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But even when all these were put up on the masts to catch the wind, the boat did not go nearly as fast as the pirates' which kept coming on behind, closer and closer. "This is a poor ship the Prince gave us," said Gub-Gub, the pig "the slowest he could find, I should think. Might as well try to win a race in a soup-tureen as hope to get away from them in this old barge. Look how near they are now!
We'll have pork-chops and roast duck for supper to-night. And before I let you go home, you must make your friends send me a trunk-full of gold." Poor Gub-Gub began to weep; and Dab-Dab made ready to fly to save her life. But the owl, Too-Too, whispered to the Doctor, "Keep him talking, Doctor. Be pleasant to him.
Then the crocodile and the monkey and the parrot were very glad and began to sing, because they were going back to Africa, their real home. And the Doctor said, "I shall only be able to take you three with Jip the dog, Dab-Dab the duck, Gub-Gub the pig and the owl, Too-Too.
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too. His sister used to grumble about all these animals and said they made the house untidy.
It was a long, long way; and they often got very tired especially Gub-Gub. But when he cried they gave him milk out of the cocoanuts which he was very fond of. They always had plenty to eat and drink; because Chee-Chee and Polynesia knew all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables that grow in the jungle, and where to find them like dates and figs and ground-nuts and ginger and yams.
And when she came up she said they had struck a rock; there was a big hole in the bottom of the ship; the water was coming in; and they were sinking fast. "We must have run into Africa," said the Doctor. "Dear me, dear me! Well we must all swim to land." But Chee-Chee and Gub-Gub did not know how to swim. "Get the rope!" said Polynesia. "I told you it would come in handy. Where's that duck?
And she tried to kiss Jip too; but he ran away and hid inside the ship. "It's a silly business, this kissing," he said. "I don't hold by it. Let her go and kiss Gub-Gub if she MUST kiss something." The fisherman and his sister didn't want the Doctor to go away again in a hurry. They begged him to spend a few days with them.
"So am I," said Gub-Gub. UP they got, early next morning, out of the silken beds; and they saw that the sun was shining brightly and that the wind was blowing from the South. Jip smelt the South wind for half an hour. Then he came to the Doctor, shaking his head. "I smell no snuff as yet," he said. "We must wait till the wind changes to the East."
"Now listen," said Polynesia, "to-night, as soon as it gets dark, I am going to creep through the bars of that window and fly over to the palace. And then you'll see I'll soon find a way to make the King let us all out of prison." "Oh, what can YOU do?" said Gub-Gub, turning up his nose and beginning to cry again. "You're only a bird!" "Quite true," said the parrot.
They wanted to carry his bag and his trunk and everything he had and one of the bigger ones even carried Gub-Gub who had got tired again. Then two of them rushed on in front to tell the sick monkeys that the great doctor had come at last.
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