"Yes. My name is Quip. It used to be just plain Quip. Now I'm called Quip the Carrier,模式🦆" said the small bird proudly gazing down at his little,故事ℹ stubby white leg.
He got no answer. But soon,攻略🌉 with a rush of wings that nearly blew his candle out,触发📬 a great seagull swept down on to the houseboat rail beside him.
The Doctor sprang across the room,攻略🐅 upsetting a chair on his way,故事💔 and felt along the wall. His hand touched the corner of a stone shelf and the next moment Dab-Dab gave a deep sigh of relief,攻略📂 for she heard the cheerful rattle of a box of matches as the Doctor fumbled to strike a light.
But wherever money is made in large quantities and business is good,模式🔻 there strangers will always come,故事📹 seeking their fortune. And before long the little village that used to be so poor and insignificant was full of traders from the neighboring kingdoms,制造者🔫 buying and selling in the crowded,制造者📞 busy markets. And,露娜♉ of course,故事🙉 questions were soon asked as to how this country had suddenly got so rich. And,故事🐤 although the Chief had carried out the Doctor's orders and had only intrusted the secret of the fisheries to a few picked men,模式🔬 folks began to notice that canoes frequently came and went between the Harmattan Rocks and the village of Chief Nyam-Nyam.
"Well,故事🚱 if it's a slave ship,模式🌚 it's not the one we're looking for,制造者🆔" said the Doctor,怎么⛳ "because it's in the wrong direction. The one we're after went northward."
Finding a rope ladder hanging on the side of the man-o'-war,模式💓 John Dolittle climbed up it,露娜🌑 with Zuzana,攻略🌉 and went aboard to see the Captain.
"And what on earth is an invalid?" cried the pushmi-pullyu.
Then the engine boy,故事🚨 also anxious that his ship should have the honor of capturing Bones,怎么🚊 tied down the safety valve on the steam engine,故事🀄 to make her go faster,制造者🍪 and then went up on deck to see the show. And soon,地牢☁ of course,故事📖 one of the Violet's brand new boilers burst with a terrific bang and made an awful mess of the engine room.
This made the kingdom of Fantippo much richer and more important than it had been before,模式🍩 of course. And a large grant of money was given by the King to the Foreign Mails post office,模式🚪 which was used by the Doctor in making the houseboat better and bigger.Everybody had now told a tale and the Arctic Monthly's Prize Story Competition was declared closed. The first number of the first animals' magazine ever printed was,故事📄 shortly after that,制造者🔡 issued and circulated by Swallow Mail to the inhabitants of the frozen North. It was a great success. Letters of thanks and votes on the competition began pouring in from seals and sea-lions and caribou and all manner of polar creatures. Too-Too,怎么© the mathematician,制造者📏 became editor; Dab-Dab ran the Mothers' and Babies' Page,故事😌 while Gub-Gub wrote the Gardening Notes and the Pure Foods Column. And the Arctic Monthly continued to bring happiness to homes and dens and icebergs as long as the Doctor's Post office existed.
But presently he heard something stirring in his pocket. And to his great delight,怎么🍀 the white mouse,模式🚢 who had been sleeping soundly,露娜🐶 entirely forgotten by the Doctor,攻略🐜 ran out on his lap.
"I'll bet it's something to do with food,模式👟" said Too-Too,故事✂ who was sitting on the stool next to the Doctor's,地牢🐮 adding up figures.
"Then the father swings his lantern around,故事🎈 looking for a cat; and before I had time to hop away he throws the light full on me,触发🌽 sitting on a sage bush.
After supper had been served and eaten and the Doctor had been made to tell the story of the pearl fisheries all over again for the benefit of his own family circle,怎么📩 he at last turned to the enormous pile of letters which were waiting for him. They came,露娜🐯 as usual,故事🚧 from all parts of the world,触发📛 from every conceivable kind of animal and bird. For hours he waded patiently through them,制造者🏤 answering them as they came. Speedy acted as his secretary and took down in bird and animal scribble the answers that the Doctor reeled off by the dozen. Often John Dolittle dictated so fast that the poor Skimmer had to get Too-Too (who had a wonderful memory) to come and help listen,怎么🐢 so nothing should be missed through not writing it down quick enough.
Then the Doctor and Jip went back to Fantippo,制造者🐣 carried by the piffilosaurus,模式🚥 who landed them on the shore under cover of night,制造者❌ so no one would see them. And in the morning John Dolittle called upon the King again.
"Humph! I see,触发🙉" said the Doctor. "Of course,攻略😜 myself,怎么🎩 I rather enjoy the jolliness of these Fantippos. But I can quite see your point. By the way,故事📝 how would my old ship do? This ought to be quiet enough for you here. There's nobody living on it now. And,地牢😏 look,地牢🚒 it has heaps of cracks and holes and corners in it where you could build your nests. What do you think?"
"How did you find them?" he asked,地牢🆑 turning to Speedy.
"He put his large face in at the information window"
When the lunch was over the Doctor took an armchair beside the kitchen stove and lit his pipe. "I am thinking,故事🍍" he said to the gull,模式🎷 "of starting a new department in my post office. Many of the birds who have helped me in this mail business seem to be remarkably good weather prophets. And what you have just told me about your knowledge of the sea and storms has given me the idea of opening a weather bureau.""Well,模式🎊" said the Doctor,制造者🌹 "I'll tell it,制造者🐒 and then you can decide for yourself. Stop fidgeting,模式👪 now,制造者📼 and let me begin. It's getting late."