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

s in the midst of a crowd of curious little pigmies,

eyes and ears that seemed to be too big for their heads, and tiny little

voice, which, although they were such t

iries, eh!" they cried, clu

lared Marjo

" said Fidge, looking

and elves, and gnomes, and things of that sort were merely

"The same old story. They told you th

Dick, haughtily, for he did not at

ose you think yourself quite a man, and are consequently too old to b

ie. "Don't you remember how we used to enjoy that lovely fairy

very red. "I've had it all explained to me since

eare?" demanded one

replied Dick

read ?Midsummer

, and Puck, and all that lot, you kn

idn't believe in fairie

rent, you know; that's

you'll admit that h

o," said Dick, gru

urself to be clever

a chorus of little

cceeded in making you as clever as themselves, and it is our intention to show you how ignorant you all are. I think you will believe in fairies be

inary figures

softly as to be quite indist

," said the gnome, speakin

t like that for?"

Importance is somewhat sensitive on the subj

esn't like to take a back seat, that's it, is

m nervously. "You really mustn't say little a

if they did?

ce would be terribly an

for at that moment there was a loud clattering noise in the passage leading fr

pings, beneath which sat a stern-faced little man with an elaborate turban and head-dress. He wore also a very curious collar, from w

u know abou

his attendants, each carried a banner embl

ostrich, and on the top of the canopy over th

ed, in a loud voice, and immediately all the gno

Most Magnificent Greatnes

rth little pocket-handker

ipful Gorgeousness by the Grand

threw up their

ed Marjorie, excitedl

around sharply, and after staring a

are

dge," said Dick politely. "We are spending our summer holiday at Mrs. Lawrence's cot

What do you know about the Dodo?

chair, and it told us that it was go

el

long name," stammered Dick;

, and you tell me that you have seen the Dodo; that is enough. Now then! Where is it? It's no use telling me that it has gone off to keep an appointment with somethi

ht, and Fidge scowled angrily at hearing his idolized big brother spoke

the end of that time you do not appear at the Palace of the little Panjandrum with the Dodo

ut

ore a flat stone, while the little gnomes ran hither and thither, getting in each other's way, and

his point, for the gnomes, not being quite strong enough to carry the inkstand, turned it over on its side to roll it forward, an

t up to the height

e presents," he began, writing

ed Fidge, giving Dick a nudge. Dick shook his

n, named respectively-what

eville Verr

rrinder, and-what's

Evelyn V

velyn Verri

Verrinder,"

nquired the Amb

brother," w

his name w

hat's his nickn

hed two enormous red seals to it-"that's your warrant for arresting the Dodo, when you have found him; and it is also an authority from the little Panjandrum for you at any time to become any size tha

ying a word more to any one, he and his followers

d fallen at his feet. "Here's a go! We've got to find that

dolefully, "it was something ve

g able to be any size that we wished? I

aid Fidge, e

at about in the air, I'm

he same moment Dick, to Fidge's intense surprise, suddenly shot up to the height of over six feet, an