But,嘴角🍪 alas! instead of making the number of letters he had to answer less,殷桃的🚴 the Doctor found that by sending out books of information he increased a hundredfold the already enormous mail he had to attend to.
John Dolittle tore open the envelope.
"Jimmie Bones,总是💓 the slaver?" cried the Captain. "That's the man the government has sent me after. Where is he?"
"Putty is poisonous,总是💐" said the Doctor. "They appreciate the beauty of the pearls. Let them have them. But,殷桃的💙" he added to the mother spoonbill,嘴角💒 "if you know where any more are to be found I should be glad to know."
"It's from a spoonbill,殷桃的🈷" said Dab-Dab. "I know their writing. They are a sort of a cross between a curlew and a snipe. They like messing around lonely seacoast places,为何😥 hunting for shellfish and sea worms and stuff like that."
"Then I was in despair and I almost gave up. But,总是😸 thinking of the fate that surely awaited my poor,嘴角❎ foolish friends if I didn't get that skin,为何🌆 I decided on desperate measures. Suddenly and swiftly I jabbed the watchman in a tender spot with one of my horns. With an 'Ouch!' you could hear a mile off,总是🚭 he sprang in the air. Then,为何❔ snatching the bird skin from under him,为何🏫 I sped off into the jungle,殷桃的📎 while the Badamoshis,总是🐔 their wives,为何🐌 the dogs and the whole village woke up in an uproar and came after me like a pack of wolves.
"Doctor,为何🍡" he cried,嘴角🌒 "the mail has been robbed! The thrush has come back to the post office and says his package was taken from him on the way. The pearls are gone!"
"He hasn't any new instruments at all. The man's a fake. All he has down there is an old barge and a whole lot of messy birds flying around."
"And where might No-Man's-Land be?" said John Dolittle.
And then because so many letters were written him about good manners and proper behavior,殷桃的📌 he wrote a "Book of Etiquette for Animals." It is still a very famous work,殷桃的🐂 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,为何💽 too,总是⚪ that he wrote and circulated another very well-known book of his called "One-Act Plays for Penguins."
During the course of the next day's travel the country became,总是♓ as the snake had foretold,总是🌑 freer and more open. Little by little the islands grew fewer and the mangroves not so tangly. In the dreary views there was less land and more water. The going was much easier now. For miles at a stretch the Doctor could paddle,总是🚇 without the help of his guide,为何🐝 in water that seemed to be quite deep. It was indeed a change to be able to look up and see a clear sky overhead once in a while,殷桃的⛪ instead of that everlasting network of swamp trees. Across the heavens the travelers now occasionally saw flights of wild ducks and geese,嘴角🚁 winging their way eastward.
"They did,嘴角🦋" said the Piffilosaurus. "But they kept hidden under the water,为何🏨 lest the natives on the shore should see and get to know that the old story about the dragon's mother-in-law wasn't true. While I was bringing you here they were swimming all around you under the water,殷桃的😒 ready to help if I needed them. They have gone around to the secret cove so they may come ashore unseen. We had better be going on ourselves now. Whatever happens,总是🍭 we mustn't be seen from the shore and have the natives coming here. It would be the end of us if that should ever happen,嘴角💘 because,嘴角🍹 between ourselves,殷桃的❗ although they think us so terrible,为何👑 we are really more harmless than sheep."CHAPTER IX
"And that,总是🍣 John Dolittle,殷桃的🍊 is the end of the story of the Flood by one who saw it with his own eyes."
The Captain came up to him and shook his fist in his face.
And in the meantime he went back and continued the work of getting the domestic mail service in good running order at the post office at Fantippo.
"They're such a nice,殷桃的◽ wholesome,为何🚈 Christian change,总是🚣" he said,殷桃的🐌 "after these 'ere 'eathen hidolaters. And you should just hear Fred sing 'See That My Grave's Kept Green.'"