That is a pretty story, and the end shows how grateful a bird can be; but if we tell it we must also tell the whole
adventure of the lagoon, which would of course be telling two
adventures rather than just one.
But each of them had a prize to win, a goal to kick, an axe to grind, a race to run, a new thrust in tierce to deliver, a name to carve, a crow to pick--so they were not followers of true
adventure.
"Doesn't it depend a little on what you call
adventures?"
"God order it as he may," said Sancho Panza, and helping him to rise got him up again on Rocinante, whose shoulder was half out; and then, discussing the late
adventure, they followed the road to Puerto Lapice, for there, said Don Quixote, they could not fail to find
adventures in abundance and variety, as it was a great thoroughfare.
The little ones all love Dorothy, and as one of my small friends aptly states: "It isn't a real Oz story without her." So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange
adventure.
Defoe got the idea of his story from the
adventures of a Scots sailor named Alexander Selkirk.
And when they heard of his
adventures they marveled that he would jeopard his person so alone.
And then when you read a little further you will discover that the Doctor is not merely a peg on whom to hang exciting and various
adventures but that he is himself a man of original and lively character.
They wrote many letters asking if the Historian did not know of some
adventures to write about that had happened before the Land of Oz was shut out from all the rest of the world.
Tarzan was a bit puzzled, too, that he felt no desire to rush frantically to some place of safety, as had been the sensation most conspicuous in the other of his new and remarkable
adventures. He was just himself now, ready to fight, if necessary; but still sure that no flesh and blood gorilla stood before him.
David and I had a tremendous
adventure. It was this, he passed the night with me.
The temptation was strong enough and sudden enough to make him waver, but all the disgust came back to him that was his when he lay in the grass fighting gnats and cursing
adventure, and he answered, -