"How does the garden look,教学♏ Cheapside?" asked the Doctor.
"Gracious,劈挂拳😠 Cheapside!" said the Doctor,教学👚 laughing. "It makes me quite homesick for England to hear your Cockney chirp."
Once more,教学🎯 with the guide in front,劈挂拳💵 but this time at a much better pace,劈挂拳👾 the party set off."The old rat laughed a quavering laugh"
"You said something about a message you had for Dab-Dab,视频🌱 I think,劈挂拳👔" peeped the white mouse's voice from the darkness of the corner.One evening at six o'clock Jip shut the doors of the post office as usual,视频📝 and hung up the sign "Closed" as he always did at that hour. The Doctor heard the bolts being shot and he stopped counting postcards and took out his pipe to have a smoke.
But wherever money is made in large quantities and business is good,视频🔷 there strangers will always come,视频🍓 seeking their fortune. And before long the little village that used to be so poor and insignificant was full of traders from the neighboring kingdoms,教学🌺 buying and selling in the crowded,视频🎪 busy markets. And,视频🐑 of course,教学👜 questions were soon asked as to how this country had suddenly got so rich. And,劈挂拳🐱 although the Chief had carried out the Doctor's orders and had only intrusted the secret of the fisheries to a few picked men,劈挂拳® folks began to notice that canoes frequently came and went between the Harmattan Rocks and the village of Chief Nyam-Nyam.
"What monkey business have you done to my pearl fisheries,全套® you white-faced villain?"
"Some time ago,全套🚠" Jip began,劈挂拳🚘 "I knew a dog who was a beggar's dog. We met by chance one day,教学🌕 when a butcher's cart had an accident and got upset. The butcher's boy who was driving the cart was a stupid boy whom all the dogs of that town heartily disliked. So when his cart hit a lamp-post and over-turned,视频👲 spilling mutton chops and joints all over the street,视频🍄 we dogs were quickly on the scene and ran off with all his meat before he had time to pick himself up out of the gutter.
"'I am the oldest rat in the town and I know a great deal. But,视频💁 tell me,视频♣ why do you come here into the dyeing shed?'
"Well,视频💸 Jip,教学📧" said he with a sigh,劈挂拳💦 "we now have a real working post office."
Then there was much rejoicing and hand-shaking and congratulation on board the warship. And a grand dinner was prepared for the slaves on the main deck. But John Dolittle,视频🌿 Zuzana and her husband were invited to the officers' mess,视频🍣 where their health was drunk in port wine and speeches were made by the Captain and the Doctor.
Cheapside was a wonderful bird. But it seemed as though he just couldn't go a whole month without being rude to somebody. The Doctor said it was in his nature.
Then he took them to the great ship,劈挂拳👒 which was sailing calmly onward toward the rocks and destruction. And there,全套📠 going forward to where the helmsman held the spokes of the wheel and watched the compass swinging before him in the light of a little,教学🏨 dim lamp,视频🌲 the gulls started dashing themselves into the wheelman's face and covering the glass of the compass,教学🍃 so he could not steer the ship.
At last poor Dab-Dab,劈挂拳🔓 fully awakened,劈挂拳🏣 understood what was the matter. And in a moment she was up and doing."And sure enough,全套❓ the dealer and a few of the richer townsfolk bought the whole lot at twenty guineas apiece.
So the Doctor's boat was now turned into a nesting ship for the swallows. Calmly she stood at anchor in the quiet waters of Fantippo harbor,全套😉 while thousands and thousands of swallows built their nests in her rigging,视频😄 in her ventilators,教学🌳 in her portholes and in every crack and corner of her.
Presently when he had undone the cord that tied his feet,教学🉐 John Dolittle stood up and gazed over the ocean. And there,视频💾 on the sky line,全套📷 he could just see the sails of Wilkins' schooner disappearing eastward.
The Doctor said afterward that he had never seen a bird who reminded him so much of a sailor. He had the rolling,全套👦 straddling walk of a seafaring man; he smelt strongly of fish; and whenever he spoke of the weather he had an odd trick of squinting up at the sky with his one eye,视频🈂 the way old sailors often do.But just at that moment the order came from the Captain,全套👾 "Cease firing!" And the men left their places.
"Upstairs where the dye vats stood"
"Well,教学🐈 right from the start we did a roaring trade. All the dogs for miles around heard of us and came to hire bones. And we would charge them according to the length of time they wanted to hire them. For instance,全套👳 you could rent a good ham bone for one day for a candlestick or a hair brush; for three days for a violin or an umbrella. And if you wanted your bone for a whole week you had to bring us a suit of clothes in payment.
"I left them beside my pipe on the information desk,视频🚚" came the Doctor's voice from the top of the dark stairs. "But there must be matches in the lighthouse somewhere. We must find them.""There isn't any other place I like as well,劈挂拳🉐" said Mudface. "It's so hard to find a country where you're not disturbed these days."
"But what kind of work is invalids' work?" asked the white mouse.