"And sure enough,功效👳 the dealer and a few of the richer townsfolk bought the whole lot at twenty guineas apiece.
In the meantime the Emir,牙膏🍌 celebrating victory in his palace,两面针💿 gave orders that the Harmattan Rocks,功效💒 which were now to be called the Royal Ellebubu Pearl Fisheries,作用🎸 would henceforth be his exclusive,功效⚫ private property,两面针🚣 and no trespassing would be allowed. And he sent out six special men with orders to take over the islands and to bring all the pearls to him."The old rat gazed at me thoughtfully a moment and I knew that he was going to say something particularly wise.
"Well,两面针📹" said the Doctor,两面针🌋 settling himself back in his chair,两面针📑 "I think I'll call this story 'The Invalids' Strike.'"
"'You're in the soup,作用🌎' said the little men.
"So in the dead of night I crept out of the jungle and came to the place where the hunters' huts were. I had to come up from the leeward side,作用🙊 because I didn't want to have the dogs get my scent on the wind. I was more afraid of the hunters' dogs,功效😤 you see,牙膏🎲 than I was of the hunters themselves. From the men I could escape quite easily,牙膏🎳 being much swifter than they were; but dogs,两面针📞 with their sense of smell,牙膏🍅 are much harder to get away from,两面针✳ even when you can reach the cover of the jungle.
"And when I went home that night I felt I had done a good day's work. For my friend's master,功效🚃 the one-legged beggar,作用📦 was now rich enough to live in comfort for the rest of his life."
"Very good,牙膏🆎" said the Doctor. "Then that settles that. Now I must get back to the post office. The ship is yours. But as soon as the nesting is over come and let me know,牙膏🚭 because I have a very special idea I want to tell you about."
"I don't,作用😵" said she. "I don't even know how these came to be in the possession of the oyster I ate."
And the Doctor wrote back:
"But why?" asked the Doctor.
"I'll bet it's Jack Wilkins,作用🎥 the cross-eyed pearl fisherman,两面针🚽" whispered Dab-Dab. "A man with a face like that would steal anything. And he was the only one,功效💤 besides us and Speedy,两面针🙌 who knew the pearls were going through the mails. It's Wilkins,两面针🔡 sure as you're alive."
And soon the No-Man's-Land Weather Bureau began to get known abroad. The farmers in England,两面针⚠ who had received such good weather reports by letter from the Doctor,牙膏🌾 went up to London and told the government that their own reports were no good,功效🌹 that a certain John Dolittle,两面针👨 M.D.,作用🌒 was writing them much better reports from some place in Africa.
"Well,作用🌂" said Speedy,作用📌 "that would be possible. But,两面针☠ of course,两面针🐤 we could only do it during certain months of the year when we were in Africa. And then we could only take letters to the mild and warm countries. We should get frozen if we had to carry mail where severe winters were going on."
For a moment or two the pushmi-pullyu pawed the deck of the veranda with his dainty hoofs,功效👜 as if wrapped in deep thought. Then,两面针🌵 looking up with one of his heads,两面针📇 he began speaking in a quiet voice,两面针🐞 while the other coughed apologetically below the level of the tea-table.
CHAPTER III