Our young folks [serial] . Lizards. imaginations of ignorant people. Theyare much like the salamander. The fe-male lays her eggs on the leaf of somewater-plant, which she wraps about themin a curious way, leaving them to behatched by the summer heat. The youngare like tadpoles — what you call polli-wogs — at first; but when fully developed,they breathe the air like frogs or sala-manders. They live on worms and in-sects. Their skin is smooth and swimming, they balance themselveswith their legs, and scull with their one loses a part of its tail, it will growout again
Our young folks [serial] . Lizards. imaginations of ignorant people. Theyare much like the salamander. The fe-male lays her eggs on the leaf of somewater-plant, which she wraps about themin a curious way, leaving them to behatched by the summer heat. The youngare like tadpoles — what you call polli-wogs — at first; but when fully developed,they breathe the air like frogs or sala-manders. They live on worms and in-sects. Their skin is smooth and swimming, they balance themselveswith their legs, and scull with their one loses a part of its tail, it will growout again. There are several species ofefts, and all come under the general nameof newts or tritons. 294 Some Curious Reptiles. [May, The lizards, as I told you, Cousin Tim went on, belong to an entirelydifferent family. In tropical America there is a class of lizards, some ofthem very large ; but we have none hereabouts. The true lizards aboundin the Old World, especially in tropical countries. They run on walls andtrees, sun themselv
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