Dick, Marjorie and Fidge: A Search for the Wonderful Dodo

"It seems to me," said the gentleman, kindly, when the children had finished the story of their adventure, and had given him their names and addresses, "it seems to me that the...

They were the oddest little creatures that you can possibly imagine, with eyes and ears that seemed to be too big for their heads, and tiny little spindle legs that looked quite...

"Well, I'll explain it, if you wish with pleasure," said the Sage, "though I can't see in the least why it should be necessary. It seems to me to perfectly simple. To begin with...

"Oh, I don't think they were," declared Marjorie. "Now don't you think," she continued, excitedly, "that it would be best for us just to swim quietly up to him, and catch hold o...

"Well, of all the stupid creatures," said the Dodo, "I think that this is the most remarkable. Here, I say! Wake up, will you!" and he gave the reins another sharp pull.

The little thin fish seemed to be a long while catching them up, and, while they were waiting, Marjorie espied a curious figure poking about among the seaweed a short distance a...

"How absurd," laughed Dick, as he looked down from the--to him--enormous height of six feet. "What a thin, lanky-looking creature, I am, to be sure--and Fidge, too; he looks per...

The crafty Apache chief Geronimo but a few years ago was the most terrible scourge of the southwest border. The author has woven, in a tale of thrilling interest, all the incide...

It was all very well for the Walrus to shout "Come back!" but _that_ was a matter of utter impossibility, for down--and down--and down the children sped at a terrific rate, so q...

"Do you mean to say," inquired Dick, when the Sage had finished, "that all those last things were prizes; because, if so, there isn't a single one of them that I should have car...

"Dick! Dick! Wake up, I want to tell you something." Marjorie stood outside the boy's bedroom door, and called in as loud a whisper as she dared, fearing lest she should awaken...

"No," said the Skipper, unconcernedly. "I never had no time to study goggerfy, I didn't, so there's lots of places I don't know, no more than the Man in the Moon."

"What a funny puff-puff!" exclaimed Fidge, when, all of the creatures on the platform having entered the train, it slowly steamed out of the station, while the Porter took down...

They would have taken a second basinful had the Eterædarium been at all pressing in his invitation for them to do so; but instead of asking them in the usual way, "Will you have...

"Then whatever are we going to do about tickets?" asked Marjorie, anxiously, for the trip to the Crystal Palace seemed to afford such an excellent opportunity of getting home ag...

While the Dodo and his friends were enjoying themselves on the lake, the children and the others were wandering about the grounds, and continually discovering fresh attractions....

"And the other one has just put on a hideous black mask, and has a curious kind of pole with a sort of scythe at the end," chimed in Dick.

"Let us pretend," suggested the Palæotherium, "that the Dodo is dead. They will readily imagine that the shock has been too much for him, and, of course, being dead, there will...

"The chap is evidently a little wrong in the head," explained Dick to the others in a whisper. "Never mind; don't take any notice. Well, to come to the point, _can_ you direct u...

"Oh! don't bother me about him," cried the Dodo, impatiently; "he's all right as Panjandrums go, I suppose, but I don't want to get into his clutches again, I can tell you."

"Why, I'm in the fourth form," said Dick; "but I don't see what he wants to know _that_ for, unless--Oh yes, of course, I see--he wants to find out how old we are, because up to...

"Delighted to make your acquaintance," said the Archæopteryx, when the necessary introductions had been made. "I've often wanted to meet some human beings; come and have luncheo...

"They look so respectable," explained the Dodo, "and give one such an air. You have _never_ before seen a bird wearing gloves, now, have you?" he added, appealing to the company...

"Never mind, there's A. B. C., and that's who I want," declared the Dodo, scrambling down from the roof. "You stay in the cab till I come back," he called out to the children, s...

The State Umbrella, which the Dodo had been carrying, fell to the ground with a crash, and so startled the Little Panjandrum that he jumped to his feet and nervously tried to ru...

But Dick wasn't going to do anything of that sort, and just touched it lightly with one hand, while the others followed suit. The thin fish then motioned them to sit down on a k...

On passing the clump of trees and evergreens, which obstructed their view, they discovered the Little Panjandrum, in a great state of agitation, hiding behind the official Umbre...