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Updated: May 11, 2025
"And an earwig!" exclaimed Dick, picking one up from the cloth. "Oh! and spiders!" screamed Lady Betty, jumping up and shaking her frock. "Dear! dear! this will never do!" I said, for the place was swarming with insects, owing to the very dry summer which we had had. "There ought to be a marquee like we had at the choir treat," said Fidge. "Oh, I vote we get on with the grub," said Dick greedily.
Marjorie wrote "Game pie." Dick thought that "Pies and tarts and plenty of them" was a suitable thing to ask for. Lionel could imagine nothing more to be desired than "Ham and tongue sandwiches." Lady Betty wanted "Fruit and nuts," and Fidge, after various painful attempts, wrote "Something nice to drink." Shin Shira read them out one by one.
Marjorie and Fidge shared a little tent next to the Dodo and Dick, and the children made themselves as comfortable as they could, under the circumstances, with some cushions and rugs, with which the Porter had provided them; and, after chatting for a little while about their strange adventures, dropped off to sleep.
A more delicious feast it would be impossible to imagine. We were just sitting down to enjoy it, and I had stuck the knife and fork into the game pie, when Marjorie sprang up with a little scream, brushing something from her face. "Ough! a horrid caterpillar!" she cried. "And here's another!" declared Fidge, knocking one from his coat.
She's such a good woman, your dear aunt, my boy, and I'm very proud of her; but she does upset me so when she is cross." "I was all of a fidge, uncle," I said laughing. "So was I, Nat, so was I. But don't laugh, my boy. It is too serious a thing for smiles. It always puts me in such a dreadful perspiration, Nat, for I don't like to be angry too.
"All right," acquiesced Dick; "here goes I wish I were as little as the gnomes." "So do I," cried Marjorie. "Me, too!" cried Fidge. To their great surprise, nothing happened. They waited a moment or two, staring at each other expectantly, and then Marjorie cried in a troubled voice "Oh, dear! I don't believe it's going to work, and we shall have to stay like this forever."
Let's see we only want halves, Marjorie and Fidge and myself; you'll have to get a whole ticket, I suppose, though I have seen a notice at a railway station somewhere, on which it stated, 'Soldiers and Dogs half-price. Perhaps it applies to birds, too. You had better ask, I think." So the Dodo went back to the booking-office again and inquired, "Do birds travel half-price?" "Nonsense!
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