"Splendid,全集❓ Quip,仙女😣" said the Doctor. "I congratulate you. Now I must be getting up. I've a frightful lot of work to do. Don't forget to tell Speedy I'll meet him on the ship at ten. Good-bye! Oh,全集🍌 and would you mind asking Dab-Dab,在线观看➕ as you go out,仙女🍌 to clear away the breakfast things? I'm glad you came. You've given me an idea. Good-bye!"
This time the officers all burst out laughing and tapped their foreheads knowingly,电视剧✉ to show they thought the Doctor was crazy. And the Captain,电视剧🚬 thinking he was being made a fool of,仙女🍠 flew into a rage once more and was all for having the Doctor arrested again.
"'Ah,电视剧🚳 hah!' he cried. 'A white mouse! The very thing I've been wanting!'
"Maybe it's a cow's bone,全集🚴" said he.And in ten days' time he went to the prison,全集🗿 as he had said,仙女😈 to gloat over the terrible fate of the white man. Many of his ministers and generals came with him to help him gloat. But when the prison door was opened,仙女🌂 instead of seeing the white man's body stretched upon the floor,仙女💃 the Emir found the Doctor smiling on the threshold,在线观看🌼 shaved and hearty and all spruced up. The only difference in his appearance was that with no exercise in prison he had grown slightly stouter and rounder.
"It's a wonderful medicine,全集👭 that,仙女👐" said he. "You are surely a great Doctor. Have you got any more of it?"
That was why,仙女🌸 she said,电视剧✉ she hated all white men and had not wanted to speak to the Doctor when he had hailed her canoe.She was only just in time. For the Emir's six special men were about to land on the islands to get a second load of pearls. Dab-Dab and the cormorants swiftly threw back into the sea the oysters that had been fished up and when the Emir's men arrived they found nothing.
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And on the morrow,仙女🌀 crossing once again to the island,电视剧🐱 he went on with the discussion and planning and arrangement. It was agreed that the Swallow Mail Service should have its head office here in No-Man's-Land. And that there should be branch offices at Cape Horn,仙女🌀 Greenland,仙女🌔 in Christmas Island,全集🍦 Tahiti,电视剧🚛 Kashmir,仙女🏫 Thibet and Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. Most of the mails were arranged so that those birds who migrated or went to other lands in the winter and back again in summer should carry the letters on their regular yearly journeys. And as there are some kinds of birds crossing from one land to another in almost every week of the year,在线观看💼 this took care of much of the mails without difficulty.
"What is it,电视剧🍷 Doctor?" said Jip,在线观看🍓 staring down at the strange thing,全集👧 which had now stopped rising and was carrying them like a ship,仙女📣 right across the strong course of the current,仙女🐙 in the direction of the island.
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The Emir stared at the prisoner open-mouthed,在线观看🌔 speechless with astonishment. Now,全集🐨 the day before this he had heard for the first time the story of the rout of the Amazons. The Emir had refused to believe it. But now he began to feel that anything might be true about this man.
Disappointed and sad,在线观看📀 Dab-Dab and the Doctor started to paddle their way back.
"Tell her,全集💰" said the Doctor,在线观看🍎 "to fly over to the Harmattan Rocks right away and give the cormorants strict orders to stop all pearl fishing at once."
"Oh,电视剧🌒 I see,仙女💨" said the Doctor. "Like a medal,仙女💻 eh?"
Years afterwards,电视剧👷 the birds visiting Puddleby told the Doctor that the King still had the flowers in the window-boxes of his old houseboat carefully tended and watered in his memory. His Majesty,全集🐷 they said,仙女🐟 never gave up the fond hope that some day his good white friend would come back to Fantippo with his kindly smile,电视剧🐓 his instructive conversation and his jolly tea-parties on the post office veranda."Well,全集🚜 just wait until I have your hands free,全集😵" said the white mouse. "Then I'll see what can be done. There! I've bitten through one strand. Now wiggle your hands a bit and you can undo the whole rope."
"'What's that for?' I asked.
Then the Doctor put down the letter and,电视剧😆 taking his penknife,在线观看💮 he cut the seaweed strings that neatly held the oyster shells together. And when he opened the shells he gave a gasp of astonishment.
And now very soon Cheapside took entire charge of the city delivery of mails in Fantippo. Of course,仙女😚 as soon as the mail began to get heavy,在线观看🅱 when the people got the habit of writing more to their friends and relatives,全集🚆 Cheapside could not deal with all the mail himself. So he sent a message by a swallow to get fifty sparrows from the streets of London (who were,仙女🚵 like himself,在线观看🐞 accustomed to city ways),全集😍 to help him with the delivery of letters. And around the native holiday seasons,仙女🎢 the Harvest Moon and the Coming of the Rains,电视剧📔 he had to send for fifty more to deal with the extra mail.
"And not a bite to eat shall you ever have till I do,在线观看◽" the Emir yelled."Ah,仙女🌑 hah!" said the King. "A new kind of magic. I understand. Very good. The High Kingdom of Fantippo shall have a post office of its own. And my serene and beautiful face shall be on all the stamps and my letters shall travel by faster magic than any of them."
"I agree,电视剧🍦" said the King. "But the stamps must all have my beautiful face upon them,仙女💳 and no other."