While the Doctor was examining them with great curiosity the turtle said:
CHAPTER VI
"The Doctor span the penny"
"John Dolittle saw him snooping around the post office"
"Pardon me,直升机🐟 but is there much more of you outside still?" asked the Doctor.
"What is the fastest foreign mail delivery ever made by any post office anywhere in the world?"
Then he went to call on the King,直升机🐍 as he did every so often. And in the course of conversation John Dolittle asked His Majesty if he knew who the white stranger might be that had called at the houseboat for a postal order.
"Ah,直升机🎸 but it's a story that nobody else could tell,直升机📟" said John Dolittle.
"They're such a nice,直升机😠 wholesome,直升机🌚 Christian change,航母💴" he said,直升机🌾 "after these 'ere 'eathen hidolaters. And you should just hear Fred sing 'See That My Grave's Kept Green.'"
But presently the Doctor noticed that after they had licked the gum off the stamps,航母🐣 the customers would bring them back and want to exchange them for money again. Now,直升机🔎 it is a rule that all post offices have to exchange their own stamps,航母😥 when asked,直升机💽 for the price paid for them. So long as they are not torn or marked it doesn't matter whether the gum has been licked off or not. So the Doctor saw that he would have to change his kind of gum if he wanted to keep stamps that would stick.And presently in the big hollow in the centre of No-Man's-Land they began to arrive. After three days Speedy came to the Doctor and said:
"The Doctor experimented on Jip"
"'Pst!' I whispered to the wife"
And later,航母💬 after the nesting was all over,航母💮 there were more than twice as many birds as there were before,航母☎ of course. And you simply couldn't get on to the ship for the tons and tons of mud on her.
"Well,直升机🍇 you see,航母📺" said the swallow,直升机🔅 lifting his right leg and showing a tiny red ribbon made of corn silk tied about his ankle,直升机⛲ "I got this for it."
There was terrible confusion. And until the moon had risen people were hitting and falling over one another everywhere in the darkness,直升机🌏 not knowing friend from enemy.
After some persuasion the Doctor consented to this proposal feeling that perhaps he could do some good. Little did he realize what great labors and strange adventures he was taking upon himself as he got into the canoe with the King,航母💺 Begwe and Zuzana to be paddled to the town of Fantippo."Oh,航母🏣 it's some humbug or other,航母💬" growled Jip. "They're a superstitious lot,直升机📌 these natives. Let's go down to the harbor,直升机🐏 Doctor,航母🔹 and try to hire a canoe to take us."
But no one had seen the letter arrive; no one could tell what day or hour it had come; no one could guess how it got into the pile of the Doctor's mails; no one knew anything about it. It was one of those little post office mysteries that are always cropping up even in the best-run mail systems.
"Oh,航母☎ bother your feet!" cried Dab-Dab. "Let the Doctor get on with his story."
"Well,航母✂ all's well that ends well,直升机🚎" said the Doctor. "Take this; you must be nearly starved.""'Good morning! What can I do for you?'"
The Doctor squirmed his arms and wrists and presently his hands were free.
"And we've got the pearls,航母🌑 too,直升机🙎" cried Too-Too. "They're in the stamp drawer and Jip is guarding them."
"'Ah! Now I feel better.'"What's all this about?" asked the Doctor.
One day when he was pulling out a loose tooth for a baby hippopotamus with his watch-chain,直升机🐇 Speedy-the-Skimmer turned up,航母🚇 looking rather annoyed.