And the I'm going to be. Welcome to Snuscast, the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.

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This episode is brought to you by Parrots who wish you a

good night. Tonight we'll be reading the second part to Dr. Doolittle.

Written in 1920 by British author Hugh Lofting. The full title being The Story of Dr.

Do Little, being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts.

It is the first of Lofting's Dr. Doolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals, and becomes

their champion around the world.

First adapted into the 1967 film, Dr. Doolittle.

Another version will be coming out in 2012. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your head.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Once when Dr. Doolittle was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ grinder came round with a monkey on a string.

The doctor saw at once that the monkey's collar was too tight and that he was

dirty and unhappy. So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling, and told him to go.

The organ grinder got awfully angry, and said that he wanted to keep the monkey.

But the doctor told him that if he didn't go away, he would punch him on the nose.

John Doolittle was a strong man, though he wasn't very tall.

So the Italian went away, saying rude things,

and the monkey stayed with Dr. Doolittle

and had a good home.

The other animals in the house called him Chichy, which is a common word in monkey language, meaning

ginger.

And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache, escaped at night and came into the doctor's

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