. The pet book. Pets. THE HORNED LIZARD Homykins, Homykins, open your eye, For close to your nose is a blue-bottle fly! Toadykins ruflfle your spines and your frills And scurry away on the rocks to the hills! Little squat goblia, all bristling with spikes, Flattened-out lizard that nobody likes. Stone-colored hermit of sagebrush and sand. You're the drollest hobgoblin of no-baby's land! " Charles A. Keeler* ILTHOUGH Homykins looks like a toad made into a pincushion, i it is not a toad at all, but a lizard despite its name. There are several species of these living in Southwestern United S
. The pet book. Pets. THE HORNED LIZARD Homykins, Homykins, open your eye, For close to your nose is a blue-bottle fly! Toadykins ruflfle your spines and your frills And scurry away on the rocks to the hills! Little squat goblia, all bristling with spikes, Flattened-out lizard that nobody likes. Stone-colored hermit of sagebrush and sand. You're the drollest hobgoblin of no-baby's land! " Charles A. Keeler* ILTHOUGH Homykins looks like a toad made into a pincushion, i it is not a toad at all, but a lizard despite its name. There are several species of these living in Southwestern United States, and in Mexico. These spiny little creatures are true deni- zens of the deserts, although some live also in pine and cedar belts. The homed toad luxuriates in a heat that wotild be fatal to us, and, in fact, it is only active during the middle of the day, when the sun, shining through cloudless skies, brings the sand up to 60° centigrade. It then comes out and runs about as gay and happy as any little lizard can be; but before the svin sets, it again seeks its retreat, which it makes by ploughing a little furrow in the sand with its short nose. Into this furrow it settles, its body flattened out, and then, with the spiny edges along each side of its body, it ?From "Elfin Songs of Sunland," by permission of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 278. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930; Lord, Henry B. ins; Wright, Albert Hazen, 1879-1970 ins; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. ins. Ithaca, N. Y. : Comstock
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