"A ship!" cried the Doctor.
The Doctor,游戏💮 the gull,权力😡 One Eye,雷云📀 Dab-Dab,权力💶 Cheapside,权力😫 Speedy-the-Skimmer and Too-Too the mathematician put their heads together and discussed far into the night,权力⚓ working out a whole lot more arrangements and particulars for running a good weather bureau. And a few weeks later a second brand new notice board appeared on the walls of the Doctor's post office,雷云🎯 beside the one for Outgoing and Incoming Mails.
"Well,雷云📅 though I was safe for the present,游戏💇 my troubles were not over by any means. For some time the Badamoshis now left the ostriches alone and turned their whole attention to hunting me. They badgered my life out. As soon as I had moved from one part of the country to get away from their pestering they'd find out where I was and pursue me there. They laid traps for me; they set pitfalls; they sent the dogs after me. And although I managed for a whole year to keep away from them,权力🔐 the constant strain was very wearing.
"Cheapside is a London sparrow,雷云🐰" said the Doctor,权力🏯 "who visits me every summer in Puddleby. The rest of the year he lives around St. Paul's Cathedral. He builds his nest in St. Edmund's left ear."
It was a great day at the Doctor's post office when Cheapside,雷云💕 the London sparrow,雷云😦 arrived from Puddleby to look after the city deliveries for Fantippo.Here the spoonbill was waiting for him at the water's edge. She apologized for not coming in person to welcome him,游戏👑 but said she was afraid to leave her babies when there were sea eagles around. The little ones were with her,游戏💮 two scrubby,雷云🚉 greasy youngsters,游戏🌻 who could walk but not fly. The Doctor opened the package and gave them back their precious toys; and with squawks of delight they began playing marbles on the flat rocks with the enormous pink pearls.
So the Doctor put down his anchor and,权力🌚 leaving the ship where it was,游戏🅰 got into the woman's canoe. Then,权力🌚 calling to the swallows to help him as guides,雷云🍊 he set off northward along the coast,雷云🎳 looking into all the bays and behind all the islands for the slave ship which had taken Zuzana's husband.
"'Great heavens,游戏😦 Doctor,权力🍁 I've gained an ounce!'"
"Why?" asked the Doctor."About a turnip field,雷云🚗" said Gub-Gub.
But the parent birds,游戏📝 as soon as the young ones were able to fly,权力🍢 set their children to work clearing up the mess. And all that mud was taken off and dropped into the harbor,游戏✍ piece by piece. And the Doctor's ship was left in a cleaner state than it had ever been before in its whole life.
"Come on,雷云▫" he cried. "We must find the kitchen. That canary will know where the matches are kept. Find the kitchen!"
"Heigh ho!" sighed Jip,权力🐙 "it's a circus for us,权力✊ all right."
Now,权力🚞 when the Emir of Ellebubu had thrown the Doctor into prison he had refused to allow Dab-Dab,权力🐈 Jip or Gub-Gub to go with him. Jip put up a fight and bit the Emir in the leg. But all he got for that was to be tied up on a short chain.
"Well,游戏💾" said Jip,游戏👵 "whatever happens,权力👦 it's nice the Doctor's got the pearl. He always seems to be in need of money. And,游戏🚜 as you say,游戏📱 Dab-Dab,权力🐝 that should make anybody rich for life."
And on the morrow,权力🍇 crossing once again to the island,雷云🏃 he went on with the discussion and planning and arrangement. It was agreed that the Swallow Mail Service should have its head office here in No-Man's-Land. And that there should be branch offices at Cape Horn,游戏⚾ Greenland,权力🚨 in Christmas Island,权力💠 Tahiti,游戏🌜 Kashmir,权力🚑 Thibet and Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. Most of the mails were arranged so that those birds who migrated or went to other lands in the winter and back again in summer should carry the letters on their regular yearly journeys. And as there are some kinds of birds crossing from one land to another in almost every week of the year,游戏💝 this took care of much of the mails without difficulty.
"Ah,游戏👷 England!" cried Gub-Gub sentimentally. "What is there more beautiful in life than the heart of a young lettuce in the Spring?"
"With the greatest of pleasure,雷云🦜" said the cormorant."I think the white mouse ought to tell us one,游戏📰" said Jip.
"You have been fooling My Majesty. These stamps you speak of have no magic power at all. Explain!"
So the Doctor's boat was now turned into a nesting ship for the swallows. Calmly she stood at anchor in the quiet waters of Fantippo harbor,雷云📴 while thousands and thousands of swallows built their nests in her rigging,权力☀ in her ventilators,雷云🚶 in her portholes and in every crack and corner of her.Even while the Doctor was speaking he noticed a shadow fall across the desk at which he was standing. He looked up. And there at the information window was the ugliest man's face he had ever seen,权力💝 staring in at the beautiful pearls that still lay on the palm of his hand.
"The Doctor and Dab-Dab cooked his breakfast for him"
"Easy comes,权力🚿 easy goes,权力⛅" murmured Gub-Gub. "Never mind. I don't suppose it's really such fun being rich. Wealthy people have to behave so unnaturally."
"Humph!" said the Doctor. "That's too bad. Let me think a minute. Oh,游戏▪ I know I'll send for Cheapside."
"Let's see what I can do,游戏🔵" said Jip. And out of the canoe jumped another pearl fisherman.