Dr. Dolittle

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Tonight I will be reading you an adaptation of Dr Doolittle. This is a very long story, so I will only be reading Part one. You can find the continuation of this story in a separate bonus episode on my Patreon page. So snuggle up in your blankets and have sweet dreams.  

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Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a doctor and his name was John Dolittle. He lived in a little town called Puddleby on the Marsh. All the folks young and old, knew him well, and whenever he walked down the street in his high hat, the dogs and the Children would all run up and follow Behind. House he lived in on the edge of the town was quite small, but his garden was very large. He was very fond of animals and kept many kinds of pets besides the gold fish in the pond. At the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in his pantry, white mice and his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar. He had a cow with a calf to in an old horse, and chickens and pigeons in two lambs and many other animals. But his favorite pets were dabbed out the duck gypped the dog. God got the baby pig Polynesia, the parrot and the owl to two. As time went on, the doctor got more and more animals, and the people who came to see him got less and less and he kept on getting still more pets. And of course, it costs a lot to feed them. And the money he had saved up a little and little. And now, when he walked down the streets in this high hat, people would say to one another, There goes John Dolittle. There was a time when he was the best known doctor in the West country. Look at him now. He hasn't any money, and his stockings are full of holes. But the dogs and the cats and the Children still ran up and followed him through the town, the same as they had done when he was rich. It happened one day that the doctor is sitting in his kitchen talking with the cat's meat man who had come to see him with a stomach ache. Why don't you give up being a people's doctor and be an animal? Doctor? Asked the cat's meat man. Parrot Polynesia was sitting in the window, looking out at the rain and singing a sailor song to herself. She stopped singing and started to listen. You see Dr Katz, meat man, you know, all about animals much more than what these here vets do. That book you wrote about cats, Why, it's wonderful. And look, all the farmers roundabout when lame horses and weak lands they come. Be an animal doctor. When the cat's meat man had gone herr, it flew off the window onto the doctor's table. That man's got sense. That's what you want to do. Give the silly people up if they haven't brains enough to see you. The best doctor in the world take care of animals instead. Oh, there are plenty of animal doctors, said John Dolittle. Yes, there are plenty, said Polynesia, but none of them are any good at all. Now listen, doctor, and I'll tell you something. Did you know that animals can talk? I knew that parents can talk, said the Doctor Way. Parrots can talk in two languages. People's language and bird language, said Polynesia proudly. Tell me more So the doctor all excited. This is interesting, very interesting, something quite new. So that was the way the doctor came to know that animals had a language of their own, and they talk to one another after a while with parents help the doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them himself and understand everything they said. As soon as everyone knew John Dolittle was going to become an animal doctor, old ladies began to bring them their pet pugs and poodles would eat too much cake. And farmers came many miles to show him sick cows and sheep. And whenever any creatures got sick, not only horses and cows and dogs, but all the little things of fields like harvest mice, badgers, bats that came up once to his house on the edge of town so that his big garden was nearly always crowded with animals trying to get in to see him. And so, in a few years time, every living thing for miles and miles got to know about John Dolittle and the birds who flew the other countries in the winter of the animals and foreign lands of the wonderful Doctor that'll be on the marsh. We could understand their talk and help them in their troubles in this way, he became famous among the animals once when he was sitting on his garden wall smoking a pipe in the evening and 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 you took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the mayor showing and told him to go. The organ grinder got awfully ingredients that you want to keep monkey with. Doctor told him that if he didn't go away, he would punch on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, so he wasn't very tall. So the Italian went away sin, rude things, and the monkeys stayed with Dr Doolittle and had a good home. The other animals in the house called him Tucci, which is a common word in monkey language, meaning ginger. And another time when the circus came to puddle be. Crocodile, who had a bad toothache, escaped at night and came into the doctor's garden. The doctor talked to him in crocodile language and took him into the house and made his tooth better. But when the crocodile saw what a nice house, it