"With a howl of superstitious fright,早晚🍋 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."
"Gub-Gub ate them,早晚🗼" said Too-Too. "Those are the sprouts,上海🙋 no doubt,软件📀 that the thrushes brought here."
And then because so many letters were written him about good manners and proper behavior,打车🍀 he wrote a "Book of Etiquette for Animals." It is still a very famous work,高峰🔒 though copies of it are rare now. But when he wrote it the Doctor printed a first edition of fifty thousand copies and sent them all out by mail in one week. It was at this time,上海📭 too,早晚🐮 that he wrote and circulated another very well-known book of his called "One-Act Plays for Penguins."
"Wilkins levelled a pistol at the Doctor's head"
"We married her off,软件🚬" said the great creature,高峰🐛 nibbling idly at a lily stalk. "We couldn't stand her here,打车🐪 any more than the King could. You never heard anybody talk so in all your life. Yes,软件📹 we carried her one dark night by sea far down the coast of Africa and left her at the palace door of a deaf king,软件👎 who ruled over a small country south of the Congo River. He married her. Of course,禁用🔉 being deaf,早晚📖 he didn't mind her everlasting chatter in the least."
"Where is that?" asked the Doctor."The Doctor saw the shape of an enormous turtle"
But when the sparrow went all his London friends went with him and the post office was left with no city birds to attend to the city deliveries. The swallows and other birds tried their hardest to get letters around to the houses properly. But they couldn't. And before long complaints began to come in from the townspeople.
Great was the rejoicing among the Doctor's pets and the patient swallows when the news got about that John Dolittle was really going home at last. Gub-Gub and Jip could hardly wait while the last duties and ceremonies of closing the houseboat to the public and transferring the Foreign Mails Service to the office in the town were performed. Dab-Dab bustled cheerfully from morning to night while Cheapside never ceased to chatter of the glories of London,上海🉐 the comforts of a city life and all the things he was going to do as soon as he got back to his beloved native haunts.Then he took them to the great ship,高峰💤 which was sailing calmly onward toward the rocks and destruction. And there,禁用🍉 going forward to where the helmsman held the spokes of the wheel and watched the compass swinging before him in the light of a little,软件🏉 dim lamp,高峰📤 the gulls started dashing themselves into the wheelman's face and covering the glass of the compass,上海💄 so he could not steer the ship.
PROLOGUE
"But these oyster beds don't belong to me,早晚🏤" said John Dolittle.
So the Doctor and Jip and Speedy-the-Skimmer sat down in the shade of the palm trees and for the first time plans for that great service which was to be known as the Swallow Mail were discussed.
"I should say he did,软件✋" growled Mudface. "But that belongs to the story of the Flood. You have come far. You must be weary and in need of food."
And he realized now,高峰🐪 as he listened to Zuzana,软件🚄 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."About midnight I met the lady mouse with whom I was in love,高峰⚪ beneath a lamp-post. And,上海🚱 would you believe it? She wouldn't speak to me! Cut me dead,早晚🍇 she did.
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.
"Well,上海🅱 I'm glad we were in time,早晚🌝" said the bird.
The Doctor saw a great deal of new country,打车📃 trees he had never met before,上海😪 gay-colored orchids,打车🔬 butterflies,早晚👝 ferns,上海🍎 birds and rare monkeys. So his notebook was kept busy all the time with sketching and jotting and adding to his already great knowledge of natural history.
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"I don't,软件🚽" said she. "I don't even know how these came to be in the possession of the oyster I ate."
So,早晚🛁 in spite of John Dolittle's impatience,禁用🌂 the story was put off till the following day. For the evening meal Dab-Dab managed to scout around and gather together quite a nice mess of fresh-water shellfish and Too-Too collected some marsh berries that did very well for dessert.
"Oh,上海🔐" said the Doctor,打车🚄 "who is that?"