앨리스 프로젝트: 영어 따라 말하기

"Well, never mind. Perhaps if I go down to the seaside I shall be able to borrow a boat that will take us to Africa. I knew a seaman once who brought his baby to me with measles. Maybe he’ll lend us his boat—the baby got well.”

So early the next morning the Doctor went down to the sea-shore. And when he came back he told the animals it was all right—the sailor was going to lend them the boat.

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지난 줄거리: 두리틀은 2펜스가 남아 있다고 생각했지만, 그 돈마저 써 버렸다는 걸 알게 됩니다.

Well, never mind.

(됐어, 신경쓰지 마.)

Perhaps if I go down to the seaside

(아마, 바닷가에 가면)

I shall be able to borrow a boat that will take us to Africa.

(아프리카로 데려다 줄 배를 빌릴 수 있을 거야.)

✔a boat that will take us to Africa: 우리를 아프리카로 데려다 줄 배

I knew a seaman once who brought his baby to me with measles.

(예전에 홍역에 걸린 아기를 데려온 뱃사람을 알고 지냈어.)

✔a seaman who brought his baby to me: 자신의 아기를 내게 데려온 뱃사람

✔measles: 홍역

Maybe he’ll lend us his boat—the baby got well.”

(그 사람이 우리에게 그의 배를 빌려줄 거야- 그 아기가 나았거든.)

✔get well: 몸이 낫다. 또는 비교급을 써서 get better.

✔발음: 두리틀 역의 성우는 us 대신 me라고 읽습니다.

So early the next morning the Doctor went down to the sea-shore.

(그래서 다음날 아침, 두리틀은 바닷가로 갔다.)

And when he came back

(그리고 그가 돌아왔을 때)

he told the animals it was all right

(그는 동물들에게 오케이라고 말했다)

—the sailor was going to lend them the boat.

(-그 선원이 그들에게 배를 빌려줄 것이었다.)

“I felt sure there was twopence left,” said the Doctor.

“There was” said the owl. “But you spent it on a rattle for that badger’s baby when he was teething.”

“Did I?” said the Doctor—“dear me, dear me! What a nuisance money is, to be sure!

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지난 줄거리: 두리틀은 아프리카에 가려고 마음먹고 돈상자를 열어 보지만 돈이 한푼도 없습니다.

“I felt sure there was twopence left,” said the Doctor.

("2펜스가 남아 있는 줄 알았는데" 두리틀이 말했다.)

✔twopence: 100펜스가 1파운드이고, two pence는 2펜스입니다. 1971년 전까지는 two pence를 붙여서 twopence로 적었다고 합니다. 만약 1페니 동전이 2개 있으면 two pennies, 2펜스 동전이 하나 있으면 two pence입니다. 여기서는 2펜스 동전 하나를 이야기하는지, 단수 취급합니다. 참고로 2021년 6월 현재 1파운드는 한화로 약 1,570원이니, 1페니(펜스)는 15원 정도입니다. 물론 100년 전에는 2펜스의 가치가 훨씬 더 높았을 것입니다.

“There was” said the owl.

("남아 있었지." 올빼미가 말했다.)

“But you spent it on a rattle for that badger’s baby when he was teething.”

("근데 네가 저 오소리 아기가 젖니 날 때 딸랑이 사주는 데 썼잖아.")

✔rattle: 의성어에 가까운 동사로, '달그락달그락', '짤랑짤랑' 등의 소리를 표현합니다. 명사로는 아기들이 갖고 노는 '딸랑이' 장난감을 의미합니다.

✔badger: 오소리

✔teething: teethe는 아기나 동물이 처음 이빨이 나는 것을 뜻하는 동사입니다.

✔발음: teeth의 th는 윗니와 아랫니 사이에 혀끝을 물고 강하게 '쓰'라고 발음합니다. 하지만 teethe의 th는 윗니와 아랫니 사이에 혀끝을 무는 것은 동일하지만, 부드럽게 '드'라고 발음합니다.

“Did I?” said the Doctor

("내가 그랬나?" 두리틀이 말했다.)