waas with all the different places for the different kinds of animals, he, too, wanted to live with the doctor, he asked, Couldn't he sleep in the fish pond at the bottom of the garden if he promised not to use the fish? When the circus men came to take him back, he got so wild and savage that you've frightened them away. But everyone in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten. But now the old lady's grew afraid to send their lap dogs to Dr Dolittle because the crocodile and the farmers wouldn't believe that you would not eat the lambs and sick calves they brought to be cured. So the doctor went to the crocodile and told him he must go back to the circus. But he wept such big tears and begged so hard to be allowed to stay that the doctor had the heart to turn him out. And very soon he was poor than he had ever been before. With all these mouths to fill in the house to look after and no money coming in to pay the butcher's bill, things began to look very difficult, but the doctor didn't worry at all. The snow came earlier that year than normal, and that winter was a very cold one. and one night in December when they were all sitting around the fire in the kitchen and the doctor was reading aloud to them out of books. He had written himself Al to to suddenly said, What's that noise outside? They all listened, and presently they heard the sound of someone running. Then the door flew open in the monkey. Cici ruined badly out of breath, Doctor, he cried. I've just had a message from a cousin of mine in Africa. There is a terrible sickness among the monkeys out there. They're all catching it and they're dying in hundreds. They have heard of you and beg you to come to Africa to stop the sickness. Who brought the message as the doctor taking off his spectacles and laying down his books? A swallow said she she was outside in the rain. Bring her in by the fire, said the doctor. She must be perished with. Swallows flew south six weeks ago, so the swallow was brought in, all huddled and shivering, and although she was a little afraid at first, she soon got warmed up and sat on the edge of the mantle. Piece began to talk, and she finished, the doctor said I would gladly go to Africa, especially in this bitter weather, but I'm afraid we haven't money enough to buy the tickets. Perhaps if I go down to the seaside, I shall be able to borrow a boat that will take us to a new a sailor once who brought his baby to meet with measles? Maybe Linda's has spoken. Baby got well so early. The next morning, the doctor went down to the seashore, and when he came back, he told the animals it was all right. Sailor was going to run them both. Then the crocodile, monkey and parent very glad and began to sing because they were going back to Africa. They're really home, and the doctor says I shall only be able to take you three with Tripp. Dog dabbed out of our two. Then the animals packed up. They carried all their luggage down to the seashore and got onto the boat. Swallow said she had been to that country many times, and we show them how to get there. So the doctor told Cici to pull up the anchor, and the voyage began. Now, for six whole weeks they went sailing on and off over the Rolling Sea, following the swallow who flew before the ship to show the way At night, she carried a tiny land so they would not miss from the dog and the people on the other ships. That pie said that the light must be a shooting star as they sailed further and further into the south. Got one warmer Polynesia shoot you in. The crocodile enjoyed the hot sun. They ran about laughing and looking over their ship to see if they could see when they got near to the equator. These awesome flying fish is coming towards, and the fish is. Ask the parents if this was doctor did it when she told them it was. They said they were glad because the monkeys in Africa we're getting word that he would never come. Polynesia asked them how many miles that had yet to go, and the flying fishes said it was only 55 miles down to the coast of Africa. The next evening, as the sun was going down, the doctor said, Get me the telescope, Chuchi. Our journey is nearly ended. Very soon we should be able to see the shores of Africa. And about half a hour later, sure enough, they thought they could see something in front that might be land. But it began to get darker and darker and they couldn't be sure. Then a great storm came up with thunder and lightning. Wind howled. The rain came down in torrents and the waves got so high they splashed right over the boat. Presently there was a big Bang ship stopped and rolled over on its side. What's happened as the doctor coming up from downstairs? I'm not sure, said the parent, but I think we're shipwrecked. Tell the duck to get out and see. So dab dab dived right down under the ways. And when she came up, she said, they had struck a rock. There was a big hole in the bottom of the ship. Water was coming in and they were sinking fast. We must have run into Africa, said the doctor. Dear me. Dear me. Well, we must all swim to land. But Cici and dug up did not know how to swim. Get the ropes of Polynesia. I told you I would come in handy. Where's that duck? Come here. Dab dab take this end of the road, fly to the shore and tie it onto a palm tree, and we'll hold the other end on