From that the Doctor went on to explain to the King,神探🌻 that much as he loved Fantippo and its people,包青天🚧 he had many things to attend to in England and must now be thinking of going home. And of course as none of the natives could talk bird-language,神探💵 the Swallow Mail would have to be replaced by the ordinary kind of post office.
"I don't like that,包青天🌑" said the King,包青天🌴 frowning.
"Dab-Dab prepared a meal"
But while the Doctor was still thanking the Chief for the beautiful present,神探🍉 Quip-the-Carrier flew up with a letter for him.
"It changed my appearance completely. Moving through the long grass,神探🌻 I looked like some ordinary kind of deer. So,包青天🍕 disguised in this manner,神探✝ I sauntered out into an open meadow and grazed around till my precious Badamoshis should appear. Which they very shortly did.
"Entering the shed,在线观看🔏 I met a rat,在线观看🌟 very old and very thin. Said he to me:"Well,包青天🍍 in that way,神探🚩 keeping ahead of them and calling like a cat,神探🈲 I finally led the children right out of the woods. They did a good deal of stumbling and the girl's long hair often got caught in the bushes. But I always waited for them if they were lagging behind. At last,包青天⌚ when we gained the open fields,神探🍄 we saw three houses on the sky line,神探🔊 and the middle one was all lighted up and people with lanterns were running around it,包青天🎡 hunting in all directions.
"Aye,神探🚉 aye,神探🏃 sir,包青天🌁" said the master-at-arms. And before the Doctor knew it he had handcuffs fastened firmly on his wrists.
And the Emir of Ellebubu,在线观看📬 who was one of the big,神探🚏 powerful neighbors,包青天😆 called up his army and sent them off in war canoes to take possession of the Harmattan Rocks. At the same time he made an attack upon the village,神探♿ drove everybody out,包青天❇ and carrying off the Doctor and the Chief,在线观看📎 he threw them into prison in his own country. Then at last Nyam-Nyam's people had no land left at all.
"But,包青天🚃 Doctor,包青天➰ birds and animals don't send letters,在线观看💣" said Speedy.
Then the Doctor put down the letter and,在线观看⚪ taking his penknife,神探📍 he cut the seaweed strings that neatly held the oyster shells together. And when he opened the shells he gave a gasp of astonishment.
"I knew it would,包青天👱" said Jip. "A thing like that must have a story to it. What's the name of the story,神探🎠 Doctor?""Well,包青天📂 I'm glad we were in time,在线观看💤" said the bird.
It was a long but a most interesting journey that the Doctor took from Fantippo to Lake Junganyika. It turned out that the turtle's home lay many miles inland in the heart of one of the wildest,在线观看🌳 most jungly parts of Africa.
"'There is only one Doctor,神探📡' he answered. 'You don't mean to say you've never heard of him!'The work,神探🐕 the Skimmer calculated,在线观看🚏 would take three days. All birds had been ordered to pick up a stone or a pebble or a pinch of sand from the seashore on their way and bring it with them. The larger birds (who would carry stones) were to come first,包青天🍏 then the middle-sized birds and then the little ones with sand.
"The double letter boxes of Fantippo"
All day long a never-ending stream of big birds,包青天📞 a dozen abreast,神探👻 flew up from the sea and headed across Lake Junganyika. The line was like a solid black ribbon,在线观看🏉 the birds,包青天📂 dense,包青天🐂 packed and close,包青天❎ beak to tail. And as each dozen reached the spot where Speedy hovered,神探🔮 twelve stones dropped into the water. The procession was so continuous and unbroken that it looked as though the sky were raining stones. And the constant roar of them splashing into the water out of the heavens could be heard a mile off.
Here the spoonbill was waiting for him at the water's edge. She apologized for not coming in person to welcome him,包青天🏠 but said she was afraid to leave her babies when there were sea eagles around. The little ones were with her,包青天📫 two scrubby,神探🚞 greasy youngsters,神探🚲 who could walk but not fly. The Doctor opened the package and gave them back their precious toys; and with squawks of delight they began playing marbles on the flat rocks with the enormous pink pearls.