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Updated: May 9, 2025
But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the owl Too-Too. His sister used to grumble about all these animals and said they made the house untidy.
Dab-Dab opened the bookcase-door and Cheapside strutted out trying hard not to look guilty. "Cheapside," said the Doctor sternly, "what did you say to Miranda when she arrived?" "I didn't say nothing, Doc, straight I didn't. That is, nothing much.
While we were gobbling away, the door suddenly opened and in marched the duck, Dab-Dab, and the dog, Jip, dragging sheets and pillow-cases behind them over the clean tiled floor. The Doctor, seeing how surprised I was, explained: "They're just going to air the bedding for me in front of the fire. Dab-Dab is a perfect treasure of a housekeeper; she never forgets anything.
"Oh, I just said a couple of words in duck-language," the Doctor answered. "This is Dab-Dab, one of my pets." "I didn't even know that ducks had a language," said the boy. "Are all these other animals your pets, too? What is that strange-looking thing with two heads?" "Sh!" the Doctor whispered. "That is the pushmi-pullyu.
And when that didn't seem to work, I went on talking about our preparations for the voyage. "But you see, Stubbins," said he as we rose from the table and Dab-Dab and Chee-Chee began to clear away, "I don't know where to go now. I feel sort of lost since Miranda brought me this news. On this voyage I had planned going to see Long Arrow. I had been looking forward to it for a whole year.
Here we found the candles lit; for the daylight was nearly gone. Dab-Dab was standing on the floor mounting guard over one of the glass-fronted book-cases in which Cheapside had been imprisoned. The noisy little sparrow was still fluttering angrily behind the glass when we came in. In the centre of the big table, perched on the ink-stand, stood the most beautiful bird I have ever seen.
"Oh well," I said, "most likely he has just run home ahead of us. He often does that, you know. We'll find him there when we get back to the house." But the Doctor just closed his coat-collar tighter against the wind and strode on muttering, "Odd very odd!" WHEN we reached the house the first question the Doctor asked of Dab-Dab in the hall was, "Is Jip home yet?"
The wind howled; the rain came down in torrents; and the waves got so high they splashed right over the boat. Presently there was a big BANG! The ship stopped and rolled over on its side. "What's happened?" asked the Doctor, coming up from downstairs. "I'm not sure," said the parrot; "but I think we're ship-wrecked. Tell the duck to get out and see." So Dab-Dab dived right down under the waves.
"Oh, of course he will know we were just joking with him," said the parrot. "They had no business to lock us up," said Dab-Dab, waggling her tail angrily. "We never did them any harm. Serve him right, if he does turn black again! I hope it's a dark black." "But HE didn't have anything to do with it," said the Doctor.
On the top, he curled himself up, pulled the old smoking-jacket over him, and in a minute he was snoring peacefully. "Good old Chee-Chee!" whispered the Doctor. "I'm glad he's back." "Yes good old Chee-Chee!" echoed Dab-Dab and Polynesia. Then we all tip-toed out of the scullery and closed the door very gently behind us.
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