the ship here. Then those that can't swim must climb along the rope. They reach the land. So they all got safely to the shore, some swimming, some flying, and those that climbed along the rope brought the doctor's trunk and handbag with them. Then the all took shelter in a nice dry cave they found high up in the cliffs till the storm was over. When the sun came out next morning, they went down to the sandy beach to drive themselves. Then the monkey Chuchi suddenly said, I hear footsteps in the jungle. They all stop talking and listened, and soon an African man came down off the woods and asked them what they were doing there. My name is John Dolittle Andy, said the doctor. I have been asked to come to Africa to cure the monkeys who are sick. You must all come before the king said man, What king? As the doctor didn't want to waste any time, the king of Jolly Kinky man answered. All these lands belonged to him. and all strangers must be brought before you follow me. So they gathered up their baggage and went off following the man through the jungle. When they had gone a little way through the thick forest, they came to a wide, clear space and they saw the king's palace. This was where the king lived with Queen and their son. The prince was away fishing for salmon in the river, but the king and queen were sitting under an umbrella before the past store. When the doctor had come up to the palace, the king asked him his business, and the doctor told him why you may not travel through my lands many years ago for no can do shorts and I was very kind. But after he had dug holes in the ground to get the gold and killed all the elephants to get their ivory tusks, he went away secretly without so much as saying thing. Never again shall foreign man traveled through the lands of jelly. Then the king turned to some of the soldiers you're standing near said take away this medicine man with all his animals and lock them up in my strongest prison. So six of the men let the doctor and all his pets away and shut them up in a stone dungeon. His engine had only one little window high in the wall with bars and and the door was strong. Then they all grew very sad, and God got pig begin to cross our real here? Asked the doctor after he got used to the dim light. Yes, I think so, said the doc started. Where's Polynesia? As the crocodile she hasn't here. Are you sure? Said the doctor. I suppose she escaped, grumbled Crocodile. Well, that's just like her sneaked off into the jungle as soon as your friends got into trouble. I'm not that kind of birds, with parents climbing out of the pocket in the tail of the doctor's coat. You see, I'm small enough to get through the bars of that window, and I was afraid they would put me in a cage instead. So while the king was busy talking, I hit in the doctor's pocket, and here I am. That's what you call rules, she said, smoothing down her father's with her. Now listen, said Polynesia tonight, as soon as it gets dark, I'm going to creep through the bars, that window and fly over to the palace, and then you'll see I'll soon find a way to make you king. Let us all out of prison. So that night, when the moon was shining through the palm trees and all the king's men were asleep, the parents slipped out through the bars of the prison and flew across to the palace. The pantry window had been broken by a tennis ball the week before, and Polynesia popped in through the hole in the glass. She heard Prince Bombo snoring in his bedroom at the back of the palace. Then she tiptoed up stairs till she came to the king's bedroom. She opened the door gently and Pete's in. The queen was away at a dance that night, her cousins, but the king was in bed, fast asleep. Polynesia crept in very softly and hid under the bed. Then she coughed just the way Dr Doolittle used to cough Polynesia communiqu anyone. Then the parrot coughed again loud like a man, and the king sat up wide awake. And he said, Who's that? I'm Dr Doolittle, said the parrot, just the way the doctor would have said it. What are you doing in my bedroom card? The king. How dare you get off prison! Where are you? I don't see you. But the parent just left a long, deep jolly laugh. Just like the doctors. Stop laughing and come here at once so I can see you Said the king. Foolish King answered Polynesia. Have you forgotten that you are talking to John Dolittle MD The most wonderful man on earth? Of course you cannot see me. I've made myself invisible. There is nothing I cannot do Now listen, I have come here tonight to warn you. If you don't let me and my animals travel through your kingdom, I will make you and all your people sick monkeys, for I can make people well. And I can make people just by raising your little finger. Send your soldiers at once to open the dungeon door or you shall have mumps before the morning sun has risen on the hills. Then the king began to tremble and was very much afraid. Doctor, he cried. It shall be as you say. Do not raise your little finger, please. And he jumped out of bed and ran to tell the surgeries to open the prison door. As soon as he was gone, Polynesia crept downstairs and left the palace bythe window. But the queen, who was just letting herself in a back door, saw the parrot getting out through the broken glass, and when the king came back to bed, she