龙珠第三部
2023-03-24 02:10:15 作者：
About noon the Doctor started out a second time upon his holiday trip and as Gub-Gub,龙珠🍀 Jip and the white mouse begged to be taken along,龙珠😖 the canoe was well loaded.
Jip managed to bring up a few small oysters,龙珠🚚 but there were no pearls in them.
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.
Even while the Doctor was speaking he noticed a shadow fall across the desk at which he was standing. He looked up. And there at the information window was the ugliest man's face he had ever seen,龙珠🍘 staring in at the beautiful pearls that still lay on the palm of his hand.
"Yours truly,龙珠🚜
Then,龙珠🎫 after they had loaded his canoe with a bushel of rosy tomatoes and a bouquet of nasturtiums,龙珠📖 the Doctor,龙珠💼 with Dab-Dab and Cheapside,龙珠♑ paddled away for Fantippo,龙珠🐂 while the keepers waved to them from the lighthouse door.
"In the jungle Obombo made speeches"
Well,龙珠🍁 when four days had passed the Emir of Ellebubu sent a messenger to the prison to inquire if the Doctor was now willing to do as he was told. The guards after talking to John Dolittle brought word to the Emir that the white man was as obstinate as ever and had no intention of giving in.
The helmsman,龙珠🐟 battling with the birds,龙珠🛀 set up a yell for help,龙珠🐆 saying he couldn't see to steer the boat. Then the officers and sailors rushed up to his assistance and tried to beat the birds off.
"You sound bitter,龙珠👍" said the Doctor. "Did King Mashtu do you any harm?"
The Doctor saw a great deal of new country,龙珠🌙 trees he had never met before,龙珠🍞 gay-colored orchids,龙珠🚛 butterflies,龙珠😤 ferns,龙珠😏 birds and rare monkeys. So his notebook was kept busy all the time with sketching and jotting and adding to his already great knowledge of natural history.
"Well,龙珠🎂" said John Dolittle,龙珠🦢 "what kind of a ship was it?"
Instead,龙珠✈ when at last he reappeared wet and shining in the moonlight,龙珠🌛 he had a carved stone window-sill on his back which must have weighed over a ton.
"Dear me,龙珠🐬" said he while he was sitting miserably on the floor in the darkness,龙珠😽 wondering what on earth he was going to do without any of his animals to help him,龙珠🌷 "what a poor holiday I am spending,龙珠✝ to be sure!"
The Doctor said he never had the slightest idea of what he was eating,龙珠🌼 but as the mealy mixture was highly digestible and nutritious he did not see why he should mind. To supply his master with water the mouse got nuts,龙珠💌 and after gnawing a tiny hole in one end he would chop the nut inside into pieces and shake it out through the hole. Then he would fill the empty shell with water and seal up the hole with gum arabic which he got from trees. The water-filled nuts were a little heavy for him to carry,龙珠🍙 so Dab-Dab would bring them from the river as far as the outside end of the rat hole,龙珠💁 and the white mouse would roll them down the hole into the prison.
The Doctor squirmed his arms and wrists and presently his hands were free.
Toward the end of the pile the Doctor came across a very peculiar thick envelope,龙珠🐐 all over mud. For a long time none of them could make out a single word of the letter inside,龙珠🐎 nor even who it was from. The Doctor got all his notebooks out of the safe,龙珠💵 compared and peered and pored over the writing for hours. Mud had been used for ink. The signs were made so clumsily they might almost be anything.
"I could tell you where Jimmie Bones is,龙珠🍞 if I wanted to."
As soon as he was dressed and shaved the Doctor went down to his ship and met the Skimmer.
This place he found very different from any of the African villages or settlements he had ever visited. It was quite large,龙珠👞 almost a city. It was bright and cheerful to look at and the people,龙珠🏯 like their King,龙珠🍚 all seemed very kind and jolly.
