Chapter 2: Animal Language

_THE SECOND CHAPTER_ ANIMAL LANGUAGE IT happened one day that the Doctor was sitting in his kitchen talking with the Cat’s-meat-Man who had come to see him with a stomach-ache. “Why don’t you give up being a people’s doctor, and be an animal-doctor?” asked the Cat’s-meat-Man. The parrot, Polynesia, was sitting in the window looking out at the rain and singing a sailor-song to herself. She stopped singing and started to listen. “You see, Doctor,” the Cat’s-meat-Man went on, “you know all about animals—much more than what these here vets do. That book you wrote—about cats, why, it’s wonderful! I can’t read