Category: Children’s Literature
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 17: The Ocean Gossips
Dr. Dolittle chops a hole in the locked door with an axe and finds a small boy inside. The boy explains that pirates threw his uncle into the sea for refusing to join them, and he fears his uncle has drowned. Dr. Dolittle speaks with the porpoises and discovers the uncle is safe. Overjoyed, the…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 16: Too-Too, the Listener
Dr. Dolittle and the animals set sail on a pirate ship, eagerly exploring its many wonders. They discover the ship is filled with fancy treasures, but their curiosity leads them to a locked room they can’t open. From behind the door, Too-too the owl hears someone crying, prompting Dr. Dolittle to grab an axe and…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Chapter 15: The Barbary Dragon
When Gub-Gub sneezes, the pirates hear it and rush upstairs to check things out. Ben Ali, the Barbary Dragon and leader of the crew, threatens to turn Dab-Dab the duck and Gub-Gub the pig into roast duck and pork chops. Dr. Dolittle keeps the pirates talking, stalling for time in hopes the old ship they’re…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 14: The Rats’ Warning
Chapter 14: The Rats’ Warning Dragging a ship through the sea is hard work. And after two or three hours the swallows began to get tired in the wings and short of breath. Then they sent a message down to the Doctor to say that they would have to take a rest soon; and that…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings
Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings 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. But it was here that the Barbary pirates lived. These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to…
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The Story of the Three Little Pigs
THE STORYOF THETHREE LITTLE PIGS With drawings by L. Leslie Brooke Frederick Warne & Co. Once upon a time there was an old Sow with three little Pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune. The first that went off met a Man with a bundle…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings
Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings 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. But it was here that the Barbary pirates lived. These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 12: Medicine and Magic
Chapter 12: Medicine and Magic Note to Parents: Chapter modernized by Under the Home. Very, very quietly, making sure that no one should see her, Polynesia then slipped out at the back of the tree and flew across to the prison. She found Gub-Gub poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 11: The Black Prince
Chapter 11: The Black Prince Note to Parents: Chapter modernized by Under the Home. By the edge of the river they stopped and said farewell. This took a long time, because all those thousands of monkeys wanted to shake John Dolittle by the hand. Afterwards, when the Doctor and his pets were going on alone,…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 10: The Rarest Animal of All
Chapter 10: The Rarest Animal of All Pushmi-Pullyus are now extinct. That means, there aren’t any more. But long ago, when Doctor Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each…