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The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh LOFTING (1886 - 1947)

The Second Chapter - Animal Language

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of exciting adventures on the way. This recording is of the original edition, which is in the public domain. Later editions, which are still under copyright, changed some language and plot elements that are considered racially derogatory. (Summary adapted from wikipedia.org by Annie Coleman)

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Listen next episodes of The Story of Doctor Dolittle:
The Eighteenth Chapter - Smells , The Eighth Chapter - The Leader of the Lions , The Eleventh Chapter - The Black Prince , The Fifteenth Chapter - The Barbary Dragon , The Fifth Chapter - The Great Journey , The Fourteenth Chapter - The Rats' Warning , The Fourth Chapter - A Message From Africa , The Last Chapter - Home Again , The Nineteenth Chapter - The Rock , The Ninth Chapter - The Monkeys' Council , The Seventeenth Chapter - The Ocean Gossips , The Seventh Chapter - The Bridge of Apes , The Sixteenth Chapter - Too-Too the Listener , The Sixth Chapter - Polynesia and the King , The Tenth Chapter - The Rarest Animal of All , The Third Chapter - More Money Troubles , The Thirteenth Chapter - Red Sails and Blue Wings , The Twelfth Chapter - Medicine and Magic , The Twentieth Chapter - The Fisherman