Our young folks [serial] . ly enable it to resist for a moment a flame of no great people have believed that it could live in fire, and many a foolish phi-losopher has tested the superstition by roasting the poor creatures belief that they are poisonous has about as much foundation. Thefluid I have spoken of is said to have poisoned creatures that have bittenthem, — so if you see a salamander inthe woods, be sure and not bite it, andyou are safe ! laughed Cousin Tim. But there is another little thing,something like it, only smaller, saidRufus, and it lives in the water. Wesa
Our young folks [serial] . ly enable it to resist for a moment a flame of no great people have believed that it could live in fire, and many a foolish phi-losopher has tested the superstition by roasting the poor creatures belief that they are poisonous has about as much foundation. Thefluid I have spoken of is said to have poisoned creatures that have bittenthem, — so if you see a salamander inthe woods, be sure and not bite it, andyou are safe ! laughed Cousin Tim. But there is another little thing,something like it, only smaller, saidRufus, and it lives in the water. Wesaw several in a deep black ditch thatdrains Uncle Georges swamp. The boyscalled them evets ; and they said theywere dreadfully dangerous, — they wouldpoison us if they looked at us ! That was very unjust to the evets,or efts, as they are more properly are harmless little creatures, thoughthey have the repulsive lizard-like look,and the habit of hiding in dark, mysteriousswamp water, which are exciting to the. Evets.
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