"Ask them to let me fire a gun. My sight is better than theirs for bad light."
The cross-eyed Wilkins was still seated at the table,人民币👬 as Dab-Dab had described,6.8🌖 counting pearls. Two other men were asleep in bunks around the room. The Doctor swung open the door and jumped in. Instantly Wilkins sprang up from the table,6.8📅 snatched a pistol from his belt and leveled it at the Doctor's head.
"Listen,6.8😨 Doctor,6.8😾" said Jip. "You were wondering just now what to write the Cats'-Meat-Man about. Let Speedy write the letter to Cheapside in bird scribble and you inclose it in a letter to the Cats'-Meat-Man. Then when the sparrow comes to Puddleby for his summer visit the Cats'-Meat-Man can give it to him."
And he turned to the letter again.
"Oh,人民币🔣 indeed,人民币🔏" said the bird. "And why don't the ladies in the country wear them,6.8👄 too?"
"I'll attend to that,人民币🚰" said the Doctor. "I'll see the King about it this afternoon."
"Oh,人民币😡 excuse me,6.8🍎" said the Captain,人民币🎎 his manner changing at once. "Master-at-arms,人民币💆 release the prisoner."
"Jip hung up the sign"
Presently the keeper opened his eyes wide and stared up into the Doctor's face.
This they were glad to do. And the Doctor made the tea himself and it was very excellent. Over the tea Zuzana and her husband (whose name was Begwe) were conversing about the Kingdom of Fantippo.
"Yours very truly,人民币💀
She told him it was half an hour ago. Without her husband,6.8😡 she said,人民币👄 life meant nothing to her,人民币🍑 and when the ship had passed from view,6.8🚓 going northward along the coast,6.8👚 she had burst into tears and just let the canoe drift,6.8🌉 not even having the heart to paddle back to land.After the Doctor had finished his speech and told the leaders what it was he meant to do,人民币🍟 the birds of the world applauded by whistling and screeching and flapping their wings,人民币👖 so that the noise was terrible. And in the streets of Fantippo the natives whispered it about that the dragons were fighting one another in No-Man's-Land.
"What's the matter?" shouted the Doctor,人民币🚛 as soon as he was near enough to make the woman hear. "Why have you come so far from the land? Don't you know that you are in great danger if a storm should come up?"
But after many hours of terrific labor,人民币🚣 trying to get letters sorted and the place in order,人民币🍌 John Dolittle saw that such a tremendous job as setting the Fantippo post office to rights would not be a matter of a day or two. It would take weeks at least. So he told this to the King. Then the Doctor's ship was brought into the harbor and put safely at anchor and the animals were all taken ashore. And a nice,6.8💐 new house on the main street was given over to the Doctor for himself and his pets to live in while the work of straightening out the Fantippo mails was going on.
And then because so many letters were written him about good manners and proper behavior,6.8📗 he wrote a "Book of Etiquette for Animals." It is still a very famous work,6.8🕊 though copies of it are rare now. But when he wrote it the Doctor printed a first edition of fifty thousand copies and sent them all out by mail in one week. It was at this time,6.8😽 too,6.8🍐 that he wrote and circulated another very well-known book of his called "One-Act Plays for Penguins."
By the following morning everything was in readiness to put to sea. The anchor was drawn up and with all sail set the Doctor's ship moved northward before a favorable wind. And it is from this point that my story begins.
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:At first the squirrel seemed almost too frightened to speak. So the Doctor took a pair of scissors and cut the bonds that held him.
Then a tremendous fight began. Over and over and over they rolled around the floor,人民币😖 upsetting things in all directions,6.8☎ Wilkins fighting to get his pistol hand free,人民币🐉 the Doctor struggling to keep it bound to his body,6.8🔲 Dab-Dab hopping and flying and jumping and flapping to get a bite in on the enemy's nose whenever she saw a chance.