Chapter 2 The only hope of our family now was, that the report of our misfortunes might be malicious or premature: but a letter from my agent in town soon came with a confirmation of every particular. The loss of fortune to myself alone would have been trifling; the only uneasiness I felt was for […]
Chapter 1 As we lived near the road, we often had the traveller or stranger visit us to taste our gooseberry vine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it. Our cousins too, even to the fortieth
Parvez and Ahmad, the two friends, were once walking through a forest, when suddenly they came face to face with a big black bear. They tried to flee but the bear chased them. Parvez managed to climb up a nearby tree, but Ahmad flung himself onto the ground and lay still pretending to be dead.
Once, Sheikhchilli’s mother was sick with fever. And she was worried about her idiot son and about putting him to some useful work. None was ready to employ him. She was making both ends meet by selling wood, cutting grass and selling it. So, she said to her son, “Sheikhchilli! I am running high fever.
The Greek legend goes that at the time of the creation of man, the Greek god Zeus, the king of the gods according to Greek mythology, wanted to give each man a gift of two bags. The one full of man’s own faults and the second full of others’ faults. But when the actual moment
Once there was a water snake who lived in a pond, which it claimed to be its own. Not far from the pond there lived another snake, a viper, who often went to drink at the pond and said the pond belonged to it only. The water snake challenged the viper and the two snakes
A lion once wandered out of the forest and saw the beautiful daughter of a farmer working in her field. It fell in love with her at the very first sight. One day, the lion approached the girl’s father and asked for her hand in marriage. The farmer was surprised to see a lion approaching
Chapter 10 March winds had come and gone; April’s showers were over; May’s buds had opened into flower; and the June sun was shining on the pleasant fields, when John Dolittle at last got back to his own country.But he did not yet go home to Puddleby. First he went traveling through the land with
Chapter 9 Gently then—very gently, the Doctor woke the man up.But just at that moment the match went out again. And the man thought it was Ben Ali coming back, and he began to punch the Doctor in the dark.But when John Dolittle told him who it was, and that he had his little nephew
Chapter 8 Up they got, early next 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.”But even when the East
Chapter 7 Right away an axe was found. And the Doctor soon chopped a hole in the door big enough to clamber through.At first he could see nothing at all, it was so dark inside. So he struck a match.The room was quite small; no window; the ceiling, low. For furniture there was only one
There was a camel who lived at the edge of an oasis. Once, when it fell ill, all its friends and relatives came to visit it.As it was a long journey in the desert, each of them halted to take rest and ate the grass that grew along the oasis.When the sick camel recovered from
Chapter 6 Everything would have gone all right if the pig had not caught a cold in his head while eating the damp sugar-cane on the island. This is what happened:After they had pulled up the anchor without a sound, and were moving the ship very, very carefully out of the bay, Gub-Gub suddenly sneezed
Chapter 5 Sailing homeward, the Doctor’s ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert. It is a wild, lonely place—all sand and stones. And it was here that the Barbary pirates lived.These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to wait for sailors to be shipwrecked
Chapter 4 Under the kind treatment and observation of John Dolittle all the sick monkeys were saved from the jaws of death. They were thankful to the doctor. John dolittle requested the monkeys to go back to their home.By the edge of the river they stopped and said farewell.This took a long time, because all