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"What do you mean?" asked Dick. "Why, I could give you an introduction to the King of the Fishes, you know, and he might lend you his dolphins; they travel at a rare pace, and would get you there in no time." "Oh, yes," cried Marjorie, "of course we can go under the sea, don't you know, the paper says so. Wouldn't it be jolly, even if we didn't find the Dodo?"
"I'm only going to be with you for a few days," I answered. "Mr. Jefferson will be your permanent manager." "The hell I will!" spluttered Bunch. Then he got red in the face, glared at Dodo, and grouched out a "beg pardon!" "You betcher sweet!" she replied, patting the Pommery.
"No! just imagine! Really it was a mercy," said Celia; "and I think it is very nice for Dodo to be a widow. She can be just as fond of our baby as if it were her own, and she can have as many notions of her own as she likes." "It is a pity she was not a queen," said the devout Sir James. "But what should we have been then?
Molly, for a moment, looked as if she wanted to cry from sheer vexation, for the getting ready to start had been trying on all of them. Then the humor of the situation appealed to her, and she exclaimed, as the solemn-eyed twins drew: nearer: "Dodo Paul what does this mean? Go back home at once! Mamma will be dreadfully worried about you. Go back." "We tum too," lisped Dodo.
"Oh, dear, I suppose it is the only thing to do," affirmed Mollie. "Will you go straight back if you get some candy?" she asked. "Straight home to mamma?" "Ess we bofe go," promised Dodo, who usually led her small brother. "We 'ikes tandy," she reiterated. "Me tan shoot bears to-morrow," said Paul, philosophically. "Where is tandy?"
He looked around at the company, and smiled triumphantly. Marjorie gave a sigh of relief. She didn't so much mind the execution taking place if the poor Dodo was not to be killed.
The sun was hot, and most of the birds were hiding in the shade trees. "But as the Snowflake will walk next to the Goldfinch in the procession of Bird Families I am going to show you after a while, we must have him now." "I think a cool bird will be very nice for a warm day," said Dodo. "Something like soda water and ice cream.
"What a sell! I believe the Dodo did write it, though, and intended it as a hint that we were not to try find and him. I'm half inclined to give it up." "But Dick, dear, remember," said Marjorie, "we shall be er you know what the Ambassador said if we don't find him." "Oh, ah," said Dick, "I'd forgotten that. Come on, then; let's see what can be done."
So he asked himself questions, and answered in rage, only to begin again, fiercely breaking down one set of arguments and building up another. It was the arrival of Dodo Wardropp with Dom Ferdinand on the bridge which drove him away and out of himself sufficiently to bid his host and hostess good-night.
"Have we used up all the Blackbird family?" asked Dodo, as they sat on the sand and began to dig holes with their hands. "Oh, no; there is the biggest of all the Crow," said Nat. "Strange as it is," replied the Doctor, "though the Crow is the blackest of all our birds he does not belong to the Blackbird family, but to a separate one of his own the family of Crows, Jays, and Magpies."
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