"But we never thought where the dogs might be getting all these things they brought us. The truth is,化妆💮 we didn't bother very much,化妆🚛 I'm afraid. Anyway at the end of our first week of brisk trade we noticed a great many people going through the streets as though they were looking for something. And presently these people,需要🍂 seeing our shop in the empty lot,需要💉 gathered around us,真正⚓ talking to one another. And while they were talking a retriever came up to me with a gold watch and chain in his mouth,需要📳 which he wanted to exchange for a ham bone.
"More food!" murmured Too-Too. "What did I tell you?"
CHAPTER VII
"'Turn back,美女🔨 Jip!' gasped the Doctor"
So Zuzana had hurried to a professional letter writer (the common people of those tribes couldn't write for themselves,美女🗼 you see) and had a letter written,化妆🌁 begging their cousin to send the goats and oxen to the king without delay. Then she had taken the letter to the Fantippo post office and sent it off.
"But these oyster beds don't belong to me,需要📩" said John Dolittle."Doctor,需要🌗" panted the gull,需要☠ "the Cape Stephen Light is out. I don't know what's the matter. It has never gone out before. We use it as a land-mark,化妆🚫 you know,美女⬜ when we are flying after dark. The night's as black as ink. I'm afraid some ship will surely run into the cape. I thought I'd come and tell you."
Now,需要🍗 the Doctor really had not got everything ready yet to work the foreign mails properly and he was about to explain to the King. But Speedy hopped up on the desk and whispered:
The old Chief sank into his chair as he ended and burst out weeping. The Doctor went up and patted him on the shoulder.
"Listen,真正🎾 Doctor,真正🍍" said Speedy-the-Skimmer,需要🐮 "suppose I fly over to it and see what kind of a ship it is and come back and tell you. Who knows? It might be able to help us."
The Doctor told the woman that no matter what it cost he was going to help her. And he was all for speeding up his ship and going in chase of the slave boat right away. But Dab-Dab the duck warned him that his boat was very slow and that its sails could be easily seen by the slavers,需要❎ who would never allow it to come near them.
"John Dolittle talked to the woman"
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,化妆🎩 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.
"All right,需要🍡 Doctor,美女🆑 they are ready for you now.""'There's no food here,真正🔺' he said,美女🍁 'only dyes of different colors.' And he pointed to the big dye vats,真正🔔 all in a row,真正🚗 that towered in the half darkness above our heads.
And somewhere about noon word came through that Bones's slave ship had been sighted behind a long,需要🔖 high cape. Great care must be taken,美女🌰 the message said,真正🔕 because the slave ship was in all readiness to sail at a moment's notice. The slavers had only stopped to get water and look-outs were posted to warn them to return at once,需要🏨 if necessary.
The long journey was over at last.
"So in the dead of night I crept out of the jungle and came to the place where the hunters' huts were. I had to come up from the leeward side,真正🏂 because I didn't want to have the dogs get my scent on the wind. I was more afraid of the hunters' dogs,真正🎨 you see,需要➕ than I was of the hunters themselves. From the men I could escape quite easily,需要🌹 being much swifter than they were; but dogs,美女💇 with their sense of smell,化妆📤 are much harder to get away from,需要🏩 even when you can reach the cover of the jungle.
Of course such an entirely new thing as this required a great deal of learning and working out before it could be made to run smoothly. Something new,需要✖ some fresh problem,需要😅 cropped up every day. But although the Doctor,需要🚍 at all times a busy man,真正🗻 was positively worked to death,需要✍ he found it all so interesting that he didn't mind. But the motherly Dab-Dab was dreadfully worried about him; for indeed at the beginning he seemed never to sleep at all.