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Title: Our young folks (serial)
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916 Hamilton, Gail, 1833-1896 Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
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Publisher: (Boston : Ticknor and Fields)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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eloped,they breathe the air like frogs or sala-manders. They live on worms and in-sects. Their skin is smooth and delicate.In swimming, they balance themselveswith their legs, and scull with their tails.If one loses a part of its tail, it will growout again. There are several species ofefts, and all come under the general nameof newts or tritons. 294 Some Curious Reptiles. (May, The lizards, as I told you, Cousin Tim went on, belong to an entirelydifferent family. In tropical America there is a class of lizards, some ofthem very large ; but we have none hereabouts. The true lizards aboundin the Old World, especially in tropical countries. They run on walls andtrees, sun themselves on banks and limbs, and dart in and out of thegreen foliage, amidst which their bright colors shine very prettily. Some-times thousands of them will be seen about some old ruin. Some species are very curious. One of the most remarkable is theflying dragon, found in some Asiatic islands. It has a kind of mem-
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Fringed Dragon and Flying Dragon. branous wings which it spreads. Many lizards are good jumpers ; this one,however, not only jumps, but sails a considerable distance, like a flying-squirrel, before alighting. Then there is the fringed dragon, very similarto the flying dragon ; the frilled lizard, and — But I think I have talked enough about reptiles for one night. AndCousin Tim took up the evening paper. Harvey Wilder, 1872.) The Maple-Trees Children. 295 THE MAPLE-TREES CHILDREN. A MAPLE-TREE awoke at spring-time, shivering in the east-winds. O Mother Nature, she said, I tremble with cold. Behold mylimbs ugly and bare. The birds are all coming back from the South, andI would look my best. They will soon be building their nests. O, a birds-nest does make a tree so pleasant! But, alas, they will not come to me,because I have no leaves to hide them ! And kind Mother Nature smiled, and presented her daughter Maple withsuch multitudes of leaves ! More than you could count! These gave be

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