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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 29

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ght at her feet, I feel sure youwould soon have been willing to hold their softlittle bodies in your hand, that you might examinetheir many-colored coats, which were very pretty,looking like bits of Persian carpet surrounded byfringe. There is one queer fact about the horned lizardsj coats, — they… … of the same species, the changes in tint takingplace in accordance with similar shades of thesoil. I have seen one that was pure white allover—an albino, perhaps. Why do you supposeMother Nature gave them this singular power?I think there were two reasons. In the first iS8o.] THE STORY OF LIZBETH…

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