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"At last!" he muttered. "Let's hope I'm not too late!"
Full daylight had not yet come and the light from a lamp could be seen palely shining up the stairs which led to the cabin. The Doctor slid forward like a shadow,取消🚖 tiptoed his way down the stairs and peered through the partly opened door.
He got no answer. But soon,手机🐣 with a rush of wings that nearly blew his candle out,手机🚏 a great seagull swept down on to the houseboat rail beside him.
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,怎么🚵 and when he saw his friend,怎么😺 the Doctor,密码🙀 approaching on the edge of the crowd,华为📖 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.
"We are really on the shores of it already,手机🌺 then?"
"Feel in the man's pockets,取消▫" called John Dolittle. "Hurry!"
"Yes,手机🏤" said the Doctor. "I imagine there are lots of different kinds of birds and beasts in these parts that can be found nowhere else in the world."But the Doctor didn't answer. And Jip could see from his face that his strength and breath were nearly gone.
"After some months I began to grow weary of the silly life I was leading. And then,取消📌 too,华为✴ the wild mice were so mean to me. They used to come around at night and point at me through the wire of my cage,密码🆗 saying:
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"Well,手机📛 but what shall I tell you a story about?" asked John Dolittle.
"Doctor,华为🍭" he cried,手机✋ "the mail has been robbed! The thrush has come back to the post office and says his package was taken from him on the way. The pearls are gone!""Well,怎么🐓" said Gub-Gub,密码😡 "you know how people are always telling you 'You mustn't speak about those things at table!' Well,怎么🐓 the Cook Goblins had a speaking tube in the wall which led,华为🐄 at the other end,密码👂 to the open air outside. And whenever you wanted to talk about any of the things forbidden at table you left the table and went and said it into the speaking tube; then you came back to your seat. It was a very great invention.... Well,取消♎ as I was saying,怎么🍉 the baby pig enjoyed himself tremendously. And when the meal was over he said he must be going back because he wanted to get into the sty before his mother and father should be awake.
"Oh,怎么🈹 indeed!" said John Dolittle. "Tell me more about it." And he pulled a notebook out of his pocket and started to write.
"Of course,取消📎 there's Sarah,密码🌹" the Doctor went on puffing at his pipe dreamily. "Poor dear Sarah! I wonder whom she married. But there you are,华为✍ I haven't her address. So I can't write to Sarah. And I don't suppose any of my old patients would want to hear from me."
"In introducing one well-bred pig to another should you say 'Miss Virginia Ham,华为💒 "meet" Mr. Frank Footer,取消♍' or 'Get acquainted?'
"The gulls dashed themselves into the wheelman's face""Well,密码😲 now,华为🍰 look here,怎么⚓ Cheapside,怎么👈" said the Doctor. "We want you to get these city deliveries straightened out for us in the town of Fantippo. Our post birds are having great difficulty finding the right houses to take letters to. You're a city-bird,怎么👲 born and bred. Do you think you can help us?"
So the Doctor turned out his waistcoat pockets. These brought forth two watches (one that went and one that didn't),密码🐰 a measuring tape,取消🏃 a piece of cobbler's wax,华为🍔 a penny with a hole through it and a clinical thermometer.
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"Yes."While he was doing this,怎么🎺 however,怎么🐃 Dab-Dab sneaked in under the table,手机📅 unseen by anyone. And suddenly she bit the pearl fisherman in the leg with her powerful beak.
"But I don't understand,手机🌱" said John Dolittle. "I thought Wilkins had made off with them."
A GREAT GUNNER
CHAPTER IV
"It's a wonderful medicine,怎么📑 that,手机👋" said he. "You are surely a great Doctor. Have you got any more of it?"And when the canoe was tied up they went into the houseboat and sat down to lunch at the kitchen table.