"What do you want?" he asked,编辑🚹 thrusting the pearls into his pocket.
"'Oh,编辑📝 I think this is an awful place!'"
But when he came up,Excel🙌 blowing like a seal,Excel🚏 he hadn't even got an oyster. All he had was a mouthful of seaweed.
Cheapside was a wonderful bird. But it seemed as though he just couldn't go a whole month without being rude to somebody. The Doctor said it was in his nature.
Another thing in which the Doctor's post office was peculiar was its pens. Most post offices,Excel⛎ the Doctor had found,编辑♻ always had abominably bad pens that spluttered and scratched and wouldn't write. In fact very many post offices even nowadays seem to pride themselves on their bad pens. But the Doctor saw to it that his pens were of the very best quality. Of course,共享👆 in those times there were no steel pens. Only quills were used. And John Dolittle got the albatrosses and the seagulls to keep for him their tail feathers which fell out in the moulting season. And of course,共享🐒 with such a lot of quills to choose from,Excel🏆 it was easy to have the best pens in the post office.
And in the meantime he went back and continued the work of getting the domestic mail service in good running order at the post office at Fantippo.
"'Well,共享🔒' I said,共享📈 'people hire out bicycles and pianos for rent,Excel📱 don't they? So,编辑⚡ why can't you and I rent out bones for dogs to chew? They won't be able to pay us in money of course,共享🌛 so we'll get them to bring us things,共享📡 instead. Then the beggar can sell the things and get money.'
Then the king was very angry and,编辑Ⓜ calling for the white trader,怎么♠ he said:
"A rare Fantippo stamp"
"As soon as they had gone I came out of the closet and I said to the white cat: 'I shall expect you to bring up these kittens to leave ducklings alone. Now listen: To-night,怎么⛳ after the farmer and his wife are in bed,编辑🐕 take all your kittens except the black and white one,编辑👱 and hide them in the attic. The farmer means to drown them and is going to keep only one.'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,共享☎ after lecturing Cheapside again about politeness,怎么☠ gave him back his job.
"And we've got the pearls,编辑🚔 too,怎么🍦" cried Too-Too. "They're in the stamp drawer and Jip is guarding them."
And later,怎么👦 after the nesting was all over,编辑🚍 there were more than twice as many birds as there were before,共享🅱 of course. And you simply couldn't get on to the ship for the tons and tons of mud on her.
"Very good,编辑🍈 Doctor,共享😻" said the swallow,共享🔺 turning to go. "I'll tell the Skimmer what you say.""Jip,共享😝 it's a Quiffenodochus,编辑☎ as sure as I'm alive!"
The next morning the Doctor was up early. After a light breakfast (it was impossible to get any other kind in that poverty-stricken country) he asked Nyam-Nyam the way to the Harmattan Rocks and the Chief told him they were just beyond sight from here,编辑‼ about an hour and a half's paddle straight out into the ocean.
Then Cheapside got together a gang of his tough London sparrow friends and one night they flew into the palace garden and mobbed the white peacock and pulled three feathers out of his beautiful tail.
Paddling very,怎么⚽ very softly,编辑♣ he managed to get the canoe right under the bow of the ship. Then,Excel🍀 tying his own craft so it couldn't float away,怎么❓ he swarmed up the schooner's anchor chain and crept on to the boat on hands and knees.
"I see,Excel🚾" said the Doctor. "But the storms,编辑🏭 what do you do in them to keep yourselves safe?"
CHAPTER II
"Tell her,共享💦" said the Doctor,Excel🍢 "to fly over to the Harmattan Rocks right away and give the cormorants strict orders to stop all pearl fishing at once."
"'My gracious!' says he. 'What a quaint notion. Why don't you lead them out of the woods? They probably live over in one of those farms near the crossroads.'Then the Doctor was sorry and wished he hadn't discharged Cheapside,Excel🌑 who seemed to be the only one who could manage this part of the mails properly.
"Well,怎么🚈 I'm rather afraid,Excel🚨" said the Doctor doubtfully,编辑💰 "that these people don't celebrate Christmas as a holiday."