"'Tell me what thy lordly name is/On the Night's Plutonian shore.'"
"Isadore," he volunteered, swallowing fast while I climbed aboard him.
"Take me back."
Then I realized I had made a mistake with the food.
"Go!" I cried. "Spaceship! More food!" He just stood there, his beak
poking around the ground for crumbs.
But I had to get that skin spray washed off before twenty-four hours
were up.
"Nepenthe!" I shouted desperately.
The dodo was off like a flash and didn't stop till we were back at the
ship.
"You were gone quite a while," Rene said nonchalantly. "Find anything?"
"Enough to pay you off," I said. "And we'll make it five thousand
because _I_ found it. Stow this somewhere. It's perfume."