webs everywhere.

And after Jip had gone and shown his golden collar to the conceited
collie next-door, he came back and began running round the garden like
a crazy thing, looking for the bones he had buried long ago, and
chasing the rats out of the tool-shed; while Gub-Gub dug up the
horseradish which had grown three feet high in the corner by the
garden-wall.

And the Doctor went and saw the sailor who had lent him the boat, and
he bought two new ships for him and a rubber-doll for his baby; and he
paid the grocer for the food he had lent him for the journey to Africa.
And he bought another piano and put the white mice back in it--because
they said the bureau-drawer was drafty.

Even when the Doctor had filled the old money-box on the dresser-shelf,
he still had a lot of money left; and he had to get three more
money-boxes, just as big, to put the rest in.

"Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to
worry."

"Yes," said Dab-Dab, who was toasting muffins for his tea, "it is
indeed!"

And when the Winter came again, and the snow flew against the
kitchen-window, the Doctor and his animals would sit round the big,
warm fire after supper; and he would read aloud to them out of his
books.

But far away in Africa, where the monkeys chattered in the palm-trees
before they went to bed under the big yellow moon, they would say to
one another,

"I wonder what The Good Man's doing now--over there, in the Land of the
White Men! Do you think he ever will come back?"

And Polynesia would squeak out from the vines,

"I think he will--I guess he will--I hope he will!"

And then the crocodile would grunt up at them from the black mud of the
river,

"I'm SURE he will--Go to sleep!"

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