He has a plump body, with short, legs, neck, tail, and wings, a big head with the eyes set in its back upper corners, a very long bill which is soft, sensitive, and can be bent a little; and the three outside feathers in each wing are very much narrower than the rest.
The dinner bell rang as the children wrote the last words.
"You see," said the Doctor, "that though it is still raining and blowing, the morning has gone in a twinkling, and I now suspect the birthday cake is waiting to be cut." "Yes," said Dodo, "I've been smelling the flowers and candles that go with a birthday cake for ever so long! And after dinner we can accept Olive's invitation and make candy--can't we, Uncle Roy ?" "I suppose so; and as nothing is too good for a rainy birthday, I will add something more to the feast.

I will tell you a birthday secret--or, rather, what has been a secret until now.
"Next mouth we are all going to the sea-shore to spend a few weeks in Olaf's little cabin, to bathe in the salt water, and sail in his sharpie.

Then you can ask all the questions you please about the marsh and water birds.

You will learn how the tides ebb and flow, and see the moon come up out of the water.
"There! Don't all talk at once! Yes, Rap is coming with us--and his mother also, to help take care of you children, for Mammy Bun must stay here.

She does not like to camp out--says she is afraid of getting break-bone fever.
"Come, dinner first, and then talking, or the candles will burn out all alone!".