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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
to these shores; and I was very kind to him. But after he had dug holes in the ground to get the gold, and killed all the elephants to get their ivory tusks, he went away secretly in his ship—
"And Queen Ermintrude was asleep"
without so much as saying 'Thank you.' Never again shall a white man travel through the lands of Jolliginki."
Then the King turned to some of the black men who were standing near and said, "Take
