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People who have written the history of the Kingdom of Fantippo all devote several chapters to a mysterious white man who in a very short space of time made enormous improvements in the mail,查询🌀 the communications,股份🚒 the shipping,中签号🏩 the commerce,查询😜 the education and the general prosperity of the country. Indeed it was through John Dolittle's quiet influence that King Koko's reign came to be looked upon as the Golden Age in Fantippan history. A wooden statue still stands in the market-place to his memory.
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CHEAPSIDE
JIP'S STORY
"You're an unscrupulous scoundrel,中签号🍸" said the Doctor. "I don't want to talk to you."
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Then for a good hour and a half the faithful housekeeper fished up oyster after oyster and brought them to the Doctor on the island. He and the animals found opening them quite exciting work,中签号😹 because you never knew what you might discover. But nothing was found in the shells but fat oysters and thin oysters.
"Ah,查询🔥 hah!" said the King. "A new kind of magic. I understand. Very good. The High Kingdom of Fantippo shall have a post office of its own. And my serene and beautiful face shall be on all the stamps and my letters shall travel by faster magic than any of them."
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"I'm afraid I can't,中签号😑" said the spoonbill. "To tell you the truth,中签号🙈 I got those oysters from a pile which some other bird had left on the rock here. He had eaten his fill,德才🌸 I suppose,中签号♨ and gone away. There are a good many left still. Let's go over to the pile and crack a few. Maybe they've all got pearls in them."