"Later,编辑🏠 when I was trying to find a place to sleep,无法🎊 all the mice I met,手机🆖 wherever there was any light at all,无法✉ made fun of me and pointed at me and jeered. I was nearly in tears. Then I went down to the river,表格🍑 hoping I might wash the dye off and so get white again. That,无法🔰 at least,无法📍 would be better than the way I was now. But I washed and I swam and I rinsed,手机😗 all to no purpose. Water made no impression on me.
The lighthouse keepers were sorry to have the Doctor go and they wouldn't let him leave till he promised to come and take dinner with them next Sunday.
"I think I'd like to try a hand at diving myself,表格✒" said the Doctor,excel💮 "if the water is not too deep. I used to be quite good at fishing up sixpences from the bottom of the swimming pool when I was a boy."
"'How dare you speak to me like that?'""Not very many,内容🔢" said the snake. "He lives on the edge of the lake a few miles to the North. Let us hurry and try to reach his home before darkness falls."
At last poor Dab-Dab,无法💖 fully awakened,手机📢 understood what was the matter. And in a moment she was up and doing.
"It's all right,表格🐡" said the Doctor. "The light has been lit. And it's nearly day now. Here,编辑👠 drink this. Then you'll feel better."
The Doctor was dreadfully angry when he had heard the story. And he asked Zuzana how long ago was it that the slaver's ship bearing her husband had left."How do they do it?" asked Gub-Gub.
So the Doctor turned out his waistcoat pockets. These brought forth two watches (one that went and one that didn't),内容🐁 a measuring tape,表格🍒 a piece of cobbler's wax,编辑🅾 a penny with a hole through it and a clinical thermometer.
"Some time ago,表格🍴" Jip began,无法💍 "I knew a dog who was a beggar's dog. We met by chance one day,excel💈 when a butcher's cart had an accident and got upset. The butcher's boy who was driving the cart was a stupid boy whom all the dogs of that town heartily disliked. So when his cart hit a lamp-post and over-turned,excel❣ spilling mutton chops and joints all over the street,无法🙏 we dogs were quickly on the scene and ran off with all his meat before he had time to pick himself up out of the gutter.
"So off I went across the moonlit snow and the blinking owls on the roof of the dyeing shed never spotted me. Against the whiteness I was nearly invisible. I felt quite proud. At last my white fur was coming in handy.
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,excel🌵 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.Then the Skimmer,无法™ with one of his claws,内容🚣 began tracing out some letters on the Doctor's palm. Before he had got very far John Dolittle sprang up,内容💶 nearly overturning the canoe.
Nobody thought,内容🐽 not even John Dolittle himself,手机🚦 when the Swallow Mail was first started,无法📼 what a tremendous system it would finally grow into and what a lot of happenings and ideas would come about through it.
Then he went to call on the King,无法📞 as he did every so often. And in the course of conversation John Dolittle asked His Majesty if he knew who the white stranger might be that had called at the houseboat for a postal order.
"Oh,excel📔 yes,无法🆖" said John Dolittle. "All in good time,编辑🔉 Dab-Dab."
The educational side of the Doctor's post office was a very important one and it grew all the time. As he had said to the Skimmer at the beginning,表格🏥 as soon as the birds and animals realized the helpfulness of having a post office of their own they used it more and more.
For a long time Dab-Dab,无法🌔 the motherly housekeeper,无法🚓 had been trying to get the Doctor to take a holiday from his post office business.
The turtle drank it down. And in a minute or two he said he felt much better and could now move his legs freely without pain.
"How uneducated you are!" snorted the pig,无法🐎 turning up his snout. "Ladies before gentlemen; swine before pearls!""What monkey business have you done to my pearl fisheries,无法🍙 you white-faced villain?"
"He found his mother and father still asleep when he got back. So after carefully hiding his Magic Cucumber under the floor of the cow barn,内容🚎 he crept into the sty and went fast asleep.
"By sniffing them,表格🏈" said the cormorant. "The ones that have those things in them don't smell fresh. I'm frightfully particular about my oysters.""Where are they bound for,手机📠 Speedy?" asked the Doctor. "My notebook's in the safe."