If every one gave his own names, no two people would quite understand each other." "Oh! I see a bird," whispered Dodo, pointing to the grass at a little distance.

"See! it's quite as big as a Pigeon and speckled all over black and brown and has a red mark on the back of its neck.

Please write it down for me, Olive; it takes me so long to write, and I haven't seen it in front yet.

There, it's turning round--oh! it has a black mark in front of its neck like a cravat and it's speckled underneath.

It has flown a little further off and is walking up a tree, and it's very white on its back where its tail begins.