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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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ould letthe children in for nothing when she wasntlooking. And menagerie-keepers and circus-men cameand asked the Doctor to sell them the strangecreature, saying they would pay a tremendouslot of money for him. But the Doctor alwaysshook his head and said, No. The pushmi-pullyu shall never be shutup in a cage. He shall be free always to comeand go, like you and me. Many curious sights and happenings they sawin this wandering life; but they all seemed quiteordinary after the great things they had seenand done in foreign lands. It was very inter-esting at first, being sort of part of a circus;but after a few weeks they all got dreadfullytired of it and the Doctor and all of them werelonging to go home. But so many people came flocking to the lit-tle wagon and paid the sixpence to go inside and */3ViiM>fiIr f? ip^r5?/ •. • \ttr=1 •
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The Doctor sat in a chair in front Home Again 177 see the pushmi-pullyu that very soon the Doctorwas able to give up being a showman. And one fine day, when the hollyhocks werein full bloom, he came back to Puddleby a richman, to live in the little house with the biggarden. And the old lame horse in the stable was gladto see him; and so were the swallows who hadalready built their nests under the eaves of hisroof and had young ones. And Dab-Dab wasglad, too, to get back to the house she knew sowell—although there was a terrible lot of dust-ing to be done, with cobwebs everywhere. And after Jip had gone and shown his goldencollar to the conceited collie next-door, he cameback and began running round the garden likea crazy thing, looking for the bones he hadburied long ago, and chasing the rats out of thetool-shed; while Gub-Gub dug up the horse-radish which had grown three feet high in thecorner by the garden-wall. And the Doctor went and saw the sailor whohad lent him the boat, and

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