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THE IGUANODON'S EGG.

A PRIMEVAL MONSTER NOW AT LARGE IN

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Why says Bon, when he soon that mighty slow an", keerful about. That's all. Papua. She kep' s-drivin' as for, I guess, squaw as Ben married was the chiefe dartar, among them trace, An' afors they get 'om the big round ball a-stan'in' where there had

And did you ever see this monster out of that coger er over. die, give anybodied, an hustled be spears, an' the ball thing was what would turn up with Baxter goes back to the mau auto the monator?" neke a day on a half, till we was stranded on and cut that there marrings Bon got big.is the girls screche, au screamed, as felloa'y bin heap of sand afore, they stood moua o pebbles. that there ball must gen'lman, I've got to tell ye about." mud bank, an had to wade shore. The ger au more poppier var sver. To see, he on their knees, an cried enough to break dazen like lookin' at such other, no at maha laid there thousands of years afore Adam

Hundreds an hundorda o' times," ro The scheiner Miles, just returned from natives come down to look at us, fed like, could throw them avage-wrastlin, give anybody's heart, but then blacks puslind, an' Ben, who was stan'in' there lasein' on an Eve or else that bigh pricat is the agala PI inquired.

keup, an the bay f the Bay of Papua, writl: a cargo of nutmega tut gradually they got less sserad an' then 'em the foot, au beat 'em at the club gume, an solled, an hustled on in with their his shoval, onconsarned like. It was easy to durndest liar I ever so. Anyways, I reskon

Cat a having sighted auwe wasowane this hour, or my name aint Ben schooner from Australay happen

went up with them to a sort of village on the tall so that them sarages hadn't no rest of the crowd hepatout all bell jest waited to see what would turn up. Arter prove the very

op with the hindred yards I must toprens bein', au' didn't that had broke loos and masay bark, reports having sighted aufwe went up with them to a sort of village an' they made a sort of god out of him. Now, cleba an the pints their spars, an' the sas they didn't know what to do, case the the last pebble has been throwed on that plied Capt. Solbright. "I lived with them

turn we the old men the mone settlement, or

Bensch extraordinary nicester in the swamps which they had, samo two or three hindred yards I must tell ye that them serages hadn't no rest of the crowd tep up a howlis, on ball thing was out o' their sporence, nasovskap, an' that ball's a-goin' out of this ham savages for nine years artor that, till a up the bar for uutmegs an' spice, an' I got a few minutes the high priest comes in with Baxter

Bow line the eastern shore of the bay. It was fa ahora. Now, mind you, in them times ideo of a soprano bein, an' didn't tear un beatin' drums, so's you'd be thought all bell jost waited to see what would turn up. Arter grove this very hour, or my name aint Ber schooner from Australay happened Lo cond

"Well, gan'lmen, in cared I didn'á lileo a gang a' bladas from the village, an then go we goes back to the ball, an' Ben he off in her, plainly visibly at a distance, of four miles nobody knew nothin' about them blacks that thin for co kind of waship, of anythin' they hall broke leons,

What were thin characteristics of tho from the spot where the schoolier was lying area in Papaz. Taste was no trade in them ouddn't see, but they sushipped Ben Baxter, of, braking and tearing its way through days with Australay, gor none with other cas they roapected his pints, an' he was to see this bizness guin an, but what could the bull o' them stocul jabberin their ling, shoves the priest an' the old men out of the the camphot-trees and ango palong with, he countries, for folks could get their spices an authig afore their eyes. Well, it camed on I du? Why, if I had made a more to do an p'iniin' to nie au' Ben an' the big ball way, an gives the word to pull; but the monster?" neko W Did it ever at- Captain Biggs describes it, the same case as birds far easier in the islands to the west,ward the middle of December when the anythin' I'd be bin chased up into mince Prenenly the high priuat goes to one side darned thing stuck so fast to the sand that tack the settlement, or make itself obnoxious

pre-meat En pig through a potato patel. The captain an' had no need to come to Papuo. There people of the village begins to make big pre meat too quick. In a minute or two they with some of the savagas, an begins takis, there was cry pull to it, till all of a sudden in any way?

coast the pratiers for some sort of a feast, as I could drov an pustied all there girls instile the au I reckoned they was holdin' n council of it tits up, case me an Ben an' about twenty "I navar 1930 nor heard o' no one bein'

was over, anya that, see that distance, it cannot have been less than island, but this part as we was stranded on noe by their carryin' on on Saint up of all grove, on's a logo the rages stood guard war or authin' o' that sort. When they got more savages was givin' it a h'ist frare be hurt by it. It kop to the swamps and

a that, julging captainbirda far easier fit, fulging from its appearance at was home trade with the north coast the 'ratiers for some sort of a feast, as loudest s that distnner, it cannot lite appearance at was some trade with the north coastere people of the village begins to make big premyo I'd ba bin chased up into mince Prenen's the high on an' the big ball way, an' gives the old man out of the

village. It growed very fast, ton, for it was Fallin' went round, an the priest made a sign, an' the the haweer slipped over the top from eighty to a aandred feet in length. He was way down in the southeast corner, an sorts a' grub, au paintin' themselfs up frouk, afore it, in courts we couldn't see nothin' through jabberin' to themselfe they turned sind, an' ce it made a roll over, an', in couras, jungles, an over bothered the folks in the

savages come in from the more, though there they got more savages was givin' it a b'ist frara be- hurt

Yo might ha knowed that, Bon,' says on'y bout twelve foot long when it was of a balance o' the savages formed a circle around "Yo might hat knows says that sometimes it would rise on its and the bized as lived there was a diff'rent from an' a hull grag of savages came in from the more, though the sareerbin and yollin' want round, an the priest made

kingit lars, and that then its head would stand the the folks as lived a thoumad miles off, at the country, rabbe eight hundred or a thousand on wuss nor ever. In about a quarter of a balance o' the savages formed a circle around

sight sasior rollin' it than draggin" it. So ye may call it an the last tiare I seen it it a minute or two the priest sn the wages say Jim, then blacks means mischief, but we all gita hi efear of the tops of the falin-irces. He ex-bar and the island, as a nigger frota a all old. Thove was burryio sound, an hour the screechin' quieted down, an artar us, an' stond threatenin' like. Then Beo L; we kein git that thora bail out a dura batched out o' that ball, or egg, or whatever

of

Bu come their legs, hands wanted up shot wood shove

Jim, them blacks means mischief, but we all gita behind it. an jest rulled it over was 'bout sixty font long, uu' smashin' an aurined it through his ginas, and says that Malay. The report was that they was can- beatin' o' drums an' clashin' e' metal plates, a minute or two the priest sn the savager says to me: He never saw any animal like it, but compor of or Ince was left alone by our sheria' abeep. Thon He never saw any animal like it, but compares nibals, an' we was a little afeard at first that till we all of us wondered what next. Ban comed out, au I could see blood on their

