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The skipper found the poor bird looking the picture of misery.
“Hope you're feeling better, sir,”; he said.—Page 132. Dick, Marjorie and Fidge
Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo By G. E. FARROW Author of Adventures in Wallypug Land WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALLAN WRIGHT A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER, 52-58 DUANE STREET, NEW YORK |
To my Dear Little Friends.
Here is another book! I hope it will be as fortunate in pleasing you, asthe others seem to have been, if I may judge from the many kind andgratifying letters which have reached me from boys and girls, of allages and sizes, and from all parts of the world.
And in connection with these letters, which I always try (though thepleasurable task grows heavier year by year) to answer myself, I havehad the misfortune to lose a large packet of unanswered ones; so if anyof my little correspondents have written to me during the past year, andhave not received a reply, will he or she write to me again, and give mean opportunity of repairing the omission?
I am getting quite proud of my gallery of photographs, which my littlefriends have sent me, and which, I think, please me almost more thananything else, if I may except a beautiful Persian kitten which hascome as a present from a little girl at Hereford, and which is a primefavorite with every one here, including Dick, my little terrier,who—although he ought to know better at his age, being overeight—“galumphs” about in an absurdly clumsy manner, under the mistakenimpression that he is playing with it. He only succeeds, however, inmaking himself ridiculous in the eyes of the kitten, who, despite hisyears, treats him with little or no respect, and does not hesitate tobox his ears, and bite his tail whenever it feels so disposed.
But I see my space is nearly exhausted, so must conclude, with very bestwishes, and hoping to hear again from all of my old friends, and as manynew ones as care to write.
Believe me,
Your affectionate friend,
THE AUTHOR.