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Updated: May 25, 2025
The Doctor and all his animals were gone. QUEEN ERMINTRUDE had never in her life seen her husband so terrible as he got that night. He gnashed his teeth with rage. He called everybody a fool. He threw his tooth-brush at the palace cat. He rushed round in his night-shirt and woke up all his army and sent them into the jungle to catch the Doctor.
This was where the King lived with his Queen, Ermintrude, and their son, Prince Bumpo. The Prince was away fishing for salmon in the river. But the King and Queen were sitting under an umbrella before the palace door. And Queen Ermintrude was asleep. When the Doctor had come up to the palace the King asked him his business; and the Doctor told him why he had come to Africa.
The Queen was away at a dance that night at her cousin's; but the King was in bed fast asleep. Polynesia crept in, very softly, and got under the bed. Then she coughed just the way Doctor Dolittle used to cough. Polynesia could mimic any one. The King opened his eyes and said sleepily: "Is that you, Ermintrude?" Then the parrot coughed again loud, like a man.
At last, when daylight began to come through the thick leaves overhead, they heard Queen Ermintrude saying in a very tired voice that it was no use looking any more that they might as well go back and get some sleep. As soon as the soldiers had all gone home, Chee-Chee brought the Doctor and his animals out of the hiding-place and they set off for the Land of the Monkeys.
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