"Did you never give the facts of the case it most norrly to a bear in general character they might be out a fresh meat; but they had gone to another but to live with his wife, hands aur their legs, as if they h' boon bnt. the fast ons as cames at me I mean jest to an over like a big now-bail, till we got it crashin' its way through big forast tross the

sabet, reliable treated as fast-rate an' no mistake. From the au me an Mister Ince was left alone by our sheria' sheep. Then all hands want back let him have it good. There's one got to fly clear of the grove, an' right out on the open same as if they was stubble istics. Captain Biggs is

sta man, not much given to yarning, and, as first day that we got there we kep' a look-cut solfe, Mister Ince's cough got wuss to the village except the girls ne stayed up ahead of me, an he took a tight hold oflat in front of the village. An, although

it didn't weigh no more nor about five ten, nerar tall the story before just as you have told it to us?" I inquired, after a the circumstance is attested by bis crew of for a ship, an' we axed them by signs if anyway, an' on the fifteenth of December (for constant at the grove, an' they had feastin, the iron-wood shovel, an' I seea meant the thing was about fourteen foot through, to the public before this- tasan, did you

Then Bon says to me: Jim, I guess pause six, we offer no comment. Here is a chance chips over comed that way, an' Mister Tacewe kap' the dava aotobed on a stick) he an' dancin', an kop it up till morsie. I bisness.

bont's fat our local Nimrods."--Brisbane Courier, he drew the picter of a ship on a leaf of his died, an' me na' Ben Baxter dug a grave, an dind't kcer to jids in, urler rust. I sten, an All-right," sara L. "I gasu wo bis die nuways.

we've shook their besils an' we rolled him up in quaunin

we've settled this bizness now; but the idee's Bless you, yes," returned the capteia. note book, but they shook their beals an' we rolled him up in geceanut minta ao put I just lay in my hot A-thinkin' 'bout strikin' jest as hard na the nox' and if it comes to January 6, 1982.

The above paragraph, taken from a Queens-it was clear no ship ever comed that way yof his in, the savages all stannin' 'round an out an leavin' the darned place anyway, the p'iut."

a-runnin' in through the circle, an stands thom blacks the difference atween a real d'ys think they would b'liere a word o' it? land (Australia) paper of a recent date; aert The boat, I must tell yo, had got washed off lookin' on un' when we shoveled the sand when Ran Baxter comed into the but, au, An jest at that moment Beu's wito come got to be kep' up, and I'm a-goin' to show umiling, "my an miny a time. Bat mo by a friend, attracted my attention when the mud.tank to first night, an' spiked out over him, Bón Barter be oriod, an' then sil says he mo by a friend exclaiming.uldn't do nothin' with her, a

Jim, says he, Satween you an me, alongside Bon. an' begins jabberin' liko mad, livin' god an' a big, round, horny ball. Jess Not much. Some of them would smile, ao" over me with yar yarns; an' some would git I read it to the extent of my exclaiming, coral reef; an' was so stove in that we them sasagoa bogari to blabber like baħbies,

to-day. Be dil, an I found it all out arlerwards: -"Bahl base these ex-serpents and bocjou- couldn't do nothin' with her, an' the natives au ya never hear sech a haltabaton in all yer they've been a-slaughterin' all them young I didn't know what she was a-sayin, but fetch up that stool I made when we first took wisa, as must so to say, ye can't come stark berpants and boojou couldn't fan was so stove in that were him, Bon Barter be eriod, an' then all when Ben Baxter comediate the way, the pint sparks begun to attack the hard-lienden bad so tools that amounted to anything for life. An' store Mister Ince died he guy Bun girls as way draw into the graze to-day. Be did, an I found it all out arlerwards: comed hero. Australinas with their leaven? Well!" carpenteria So there was nothin' for it but Easter bis pin as his ring, an' he guy no Now, sure's my name's Ben Baxter, Tae I'll give yo the jist of it now. The rules S5 I brung the stost up from the but; mad, and call me & old foal, an I s'pose "Have you any immediate use for this And the next minute it passed from my either to stay where we was, or sine make for his watch an his pockel-book, for bo said he a-goin' to see what's in that there grave, an the place was that no one should enter that an' Ben taken out his jack-nife an! cats etops, you can'lwen is jest like the balanca momary. I should probably never again some other part of the island. To nor ward had no livid relatives in the world as be if it's some idol, as I guess it is, I'm a-goin' there grove on pain of death, and the high in the side of the ball, to climb up to the top of them

go have thought of it, had not a singula: sir, au enstward ya could son nothin' but snowy knowed on. An' here's a piece o writen to wash the durned thing up, an put priest had said that we was to die. Whenoit, ease be asid it would look ondignified

sire other watch an his pocket-book, for bo said cumstance brought it to the surface, and mountains, su south ard there was nothin' bich you gon'iper il understand better nor stoppar on them purcesdin's wenst for all Bon's wife come a-runnin' in, an' seen what for a god to ga sprawlin' an' scramblin' up paper, Captain. Sebright ? neked W given it suficient importance in my eyes to but swamps, and audi-banks, an' forests I do, relative du the country we was wrecked Welt, Bon; Bay I, for I seos his mind was up, she told Ben bis on'y cliance was to the smooth side of a ball, a-hollis on by his hating up Mr. Inco's manuscript from the

I throws up the stool to him, an' then he scientific purposes."

throws up the holen anke it the tox, as it wors, of the following camphor-trees au sech like, while goin' west in. It's a bit torn, but mebbe ye may get was set on it, an' it wara't no use counterio do sathin' that the high priest cuddent de tooth an' ayebrows. When he was wat up table. "If not I should like to borrow it for

the following camphor, and wadi-banks, an' fonts do you gon' igen i understand better wash the darned thing

weant getting away from the son, so we jest suure fucks out of it," and the captain linned him, 'be keerfull, an don't take to more Ban looked at me sorrontal an asid

What in blazes kin. I do, Jim, that them digs four holes in the top for to steady the You kin have it, sir, an' return it when

will respect, an' that that there sets down to the ball what they said goods Tao other morning 1 happened to stroll concluded to stay where we wse, for a whlie, usa alect of note-paper written with pencil rieka Dot Te'ss'ry. But if ye are bound to casually into the Mercantila Library, on Bush anyhow. The blacks guy us a hut to live in, in a very small hand, partly indecipherable go, why, I'm with ye. A feller mont jeat as savages will respect, as that they can't do stool's legs, an' sien wipes bis forrid, an you git ready," replied the sailor, and with- well git killed at want as stay in this hell themselfs F. The high priest says that there Rats down. Au' when the savages seen Bat out further comment we took up our hats,

thing's god, an if I'm a god I must perform a-sittin' on the top of the ball what they said good-bye, and left Street, and noting several indies coming up made o' double lateen sails o' matting-that's from age and wear.

om took the manuscript, put on his hole, anyway.

