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Updated: June 28, 2025
And if they didn't get sick fast enough, I could put something in the meat I sell 'em to make 'em sick, see?" "Oh, no," said the Doctor quickly. "You mustn't do that. That wouldn't be right." "Oh, I didn't mean real sick," answered the Cat's-meat-Man. "Just a little something to make them droopy-like was what I had reference to. But as you say, maybe it ain't quite fair on the animals.
"No, thank you, Joe," said Doctor Dolittle. "I don't want any seamen. I couldn't afford to hire them. And then they hamper me so, seamen do, when I'm at sea. They're always wanting to do things the proper way; and I like to do them my way Now let me see: who could we take with us?" "There's Matthew Mugg, the cat's-meat-man," I said. "No, he wouldn't do.
The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself. She stopped singing and started to listen. "You see, Doctor," the Cat's-meat-Man went on, "you know all about animals much more than what these here vets do. That book you wrote about cats, why, it's wonderful! I can't read or write myself or maybe I'D write some books.
Till at last he had no one left except the Cat's-meat-Man, who didn't mind any kind of animals. But the Cat's-meat Man wasn't very rich and he only got sick once a year at Christmas-time, when he used to give the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine.
"How did he get to know so much about animals?" I asked. The cat's-meat-man stopped and leant down to whisper in my ear. "HE TALKS THEIR LANGUAGE," he said in a hoarse, mysterious voice. "The animals' language?" I cried. "Why certainly," said Matthew. "All animals have some kind of a language. Some sorts talk more than others; some only speak in sign-language, like deaf-and-dumb.
Yet this was the only store they had; for no baker, no butcher, no milkman, grocer, or poulterer, ever stopped at the area gate of Miss Rebecca Spong; no purveyor of higher grade than a cat's-meat-man was ever seen to hand provisions into the depths of Number Nineteen's darkness.
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