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Everything that lived or grew, was oppressed by the glare; except the lizard, passing swiftly over rough stone walls, and the cicala, chirping his dry hot chirp, like a rattle. The very dust was scorched brown, and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were panting. Blinds, shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to keep out the stare.
The girls jumped up in delight, and Gatty seizing hold of one, attempted to carry it suddenly she uttered a shriek, dropped her gourd, and ran behind us all; a large green lizard peeped out of a hole in the gourd, and peering about for a few moments, finally crawled out, followed by innumerable little ones, who disappeared like magic in the grass.
They are a Mediterranean species, or rather three species, left behind upon these extreme south-western coasts, probably at the vanishing of that warmer ancient epoch, which clothed the Lizard Point with the Cornish heath, and the Killarney mountains with Spanish saxifrages, and other relics of a flora whose home is now the Iberian peninsula and the sunny cliffs of the Riviera.
The air seemed dancing for very heat; the grasshoppers were chirping away at the edge of the lawn, a lizard lay basking on the stones of the terrace wall, and the sparrows for once were silent. "It's far too hot to play tennis," said Irene Spencer. "One just wants to sit somewhere where it's green and cool." "I'm glad we're here, then, instead of at Winterburn Lodge," said Mary Parkinson.
The Very Young Man took one of the tiny lizards from the box, and in a moment they had dropped some water containing the drug down its throat. "Try to put him on the scratch, too," said the Very Young Man. When the lizard was small enough the Doctor held it with the callipers and then laid it on the ring. "Look at him walk; look at him walk," whispered the Very Young Man excitedly.
"No more there are any," said Bill, "if ye except the niggers themselves. There's none on the islands but a lizard or two, and some sich harmless things; but I never seed any myself. If there's none on the land, however, there's more than enough in the water; and that reminds me of a wonderful brute they have here. But come, I'll show it to you."
I do not know of any lizard that enjoys impunity from attack by the secretion of any acrid or poisonous fluid from its skin, like the little red and blue frog that I have already described, but I was told of one that was said to be extremely venomous.
"I suspect, Roblez," continued the Colonel, "that you have been all the while wondering how I came to know about this caravan whose spoil is to enrich us its route the exact time of its arrival, the strength of its defenders everything? You think our friend the Horned Lizard gave me all this information." "No, I don't; since that could not well be.
Oh the ring, my master stole the ring, And he holds it while I sing, In the middle of the world. Where's the ring? Where the long green Lizard curled All its length, and made a spring Fifty leagues along. There he stands, With his brown hands, And sings to the Lizard a wonderful song. And he gives the white stone to that Lizard fell, For he fears it and loves it passing well."
Its shape is exactly like that of a lizard; or, if you have never seen a lizard, did you never observe a small animal, of some inches long, which lives at the bottom of ditches and ponds?"
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