So, when it got to be dark, and all the merricle to prove it, for, mind yo, then used to think was their god, when it was a This is a most extraordinary narrativo," from the basement, curiosity prompted me the stuff them Malays make their buse on

Savages was feastin' an singin', mean Ben sarages had still some ingrin' ides that Ben layin' in the grove covered up with wand, an to find out what was going on there. On and for grab we got what they got. Thore glasses, and after examining it intently for

nobody knowed what it was they sts up observed W throwing himself into an banaanye, au ce-a minute or two, read as follows: was no lack of oranges, banannya, au co- entering the hill I found that it had entirely was no lacs

beatino-easy "October 23. 1865-B'ktine Mary Chester, elips quiet out of the but an' makes for the was no more'n a ornery man.

"Then I thought a maute, an I says serh a whoopin', an a bollerin, on beatino easy chair, hon be reached his rooms, "My been converted into a species of museum; counts; and for west, kangaroos su seoh

the What did ye do with that can tacked! After that they builds Ben a big is big story been told by a person of wizarded it full of specimens of the animal and mineral arros An' don't ye forget that the blacks pore, ut except self, Barter, boatswain, and north side of it was about two Edna Ben says: Leesive vino, guess ss any of the sille huts, an' thuy bringabion with full of specimens of the animal and mineral small game as they could trap or sheet with Captain William Artes, Wallington to Singa- grove. Now, I must tell ye that this grove

of intelligence kingdoms, many of them so deftly imituted arrows. An' don't ye forget that the hiacke pore, coal; foundered off Cape Kodnes; all covered about four acres o ground, at the What did we do with that can o' tax that drums as ye never heard in all yer bora daya reason refuses to aredit it, and yet its in-

It was bright, seam of mice the grove them trees

Ben says: I guess it's lyin' there yet, four ply o' coconut nuttin', an twice big story been told by and so preternaturally natural as to deceive, lived purty conflable for savaga. It was bands lost excapt self, Harter, boatswain, and north side of it was backed by as funny was rein in the boat when we was wrecked! After that they builds Ben a big but, with tornal evidence corroborates in Had the Held on till I fetch it, saya I. I guess as any of the oiller huts, an they brings bin and education, I should have regarded it kin olon II and

othe as ignoras cailor if it were possible, even one of the slent, the rainy season there, an' the eun was d'reet Belbright, seaman. Uctober 24-Mado land; cliff as over yes. It was about two kan

the best of the Fruits an' sech other grub with very grave suspicion; but it secus biologinally speaking, Bones floof tusks of munte, cut out Barter's jack-knife, an' told 15 303, giving N. const of big tomos south the line. biologinally speaking, Bones of long-vanished over our heads, for Mister Ince, the second nativas kind and inoffensive; mide quad-dred feet high, an' the top of it leaned over

piece o piece o antown longitude-730-, shine upon them longest day whan he was to leave the grotos I wasn't playin' te kuuckled to eat a burnin' thom man subject of

ant; look fatitude from known data and ap- the grere so that the sus couldn't, nerver wo kin po form a merride with thai tar.

are that tha animale wore grouped on the floor; a quadrant from

An the high-priest should bays so arranged his facts as to taily astounding development, purporting to be planic with Ben Baxter's jack-knife, an' told proximately known longitude-730-£, shine upon them trees as were under its lee, So arter some parlavor they 'lowed me there was, an be keda's nothin' to do but starooly peasible that this ignorons cailor facsimiles of originals in European galleries, us that we was about 7.30 south, by about 155 30, giving N. const of bight of Bay not even on the longest day whan he was to leave the grova, half a dozen of the savagne jest take it easy.

here the ME. becomes south learter some parlavor they

When I got down to them in the grave roots, aylar opinion. Every morni playsical conditions Tay beside there. Is the contres of railed: 14.530 east, an' consukently right in the of Papua. (bere the ME. becomes south o' the line. Me an Ben made a kind goin' with ma to aos I wasn't playin' to cuuckled to hice, onso the folke ali kuowed with what would actually happen had the

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tarma grain endlosure rowered a monstrous and gigantis bight of the gulf of Papua. It was the indecipherable) geological formations o' circle like around the crore no's not to escape. When I got down to the shore, sure how bad be was beat a burnin' thom man subject of his theme existed. The second

wrecked, peonliar; surface outcroppings of Jurassic let the an evenin', boin' the coolest time of the day, physical conditions elephant, which a placard nanounced to be twenty-third of October when wo got wrecked, peculiar; surface outcroppings of Jurassic Let the guards see us comin', an' then we enuff there was the far-in a-lagin' in the grore roote, au' he soon it warn't no use mate's description of the geologies! cha elepimai, which is placorns indecipherable)here the

guess them gourds up water, and when I got enff, at the stool, an' and suthin' like bacyan and

roota si groaned an exact reproduction of the mammoth which an' Mister Ince said is was jost aquare mid- Period; chalk rocks, line, and interior golite; speaked along the bottom of the cliff till we bottom of the boat, an' arter I got it I dag backin' agi portar opinion. Every mornin'racteristics of that region, too, show that the was found unbedded in the ice of the river summer for that latitude, case the sun would bluish and grayish inminated claya; cliffs reached the trees. I guess the guards up a lot o' them mangrove roots as growsin an evenin', boin' the coolest time the day, physical conditions were just anch ne were usea-stayin' the water, and be grove roots as grossin angin poplar opinion. Every more mate's description of the solo second. Lona, where its crystal coolbu bad preserved travel sonth for the next two months, an' the characterinsically striped and banded; ar-thought, mebbe, it wasn't much usea-stayin' the water, and when I got enaff, I starts up Een used to climb the ball, an' set down on seaential to the production of such a prodigy. it intact for who sball say how mary next midsummer would come 'bout the gillaceous line stone; bere and there a fer-round in the cold whes the fan was hack for the grove, an' the garages with me. the stool, an' smoke his pipe for there was But the idea of an egg lying out upon the conifers, araucaria D-goiu' on in the village. Anyways, me an An' on the way up I smears four of the west wead on the island suthin' like bameyan sand, and coming down to us from the Sẹ

o thousand yonis? A creature twenty-six feet middle o Fabrocary, when the sun got rugiuone bod; long by sixtesa bigh is worthy of more then on the zenith again comin' uorward. cycads abundant, paropliylum and crossoza Ben crawled in, au wunst under cover e roots with the tar that was in the can, on the be laid down the law to them sivagas if they condary Period-

zenith again long by sixtesa bigh is worthy of more then, is (australian pine-apple)

glisst min; ondegenous piacts as well widin' we didn't ask the noise so to get back, I hands the route to Bon, and tells To Imon, things goes on jest the

for a passing glance, and I stood ezansining the Wall, gen'lmen, them savages was the ugliest min; endogenous plats as well: mis the trees we knowed we was all right, for aly, an' anbeknownst to thosarages that hed'nt got qasreelin' or stonlin, an guv om afty Hundreds of thousands of years ago,"

widin' 'wo didn't raske bo noise so to "tractus ides what toe was anyways. When we or a buusred strokes with bambos if they interrupted L

