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The First Chapter. Puddleby
The Second Chapter. Animal Language
The Third Chapter. More Money Troubles
The Fourth Chapter. A Message From Africa
The Fifth Chapter. The Great Journey
The Sixth Chapter. Polynesia and The King
The Seventh Chapter. The Bridge of Apes
The Eighth Chapter. The Leader of The Lions
The Ninth Chapter. The Monkeys’ Council
The Tenth Chapter. The Rarest Animal of All
The Eleventh Chapter. The Black Prince
The Twelfth Chapter. Medicine and Magic
The Thirteenth Chapter. Red Sails and Blue Wings
The Fourteenth Chapter. The Rats’ War
The Fifteenth Chapter. The Barbary Dragon
The Sixteenth Chapter. Too-Too, The Listener
The Seventeenth Chapter. The Ocean Gossips
The Eighteenth Chapter. Smells
The Nineteenth Chapter. The Rock
The Twentieth Chapter. The Fisherman’s Town
The Last Chapter. Home Again
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Once upon a time there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle – John Dolittle, M.D. “M.D.” means that he was a good doctor and knew everything. He lived in a little town. The name of the town was Puddleby. All the people, young and old, knew him well. And when he walked down the street, everyone said, “There goes the Doctor! – He’s a clever man.” And the dogs and the children all ran up and followed behind him.
The house where he lived was quite small; but his garden was very large. His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was a housekeeper for him; but the Doctor looked after the garden himself. He loved animals and kept many kinds of pets. Besides the gold-fish in the pond, he had rabbits in the cupboard, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar. He had a cow with a calf too, and an old horse who was twenty-five years old, and chickens, and pigeons, and two lambs, and many other animals. 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.
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So all that afternoon Polynesia sat on the table and gave him bird words to put down in the book. After a while, with the parrot’s help, the Doctor learnt the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them and understand everything they said. Then old ladies began to bring him their pets; and farmers came many miles to show him sick cows and sheep. One day a farmer with a horse came to him; and the poor animal was really glad to find a man who could talk in horse-language.
“You know, Doctor,” said the horse, “that vet over the hill knows nothing at all. He thinks that I have a problem knee. But I just need GLASSES. I am going blind in one eye. Why can’t horses wear glasses? That stupid man over the hill never even looked at my eyes. He gave me big pills. I tried to tell him; but he couldn’t understand a word of horse-language. What I need is glasses.”
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