"There you are!" said Too-Too. "He has a vegetable mind."
Then,女侠◻ with Jip's and Dab-Dab's help,关中😋 he constructed a very comfortable basket-work hammock out of willow wands and fastened it between two larger mangroves. Into this he climbed and drew the blanket over him. Although the trees leaned down toward the water with his weight,关中💉 they were quite strong and their bendiness acted like good bed springs.
Then Gub-Gub got all worked up and before anybody could stop him he had taken a plunge. The pig went down so quick and so straight he got his snout stuck in the mud at the bottom,女侠😎 and the Doctor,关中🌀 still out of breath,关中💒 had to go down after him and get him free. The animals by this time were at such a pitch of excitement that even the white mouse would have jumped in if Gub-Gub's accident hadn't changed his mind.
Now,女侠🌷 it happened one day that the Doctor came to the post office,女侠🚆 as usual,关中🍖 at nine o'clock in the morning. (He had to get there at that time,女侠🚩 because if he didn't the postmen didn't start working.) And outside the post office he found Jip,关中🌼 gnawing a bone on the pavement. Something curious about the bone struck the Doctor,关中🍩 who was,关中🐚 of course,关中💐 being a naturalist,关中🚞 quite a specialist in bones. He asked Jip to let him look at it.
"Oh,关中🔉 yes,女侠🚂" said the Doctor. "I know the island you mean. It's only a short distance from the mainland. But I hadn't heard that that was the name of it. Humph! If you'll lend me this bone a while,关中📍 Jip,女侠🎯 I think I'll go to see the King about it."
"Sincerely yours,关中😜
"About a turnip field,关中🍺" said Gub-Gub.But presently the Doctor noticed that after they had licked the gum off the stamps,关中✳ the customers would bring them back and want to exchange them for money again. Now,女侠😾 it is a rule that all post offices have to exchange their own stamps,关中😇 when asked,关中🍊 for the price paid for them. So long as they are not torn or marked it doesn't matter whether the gum has been licked off or not. So the Doctor saw that he would have to change his kind of gum if he wanted to keep stamps that would stick.
In the meantime the Emir,关中🐓 celebrating victory in his palace,关中😠 gave orders that the Harmattan Rocks,女侠🎦 which were now to be called the Royal Ellebubu Pearl Fisheries,女侠💪 would henceforth be his exclusive,女侠💮 private property,女侠🔭 and no trespassing would be allowed. And he sent out six special men with orders to take over the islands and to bring all the pearls to him.
Now,关中💳 the Captain,女侠🚲 expecting the slavers to put up a fight,女侠🌒 also gave orders to get the guns ready. And just as they were about to round the long cape one of the silly gunners let a gun off by accident."Lor' bless us,关中🐘 Doctor,关中👠 but you do get yourself into some comical situations! Who would think to see John Dolittle,关中🔋 M.D.,关中⌛ heminent physician of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh,女侠👂 bein' pulled through a mud swamp in darkest Africa by a couple of 'undred yards of fat worm! You've no idea how funny you look!"