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Updated: May 25, 2025
And after they had gone a good many miles, one of them found peculiar footprints near the edge of a river; and they knew that a pushmi-pullyu must be very near that spot. Then they went along the bank of the river a little way and they saw a place where the grass was high and thick; and they guessed that he was in there. So they all joined hands and made a great circle round the high grass.
And the pushmi-pullyu was glad they had come; because he liked the green grass so much better than the dried apples he had been eating on the ship. And Gub-Gub squeaked for joy when he found a whole valley full of wild sugarcane.
And the pushmi-pullyu took the little boy on his back and gave him a ride round the dining-room table; while all the other animals followed behind, beating the dish-covers with spoons, pretending it was a parade. "YOUR uncle must now be FOUND," said the Doctor "that is the next thing now that we know he wasn't thrown into the sea." Then Dab-Dab came up to him again and whispered,
Can't blame her for getting scared! I wonder who he'll go and kiss this time. Silly business!" Then the pushmi-pullyu, the white mouse, Gub-Gub, Dab-Dab, Jip and the owl, Too-Too, went on to the ship with the Doctor. But Chee-Chee, Polynesia and the crocodile stayed behind, because Africa was their proper home, the land where they were born.
And the pushmi-pullyu would stay inside the wagon, while the other animals would lie about underneath. The Doctor sat in a chair in front taking the sixpences and smiling on the people as they went in; and Dab-Dab was kept busy all the time scolding him because he would let the children in for nothing when she wasn't looking.
And he almost began to cry. Then for three days they tried to persuade him. And at the end of the third day he said he would come with them and see what kind of a man the Doctor was, first. So the monkeys traveled back with the pushmi-pullyu. And when they came to where the Doctor's little house of grass was, they knocked on the door. The duck, who was packing the trunk, said, "Come in!"
"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.
The black men get most of their animals by sneaking up behind them while they are not looking. But you could not do this with the pushmi-pullyu because, no matter which way you came towards him, he was always facing you. And besides, only one half of him slept at a time. The other head was always awake and watching. This was why they were never caught and never seen in Zoos.
"I notice," said the duck, "that you only talk with one of your mouths. Can't the other head talk as well?" "Oh, yes," said the pushmi-pullyu. "But I keep the other mouth for eating mostly. In that way I can talk while I am eating without being rude. Our people have always been very polite."
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