We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll be reading the third part to "Doctor Dolittle", written in 1920 by British author Hugh Lofting. The full title being, “The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts”. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus. It is the first of Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world.  Previously, the good doctor’s animal collection grows. Dr. Dolittle takes a ship to Africa to help with an epidemic, and introduces himself to the native people.  — read by 'M' —  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices