Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . THE ®)IXTLE curly-haired, blue-eyed Thaddeus will tell youthere is a rare book in ourhousehold that excels allthe others without is our animal book. In that book youwill find some astonishing informationabout monsters and if it does not makeyou see things at night it is not thefault ot the narrator. Take for instancethese that I just recently read to thelittle fellow. The Brontops Robustus~a new ex-tinct quadruped from North America,a robust fellow, height eight feet, heavyand massive, larger than any of theDinocerata,
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . THE ®)IXTLE curly-haired, blue-eyed Thaddeus will tell youthere is a rare book in ourhousehold that excels allthe others without is our animal book. In that book youwill find some astonishing informationabout monsters and if it does not makeyou see things at night it is not thefault ot the narrator. Take for instancethese that I just recently read to thelittle fellow. The Brontops Robustus~a new ex-tinct quadruped from North America,a robust fellow, height eight feet, heavyand massive, larger than any of theDinocerata, with a length of nearlytwelve feet, without tail. The limbs-127-. are not so long as the elephant whichit nearly equals in size. Feeds on appletrees eating them like humans eatwatercress. Thats why the boys keep out ofour orchard. Thaddeus told me. At different times, one of us armedwith a gun and the other with a bowand arrow have watched for the Bron-tops—but we have not seen him. Onenight we thought we heard him but itwas too bold to go out and we likedthe fire better. Megalosaurus Bucklandi ~ this is acarnivorous Dinosaur, about twenty-five feet long. It is not difficult to im-agine a megalosaurus lying in wait forhis prey, perhaps a slender little harm-less newsboy, with his limbs bent underhis body so as to bring his heels to the-128-
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