The excellent postal service continued after he left. The stamps with Koko's face on them were as various and as beautiful as ever. On the occasion of the first annual review of the Fantippo Merchant Fleet a very fine two-shilling stamp was struck in commemoration,迅雷🍱 showing His Majesty inspecting his new ships through a lollipop quizzing-glass. The King himself became a stamp-collector and his album was as good as a family photo-album,迅雷🌠 containing as it did so many pictures of himself. The only awkward incident that happened in the record of the post office which the Doctor had done so much to improve was when some ardent stamp-collectors,妖精🚻 wishing to make the modern stamps rare,妖精🙀 plotted to have the King assassinated in order that the current issues should go out of date. But the plot was happily discovered before any harm was done.
"All right,妖精🚞" said the Doctor,MP4🙏 "I'll call on him with your compliments."
"'You're in the soup,妖精🌷' said the little men.
With shrieks and howls the fat women soldiers dropped the things they had been stealing and ran helter-skelter for home. And that was one time the famous Amazons of Dahomey didn't have it all their own way.
THE DOCTOR'S RECEPTION ON THE WARSHIP
John Dolittle had no idea of what he meant to do. Nor was the gull himself sure that he would be in time to succeed with the plan he had in mind. But presently,MP4♻ to his delight,下载♌ the seabird heard his call being answered from the rocky shores shrouded in darkness. And soon he had hundreds of his brother gulls circling round him in the night.
"'I am the oldest rat in the town and I know a great deal. But,尾巴💳 tell me,下载☎ why do you come here into the dyeing shed?'
It was the sound of a seabird,尾巴🚽 calling away out at sea. Now,下载⛪ seabirds don't,尾巴🎂 as a rule,MP4🚌 call very much unless they are in great numbers. This call sounded like a single bird. The Doctor put his head through the window and looked out.
"Well,下载📄 the fourth week after the enemy came the food in the castle was all gone and the king gave orders that the pigs must be eaten. The queen raised a great outcry and begged that her pet should be spared. But the king was very firm.
The work,迅雷💶 the Skimmer calculated,迅雷🚕 would take three days. All birds had been ordered to pick up a stone or a pebble or a pinch of sand from the seashore on their way and bring it with them. The larger birds (who would carry stones) were to come first,迅雷🔉 then the middle-sized birds and then the little ones with sand.
"Let's see what I can do,下载🌙" said Jip. And out of the canoe jumped another pearl fisherman.
"I know!" cried Jip,尾巴🍯 "write to the Cats'-Meat-Man."
When at last the great serpent was all in,MP4🌜 his thick coils entirely covered the floor of the Doctor's office and a good part of him overflowed into the passage outside.
With a flap of her wings,下载💰 Dab-Dab flew right through the open window and was gone into the night,MP4🐔 while the Doctor grabbed his little black medicine bag and,迅雷🚇 calling to the gull to follow him,迅雷💸 ran down to the other end of the houseboat,妖精☕ untied the canoe and jumped in. Then he pushed off,下载♣ headed around the island of No-Man's-Land and paddled for all he was worth for the seaward end of Cape Stephen.As soon as their backs were turned Speedy jumped on top of one of the guns and,妖精⭕ straddling his short,尾巴📦 white legs apart,MP4🐐 he cast his beady little black eyes along the aiming sights. Then with his wings he signaled to the Doctor behind him to swing the gun this way and that,尾巴📈 so as to aim it the way he wanted.
Many of the giraffes were suffering from sore hoofs and he showed them where to find a special root that could be put into a foot bath and would bring immediate relief. The rhinoceroses' horns were growing too long and John Dolittle explained to them how by grinding them against a certain kind of stone and by eating less grass and more berries they could keep the growth down. A special sort of nut tree that the deer were fond of had grown scarce and almost died out from constant nibbling. And the Doctor showed the chief stags how,MP4🚭 by taking a few nuts and poking them down into the soft earth with their hoofs before the rainy season set in,MP4🍃 they could make new trees grow and so increase the supply.
"And,尾巴📜 sure enough,MP4🏯 he had hardly said the words before all over the king's garden parsnips began springing up thick and fast. Even the gravel walks were covered with them.
As they went forward the jungle around them seemed to grow thicker and thicker all the time. But there was always this clear alley-way along the river bed. And though the stream's course did much winding and twisting,下载🌘 the going was good.
"You're a water snake,尾巴🔺 then,妖精🐺 I take it,尾巴💵" said the Doctor.