The Story of Doctor Dolittle

the same as they had done when he was rich

And the money he had saved up grew littler and littler.

the people who came to see him got less and less

none of the best people will have you for a doctor."

That's the fourth personage these animals have driven away.

It's a fine doctor would have his parlor full of hedgehogs and mice!

another town ten miles off,

who would be credible enough even were there no drawing of it

from first to last.

Dolittle seems to extend his hand from the page and grasp that of his reader