myself. But the wife is anxious. If you are around that way this evening, you might take a look at him, will you?”
Then the Doctor was very happy; for all the lions and the leopards and the antelopes and the giraffes and the zebras—all the animals of the forests and the mountains and the plains—came to help him in his work. There were so many of them that he had to send some away, and only kept the cleverest.
And now very soon the monkeys began to get better. At the end of a week the big house full of beds were half empty. And at the end of the second week the last monkey had got well.
Then the Doctor’s work was done; and he was so tired he went to bed and slept for three days without even turning over.