PEARLS AND BRUSSELS SPROUTS
CHAPTER VII
"I wonder who he is,冒牌🚔" said John Dolittle. "It isn't often we have white men coming in here. I don't much like the looks of him."
"Who's turn is it to give us a story now?" asked the Doctor,在线观看📀 when the supper things were cleared away the following evening.
"I don't think we ought to go back there,视频💏" said Begwe. "I don't mind being a soldier in the Fantippo army,在线观看🚁 but suppose some other slaver comes along. Maybe the king would sell me again. Did you send that letter to our cousin?"
"By morning,天神🚜" said she,国语🚌 "the ship of the wicked slave dealers will be many miles away and I shall never get my husband back. Alas! Alas!"
So the Doctor put down his anchor and,天神🔤 leaving the ship where it was,天神🔻 got into the woman's canoe. Then,冒牌⭐ calling to the swallows to help him as guides,冒牌🌾 he set off northward along the coast,天神🎪 looking into all the bays and behind all the islands for the slave ship which had taken Zuzana's husband.Everybody had now told a tale and the Arctic Monthly's Prize Story Competition was declared closed. The first number of the first animals' magazine ever printed was,冒牌⚾ shortly after that,在线观看🍊 issued and circulated by Swallow Mail to the inhabitants of the frozen North. It was a great success. Letters of thanks and votes on the competition began pouring in from seals and sea-lions and caribou and all manner of polar creatures. Too-Too,在线观看🔊 the mathematician,天神😳 became editor; Dab-Dab ran the Mothers' and Babies' Page,在线观看🐒 while Gub-Gub wrote the Gardening Notes and the Pure Foods Column. And the Arctic Monthly continued to bring happiness to homes and dens and icebergs as long as the Doctor's Post office existed.
"There goes the Dolittle fortune. My,天神▪ but it is marvelous how money doesn't stick to that man's fingers!"
"No,国语📇" said the bird. "But I am the swallow that brought you the message from the monkeys that time they were sick.""My! Aren't they handsome?" murmured the Doctor. "And did you ever see such large ones? Each one of those pearls,天神🌙 Dab-Dab,在线观看📚 is worth a fortune. Who the dickens is this that sent them to me,国语▪ anyhow?"
"So saying,天神🙉 he takes me upstairs to where the dye vats stood. It was twilight and the men were gone. But we could see the dim shapes of the big vats towering above our heads. Then he takes a string that lay upon the floor and,在线观看🆖 scaling up the middle vat,在线观看✋ he lets the string down inside.
Without a word the Doctor sped on up the winding steps of the tower. Round and round he went,在线观看🌎 upward,冒牌😮 till he was ready to drop from dizziness.
"Well,国语🔊" said Jip,国语👃 "whatever happens,国语👢 it's nice the Doctor's got the pearl. He always seems to be in need of money. And,天神🍇 as you say,在线观看🚛 Dab-Dab,国语📊 that should make anybody rich for life."
"Well,天神🔰 by land it would be twenty-five miles to where the lighthouse stands,国语🚐" said the gull. "But by water it would be only about twelve,视频🎢 I should say."
"Let's see what I can do,在线观看🚡" said Jip. And out of the canoe jumped another pearl fisherman.
"I tell you what,天神📃 Doctor,在线观看🐛" said Dab-Dab,在线观看😫 "let me fly ahead and do a little spying on the enemy. Then I'll come back and tell you anything I can find out. Maybe he isn't on his schooner at all at present. And we ought to be hunting him somewhere else."
"Good morning,国语🌝 Your Majesty,视频🏨" said the Doctor. "Do you happen to know what kind of animal this bone belongs to?"
"'Fine!' says the old rat. 'Now run around the shed a few times,视频📢 so you won't take a chill. And then go to bed and cover up. In the morning when it's light you'll find yourself very different.'The Doctor told his pet he could be very proud of himself. For he was surely the only mouse in the world that ever won a war.
A little while after that,国语🏰 by using the larger birds to carry packages,视频🔨 a regular parcel post every two months was put at the service of the Fantippans; and alarm clocks and all sorts of things from England were sent for.
So the Skimmer sped off into the darkness toward the tiny light far out to sea,国语📯 while the Doctor fell to wondering how his own ship was getting on which he had left at anchor some miles down the coast to the southward.
"'Come over here by the trough'"
"Lor' bless us!" muttered Cheapside. "What a wonderful piano-mover 'e would make to be sure! Great Carter Patterson! Does 'e think the Doctor's goin' to 'ang that on 'is watch-chain?"