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,复活⚫ coiling himself up neatly at John Dolittle's feet like a mooring rope on a ship's deck.
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The candles were lighted again and after the carvings had been cleaned the Doctor examined them with great care and even made sketches of some of them in his notebook.
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"That's the main trouble with sailors,碧瑶🚲 Doctor. They don't know winds the way they ought. They can tell a northeast wind from a west wind. And a strong one from a weak one. And that's about all. But when you've spent most of your life,碧瑶⏳ the way we have,小说♥ flying among the winds,复活🚹 using them to climb on,复活🔪 to swoop on and to hover on,小说🚩 you get to know that there's a lot more to a wind besides its direction and its strength. How often it puffs upward or downward,复活🎀 how often it grows weak or grows strong,碧瑶😤 will tell you,小说🅾 if you know the science of winds,碧瑶📏 a whole lot."
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"Then,小说🏫" said he,小说🛁 "I went a little further off,小说🚉 still taking great care that I shouldn't be seen,复活🚇 and I meowed again.
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"But he gave me no address,小说😠" said John Dolittle,碧瑶📻 taking the muddy envelope from the serpent. "I've been trying my hardest ever since to find out where he lived."
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"Try in your waistcoat pockets,小说🍏" said Too-Too. "They were always the most interesting. You haven't turned them out since you left Puddleby. There must be lots in them."
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"I'll take the pearls myself this time,复活😺" he said to Speedy,小说◼ "and hand them over to the spoonbill in person. We don't want any more accidents happening to them."
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"With a howl of superstitious fright,小说🍨 he called out to his men that he had been stuck by the devil. And they all ran across the country like wildfire and I was never hunted or bothered by them again."
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"What are you going to say to Wilkins,小说🔴 Doctor?" asked Dab-Dab as the canoe glided along over the moonlit sea. "It's a pity you haven't got a pistol or something like that. He looks a desperate character and he isn't likely to give up the pearls without a fight."
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"Well,小说🌿 if I had been conspicuous before,碧瑶🌐 now I was a hundred times more so. Against the black earth,小说👈 or the green grass,复活⛪ or the white snow,碧瑶📃 or brown floors my loud,复活™ sky-blue coat could be seen as plain as a pikestaff. The minute I got outside the shed a cat jumped for me. I gave her the slip and got out into the street. There some wretched children spotted me and,碧瑶⚠ calling to their friends that they had seen a blue mouse,复活🐲 they hunted me along the gutter. At the corner of the street two dogs were fighting. They stopped their fight and joined the chase after me. And very soon I had the whole blessed town at my heels. It was awful. I didn't get any peace till after night had fallen,复活⛽ and by that time I was so exhausted with running I was ready to drop.
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About eleven o'clock a group of little rocky islands were sighted,复活📤 which their guide said were the Harmattan Rocks. At this point in their journey the mainland of Africa was just disappearing from view on the sky-line behind them. The rocks they were coming to seemed to be the home of thousands of different kinds of sea birds. As the canoe drew near,小说🍎 gulls,小说🆚 terns,小说✊ gannets,碧瑶🍃 albatrosses,小说❇ cormorants,小说🐓 auklets,复活🎎 petrels,碧瑶📅 wild ducks,小说📞 even wild geese,碧瑶🎡 came out,复活🌜 full of curiosity to examine the stranger. When they learned from the curlew that this quiet little fat man was none other than the great Doctor Dolittle himself they passed word back to the rocks; and soon the air about the canoe was simply thick with wings flashing in the sunlight. And the welcome to their home that the sea birds screeched to the Doctor was so hearty and noisy you couldn't hear yourself speak.
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"But this lady was in distress,碧瑶🈂" said the Doctor. "I was in such a hurry I forgot all about lighting the ship. In fact,复活📛 it wasn't dark yet when I left."
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However,碧瑶◽ the crafty Bones,复活🀄 with so big a start,碧瑶🌹 was not easy to overtake. And soon the sun began to set and the Captain frowned and stamped his feet. For with darkness he knew his enemy would be safe.
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On the ship the seamen were still fighting with the gulls. The captain,复活🚄 seeing that no helmsman could steer the boat right with thousands of wings fluttering in his eyes,碧瑶😈 gave the orders to lay the ship to for a little and to get out the hose pipes. And a strong stream of water was turned on to the gulls around the helmsman,小说👎 so they could no longer get near him. Then the ship got under way again and came on toward the cape once more.
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But,碧瑶🔉 being a full-rigged man-o'-war,复活💊 the Violet was still a pretty speedy sailer. And on she went,复活🍘 furiously plowing the waves and slowly gaining on the slave ship.
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