5G 
LITTLE FOLKS 
The wisest men of old times believed these stories, and it 
seems droll enough to read of it in serious, wise books. Even the 
name of the honest little fellow got to mean one who changes his 
opinions to suit everybody and has no fixed ideas of his own. 
You see it has taken hundreds of years, and hundreds of men 
watching them, to find out about these curious little fellows ; and 
you can learn it all in five minutes. 
He has some cousins that I want to tell you about. Here's 
one — lovely creature he is too, isn't he ? — with his broad flat head 
like a snake, and his tail trimmed with scollops in the very latest 
style. Look at his feet, with their cat-like claws, and his soft 
trailing body that always drags on the ground. These claws 
enable him to climb anything, the smoothest wall or rock, and 
hang on for hours without moving. 
When he does move, it is with a sudden rush, with no noise, 
and generally in the night. Altogether, there is something so 
uncanny in his ways that he has got a very bad name with the 
people of the warm countries where he lives. They say that he is 
very savage, and his bite is poisonous. But the experiments of 
late years have proved him to be a harmless fellow enough, who 
only asks to be let alone, to live on old walls or rocks, and catch 
the insects and spiders he wants to eat. 
