罗臻坤王加民
2023-03-23 20:25:03 作者：
"Dab-Dab looked over his shoulder"
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So the Emir ordered his hammock men and had himself carried to the Doctor's prison. The door was unlocked and the Emir,罗臻坤💦 going inside,王加民🏩 said to the Doctor:
After hanging around a while they paddled back and told the Emir that they could find no more pearl oysters on the rocks. He sent them out to look again; but they returned with the same report.
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"Why?" asked the Doctor.
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He got no answer. But soon,罗臻坤📫 with a rush of wings that nearly blew his candle out,罗臻坤🌚 a great seagull swept down on to the houseboat rail beside him.
"Do no people at all live in these parts?" the Doctor asked the snake.
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"I don't just know,罗臻坤✉" said the Doctor. "I suppose because they're too costly. With any one of those pearls you could buy a house and garden."
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After supper had been served and eaten and the Doctor had been made to tell the story of the pearl fisheries all over again for the benefit of his own family circle,王加民📉 he at last turned to the enormous pile of letters which were waiting for him. They came,王加民💪 as usual,王加民☕ from all parts of the world,罗臻坤🌴 from every conceivable kind of animal and bird. For hours he waded patiently through them,王加民🐦 answering them as they came. Speedy acted as his secretary and took down in bird and animal scribble the answers that the Doctor reeled off by the dozen. Often John Dolittle dictated so fast that the poor Skimmer had to get Too-Too (who had a wonderful memory) to come and help listen,罗臻坤🌺 so nothing should be missed through not writing it down quick enough.
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"Yes,罗臻坤🌷" said Cheapside. "There's always something doing in good old London. They've got a new kind of cab that goes on two wheels instead of four. A man called 'Ansom invented it. Much faster than the old 'ackneys they are. You see 'em everywhere. And there's a new greengrocer's shop near the Royal Exchange."
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Dab-Dab prepared lunch and supper and served them as silently as she could,王加民🚀 so as not to interrupt; but for the Doctor they were very scrappy meals. On into the night the story went. And now John Dolittle wrote by candle-light,王加民🍚 while all his pets,罗臻坤✏ with the exception of Too-Too,王加民🚌 were already nodding or dozing.
"No,罗臻坤❇ Speedy,罗臻坤🐟" said the Doctor. "See,罗臻坤💁 you have an ounce weight on the pan as well as yourself. That makes you only three and a half ounces."
