The old turtle thanked him over and over again and the parting was a very affecting one. When at last the goodbyes were all said,梦幻📥 they got into the canoe and set out on the return journey.
When Speedy came to the hummock and said,怎么样🌘 "Doctor,梦幻🌑 it is finished,梦幻📮" Mudface gazed thoughtfully out into the lake and murmured:
"So in the dead of night I crept out of the jungle and came to the place where the hunters' huts were. I had to come up from the leeward side,梦幻🎪 because I didn't want to have the dogs get my scent on the wind. I was more afraid of the hunters' dogs,争霸赛💈 you see,彩虹☺ than I was of the hunters themselves. From the men I could escape quite easily,怎么样🈁 being much swifter than they were; but dogs,争霸赛🍂 with their sense of smell,争霸赛✳ are much harder to get away from,梦幻💒 even when you can reach the cover of the jungle.
"All right,争霸赛🌺" said the Doctor,怎么样🍀 "I'll call on him with your compliments."
After about twenty minutes she brought back a black duck-like bird with a tuft on his head.
"Where are they bound for,奖励🚥 Speedy?" asked the Doctor. "My notebook's in the safe."
"'What's his name?' I asked.
"Where is Wilkins?" he asked in a dazed,奖励🗽 sleepy kind of way.
"Who is Cheapside?" asked Speedy.
"They reminded him of old broken down cab horses""The new leader immediately got scared and gave the order for the Jays to swing in further toward the land,怎么样🐈 so they wouldn't be seen by the men who crowded these large boats. He was a superstitious leader and anything he didn't understand he kept away from. But my ancestor did not go with the flock,争霸赛💧 but made straight for the ships.
So Dab-Dab flew away over the sea and John Dolittle continued to paddle his canoe bravely forward.
King Koko even sent for a new bicycle. It was brought over in pieces,奖励🎲 two storks carrying a wheel each,怎么样🚵 an eagle the frame and crows the smaller parts,梦幻🈺 like the pedals,梦幻⚡ the spanners and the oil can.
"Well,怎么样💞 though I was safe for the present,彩虹✉ my troubles were not over by any means. For some time the Badamoshis now left the ostriches alone and turned their whole attention to hunting me. They badgered my life out. As soon as I had moved from one part of the country to get away from their pestering they'd find out where I was and pursue me there. They laid traps for me; they set pitfalls; they sent the dogs after me. And although I managed for a whole year to keep away from them,争霸赛◾ the constant strain was very wearing.
"Lor' bless us!" muttered Cheapside. "What a wonderful piano-mover 'e would make to be sure! Great Carter Patterson! Does 'e think the Doctor's goin' to 'ang that on 'is watch-chain?"
As soon as the Doctor had lit his pipe and got it well going he began:
When it was possible to see,奖励📪 however,奖励🚜 the Doctor found that most of Chief Nyam-Nyam's people had fled off into the jungle; and the Amazons,怎么样🔤 in thousands,奖励🏠 were just going through the village,彩虹🦋 taking anything they fancied. The Doctor tried to argue with them,奖励📝 but they merely laughed at him.
"But he gave me no address,怎么样🉑" said John Dolittle,争霸赛🌙 taking the muddy envelope from the serpent. "I've been trying my hardest ever since to find out where he lived."
"Of a story?" cried Too-Too.
"Mixing the turtle's medicine"
But the Doctor didn't answer. And Jip could see from his face that his strength and breath were nearly gone.
"Then,梦幻🌰 rubbing out the whole picture,奖励🔻 George Morland re-drew it in his way. And it was so lifelike you could nearly hear the cat lapping up the milk."What is it,争霸赛🗽 Doctor?" said Jip,彩虹⛵ staring down at the strange thing,争霸赛💯 which had now stopped rising and was carrying them like a ship,争霸赛🚝 right across the strong course of the current,梦幻🍆 in the direction of the island.