Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-04-08 | Page 11 | Lizards Lovable.

LIZARDS LOVABLE LOVAL Lizards bear acquaintance nce well wen and andone andone one likes them tho the better beter the longer lonser one looks Into their beautiful Innocent innocente e eyes es They are eBI easily tamed and one soon learns lers to lovo love them Item as they dart about aboul on tho hot ock swift swit as a dragon- dragon files flics Ies The eye can hardly follow them writes John Muir Mull In he the Atlantic but they never nc ne er make long sustained runs u usually ual only about aboul ten or twelve feet tet then a sudden stop atop and as sudden udden a tart stat again going all al their journe 8 by quick Jerking Impulses These many man stops I find are arc necessary necessary sary as a rests for tor they are short winded and when pursued steadily tealy are soon foon out of breath pant pitifully and are arc easily caught aught Their bodies are ar more than half halt tail tal but these tal tails are well el managed never nC fr heavily dragged nor curved up as I If I hard to carry carr on the contrary they seem to folo follow the body lightly of their ther own wilL Some arc are colored like Ik the sky brg bright as bluebirds others gray nY like the thes the Ich- Ich ened nel rocks on which they thoy hunt and bask bak Even the horned toad of ot the plains Is Isa Isa isa a a mild mid harmless creature and no so are aro tho the snakelike species which glide In curves curet with wih true tre snake nake motion moton while their small smal undeveloped limbs drag as useless appendages pp One Ono specimen fourteen Inches long Ions which I observed clos closely made no use UM 10 whatever of its Ils tender sprouting limbs but hut glided with all al the tho soft sly ea ease o and grace of a snake Hero comes conies a a little lite gray gra dust dusty fellow who seems to know and trust me running about my feet teet and looking cunningly into up tip my face Carlo Is 18 watching mak makes 8 a a quick pounce on him but for lor the fun of or the thing I suppose but Liz has shot awa away from roni his hi paws paw like an nn arrow and Is safe in the recesses se of ot a clump cump of ot chaparral Gentle Genta dragons descendants of an nn ancient and mighty race rae Heaven bless bless' bIOs bIOs' you ou all al and make your our virtues known for for few tew of us know aH aa as yet that scales seales may cover telo fellow fellow-cr fellow creatures s as gentle and lovable as IS do feathers or hair or coth coil coth