Part 1 It all began with Effe's getting something in her eye. It hurt very much indeed, and It felt something like a red-hot spark-only t seemed to have legs as wel, and wings like a fly. Effe rubbed
father was a doctor so of course he knew how to take thinns out of eves
hout your being miserable inside your nind-and then she went to her father to have the thing in her eye taken out. Effie's
eye
s out
When he had gotten the thing out, he sald: "This is very curious. Effe had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always seemed to think it was natural-rather tiresorne and
naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious.
effe stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and sald: "I don't belleve it's out." People always say this when they have had something in their eyes,
Oh yeSts outsald the doctor. "Here It is, on the brush, This is very interesting.
Effie had never heard her father say that about anything that she had any share In. She said: "What?"
The doctor carried the brush very carefully across the room, and held the point of it under his microscope-then he twisted the brass screws of the microscope, and looked through the top with
one eye.
*Dear me," he sald. "Dear, dear met Four well-developed limbs; a long caudal appendage; five toes, unequal in lengths, almost like one of the Lacertidae, yet there are traces of wings." The
creature under his eye wriggled a littie in the castor oll, and he went on: "Yes; a bat-like wing. A new specimen, undoubtedly, Effie, run round to the professor and ask hirm to be kind enough to
step In for a few minutes,"
"You might glve me sixpence, Daddy," sald Efle, "because I did bring you the new specdmen. I took great care of it inside my eye, and my eye does hurt.
The doctor was so pleased with the new specimen that he gave Effie a shilling, and presently the professor stepped round. He stayed to lunch, and he and the doctor quarreled very happily all the
afternoon about the name and the family of the thing that had come out of Effie's eye
What is the main Idea of the story?
a. science is more important than professional comfort
b. creatures can be painful but pretty
c. science can be a painful pursuit
d. there are unusual creatures all around us