"How does the garden look,位置🚝 Cheapside?" asked the Doctor.
"Good,横县🔠" said John Dolittle. "Then they can take these Panama letters for me. It won't be much out of their way. What do Golden Jays eat?"
All the animals had now told a story except Too-Too,位置✋ the owl,医院💇 and the pushmi-pullyu. And the following night,医院🔢 a Friday,哪个🎰 it was agreed that they should toss a coin (the Doctor's penny that had a hole through it) to see which of these two should tell a tale. If the penny came down heads it was to be the pushmi-pullyu,位置🚒 and if it came down tails it was to be Too-Too's turn.
"Well,横县🌇 for what parts of the world do you want to know the weather,男科🙅 Doctor?" asked the gull. "If it's just for Fantippo or West Africa it will be easy as pie. All you ever get here is tornadoes. The rest of the year is just frying heat. But if you want to prophesy the weather for the Straits of Magellan or Nova Zembla or those countries where they have all sorts of fancy weathers,横县📇 it will be a different matter. Even prophesying the weather for England would keep you busy. Myself,哪个🔠 I never thought that the weather itself knew what it was going to do next in England."
"Shortly after the birds started they sighted,横县🔬 to their great astonishment,哪个🔑 a number of boats sailing on a westward course. This was about half way between the Bermudas and the Bahamas. The ships were much larger than anything they had ever seen before. All they had been accustomed to up to that time were little canoes,医院🚦 with Indians in them.The Doctor,男科🆒 on hearing this,医院✈ felt glad that he had already got the pink pearls safely off to their owner by registered mail. Then he told the King that he hoped shortly to take a holiday because he was overworked and needed a rest. The King asked where he was going,男科📰 and the Doctor said he thought of taking a week's canoe trip up the coast toward the Harmattan Rocks.
After a moment's thought the Captain turned to the Doctor again.
"Oh,长江🐊 it's some humbug or other,长江🚴" growled Jip. "They're a superstitious lot,位置⬜ these natives. Let's go down to the harbor,医院🚘 Doctor,长江⁉ and try to hire a canoe to take us."
The candles were lighted again and after the carvings had been cleaned the Doctor examined them with great care and even made sketches of some of them in his notebook.
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.
And the seagull spread his wings and flew away toward the land,长江😍 calling the same cry as the Doctor had heard through the post office window.
Inside the lighthouse the Doctor found the darkness blacker still. With hands outstretched before him,横县🔣 he hurried forward and the first thing he did was to stumble over a man who was lying on the floor just within the door. Without waiting to see what was the matter with him,医院㊙ the Doctor jumped over his body and began to grope his way up the winding stairs of the tower that led to the big lamp at the top."What are you going to say to Wilkins,位置🌿 Doctor?" asked Dab-Dab as the canoe glided along over the moonlit sea. "It's a pity you haven't got a pistol or something like that. He looks a desperate character and he isn't likely to give up the pearls without a fight."
"'All we eat is bananas'"
CHAPTER VI
"There you are,医院▫ Doctor,位置♐" said Dab-Dab. "The trick's done. Now you can get all the pearls you want."
Then,长江💶 in order to deal with this wide demand for information which had been brought about by his post office,横县🔌 John Dolittle started,位置💽 for the first time in history,哪个♑ courses by correspondence for animals.
"Quite so,横县🐰" said the Captain. "I know he is somewhere around the coast. But where is he now? He's a difficult fish to catch."
"Why,哪个👡 certainly,哪个⬜" said the big serpent. "I live in the same lake as he does,横县🚟 Lake Junganyika."
"We've caught the fellow who stole the pearls,哪个🍁 Doctor,男科🍱" said Speedy.
"Once upon a time,哪个🗼" Gub-Gub began,医院✉ "a small pig went out into the forest with his father to dig for truffles. The father pig was a very clever truffle digger,哪个🈳 and just by smelling the ground he could tell with great sureness the places where truffles were to be found. Well,位置🌙 this day they came upon a place beneath some big oak trees and they started digging. Presently,长江🌠 after the father pig had dug up an enormous truffle and they were both eating it,长江🍑 they heard,男科👫 to their great astonishment,哪个🎢 the sound of voices coming from the hole out of which they had dug the truffle.
"Then I barked some more and ran a little way in the direction of the town,横县😟 looking back at him to show him I wanted him to come with me.
"Well,位置😛 I was always adventurous by nature. And,位置🍨 plucking up my courage,位置📆 I scrambled up the vat,哪个🚝 on to the edge of it. It was awful dark and I could just see the dye,哪个📞 glimmering murky and dim,位置🌛 far down inside.