Author: Hugh Lofting
"I think I'll stop in at the post office before I return to Chief Nyam-Nyam's country,高手✅" said the Doctor. "There's nothing more I can do about the pearls,校花🍀 I suppose. But I'd like to see if everything else is going all right."
He agreed with the Doctor that the idea of a bird weather bureau was quite a possible thing and would lead to much better weather reports than had so far been possible. Then for a whole hour and a half he gave the Doctor a lecture on winds. Every word of this John Dolittle wrote down in a notebook."'Oh,高手🙇 I think this is an awful place!'"
"Oh,贴身🌷 quite,听书📠 quite. I understand perfectly,贴身🍎" said the Doctor,听书📟 poking salt into his egg with a bone egg-spoon. "I am dreadfully sorry. But why didn't Speedy bring the message himself?"
"Humph!" said the Doctor,校花🍮 who had now got the loose tooth out and was showing the baby hippo how to rinse his mouth in the river. "I'm sorry. I suppose I should have sent you a message. But I've been so awfully busy. Let's go up under the shade of those palms and sit down. It was about the post office that I wanted to talk to you."
"You're an unscrupulous scoundrel,高手❕" said the Doctor. "I don't want to talk to you."
"Tell me,校花🌻" called John Dolittle,高手🐾 in canary language,贴身📇 "where are the matches? Quick!"
"'Well,校花🉐 it was some cat,校花👏' says the boy. 'He must be right around here somewhere,高手💅 because he led us almost up to the door.'
Then King Koko again begged him to take charge of the post office and try to get it running in proper order. And the Doctor said he would see what he could do. And,高手📰 going into the post office,听书🌝 he took off his coat and set to work.The next thing I must tell you about is the Prize Story Competition: The fame of the Puddleby fireside-circle,校花🌺 where the Doctor had amused his pets with so many interesting tales,免费🚫 had become quite a famous institution. Too-Too had gossiped about it; Gub-Gub,高手🔥 Jip and the white mouse had boasted of it. (You see,听书📪 they were always proud that they could say they were part of the great man's regular household.) And before long,听书🗿 through this new post office of their own,贴身🎑 creatures all over the world were speaking of it and discussing it by letter. Next thing,听书📪 the Doctor began to receive requests for stories by mail. He had become equally famous as an animal doctor,校花📂 an animal educator and an animal author.
"Dear Doctor: I am sending you,校花🐹 inclosed,免费🏠 some pretty pebbles which I found the other day while cracking open oysters. I never saw pebbles of this color before,免费📷 though I live by the seashore and have been opening shellfish all my life. My husband says they're oyster's eggs. But I don't believe it. Would you please tell me what they are? And be careful to send them back,听书🐗 because my children use them as playthings and I have promised them they shall have them to keep."
So the Doctor turned out his waistcoat pockets. These brought forth two watches (one that went and one that didn't),听书🍳 a measuring tape,听书📷 a piece of cobbler's wax,听书❕ a penny with a hole through it and a clinical thermometer.
"How does the garden look,免费🍃 Cheapside?" asked the Doctor.
"What do you want?" he asked,高手⚡ thrusting the pearls into his pocket.
"After that the beggar's dog and I became great friends. I found that his master had only one leg and was very,免费👇 very old.
After he had told this story the old man turned away and busied himself with his canoe,校花🚰 as though he were afraid that the Doctor might again ask him to paddle him to the island."He can't read,听书📪" said the Doctor gloomily.
As they went forward the jungle around them seemed to grow thicker and thicker all the time. But there was always this clear alley-way along the river bed. And though the stream's course did much winding and twisting,贴身🌻 the going was good.
CHAPTER I
"'I am the oldest rat in the town and I know a great deal. But,免费💉 tell me,贴身📎 why do you come here into the dyeing shed?'
CHEAPSIDE
"'No,高手🏥' I said. 'But I can make a noise like a cat. I learned that from an American catbird that lived in a cage in the stable where I spent last summer.'
Then the Doctor and the leaders agreed upon a regular kind of simple,听书♉ easy writing for all birds to use,听书🍩 so that the addresses on the envelopes could be understood and read by the post birds. And at last John Dolittle sent them off home again,校花💓 to instruct their relatives in this new writing and reading and explain to all the birds of all the world how the post office was going to work and how much good he hoped it would do for the education and betterment of the Animal Kingdom. Then he went home and had a good sleep.