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Updated: June 10, 2025
Now we need not be afraid that we will lose our way upon the sea.... Pull up the anchor and set the sail!" When the ship moved out upon the water, those who stayed behind, Chee-Chee, Polynesia and the crocodile, grew terribly sad. For never in their lives had they known any one they liked so well as Doctor John Dolittle of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.
The front door of the cottage was locked, and the key was hanging on a nail in full view, a custom of the trusting community which had gradually come into favor at Dolittle Cottage. The girls trooped indoors, and preparations for dinner began forthwith, even Dorothy lending her aid.
The Clerk, a benignant-looking old man with a red face and a white beard, took up his book and adjusted his glasses to call the pending docket: the case of "Dolittle vs. Dolittle's Ex'ex.," and the array of counsel drew their chairs up to the bar and prepared for the work of the day, when the Judge, taking off his spectacles, turned to the Sheriff's desk. "Mr.
"You've been saying that for a week," Priscilla commented tartly. The two girls had the porch to themselves, Priscilla stretched her lazy length in the hammock, while Peggy had curled herself into the biggest chair in a position which only a kitten or a school girl could by any possibility consider comfortable. Life at Dolittle Cottage was not favorable to tête-
MARCH winds had come and gone; April's showers were over; May's buds had opened into flower; and the June sun was shining on the pleasant fields, when John Dolittle at last got back to his own country. But he did not yet go home to Puddleby. First he went traveling through the land with the pushmi-pullyu in a gipsy-wagon, stopping at all the country-fairs.
Peggy suspected that down in his heart Jerry believed that curtain to be the most important and appealing feature of the prospective entertainment. While the girls labored at the schoolhouse, Elaine sat on the porch of Dolittle Cottage, and studied her part with such fixed attention as to be completely oblivious to the charm of her surroundings.
Only the old Judge moved among the throng of tittering laymen calm, dignified, and unsuspecting. "If ever he gets hold of you, Aleck," said one of that worthy's worshippers, "there 's likely to be a vacancy in the office of sheriff." "He 'll put me in jail," laughed Aleck. "Dick Creel says he 's kind o' doty." The Court was nearing the end of the term, Dolittle et al. vs.
If not pleased at meeting Jerry, it was evident that she was surprised to find him in Dolittle Cottage, and apparently quite at home. The music ceased temporarily and conversation took its place. Rosetta Muriel, invited to lay aside her hat, declined with dignity and commented on the weather. After full justice had been done to that serviceable theme, Peggy introduced another.
Farmer Cole had agreed to lend Joe for the important day, and it looked as if the hired man would not find his post a sinecure. "If ever a place was misnamed," Aunt Abigail remarked one day, "this is the spot. Dolittle Cottage. Do-little Cottage," she repeated, with an emphasis calculated to make her meaning apparent to the most obtuse.
"Well, Luke," said the Doctor in a kindly voice, "they don't give you much light in here, do they?" Very slowly the Hermit looked up from the floor. "Hulloa, John Dolittle. What brings you here?" "I've come to see you. I would have been here sooner, only I didn't hear about all this till a few minutes ago.
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