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In writing the story of our adventures in the Moon I, Thomas Stubbins, / secretary to John Dolittle, M. D. (and son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler / of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh), find myself greatly puzzled. It is not an / easy task, remembering day by day and hour by hour those crowded and / exciting weeks. It is true I made many notes for the Doctor, books full / of them. But that information was nearly all of a highly scientific / kind. And I feel that I should tell the story here not for the scientist / so much as for the general reader. And it is in that I am perplexed.
For the story could be told in many ways. People are so different in / what they want to know about a voyage. I had thought at one time Jip / could help me; and after reading him some chapters as I had first set / them down I asked for his opinion. I discovered he was mostly interested / in whether we had seen any rats in the Moon. I found I could not tell / him. I didn't remember seeing any; and yet I am sure there must have / been some-or some sort of creature like a rat.