By Hugh Lofting
Foreword by way of Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack. Afterword through Peter Glassman.When a swallow arrives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with the inside track that the monkeys of Africa are unwell and simply the health practitioner who talks with animals can shop them, health professional Dolittle and such stable buddies as Jip, his dependable puppy, and Dab-Dab, his housekeeper duck, face their maximum problem. jointly they need to sail to Africa, conflict a band of cutthroat pirates, flee throughout a gorge on a bridge made up of acrobatic apes, and persuade the king of the beasts that even he needs to aid an animal in want. With approximately fifty full-page photographs from Michael Hague and the McKissacks crafty remodeling of the challenge confronted by way of Prince Bumpo, this precious tale is now on hand in a deluxe variation that each one households may want to discover many times.
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All right," said the Doctor, taking a second piece of bread-and-jam. " asked the boy. "Oh, I just said a couple of words in duck- language," the Doctor answered. " "I didn't even know that ducks had a language," said the boy. "Are all these other animals your pets, too? " the Doctor whispered. "That is the pushmi-pullyu. Don't let him see we're talking about him--he gets so dreadfully embarrassed.... " "The pirates shut me in there when they were going off to steal things from another ship. When I heard some one chopping on the door, I didn't know who it could be.
Well," said the shark, "we know these pirates to be a bad lot-especially Ben Ali. " "Thank you," said the Doctor. "This is really most attentive. But I don't think it will be necessary to eat them. Don't let any of them reach the shore until I tell you--just keep them swimming about, will you? " So the shark went off and chased Ben Ali over to the Doctor. "Listen, Ben Ali," said John Dolittle, leaning over the side. "You have been a very bad man; and I understand that you have killed many people.
They were very surprised at this; for they had thought that he was going to stay with them forever. And that night all the monkeys got together in the jungle to talk it over. And the Chief Chimpanzee rose up and said, "Why is it the good man is going away? " But none of them could answer him. Then the Grand Gorilla got up and said, "I think we all should go to him and ask him to stay. " Then Chee-Chee got up; and all the others whispered, "Sh! Look! " And Chee-Chee said to the other monkeys, "My friends, I am afraid it is useless to ask the Doctor to stay.