—“dear me, dear me! What a nuisance money is, to be sure!

(-"이런, 이런! 돈이란 얼마나 골칫거리인지, 정말로!")

✔두리틀 314편에서도 Money is a nuisance(돈이란 골칫거리야)라는 표현이 있었습니다. 이번에는 감탄문으로 이야기합니다.

✔to be sure: '확실히', '정말로'의 뜻으로 말 뒤에 부가적으로 붙여 쓰는 표현입니다.

When she had finished the Doctor said,

“I would gladly go to Africa—especially in this bitter weather. But I’m afraid we haven’t money enough to buy the tickets. Get me the money-box, Chee-Chee.”

So the monkey climbed up and got it off the top shelf of the dresser.

There was nothing in it—not one single penny!

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지난 줄거리: 아프리카에서 소식을 가져온 제비가 이야기를 시작했습니다.

When she had finished the Doctor said,

(제비가 이야기를 마치자 두리틀이 말했다.)

✔finish: 문맥상 앞에 무슨 일을 한다는 말이 있었다면, 이처럼 finish를 목적어 없이 쓸 수 있습니다.

✔본문에 제비의 이야기는 나오지 않습니다.

“I would gladly go to Africa—especially in this bitter weather.

(아프리카야 얼마든지 가지- 특히 여기는 날씨가 이렇게 안 좋으니.)

✔bitter: (맛이) 쓰다. (경험이) 쓰라리다. (날씨가) 지독하게 춥다.

But I’m afraid we haven’t money enough to buy the tickets.

(그런데 우리가 티켓을 살 돈이 없는 것 같은데.)

✔I am afraid: 무언가 부정적인 이야기를 할 때 I am afraid를 앞에 붙여 완곡하게 표현할 수 있습니다. 메일을 쓸 때 자주 사용할 수 있는 표현이죠. I am afraid I am not available for this with this schedule. (저 이 스케줄로는 이거 못 할 것 같아요.)

✔we haven't money: 옛 영국식 표현이라 have에 곧바로 not을 붙였습니다. 어쨌든 비문이니, we don't have money 또는 we haven't got money로 쓰세요.

✔money enough: 옛 영어에서는 enough를 명사 뒤에 두기도 하지만, 현대 영어에서는 극히 일부 경우를 제외하고는 enough를 명사 앞에 씁니다. 그러니 이 문장은 I'm afraid we don't have enough money to buy the ticket.으로 알아두세요.

✔발음: 첫 번째 버전에서 카렌은 enough money라고 읽습니다.

Get me the money-box, Chee-Chee.”

(돈 상자 가져와 봐, 치치야.)

✔get me the money-box: get 대신 bring을 쓸 수도 있습니다. Bring me the money-box.

So the monkey climbed up and got it off the top shelf of the dresser.

(원숭이 치치는 올라가서 돈 상자를 화장대 꼭대기 선반에서 꺼내 왔다.)

✔got it off the top shelf: 선반에 올려져 있던 걸 꺼냈다. 상자가 선반에 올려져 있을 때에는 선반에 사실상 '붙어' 있었습니다. 그걸 손으로 집으면 상자가 선반에서 '떨어지게' 됩니다. 그래서 전치사 off를 씁니다.

There was nothing in it—not one single penny!

(그 안에는 아무것도 없었다. 단 1페니도!)

✔not one single penny: '십원짜리 하나도 없었다'의 의미라고 보면 됩니다.

✔발음: 2번째 버전에서 필은 not a single penny라고 읽습니다.

“Who brought the message?” asked the Doctor, taking off his spectacles and laying down his book.

“A swallow,” said Chee-Chee. “She is outside on the rain-butt.”

“Bring her in by the fire,” said the Doctor. “She must be perished with the cold. The swallows flew South six weeks ago!”

So the swallow was brought in, all huddled and shivering; and although she was a little afraid at first, she soon got warmed up and sat on the edge of the mantelpiece and began to talk.

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지난 줄거리: 원숭이 치치가 아프리카에서 두리틀이 와 주기를 바란다는 메시지를 전합니다.

