Gilbert
and the
Lizard
Eliza disliked Australia. Firstly, she’d had to spend twenty uncomfortable hours on
an
aircraft getting here. She wanted to go to the beach, but her husband was a
zoology
professor and wanted to look for some interesting animals. So now she was
traversing a
swamp in the midday heat.
“Let me sit down, Gilbert. I’m not
hardy like you,” she said, eventually.
They sat under a tree. There were lots of birds in that
secluded, rural place, and they
watched them flying
overhead.
Then suddenly Gilbert saw something on a rock.
“That’s strange,” said Gilbert. “That looks like a Red
Swamp Lizard, but I thought that
species was
extinct.” He
carefully picked it up. “Yes, it is! I’m going to take it back to
the Zoology
Institute. They will be filled with so much
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