A PAGE for the CHILDREN

Ladies' Mirror, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 November 1922, Page 30

A PAGE for the CHILDREN

QUITE recently I was walking among the stones and rushes at the edge of one of our bush creeks, when something at my left side moved slightly. Carefully eyeing the foot of the rushes, I noticed some unusual white marks upon what seemed a part of the leaves and the ground. Suddenly the white marks moved forward, a head, a body, a tail appeared, and a very bright piercing eye was turned upon me. . . . Cool though you know me to be, and resourceful, I was for the moment unnerved, and started away in fright however I restrained the impulse to fly, and decided to examine at closer quarters the cause of my fright. It turned out to be a fair-sized lizard, a harmless creature, and I was glad indeed of the opportunity to learn _ something about him, as I had never before seen one of his kind. ... He is to be found among the ferns and roots in just such a spot as I came across him, and his very bright light green dress is splendid. On each side, along the back from the head nearly to the end of the tail, is a single row of white streaks, and each streak has a black line round it. Very fine is the effect of this gorgeous coat seen against a grey stone. . . . Most wonderful is his eye, the brightest I have seen, light yellow grey, with a black slit very like your cat's eye seen in the sunshine. . . . For meals, he explained that he depended mainly upon flies, and very well they appeared to agree with him.