CHAPTER XXVI 



LIZARDS, NEWTS AND SALAMANDERS 



A HEADLESS SNAKE STRIKES THE AUTHOR TEST OF THE FET- 

 ISH THE STORY OF BILLY WHO IS HAPPIEST WHEN HE 

 IS BLUE HOW HE CAME BY MAIL WAS ASPHYXIATED 

 ATE MEAL WORMS LITTLE RED " BILLIES," BIG RED 

 "BILLIES," SPOTTED "BILLIES," AND SLIMY "BILLIES" 

 A WATER "BILLY" A GREAT MYSTERY THE DOUBLE 

 LIFE OF THE VERMILION SPOTTED NEWT HE EATS HIS 



OLD CLOTHES ONLY COMES OUT AT NIGHT EASY TO 

 KEEP IN CONFINEMENT THE CAROLINA ANOLIS CAUGHT 



A BLACK ONE AND FOUND I HAD A GREEN ONE COLOR 



CHANGES OF AN AMERICAN CHAMELEON GREEN ITS 

 FAVORITE COLOR WONDERFUL ARRANGEMENT OF ITS 

 FEET. 



A few years ago there was a package came by 

 mail from Natchez, Mississippi. It was tightly 

 sealed, but had a suspicious appearance, and looked 

 as if it contained some sort of natural history speci- 

 men, but whether the thing inside was dead or 

 alive, iish or reptile, there was but one way to dis- 

 cover. The package was opened and out rolled 

 a little lizard. It was apparently dead, asphyxi- 

 ated from its long confinement without air, but 

 when laid on the window-sill where the breeze blew 

 over its little gray body, it soon began to show signs 

 of life. A letter following the package told me 

 that the thing was a pet and its name was Billy. 



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