dinosaurus as he existed when alive, an animal over 70 feet long,
that would weigh as much as a dozen of our largest elephants, with
a neck as long as 15 giraffes, and then they showed us bones of
these animals that they dug out and put together, and the
completed mess of bones showed that the dinosaurus could eat out
of a six-story window, and pa's circus instinct told him that if
he could find such an animal alive, and capture it for the show,
our fortunes would be made.

We stayed there all night, and Pa asked questions about the
probability of there being such animals alive at this day, and the
scientists promptly told Pa these animals only existed ages and
ages ago, when the country was covered with water and was a part
of the ocean, and that the animals lived on the high places, but
when the water receded, and the ocean became a desert, the
dinosaurus died of a broken heart, and all we had to show for it
was these petrified bones.

Pa ought to have believed the scientists, 'cause they know all
about their business, but after the scientists had gone to bed the
cowboys began to string pa. They told him that about a hundred
miles to the north, in a valley in the mountains, the dinosaurus
still existed, alive, and that no man dare go there. One cowboy
said he was herding a bunch of cattle in a valley up there once,
and the bunch got into a drove of dinosauruses, and the first
thing he knew a big dinosaurus reached out his neck and picked
up a steer, raised it in the air about 80 feet, as easy as a derrick
would pick up a dog house, and the dinosaurus swallowed the
steer whole, and the other dinosauruses each swallowed a
steer. The cowboy said before he knew it his whole bunch of