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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
said the Doctor, "so we can go faster and get away from them. Run downstairs, Jip, and fetch me all the sails you see."
The dog hurried downstairs and dragged up every sail he could find.
"'They are surely the pirates of Barbary'"
But even when all these were put up on the masts to catch the wind, the boat did not go nearly as fast as the pirates'—which kept coming on behind, closer and closer.
"This is a poor ship the Prince gave us," said Gub-Gub, the pig—"the slowest he could find, I