told him what she'd seen. Then the king understood that you'd been tripped and he was dreadfully. He hurried back to the prison at once, but he was too late. The door stood open. Dungeon, the doctor and all his animals were gone. All this time, the doctors animals were running through the forest toward the land of the monkeys as fast as they could go. The king of the jelly Kinky thought it would be easy for his army to find, because the doctor was in a strange land and will not know his way. But he was wrong because the Monkey Chee Chee knew all the path through the jungle better than even the king's men did. Cici climbed up a high rock and looked out over the treetops, and when he came down, he said they were now quite close to the land of the monkeys and would soon be there. And that same evening, sure enough, they saw cheese cousin and a lot of other monkeys would not yet got sick, sitting in the trees by the edge of a swan, looking waiting for them. And when they saw the famous doctor really come, these monkeys made a tremendous noise, cheering and waving leaves and screaming out the branches to greet him. They wanted to carry his bag in his trunk and everything he had and one's a bigger ones even carried Gob, who had gotten tired against. Then two of them rushed on and fun to tell the sick monkeys. Great doctor could come at last, but the king's men, who are still following, had heard the noise of the monkeys cheering, and they at last knew where the doctor Waas and hastened on catching. One of the monkeys saw the captain of the army's sneaking through the trees, so he hurried after the doctor and told him. Then they all ran harder than they'd ever run in their lives, and the king's men, coming after them, began to run, too. But before they could get into the land of the monkeys that came to a steep cliff with a river flowing below. This'll was the end of the kingdom of jolly Kinky, and the land of the monkeys was on the other side, across the river and chipped. The dog looked down over the edge of the Stapes state cliff and said, Golly, how are we ever going to get across? Oh dear said, Go back. The king's men are quite close. Now look at them. I'm afraid we're going to be taken back to prison again. And he began to weep. But the big monkey who was carrying the big dropped him on the ground and cried out to the other monkeys boys a bridge. Quick, make a bridge. The doctor began to wonder what they were going to the bridge, and he gazed around to see if they had any boards hidden place. But when you looked back at the cliff, there you across the river is a bridge already made of living monkeys. For while his back was turned, the monkeys, quick as a flash, had made themselves into a bridge just by holding hands, and the big one shouted to the doctor, Walk over! Walk over all of you hurry. Dub Dub was a bit scared walking on such a narrow bridge. I got dizzy heights but he got over all night and so did all of them. John Dolittle was last across and justice he was getting to the other side. The king's men came rushing up to the edge of the cliff. Then they shook their fists and yelled with rage, for they saw that they were too late. Doctor and all his animals were safe in the land of the monkeys, and the bridge was pulled across to the other side. John Dolittle now became dreadfully busy. He found hundreds and thousands of monkey sick. First thing he did was to separate the sick ones from the well once. Then he got Cici and his cousin to build him a little house of grass. The next thing, he made all the monkeys who were still well come and be vaccinated. And for three days and three nights, the monkeys kept coming from the jungles and valleys in the hills to the little house of grass. With the doctor sat all day and night. Very soon, the monkeys began to get better at the end of the week, the big house full of beds were half empty, and at the end of the second week, the last monkey had gotten well. Then the doctors work was done, and he was so tired. He went to bed and slept for three days without even turning over. Cici stood outside the doctor's door, keeping everybody away till Boca, then John Dolittle two Monkeys that he must now go back to. It'll be when the packing was finished and everything was ready to start. The monkeys gave a grand party for the doctor, and all the animals of the jungle came, and they had pineapples and mangoes and honey and all sorts of good things to eat and drink. After they had all finished eating. The doctor got up and said, My friends, I'm not clever speaking long words after dinner, but I wish to tell you that I am very sad at leaving your beautiful country after I've gone. Remember never to let the fly settle on your food before you eat it. I do not sleep on the ground when the rains. I hope you all will live happily ever after. When the doctor stopped speaking and sat down. All the monkeys clapped their hands a long time and set one another. Let it be remembered always among our people, that he sat in eight with us here under the truths for surely he's the greatest of men. Then, when the party was over, the doctor and his pets started out to go back to the seashore, and all the monkeys went with him as faras the edge of the country, carrying his trunk and bags to see him off by the edge of the river. They