"And me,游回梦👐 too,梦幻西游💴" sighed Jip. "Were there many rats in the woodshed,怎么💰 Cheapside?"
And he handed the keeper a large cup of steaming coffee.
"'Look at the tame white mouse! Tee-hee-hee! A plaything for children! Good little mousey! Come and have 'ims facey washed!' The stupid little idiots!
"Well,梦幻西游🔐 if I had been conspicuous before,怎么📱 now I was a hundred times more so. Against the black earth,怎么🔪 or the green grass,梦幻西游🐗 or the white snow,梦幻西游🏯 or brown floors my loud,怎么🎥 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,划算📥 calling to their friends that they had seen a blue mouse,梦幻西游🍯 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,游回梦🔏 and by that time I was so exhausted with running I was ready to drop.
CHAPTER III
The cross-eyed Wilkins was still seated at the table,游回梦🚣 as Dab-Dab had described,划算🌘 counting pearls. Two other men were asleep in bunks around the room. The Doctor swung open the door and jumped in. Instantly Wilkins sprang up from the table,怎么🙉 snatched a pistol from his belt and leveled it at the Doctor's head.
"'Come over here by the trough'"
"The Doctor saw the shape of an enormous turtle"
"So there I sat,游回梦📹 shivering on the river bank,梦幻西游🐣 in the depths of despair. And presently I saw the sky in the east growing pale and I knew that morning was coming. Daylight! That for me meant more hunting and running and jeering,游回梦🌞 as soon as the sun should show my ridiculous color.
"And then he told me all about Doctor Dolittle. This was around the time when the Doctor first began to be famous among the animals. But I,游回梦📰 living alone with the old rat at the dyer's shed,游回梦🐧 had not heard the news.
By this time Dab-Dab had gone outside again and was watching over the sea for the oncoming ship. And when at last the great light from the big lamp at the top of the tower suddenly flared out over the sea there was the bow of the vessel,划算🍌 not more than a hundred yards from the rocky shore of the cape!
"Why,划算✒ this is extraordinary!" said the Doctor,梦幻西游👴 examining the bone with great care. "I did not know that this class of animals were still to be found in Africa. Where did you get this bone,划算🚦 Jip?"From that the Doctor went on to explain to the King,梦幻西游😖 that much as he loved Fantippo and its people,怎么🐊 he had many things to attend to in England and must now be thinking of going home. And of course as none of the natives could talk bird-language,划算🍢 the Swallow Mail would have to be replaced by the ordinary kind of post office.
Now,梦幻西游🐯 when the Emir of Ellebubu had thrown the Doctor into prison he had refused to allow Dab-Dab,梦幻西游💑 Jip or Gub-Gub to go with him. Jip put up a fight and bit the Emir in the leg. But all he got for that was to be tied up on a short chain.
And he realized now,梦幻西游🌗 as he listened to Zuzana,划算♣ what was wrong with the Fantippo post office and why she had never got an answer to the letter which would have saved her husband from slavery.
"Well,怎么🌕 if I had been conspicuous before,划算🌒 now I was a hundred times more so. Against the black earth,怎么💿 or the green grass,梦幻西游🔷 or the white snow,梦幻西游😋 or brown floors my loud,怎么🍂 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,梦幻西游🉑 calling to their friends that they had seen a blue mouse,梦幻西游🍈 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,怎么👟 and by that time I was so exhausted with running I was ready to drop.
"'You're in the soup,游回梦👇' said the little men.
"And he caught me in a fishing net and put me in a cage,划算💆 to keep as a pet."Oh,游回梦🔓 come on,怎么😎 Push,游回梦🌕" said Jip. "Don't be so bashful. We've all told one. You don't mean to say you've lived all your life in the African jungle without seeing any adventures? There must be lots of yarns you could tell us."
But the officer who was second in command whispered in the Captain's ear:
"But why?" asked the Doctor.
THE POSTMASTER GENERAL'S LAST ORDER
"Ah,梦幻西游Ⓜ hah!" said the King. "A new kind of magic. I understand. Very good. The High Kingdom of Fantippo shall have a post office of its own. And my serene and beautiful face shall be on all the stamps and my letters shall travel by faster magic than any of them."