Fastening up his own canoe,笨蛋🈲 he went into the post office. And inside there was quite a crowd. He made his way through it with Dab-Dab and in the registered mail booth he found all the animals gathered around a small black squirrel. The little creature's legs were tied with post office red tape and he seemed very frightened and miserable. Speedy and Cheapside were mounting guard over him,测验🌝 one on each side.
And very soon he had an old-fashioned window-box garden on the houseboat post office blooming with geraniums and marigolds and zinnias raised from the seeds and cuttings his birds brought him from England. And that is why many of the same vegetables that grow in England can still be found in a wild state in Africa. They came there through Gub-Gub's passion for the foods he had been brought up on.
"Oh,笨蛋📟 excuse me,召唤📔" said the Captain,测验🚡 his manner changing at once. "Master-at-arms,召唤🏃 release the prisoner."
"These things added a good deal of jolliness to the meal and some of them were very clever inventions. Why,笨蛋💓 they even had a speaking tube for things you are not allowed to mention at table."
"What do you want?" he asked,测验💪 thrusting the pearls into his pocket.
And,召唤👭 taking down his clothes off his own head,笨蛋🚧 the Doctor smartened up his high hat and dressed himself,召唤😳 while the strange thing that had saved their lives carried them steadily and firmly toward the mysterious island.
"I've brought you this letter,笨蛋✏" said the snake. "It's from the turtle. He is wondering why he got no answer to his first."
"'Oh,动漫😛 Willie,笨蛋🌰' says the little girl to her brother,召唤🐮 'we're saved!' ('Saved,动漫🎌' mark you,笨蛋📘 when neither of the boobies was in the slightest danger!) 'We're saved!' says she. 'There's Tuffie,笨蛋😣 our cat,动漫💘 come for us. She'll show us the way home. Cats can always find their way home,动漫⁉ can't they,召唤👙 Willie? Let's follow her!'"
"His pictures are just awful"
"And this is what I heard the farmer say to his wife: 'We'll keep the black and white kitten,测验😭 Liza. I'll drown the other five to-morrow morning. Won't never do to have all them cats running around the place.' His grammar was atrocious.
"Doctor,笨蛋🚰 why don't you start a parcel post?""There you are,笨蛋🚣 Doctor,笨蛋🔫" said Dab-Dab. "The trick's done. Now you can get all the pearls you want."
And the seagull spread his wings and flew away toward the land,动漫📲 calling the same cry as the Doctor had heard through the post office window.
"'Willie,召唤⁉ we're lost! Whatever shall we do? Night is coming on and I'm so afraid of the dark.'
"So presently,召唤🍭 picking out the tree where I had seen the chief himself go and hide,笨蛋🈯 I browsed along underneath it,笨蛋☎ pretending I suspected nothing at all. Then when the chief dropped on what he thought was my hindquarters,动漫🌷 I struck upward with my other horns,笨蛋🐝 hidden under the cowhide,笨蛋🚆 and gave him a jab he will remember the rest of his days."Well,动漫📱 for a while our plan worked splendidly. The beggar sold the things that we got in payment from the dogs and he had money to live on.
When it was possible to see,笨蛋🐕 however,召唤🚜 the Doctor found that most of Chief Nyam-Nyam's people had fled off into the jungle; and the Amazons,笨蛋💯 in thousands,笨蛋🎈 were just going through the village,动漫🔥 taking anything they fancied. The Doctor tried to argue with them,笨蛋🏠 but they merely laughed at him.
Then the white merchant explained to him the whole idea of penny postage and government mails. And he told him that in England all you had to do when you wanted to send a letter to any part of the world was to put a stamp on the envelope with the queen's head on it and place it in a letter-box on the street corner,测验🌓 and it would be carried to the place to which you addressed it.
So the Doctor and Jip and Speedy-the-Skimmer sat down in the shade of the palm trees and for the first time plans for that great service which was to be known as the Swallow Mail were discussed.
Inside the prison the Doctor was swinging his arms to get the stiffness out of them.