"That's true,测试🚚" said the Doctor. "I suppose I must be getting on to England soon. But the Fantippans were honestly pleased to see us,行业💙 weren't they? And,614🐂 after all,614Ⓜ Africa is a nice country,614🐝 now,614👓 isn't it?"
The lighthouse keepers were sorry to have the Doctor go and they wouldn't let him leave till he promised to come and take dinner with them next Sunday.
Such a roaring trade was done in this way that the King set the stamp printing presses to work more busily than ever,行业🔏 so that a whole new set of Fantippo stamps should be ready for sale by the time the same ship called again on her way home to England.
A good strong canoe had by this time been put at the Doctor's service by the King,614😄 who was also having the post office houseboat built at the Doctor's orders.
"Well,行业🌗" said Gub-Gub,测试👊 "you know how people are always telling you 'You mustn't speak about those things at table!' Well,行业🚇 the Cook Goblins had a speaking tube in the wall which led,614😾 at the other end,测试😄 to the open air outside. And whenever you wanted to talk about any of the things forbidden at table you left the table and went and said it into the speaking tube; then you came back to your seat. It was a very great invention.... Well,实体🚤 as I was saying,测试🎨 the baby pig enjoyed himself tremendously. And when the meal was over he said he must be going back because he wanted to get into the sty before his mother and father should be awake."I think I'll stop in at the post office before I return to Chief Nyam-Nyam's country,实体🚠" said the Doctor. "There's nothing more I can do about the pearls,测试☀ I suppose. But I'd like to see if everything else is going all right."
"Oh,测试🔎 you've heard all my stories,行业🚰" said the Doctor. "Why don't you play Hunt-the-Slipper?"
"And that,614🎒 John Dolittle,实体📀 is the end of the story of the Flood by one who saw it with his own eyes."This they were glad to do. And the Doctor made the tea himself and it was very excellent. Over the tea Zuzana and her husband (whose name was Begwe) were conversing about the Kingdom of Fantippo.
"Well,614☝ now,实体🚔 as I told you,行业🍯 I had an idea in all this. I hoped that if I did something for George Morland perhaps I could get him to do something for me. But,614👑 of course,测试🍀 with him not knowing dog talk it was a bit difficult to make him understand. However,测试👄 while he was packing up his painting things I disappeared for a while,实体🎩 just as though I was going away. Then I came rushing back to him in a great state of excitement,测试😌 barking,行业🚣 trying to show him something was wrong and that I wanted him to follow me.
"Look here,614🍱 Jip,测试🐒" said John Dolittle,测试😺 "you said you got this bone from No-Man's-Land. Did you see any dragons there?"
"Now,614🔏 my idea,实体🚤 Speedy,实体🚭 is this,实体🔒" said the Doctor. "Regular foreign mails are difficult for the Fantippo post office because so few boats ever call there to bring or take the mails. Now,614🏉 how would it be if you swallows did the letter carrying?"
"But these oyster beds don't belong to me,测试⚡" said John Dolittle.
"Why did you do it?" he repeated.
And in the Doctor's pocket the white mouse had to put his paws over his face to keep from laughing.
John Dolittle was inclined to blame himself for having asked him to go hunting in the lake for souvenirs the night before.
After he had listened to the description of the man's cross-eyed,614👛 ugly face,行业🔳 the King said,行业📂 yes,测试🗻 he knew him very well. He was a pearl fisherman,行业🔏 who spent most of his time in the Pacific Ocean,实体🚐 where fishing for pearls was more common. But,测试💖 the King said,实体⌛ he often came hanging around these parts,实体👂 where he was known to be a great villain who would do anything to get pearls or money. Jack Wilkins was his name.
"We are really on the shores of it already,测试🏀 then?"
This is a letter he received from a pig in Patagonia:
"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.
The Doctor said afterward that he had never seen a bird who reminded him so much of a sailor. He had the rolling,实体📘 straddling walk of a seafaring man; he smelt strongly of fish; and whenever he spoke of the weather he had an odd trick of squinting up at the sky with his one eye,614🍪 the way old sailors often do.
Paddling very,614⭐ very softly,测试📩 he managed to get the canoe right under the bow of the ship. Then,614😣 tying his own craft so it couldn't float away,实体🚡 he swarmed up the schooner's anchor chain and crept on to the boat on hands and knees.
"I took him down the main street of the town till we came to the place where the beggar had his pictures. And as soon as George saw the pictures he knew what was wrong.
And he turned to the letter again.