Category: The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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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 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…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 9: The Monkey’s Council
Chapter 9: The Monkey’s Council Chee-Chee stood outside the Doctor’s door, keeping everybody away till he woke up. Then John Dolittle told the monkeys that he must now go back to Puddleby. They were very surprised at this; for they had thought that he was going to stay with them forever. And that night all…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Chapter 8: The Leader of the Lions
Chapter 8: The Leader of the Lions John Dolittle now became dreadfully, awfully busy. He found hundreds and thousands of monkeys sick-gorillas, orang-outangs, chimpanzees, dog-faced baboons, marmosettes, gray monkeys, red ones-all kinds. And many had died. The first thing he did was to separate the sick ones from the well ones. Then he got Chee-Chee…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 8: The Leader of the Lions Vocabulary
Chapter 8: The Leader of the Lions Vocabulary Vaccinate: To treat with a vaccine, via a shot, to protect against catching a disease.Nursing: To provide care for the sick.Scornful: Feeling or expressing disrespect.Stalk: Pursue stealthily.Beast: An animal, especially one that is large or dangerous.
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: The Bridge of Apes Worksheet
Chapter 7: The Bridge of Apes 📘 Dr. Dolittle — The Bridge of Apes Worksheet A. Story Understanding 1. Why were the king’s men chasing Dr. Dolittle and the animals?⬜ They wanted to give them gifts⬜ The king sent them to capture Dr. Dolittle⬜ They were lost in the jungle 2. How did Dr. Dolittle…