“Who brought the message?”

(누가 그 메시지를 가져왔니?)

asked the Doctor, taking off his spectacles and laying down his book.

(두리틀이 물었다. 안경을 벗고 책을 내려놓으면서.)

“A swallow,” said Chee-Chee. “She is outside on the rain-butt.”

("제비요." 치치가 말했다. "제비는 밖에 빗물받이 통에 올라앉아 있어요.")

✔butt: 통. (속어로 '엉덩이'라는 뜻도 있습니다.) rain-butt는 빗물을 받아 모으는 통으로, 지금도 서양의 일부 가정에서는 빗물을 받아 세차 등의 용도로 쓴다고 합니다.

“Bring her in by the fire,” said the Doctor.

("안으로 들여보내, 불가로." 두리틀이 말했다.)

“She must be perished with the cold.

("틀림없이 추워서 죽을 지경일 거야.")

✔perish: 죽다, 죽게 하다. 여기서는 타동사 perish를 수동태 용법으로 썼습니다. 우리말의 '추워 죽겠다'처럼 비유적인 표현입니다.

The swallows flew South six weeks ago!”

(제비들은 6주 전에 남쪽으로 날아갔는데!)

✔제비들은 추워서 이미 남쪽으로 가 버렸는데, 이 제비는 다시 이곳으로 돌아왔으니 얼마나 춥겠느냐는 의미입니다.

So the swallow was brought in, all huddled and shivering;

(그래서 그 제비는 안으로 들여보내졌다. 완전히 웅크리고 덜덜 떨면서.)

✔huddle: 여럿이 함께 모이다.

✔huddle oneself: 자신의 몸을 한껏 웅크리다. (추위나 아픔 때문에) = be huddled

✔shiver: 덜덜 떨다, 오한.

and although she was a little afraid at first, she soon got warmed up

(제비는 처음에는 조금 두려웠지만, 곧 마음이 풀렸다.)

✔warm up: 따뜻하게 만들다. 분위기를 띄우다.

and sat on the edge of the mantelpiece and began to talk.

✔mantelpiece: 벽난로 선반. 그냥 mantel이라고만 써도 됩니다. mantle이라고 써도 됩니다. 하지만 '망토'라는 의미의 mantle은 mantel로 쓰면 안 됩니다. 발음은 전부 '맨틀'로 합니다.

They all listened; and presently they heard the sound of some one running. Then the door flew open and the monkey, Chee-Chee, ran in, badly out of breath.

“Doctor!” he cried, “I’ve just had a message from a cousin of mine in Africa. There is a terrible sickness among the monkeys out there. They are all catching it—and they are dying in hundreds. They have heard of you, and beg you to come to Africa to stop the sickness.”

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지난 줄거리: 저녁의 평화로운 시간에 갑자기 밖에서 무슨 소리가 들렸습니다.

They all listened;

(그들은 모두 귀를 기울였다.)

and presently they heard the sound of some one running.

(곧 그들은 누군가가 달려오는 소리를 들었다.)

✔the sound of someone: 누군가의 소리

✔the sound of someone running: 달리는 누군가의 소리

Then the door flew open and the monkey, Chee-Chee, ran in, badly out of breath.

(그리고 문이 벌컥 열리고 원숭이 치치가 심하게 숨을 헐떡이며 달려 들어왔다.)

✔fly open: 벌컥 열리다. fly-flew-flown

✔out of breath: 숨을 헐떡이며

“Doctor!” he cried,

("선생님!" 치치가 외쳤다)

“I’ve just had a message from a cousin of mine in Africa.

(아프리카의 제 사촌에게 메시지를 막 받았어요.)

✔just + [현재완료]: '방금 이런 일이 있었다'는 '뉴스 전달'을 할 때, 영국 영어에서는 just와 현재완료를 함께 쓰는 경우가 많습니다. 미국 영어에서는 이럴 때 보통 just와 과거형을 씁니다. 결국 똑같은 뜻이지만, 현재완료는 '방금 어떠한 일이 생겨서 지금 이런 결과가 나타나 있다'라는 식으로 생각하면 됩니다. (주의: 여기서 '메시지'가 뉴스라는 의미가 아니라, '메시지를 받았다'는 사실이 뉴스라는 뜻입니다.)