And ils juices not getting dried up "And not getting hatched out long before I then I waita gaist to see on pillar-like legs, the shaggy bide, and the people se ecer cared acrost. Thick lips? pisalis (Australian pine-apple)

quiet Wagelmon, enormous task, and calculating whether or I guess not. Nosea like a three-legged pot, both vegetable-eating and saruivorous uni- attention. Well, we emailed along through gets back, I hands the roota to Bon, and tells got onl

a be she

"Why the thing is preposterova!" And not the original of the massive balk would beat flat, and two big boles knocked in the valves, limpets, and whelks, starfish, sen the grass till we come to a clear plats in the him what to do. Then I waita quiet to see have tipped the best at a hundred toas, bottom of it ? Oh, no! Paint? My stars! lilies, sponges, corals, inland middle, 'beat a quarter of acre, es far as I what would happen. Then Bet, an' ble entue as ever for the next five or six months, by the mere caloric of the atmosphere

space Ban bands the high priest, and lingo pusty party nice seus enty-secundo do at feast, has always foot Ban bands the get mangrove regissim find 'o life, an graddolly, got to speed Still," I vantared to Tomarfaite.

git enstouned to the book vantared to remark, when I as aroused from my resorte by If they was the post bijousest ahramos I hed of Jurassic fossils; whole mounds of could jedge, an' in the middle of the space wife, an' the high priest got s jabbering an annary sign of a ship to has seen in be

rom my resorte by ethm of it? Oh, no! Paint?cked in the valves, impetrating and sarnivorous unwidin' wo didn't we wa all right, for with ile tar that was in four of the wor a wead on voice at my side.

ever seen, you may stump me dead. Why, bones of gigantic daoinaris reptiles; was a sandy round like about treaty foot. Ben bands the wet mangrove roots as hedn't affin': We begun to git "enstomed to the W went to his bookssss and took down A jurty big beast, sir; but I soon bigger." they jest laid it on as if paint wasn't worth particularly chiliyosaurus and ignanodon; high. There was a half moon jest a-tien no tar on 'em to the high priest, and axes bim Find'o life, an' gradooally got to speak the book. Mechanically I teroad and inspected the nothin', and no twore it was; an' the women thigh bones of fattor oloven fost by in the cast, hu we walked up to the mound, if he could burn 'em, at the same time tellin' fingo purty free an last o' all, gets roarried Still, I veptared to remark, the Mecha bronzad, bearded, nod weather hearted a folk as over yo see; smarkable region; well worthy Baxter a-lyin' butchered, with tour the sand blacks down to the rebrands, jest in the b beaten 'em for spelen war of fashion lead at the fast tenir Tech bitterelles, made speaker. A bronzad, tearted, and weather was wase nor the men. But they was as living vegetation as well as geclogical forma su' that de ye think we seen? As I'm a him that he could bura his'n. I could see myself to a purty nice gsung gal, I tells ye, vitality of Nature's gerne is almost inúñite. beaten man of, I should say, stout fifty, kind-hearted a folk as over yo see; in ifton same as is Jurassic Period; most relivin' wan, the bodies call then girls as that Ben's move staggered the priest, for take her all-in-all. It was the twenty-second To dostrar a aperies must be a titanic tanks dressed in exlor fashion leaned carelessly anybody goes for to tell ye that the Papooans markable region; well worthy scientific in was drave into the grove that morain' was you but he warn't no fool for a stage; hata December when we rolled the ball cute the May, at least, has always failed in doing it,

this two

December 3d-Baxter a-lyin' butchered, with ibair throats one, he put a good face on it, as sent someo the grove where, as I said afore, the sun hadn't and yet he is at constant war with all Grain against the railing, and looked up at the scannibals, leastways thom as we was among estigation.

jast tell 'em for me that they're a long ways married active woman to-day; shall try to around an sit over the round, at the sand blacks down to tko smp For Brabrands over shined upon it, 'osse i was layin seals which bare lain centuries upon centuries marinoth.

“You're seen bigçər? Ah" I repeated out in their reck in, though they do say mato Cape Ruduoy when tainy season over; was red with the poor things' bleed Bout Bimsby they comes back with the Grebrands, jest in the sadder of the cufff; batarter-wain the buried faults of Pompent, and in-the five or six hzy vultures flapped their wings an' builds a big fire on the sand, in the rolled it out on to the open flat is course, Pyramids of Egypt, have sprouted with the

wings en build his wat mengross an except might down from the top of an preserve the vital germ

sun it as

that in a preacupied way, catching vaguely, at that the up-country-failors' gabbia se up bad cough and very weak."

"I can pinke nothing out of this, many “I can amke nothing out of this mancs-ew way over the trues as we coned priost lin takes his wet mangrosa roots and the een kop a shinin' onto it all the time, same vitality and vigour as those of last year's first, cikker ? first, the purport of the romark,

quicker'n t-falters they do tay married uztive quicker's seat. Ther buts of theirs, made "Yes," said the man, with rather more concanut minttin', keeps rain out a durt erit," said W "the rest is either torn nigh, on as we was scared o' diskivery we makos passes over 'em, an mumbles an exceptin night times. Ben shed to say to wheat crop, and shall we say that, under

an' then be taires the biggest flamin' brand evenin';

not for an equally emphasis, "I seen bingor. An' what's more, sight belter nor canvas, as ye may jedge or blaned. What I have, read, however, went back among the trees in a jiffy, and prays as ustral as any real priest ever I see me when he comed down from thedop of an taia conditions, the egg of an animal might Jim, no man could go for to mount that indefinite poriod? Can you assert that Jim, says Ben, arter awhile, them's he could see out of the fire, on the littleat ten timer bigger. Why that there wammet when they makes their pote nu' buckets out convinces me that the writer and carefully waited.

