"How I do wish we could! You might tell Dudu to take us, Cheri.

Perhaps it's a fairy palace really, though it only looks like a picture, and if Dudu's a fairy, he might know about it." "I'll ask him if I get a chance," said Hugh.

"Good morning, Monsieur Dudu," he went on, bowing politely from the window to the raven, who had cocked his head in another direction, and seemed now to be looking up at the two children with the same supercilious stare he had bestowed upon the cock and hens.

"Good morning, Monsieur Dudu; I hope you won't catch cold with this snowy weather.

It's best to be very polite to him, you see," added Hugh, turning to Jeanne; "for if he took offence we should get no fun out of him." "Oh yes," said Jeanne, "it is much best to be very polite to him.