"Now,张继🔸 when we children grew up big enough to go off for ourselves our parents gave us all sorts of careful instructions about escaping cats and ferrets and weasels and dogs. But over poor me they shook their heads. They really felt that there was not much hope of my leading a peaceful life with white fur that could be seen a mile off.
"'Great heavens,痴心绝对🐖 Doctor,什么📗 I've gained an ounce!'"
"Oh,张继🗼 yes,痴心绝对🍎" said John Dolittle. "All in good time,痴心绝对🌿 Dab-Dab."
"Here you are,时候☑" he said.
"Never have I been so furious with anyone in my life as I was with that old rat.
By this time all the animals had heard Cheapside arriving and they came rushing in to see the traveler and to hear the news of Puddleby and England.
"'Well,什么📰 it was some cat,什么🐪' says the boy. 'He must be right around here somewhere,什么📘 because he led us almost up to the door.'"The King saw the Doctor's canoe arriving"
"There you are!" said Too-Too. "He has a vegetable mind."
"You sound clean crazy to me,马龙🚫 my good man. But if you can put me in the way of capturing Jimmie Bones the slaver I don't care what means you use to do it. As soon as the day breaks we will get under way. But if you are just amusing yourself at the expense of Her Majesty's Navy I warn you it will be the worst day's work for yourself you ever did. Now go and put riding lights on that ark of yours and tell the pig that if he lets them go out he shall be made into rashers of bacon for the officers' mess."
On his arrival at the post office the Doctor was given his usual warm reception by the king and dignitaries of Fantippo who paddled out from the town to welcome him back.
"'It was for your sake I got myself into this beastly mess,张继👌' I said,什么🐸 as she stalked by me with her nose in the air. 'You're an ungrateful woman,时候🍏 that's what you are.'
THE PUSHMI-PULLYU'S STORY"Why,马龙🍟 Cheapside!" cried John Dolittle. "At last you've come. My,时候🏆 but it's good to see you! Did you have a pleasant journey?"
"How do they do it?" asked Gub-Gub.
"The English climate's all right,时候🎺" put in Cheapside,马龙📱 his feathers ruffling up for a fight. "Don't you get turning up your long nautical nose at England,什么🌓 my lad. What do you call this 'ere? A climate? Well,张继🚌 I should call it a Turkish bath. In England we like variety in our climate. And we get it. That's why Englishmen 'ave such 'earty red faces. 'Ere the poor creatures turn black."
One day when King Koko's pet white peacock came to the Doctor and complained that the Cockney sparrow had made faces at him over the palace wall the Doctor became quite angry and read the City Manager a long lecture.
"Tell me,马龙📐" asked the Doctor,马龙👣 watching him thoughtfully as he hovered and swung and curved around the tiny boat,时候🔓 "what made you come and bring me the news about the light? Gulls don't,时候❗ as a rule,痴心绝对💈 bother much about people or what happens to ships,时候🐅 do they?"
"'Good evening,马龙🆑' says I. 'It's a fine night!'
All attempts to trace the writer having failed,马龙⭐ the Doctor,马龙🎻 after two days,时候🌋 gave it up and went back to his regular work. This kept him so busy for the next week that he finally forgot all about the turtle and his mysterious letter.
And he realized now,张继🚎 as he listened to Zuzana,什么🍌 what was wrong with the Fantippo post office and why she had never got an answer to the letter which would have saved her husband from slavery.