injajno "No," rajojnon W-thunghtfully niot a patch or the beast i onge aan. It was the same stuff, too. Well genman artor noted the natural characteristics of the coun- party hour's hig's that when it as a babby" about a month or so we began to pick up ary. he was cast into, and that these partook some mistry in that there mound. "Spose margrove root he could find in the bunch, there ball durin the heat u the day. The such an instance is physically impossible P an' though be kep hot rot--which was a fack, fox of what the gasnondary Period, Dow turned and faced the man square. attorin of their lingo. Mister Ince, though strongly of such as we know to have existed you go down to the bet, at being up them an' bolds it steady in the Hams; but it horn, or whatever stuff it's made on, gota red

on holdin' it in the fame, there was nary hot irouwhich was a fack, fox. I felt it be, opening & Tou

faok, fox I felt it be, opening a volume, "is representation that monstrous "Look here, my friend," I said, "I don't he was a eddieated man, an' yo would hs in the Jumssa Period. Strang he-mour-iron-wood shovels. I'm a gein' to find out on'y fizzed and pluttered, an' though be kep hot in the sun, an' burns ye as bad as red I have no right to do so. Here," continued Look here, me for, but I can assure the bedwardest of words purty quicktem commission. the sole spot of earth know what you take me for, but I can assure thought could he talked it to runsts was mured, "that such a region should exist what's under that heap.

And the blocks as was staat

Well, it comad on to July or August, denomariste of the Secondary Period, ། པ་ ཁུ you that there is very little nee in spinning the bedwardest of all, I managed to git unknown to the scientific world. Why, it So I crawls mighty bearful out of the bura in it; an' at last it put out the firo in the many a time.

party to Bon. Then wo FRD takes a ebevel, and looked on solerin epinis most of the grub anthem Strana which goes back 10th

managed to git unknown to the ela region should exist what's under that he gein' to find out only fizzed and splutter Bams; but it horn, or whatever abuil itu

solerin as much as to say: "What which is the winter season there, though the would look like, wore it reconstructed from ferns of that sort to me. I fatter myself most o' the grub words purty quick, an would well repay hspection by government grove, gets the shovde, an brings 'em back brand, and the blocks as was staa'in' round

ebevel, and looked on would-luck that I have too much knowledge of satural Bow de de an Goodbro, an' them commission: Strange, too, that it should to Ben. Then we not takes a ebevel, and looked history, and the lama regalating the develope sort o' tricks; but Ben Baxter, that was the lie in almost the sole spot of earth which goes back to the mound, so as we was goin' are ye tryin' to do, old man ? Haven't ys lived sun's jist near as high in the north as at any the few oasious remains found in the inent of adimai life upon the surface of grorantest A. B. asorer shipped fore the still comaius more of a terra incognita thar hok over the open space the sand crackled long enuff to know that thein wet mangrove time the year, for their ain't much dif- Wealden clays and other cognate formatione. our plating roud the whole of it to wanst our planet, to give them credence." And mast, an never knowed nothin', an couldn't even the anterior of Africa or the Antarctic like under fool, en Bea stopped down route-won's burn? An the old priest locked Frenca obaw in the tropics, and though I Let a see what the article accompanying people there was sathin he couldn't do. Then still you kin fist but I remember what aap Sebright's narrative, and W turned over

clear as if it out fist after delivering myself of this annoureentet, write his own are, thoitgh he was bo'sun be continent. And the fact that me. Immine it, an' scooped out a bole with his kinder shamed of hisself for showin' the ain't particise sure about the ack-date, it says, and how far it rallies with Captain I paused to witness its effect. The man learned the whole of it to wanst. Ben got Australis to possess numerous living re- shovel. I pasked me in the face and said, sic, man, 'bout six he was afcered of hit, bat classes of shell-firing in the same

Jim, says he, feelin' down, as I hope Beu comes for ard, stailio, with his min pened then just as clear as if it was yesterday the leaves till he found the place. "Now," he

of stillin' day or all day case of beds inforins us, meas of which were increly looked me in the face and said: along with the linge fast rate, au beina bis

face and said: along with the linge fast rate, au bei' a big presentatives of the Secondary Period, both

an' bows to the comp'ty, an takes one of the stirrin'; sa I kept in doors all day 'case of beso a telepadatus, certain species of which, inforinth, awful jers 1 can see you're a man of eddication, sir, man, 'bout six font four, I guess, and broad in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, such to die, if this nere plase ain't made o nothin' grove ronts as bad the tar smeared over ere, It was a stiflin' day; nos a breath a wind continued, "this monster might possibly have An' I looked down tos, no' dug down, roots and holds it to a blaze, the game's the the heat. 'Bout sundown 1 takes a tura as the book inforins us, measured as much as an' a better scholar, an' has core book in proportion, they was afcered of him, an' as the araucaria, the screw-plus, and certain else but human bonos, strike me bind."

used to kneel dow Mister Lace, that the tor of the earth, but more loan' the depth to be them so faire son of them downed upo larnio, no doubt, iban me; but I tell you, used to kneel de wo au hiss bis fest, but classes of shell-fish leads us to infer that

bin-in-Misterace more marked colon jest as you're a stanu there, that I'm they didn't see webis-in-Mister. Lace, that the island of Papas, Izing in the same an' found nothin' but bones, suali an' big. priest did, an' in course the tar that was usual, and when I gets out I seen Ben & thirty three feet in length, three of which were

it speak in the pure truth, when I say I sen was a little man and sokly. Well, we'd been quarter of the earth, but more tropical, may An jedgin-from-the-areye the clear place, on it caught fire to wunst, an' blased up makin' for the ball with his pipe in his occupied by the animal's head. Its awfuljaws beast ten times as big's that there mammot, there bout six weeks, I reckon; when Ben possess similar or even more marked zoolean' the depth of the bones, though we cud- like thinde An you flat bet them aavages mouth, the same's usual. He clanb up to which were well defended beyond the ears,

therto us one night in the but

gical characteristica. I must confear the dent and no bottom to them so fair's we seen the p'int right away, an every mother's the top by the stops out in the side, at sa opened as wide as six fest, through which it so' I was at the Latein' of it, too.

I looked at the man closely, and eritirally Baya, saya ho, l'am goin' to get mar. somewhat scattered notes I have just read dug. 1 should calfate there must ha bin son of them downed upou be marrow bonds, down the savages a-stan'in' round, en' talkin' could engulf, in the depths of the ravernous have given me a fresh interest in Captain thousands of people killed right is that spot, and slammed his forehead into the annd to Bon the same as to a jedgo in the cart palate, suimals of the site of au os. Or afore Ben, aa' the high priest downed bin. I was strollin' aramid, smokin', and not per possibly, a megalosaurus which incenred, to dotect, if possible, what object be could ried.

