Down by the banks of the streams the Doctor was shown great herds of hippopotami,经典🐉 feeding on the luscious reeds that grew at the water's edge. In the wide fields of high grass there were elephants and rhinoceri browsing. On the slopes where the forests were sparse he spied long-necked giraffes,经典📲 nibbling from the trees. Monkeys and deer of all kinds were plentiful. And birds swarmed everywhere. In fact,经典💮 every kind of creature that does not eat meat was there,连连看🚥 living peaceably and happily with the others in this land where vegetable food abounded and the disturbing tread of Man was never heard.
After they were all seated on the veranda the housekeeper preened her feathers and in a very dignified voice began:
Everybody had now told a tale and the Arctic Monthly's Prize Story Competition was declared closed. The first number of the first animals' magazine ever printed was,经典🌚 shortly after that,经典🍝 issued and circulated by Swallow Mail to the inhabitants of the frozen North. It was a great success. Letters of thanks and votes on the competition began pouring in from seals and sea-lions and caribou and all manner of polar creatures. Too-Too,连连看🍢 the mathematician,连连看🏦 became editor; Dab-Dab ran the Mothers' and Babies' Page,经典🌝 while Gub-Gub wrote the Gardening Notes and the Pure Foods Column. And the Arctic Monthly continued to bring happiness to homes and dens and icebergs as long as the Doctor's Post office existed.
"Listen,连连看🚌 Dab-Dab!" said the Doctor,连连看▫ shaking her. "Wake up! The Cape Stephen Light's gone out!"
"I think the white mouse ought to tell us one,连连看💕" said Jip.As they were approaching the houseboat they noticed a large number of canoes collected about it. To-day was not one of the outgoing or incoming mail days and the Doctor wondered what the excitement could be.
And then there was a solemn silence in the lighthouse while the Doctor above and Dab-Dab below thought gloomily of that big ship sailing onward to her wreck because they had no matches.
"They leaned over the basket of kittens,经典🚛 stroked the white cat and started talking. Now,连连看🚝 the cat didn't understand what they said,连连看💒 of course. But I,连连看🔨 being round the Doctor so much and discussing with him the differences between duck grammar and people's grammar,经典👟 understood every word they uttered.
"That's true,连连看♉" said the Doctor. "I suppose I must be getting on to England soon. But the Fantippans were honestly pleased to see us,连连看🌇 weren't they? And,连连看🍎 after all,经典♠ Africa is a nice country,连连看🌛 now,经典👗 isn't it?""And you might ask him too,经典📖" put in Dab-Dab who had been listening,连连看👴 "to take a look at the back windows of the house to see that none of them is broken. We don't want the rain coming in on the beds."
"That's true,连连看🎢" murmured the Doctor. "But what shall I write to him about?"
"A rare Fantippo stamp"
"What's the matter?" shouted the Doctor,经典➖ as soon as he was near enough to make the woman hear. "Why have you come so far from the land? Don't you know that you are in great danger if a storm should come up?"
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.
"Now,连连看⚾ when we children grew up big enough to go off for ourselves our parents gave us all sorts of careful instructions about escaping cats and ferrets and weasels and dogs. But over poor me they shook their heads. They really felt that there was not much hope of my leading a peaceful life with white fur that could be seen a mile off.
While he was doing this,连连看📹 however,连连看🌸 Dab-Dab sneaked in under the table,连连看💈 unseen by anyone. And suddenly she bit the pearl fisherman in the leg with her powerful beak.
"The old rat gazed at me thoughtfully a moment and I knew that he was going to say something particularly wise.
The Green Herons were one day,连连看💈 three hours and nine minutes late in their arrival at Cape Horn from the Sandwich Islands. Wind coming south-southeast. Blustery weather can be expected along the west coast of Chili and light gales in the Antarctic Sea.Too-Too yawned and blinked up sleepily at the lantern hanging above his head.
"Thousands of swallows built their nests in her rigging"
"Soon after,连连看📶 the enemy's army closed about the castle and tried to storm it. Then for many weeks they remained there,连连看🌘 knowing that sooner or later the king and the people in the castle would run short of food and have to give in.
"He had fallen into the soup""Cheapside,连连看🎐 the London sparrow"