The professor leaned forward before the doctor could say a word. "Til give you half a crown for it, Harry, my lad," he said, speaking very fa carefully on his handkerchief.
"It is a new specimen," he said, "and finer than yours, Doctor."
It was a tiny lizard, about half an inch long-with scales and wings.
So now the doctor and the professor each had a specimen, and they were both very pleased. But before long these specimens began to
next morning, when the knife-boy was cleaning the doctor's boots, he suddenly dropped the brushes and the boot and the blacking, and
burnt
And from inside the boot came crawling a lizard as big as a kitten, with large, shiny wings.
"Why," said Effie, "I know what it is. It is a dragon like the one St. George killed."
And Effie was right. That afternoon Towser was bitten in the garden by a dragon about the size of a rabbit, which he had tried to chase, a
papers were full of the wonderful "winged lizards" that were appearing all over the country. The papers would not call them dragons, beca
believes in dragons nowadays-and at any rate the papers were not going to be so silly as to believe in fairy stories. At first there were on
two the country was simply running alive with dragons of all sizes, and in the air you could sometimes see them as thick as a swarm of be
except as to size. They were green with scales, and they had four legs and a long tail and great wings like bats' wings, only the wings we
yellow, like the gear-boxes on bicycles
How would you summarize the events in the story so far? Be sure to use details from the text to support your answer.