they breathed fire and smoke, as all proper dragons must, but still the newspapers went on pretending they were lizards, until the editor of the standard was picked up and carried away by a very large one, and then the other newspaper people had not anyone left to tell them what they ought not to believe. so when the largest elephant in the zoo was carried off by a dragon, the papers gave up pretending and put alarming plague of dragons at the top of the paper.