✔학교에서 '완료' 용법이라고 배우고 자주 예문으로 나왔던 I have just finished my homework.는 바로 이 용법입니다. '내가 숙제를 방금 다 끝냈다'는 뉴스를 전달하는(소식을 전하는) 표현입니다.

There is a terrible sickness among the monkeys out there.

(거기 원숭이들 사이에 무서운 병이 있어요.)

✔out there: 거기에. out은 '저 멀리'라는 의미를 함축하고 있습니다.

They are all catching it—and they are dying in hundreds.

(다들 그 병에 걸리고 있고- 수백 마리씩 죽어가고 있어요.)

✔catch [질병]: [질병]에 걸리다.

They have heard of you, and beg you to come to Africa to stop the sickness.”

(그들은 선생님에 대한 이야기를 들은지라, 선생님이 아프리카로 와서 병을 막아 주기를 간청해요.)

✔hear you: 너의 말을 듣다.

✔hear of you: 너에 대한 이야기를 듣다.

✔have heard of you: 현재완료형은 '이미 선생님에 관한 소문을 익히 들어 알고 있다'는 의미를 표현합니다.

✔beg [누구] to [동사원형]: 누가 ...해 주기를 간청하다.

THE FOURTH CHAPTER

A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA

THAT Winter was a very cold one. And one night in December, when they were all sitting round the warm fire in the kitchen, and the Doctor was reading aloud to them out of books he had written himself in animal-language, the owl, Too-Too, suddenly said,

“Sh! What’s that noise outside?”

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지난 줄거리: 악어가 들어온 후부터 손님이 끊겨 두리틀 식구는 점점 힘들어졌습니다.

That winter was a very cold one.

(그해 겨울은 매우 추운 겨울이었다.)

✔a very cold one: one은 앞의 winter를 가리키는 대명사입니다.

And one night in December,

(그리고 12월 어느 날 밤,)

when they were all sitting round the warm fire in the kitchen,

(그들이 모두 주방의 따뜻한 불을 둘러사고 앉아 있었을 때,)

and the Doctor was reading aloud to them out of books he had written himself in animal-language,

(그리고 두리틀이 자신이 동물 언어로 직접 쓴 책들 중 일부를 그들에게 읽어 주고 있었을 때)

✔read... out of books: 책들 중에서 일부를 골라 읽었다는 의미.

✔books [which] he had written himself: 그 자신이 쓴 책들.

✔in animal-language: 동물 언어로 쓴. 특정 언어로 되어 있다고 표현할 때 전치사 in을 씁니다.

the owl, Too-Too, suddenly said,

(올빼미 투투가 갑자기 말했다)

“Sh! What’s that noise outside?”

(쉿! 밖에 저 소리 뭐지?)

Chapter Three of The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

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This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the Public Domain.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org.

Narrated by Adele de Pignerolles

Doctor Dolittle: Adam

Polynesia the parrot / Ben Ali the Barbary Dragon: Beth Thomas

Too-Too the owl / the Pushmi-Pullyu: Esther ben Simonides

Chee-Chee the monkey: Adele de Pignerolles

Gub-Gub the pig / Tiny Red Monkey: SuperCoconut

Dab-Dab the duck / Queen Ermintrude / Major of the Marmosettes / Pirate 1: Rachel

Jip the dog: MaryAnn

Sarah Dolittle: Dorothy Godfrey-Smith

Porpoises / Crocodile / Swallows / Eagles: April Walters

오디오북:

https://librivox.org/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle-dramatic-reading-by-hugh-lofting/

전자책:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501

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MORE MONEY TROUBLES

AND soon now the Doctor began to make money again; and his sister, Sarah, bought a new dress and was happy.

Some of the animals who came to see him were so sick that they had to stay at the Doctor’s house for a week. And when they were getting better they used to sit in chairs on the lawn.

