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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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nod their heads. The house he lived in, on the edge of thetown, was quite small; but his garden was verylarge and had a wide lawn and stone seats andweeping-willows hanging over. His sister,Sarah Dolittle, was housekeeper for him; butthe Doctor looked after the garden himself. He was very fond of animals and kept manykinds of pets. Besides the gold-fish in the pondat the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits inthe pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrelin the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar.He had a cow with a calf too, and an old lamehorse--twenty-five years of age—and chickens,and pigeons, and two lambs, and many otheranimals. But his favorite pets were Dab-Dabthe 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 ani-.mals and said they made the house untidy.And one day when an old lady with rheumatismcame to see the Doctor, she sat on the hedge-hog who was sleeping on the sofa and never came
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o s c.6 <u(ft o I-o 4 The Story of Doctor Dolittle to see him any more, but drove every Saturdayall the way to Oxenthorpe, another town tenmiles off, to see a different doctor. Then his sister, Sarah Dolittle, came to himand said, John, how can you expect sick people tocome and see you when you keep all these ani-mals in the house? Its a fine doctor would havehis parlor full of hedgehogs and mice! Thatsthe fourth personage these animals have drivenaway. Squire Jenkins and the Parson say theywouldnt come near your house again—no mat-ter how sick they are. We are getting poorerevery day. If you go on like this, none of thebest people will have you for a doctor.* But I like the animals better than the bestpeople, said the Doctor. You are ridiculous, said his sister, andwalked out of the room. So, as time went on, the Doctor got more andmore animals; and the people who came to seehim got less and less. Till at last he had noone left—except the Cats-meat-Man, who didntmind any kind

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