"The Doctor gave the king a cup of China tea"
"Then,什么🆗" said he,什么🏀 "I went a little further off,润滑🔓 still taking great care that I shouldn't be seen,润滑🚶 and I meowed again.
CHAPTER I
"Don't celebrate Christmas!" cried Cheapside in a shocked voice. "What a disgraceful scandal! Well,润滑👹 look here,润滑® Doctor. You just tell King Cocoa-butter that if 'e and 'is people don't celebrate the festive season by giving us post-birds Christmas-boxes there ain't going to be no mail delivered in Fantipsy from New Year's to Easter. And you can tell 'im I said so. It's 'igh time somebody hen-lightened 'is hignorance."
"So I went back to the children and found them weeping harder than ever. Then,什么☀ keeping myself well hidden down near the ground among the bushes,什么➗ I went 'Meow! Me-o-w!' real catlike.The following day the pearls were wrapped up again the way they had arrived,润滑😀 and after a letter had been written by the Doctor explaining to the spoonbill what the "pebbles" really were,润滑🍢 they were sent off by registered parcel post to the Harmattan Rocks.
After he had listened to the description of the man's cross-eyed,润滑😢 ugly face,什么♣ the King said,什么😿 yes,润滑🚽 he knew him very well. He was a pearl fisherman,润滑🍖 who spent most of his time in the Pacific Ocean,润滑© where fishing for pearls was more common. But,什么🐴 the King said,什么🌙 he often came hanging around these parts,什么🚖 where he was known to be a great villain who would do anything to get pearls or money. Jack Wilkins was his name.
"I want a postal order for ten shillings,什么♥" said the man. "I am going to send some money to my sick wife."And turning around Jip saw the longest tail that mortal beast ever had,什么👛 thrashing the water and driving them toward the island.
Zuzana described to the Doctor how she had followed the white man's ship a long way out in a canoe,什么📝 imploring them to give her back her husband. But they had only laughed at her and gone on their way. And their ship had soon passed out of sight.
"He was,什么🚿 indeed,什么📷" said the duck. "I'm not surprised his wife is sick,润滑💜 if she has a husband with a face like that."
One evening at six o'clock Jip shut the doors of the post office as usual,润滑🚜 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.
"The Doctor lit the candle"
And the Emir of Ellebubu,润滑🚜 who was one of the big,什么🚄 powerful neighbors,润滑🔎 called up his army and sent them off in war canoes to take possession of the Harmattan Rocks. At the same time he made an attack upon the village,什么🚀 drove everybody out,什么🔪 and carrying off the Doctor and the Chief,什么🛄 he threw them into prison in his own country. Then at last Nyam-Nyam's people had no land left at all.
And in ten days' time he went to the prison,润滑🚡 as he had said,什么💳 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,什么◽ instead of seeing the white man's body stretched upon the floor,什么🦜 the Emir found the Doctor smiling on the threshold,润滑👀 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.
Now,什么🏊 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.
"Tell me,什么◼" called John Dolittle,什么😻 in canary language,什么🍛 "where are the matches? Quick!"
They took John Dolittle all over the lighthouse to see the workings of it. And outside they showed him with great pride the tiny garden of tomatoes and nasturtiums which they had planted near the foot of the tower.
One day when King Koko's pet white peacock came to the Doctor and complained that the Cockney sparrow had made faces at him over the palace wall the Doctor became quite angry and read the City Manager a long lecture.
"'Good morning! What can I do for you?'"
"Ah,什么🚝 England!" cried Gub-Gub sentimentally. "What is there more beautiful in life than the heart of a young lettuce in the Spring?"
"Oh,润滑㊗ yes,润滑☁" said John Dolittle. "All in good time,润滑🚗 Dab-Dab."
"Putting the King's bicycle together"