And often even after they got well, they did not want to go away—they liked the Doctor and his house so much. And he never had the heart to refuse them when they asked if they could stay with him. So in this way he went on getting more and more pets.

Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string. The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy. So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go. The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. But the Doctor told him that if he didn’t go away he would punch him on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, though he wasn’t very tall. So the Italian went away saying rude things and the monkey stayed with Doctor Dolittle and had a good home. The other animals in the house called him “Chee-Chee”—which is a common word in monkey-language, meaning “ginger.”

And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden. The Doctor talked to him in crocodile-language and took him into the house and made his tooth better. But when the crocodile saw what a nice house it was—with all the different places for the different kinds of animals—he too wanted to live with the Doctor. He asked couldn’t he sleep in the fish-pond at the bottom of the garden, if he promised not to eat the fish. When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away. But to every one in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten.

But now the old ladies grew afraid to send their lap-dogs to Doctor Dolittle because of the crocodile; and the farmers wouldn’t believe that he would not eat the lambs and sick calves they brought to be cured. So the Doctor went to the crocodile and told him he must go back to his circus. But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn’t the heart to turn him out.

So then the Doctor’s sister came to him and said,

“John, you must send that creature away. Now the farmers and the old ladies are afraid to send their animals to you—just as we were beginning to be well off again. Now we shall be ruined entirely. This is the last straw. I will no longer be housekeeper for you if you don’t send away that alligator.”

“It isn’t an alligator,” said the Doctor—“it’s a crocodile.”

“I don’t care what you call it,” said his sister. “It’s a nasty thing to find under the bed. I won’t have it in the house.”

“But he has promised me,” the Doctor answered, “that he will not bite any one. He doesn’t like the circus; and I haven’t the money to send him back to Africa where he comes from. He minds his own business and on the whole is very well behaved. Don’t be so fussy.”

“I tell you I _will not_ have him around,” said Sarah. “He eats the linoleum. If you don’t send him away this minute I’ll—I’ll go and get married!”

“All right,” said the Doctor, “go and get married. It can’t be helped.” And he took down his hat and went out into the garden.

So Sarah Dolittle packed up her things and went off; and the Doctor was left all alone with his animal family.

And very soon he was poorer than he had ever been before. With all these mouths to fill, and the house to look after, and no one to do the mending, and no money coming in to pay the butcher’s bill, things began to look very difficult. But the Doctor didn’t worry at all.

“Money is a nuisance,” he used to say. “We’d all be much better off if it had never been invented. What does money matter, so long as we are happy?”

But soon the animals themselves began to get worried. And one evening when the Doctor was asleep in his chair before the kitchen-fire they began talking it over among themselves in whispers. And the owl, Too-Too, who was good at arithmetic, figured it out that there was only money enough left to last another week—if they each had one meal a day and no more.

Then the parrot said, “I think we all ought to do the housework ourselves. At least we can do that much. After all, it is for our sakes that the old man finds himself so lonely and so poor.”

So it was agreed that the monkey, Chee-Chee, was to do the cooking and mending; the dog was to sweep the floors; the duck was to dust and make the beds; the owl, Too-Too, was to keep the accounts, and the pig was to do the gardening. They made Polynesia, the parrot, housekeeper and laundress, because she was the oldest.

Of course at first they all found their new jobs very hard to do—all except Chee-Chee, who had hands, and could do things like a man. But they soon got used to it; and they used to think it great fun to watch Jip, the dog, sweeping his tail over the floor with a rag tied onto it for a broom. After a little they got to do the work so well that the Doctor said that he had never had his house kept so tidy or so clean before.

In this way things went along all right for a while; but without money they found it very hard.

Then the animals made a vegetable and flower stall outside the garden-gate and sold radishes and roses to the people that passed by along the road.

But still they didn’t seem to make enough money to pay all the bills—and still the Doctor wouldn’t worry. When the parrot came to him and told him that the fishmonger wouldn’t give them any more fish, he said,

“Never mind. So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket. And there are plenty of vegetables left in the garden. The Winter is still a long way off. Don’t fuss. That was the trouble with Sarah—she would fuss. I wonder how Sarah’s getting on—an excellent woman—in some ways—Well, well!”

