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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
he giggled and blushed like a school-girl. And she tried to kiss Jip too; but he ran away and hid inside the ship.
"It's a silly business, this kissing," he said. "I don't hold by it. Let her go and kiss Gub-Gub—if she must kiss something."
"And she kissed the Doctor many times"
The fisherman and his sister didn't want the Doctor to go away again in a hurry. They begged him to spend a few days with them. So John Dolittle and his animals had to stay at their house a whole Saturday and Sunday and half of Monday.
And all the little boys of the fishing-village went down to the beach and pointed at the great
