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Updated: May 11, 2025
At the roundabout the steam was up, but there was apparently nobody in charge. "What a pity," said Dick, "I should have liked very much to have gone around on the horses, wouldn't you, Marjorie?" "I should," chimed in Fidge. "Yes, it would have been rather jolly," said Marjorie. "Don't you think perhaps the Prehistoric Doctor could manage to set it going? Let's ask him."
Fortunately, just inside the hall I met my little friends the Verrinder children; Vera, the little girl, looking very pretty in her white party frock; and her two brothers, Dick and Fidge, full of excitement and high spirits. They fastened on me at once and dragged me most unceremoniously up to our hostess, who it appears was Vera's godmother, and introduced me in their own fashion.
Fidge pulled aside a piece of seaweed, and they all peeped through a hole in the coral, and saw a large fish wearing a crown, and with a curious chain about his neck, to which was attached an enormous fish-hook, seated on a throne. Officers of State stood round about, and the little thin fish that had been so polite to them was bowing and scraping in quite a courtly fashion.
They spoke in a shrill, clear, bell-like voice, which, although they were such tiny creatures, could be heard distinctly. "So you don't believe in fairies, eh!" they cried, clustering about the children. "I do," declared Marjorie, stoutly. "Yes, and me do, too," said Fidge, looking about him delightedly.
This time the children really did get to sleep, and when they awoke the carriage was quite light, and Dick, looking out through the little window at the side of his berth, could see that they were traveling through some very delightful country. "Wake up! Wake up, Marjorie," he cried, "it's morning." "I'm velly hungry," announced Fidge, sitting up and rubbing his eyes sleepily.
"Jolly, isn't it?" said Dick, as they floated upwards, leaving the Dodo gazing after them enviously. "Like being in a b'loon," chuckled Fidge, clutching at the leaves of a tree as he passed through them. Fidge never would pronounce balloon properly. "Oh! look!" cried Marjorie, as they passed above the trees, "there's the sea over there, and some houses, and people on the beach.
"Dear me!" exclaimed Dick, looking greatly troubled, "that's another thing we never thought of, Marjorie." "I want to see my Daddy!" announced Fidge, suddenly and decidedly. But on being assured that he should soon do so he sat down with the others, and looked through the picture books which Perkins found for them, while the gentleman sent home for the clothes, and telegraphed to their father.
"Stupid old thing! it's not a bit of use, even if we could carry it," muttered Dick; and Fidge, too, was so cross that he nearly quarreled outright with a perky little fish who had been standing, hat in hand, near him, and who now came and sat down so close to him that his sharp scales scratched the little fellow's bare legs.
"What a funny puff-puff!" exclaimed Fidge, when, all of the creatures on the platform having entered the train, it slowly steamed out of the station, while the Porter took down the candlestick signal and carefully extinguished the light, remarking aloud, as he did so, "Well, thank goodness, they're gone!"
Know all men by these presents," he began, writing the words down as he spake them. "He's going to give us some presents," whispered Fidge, giving Dick a nudge. Dick shook his head reprovingly, and the little man continued "That whereas three children, named respectively what did you say your name was?" "Richard Greville Verrinder, Sir."
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