CHAPTER IV
"Dear Doctor: I am sending you,导弹👷 inclosed,哪里👘 some pretty pebbles which I found the other day while cracking open oysters. I never saw pebbles of this color before,哪里🛅 though I live by the seashore and have been opening shellfish all my life. My husband says they're oyster's eggs. But I don't believe it. Would you please tell me what they are? And be careful to send them back,哪里🛀 because my children use them as playthings and I have promised them they shall have them to keep."
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.
"Well anyway thank goodness she rose in time!" said the Doctor,哪里🐂 shaking the water out of his ears. "I was never so near drowning in my life. I suppose I'd better make myself a little more presentable before she gets her head out of water.""Take him below!" roared the Captain. "Take him below before I kill him."
"You look rather worn out from your journey. Is there anything I can get you?"
"'There is only one Doctor,哪里💺' he answered. 'You don't mean to say you've never heard of him!'"'It is,永恒🎁' says he,哪里🚉 'only it's not dark enough. What were you making all that racket over there for just now? Waking a fellow out of his sleep before it's got properly dark!'
So then the King,永恒🐁 who was a persevering man,永恒🔔 said that Fantippo should have its post office,哪里🌺 anyway. And he sent to England for hundreds of postmen's uniforms and caps. And when these arrived he dressed a lot of black men up in them and set them to work as postmen.
"Good morning,永恒🍎 Your Majesty,哪里🌷" said the Doctor. "Do you happen to know what kind of animal this bone belongs to?"
"So,导弹♏ since I wasn't doing the children any good,哪里👐 I went off to look up this other owl and see if he had any ideas to suggest. I found him sitting on the stump of a hollow birch,哪里🎺 rubbing his eyes,永恒🙌 having just got out of bed.
Well,哪里🐜 when breakfast had been disposed of the Doctor sharpened his pencil,永恒💳 got out a notebook and,导弹🌛 telling Too-Too to listen carefully,哪里🐱 in case he should miss anything,哪里👴 he asked the turtle to begin the story of the Flood.
Then when King Koko had got his mail-men,导弹🆕 the Royal Fantippo post office began really working. Letters were collected from the boxes at street corners and sent off when ships called; and incoming mail was delivered at the doors of the houses in Fantippo three times a day. The post office became the busiest place in town.
"Who sent you those?" asked Jip.
"Yes,导弹🈶" said Jip,永恒📭 putting down his watchman's lantern,永恒🍜 "and a mighty good one it is,永恒🚸 too. There isn't another like it anywhere."
"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 the government got quite worked up about it. And they sent the Royal Meteorologist,导弹😐 an old gray-haired weather man,导弹💶 down to Fantippo to see how the Doctor was doing it.Then Dab-Dab went and borrowed the playthings from the spoonbill's children to show him.
"Good,导弹🐾" said John Dolittle. "Then they can take these Panama letters for me. It won't be much out of their way. What do Golden Jays eat?"
"Go on,永恒⚠ Gub-Gub,导弹🍄" said the Doctor. "Don't take any notice of them. I'm listening."
"Make one!" cried the turtle. "How would you go about it?"So Dab-Dab went out with the spoonbill and started pearl fishing.
CHAPTER I
"By the way,导弹🎩" said John Dolittle,导弹♐ "I've been trying to think where I've seen your face before. Did you ever build your nest in my stable in Puddleby?"
"The rout of the Amazons"The next morning the Doctor was up early. After a light breakfast (it was impossible to get any other kind in that poverty-stricken country) he asked Nyam-Nyam the way to the Harmattan Rocks and the Chief told him they were just beyond sight from here,永恒🐥 about an hour and a half's paddle straight out into the ocean.
And this was how the first letter was sent off by the Swallow Mail: King Koko himself came one morning and,哪里🍋 putting his large face in at the information window,哪里👮 asked: