"These Men are like thoughtless young ones-stupid and easily amused. And the monkeys were very shocked and said to one another, Then Chee-Chee explained to them that menageries were places in the Land of the White Men, where animals were put in cages for people to come and look at. Give him some rare animal they have not got in the menageries."Īnd the monkeys asked him, "What are MENAGERIES?" But that all changes when an crocodile moves in and his parrot, Polynesia, takes it upon herself to teach the Good Doctor how to speak to animals. He lives a boring life in the sleepy little town, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. "If you want to please him," he said, "give him an animal. Here is the first adventure of everyone’s favorite doctor, Doctor Doolittle. And one said, "Fifty bags of cocoanuts!" And another-"A hundred bunches of bananas!- At least he shall not have to buy his fruit in the Land Where You Pay to Eat!"īut Chee-Chee told them that all these things would be too heavy to carry so far and would go bad before half was eaten. Now they began to wonder and ask one another what would be the best thing to give him. Let us give him the finest present a White Man ever had!" And then they all cried out, making a great noise, "Yes, yes.
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