DODGSON 



1826 



DOG 



is used. The best cure is burning the infested 

 places before the dodder seed matures. See 

 illustration in article BOTANY, page 859; also 

 FUNGI; PARASITES. 



DODGSON, do} 'son, CHARLES LUTWIDGE 

 (1832-1898), an English writer who is known 

 to countless readers by his pen name of 

 LEWIS CARROLL, which appears on the title 

 pages of two of the most charming and orig- 

 inal stories for children ever written Alice's 

 Adventures in Wonderland and Through the 

 Looking Glass. He was accustomed to use his 

 real name when he published his various 

 learned books on mathematics, for he was a 

 mathematical lecturer at Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford University, from 1855 to 1881. 



During his lectureship at Christ Church he 

 became the well-beloved companion of the 

 three little daughters of the college dean, 

 Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, and the 

 Wonderland adventures of Alice are the stories 

 he told the children on some of their after- 

 noon boating excursions on a pretty little river 

 of the town. 



As examples of delightful nonsense, the Alice- 

 books are in a class by themselves, and their 

 charm has been increased by the pictures 

 drawn for them by one of England's greatest 

 cartoonists, Sir John Tenniel. His portraits 

 of the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, Twee- 

 dledum and Tweedledee and all the other pic- 

 turesque companions of Alice in her wander- 

 ings in the land of adventure are an insep- 

 arable part of the narratives themselves. 

 Dodgson wrote several other stories for chil- 

 dren, among which are The Hunting of the 

 Snark, Rhyme and Reason and Sylvie and 



Bruno. See ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDER- 

 LAND. 



DODO, doh'doh, a bird no longer in exist- 

 ence, but once related to the pigeons. It is 

 known only from descriptions of Portuguese 

 and Dutch voyagers and from specimens in 

 the British Museum. The dodo was a clumsy 



SKELETON OF THE DODO 

 Dotted lines represent the form of the bird. 



bird, larger than the swan, covered with gray- 

 ish down, and with a tail appearing like a tuft 

 of curled feathers. It walked very slowly on 

 short, ill-shaped legs, and as its wings were 

 too short for flight, it was easily captured. 

 Its appearance and actions gave it the name, 

 which means simpleton. The dodo was at one 

 time abundant on the islands of Mauritius and 

 Bourbon, but as it was valued as food by vis- 

 itors and was also captured by hogs the sailors 

 turned loose, the genus became extinct. 



OG, a faithful, courageous and 

 intelligent domestic animal, to which no truer 

 or more simple tribute could be made than the 

 following eulogy by Former Senator George 

 Graham Vest: 



The one absolutely unselfish friend that man 

 can have in this selfish world, the one that never 

 deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful 

 or treacherous, is his dog. A man's dog stands 

 by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health 



and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold 

 ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow 

 drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's 

 side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, 

 he will lick the wounds and sores that, come in en- 

 counter with the roughness of the world. He 

 guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he 

 were a prince. When all other friends desert, he 

 remains. When riches take wings and reputation 

 falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the 

 sun in its journey through the heavens. If for- 

 tune drives the master forth an outcast in the 



