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THE DOCTOR'S RECEPTION ON THE WARSHIP
About noon the Doctor started out a second time upon his holiday trip and as Gub-Gub,中国🔗 Jip and the white mouse begged to be taken along,中国🎈 the canoe was well loaded.
"Your Majesty,论坛🗼" said the Doctor,教程🏃 "I have now a plan to provide your country with an excellent service of foreign mails if you will agree to what I suggest."
"The baby spoonbills want them,中国📀" said John Dolittle. "Why should I take them away from them?"
"You have been fooling My Majesty. These stamps you speak of have no magic power at all. Explain!"
The excellent postal service continued after he left. The stamps with Koko's face on them were as various and as beautiful as ever. On the occasion of the first annual review of the Fantippo Merchant Fleet a very fine two-shilling stamp was struck in commemoration,中国🍎 showing His Majesty inspecting his new ships through a lollipop quizzing-glass. The King himself became a stamp-collector and his album was as good as a family photo-album,论坛🏊 containing as it did so many pictures of himself. The only awkward incident that happened in the record of the post office which the Doctor had done so much to improve was when some ardent stamp-collectors,论坛🍂 wishing to make the modern stamps rare,论坛🚏 plotted to have the King assassinated in order that the current issues should go out of date. But the plot was happily discovered before any harm was done.
"Well,中国👖 for what parts of the world do you want to know the weather,论坛📆 Doctor?" asked the gull. "If it's just for Fantippo or West Africa it will be easy as pie. All you ever get here is tornadoes. The rest of the year is just frying heat. But if you want to prophesy the weather for the Straits of Magellan or Nova Zembla or those countries where they have all sorts of fancy weathers,论坛🌔 it will be a different matter. Even prophesying the weather for England would keep you busy. Myself,教程⛪ I never thought that the weather itself knew what it was going to do next in England."
"From the bottom of the lake,论坛✅" said the turtle. "Out there,论坛💾" Mudface nodded toward the gloomy wide-stretching waters,中国😷 "there stood,教程😭 thousands of years ago,教程🚣 the beautiful city of Shalba. Don't I know,教程⭕ when for long enough I lived in it? Once it was the greatest and fairest city ever raised by men and King Mashtu of Shalba the proudest monarch in the world. Now I,教程🚰 Mudface the turtle,中国🌘 make a nest in the swamp out of the ruins of his palace. Ha! Ha!"
"He began his great inauguration speech"
THE ROYAL MAILS OF FANTIPPO
"Oh,教程🐎 yes,教程🎑" said John Dolittle. "All in good time,中国🌱 Dab-Dab."
"Then you should have seen those poor children jump!
"Then you should have seen those poor children jump!
"Well,教程🙎 we got chatting,教程🚉 the way people do,中国📎 and I found out that the cat lived at a farmer's house about a quarter of a mile down the Oxenthorpe Road. Then I walked part of the way home with her,论坛🍀 still chatting,教程📯 and I found that she was a very agreeable individual. I told her about the rats in the stable and the difficulty I had in making them behave,论坛🙊 because the Doctor wouldn't allow any one to kill them. And she said,论坛😌 if I wished,教程🌗 she'd sleep in the stable a few nights and the rats would probably leave as soon as they smelled her around.
"What's that?" asked Gub-Gub,中国💷 pointing to the thermometer.
"'What doctor?'" I asked.
"No,论坛🏬" said the Doctor,论坛🍀 "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,中国📆 you see."
"'You know,论坛👭' said I,教程😵 'I have only just escaped from captivity. I was kept as a pet by a boy. So far being white has only been a great inconvenience to me. The cats could see me so well life wasn't worth living.'
After some persuasion the Doctor consented to this proposal feeling that perhaps he could do some good. Little did he realize what great labors and strange adventures he was taking upon himself as he got into the canoe with the King,教程⚠ Begwe and Zuzana to be paddled to the town of Fantippo.
"We've caught the fellow who stole the pearls,中国🍌 Doctor,中国♈" said Speedy.