Beu, save I, it'a oculi to make a man self too, za crawled upon his aces to whare tiklerly keerin' for wat was a goin' on, havin wo are told, thirty-eight to forty fost in Dave in playing upon my credality, bat Yes, says I, 'I thought eo. I seen ye Sebright's aarative. I shall, with his per-an' I says to Ben:...

seen the sauns this submitting

seen the same thing ev'ry evenin' for soaths, length, and which is fully and graphically could gather nothing from his frank makin' up to that breatheamed squaw with wission, tako inuch pleasure in submitting

**Now,' says Ben, to me, we got them when suddently I hears one the avage described ia Dr. Buckland's admirable countsuance and apparently sincerity of the yaller furbelows. Ye're goin to do it them to the notice of this Academy of shudder when he thinke bow many poor Ben was a stan in', ao kissed his toes,

aranovina suvages jast where we want (em, an' I'm givin' a yell, an' look is round, I soon that Bridgewater treatise. Cutier, however, expresion. I determined, therefore, to seem are ye?, Well, I wish ye lock. Mebbe, y Saiences on our next meeting. Pray, go on, critters must babin slaughtered hero to

I am all expectation as make all them bones." Captain Sobright. I am want me for best roan.". to aquiesce, and draw live out.

An' Ben saja," Yes, that's so let's-goin' to spile this god bizness right now. there ball a-movin' an' awayin' this-a-way from the dimensions of the coracoid, (~ and,

Well, Ben, says Mister Ince, Iaup to the déncilement of your story.

cosa a top with, his pipe in his mouth, the Megalosaurus Backlanili may have. And, pray, in what part of the world dnd,

I was secretly pleased at the turn the affairs hurry up or else them sagen ketch us. Then he hollered out in their lingo, an' com- an' shat-a-way, an' Ben Baxter s-sittin' on process of the scapula,) auppases, that paso we must make the best of it. Not s

mands 'em all to rise. Aut they riz did live?

their the stopi a-top canla id-this strange creature live ?" I asked. "In Papos, or, as sozio calls at, New sign of a ship in sight; and no chance of had taken, and that, after all, my reputation and there'll be kell to pay.

So we went to the mound, an' fast we feet an' stood with their hands crossed on an' lookin' as white's a gaset, and his eyes been some saventy feet in length. But Guinea-a big island lyin' to nor ward of one as far as I can see. I mean to try and for credulity, as deducible from this visit, Australey; may be ye're beard of it. An find a passage to the south along the foot would be materially lessened in the light of cleared away the bodies the twelve young their breasts like mummies, the hull gang-rollin', and his full body stiff like. I was neither of these animals possessed to for all I know the beast's there yet," repled hills when the rainy season's over, and I endorsement by auch an undoubted girls as was layin' around dead, and we lays o' then. Then he sant some o' them down pariyzed myself, and cuddent move a mascle, facial horn, and both were carnivorous-two om side by side, orderly lilze, an' then we to the village for ropes, for they made tidy I was a 'prised and so was the garages, an' facts which are at variance with Captain

of

as though at carnivorous two begins to shovel sway stage did An' while they was so stop that there ball kept lookin at it, and researches have hit be to ex

anth thought you would come along with us, but scientific authority as W

“I guses I lef: "yu, gairimen, where we takes our shovels an begins to shovel sway strong rope out coconut fibra, them for about are seconda, I guess though at Sebright's dancription. Ah! here we bars

shovels rurly like, and we lays her breasts like their hatid Suddenly there asshed across my mind if you get married there we ehali have to go

mister

mox. the remembrance of the paragraph in the without you, an Mister Ince coughed, and I was plantin' Mister Ines in the annd," con- the sand of the mound, beginnin' at one side saragez did An while they was geno Ban the time it seemed mere like a woonth, it-the ignanodos. Of more formidable

thit, Australian paper, just quoted, and I could suld tell by his cough that he wouldn't tinued the captain, when Whad done o' the bottom. It was party stiff work, case says to mo: I guess the best way to stop that there ball kep' a-shakin' an' swayn dimensions than the megalosaurus was the one to sunat one side of it cricked and tended, must be pronounced the most gigah- not help connecting it with this man's never make no passage along no foot-hills to talking; "that was the afteenth of December, she sand was more like olay, an' a durk, this murd'rin bigness is to take that there in everybody stab'ip' lookin' at it, Iguanodon, (or “iguana-toothed,"”) which,

Dever make coughed, and

Then all a xavertions. Was it possible, thought I, that the south in this world, for he was far gond the came day he died, for it warn't no uer dingy color, pazrin to have been soaked ball out of this grove, and cut down the onable to speak or more through 'prina far as our researches have hitherto ex- chere might be sume gorm of trath is in consumption, though he didn't know it. kespin the corpse any longer in that hot with blood through an' through. Well, we trees.

Test

and now, an I reckon we batter do is it was the most bijouest bead-I-ever seen difore from Mr. Mantell in his esticaste of "Well,' says Ben, I don't know bout climate. Well, them preparations as I wave shorels-on-for-mobba ten minutes, an' had "Well, Ber,' says I, you are the boss bust wide open, an's head looked out, and tio of the primeral saurians. Professor Owen these strange and fanciful stories of uncouth and gigantic creatures in out of the way that sir. Taint a tog'lar marriage by tellin' ya about was kep up till the twenty got three or four foot into the stuff when I god now, an I reckon wo batter in it

Jim, saya be, I struck sathin' hard, the ropes, Ben set the whole crowd to work un bout four frot long, an two big eyes, like from fifty to sixty feet. The cumparative wilds where mon's footsteps rarely tread priest, ye know,au' I dounnoit soch marriagos first e December, which, as ya know, is the hears suthin' rattle like iron, an Ben enys: So, when the savages come back with or expack to me. It was fat like a lizard, the animal's longth, which the latter makes

a Was it possible that under certain peculiaris werry bindin

longest day in the year south o' the line.

it had a buck comin' out from high on its lege, the hind-limbs being much their iron-wood axes. It was purly beary for s

feet You shouldn't look at it in that light, But on the mornin' of that day I could see an' be jubs bis shorel in agin, an asys, yos, a-tourin' up sa kuockin' down the trees with soup-plates, stood buat half, a foot out from dimensions of its bones show that it stood conditions and rare auspices or stra specimen af long extinct rates might yet Ben, kaya Mister Ines-he was allae sorter that enthin' onusaal was goin to happen, an whatever it is, it's almighty hard.

