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And Nat pulled out his pencil and book and waited for the bird to come in sight again, which it was kind enough to do very soon. "Size" wrote Nat, struggling with his pencil, which would squeak, because he had foolishly put it in his mouth. "How big would you call it?" "Little," said Dodo promptly. "Kind of little, but not so very. I've seen smaller in the Museum," said Nat.
It is a decided relief from the tension when a maid appears from the other house, and Miss Dodo is carried off for her nooning nap, kicking vigorously. They sit back and sip their iced drinks relishingly. The morning is warm and Joyce's lovelocks are tightly curled against her wet forehead.
I will tell you a secret I am thinking of eating no birds but English Sparrows in future!" "So you have been eating other birds?" said Dodo. "Y-e-s, I have, but not many more than the Shrike takes, and mostly seed-eaters hardly ever an insect-eating song bird. Do you know how many bad insects I eat?"
I have read somewhere that the dodo and a relative of his called the 'tooth-billed pigeon' are still to be found on this island. It would be delightful to possess a pet dodo." It has only recovered its present feeble powers of flight since cats were introduced in the island. Its dark flesh is extremely delicious."
"Some one about the situation, Sir," said Perkins, stuffing his handkerchief into his mouth to prevent himself laughing aloud. The gentlemen all turned around and stared at the Dodo. "Why, it's a bird!" cried one. "Of course it is; what else did you expect I was?" said the Dodo. "Are you A. B. C.?" "No no," stammered the man. "I'm the Head Clerk, though, and I "
"Stay here, little people, and ask all the questions you like of Olive," said the Doctor, when they had reached the lane; "for I shall be able to find the nest more easily if you do not frighten the birds by talking." "Pewee, pewee, pe-e-er!" cried a little voice. "There he is, crying 'peek-a-boo' again," said Dodo. "Please, Olive, won't you tell us the table for the Chimney Swift now?"
"Makes me feel like an orphan's home," grumbled Grace, but she laughed nevertheless with the rest and immediately forgot both her candy and Dodo in renewed excitement over Wild Rose Lodge. "Just where is this place, Mollie?" asked Amy. "What is it called?" "Oh, that's the very best part of it," said Mollie, with a mysterious smile. "It has the most wonderful, most romantic name.
"Oh, do tell us which ones do this and which took Rap's Chickens," said Dodo, forgetting her disappointment for the time. "I am going to make a play for you. Some of the Owls and Hawks shall speak for themselves, and tell you about their own habits and customs. In fact, the most familiar of these cannibals shall have a hearing this morning in the wonder room.
But when she reached the head of the dark oak there was Celia coming up, and below there was Mr. Brooke, exchanging welcomes and congratulations with Mr. Casaubon. "Dodo!" said Celia, in her quiet staccato; then kissed her sister, whose arms encircled her, and said no more. I think they both cried a little in a furtive manner, while Dorothea ran down-stairs to greet her uncle.
Even now that their intimacies had come and gone like all specious mad frenzies, like the mating of dodo birds, she did not know his name, his connection to the purchaser, or his purpose at the party unless it were in having mounted and ridden her. Did man have a higher purpose than this? She had her doubts. "Give me your address. I wanna see you again," he reiterated.
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