192 Wild Lifein a Southern County. 
lizard may be found under it. This lizard is slender, 
and not more than three or four inches in length, ge- 
neral colour a yellowish green. Where one is found 
a second is commonly close by. They are elegantly 
shaped, and quick in their motions, speedily making 
off. They may now and then be discovered under 
large stones, if there is a crevice, in the meadows. 
They do not in the least resemble the ordinary ‘ land- 
lizard,” which is a much coarser-looking and larger 
creature, and is not an inhabitant of this locality : at 
all events it is rare enough to have escaped me here, 
though I have often observed it in districts where the 
soil is light and sandy and where there is a good deal 
of heath-land. The land-lizards will stroll indoors if 
the door be left open. These lesser but more elegant 
lizards appear to prefer a damp spot—cool and moist, 
but not positively wet. 
- A large shed built against the side of the adjacent 
stable is used as a carpenter’s workshop—much car- 
penter’s work is done on a farm—and here is a bench 
with a vice and variety of tools. When sawing, the 
wood operated on often ‘ties’ the saw, as it is called 
—that is, pinches it—which makes it hard to work ; 
a thin wedge of wood is then inserted to open a way, 
and the blade of the saw rubbed with a little grease, 
which the metal, heated by the friction, melts into oil. 
This eases the work—a little grease, too, will make a 
gimlet bore quicker. Country carpenters keep this 
grease in a horn—a cow’s horn stopped at the larger 
