Doctor Dolittle. Use of English А2

Once upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers … little children - there was a doctor.

His name was Dolittle John Dolittle, M.D. 'M.D.’ means that he was a … doctor and knew a whole lot.

He lived in a little … called, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.

All the … , young and old, knew him well by sight.

And whenever he walked down the street in his high hat everyone would say, ‘There goes the Doctor!-He's a … man?’

And the dogs and the children would all run up and … behind him.

And even the crows that lived in the church-tower would caw and … their heads.

The house he lived in, … of the town, was quite small.

His garden was very large and had a wide … and stone seats and weeping-willows hanging over.

His sister, Sarah Dolittle, was housekeeper for him; but the Doctor … the garden himself.

He was … animals and kept many kinds of pets.

Besides the goldfish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the … , white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar.

He had a cow with a calf too, and an old lame horse-twenty-five years of age and chickens, and … , and two lambs, and many other animals.

But his favorite pets were Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Polynesia the parrot, and the … Too-Too.