The Story of Doctor Dolittle

comes in handy on voyages

always comes in handy on voyages."

it always comes in handy

And then when you read a little further you will discover that the Doctor is not merely a peg on whom to hang exciting and various adventures but that he is himself a man of original and lively character

What child-inquiring mind could resist this intriguing sentence to be found on the second page of the book

if one of them happens to have

mature grown insight

The Story of a Short Life

A Flatiron for a Farthing

"The Dove in the Eagle's Nest,"