stopped and said, Well, this took a long time because all those thousands of monkeys wanted to shake John Dolittle when they have said their goodbyes. Doctor Dolittle animals began their journey back one day while they were passing through a very thick part of forest. Cici went ahead of them to look for coconuts, and while he was away, Doctor and the rest of the animals did not know the jungle path so well got lost. They wanted a round and around cannot find their way down to the seashore. Cici, when he could not see the men there, was terribly upset. He climbed high trees and looked out from the top branches to try and see the doctors. He waved and shouted. He called all the animals by name, but it was no use. They seemed to have disappeared altogether. Indeed, they lost their way very badly. They had strayed a long way off the path, and the jungle is so thick with bushes and papers and fines that sometimes they could hardly move it all. And the doctor had to take out his pocket knife and cut his way along. They stumbled into wet, boggy places. They scratch themselves on thorns, and twice they nearly lost the medicine bag in the underbrush. There seemed no end to the troubles, and nowhere could they come upon a path at last. After blundering about like this for many days, getting closed, worn in their faces covered with mud, they walked right into the king's back garden. The king's men came running up once and caught, but Polynesia flew into a tree in the garden without anybody seeing her and it herself. The doctor and the rest were taken before Ha ha cried the king. So you are caught again. This time you shall Madison take them all back to prison and put double locks on the door. This is a great nuisance, said the doctor. I really must get back to puddle be that poor sailor will think I've stayed in their ship. If I don't get home soon, I wonder if these shoes but the door was very strong. There seemed no chance of getting out. Then gob gob. All this time, Polynesia was still sitting in the truth present. She spied Chee Chee swimming through the trees, still looking for the doctor when she saw her, who came into a tree and asked what had become of them. The doctor and all the animals have been caught by the king's men and locked up again Whisper Polynesia. We lost our way in the jungle and blundered into the palace garden by mistake. But you couldn't guide them? Asked Cici, and he began to scold the parrot for letting them get lost while he was away looking for the coconuts. It was all that stupid pigs faults of Polynesia. He would keep running off the path hunting for ginger roots, and I was kept so busy catching him and bringing him back that I turned left instead of the right where we reached the spawn. Look, there's Prince Bump Oh, coming into the garden And they're sure enough was Prince Bumbo, the king's son, opening the garden gate, He carried a book of fairy tales under his arm. He came strolling down the gravel walk, humming a sad song until he reached a stone. Seeds right under the tree with a parrot on the monkey were hiding. Then he laid down on the seat and began reading the fairy stories to himself. Cici and Polynesia watched him keeping very quiet. And still after a while, the king sunlight the book down inside a weary side. If I were only a handsome prince, the prince said with a dreamy far away look in his eyes thin. The parent, talking in a small high voice like a little girl, said aloud Bump. Oh, someone might turn me into a handsome prince per chance. The king's son started about the seat and looked all around. What is this? I hear, he cried. I thought the sweet music of a very silver voice rang from over there. Strange where the prince said Polynesia, keeping very still so Bumbo couldn't see her Thou sayest winged words of truth Forties I trips that Inca queen of the fairies would speak to me. I am hiding in a rose bud. Oh, tell me Fairy Queen cried Bump Oh, clasping his hands and joy Who is it that can turn me handsome? In my father's prisons of the parrot there lies a famous wizard, John do little by name Many things he knows of medicine and magic and mighty deeds has performed yet that kingly father leaves languishing long and lingering hours Go to him brave bumper secretly when the sun set and behold thou shalt be made that fancies ever won fair lady I have said enough. I must now go back to very list. Farewell. Farewell, Credit Prince 1000 Thanks. Good trips a tinker And he sat down on the seat again smile upon space, waiting for the sun to set very, very quietly, making sure that no one should see her Polynesia then slipped out of the back of the tree and flew across to the prison. She found gab gab, poking his nose through the bars of the window, trying to slip the cooking smells that came from the palace kitchens. She told the pig to bring the doctor to the window because she wanted to speak to him. So gob gob went and woke the doctor who was taking you. Now listen, whispered parrot when John Doolittle's disappeared. Prince bump Oh, is coming out here tonight to see you, and you've got to find some way to turn it handsome. He's sure to make him promise. You first will open the prison door and find a ship for you to cross the sea. This is all very well, said the doctor, but it isn't so easy to turn someone