"Oh,香港🍜 how splendid!" cried the Doctor.
As he arrived at the little group of straw houses he saw that there was some kind of a commotion going on. All the villagers were gathered about the Chief's hut; speeches were being made and everyone seemed in a great state of excitement. The old Chief himself was standing at the door,怪谈🏨 and when he saw his friend,灵异🎷 the Doctor,百度🍯 approaching on the edge of the crowd,怪谈❎ he signaled him to come into the hut. This the Doctor did. And as soon as he was inside the Chief closed the door and began to tell him what the trouble was.
"The Doctor saw the shape of an enormous turtle"
"How does the garden look,百度🎊 Cheapside?" asked the Doctor.
The Doctor comforted her as best he could,全部😄 saying that if he failed he would get her another husband,全部📶 just as good. But she didn't seem to care for that idea and went on wailing,香港👴 "Alas! Alas!"
"He hasn't any new instruments at all. The man's a fake. All he has down there is an old barge and a whole lot of messy birds flying around.""'Come over here by the trough'"
Then Speedy whispered in the Doctor's ear:
"That's true,灵异🐴" said the Doctor. "I suppose I must be getting on to England soon. But the Fantippans were honestly pleased to see us,节目👲 weren't they? And,香港💨 after all,全部🚈 Africa is a nice country,香港🌷 now,百度🌷 isn't it?"Then the Emir flew into a terrible passion.
Getting them lighted in the wind that swept across the lake was no easy matter. But to protect their flame Too-Too wove a couple of little lanterns out of thin leaves,灵异📊 through which the light shone dimly green but bright enough to see your way by.
They found an air of quiet but great excitement there. Each gunner was leaning on his gun,香港🚐 aiming it,怪谈🌑 watching the enemy's ship in the distance and waiting for the order to fire. The poor man who had been mobbed by his fellows was still almost in tears at his own stupid mistake.
When at last the great serpent was all in,灵异👤 his thick coils entirely covered the floor of the Doctor's office and a good part of him overflowed into the passage outside.
"Wilkins levelled a pistol at the Doctor's head"
"'Look at the tame white mouse! Tee-hee-hee! A plaything for children! Good little mousey! Come and have 'ims facey washed!' The stupid little idiots!
"But even Columbus himself never learned to his dying day that it was the weather-beaten bird who had fallen on his friendly deck some years before,全部📈 who had led him by the shortest cut to the land of the New World.
And he had letter-boxes made,百度✡ just the way the white trader had told him they had in England,全部📧 and he set them up at the corners of the streets and told his people that all they had to do was to put one of his stamps on their letters,灵异🛃 poke them into these boxes and they would travel to any corner of the earth they wished.
Outside the post office he had a notice board set up on which were posted the Outgoing and Incoming Mails. The notices would read something like this:
"I wonder who he is,全部🏯" said John Dolittle. "It isn't often we have white men coming in here. I don't much like the looks of him.""Dear me!" muttered the Doctor,全部🏤 paddling harder than ever,百度📂 "I wonder what can have happened?"
"'Oh,百度🌿 Willie,灵异♥' says the little girl to her brother,全部♑ 'we're saved!' ('Saved,节目™' mark you,百度😀 when neither of the boobies was in the slightest danger!) 'We're saved!' says she. 'There's Tuffie,全部🎷 our cat,怪谈🏰 come for us. She'll show us the way home. Cats can always find their way home,百度📛 can't they,全部👜 Willie? Let's follow her!'"
Mudface's landing on his new home was quite an occasion. The Doctor paddled out alongside of him till they reached the island. Until he set foot on it,灵异📢 John Dolittle himself had not realized what a large piece of ground it was. It was more than a quarter of a mile across. Round in shape,节目😸 it rose gently from the shores to the flat centre,百度🐄 which was a good hundred feet above the level of the lake.