死神来了2
2023-04-01 12:34:11 作者：
Then the Doctor and Zuzana started to paddle their canoe for all they were worth in the direction of the light. The night was calm,死神👒 but the long swell of the ocean swung the little canoe up and down like a seesaw and it needed all Zuzana's skill to keep it in a straight line.
"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.
CHAPTER IV
"They are the ruins of a city. I used to be content to live and sleep in the mud. But since my gout has been so bad I thought I ought to make myself something solid and dry to rest on. Those stones are pieces of a king's house."
As Quip-the-Carrier disappeared into the distance with the Doctor's priceless pearl Dab-Dab turned to Jip and murmured:
"They found the Doctor shaving"
"What is it,死神👌 Doctor?" said Jip,死神🏧 staring down at the strange thing,死神📱 which had now stopped rising and was carrying them like a ship,死神👿 right across the strong course of the current,死神🎁 in the direction of the island.
"I left them beside my pipe on the information desk,死神🔩" came the Doctor's voice from the top of the dark stairs. "But there must be matches in the lighthouse somewhere. We must find them."
"I would like,死神💈" said the Doctor,死神💜 "to be able to prophesy weather for every part of the world. I really don't see why I shouldn't; this office,死神🚓 together with my branch offices,死神🍇 is in communication with birds going to every corner of the earth. I could improve the farming and the agriculture of the whole human race. But also,死神📹 and especially,死神🍃 I want to have a bureau for ocean weather,死神🎢 to help the ships."
"Mind,死神🍱 you wash the soap out first,死神📷 Doc,死神🐌" chirped the Sparrow,死神🔥 "it gets into my eyes."
"They are the ruins of a city. I used to be content to live and sleep in the mud. But since my gout has been so bad I thought I ought to make myself something solid and dry to rest on. Those stones are pieces of a king's house."
"They sat down in the shade of a palm tree"
"At last!" he muttered. "Let's hope I'm not too late!"
Then Gub-Gub got all worked up and before anybody could stop him he had taken a plunge. The pig went down so quick and so straight he got his snout stuck in the mud at the bottom,死神🐽 and the Doctor,死神🚧 still out of breath,死神👾 had to go down after him and get him free. The animals by this time were at such a pitch of excitement that even the white mouse would have jumped in if Gub-Gub's accident hadn't changed his mind.
"'Bones for hire! Beef bones,死神🌉 ham bones,死神👉 mutton bones,死神😠 chicken bones! All juicy! Step up,死神🔥 gentlemen,死神🌊 and take your choice! BONES for hire!'
Then the Doctor drew back for a run and threw his whole weight against the door. But the hinges and lock had been made to stand the beating of the sea and they budged no more than if he had been a fly.
Slowly and smoothly the snake slid in over the window sill and down on to the floor of the houseboat. Yards and yards and more yards long he came,死神✉ coiling himself up neatly at John Dolittle's feet like a mooring rope on a ship's deck.
"They did,死神🌀" said the Piffilosaurus. "But they kept hidden under the water,死神📲 lest the natives on the shore should see and get to know that the old story about the dragon's mother-in-law wasn't true. While I was bringing you here they were swimming all around you under the water,死神🔡 ready to help if I needed them. They have gone around to the secret cove so they may come ashore unseen. We had better be going on ourselves now. Whatever happens,死神😜 we mustn't be seen from the shore and have the natives coming here. It would be the end of us if that should ever happen,死神😗 because,死神🌖 between ourselves,死神🍒 although they think us so terrible,死神🍥 we are really more harmless than sheep."
Then he went to call on the King,死神🌙 as he did every so often. And in the course of conversation John Dolittle asked His Majesty if he knew who the white stranger might be that had called at the houseboat for a postal order.
THE WHITE MOUSE'S STORY
And now John Dolittle and his animals got tremendously busy arranging the post office,死神🚕 its furniture,死神☎ the stamp drawers,死神👳 the postcard drawers,死神🌜 the weighing scales,死神🎬 the sorting bags and all the rest of the paraphernalia. Dab-Dab,死神😺 of course,死神😍 was housekeeper,死神♑ as usual,死神👚 and she saw to it that the post office was swept properly every morning. Jip was the watchman and had charge of locking up at night and opening in the morning. Too-Too,死神📋 with his head for mathematics,死神📦 was given the bookkeeping,死神♣ and he kept account of how many stamps were sold and how much money was taken in. The Doctor ran the information window and answered the hundred and one questions that people are always asking at post offices. And the good and trusty Speedy was here,死神‼ there and everywhere.
"'What's the matter,死神🐈 Jip?' said he. 'House on fire or something?'
"Gracious,死神🚪 Cheapside!" said the Doctor,死神🚾 laughing. "It makes me quite homesick for England to hear your Cockney chirp."
And he realized now,死神🆕 as he listened to Zuzana,死神🎳 what was wrong with the Fantippo post office and why she had never got an answer to the letter which would have saved her husband from slavery.
