pearl fisherman,传播🚋 who spent most of his time in the Pacific Ocean,传播📧 where fishing for pearls was more common. But,传播🗽 the King said,传播🔎 he often came hanging around these parts,传播🈂 where he was known to be a great villain who would do anything to get pearls or money. Jack Wilkins was his name.
CHAPTER III
Then the Doctor and the leaders agreed upon a regular kind of simple,传播📕 easy writing for all birds to use,传播💸 so that the addresses on the envelopes could be understood and read by the post birds. And at last John Dolittle sent them off home again,传播📟 to instruct their relatives in this new writing and reading and explain to all the birds of all the world how the post office was going to work and how much good he hoped it would do for the education and betterment of the Animal Kingdom. Then he went home and had a good sleep.
THE SECRET LAKE
Dab-Dab screwed up her eyes and peered at it closely.
"'I want you to come over here by the trough,传播📭 Jip,传播📆' said he. 'All you've got to do is to keep still. You can go to sleep if you like. But don't move or fidget for ten minutes. Think you can do that?'
Then the Doctor was sorry and wished he hadn't discharged Cheapside,传播💐 who seemed to be the only one who could manage this part of the mails properly.
"Villain!" was all he said between his clenched teeth.
"'Fine,传播🌸' says he. 'Try that and see what happens!'
"'What was that?'"
"Well,传播🍒" said Speedy,传播🌚 "that would be possible. But,传播🍅 of course,传播😨 we could only do it during certain months of the year when we were in Africa. And then we could only take letters to the mild and warm countries. We should get frozen if we had to carry mail where severe winters were going on."
"I suspect,传播🐱" said Speedy,传播😝 "that you'll find most of the letters will be written to you,传播🍜 Doctor. I've met birds all over creation who wanted to know what you looked like,传播⚽ what you ate for breakfast and all sorts of silly things about you."
