"But he gave me no address,宠物🚕" said John Dolittle,连连看🎱 taking the muddy envelope from the serpent. "I've been trying my hardest ever since to find out where he lived."
About noon the Doctor started out a second time upon his holiday trip and as Gub-Gub,小游戏🐖 Jip and the white mouse begged to be taken along,4399㊗ the canoe was well loaded.
The Doctor made out the postal order and took the money,宠物📡 which the man handed through the window.And somewhere about noon word came through that Bones's slave ship had been sighted behind a long,宠物🍨 high cape. Great care must be taken,特别😋 the message said,连连看🐂 because the slave ship was in all readiness to sail at a moment's notice. The slavers had only stopped to get water and look-outs were posted to warn them to return at once,4399🚁 if necessary.
"Good heavens!" cried the Doctor. "What can have happened? There's a lighthouse keeper living there to attend to it. Was it lighted earlier in the evening?"
On the coast of West Africa,连连看▪ about twenty miles to the northward of Fantippo,特别🚏 there was a cape running out into the sea which had a lighthouse on it called the Cape Stephen Light. This light was kept carefully burning by the government who controlled that part of Africa,特别🐓 in order that ships should see it from the sea and know where they were. It was a dangerous part of the coast,特别🎒 this. There were many rocks and shallows near the end of Cape Stephen. And if the light were ever allowed to go out at night,连连看🚨 of course,特别🐷 ships traveling that part of the sea would be in great danger of running into the long cape and wrecking themselves.
"Heigh ho!" sighed Jip,连连看😿 "it's a circus for us,宠物🌲 all right."
"There you are,4399🍡 Doctor,连连看💺" said Dab-Dab. "The trick's done. Now you can get all the pearls you want."
"Who's turn is it to give us a story now?" asked the Doctor,连连看✔ when the supper things were cleared away the following evening.
"Come along,连连看📲" said Dab-Dab,4399😔 picking the wretched culprit up in her big webbed feet. "I'll take you back to the mainland. And you can thank your lucky stars that it's the Doctor who is in charge of this post office. It's to jail you really ought to go.""All right,4399🐹" said the King. "Here's a letter to a friend of mine who runs a shoe-shine parlor in Alabama. Let me see how quickly you can get me an answer to it."
"'My master is a very famous artist,小游戏♒' said he.
"'How ever did you find your way,特别🚉 Willie?' asked the mother,小游戏❕ wiping away her tears and smiling all over.
"The Doctor cut off all my fur"
"The King saw the Doctor's canoe arriving"
They asked the Doctor if he could give them any news of their beloved London. But he had to admit that he also had been away from that city for a long time. However,连连看📍 while they were talking Cheapside came into the lighthouse kitchen,特别🏤 looking for the Doctor. The city sparrow was delighted to find that the keepers were also Cockneys. And he gave them,宠物♋ through the Doctor,特别🍑 all the latest gossip of Wapping,宠物📊 Limehouse,小游戏🚩 the East India Docks and the wharves and the shipping of London River.
CHAPTER VII"Aye,小游戏🐾 aye,宠物🔱 sir,小游戏👽" said the sailor,宠物✔ removing the handcuffs from the Doctor's wrists and turning to go.
"Why do you call it the Secret Lake?" asked the Doctor.
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Then the trader told him that it was not through magic in the stamps or boxes that letters traveled by mail. But proper post offices had mail-men,连连看🐻 or postmen,连连看🍎 who collected the letters out of these boxes. And he went on to explain to the King all the other duties of a post office and the things that made letters go.
"The light's too bad,宠物🏥" grumbled the gunners. "Who could hit anything two miles away in this rotten light?"