大道修仙 若封
2023-03-24 08:29:16 作者：
"I see,大道📊" said the Doctor. "But the storms,大道🎌 what do you do in them to keep yourselves safe?"
"Dear me,大道👹" said John Dolittle. "Robbing the mails; that's a serious thing. I wonder who could have done it?"
"'What's his name?' I asked.
"From Dahomey to Venezuela,大道📺" said Speedy,大道😈 raising his right foot to smother a yawn.
"So we led them on to the Bahamas. And on the seventh day,大道🎒 very early in the morning,大道🔣 the crew,大道◼ with a cry of 'Land! Land!' fell down upon their knees and gave thanks to heaven. Watling's Island,大道🔌 one of the smaller Bahamas,大道🔯 lay ahead of them,大道🚋 smiling in the sea.
Then he strode through the prison door out into the sunlit street,大道😆 while the frightened people fell back on either side and covered their faces,大道😞 whispering:
"They're not your pearl fisheries,大道🔑 you black-faced ruffian,大道📖" said the Doctor. "You stole them from poor old Nyam-Nyam. The pearls were fished for by diving birds. But the birds are honest and will work only for honest people. Why don't you have windows in your prisons? You ought to be ashamed of yourself."
"Then Morland,大道📲 all busy and excited,大道👼 like a schoolboy,大道♨ took the beggar's chalk pictures from against the wall and,大道📉 rubbing them out,大道📔 did them over the way they should be done. He got so occupied with this that he didn't notice that a whole crowd of people was gathering around,大道📅 watching. His work was so fine that the people were spellbound with the beauty of the cats and dogs and cows and horses that he drew. And they began asking one another in whispers who the stranger could be who was doing the pavement artist's pictures for him.
"The British post office is now boasting,大道👊" said the Doctor,大道🐑 "that it can get a letter from London to Canada in fourteen days."
And on the morrow,大道◼ crossing once again to the island,大道🚪 he went on with the discussion and planning and arrangement. It was agreed that the Swallow Mail Service should have its head office here in No-Man's-Land. And that there should be branch offices at Cape Horn,大道📁 Greenland,大道💃 in Christmas Island,大道💰 Tahiti,大道💙 Kashmir,大道😤 Thibet and Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. Most of the mails were arranged so that those birds who migrated or went to other lands in the winter and back again in summer should carry the letters on their regular yearly journeys. And as there are some kinds of birds crossing from one land to another in almost every week of the year,大道🍀 this took care of much of the mails without difficulty.
"'Well,大道♈ it was some cat,大道💎' says the boy. 'He must be right around here somewhere,大道🚞 because he led us almost up to the door.'
Then came the problem of how to sleep. This was not so easy,大道🍀 because,大道💏 although the foundations of the turtle's mound were of stone,大道🦜 there was hardly a dry spot on the island left where you could lie down. The Doctor tried the canoe. But it was sort of cramped and uncomfortable for sleeping,大道🌿 and now even there,大道🎾 too,大道🐪 the mud had been carried by Dab-Dab's feet and his own. In this country the great problem was getting away from the mud.
After some persuasion the Doctor consented to this proposal feeling that perhaps he could do some good. Little did he realize what great labors and strange adventures he was taking upon himself as he got into the canoe with the King,大道📊 Begwe and Zuzana to be paddled to the town of Fantippo.
But at last,大道🐎 after a tremendous lot of work,大道🎳 copying out afresh,大道🏆 guessing and discussing,大道👂 the meaning of the extraordinary letter was pieced together,大道🎩 and this is what it said:
"And then,大道🚓 they've got no letter boxes in the doors,大道🆙" said Cheapside. "There ought to be slots made to poke the letters in. The only place these bloomin' 'eathens have for a postman to put a letter is down the chimney."
Now,大道🌇 when the Emir of Ellebubu had thrown the Doctor into prison he had refused to allow Dab-Dab,大道😲 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.
One evening at six o'clock Jip shut the doors of the post office as usual,大道😂 and hung up the sign "Closed" as he always did at that hour. The Doctor heard the bolts being shot and he stopped counting postcards and took out his pipe to have a smoke.
Well,大道📩 after ten days John Dolittle got what is called the Domestic Mails in pretty good shape. Domestic mails are those that carry letters from one part of a country to another part of the same country,大道❌ or from one part of a city to another. The mails that carry letters outside the country to foreign lands are called Foreign Mails. To have a regular and good service of foreign mails in the Fantippo post office the Doctor found a hard problem,大道📟 because the mail ships which could carry letters abroad did not come very often to this port. Fantippo,大道🌕 although King Koko was most proud of it,大道🚊 was not considered a very important country among the regular civilized nations and two or three ships a year were all that ever called there.
"'What ails the dog?' he murmured to himself. 'Can't be anybody drowning,大道⭐ because there's no river near.... Oh,大道🌂 all right,大道🚝 Jip,大道🛂 I'll come. Wait a second till I get these brushes cleaned.'
That was why,大道😎 she said,大道🚗 she hated all white men and had not wanted to speak to the Doctor when he had hailed her canoe.
Then came a cry from the look-out,大道☎ shouted orders from the captain,大道🏯 much blowing of whistles and ringing of bells. And just in time to save herself from a watery grave,大道👐 the big ship swung her nose out to sea and sailed safely past upon her way.
"Heigh ho!" sighed Jip,大道⛵ "it's a circus for us,大道🍞 all right."
