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Updated: May 11, 2025
To her great surprise, however, on looking at that interesting bird, she discovered that he was weeping copiously, and wiping with an elaborate lace handkerchief, which had evidently been concealed about his person, the tears which trickled slowly down his great beak. "What's the matter, poor goosey, goosey, gander?" said Fidge, sympathetically. "Don't!" snapped the Dodo, crossly.
"Oh, I've won I've won!" shouted Fidge, delightedly. "Haven't I, Dick?" "Of course you have," said Dick, who had purposely been holding back to give the other two a chance. "Shall I get a prize?" whispered the little boy, anxiously. "Perhaps," answered Dick; "wait and see."
As soon as the door opened, however, there could be no doubt as to who it was, for with a delighted cry of "Oh, Papa! Papa!" Marjorie rushed into the arms of a gentleman standing in the middle of the room, and seemed half undecided whether to cry or to laugh, while Fidge and Dick crowded around and joined in the excitement.
Marjorie made a neat little bundle of them, and hid them behind a big stone, and then, calling Fidge to them, the party set out to explore the surrounding country. They had not gone far before they heard a voice crying out in a peremptory way "Now then! move on, there!"
There was an awning at the door and a red carpet laid down the steps and across the pavement; the house was brilliantly lighted, and evidently grand preparations had been going on. I hurried up the steps, followed by Marjorie, Dick and Fidge.
In the middle of the day some luncheon was brought in for them from a neighboring restaurant, and soon afterwards the clothes arrived. An Eton suit for Dick, the jacket of which was just a trifle short; a pretty, simple dress for Marjorie; and a sailor suit for Fidge.
"But how," said Vincent, after the first warmth of welcome had subsided, "how shall I congratulate you upon your new honours? I was not prepared to find you grown from a roue into a senator. "'In gathering votes you were not slack, Now stand as tightly by your tack, Ne'er show your lug an' fidge your back, An' hum an' haw; But raise your arm, an' tell your crack Before them a'.
"It's lovely," she said, as we drove along. "We're going to have a perfectly splendid day." We were sitting three aside, and there was just comfortable room for us; and when we had got well into the country I began to tell the younger ones, Fidge and Lady Betty, a story.
If we are going to race, though, we shall have to be handicapped." "What's that?" cried the fishes. "Why, you see," explained Dick, "it wouldn't be fair for us all to start from the same line, for Fidge, of course, cannot run as quickly as Marjorie or me; and Marjorie, too, being only a girl, will have to have a start allowed her, and this is called handicapping."
"And a blue bow around its neck," chimed in Fidge, his eyes dancing with excitement. "Ship ahoy!" shouted the bird, as it came close up to the table. "Good gracious! Why it can talk," said Marjorie. "Talk! Of course I can," answered the bird. "Why not, pray?" "Well, birds don't generally talk, except parrots," added Marjorie, as an afterthought.
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