"An' then I gives the thing a dig with work, 'case the trees was old as thick. But the top of its nose, bout a foot long. An's longer than the foro, and the fost abort and survive? Utterly improbable as the idea religious if the cermany is p'formed as I kep' my eyes skinned, case I might get might avem, I was yet bound to confess that cordin' to the customs of the people ye're roped into sutbic as warn't in the game, for my shovel, an' it seemed like as if I was soon there was a lane cleared wide snuff to second arter I heart r-r-rip, an that thera massive The form and disposition of the

opener beast cong gea'lmen, parjous and stood upon the tition proves it to have been an harb corons it was neither logically nor caturally im- livin' with, it is dooty to abide by the cor-I tell ye there's no trustin: thom savages hittin' a picos o guity-porky, for the iron-drag the ball through into the opon. There ball or shell bust right in two an' a tremen feet show that it was a terrestrial, as ite-den-

when they gals to celebratin', even if they wood bounded back off of it, an it guy a was one thing, gea Imon, that I noticed per. jous beast coined out

tikler, an' that was that at high soon that sand. Its body was bout twelve foot long inal. The iguanoden carried a barn on possible, and I determined to hear what this track. and or what this tracks.

Well, says Bea, scratchin his head is party rash'nal at or'uary times. 'Bout a little

there "Ther ale

was toly a wight Lave to say, and derive, if no-

Then Bon says: "That there thing is there ball laid jest on the edge of the cliff, dark-browin in the calor, an' scaly like its morale. A skolobon, nearly perfect, wa

Is would seem, Σ thing else, perhaps amusement from his puzzled like I guess if that's the asee I'm bone arter sun-up the high priest comes

savants story. Inquiry elicited the fact that Captain the west Mormon in the Bouth Seas; but a far'aril, outen his hut, to where the balance big: Let's get to the top the heap, anar this bein' the longest day in the year, crocodile. Ita fora legs was short, au its discovered by Mantell in Tiloste Forest.

Jus, it was easy to see that the sunlight shapes

: Sebright (he is now engaged in a pet on user-mout as well he killed for a sheap as a the blacks was a-stan'in, howlin an' beatin' shovel the end of it til we get down to an' the sun at ita farthest pint month of the Lind-legs big and strong, an' it had three

the badot sever shots on the ball so leeg at iztair its a lizard, boul ten foot long, that of the are of these suturate, and in vior of

gbone se in

walked. An just as the old spothegin, who shall decide who the bay) resided on Jessie Street, and I lamb, an' one more or less can't make much their druine an' things, on to makes them a the formed thing, whatarer it is

sorter speech, an' forms am into a porces

into a percession." He we both climbs to the top o' the bado was 2 to us that the sunlight sharp claws upon each foot. An it bad our sa antedier, then I remarked," that accepted an invitation to call upon him the differenco Boway. accepted ang and boar in his possession one. There araw stood facinus mile off.

So next mornin', zure enough, Ben was like, with twelve or Eificen young girls in mound, an starts in to shore like good, laid in that there, place. I didn't think wiggled at curled same evening, his story, besides

'boat bull a hour's work woman that there, place. I didn't think wiggled at bout ten foot long that orante differ materially in their estimate tha hnek cap ahom pot down

the examining some documente in his possession married, and I'll tell ye how the thing was the front, an' then the ball gang begins to fellows. Arior 'boat half a bour's work we nothin' of the suckcumstance jest then, but the ball bust the second simo, the stool a doctor disagras? I suppose the testi which bore upon the subject.

Cone. There warn't no oer'mony to speak march to where there was a big grosee got about six foute and throwed off, an arterwards when I sien what happened, 1 Ben Bextor was a bettin' on fell down, an mony of Captain Sobright, and the

big or explotach, au Ben railed ever, add lay on the sighted the monster, as reported

tion of the toiatry. tion of the tiltry Courth nust tells that are an.This is the top of it," saya Bon, Dating the course of the day I met my f, but Ben an' the squaw stood facin each cocoanut-trees-n-stan in 'bout a quarter of a struck out abovels on to that hard stuff called to mind that very fack for a vaplana Ben with it, az hit the boast on the back captain of the Australian schooner who

An' meanwhile, all the Brisaual's Well, as I was a-goin' to say, when night ground like dead: An, meanwhile, all the Brisbane Courier, both of whom pat dawn friend W, one of the shining lights of ether, and ene of the old man-I found eat mile off. Now I unust tell that me an agin.

This is the top of it," saya Ben, 'an' I "Well, as I was a-goin' to say, when night ground the Academy of Sciences, and perscade him arterwards he was a kind of high priest took Bun Baxter, an' Mister Ince had often been

it was guarded day Bnitore I stop, it is takes a month, around that ball, I s'pose three the grove, stand about him, an' ssemin' pazzlevansientido meu, dimentions in re- to aecatipany me on my evening visit, though su' fried a bananus, au guv one end to Bercarous for to see what was inside of that guess that shore funt hole's at the bottom, comed én, me sa Ban Baxter so the eavages savages de was in the huts had one out the animals length at from eighty to a

and off led me in Bantay, when night neck, au Ben at the expour uf a smile of pity and supe-sn the other to the squas, and them broke there grove, cas it was guarded day an' I'm a-goin' to cleat every grain of sand off lef the grore, an' went down to the huts to when they heered the fust stream, an nedred feet, is entitled to quite as much riority. We accordingly sailed on the spit in two in the middle, an each a themate night, all road, by a troop o' savages with of it-afore I stop, if it takes a month, an' sleep, but a lot of them stayed in the grote was a lookin' on, alla atan'in still respect as inferences merely drawn from an

' sai, and, after the usual preliminarios, our their piece, an' arter that they was zackoned woupons, but, they never would allow pay find out what the durn thing is around that ball, I pose through babit. Au an onable to move. An' the big beast examination of boron, though made by auto-

"So we both starts in ap'in sayin' nothin, next mornin' we all goes back to the grove, stood stiil for about three seconds rities howevordistinguished.

he an warnin' examination of boron, though made by auto- in ag in sayin' nothin Tom stayed in the host entered upon hie narrative as follows: married a light as any person in the world one of

You gealwen must one of as to get past the outside: un' word out what she dura thing is a sleep, but a lot of them stavo

we he strand has stand still for abou I don't know if ye was over in the South could do it. Au now you gea'lwen mustn't when Ben Baxter offered to go through the but workin' steady. We most be worked an we twists a lot o' them ropes into a three-a-lookin' about him, an' ssemin paarled like, Well," responded W, thoughtfully, go far to think that the savages wasn't as trees they actocaly showed fight, on Batherd us they af told ye was covered with sage-lation to distances, are more prone to err on Beas, gen'lemen, but atween you an' me, go far to think that the savagen wasn't as trees they actocaly showed fight, an Ben party quiet, too, for them sentries never strand hawser, for wo auddetit, tell how an onsartin how to not, an then be waived unsofentifla meu, and men untrained in there's nors resta for queer things there rartuous as white folks, case I tell yo they was so s'prised that he concluded he didn't heard us, though shoy warn't more'na hup heavy the durned thing might be, an' we of, wakin' straight for the swamps at mud forming nice estimates of dimensions in re five't want for to bring might be, an anonsartia how to not ela pazzled like rities howevordion, though made by autan than any part of the airth ever I was on. was. Every man had only one wife, an' care to go nubow. Arter that wo all kop dred yards off. The moon was bout a' hour didn't want for to break the ropes with too banku as I told ye was covered with sago-lation to distances, are more prone to err on Falk oyer vegetation, yor trees, yer faury wnnat site was his wife there was no divoroina-wonderin' an' spokylatin' what sort o abigh when we began the job, in bout five bayy a atrain. So, after we get the bawser palms, an cononuuts, an' big thickets of all the side of exaggeration than diminetion of