handsome I don't know anything about. That's a Polynesian patiently. But you must think way card. You've got plenty of things in. It is your only chance to get off creases. That night, Prince Mambo came secretly to the doctor in prison and said to him, Wizard, I am an unhappy prince. Years ago, I went in search of the sleeping beauty who I had read of in a book, and having traveled through the world many days, I at last found her and kiss the lady very gently to awaken her. As the book said. I should tis true indeed that she won't. But when she saw my face, she cried out, Oh, he's ugly and she ran away and wouldn't marry, but went to sleep again somewhere else. So I came back full of sadness to my father's. Now I hear that you are a wonderful magician and have many powerful potions. So I come to you for help if you won't turn me handsome, so I may go back to Sleeping Beauty. I will give you half my kingdom and anything besides you. Ask Prince Bump. Oh, said the doctor, looking thoughtfully at the battles in his medicine. Supposing I dyed your hair? Nice color. Would that do to make you happy? You know, it's very hard to change here. One of the hardest things a magician can do. You look very handsome with dread or longed, perhaps blue. This idea, please. And he went away to get a ship ready for Sea Shore, just as the doctor had requested when he came back and said that it is time Doctor stabbed out, too. Then he mixed a lot of medicines in the basin and told Bumper to do this, the princeling down and put his head. He held it there a long time so long that the doctor seemed to get dreadfully anxious and fidgeting, standing first on one leg and then on the other, looking at all the bottles he had used for the mixture is reading the labels on them. Again and again. A strong smell filled the prison like the smell of paper. At last, the prints lifted his head out the basin, and all the animals cried out in surprise for the princess. Hair had turned white as snow. When John Dolittle lent him a little looking glass to see himself in, he sing for joy and began dancing around the prison bump. Oh, said the doctor to the prince. Your happiness has completed this bag for the happiness within you shines from your eyes, and that has made you the most handsome prince bump. Oh, beg that he might keep looking glass, as it was the only one in the kingdom of Jolly Genki, and he wanted to look at himself all day long, but the doctor said, you need to shave with it. Then the prince, taking a bunch of copper keys from his pocket, undid the great double locks and the doctor, with all his animals, run as fast as they could down to the seashore, while Bumble leaned against the wall of the empty dungeons, smiling after them happily. When they came to the beach, they saw Polynesia and G waiting for them on the rocks. Go, go! Pig dabbed at the dog. The dog and the owl to two went on the ship with Dr but G. Polynesian. The crocodile stayed behind because Africa was a proper home, the land where they were born. And when the doctor stood upon the boat, he looked over the side across the water, and then he remembered that they had no one with them to God. Then back to battle. The wide, wide sea look terribly big, lonesome in the moonlight, and he began to wonder if they would lose their way when they passed out of sight of land. But even while he was wondering, they heard a strange whispering noise high in the air coming through the night, and the animals will stop saying to buy and listen. The noise grew louder and bigger. It seemed to becoming near to them, a sound like the autumn wind blowing through the leaves of poplar tree or a great great rain beating down upon gypped with his nose pointing his tail quite straight, said herds. Millions of them flying fast. That's it. And then they all looked up and there, straining across the face of the moon like a huge swarm of tiny ants that could see thousands and thousands of little birds. Soon the whole sky seems full of them and still more kept coming. More and more. There were so many that for a little while they covered the whole moon, so not shine and the secret dark and black. And presently all these birds came down close, skimming over the water in the land, and the night sky was left clear above, and the moon shone us before still never call nor crime were suddenly made no sound. But this great rustling of fathers, which grew greater now than when they began to settle in the sands along the ropes of the ship. Anywhere in everywhere, doctor could see that they had blue wings and white breasts very short legs. As soon as they had all found a place to sit suddenly, there was no noise always quiet still and in the silent life John Dolittle I had no idea that we have been in Africa so long. It will be nearly summer when we get home for these Are the Swallows going back swallows? I thank you for waiting for us. It is very now. We need not be afraid that we will lose our way upon the sea. Pull up the anchor and set sail when the ship moved out upon the water. Those who stayed behind Chee Chee Polynesia grew terribly sad before. Never in their lives they known anyone like So is Dr John Dolittle. It'll be on the marsh. And after they called again, they still stood there on the rocks, crying bitterly. Waiting to ship was out, huh?