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

," said Dick. "Only I'm not quit

tinued, excitedly, "that it would be best for us just to swim quietly up to him,

Dick. "Come on-steady now

ifficulty in quickly catching up to the bird, and, with a triumphant shout,

ly a great outcry f

, and the feet began to kick so violently that the

ed to follow

me flying to the rescue, and "splush," "splash," so

er?" cried severa

bout violently, and creating a terrible confusion, "a crab or something h

w the water; they were hastily withdrawn, however, and with an alarmed cry of "Sh

re frantic efforts than ever to escape; and the beating of his w

Marjorie; "we can't drag him undern

ll drag us along till we come to land somewhere

there was no reply from the bird, which continued making a

came in sight, and the children could see that t

ered, to their great dismay, that their captive was not the Dodo at all, but a great wild goose, who, w

n excited group of birds, who, when they caught sight of the children emergi

e Sharks! Here

it soon became evident that the creature could not fly, for after wildly beating the air for awhile, with his little a

ggled with the waves. "Don't you see

e," cried t

! there go my poor, dear gloves." This last as his wings, which h

r two, ruefully regarding his white kid gloves, which the salt water had completel

t's all your fault, too," he declared, ungratefully disregarding the fact that D

anjandrum sent us in search of you, and if we don't take you back in le

aid the Dodo. "They always threaten to do that to peop

ed the children, in a

a fortnight. Ough! it's dreadful to think about, and I wouldn't dream of putting you to the risk of having it done to you. So I suppo

quired th

should like to know? Panjandrums are not to be mentioned in the same breath as Dodos-we ar

evances, and who certainly did not care to run the risk of being "gopheled on both

d the Dodo, abruptly. "I can't swim and

, in dismay. "I'm sure we can't do

be done," said the Dodo. "I won't get in

the shore, ran back with the news that the

nd raising his hat politely; "but His Majesty sent me to inquire how you

x," cried the children; "we don't

cut a stra

g a creature?" said

n awful nuisance, anyhow, and I don't know how we a

lphins," suggeste

forgotten them. I suppose you can ride a D

. Daresay I could," answ

turned a few minutes later w

gain, and lost no time in getting astride of one; the others followed m

ed very nervous at first, as he clung t

n the children had bade their kind little friend, the th

are going to?" remarked the Dodo, after

claimed Dick. "I though

t idea where we are,"

lost!" cried Mar

ly, "that if I ever got lost, I was

e was a large w

e are no policemen about

to push on till we come to land somewher

that both the air and the water were growing fresher every moment, and she was just beginning to wond

the larbo

ut where we are," and they headed the Dolphins to

stance from the shore, and the children, having fastened up the Dolphins to one

th a pipe in his mouth, and on the ground

s hurried forward,

and immediately putting it back again, while the little dog