{"product_id":"2940013477032","title":"THE Story of DOCTOR DOLITTLE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I  PUDDLEBY\u003cbr\u003e    II  ANIMAL LANGUAGE\u003cbr\u003e   III  MORE MONEY TROUBLES\u003cbr\u003e    IV  A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA\u003cbr\u003e     V  THE GREAT JOURNEY\u003cbr\u003e    VI  POLYNESIA AND THE KING\u003cbr\u003e   VII  THE BRIDGE OF APES\u003cbr\u003e  VIII  THE LEADER OF THE LIONS\u003cbr\u003e    IX  THE MONKEYS COUNCIL\u003cbr\u003e     X  THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL\u003cbr\u003e    XI  THE BLACK PRINCE\u003cbr\u003e   XII  MEDICINE AND MAGIC\u003cbr\u003e  XIII  RED SAILS AND BLUE WINGS\u003cbr\u003e   XIV  THE RATS WARNING\u003cbr\u003e    XV  THE BARBARY DRAGON\u003cbr\u003e   XVI  TOO-TOO, THE LISTENER\u003cbr\u003e  XVII  THE OCEAN GOSSIPS\u003cbr\u003e XVIII  SMELLS\u003cbr\u003e   XIX  THE ROCK\u003cbr\u003e    XX  THE FISHERMAN'S TOWN\u003cbr\u003e   XXI  HOME AGAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePUDDLEBY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONCE upon a time, many years ago when our grandfathers were little\u003cbr\u003echildren--there was a doctor; and his name was Dolittle--John Dolittle,\u003cbr\u003eM.D.  \"M.D.\" means that he was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe lived in a little town called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. All the folks,\u003cbr\u003eyoung and old, knew him well by sight.  And whenever he walked down the\u003cbr\u003estreet in his high hat everyone would say, \"There goes the\u003cbr\u003eDoctor!--He's a clever man.\"   And the dogs and the children would all\u003cbr\u003erun up and follow behind him; and even the crows that lived in the\u003cbr\u003echurch-tower would caw and nod their heads.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe house he lived in, on the edge of the town, was quite small; but\u003cbr\u003ehis garden was very large and had a wide lawn and stone seats and\u003cbr\u003eweeping-willows hanging over.  His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was\u003cbr\u003ehousekeeper for him; but the Doctor looked after the garden himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was very fond of animals and kept many kinds of pets.  Besides the\u003cbr\u003egold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in\u003cbr\u003ethe pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and\u003cbr\u003ea hedgehog in the cellar. He had a cow with a calf too, and an old lame\u003cbr\u003ehorse-twenty-five years of age--and chickens, and pigeons, and two\u003cbr\u003elambs, and many other animals.  But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the\u003cbr\u003educk, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the\u003cbr\u003eowl Too-Too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis sister used to grumble about all these animals and said they made\u003cbr\u003ethe house untidy. And one day when an old lady with rheumatism came to\u003cbr\u003esee the Doctor, she sat on the hedgehog who was sleeping on the sofa\u003cbr\u003eand never came to see him any more, but drove every Saturday all the\u003cbr\u003eway to Oxenthorpe, another town ten miles off, to see a different\u003cbr\u003edoctor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen his sister, Sarah Dolittle, came to him and said,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"John, how can you expect sick people to come and see you when you keep\u003cbr\u003eall these animals in the house?  It's a fine doctor would have his\u003cbr\u003eparlor full of hedgehogs and mice!  That's the fourth personage these\u003cbr\u003eanimals have driven away.  Squire Jenkins and the Parson say they\u003cbr\u003ewouldn't come near your house again--no matter how sick they are.  We\u003cbr\u003eare getting poorer every day.  If you go on like this, none of the best\u003cbr\u003epeople will have you for a doctor.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121066655984,"sku":"2940013477032","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013477032_p0.jpg?v=1763581371","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013477032","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}