The Book of Dragons Chapter III The Deliverers of Their Country, an excerpt
By E. Nesbit
When he had gotten the thing out, he said: "This is very curious." Effie had often got things in her eye before, and her father had always
seemed to think it was natural-rather tiresome and naughty perhaps, but still natural. He had never before thought it curious.
Effie stood holding her handkerchief to her eye, and said: "I don't believe it's out." People always say this when they have had something
in their eyes.
"Oh, yes--it's out," said 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 said. "Dear, dear me! 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 little in the castor oil, and he went on: "Yes; a bat-like
wing. A new specimen, undoubtedly. Effie, run round to the professor and ask him to be kind enough to step in for a few minutes."
How can we decribe Daddy? (5 points)
Oь
He is calm and curious.
He is angry and upset.
He is hysterical
He is uninterested and bored.