Doctor Dolittle's Puddleby Adventures Crested Screamers" and "The Lost Boy" are to be placed in that order within Part One, Chapter 12 of "Doctor Dolittle's Caravan". "The Story of the Maggot" is given a greatly reduced summary at the conclusion to early printings of Part Two, Chapter 4 of "Doctor Dolittle's Garden". 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
John Marsh (pioneer) who bore him a son named Charles. Territorial Governor Lewis Cass appointed Marsh to the position of Justice of the Peace in Crawford County (which included what is now southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and portions of Iowa and Minnesota), whereupon he became known as "Judge Marsh." Marsh resumed his study of medicine, with a Dr. Purcell, post doctor for Fort Snelling, but never received a certificate because his mentor died before Marsh finished his studies. He lived in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he got involved in the Black Hawk War between the Sioux and their rivals, the Fox and