Argosy, September 1955 — page 59: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

57 would assume a different shade if placed for hours on either white or black, but ordinary colour changes meant nothing to it. The infuriating animal just rolled each eye separately and continued to ponder on the soul-searing problem of whether the other leg should be moved forward or not. ‘The time-worn joke of a chameleon bursting when placed on a bit of tartan is a romance. C. J. Lampert, Together We Wandered Gnatty On the wing Gnats sing Gnotes that match G natch. When I feel they’re sharp. I gnock ’em flat. You can tune a harp, But gnot a gnat. Davip McCorp, Odds Without Ends Word of— I beleeve you must be carefull of your Ostridge this returne of cold wether... Str THOMAS BROWNE, in a letter to his son, 1681 — Warning oh deride not the camel if grief should make him dte his ghost will come to haunt you with tears in either eye and the spirit of a camel in the midnight gloom can be so very cheerless as 1t wanders round the room Don Margulis, archy and mehitabel comiclbooks.conn