"It was mournful scenery"

CONTENTS

[Prologue]
PART I
I [Zuzana]
II [The Doctor's Reception on the Warship]
III [A Great Gunner]
IV [The Royal Mails of Fantippo]
V [The Voyage Delayed]
VI [No-Man's-Land]
VII [The Animals' Paradise]
VIII [The Swiftest Mail in the World]
PART II
I [A Most Unusual Post Office]
II [Cheapside]
III [The Birds That Helped Columbus]
IV [Cape Stephen Light]
V [Gulls and Ships]
VI [Weather Bureaus]
VII [Teaching by Mail]
PART III
I [The Animals' Magazine]
II [The Doctor's Story]
III [Gub-Gub's Story]
IV [Dab-Dab's Story]
V [The White Mouse's Story]
VI [Jip's Story]
VII [Too-Too's Story]
VIII [The Pushmi-Pullyu's Story]
PART IV
I [Parcel Post]
II [The Great Mail Robbery]
III [Pearls and Brussels Sprouts]
IV [Pearl Divers]
V [Obombo's Rebellion]
VI [The Doctor's Release]
VII [A Mysterious Letter]
VIII [The Land of the Mangrove Swamps]
IX [The Secret Lake]
X [The Postmaster-General's Last Order]
XI [Good-bye to Fantippo]

ILLUSTRATIONS

["It was mournful scenery" Frontispiece]
["John Dolittle talked to the woman"]
["Looking into all the bays"]
["'Where have you been?'"]
["The birds spread themselves out along the coast"]
["'Fire!' said Speedy"]
["The bluejackets crowded to the rail"]
["A rare Fantippo stamp"]
["The Doctor gave the king a cup of China tea"]
["'Good morning! What can I do for you?'"]
["They found the Doctor shaving"]
["Thousands of swallows built their nests in her rigging"]
["'Turn back, Jip!' gasped the Doctor"]
["'All we eat is bananas'"]
["He was pulling out a loose tooth"]
["They sat down in the shade of a palm tree"]
["He began his great inauguration speech"]
["He put his large face in at the information window"]
["The houseboat post office of No-Man's-Land"]
["Jip hung up the sign"]
["He held scribbling classes for the animals"]
["Cheapside, the London sparrow"]
["The double letter boxes of Fantippo"]
["The royal peacock complained that Cheapside had made faces at him"]
["'Great heavens, Doctor, I've gained an ounce!'"]
["The sailors were ready to kill their admiral"]
["There were many rocks and shallows near the end of Cape Stephen"]
["The gulls dashed themselves into the wheelman's face"]
["The Doctor lit the candle"]
["The Doctor and Dab-Dab cooked his breakfast for him"]
["The gull caught the tomato skin with a lightning lunge"]
["The gull took a fresh piece of toast"]
["The Doctor took an armchair beside the kitchen stove"]
["John Dolittle saw him snooping around the post office"]
["The Doctor experimented on Jip"]
["It was certainly a wonderful collection of objects"]
["It was Sir Timothy Quisby, our most expensive patient"]
["He had fallen into the soup"]
["She made a regular pet of him"]
["'We'll keep the black and white one, Liza'"]
["The old rat laughed a quavering laugh"]
["Upstairs where the dye vats stood"]
["The Doctor cut off all my fur"]
["His pictures are just awful"]
["A retriever came up with a gold watch and chain"]
["'Come over here by the trough'"]
["The Doctor span the penny"]
["'What was that?'"]
["They'd run off with it and swallow it"]
["I jabbed the watchman"]
["I leapt as I have never leapt before"]
["Putting the King's bicycle together"]
["Dab-Dab looked over his shoulder"]
["They reminded him of old broken down cab horses"]
["I put the parcel down"]
["Wilkins levelled a pistol at the Doctor's head"]
["'Pst!' I whispered to the wife"]
["The rout of the Amazons"]
["'Oh, I think this is an awful place!'"]
["The young ones were with her"]
["Gub-Gub dives for pearls"]
["The Doctor patted him on the shoulder"]
["In the jungle Obombo made speeches"]
["'How dare you speak to me like that?'"]
["The white mouse would roll them down the hole"]
["'Do you realize what that pearl means to us?'"]
["The King saw the Doctor's canoe arriving"]
["In popped the head of an enormous snake"]
["The canoe was yanked from under them"]
["The Doctor saw the shape of an enormous turtle"]
["The trees bent down with his weight"]
["The Doctor was washing his face in the lake"]
["Dab-Dab, the economical housekeeper, blew out the candle"]
["Mixing the turtle's medicine"]
["A never-ending stream of big birds"]
["Dab-Dab prepared a meal"]
["A wooden statue still stands to his memory"]

DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S POST OFFICE