By the following morning everything was in readiness to put to sea. The anchor was drawn up and with all sail set the Doctor's ship moved northward before a favorable wind. And it is from this point that my story begins.
CHAPTER V
The turtle drank it down. And in a minute or two he said he felt much better and could now move his legs freely without pain.
"Well,黑发🌹 just wait until I have your hands free,白发🔦" said the white mouse. "Then I'll see what can be done. There! I've bitten through one strand. Now wiggle your hands a bit and you can undo the whole rope."
And when Dab-Dab and Jip came to take away the tray they found the Doctor shaving. He was peering into a looking glass,黑发🐷 holding the end of his nose and muttering to himself:
The Doctor made out the postal order and took the money,老人❗ which the man handed through the window.
"And sure enough,黑发✂ the dealer and a few of the richer townsfolk bought the whole lot at twenty guineas apiece.
The great water snake began by taking the Doctor's party down the coast south for some forty or fifty miles. There they left the sea,好不好🚇 entered the mouth of a river and started to journey inland. The canoe (with the snake swimming alongside it) was quite the best thing for this kind of travel so long as the river had water in it. But presently,黑发👇 as they went up it,好不好🔅 the stream grew narrower and narrower. Till at last,老人🚿 like many rivers in tropical countries,好不好😱 it was nothing more than the dry bed of a brook,白发🍯 or a chain of small pools with long sand bars between.
"That's the 'Elephants' March,白发📠'" said the turtle. "They always played it at the Royal Circus of Shalba for the elephants' procession."
"What is it? What's the matter?" he shouted into the darkness over the sea.
"John Dolittle talked to the woman"
"Well,白发🙉 what have you done with the matches,黑发🍝 Doctor?" called Dab-Dab. "They were always in your coat."And when Dab-Dab and Jip came to take away the tray they found the Doctor shaving. He was peering into a looking glass,黑发😓 holding the end of his nose and muttering to himself:
"Who's turn is it to give us a story now?" asked the Doctor,好不好👿 when the supper things were cleared away the following evening.
Whenever a new flight of birds were expected at No-Man's-Land the Doctor always had a big supply of food of their particular kind got ready for their arrival before-hand. He had at the big meeting with the leaders put down in his notebook the dates of all the yearly flights of the different kinds of birds,黑发🚔 where they started from and where they went to. And this notebook was kept with great care.
CHAPTER IIIGOOD-BYE TO FANTIPPO
"But that takes a long time,黑发💧 doesn't it?" asked the Doctor.
THE BIRDS THAT HELPED COLUMBUS
"This beautiful land could also have been called the 'Animals' Paradise,白发®'" he murmured. "Long may they enjoy it to themselves! May this,白发💰 indeed,好不好👎 be No-Man's-Land forever!"
The King listened attentively and understood how his post office had been at fault. And he invited the Doctor to come ashore with Zuzana and Begwe and arrange the post office for him and put it in order so it would work properly.