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of almost every house. Along the walls of the houses dart and glide 
the nocturnal little gekkoes, the greedy but otherwise inoffensive 
“fathers of leprosy.” Here and there upon the trees is seen the 
changeful play of color of the familiar chameleon, while other rep- 
AFRICAN WALL-LIZARD. 
tiles, often brightly-colored, and some of them more than a yard 
long, love the desert solitudes. Egypt was always famous as the 
land of snakes. It has about twenty varieties, poisonous and non- 
poisonous. As in the days of Moses, so in our own times, there are 