But the snow came earlier than usual that year; and although the old lame horse hauled in plenty of wood from the forest outside the town, so they could have a big fire in the kitchen, most of the vegetables in the garden were gone, and the rest were covered with snow; and many of the animals were really hungry.

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End of Chapter 3.

Chapter Three of The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

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This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain.

Recording by Phil Chenevert

오디오북:

https://librivox.org/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle-by-hugh-lofting-2/

전자책:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501

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AND soon now the Doctor began to make money again; and his sister, Sarah, bought a new dress and was happy.

Some of the animals who came to see him were so sick that they had to stay at the Doctor’s house for a week. And when they were getting better they used to sit in chairs on the lawn.

And often even after they got well, they did not want to go away—they liked the Doctor and his house so much. And he never had the heart to refuse them when they asked if they could stay with him. So in this way he went on getting more and more pets.

Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string. The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy. So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go. The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. But the Doctor told him that if he didn’t go away he would punch him on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, though he wasn’t very tall. So the Italian went away saying rude things and the monkey stayed with Doctor Dolittle and had a good home. The other animals in the house called him “Chee-Chee”—which is a common word in monkey-language, meaning “ginger.”

And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden. The Doctor talked to him in crocodile-language and took him into the house and made his tooth better. But when the crocodile saw what a nice house it was—with all the different places for the different kinds of animals—he too wanted to live with the Doctor. He asked couldn’t he sleep in the fish-pond at the bottom of the garden, if he promised not to eat the fish. When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away. But to every one in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten.

But now the old ladies grew afraid to send their lap-dogs to Doctor Dolittle because of the crocodile; and the farmers wouldn’t believe that he would not eat the lambs and sick calves they brought to be cured. So the Doctor went to the crocodile and told him he must go back to his circus. But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn’t the heart to turn him out.

So then the Doctor’s sister came to him and said,

“John, you must send that creature away. Now the farmers and the old ladies are afraid to send their animals to you—just as we were beginning to be well off again. Now we shall be ruined entirely. This is the last straw. I will no longer be housekeeper for you if you don’t send away that alligator.”

“It isn’t an alligator,” said the Doctor—“it’s a crocodile.”

“I don’t care what you call it,” said his sister. “It’s a nasty thing to find under the bed. I won’t have it in the house.”

“But he has promised me,” the Doctor answered, “that he will not bite any one. He doesn’t like the circus; and I haven’t the money to send him back to Africa where he comes from. He minds his own business and on the whole is very well behaved. Don’t be so fussy.”

“I tell you I _will not_ have him around,” said Sarah. “He eats the linoleum. If you don’t send him away this minute I’ll—I’ll go and get married!”

“All right,” said the Doctor, “go and get married. It can’t be helped.” And he took down his hat and went out into the garden.

So Sarah Dolittle packed up her things and went off; and the Doctor was left all alone with his animal family.

And very soon he was poorer than he had ever been before. With all these mouths to fill, and the house to look after, and no one to do the mending, and no money coming in to pay the butcher’s bill, things began to look very difficult. But the Doctor didn’t worry at all.

“Money is a nuisance,” he used to say. “We’d all be much better off if it had never been invented. What does money matter, so long as we are happy?”

But soon the animals themselves began to get worried. And one evening when the Doctor was asleep in his chair before the kitchen-fire they began talking it over among themselves in whispers. And the owl, Too-Too, who was good at arithmetic, figured it out that there was only money enough left to last another week—if they each had one meal a day and no more.

Then the parrot said, “I think we all ought to do the housework ourselves. At least we can do that much. After all, it is for our sakes that the old man finds himself so lonely and so poor.”

So it was agreed that the monkey, Chee-Chee, was to do the cooking and mending; the dog was to sweep the floors; the duck was to dust and make the beds; the owl, Too-Too, was to keep the accounts, and the pig was to do the gardening. They made Polynesia, the parrot, housekeeper and laundress, because she was the oldest.

