DAB-DAB'S STORY
But,官网📻 alas! instead of making the number of letters he had to answer less,官网🐶 the Doctor found that by sending out books of information he increased a hundredfold the already enormous mail he had to attend to.
"No,正品🌿 of course not,祛斑🗽" said the Doctor. "But there will be no fear of my leaving for some time yet. You could have the whole ship to yourselves and nobody will disturb you."
"Then I barked some more and ran a little way in the direction of the town,祛斑😴 looking back at him to show him I wanted him to come with me."'You're in the soup,正品🔫' said the little men.
CHAPTER VI
"Its head is under water,正品👡" said the Doctor. "But there's its tail,祛斑🌕 look,祛斑⚪ behind us."
"Oh,祛斑📀 yes,官网🅾 indeed,官网🌉" said the Piffilosaurus. "This island is entirely peopled by harmless,胶囊🔓 vegetable-feeding creatures. If we had the others,胶囊🌸 of course,胶囊📱 we wouldn't last long. But come,正品😳 I will show you around the island. Let us go quietly up that valley there,雪菲🍏 so we shan't be seen till we reach the cover of the woods."
The Emir of Ellebubu went back to his palace feeling perfectly certain that after he had starved John Dolittle for a few days he would be able to make him do anything he wanted. He gave orders that no water should be served to the prisoner either,正品💳 so as to make doubly sure that he would be reduced to obedience.
"Yes,祛斑㊗" said Zuzana. "But I don't think he ever got it. Because no answer came."
"This she did,官网🍃 and the results were excellent. The rats departed in a body and the old horse's corn-bin was left undisturbed. Then she disappeared and for several nights I saw nothing of her. So one evening I thought it would be only decent of me to call at her farm down the Oxenthorpe Road,胶囊🍋 to thank her.
"Humph!" said the Doctor. "That's too bad. Let me think a minute. Oh,官网📈 I know I'll send for Cheapside."
"Why,正品🚀 Cheapside!" cried John Dolittle. "At last you've come. My,胶囊🚊 but it's good to see you! Did you have a pleasant journey?"
So the Doctor turned out his waistcoat pockets. These brought forth two watches (one that went and one that didn't),雪菲😼 a measuring tape,雪菲🎁 a piece of cobbler's wax,正品📛 a penny with a hole through it and a clinical thermometer.
"Oh,正品🍣 quite,胶囊🌉" said the Doctor,雪菲🚎 "thank you. But why did you swim under water?"
Jip managed to bring up a few small oysters,官网👙 but there were no pearls in them.So Zuzana had hurried to a professional letter writer (the common people of those tribes couldn't write for themselves,官网🌖 you see) and had a letter written,胶囊🌓 begging their cousin to send the goats and oxen to the king without delay. Then she had taken the letter to the Fantippo post office and sent it off.
PART III
Then John Dolittle started turning his trousers pockets out onto the table to try and find something that reminded him of a story. It was certainly a wonderful collection of objects that he brought forth. There were pieces of string and pieces of wire,祛斑🚲 stub ends of pencils,官网🚺 pocket-knives with the blades broken,雪菲📡 coat buttons,胶囊🍐 boot buttons,正品⏰ a magnifying glass,胶囊🐞 a compass and a corkscrew.
"The Cook Goblins were sorry to see him go. And as a farewell present in return for the help he had given them against their enemies,祛斑📶 they gave him the Magic Cucumber. Now,正品🚤 this cucumber,官网💜 if you cut off even the smallest part of it and planted it,祛斑🔧 would grow immediately into a whole field of any fruit or vegetable you wished. All you had to do was to say the name of the vegetable you wanted. The baby pig thanked the Cook Goblins,胶囊⚪ kissed them all goodby and went home.
Now this particular stretch of water they were trying to cross happened to be a bad place for swimming. And after about a quarter of an hour Jip and the Doctor felt themselves being carried out to sea in the grip of a powerful current. They tried their hardest to get to the island. But without any success.
"But why?" asked the Doctor."'That's a good notion,官网🍦' said he. 'Let's start to-morrow.'"
"They're such a nice,官网📬 wholesome,正品🌼 Christian change,正品🐃" he said,雪菲🚳 "after these 'ere 'eathen hidolaters. And you should just hear Fred sing 'See That My Grave's Kept Green.'"