IN THE BUNGALOW. 



me. * They seem to remain on the qui 

 mve for hours, feeding all the time : and 

 yet they don't burstat least I have never 

 seen that unpleasant fatality happen ! 

 Uncomfortable as their presence may be 

 and unlovely as their appearance un- 

 doubtedly is, never drive away or kill the 

 domestic lizard of our bungalows, for he 

 is striving his utmost to lessen the num- 

 bers of our insect intruders ; and more 

 power to him, say I, for I have often 

 seen him swallow as a hors d'ceuvre 

 some particularly noxious form of pest 

 when he has been dining with me 

 uninvited on a neighbouring wall. 



Our domestic lizard is very human 

 too ! We were out in a small rest-house 

 the other day in camp. The only bed 

 room was the tiniest of apartments with 

 a low sloping tin roof with one of the 

 ordinary ceiling cloths stretched beneath 

 it and sagging down in the usual manner. 

 Two lizards, a most devoted couple, 

 ranged over one wall, having their home 



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