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
Doctor Dolittle's Circus friends get paid by the Doctor to plant radishes to feed the horses with. The Doctor then gets his animal friends, including Dub-Dub, Gub-Gub, Jip, Toby and Swizzle, to perform in a play called The Puddleby Pantomime and is approved by Mr Bellamy when the performance is done. One day Blossum makes a mysterious disappearance with the money he owes everyone and when Mathew Mugg comes back, after a search for him, to say he couldn't find him, the circus people suggest the Doctor should be the manager of the circus. The Doctor reluctantly agrees and arranges everything to his