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Title: The story of Doctor Dolittle, being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947
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Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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to beat BenAli, the Barbary Dragon. I want that duckyouve got—and the pig too. Well have pork-chops and roast duck for supper to-night. Andbefore I let you go home, you must make yourfriends send me a trunk-full of gold. Poor Gub-Gub began to weep; and Dab-Dabmade ready to fly to save her life. But the owl,Too-Too, whispered to the Doctor, Keep him talking, Doctor. Be pleasant tohim. Our old ship is bound to sink soon—therats said it would be at the bottom of the sea be-fore to-morrow-night—and the rats are neverwrong. Be pleasant, till the ship sinks underhim. Keep him talking. What, until to-morrow night! said the Doc-tor. Well, Ill do my best. . . . Let me see—What shall I talk about? Oh, let them come on, said Jip. We canfight the dirty rascals. There are only six ofthem. Let them come on. Id love to tell thatcollie next door, when we get home, that I had The Barbary Dragon 127 bitten a real pirate. Let em come. We canfight them. But they have pistols and swords, said the
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II I Look here, Ben All— Doctor. No, that would never do. I musttalk to him. . . . Look here, Ben Ali— But before the Doctor could say any more,the pirates began to sail the ship nearer, laugh-ing with glee, and saying one to another, Whoshall be the first to catch the pig? 128 The Story of Doctor Dolittle Poor Gub-Gub was dreadfully frightened;and the pushmi-pullyu began to sharpen hishorns for a fight by rubbing them on the mastof the ship; while Jip kept springing into theair and barking and calling Ben Ali bad namesin dog-language. But presently something seemed to go wrongwith the pirates; they stopped laughing andcracking jokes; they looked puzzled; somethingwas making them uneasy. Then Ben Ali, staring down at his feet, sud-denly bellowed out, Thunder and Lightning!—Men, the boatsleaking! And then the other pirates peered over theside and they saw that the boat was indeed get-ting lower and lower in the water. And oneof them said to Ben Ali, But surely if this old boat we

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