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"May I inquire," he said, with all civility, "what particular sort of a Beast you may happen to be looking for?" "It's a lizardy sort of Beast," I explained. "Charlotte says it 's a dragon, but she doesn't really know much about beasts." The circus-man looked round about him slowly. "I don't think," he said, "that I've seen a dragon in these parts recently.
This put me on my mettle, and I hastily rattled off a string of animal names embracing both the arctic and the tropic zones, but without much real confidence. "No," said Charlotte, on consideration; "they won't any of 'em quite do. Seems like something lizardy. Did you say a iguanodon? Might be that, p'raps. But that's not British, and we want a real British beast. I think it's a dragon!"
"May I inquire," he said, with all civility, "what particular sort of a Beast you may happen to be looking for?" "It's a LIZARDY sort of Beast," I explained. "Charlotte says it's a dragon, but she doesn't really know much about beasts." The circus-man looked round about him slowly. "I don't THINK," he said, "that I've seen a dragon in these parts recently.
Yes, sir like a seal. I'm getting skeart. One of they great lizardy things must have got him." "Cease rowing!" cried my uncle, and he followed my example of standing up in the boat and scanning the surface, including the nearest shore that on our left, where the trees came right down to the water.
This put me on my mettle, and I hastily rattled off a string of animal names embracing both the arctic and the tropic zones, but without much real confidence. "No," said Charlotte, on consideration; "they won't any of 'em quite do. Seems like something LIZARDY. Did you say a iguanodon? Might be that, p'raps. But that's not British, and we want a real British beast. I think it's a dragon!"
But the latter was not to be thought of, for more than one reason. Mud was one, but that might have been borne; another reason was that certain loathsome lizardy creatures lurked about in those waters on the look-out for food.
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