Of course at first they all found their new jobs very hard to do—all except Chee-Chee, who had hands, and could do things like a man. But they soon got used to it; and they used to think it great fun to watch Jip, the dog, sweeping his tail over the floor with a rag tied onto it for a broom. After a little they got to do the work so well that the Doctor said that he had never had his house kept so tidy or so clean before.

In this way things went along all right for a while; but without money they found it very hard.

Then the animals made a vegetable and flower stall outside the garden-gate and sold radishes and roses to the people that passed by along the road.

But still they didn’t seem to make enough money to pay all the bills—and still the Doctor wouldn’t worry. When the parrot came to him and told him that the fishmonger wouldn’t give them any more fish, he said,

“Never mind. So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket. And there are plenty of vegetables left in the garden. The Winter is still a long way off. Don’t fuss. That was the trouble with Sarah—she would fuss. I wonder how Sarah’s getting on—an excellent woman—in some ways—Well, well!”

But the snow came earlier than usual that year; and although the old lame horse hauled in plenty of wood from the forest outside the town, so they could have a big fire in the kitchen, most of the vegetables in the garden were gone, and the rest were covered with snow; and many of the animals were really hungry.

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End of Chapter 3.

Chapter Three of The Story of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting

--------------------------------------------

This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain.

Recording by Karen Savage

오디오북:

https://librivox.org/the-story-of-doctor-dolittle-version-3-by-hugh-lofting/

전자책:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/501

---------------------------------------------

MORE MONEY TROUBLES

AND soon now the Doctor began to make money again; and his sister, Sarah, bought a new dress and was happy.

Some of the animals who came to see him were so sick that they had to stay at the Doctor’s house for a week. And when they were getting better they used to sit in chairs on the lawn.

And often even after they got well, they did not want to go away—they liked the Doctor and his house so much. And he never had the heart to refuse them when they asked if they could stay with him. So in this way he went on getting more and more pets.

Once when he was sitting on his garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ-grinder came round with a monkey on a string. The Doctor saw at once that the monkey’s collar was too tight and that he was dirty and unhappy. So he took the monkey away from the Italian, gave the man a shilling and told him to go. The organ-grinder got awfully angry and said that he wanted to keep the monkey. But the Doctor told him that if he didn’t go away he would punch him on the nose. John Dolittle was a strong man, though he wasn’t very tall. So the Italian went away saying rude things and the monkey stayed with Doctor Dolittle and had a good home. The other animals in the house called him “Chee-Chee”—which is a common word in monkey-language, meaning “ginger.”

And another time, when the circus came to Puddleby, the crocodile who had a bad toothache escaped at night and came into the Doctor’s garden. The Doctor talked to him in crocodile-language and took him into the house and made his tooth better. But when the crocodile saw what a nice house it was—with all the different places for the different kinds of animals—he too wanted to live with the Doctor. He asked couldn’t he sleep in the fish-pond at the bottom of the garden, if he promised not to eat the fish. When the circus-men came to take him back he got so wild and savage that he frightened them away. But to every one in the house he was always as gentle as a kitten.

But now the old ladies grew afraid to send their lap-dogs to Doctor Dolittle because of the crocodile; and the farmers wouldn’t believe that he would not eat the lambs and sick calves they brought to be cured. So the Doctor went to the crocodile and told him he must go back to his circus. But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn’t the heart to turn him out.

So then the Doctor’s sister came to him and said,

“John, you must send that creature away. Now the farmers and the old ladies are afraid to send their animals to you—just as we were beginning to be well off again. Now we shall be ruined entirely. This is the last straw. I will no longer be housekeeper for you if you don’t send away that alligator.”

“It isn’t an alligator,” said the Doctor—“it’s a crocodile.”

“I don’t care what you call it,” said his sister. “It’s a nasty thing to find under the bed. I won’t have it in the house.”

“But he has promised me,” the Doctor answered, “that he will not bite any one. He doesn’t like the circus; and I haven’t the money to send him back to Africa where he comes from. He minds his own business and on the whole is very well behaved. Don’t be so fussy.”

