"Well,怎么🐣 for a while our plan worked splendidly. The beggar sold the things that we got in payment from the dogs and he had money to live on.
Then,分析报告😋 of course,分析报告💇 there were all those birds who don't leave their home lands in winter,分析报告🐜 but stay in one country all the time. The leaders of these had come under special guidance of other birds to oblige the Doctor by being present at the great meeting. They promised to have their people all the year round take care of letters that were brought to their particular countries to be delivered. So between one thing and another,市场🏊 much of the planning and arrangement of the service was got through in these first two meetings.
"Perhaps it slipped off the tree,怎么🏤" said the Doctor,怎么📗 "and fell down into the underbrush."
"Dear me,分析报告📥" said he while he was sitting miserably on the floor in the darkness,怎么📟 wondering what on earth he was going to do without any of his animals to help him,怎么🔤 "what a poor holiday I am spending,市场🍂 to be sure!"
Now this particular stretch of water they were trying to cross happened to be a bad place for swimming. And after about a quarter of an hour Jip and the Doctor felt themselves being carried out to sea in the grip of a powerful current. They tried their hardest to get to the island. But without any success.
And then John Dolittle,怎么🚠 seeing its head for the first time,怎么📤 cried out in great excitement:And she went off to fetch the Skimmer.
The two keepers thought that the Doctor was surely crazy when he started a conversation of chirps with Cheapside. But from the answers they got to their questions they could see there was no fake about the news of the city which the sparrow gave.
CHAPTER III
"But these oyster beds don't belong to me,怎么🈹" said John Dolittle.
"Well,市场😦" said the Jay,怎么🐅 "the story was handed down to me by my mother,市场🐎 who heard it from my grandmother,分析报告🌑 who got it from my great-grandmother,分析报告🍷 and so on,怎么🔌 way back to an ancestor of ours who lived in America in the fifteenth century. Our kind of birds in those days did not come across to this side of the Atlantic,分析报告🐳 neither summer nor winter. We used to spend from March to September in the Bermudas and the rest of the year in Venezuela. And when we made the autumn journey south we used to stop at the Bahama Islands to rest on the way.
King Koko got to hear of this and he called up one of these stamp collectors and asked him why men should offer high prices for one old used stamp. And the white man explained to him this new craze for stamp collecting that was sweeping over the civilized world.
After that,市场👠 of course,市场🍓 letters began to arrive at the houseboat for the Doctor's pets. And one morning,分析报告🌛 when the mail was sorted,怎么🍇 there was a letter for Dab-Dab from her sister; one for the white mouse written by a cousin from the Doctor's bureau drawer; one for Jip from the collie who lived next door in Puddleby and one for Too-Too,分析报告🙀 telling him he had a new family of six young ones in the rafters of the stable. But there was nothing for Gub-Gub. The poor pig was nearly in tears at being left out. And when the Doctor went into town that afternoon Gub-Gub asked could he come along.
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Then the Doctor and the leaders agreed upon a regular kind of simple,怎么🎽 easy writing for all birds to use,市场🚌 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,市场🌾 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.
Jip managed to bring up a few small oysters,分析报告😤 but there were no pearls in them.
"'There's no food here,怎么🚨' he said,市场🐭 'only dyes of different colors.' And he pointed to the big dye vats,怎么📬 all in a row,市场😿 that towered in the half darkness above our heads.
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It was a great day at the Doctor's post office when Cheapside,分析报告🐠 the London sparrow,怎么🚛 arrived from Puddleby to look after the city deliveries for Fantippo.
And now it came,市场😖 at last,分析报告🍒 to the pushmi-pullyu's turn for a story. He was very shy and modest and when the animals asked him the following night he said in his very well-bred manner:"You're an unscrupulous scoundrel,市场🐩" said the Doctor. "I don't want to talk to you."