"Everything all right now,生活🆑 Doctor?" he asked as he swept in graceful circles around the canoe.
"So,爆炸🏠 seeing they were threatened by a secret danger,下载🍪 I went off and told the leader of the herd about it. He was frightfully stupid and I had the hardest work getting it into his head.
The Doctor,爆炸🐺 annoyed and embarrassed,下载📁 forgot for the first time in his post office career to be polite.
"But even Columbus himself never learned to his dying day that it was the weather-beaten bird who had fallen on his friendly deck some years before,生活🌜 who had led him by the shortest cut to the land of the New World.
The old Chief sank into his chair as he ended and burst out weeping. The Doctor went up and patted him on the shoulder.
TEACHING BY MAIL
"The old rat laughed a cracked and quavering laugh,爆炸🎌 with no joy in it at all.
"Why,迅雷😟 this is extraordinary!" said the Doctor,爆炸🍧 examining the bone with great care. "I did not know that this class of animals were still to be found in Africa. Where did you get this bone,迅雷🌒 Jip?"
"Then the father swings his lantern around,下载🎉 looking for a cat; and before I had time to hop away he throws the light full on me,下载🚇 sitting on a sage bush.
"And then he told me all about Doctor Dolittle. This was around the time when the Doctor first began to be famous among the animals. But I,迅雷🔩 living alone with the old rat at the dyer's shed,迅雷🌇 had not heard the news.
"'I am the oldest rat in the town and I know a great deal. But,爆炸😢 tell me,迅雷😬 why do you come here into the dyeing shed?'
So the Doctor got talking to the King and he told him in plain language that he ought to be ashamed of his post office. Then,下载㊙ giving him a cup of China tea,迅雷❔ he explained to him how Zuzana's letter had probably never been delivered to her cousin.
For many folks it would have seemed a creepy,爆炸⁉ nightmary sort of country,迅雷🌕 this land of the mangrove swamps. But to the Doctor,迅雷😜 for whom any kind of animal life was always companionable and good intentioned,迅雷🛁 it was a most delightful new field of exploration.
"That's the main trouble with sailors,下载📷 Doctor. They don't know winds the way they ought. They can tell a northeast wind from a west wind. And a strong one from a weak one. And that's about all. But when you've spent most of your life,迅雷🙀 the way we have,生活📐 flying among the winds,生活🌏 using them to climb on,下载🚎 to swoop on and to hover on,爆炸🍧 you get to know that there's a lot more to a wind besides its direction and its strength. How often it puffs upward or downward,下载⬜ how often it grows weak or grows strong,生活✉ will tell you,迅雷😮 if you know the science of winds,迅雷🚡 a whole lot."
At last they found one very old boatman who loved chatting so much that,生活🐺 although he got terribly scared when John Dolittle mentioned No-Man's-Land,生活💡 he finally told the Doctor the reason for all this extraordinary behavior.
Then the Doctor and Zuzana started to paddle their canoe for all they were worth in the direction of the light. The night was calm,爆炸🎪 but the long swell of the ocean swung the little canoe up and down like a seesaw and it needed all Zuzana's skill to keep it in a straight line.
"Sir Timothy was furious. And,迅雷⚪ calling for Dr. Phipps,迅雷🍎 he demanded that I apologize. I said I wouldn't. Then Sir Timothy told Phipps that if I didn't he would start an invalids' strike. Phipps got terribly worried and implored me to apologize to this very special patient. I still refused.
"But I was not so happy. I had noticed a peculiar thing: none of the invalids ever seemed to get well and go away. And finally I spoke of this to Phipps."'Go and see the Doctor,下载📍' said my brother.
The Doctor comforted her as best he could,生活🙌 saying that if he failed he would get her another husband,下载🎂 just as good. But she didn't seem to care for that idea and went on wailing,迅雷😃 "Alas! Alas!"
The bird chosen to take the package happened to be one of the thrushes that had brought the Brussels sprouts from England. These birds were still staying in the neighborhood. And though a thrush was a somewhat small bird to carry parcel post,生活🎊 the package was a very little one and the Doctor had nobody else to send. So after explaining to the thrush that registered mail should be guarded very carefully by postmen,迅雷🐺 the Doctor sent the pearls off.
"The double letter boxes of Fantippo"
"I'll bet it's Jack Wilkins,爆炸🐩 the cross-eyed pearl fisherman,迅雷🍶" whispered Dab-Dab. "A man with a face like that would steal anything. And he was the only one,迅雷💄 besides us and Speedy,下载🐦 who knew the pearls were going through the mails. It's Wilkins,生活📴 sure as you're alive."
In the meantime,生活🍍 while Quip was gone,爆炸🐫 life went forward busily and happily at the Doctor's post office. The animals,下载🏰 Too-Too,迅雷🍧 Dab-Dab,爆炸💐 Gub-Gub,生活🗻 the pushmi-pullyu,爆炸🍤 the white mouse and Jip all agreed that they found living in a houseboat post office great fun. Whenever they got tired of their floating home they would go off for picnic parties to the Island of No-Man's-Land,爆炸👬 which was now more often called by the name John Dolittle had given it,爆炸🎏 "the Animals' Paradise."