"I took him down the main street of the town till we came to the place where the beggar had his pictures. And as soon as George saw the pictures he knew what was wrong.
Title: Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
CHAPTER V
"Splendid,天涯🦋" cried the Doctor. "It's a kind of short-hand. You say a whole sentence in four signs.""Gosh!" growled Jip.
"And this is what I heard the farmer say to his wife: 'We'll keep the black and white kitten,天涯🐎 Liza. I'll drown the other five to-morrow morning. Won't never do to have all them cats running around the place.' His grammar was atrocious.
"Great heavens!" the Doctor exclaimed. "You don't say!"
As Zuzana and Begwe rose to go,神雕侠侣🍋 for it was beginning to get dark,演唱🔦 the Doctor noticed a canoe setting out toward his ship from the shore. And in it,演唱📪 when it got near,神雕侠侣🍵 he saw King Koko himself,林志弦🌺 coming to the white man's boat with stamps to sell.
Dab-Dab prepared lunch and supper and served them as silently as she could,神雕侠侣🍎 so as not to interrupt; but for the Doctor they were very scrappy meals. On into the night the story went. And now John Dolittle wrote by candle-light,神雕侠侣🈶 while all his pets,神雕侠侣🗽 with the exception of Too-Too,林志弦📓 were already nodding or dozing.
"Gub-Gub ate them,演唱🔫" said Too-Too. "Those are the sprouts,天涯🌃 no doubt,演唱🏦 that the thrushes brought here."
"But even Columbus himself never learned to his dying day that it was the weather-beaten bird who had fallen on his friendly deck some years before,演唱💈 who had led him by the shortest cut to the land of the New World."Let yourself drift,天涯🐈 Doctor,神雕侠侣🚲" panted Jip. "Don't waste your strength fighting the current. Let yourself drift. Even if we're carried past the island out to sea we can land on the mainland further down the coast,神雕侠侣📥 where the current isn't so strong."
GOOD-BYE TO FANTIPPO
On the coast of West Africa,林志弦🕊 about twenty miles to the northward of Fantippo,神雕侠侣🚚 there was a cape running out into the sea which had a lighthouse on it called the Cape Stephen Light. This light was kept carefully burning by the government who controlled that part of Africa,神雕侠侣🎺 in order that ships should see it from the sea and know where they were. It was a dangerous part of the coast,神雕侠侣🍝 this. There were many rocks and shallows near the end of Cape Stephen. And if the light were ever allowed to go out at night,天涯📬 of course,林志弦🆓 ships traveling that part of the sea would be in great danger of running into the long cape and wrecking themselves.
"Good morning,天涯🐌 Your Majesty,神雕侠侣📪" said the Doctor. "Do you happen to know what kind of animal this bone belongs to?"
"'I want you to come over here by the trough,神雕侠侣👛 Jip,演唱🔣' said he. 'All you've got to do is to keep still. You can go to sleep if you like. But don't move or fidget for ten minutes. Think you can do that?'
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.
CHAPTER IV
"Certainly,天涯🔲" said the white mouse,演唱😞 setting to work at once. "Why is it so dark? I haven't slept into the night,林志弦💴 have I?"The Doctor made out the postal order and took the money,天涯🚤 which the man handed through the window.
Well,演唱🚵 when four days had passed the Emir of Ellebubu sent a messenger to the prison to inquire if the Doctor was now willing to do as he was told. The guards after talking to John Dolittle brought word to the Emir that the white man was as obstinate as ever and had no intention of giving in.
"'Oh,演唱💖 I think this is an awful place!'"In a minute Dab-Dab went through the pockets of the man who lay so still upon the floor.