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"Well,击节🍗" said the Doctor,击节🏥 "I am most anxious to hear the story. Does it take long to tell?"

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"All right,击节📌" said the Doctor. "Please tell Gub-Gub for me to go across to the island and get the wild boars to gather up a couple of sacks of acorns. I want all the birds who work for us to have a good feed before they leave the Main Office for their flights."

"Great heavens!" the Doctor exclaimed. "You don't say!"

"Ah,击节🌸" said the gull,击节🚧 "for land weather I wouldn't be much help to you. But when it comes to the oceans,击节🏥 I know a bird who can tell you more about sea weather than any bureau ever knew."

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"I think it might be all right,击节🏤" said Speedy,击节🎮 "if we can get the other birds to go in with us on the idea."

"A wooden statue still stands to his memory"No one went near her and the swallows had her to themselves. And they agreed afterward that they found her the best place for nesting they had ever used.

"It looks to me,击节💶" she said,击节👺 "like the Harmattan Rocks."

"Well,击节🍶 the fourth week after the enemy came the food in the castle was all gone and the king gave orders that the pigs must be eaten. The queen raised a great outcry and begged that her pet should be spared. But the king was very firm.

"'Why,击节🌸 it's Jip!' he cried. 'Good dog. Come here. You're the very fellow I want.'

And in spite of the lateness of the hour,击节🌔 John Dolittle said a hasty farewell to Chief Nyam-Nyam and started off by moonlight for Fantippo Harbor.

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CHAPTER VII

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"The Doctor gave the king a cup of China tea"

"He had fallen into the soup""Well,击节🦢" said the Doctor,击节🐃 "I'm sorry you've been put to such inconvenience. I'll have Dab-Dab carry you back to your family. But,击节🌔 you know,击节🍀 robbing the registered mail is a serious thing. If you wanted some Brussels sprouts you should have written to me. After all,击节⚪ you can't blame the birds for putting you under arrest."

"My word!" the Doctor murmured in a quiet voice. "Here one could almost believe that the Flood was not over yet!"

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"With the greatest of pleasure,击节🏦" said the cormorant.

The sparrow got back to Junganyika late that afternoon. He reported that Speedy had immediately,击节✈ on receiving the Doctor's message,击节😥 forwarded it to the postmasters of the branch offices with orders to pass it on to all the bird-leaders everywhere. It was expected that the first birds would begin to arrive here early the following morning.

"Boom!" ... The shot went rolling and echoing over the silent sea like angry thunder.

"I agree,击节♓" said the King. "But the stamps must all have my beautiful face upon them,击节💧 and no other."

"Not at all,击节🐀" said the turtle. "I'll go down and try to get you something right away."

While he was doing this,击节🆓 however,击节🐈 Dab-Dab sneaked in under the table,击节⚽ unseen by anyone. And suddenly she bit the pearl fisherman in the leg with her powerful beak."It's a bit dizzy still,击节🔒" said the Doctor,击节💳 working at the rope about his ankles. "But I'll be all right in a little."

"But I was not so happy. I had noticed a peculiar thing: none of the invalids ever seemed to get well and go away. And finally I spoke of this to Phipps.

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