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The Doctor ran into the post office kitchen and woke the poor housekeeper,海域🚒 who was slumbering soundly beside the kitchen stove.
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Then John Dolittle told the Captain the whole story of Zuzana and her troubles. And all the other officers on the ship gathered around to listen.
"Go on,手机⏰ Gub-Gub,海域👰" said the Doctor. "Don't take any notice of them. I'm listening."
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"Dear me!" muttered the Doctor,神秘🔑 paddling harder than ever,免费下载🔫 "I wonder what can have happened?"
PARCEL POST
"Maybe it's a cow's bone,免费下载🐞" said he.
For a moment Too-Too's plump sides shook with silent laughter as he recalled the scene he was describing.
Still another thing in which the Doctor's post office was different from all others was the gum used on the stamps. The supply of gum which the King had been using for his stamps ran short and the Doctor had to set about discovering and making a new kind. And after a good deal of experiment he invented a gum made of licorice,海域🌖 which dried quickly and worked very well. But,手机💌 as I have said,免费下载🎊 the Fantippans were very fond of sweetmeats. And soon after the new gum was put into use the post office was crowded with people buying stamps by the hundred.
Late that same afternoon the Doctor returned to Chief Nyam-Nyam's village. And with him he took the cormorant as well as Dab-Dab and his animals.
"I wonder,神秘🚲" said the Doctor. "They do say he is a most unscrupulous customer. Well,海域🐖 there's nothing for it,神秘💷 I suppose,手机🌖 but that I should paddle back to Fantippo right away and try to find him. The post office is responsible for the loss of registered mail,海域📇 and if Mr. Wilkins took those pearls I'm going to get them back again. But after this we will make it a post office rule that carriers of registered mail may not talk to their sisters or anyone else while on duty."
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"Then the baby pig saw that the time to use the goblins' magic gift had come. And,神秘📱 rushing out into the castle garden,神秘😞 he dug a hole and planted his piece of cucumber right in the middle of the king's best rosebed.
CHAPTER III
In fact,免费下载😪 the Doctor used to discharge him for rudeness regularly about once a month. And the city mails always got tied up soon after. But,神秘📠 to the Doctor's great relief,手机📋 the City Manager always came back just when the tie-up was at its worst and put things right again.
Outside the post office he had a notice board set up on which were posted the Outgoing and Incoming Mails. The notices would read something like this:
"Well,海域❗ wouldn't you like to keep them,免费下载📠 then?" asked the spoonbill. "I could get the children something else to play with,手机⚽ no doubt."
"To Chief Nyam-Nyam and his people,手机♻ of course. He owns the Harmattan Rocks. Would you mind,手机🚜" the Doctor asked,海域🎓 turning to the cormorant,手机⚽ "getting me a few oysters of this kind to look at?"
"'Ulloa,神秘💤 Doctor,海域🍐 'ere we are again! What ho! The old firm! Who would 'ave thought you'd come to this?"
"Well,手机🌵 by land it would be twenty-five miles to where the lighthouse stands,神秘📭" said the gull. "But by water it would be only about twelve,神秘📰 I should say."
Great was the rejoicing among the Doctor's pets and the patient swallows when the news got about that John Dolittle was really going home at last. Gub-Gub and Jip could hardly wait while the last duties and ceremonies of closing the houseboat to the public and transferring the Foreign Mails Service to the office in the town were performed. Dab-Dab bustled cheerfully from morning to night while Cheapside never ceased to chatter of the glories of London,免费下载📌 the comforts of a city life and all the things he was going to do as soon as he got back to his beloved native haunts.
