SIDE 1

The year is 1837. We are in Puddleby-On-The-Marsh.

A fishing village in the west of England.

My name is Madeline Mugg. Maddie for short. I m Irish and I m the local Cats Meat vendor, which means I sell fish and meat scraps for all the cats in Puddleby, and that s how I got to know Doctor Dolittle.

My name is Tommy Stubbins. I m just a kid. But John Dolittle is the most amazing human being I ever met in my entire life!

Doctor Dolittle is the only man in the history of the world who ever learned how to talk to the animals!

He knows everythin there is to know about science, an the sun an the moon an the stars!

He s altogether a marvelous man  and he understands the Irish. He can blarney with the best of us.

Everyone loves Doctor Dolittle. He is far and away the most popular man in Puddleby.

He has his medical practice in a small house just outside the village.

SIDE 2

Quack, quack.

... it seems he d had a row with his wife, wasn t looking where he was going, and flew straight into the mast of some fishing boat.

You mean he told you all that?

Yes...
(administrating to DAB-DAB))
Quack, quack, quack! There we are.

Quack, quack, quack.

You ll be all right by the morning.

Quack, quack, quack.

(to DAB-DAB)
Absolutely, I ll get word to your wife.