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CAPE STEPHEN LIGHT
"I sent them to myself," said Gub-Gub, "from Fantippo yesterday. I don't see why you fellows should get all the mail. Nobody writes to me, so I write to myself."
"Great heavens, Doctor, I've gained an ounce! I'll never be able to fly in the races again. Look, it says four and a half ounces!"
At the head of the kitchen steps he met the seagull coming into the lighthouse with two companions.
"Yes, thanks," said John Dolittle.
CHAPTER XI
Then Speedy gave the order for the middle-sized birds to join in; and soon the note of the noise changed againshrilleras tons and tons of pebbles and gravel began to join the downpour.
"The crowd grew bigger and bigger. And presently some one among the people who had seen Morland's pictures before recognized the work of the great artist. And then whispers went through the crowd'It's Morlandthe great Morland, himself.' And somebody went off and told a picture dealerthat is, a man who buys and sells pictureswho had a shop in the High Street, that George Morland was drawing in the market-place for a lame beggar.
Cheapside was a wonderful bird. But it seemed as though he just couldn't go a whole month without being rude to somebody. The Doctor said it was in his nature.
THE GREAT MAIL ROBBERY
"He's there, Doctorand he's got the pearls, all right!" said she. "I peeked through the window and I saw him counting them out from one little box into another by the light of a candle."
The life, too, about them was quite different. The gayly colored birds of the true forest did not care for this damp country of half water and half land. Instead, all manner of swamp birdsbig-billed and long-necked, for the most partpeered at them from the sprawling saplings. Many kinds of herons, egrets, ibises, grebes, bitternseven stately anhingas, who can fly beneath the waterwere wading in the swamps or nesting on the little tufty islands. In and out of the holes about the gnarled roots strange and wondrous water creaturesthings half fish and half lizardscuttled and quarreled with brightly colored crabs.
CHAPTER IV
"But I was not so happy. I had noticed a peculiar thing: none of the invalids ever seemed to get well and go away. And finally I spoke of this to Phipps.
"Pearls!" whispered Dab-Dab in an awed voice, gazing down into the Doctor's palm. "Pink pearls!"
"Lor' bless us!" muttered Cheapside. "What a wonderful piano-mover 'e would make to be sure! Great Carter Patterson! Does 'e think the Doctor's goin' to 'ang that on 'is watch-chain?"
But the next day the rowdy little sparrow threw a bottle of post office ink over the royal white peacock when he came to the houseboat with the King to take tea. Then the Doctor discharged Cheapside again.