Ned came with a light, and Bob, hopping out of his bed, turned back the sheet, for only that light covering was needed on account of the warm weather. As he did so something wriggled farther under the covers.
“There it is!” cried Bob. “Look!”
“It’s something, anyhow,” Jerry agreed.
The coverings were thrown off and Bob cried:
“There it is! The two-tailed lizard!”
It was a large lizard, surely enough, and Jerry, who had little fear of crawling creatures, easily captured the specimen.
“I believe it is a two-tailed one,” he said. “At least it might pass for one. Let’s show the professor.”
Dr. Snodgrass slowly examined the specimen in the light of a lantern. He turned it carefully from side to side.
“Well, I suppose you could call that a two-tailed lizard,” he finally announced. “But it is not what I expected. See, there is the rudiment of the second tail,” and he pointed to a short horny knob growing out above the main, or long tail, of the wriggling creature.