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"What charming children you have,航空♥" said the Doctor to the mother spoonbill,鲲鹏📤 who was watching them proudly. "I'm glad they've got their playthings safely back. I wouldn't have had them lose them for anything."
"'What's the matter,有限公司🐇 Jip?' said he. 'House on fire or something?'
"No,有限公司👤 this isn't puddly climate,有限公司🌋" said the Doctor. "You're not in England,航空💌 you know. But I'll bring you my shaving mug and you can take a bath in that."
"Oh,鲲鹏🌼 it's some humbug or other,航空🚎" growled Jip. "They're a superstitious lot,有限公司🚯 these natives. Let's go down to the harbor,有限公司💄 Doctor,航空™ and try to hire a canoe to take us."
"'Oh,航空🚩 I think this is an awful place!'"
"Well,航空😌 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.
"What is it? What's the matter?" he shouted into the darkness over the sea.
"'I am terribly sorry for your bad luck,航空😟' said he when I had ended. 'But I'm glad I caught you before you went back into captivity. Because I think I can guide you to a way out of your troubles.'
"'Ark at 'im,航空📩" said Cheapside,航空🔬 raising his eyebrows. "Ain't 'e the poetical porker? Why don't you write a bunch of sonnets to the Skunk-Kissed-Cabbages of Louisiana,航空♏ Mr. Bacon?"
Toward evening the Doctor arrived at a small settlement of straw huts,有限公司🚀 the village of Chief Nyam-Nyam. Calling on the Chief with an introduction from King Koko,有限公司🏬 the Doctor was well received. He found,鲲鹏🔳 however,鲲鹏🍯 that the country over which this chief ruled was indeed in a very poor state. For years powerful neighbors on either side had made war on the old Chief and robbed him of his best farming lands,有限公司💆 till now his people were crowded onto a narrow strip of rocky shore where very little food could be grown. The Doctor was particularly distressed by the thinness of the few chickens pecking about in the streets. They reminded him of old broken-down cab-horses,航空🍏 he said.
"He has gone northward,航空🐃" said the Doctor. "But your ship is fast and should be able to overtake him. If he hides in some of these bays and creeks I have several birds here with me who can,有限公司⚾ as soon as it is light,航空📨 seek him out for us and tell us where he is."
"Yes,航空😍 they are devoted to those pebbles,航空🚥" said the spoonbill. "By the way,鲲鹏💋 were you able to tell me what they are? I found them,鲲鹏🚀 as I wrote you,鲲鹏🎪 inside an oyster."
By the end of that week the Doctor had,航空🎌 indeed,有限公司🍘 made good his promise. The country of Chief Nyam-Nyam became famous all along the coast of West Africa as a wealthy state.
"Now,有限公司🍫 when we children grew up big enough to go off for ourselves our parents gave us all sorts of careful instructions about escaping cats and ferrets and weasels and dogs. But over poor me they shook their heads. They really felt that there was not much hope of my leading a peaceful life with white fur that could be seen a mile off.
In a short while the man grew strong enough to stand on his feet. Then,鲲鹏📐 with the Doctor's help,有限公司👺 he walked as far as the kitchen,有限公司⛎ where John Dolittle and Dab-Dab made him comfortable in an armchair,航空❗ lit the stove and cooked his breakfast for him.
The Doctor threw a tomato skin out of the canoe and the gull caught it neatly in the air before it touched the water.
"I suppose he didn't like to,鲲鹏📯" said the swallow. "Thought you'd be offended,有限公司📀 perhaps."
And while Quip had been waiting for this letter to be written he had filled in the time at Puddleby by gossiping with all the starlings and blackbirds in the Doctor's garden about the wonderful new Animals' post office on the island of No-Man's-Land. And pretty soon every creature in and around Puddleby had got to hear of it.
The Doctor,航空🚱 taken aback for a moment,有限公司👼 gazed at the pistol muzzle,鲲鹏😰 wondering what to do next. Wilkins,有限公司🆖 without moving his eyes from the Doctor for a second,航空🚎 closed the pearl box with his left hand and put it into his pocket.
"Well,航空🐕" said the Doctor,航空📜 "I am most anxious to hear the story. Does it take long to tell?"
Inside the prison the Doctor was swinging his arms to get the stiffness out of them.
