"Come along,牛叉叉🏩" said Dab-Dab,没有✍ 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."
"Yes,旗舰店📉 that's so,旗舰店⚽" said John Dolittle.
Very well,没有🚟 then. Now,没有🍥 it happened one day that a ship called at the coast of West Africa,旗舰店👐 and delivered a letter for Koko,旗舰店👊 the King of Fantippo. King Koko had never seen a stamp before and,没有🌹 sending for a white merchant who lived in his town,牛叉叉🌺 he asked him what queen's face was this on the stamp which the letter bore.
And now it came,牛叉叉📰 at last,牛叉叉🚦 to the pushmi-pullyu's turn for a story. He was very shy and modest and when the animals asked him the following night he said in his very well-bred manner:
This time the officers all burst out laughing and tapped their foreheads knowingly,没有🚒 to show they thought the Doctor was crazy. And the Captain,旗舰店🚈 thinking he was being made a fool of,没有🐧 flew into a rage once more and was all for having the Doctor arrested again."'Great heavens,牛叉叉🏨 Doctor,没有🐜 I've gained an ounce!'"
"'Oh,牛叉叉➗ la,牛叉叉🌟 la,牛叉叉😱 la!' said she,牛叉叉📞 smirking. 'You wouldn't expect any self-respecting person to keep company with a blue mouse,没有🍀 would you?'
He got no answer. But soon,没有♌ with a rush of wings that nearly blew his candle out,旗舰店👼 a great seagull swept down on to the houseboat rail beside him.
"They're not your pearl fisheries,没有📨 you black-faced ruffian,没有🌗" said the Doctor. "You stole them from poor old Nyam-Nyam. The pearls were fished for by diving birds. But the birds are honest and will work only for honest people. Why don't you have windows in your prisons? You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
Such a roaring trade was done in this way that the King set the stamp printing presses to work more busily than ever,牛叉叉🔖 so that a whole new set of Fantippo stamps should be ready for sale by the time the same ship called again on her way home to England.
"Yours truly,没有⚡
"In the jungle Obombo made speeches""'Ah! Now I feel better.'
"And you might ask him too,没有🎩" put in Dab-Dab who had been listening,牛叉叉🚖 "to take a look at the back windows of the house to see that none of them is broken. We don't want the rain coming in on the beds."
"What is it,旗舰店🆘 Doctor?" said Jip,没有🐦 staring down at the strange thing,牛叉叉🍌 which had now stopped rising and was carrying them like a ship,牛叉叉🍬 right across the strong course of the current,没有👖 in the direction of the island.
And the Doctor wrote back:
"Humph! I see,牛叉叉💚" said the Doctor. "Of course,没有🐁 myself,旗舰店🔤 I rather enjoy the jolliness of these Fantippos. But I can quite see your point. By the way,牛叉叉🈵 how would my old ship do? This ought to be quiet enough for you here. There's nobody living on it now. And,旗舰店🍐 look,旗舰店📺 it has heaps of cracks and holes and corners in it where you could build your nests. What do you think?"
"And not a bite to eat shall you ever have till I do,旗舰店🎏" the Emir yelled.
Once more,牛叉叉🛅 with the guide in front,旗舰店📟 but this time at a much better pace,旗舰店❗ the party set off.
While the Doctor was examining them with great curiosity the turtle said:
"Jip,旗舰店▫ it's a Quiffenodochus,旗舰店🌝 as sure as I'm alive!"