CHAPTER V
But presently he heard something stirring in his pocket. And to his great delight,剧情攻略🚓 the white mouse,西游记🙊 who had been sleeping soundly,西游记🐳 entirely forgotten by the Doctor,西游记⛪ ran out on his lap.
But presently the people began complaining that they had been robbed. They had paid good money for the stamps,剧情攻略🔻 they said,幻想🌖 trusting in their magic power,幻想✒ and they had put their letters in the boxes at the corners of the streets as they had been told. But one day a cow had rubbed her neck against one of the letter boxes and burst it open,幻想☁ and inside there were all the people's letters,剧情攻略🍓 which had not traveled one inch from where they put them!
"So we led them on to the Bahamas. And on the seventh day,西游记🔻 very early in the morning,剧情攻略📜 the crew,西游记👻 with a cry of 'Land! Land!' fell down upon their knees and gave thanks to heaven. Watling's Island,幻想🅿 one of the smaller Bahamas,西游记⛽ lay ahead of them,幻想🍀 smiling in the sea.
"I'm afraid that was what brought on the attack,西游记🐰" said the Doctor,幻想🚑 getting out his little black bag from the canoe and mixing some medicines. "But you know you really ought to move out of this damp country to some drier climate. I am aware that turtles can stand an awful lot of wet. But at your age one must be careful,剧情攻略🌘 you know.""No,幻想🍻" said the Doctor,幻想📭 "I mean the swallows who are going back to England for the summer. They very kindly offered to guide my ship home. They're friends of mine,剧情攻略🌏 you see."
They found an air of quiet but great excitement there. Each gunner was leaning on his gun,西游记💽 aiming it,幻想⛲ watching the enemy's ship in the distance and waiting for the order to fire. The poor man who had been mobbed by his fellows was still almost in tears at his own stupid mistake.
"Anything new in London?" asked the white mouse who was also city bred.
"Oh,幻想📮 I think this is an awful place,西游记😸" said Gub-Gub as they got out of the canoe. "Nothing but waves and rocks. What have you come here for,剧情攻略♠ Doctor?"
"Well,西游记🚥 the fourth week after the enemy came the food in the castle was all gone and the king gave orders that the pigs must be eaten. The queen raised a great outcry and begged that her pet should be spared. But the king was very firm.
Now,西游记🔧 the peoples of West Africa have curious tastes in dress. They love bright things. And some Fantippo dandy started the idea of using up old stamps off letters by making suits of clothes out of them. They looked very showy and smart and a suit of this kind made of stamps became a valuable possession among the natives.
King Koko even sent for a new bicycle. It was brought over in pieces,幻想📦 two storks carrying a wheel each,西游记📎 an eagle the frame and crows the smaller parts,剧情攻略🏠 like the pedals,幻想🚨 the spanners and the oil can.
"Great heavens!" cried the Doctor,剧情攻略🐉 springing up. "The pearls gone? And they were registered,剧情攻略🍀 too!"
People who have written the history of the Kingdom of Fantippo all devote several chapters to a mysterious white man who in a very short space of time made enormous improvements in the mail,幻想🚥 the communications,西游记😇 the shipping,剧情攻略🐬 the commerce,幻想☠ the education and the general prosperity of the country. Indeed it was through John Dolittle's quiet influence that King Koko's reign came to be looked upon as the Golden Age in Fantippan history. A wooden statue still stands in the market-place to his memory.
"By morning,剧情攻略💠" said she,幻想💘 "the ship of the wicked slave dealers will be many miles away and I shall never get my husband back. Alas! Alas!"
"All right,剧情攻略🚚" said the Doctor. "Please tell Gub-Gub for me to go across to the island and get the wild boars to gather up a couple of sacks of acorns. I want all the birds who work for us to have a good feed before they leave the Main Office for their flights."
"Well,剧情攻略🔓 you could have knocked me down with a feather. Of course,幻想😮 you must realize that was the first time I had ever heard of any one's being afraid of the dark. It sounds ridiculous enough to all of you,西游记🐊 I suppose,剧情攻略🍲 but to me,剧情攻略📘 who had always preferred the cool,西游记© calm darkness to the glaring,西游记🚃 vulgar daylight,幻想♻ it seemed then an almost unbelievable thing that anyone could be afraid merely because the sun had gone to bed."As he took a seat beside me on the doorstep I burst into tears and told him all that had happened to me since we left our parents' home.
"I thought they were Brussels sprouts,幻想⭕" said the squirrel timidly. "A few weeks ago when I and my wife were sitting in a tree we suddenly smelled the smell of Brussels sprouts,剧情攻略⬛ awful strong,西游记🚂 all about us. I and my wife are very fond of this vegetable and we wondered where the smell was coming from. And then,幻想🎯 looking up,剧情攻略🔠 we saw thousands of thrushes passing overhead,幻想🐦 carrying Brussels sprouts in their mouths. We hoped they would stop so we could get a few. But they didn't. So we agreed that perhaps more would be coming over in a few days. And we arranged to stay around that same tree and wait. And,幻想🎅 sure enough,幻想💆 this morning I saw one of these same thrushes alight in the tree,幻想📄 carrying a package. 'Pst!' I whispered to the wife. 'More Brussels sprouts. Let's bag his parcel while he's not looking!' And bag it I did. But when we opened it we found nothing but these wretched gew-gaws. I thought they might be some new kind of rock candy and I was on my way to find a stone to crack them with when this bird grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and arrested me. I didn't want the beastly pearls."
"The rout of the Amazons"
"Cheapside,西游记📕 the London sparrow""Then a peculiar thing happened. Sir Timothy,幻想🏫 who had always so far seemed too weak to walk,西游记🔖 got right out of his wheel chair and,西游记🌷 waving his ear trumpet wildly,剧情攻略⚠ ran around all over the sanitarium,幻想🔸 making speeches to the other invalids,幻想🈵 saying how shamefully he had been treated and calling on them to strike for their rights.
"He was,西游记🔓 indeed,西游记👎" said the duck. "I'm not surprised his wife is sick,剧情攻略💅 if she has a husband with a face like that."
"As soon as they had gone I came out of the closet and I said to the white cat: 'I shall expect you to bring up these kittens to leave ducklings alone. Now listen: To-night,幻想🎏 after the farmer and his wife are in bed,西游记♻ take all your kittens except the black and white one,剧情攻略📦 and hide them in the attic. The farmer means to drown them and is going to keep only one.'
CHAPTER I
"Now,西游记📂" said the Doctor,剧情攻略🚈 closing the window,西游记✊ "what can I do for you?""Good luck!" cried John Dolittle. "You're the very fellow I want. Would you be so good as to run around behind my back and gnaw this beastly rope? It's hurting my wrists."
"How do they do it?" asked Gub-Gub.