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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
"Sh! I hear footsteps in the jungle!"
They all stopped talking and listened. And soon a black man came down out of the woods and asked them what they were doing there.
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"'I got into it because I did not want to be drowned'"
"My name is John Dolittle—M.D.," said the Doctor. "I have been asked to come to Africa to cure the monkeys who are sick."