thoshing so would carry little weight birds, for funny beasts, I can bot that re of her, nather. Each pair scrapied à but, secret there was in that grove; but, e far's hours when we got through an get the thing unde, we throws a hitob around the ball, kinds of trese an' brush. An the fast move facts. The mare sesertion of a parcel of

out intera won't find the liko zowhere eles, nahawan' the little pizaniunies wollerod in the sand we could see, there was never one o' them clear, an day was begivein to break in the bringin' the two ends inter a slip.noose, be mads was zoroat, Ben's body, though he sailors on a matter of size of any object But the queerest thing ever I 20 in the outside. As I said before, it was the twenty-savages as went into it not even the guarde east. An what d've think it was? Well, leavin' about a hundred feet, o cable for didn't notice Pen, an' seemed akeered anason would carry little weight in my forms queerest thing ever I was in third of October when we got wrecked, anco slood outside. Well, gon' lmen, 'em the yell of fear as no ou ever heared sons of the egg. If the captain's measure- hosst lino, I seen on the island of Papits third of October when we got wrecked, uno stood outside. Well, gon'Imen, when gentimen, I'm blesi if I ever seen a funnier pullin' at. Then we gets shout fifty of the afograd like. An as sven's he moved all tion of opinion. But what does carfy weight If I got the time I'll tell ya bow it was, an' it was the third of December when Bas the perceesion begun to form, an' marched thing in my life. It looked likes round ball strongest suvages at stations em all along them ravages, es'ry mother's son'o' them, sotia Captain Bebright's sccount of the dimen in the direction of the grove, Ben was stad'in "bout twelve or fourteen fost through, but the rope, au Ben gives the word, to fall up sesh, a yell o' fear he no mu ever heard sions of the egg. If the captain's measure-

gray.fore, eu got married." bbon, I reckon, ya'll think the samo's 1 do. Baxter go to interpolated, getting alongside of me, ac be says, any for to foller Its colex was a sorter yaller brown, au the treaded men kreclo

layin' on the sand. Jest to reeled down store to them was out the ball. It's to the sighty to us of the egg the siz flattened out where it was layin' on the suud. Just then the bigh priest an a los of gray fore, an they made brisk for the woods,nent of the egg a diameter fourteen feat ller brown, au the trended men right in front of the ball, and with Bon Balor ant skeerd, cand I was, from the site os testimony is unim

wheat o sight It's jeat sixteen years ago, mobbs a little "But, captain, I one, saya be:

Jiu,' says he, I'm a gain for to foiler Its color was a sorter yaller brown, au the treaded men kneeled down store Bone who met, wouren an' children, till the best one in to be accepted, we must necessarily accept foiler Iks color was a sorter yaller brown, au the leaded a grayfore, of the egg. If the captain's measure

with a more or less, that I shipped afore the mast on somerbat tired of the rambling story, and the barkentina Mary Chester, from Welling- observing Wootbering & yawn, what up them back, 1 kin see there's suthin' thing was wrinkled all over like the bides of was standin' right in front of the bail, and to them was out of sight, en: 7 was left alone bis meitereriant of the egg's depositor the bargentina Mary Chester, from Welling observing W200lbering & with this guin' to be done inside that there grove, anthem Thour abovels all over, but what they was drivin' at, but horord scout when I seen that the beast bad wort antal. The captain's tamborated. Ika

vel in know an se too, New Zealand, with a cargo of coal for hns Ban tarter's marriage got to do with this goin' to be done inside that there grove, au' them rinosserys I wenst west in Afrikay, began talkin' their lingo. I didn't row with Bon Baxter on the ball. It's no eighty to hundred feet. Es pede Herculan Singapore. It was in the month of October, monster you asked us here to tell us about ? bust my toplights it I don't find out what We struck it with our shovels all over, but what they was drivin' at, but I horord soko. for me to say I warn't skeerd,' case I was from the site of the egg the size of the

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cuddent para sary are nowheres, the staff words that they was prayin and bananechin but when I seen that the beast bad wert animal. The captain's testimony is anim- Ban was not to move the ball, as thin away, I knowed thiers warn't no mediate reached, yet it is not corroborated. Its

fer to look at Bow Barter an the cap'a be took the north passage by way of Torres Etteita. Well, we gets along the wptain, with animation IFit-hean't "A-I say 'Don't ye do it, Bou, if was so think an acid.

far's Caps Rodney, when a ty bin for Ben Baxter's marriage there wouldn't they isn't willin', 'care no good can come of Well, says Bez, vipin' his forris, fearful would happen them, sayin as how danger, an' I went over to look at Bes Baxter strongest title to belief lies in the internal "all right

horey Bed, wipin his fan was not to own and benasechis but when

layin' on a bit over artered yet it ain's tortimens here's a go. I wonder what, vom zarages nobody knowed how long it had laid there, I stooped down an' tarasd bit over an his evidence of the story hacked up by the phoon struck us, in' afore we could lift our ba" bin to big best a-raisin' around them counteria" "af"

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see him, walk across the swissin' for our lives. One of the bosts This observation put a stopparon y abjece fluer in, goin hand-an-hand with his wife, That's a party sort of a god for to kill girls grore made of pebbler and such year when to rouse him but he was stone doad Nary shall lay the facts before the Academy of got loose in the upset, in' mean Bos Batter, tious as to the relevency of fun story, and an ar I didn't host to be left bebint All to, and be bits the thing another liek with the young girls was sacrificed, the high scratch or him, auther for the best, though Seisness, and await further accounts in the tbu bo'sun, alumb into her, an' after we was with some dine ides that the exptain was alone, I followed up the march a little ways the shovel, so hard that it sounded sil over priest out another pebble bus the wound. I seen him walk across his body, badut put Australing papers. Bona DUNCAN in we helped Mister Ince, that was the actually leading up to abime conclusion by off. When we came to the groze, the high the groyo, za next minute hout fifty savages Fast of all, me su Ben went an looked at foot on to him, or else he would he been MILE, in Argonaut. second mate, to get in, an we nerer son steps which were necessary to the intel priest old man, painted so's to make him come runnin' with their clubs a spears, an the heap a pabbles, which was a sort o smashed inter pulp. So I concluded that

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