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It started when Effie got something in her eye, which made the eye very painful and watery. She asked her father, who was a doctor, to get it out. He did so , with a brush dipped in castor oil. After removing the irritant from Effie's eye, he said "This is very curious." He placed the brush under a microscope, examined it, and said it had "four well-developed limbs, a long caudal appendage, five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like the Lacertidae, yet there are traces of wings." Effie ran to get the professor, and he and the doctor discussed the creature over lunch. Suddenly, Effie's brother Harry dipped another creature out of his tea. The creature hopped onto the table, where it sat "stroking its feet and stretching its wings." Harry said "Why, it's a tiny newt!" This creature was a half-inch lizard, complete with scales and wings! The next morning, the knife-boy found another lizard in the doctor's boots, this one the size of a kitten, with big, shiny wings. Effie recognized it as a "dragon like the one St. George killed." The next morning, the papers were full of news of the "wonderful winged lizards" that were being found all over the country. Within a couple of weeks, the creatures were swarming like bees in some areas. They all looked the same, except they came in different sizes.
