Animals: Dragons

In a Railway Express depot on Manhattan's loth Avenue one morning last week three lizards sprawled in their crates and hissed their sullen woe. They were waiting for a U. S. customs officer to let them be hauled up to The Bronx Zoo. They could afford to wait. They had come a long way. In space it was 11,000 mi., from the Island of Komodo between Sumbawa and Flores in the Dutch East Indies. In time it was more than 60,000,000 years.

All that afternoon at The Bronx Zoo pop-eyed New Yorkers crowded around...

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