Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 448
little man, THE SHIP S CAT. When the ship put into New York lastSeptember a little gray kitten came aboardto keep Little Man company. Puss isnothing but a landman, and Billy does notbother about him. The queerest member of the family is Satan, the iguana. Satan is a native ofChili, though his kind… … the American tropics. He is a big, fat, lazy,homely reptile, who was not more than a footlong when he boarded the ship in the harborof Valparaiso. Ugly as he looks, the iguana A MAN-0 -WAR S MENAGERIE. 436 makes a very palatable stew, and there isa suspicion that this was to have been hisdestiny…
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