Lizzard Hunting

Awhile ago, a Jesus lizzard came into our screen porch by mistake and we kept him there and tried to fed him bugs. A few days before that I had a sickness that made my asthma horrible. I had to use a nebulizar every four hours but this day I was doing better. The next day though I had a fever 100.3, I still helped Dad with work though. While on the stageing Rachele said she saw a smallish green iguana on a palm branch, well the palm tree hapened to be next to our house. The part where the branches start is about 2 feet from the tin roof of our house. So I climbed to the roof on another tree and took a long pole with me. Then I carefully edged across the roof where I could reach the branch with my pole. I then reached out and shook the branch but the iguana just eged around to the other side. I shook the branch again and this time the Iguana dropped to the ground right in front of my waiting dog. I can't give a complete description of what was happening because I was still on the roof and could only hear wha was going on. But this is what I heard: the running of small lizzard feet and larger dog feet. My siblings laughing and Bandit's growl. by the time I had gotten down the Iguana had found safety atop our cement wall so I knocked him off and he ran into the same grove of bananna trees that "the one that got away" ran into. But ths one did not run through it like the other one. He tried to climb them with Bandit in hot pursuit! But the bananna trees were slipery and the Iguana could only make it up about a foot. Of course Bandit could reach him there but didn't hurt him, just sniffed him. We called Antonio, our grounds keeper, and he grabbed it just behind the ear lobes and I went and got my animal box and Antonio placed him in it. I later named the Jesus Lizzard Ernie and the Iguana Lightning. The end.