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Updated: June 10, 2025
Then suddenly they all cried out in great fear, Let us get on to the ship before they eat us! Help, help! The sharks! The sharks!" And now the Doctor could see, all over the bay, the backs of big fishes swimming swiftly through the water. And one great shark came near to the ship, and poking his nose out of the water he said to the Doctor, "Are you John Dolittle, the famous animal-doctor?"
As soon as they had all found a place to sit, suddenly, there was no noise left anywhere all was quiet; all was still. And in the silent moonlight John Dolittle spoke: "I had no idea that we had been in Africa so long. It will be nearly Summer when we get home. For these are the swallows going back. Swallows, I thank you for waiting for us. It is very thoughtful of you.
For while his back was turned, the monkeys quick as a flash had made themselves into a bridge, just by holding hands and feet. And the big one shouted to the Doctor, "Walk over! Walk over all of you hurry!" Gub-Gub was a bit scared, walking on such a narrow bridge at that dizzy height above the river. But he got over all right; and so did all of them. John Dolittle was the last to cross.
At Dolittle Cottage white-faced, sad-hearted girls had crept up-stairs to bed, and some of them had slept and waked moaning, and others had lain wide-eyed and still through the long hours, thankful for the relief of tears which now and then ran down their hot cheeks and wet their pillows. But when the dawn came, nature had its way, and the last watcher fell into the heavy sleep of exhaustion.
She said that she must hurry back at once to a warmer climate; and that she would visit the Doctor in Puddleby next August as usual. "Don't forget, Miranda," said John Dolittle, "if you should hear anything of what happened to Long Arrow, to get word to me." The Bird-of-Paradise assured him she would.
But a stone, skilfully thrown, struck him at last in the centre of the forehead. And down went the second of the Three. John Dolittle, the last of the Terribles, was left fighting alone. Jip and I rushed to his side and tried to take the places of the fallen ones. But, far too light and too small, we made but a poor exchange.
Cole who had just returned from Dolittle Cottage, and was going back to spend the night, after attending to some necessary household tasks, was crying softly as she worked and talked. "Those poor children! Seems as if they couldn't take in what had happened. They're dazed like.
All the way down the Oxenthorpe Road Matthew hardly stopped talking about his great friend, Doctor John Dolittle "M. D." He talked so much that he forgot all about calling out "Meat!" until we both suddenly noticed that we had a whole procession of dogs following us patiently. "Where did the Doctor go to on this voyage?" I asked as Matthew handed round the meat to them.
In the main street of Gibraltar we saw three red hairs lying on a wheel-barrow before a baker's door. But they were not the hairs of a man they were the hairs out of a fur-coat. Nowhere, on land or water, could we see any sign of this boy's uncle. And if WE could not see him, then he is not to be seen.... For John Dolittle we have done our best."
It can't be helped." And he took down his hat and went out into the garden. So Sarah Dolittle packed up her things and went off; and the Doctor was left all alone with his animal family. And very soon he was poorer than he had ever been before.
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