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DICK, MARJORIE AND FIDGE

A Search for the Wonderful Dodo

by

G. E. FARROW

Author of Adventures in Wallypug Land

With Many Illustrations by Allan Wright

A. L. Burt, Publisher, 52-58 Duane Street, New York

TO MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS.

Here is another book! I hope it will be as fortunate in pleasing you, as the others seem to have been, if I may judge from the many kind and gratifying letters which have reached me from boys and girls, of all ages and sizes, and from all parts of the world.

And in connection with these letters, which I always try (though the pleasurable task grows heavier year by year) to answer myself, I have had the misfortune to lose a large packet of unanswered ones; so if any of my little correspondents have written to me during the past year, and have not received a reply, will he or she write to me again, and give me an opportunity of repairing the omission?

I am getting quite proud of my gallery of photographs, which my little friends have sent me, and which, I think, please me almost more than anything else, if I may except a beautiful Persian kitten which has come as a present from a little girl at Hereford, and which is a prime favorite with every one here, including Dick, my little terrier, who--although he ought to know better at his age, being over eight--"galumphs" about in an absurdly clumsy manner, under the mistaken impression that he is playing with it. He only succeeds, however, in making himself ridiculous in the eyes of the kitten, who, despite his years, treats him with little or no respect, and does not hesitate to box his ears, and bite his tail whenever it feels so disposed.

But I see my space is nearly exhausted, so must conclude, with very best wishes, and hoping to hear again from all of my old friends, and as many new ones as care to write.

Believe me, Your affectionate friend, THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE BEGINNING OF A MARVELLOUS JOURNEY 1
II. THE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY 12
III. THE SAGE IN THE ONION FIELD 24
IV. STORIES AND TAILS BY THE SAGE 35
V. THE KING OF THE FISHES 47
VI. IN THE KING'S PRESENCE 59
VII. THE HUMAN RACE 68
VIII. THE DODO AT LAST 80
IX. AT THE NORTH POLE 92
X. SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES 102
XI. THE SKIPPER OF THE "ARGONAUT" 113
XII. THE ARCHAEOPTERYX 125
XIII. THE LITTLE PANJANDRUM'S BALLOON 135
XIV. THE DUFF AND DEM EXECUTIONER 145
XV. THE EXECUTION OF THE DODO 155
XVI. THE PREHISTORIC DOCTOR 165
XVII. WAITING FOR THE TRAIN 175
XVIII. A NIGHT IN THE TRAIN 185
XIX. AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE 195
XX. A DIFFICULTY WITH THE ROUNDABOUT 216
XXI. THE LITTLE PANJANDRUM AT LAST 217
XXII. TURNED TO STONE 228
XXIII. THE DODO'S LITTLE RUSE 236
XXIV. FIRST CLASS TO LONDON 245
XXV. THE DODO OBLIGES WITH A SONG 255
XXVI. THE DODO DEPARTS 263

DICK, MARJORIE AND FIDGE.