Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures is a Doctor Dolittle book written by Hugh Lofting. The book is a posthumous collection of stories that Lofting originally wrote during the 1920s for the "Herald Tribune Syndicate" but here first included in book form. The book originally contained two introductory pieces followed by eight Doctor Dolittle stories by Hugh Lofting: Those marked † are omitted in recent reprintings for no given reason. The first four stories may be read at the beginning of "Doctor Dolittle's Garden". "The Green Breasted Martins" follows Chapter XII in "The Story of Doctor Dolittle". "The
Romney Marsh centuries. The traffic was two-way, since wool was also smuggled to the Continent. The main gangs on the Marsh were the Hawkhurst Gang, the Mayfield Gang and the Aldington Gang, known also as "the Blues". Smugglers on the Marshes were known as "Owlers" - rumoured to be from the owl-like sounds they used to communicate at night. Romney Marsh has a distinguished literary history. Three authors who specifically used the marsh as settings for their works were E.F. Benson, author of the Mapp and Lucia novels; Russell Thorndike, author of the Doctor Syn novels; and the children's writer Monica Edwards,