“I tell you I _will not_ have him around,” said Sarah. “He eats the linoleum. If you don’t send him away this minute I’ll—I’ll go and get married!”

“All right,” said the Doctor, “go and get married. It can’t be helped.” And he took down his hat and went out into the garden.

So Sarah Dolittle packed up her things and went off; and the Doctor was left all alone with his animal family.

And very soon he was poorer than he had ever been before. With all these mouths to fill, and the house to look after, and no one to do the mending, and no money coming in to pay the butcher’s bill, things began to look very difficult. But the Doctor didn’t worry at all.

“Money is a nuisance,” he used to say. “We’d all be much better off if it had never been invented. What does money matter, so long as we are happy?”

But soon the animals themselves began to get worried. And one evening when the Doctor was asleep in his chair before the kitchen-fire they began talking it over among themselves in whispers. And the owl, Too-Too, who was good at arithmetic, figured it out that there was only money enough left to last another week—if they each had one meal a day and no more.

Then the parrot said, “I think we all ought to do the housework ourselves. At least we can do that much. After all, it is for our sakes that the old man finds himself so lonely and so poor.”

So it was agreed that the monkey, Chee-Chee, was to do the cooking and mending; the dog was to sweep the floors; the duck was to dust and make the beds; the owl, Too-Too, was to keep the accounts, and the pig was to do the gardening. They made Polynesia, the parrot, housekeeper and laundress, because she was the oldest.

Of course at first they all found their new jobs very hard to do—all except Chee-Chee, who had hands, and could do things like a man. But they soon got used to it; and they used to think it great fun to watch Jip, the dog, sweeping his tail over the floor with a rag tied onto it for a broom. After a little they got to do the work so well that the Doctor said that he had never had his house kept so tidy or so clean before.

In this way things went along all right for a while; but without money they found it very hard.

Then the animals made a vegetable and flower stall outside the garden-gate and sold radishes and roses to the people that passed by along the road.

But still they didn’t seem to make enough money to pay all the bills—and still the Doctor wouldn’t worry. When the parrot came to him and told him that the fishmonger wouldn’t give them any more fish, he said,

“Never mind. So long as the hens lay eggs and the cow gives milk we can have omelettes and junket. And there are plenty of vegetables left in the garden. The Winter is still a long way off. Don’t fuss. That was the trouble with Sarah—she would fuss. I wonder how Sarah’s getting on—an excellent woman—in some ways—Well, well!”

But the snow came earlier than usual that year; and although the old lame horse hauled in plenty of wood from the forest outside the town, so they could have a big fire in the kitchen, most of the vegetables in the garden were gone, and the rest were covered with snow; and many of the animals were really hungry.

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End of Chapter 3.

But the snow came earlier than usual that year; and although the old lame horse hauled in plenty of wood from the forest outside the town, so they could have a big fire in the kitchen, most of the vegetables in the garden were gone, and the rest were covered with snow; and many of the animals were really hungry.

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지난 줄거리: 동물들은 걱정이지만 두리틀은 천하태평입니다.

But the snow came earlier than usual that year;

(그러나 그 해에는 눈이 평소보다 더 일찍 왔다.)

and although the old lame horse hauled in plenty of wood from the forest outside the town,

(그리고 그 늙고 다리를 저는 말이 마을 밖 숲에서 많은 나무를 끌어왔지만)

✔haul: (무거운 짐을) 잡아 끌다. 운반하다.

✔haul in: 전치사 in은 방향을 나타냅니다. from the forest outside the town(마을 밖 숲에서부터) '안으로' 끌어 왔습니다.

so they could have a big fire in the kitchen,

(그래서 주방에서 불을 크게 땔 수 있었지만)

most of the vegetables in the garden were gone,

(정원의 채소 대부분이 사라져 버렸고)

✔gone: 채소가 더 이상 나지 않거나 말라 버렸음을 의미합니다.

and the rest were covered with snow;

(나머지는 눈에 덮여 버려서)

and many of the animals were really hungry.

(동물들 중 다수가 정말로 굶주렸다.)