Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 776
and not one that could possibly be made apet of. People were silly enough to believe that itcame from an egg laid by a very old cock andhatched by a toad, and that it had a cocks headand wings, a lizards body and tail, eight feet, andwore a kingly crown as monarch of all the ser- pents and dragons,… … THE BASILISK. lived in the deserts of Africa ; it could only live in adesert, for its dreadful breath burned up everythingthat grew, and no animal would venture near itexcept the weasel, who would bravely fight with it.The weasel got the better of the Basilisk by eating 74Q SOME QUEER ANIMALS.…
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