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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19931018
Author:Chet Raymo

The dodo became extinct 175 years before Lewis Carroll introduced his favorite bird to his favorite little girl in "Alice in Wonderland."

Alice has fallen, along with a mouse, sundry birds and several other "curious creatures" into a pool of her own tears. The Dodo proposes that all should dry themselves by holding a foot race, in which the contestants begin running whenever they wish and run until the Dodo decides the race should end. Everyone wins, everyone receives a prize, and everyone gets quite dry.

The Dodo is solemn and wise. In John Tenniel's famous illustration, the bird is a rather ...

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