"It's all right,服装🈸" said the Doctor. "The light has been lit. And it's nearly day now. Here,服装📠 drink this. Then you'll feel better."
Then the Doctor and Jip went back to Fantippo,服装📹 carried by the piffilosaurus,服装📹 who landed them on the shore under cover of night,张馨😕 so no one would see them. And in the morning John Dolittle called upon the King again.
"'Look! Look what you've done to me now!' I cried. 'It isn't even a navy blue. You've made me just hideous!'
"Yes,服装📣 Doctor,张馨💽" Dab-Dab put in,张馨🚍 "but you wouldn't be bound to buy a second one with the money you would get for the pearls. It would come in real handy for something else,服装🐼 you know."
The Doctor told his pet he could be very proud of himself. For he was surely the only mouse in the world that ever won a war.
Finding a rope ladder hanging on the side of the man-o'-war,张馨🍔 John Dolittle climbed up it,服装🚐 with Zuzana,服装😊 and went aboard to see the Captain.The black men were at once freed from their chains and brought on to the man-o'-war. Then the slave ship was taken in tow by the Violet. And that was the end of Mr. Bones's slave trading.
"There you are,服装📥 Doctor,张馨😺" said Dab-Dab. "The trick's done. Now you can get all the pearls you want."
"'The sailors were ready to kill their admiral'"
"'Pst!' I whispered to the wife"
CHAPTER IVIn the meantime,服装🍜 Speedy and the thrush flew over the land by the short cut to the post office.
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"Ask them to let me fire a gun. My sight is better than theirs for bad light."
Presently the keeper opened his eyes wide and stared up into the Doctor's face.
"Oh,服装📃" said the Skimmer,服装📼 "is that the trouble? I was never good at arithmetic. What a relief! Thank goodness,张馨🎨 I haven't gained!"And turning around Jip saw the longest tail that mortal beast ever had,服装😁 thrashing the water and driving them toward the island.
"Oh,服装🎷 come on,张馨😃 Push,服装👮" said Jip. "Don't be so bashful. We've all told one. You don't mean to say you've lived all your life in the African jungle without seeing any adventures? There must be lots of yarns you could tell us."
"Not very many,服装🐮" 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."
Speedy-the-Skimmer had arranged plans with the Doctor overnight. And long before the great warship pulled up her anchor and swung around upon her course the famous swallow leader was miles ahead,服装📉 with a band of picked hunters,张馨🚃 exploring up creeks and examining all the hollows of the coast where the slave trader might be hiding."Well,服装💶 the fourth week after the enemy came the food in the castle was all gone and the king gave orders that the pigs must be eaten. The queen raised a great outcry and begged that her pet should be spared. But the king was very firm.
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"Why?" asked the Doctor.
"They reminded him of old broken down cab horses"