The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE THIRD CHAPTER MORE MONEY TROUBLES ND soon now the Doctor began to make money again; and his sister, Sarah, bought a new dress and was happy. Some of the animals who came to see him were so sick that they had to stay at the Doctor's house for a week. And "They used to sit in chairs on the lawn" when they were getting better they used to sit in chairs on the lawn. And often even after they got well, they did not want to go away?they liked the Doctorand his house so much. And he never had the heart to refuse them when they asked if they could stay with him. So in this way he went on getting more and more pets. Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ- grinder came round with a monkey on a string. The Doctor saw at once that the monkey's collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy. So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go. The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. But the Doctor told him that if he didn't go away he would punch him on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, though he wasn't very tall. So the Italian went away saying rude things and the monkey stayed with Doctor Do- little and had a good home. The other animals in the house called him "Chee-Chee"? which is a common word in monkey-language, meaning "ginger." And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doc- tor's garden. The Doctor talked to him in crocodile-language and took him into the house and made his tooth better. But when the crocodile saw what a nice house it was?with all the different places for the different kinds of animals?he too wanted to live with t...

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