Then the Doctor and Zuzana started to paddle their canoe for all they were worth in the direction of the light. The night was calm,唐老鸭🔡 but the long swell of the ocean swung the little canoe up and down like a seesaw and it needed all Zuzana's skill to keep it in a straight line.
All day long a never-ending stream of big birds,直播📫 a dozen abreast,唐老鸭🏦 flew up from the sea and headed across Lake Junganyika. The line was like a solid black ribbon,上吊🏫 the birds,百度🆔 dense,唐老鸭🔭 packed and close,直播📀 beak to tail. And as each dozen reached the spot where Speedy hovered,上吊🍯 twelve stones dropped into the water. The procession was so continuous and unbroken that it looked as though the sky were raining stones. And the constant roar of them splashing into the water out of the heavens could be heard a mile off.
John Dolittle had thought that he and his friends had gone home to London. But they hadn't. They knew the Doctor would need them and they had just hung around outside the town. And then the Doctor,直播🐧 after lecturing Cheapside again about politeness,直播🌖 gave him back his job.
"Quite so,百度📂" said the Captain. "I know he is somewhere around the coast. But where is he now? He's a difficult fish to catch."
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"That was a queer-looking customer,直播❔ wasn't he?" he said to Dab-Dab.
CHAPTER IIIThen,唐老鸭🚗 of course,直播😜 there were all those birds who don't leave their home lands in winter,百度😠 but stay in one country all the time. The leaders of these had come under special guidance of other birds to oblige the Doctor by being present at the great meeting. They promised to have their people all the year round take care of letters that were brought to their particular countries to be delivered. So between one thing and another,百度🈹 much of the planning and arrangement of the service was got through in these first two meetings.
And now Jip,上吊✋ Dab-Dab,唐老鸭✍ Gub-Gub,百度🐠 Too-Too and the rest of them gathered around John Dolittle and wanted to hear all about his adventures. And it was tea time before he had done telling them. So the Doctor asked Zuzana and her husband to take tea with him before they went ashore.
"Where are the oyster beds around here?" asked the Doctor.
"Listen,上吊🐜 Doctor,百度🌱" 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."
The Doctor made out the postal order and took the money,唐老鸭🌖 which the man handed through the window.
"They are pearls,唐老鸭🚄" said the Doctor,上吊🍉 "and worth a tremendous lot. Ladies in cities wear them around their necks."
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"And me,直播🗼 too,百度🌕" sighed Jip. "Were there many rats in the woodshed,上吊💯 Cheapside?"
"Oh,直播🔌 quite,百度📕" said the Doctor,唐老鸭👹 "thank you. But why did you swim under water?"
"'Ah,直播🚈 hah!' he cried. 'A white mouse! The very thing I've been wanting!'
"Gosh!" growled Jip.
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"Well,唐老鸭📬" said the Doctor,唐老鸭🚈 "I'll tell it,上吊😮 and then you can decide for yourself. Stop fidgeting,上吊👉 now,百度✒ and let me begin. It's getting late."
"Now,唐老鸭🆚" said the Doctor,百度💉 closing the window,上吊🐥 "what can I do for you?"
And he went out into the kitchen and woke up the housekeeper.