The Story of Doctor Dolittle follows John Dolittle and his misadventures with a crew of animals that he befriends. After learning he can speak to animals and he transitions from human medicine to veterinary practice, he loses most of his income and human patients.
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
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
Chapter 3 Queen Ermintrude had never in her life seen her husband so terrible as he got that night. He gnashed his teeth with rage. He called everybody a fool. He threw his tooth-brush at the palace cat. He rushed round in his night-shirt and woke up all his army and sent them into the
Chapter 2 One fine morning, Doctor Dolittle got a message from the swallow. The message stated that there was a terrible sickness among the monkeys out there. They were all catching it and are dying in hundreds. As the people out there had heard of John Dolittle, they had requested him to come over to
Chapter 1 Long, long ago, there lived a doctor whose name was John Dolittle. He was an M.D which meant that he was well versed in his profession. He had vast knowledge of his profession.He lived in a little town called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. All the folks, young and old, knew him well by sight. And whenever