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And in spite of the lateness of the hour,来客🔦 John Dolittle said a hasty farewell to Chief Nyam-Nyam and started off by moonlight for Fantippo Harbor.
"What's the matter?" shouted the Doctor,来客🌝 as soon as he was near enough to make the woman hear. "Why have you come so far from the land? Don't you know that you are in great danger if a storm should come up?"
"By the way,来客☁" said John Dolittle,来客🎱 "I've been trying to think where I've seen your face before. Did you ever build your nest in my stable in Puddleby?"
Gub-Gub fidgeted his feet,来客🎭 blushed up to the ears,来客💆 and finally said:
Even Zuzana stopped her wailing and turned to look. And there,来客🌔 away out on the dim,来客👾 black edge of the ocean,来客🔖 they could see a tiny light.
At last,来客➗ with a roar of rage,来客💈 the Doctor grabbed up a rock from the ground as big as a chair and banged it with all his might against the lock of the lighthouse door. With a crash the door flew open and the Doctor sprang within.
But the next day the rowdy little sparrow threw a bottle of post office ink over the royal white peacock when he came to the houseboat with the King to take tea. Then the Doctor discharged Cheapside again.
The prison into which the Doctor was thrown had no windows. And John Dolittle,来客🆘 although he had been in African prisons before,来客🌃 was very unhappy because he was extremely particular about having fresh air. And besides,来客🏉 his hands were firmly tied behind his back with strong rope.
For some time after the turtle finished no one spoke. Even the irreverent Cheapside was silent. Little bits of stars,来客🍱 dimmed by the light of a half-full moon,来客👬 twinkled like tiny eyes in the dim blue dome that arched across the lake. Away off somewhere among the tangled mangroves an owl hooted from the swamp and Too-Too turned his head quickly to listen. Dab-Dab,来客😚 the economical housekeeper,来客🎳 seeing the Doctor close his notebook and put away his pencil,来客👔 blew out the candle.
"But this lady was in distress,来客🈯" said the Doctor. "I was in such a hurry I forgot all about lighting the ship. In fact,来客😡 it wasn't dark yet when I left."
"I left them beside my pipe on the information desk,来客🚶" came the Doctor's voice from the top of the dark stairs. "But there must be matches in the lighthouse somewhere. We must find them."
Then the trader told him that it was not through magic in the stamps or boxes that letters traveled by mail. But proper post offices had mail-men,来客🍰 or postmen,来客😠 who collected the letters out of these boxes. And he went on to explain to the King all the other duties of a post office and the things that made letters go.
After a moment's thought the Captain turned to the Doctor again.
"I think it might be all right,来客🐑" said Speedy,来客🎲 "if we can get the other birds to go in with us on the idea."
"There you are,来客🔰 Doctor,来客⛎" said Dab-Dab. "The trick's done. Now you can get all the pearls you want."
They reached Nyam-Nyam's village about six o'clock in the evening and the old chief prepared a supper for his guests. There was very little to eat at it,来客🐁 however. And the Doctor was again reminded how poor these people were.
At length reaching the great glass lamp chamber at the top,来客🔒 he set down his candle and,来客🍙 striking two matches at once he held one in each hand and lit the big wick in two places.
All the animals had now told a story except Too-Too,来客🔌 the owl,来客🌷 and the pushmi-pullyu. And the following night,来客🚐 a Friday,来客🔰 it was agreed that they should toss a coin (the Doctor's penny that had a hole through it) to see which of these two should tell a tale. If the penny came down heads it was to be the pushmi-pullyu,来客😁 and if it came down tails it was to be Too-Too's turn.
"I don't think we ought to go back there,来客👯" said Begwe. "I don't mind being a soldier in the Fantippo army,来客✉ but suppose some other slaver comes along. Maybe the king would sell me again. Did you send that letter to our cousin?"
John Dolittle had thought that he and his friends had gone home to London. But they hadn't. They knew the Doctor would need them and they had just hung around outside the town. And then the Doctor,来客👄 after lecturing Cheapside again about politeness,来客🍜 gave him back his job.
But when he came up,来客😨 blowing like a seal,来客👡 he hadn't even got an oyster. All he had was a mouthful of seaweed.
"My memory doesn't work very well while my hands are tied,来客🔖" said the Doctor quietly,来客😋 nodding toward the handcuffs. "Possibly if you took these things off I might remember."
"I was out canoeing with a lady,来客👍" said the Doctor,来客🍊 and he smiled comfortingly at Zuzana,来客🍒 who was beginning to weep again.
"That's the 'Elephants' March,来客🏦'" said the turtle. "They always played it at the Royal Circus of Shalba for the elephants' procession."
He found the Captain strutting the quarterdeck,来客🍐 mumbling to himself.
JIP'S STORY
