2023-02-05 16:02:19 作者：聚新闻
"Oh,🆙 indeed!" said John Dolittle. "Tell me more about it." And he pulled a notebook out of his pocket and started to write.
CHAPTER III
THE WHITE MOUSE'S STORY
"Don't celebrate Christmas!" cried Cheapside in a shocked voice. "What a disgraceful scandal! Well,🔧 look here,🌆 Doctor. You just tell King Cocoa-butter that if 'e and 'is people don't celebrate the festive season by giving us post-birds Christmas-boxes there ain't going to be no mail delivered in Fantipsy from New Year's to Easter. And you can tell 'im I said so. It's 'igh time somebody hen-lightened 'is hignorance."
Many of the giraffes were suffering from sore hoofs and he showed them where to find a special root that could be put into a foot bath and would bring immediate relief. The rhinoceroses' horns were growing too long and John Dolittle explained to them how by grinding them against a certain kind of stone and by eating less grass and more berries they could keep the growth down. A special sort of nut tree that the deer were fond of had grown scarce and almost died out from constant nibbling. And the Doctor showed the chief stags how,🅿 by taking a few nuts and poking them down into the soft earth with their hoofs before the rainy season set in,🐔 they could make new trees grow and so increase the supply.
"Yes,🍎" said the Doctor. "I imagine there are lots of different kinds of birds and beasts in these parts that can be found nowhere else in the world."
"So,📰 since I wasn't doing the children any good,🚧 I went off to look up this other owl and see if he had any ideas to suggest. I found him sitting on the stump of a hollow birch,🌳 rubbing his eyes,🚖 having just got out of bed.
THE ROYAL MAILS OF FANTIPPO
"Well,🆑" said John Dolittle,❇ "what kind of a ship was it?"
