The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-18
Willie oes Finds Land Full of the Werdes Beasts That Ever Drew R

soon was a mere speck in the blue above.
Willie sat there, gazing mournfully after
II until II disappeared among the white
clouds, and then he began to cry, for he
saw that he was in a land where no man
had ever been, and where there were 40
trolley cars to cvme along and take him
swiftly home.
He felt Ike a shipwrecked sailor on
desert island. and. Of course, the very
nrst thing he thought Of was food. All
ne mad was seven fickers' eggs and they
were pretty far gone toward Matching as
ne soon found He had some matches In
MS pocket, and a knife, and that's more
than some shipwrecked men have to start
a desert island life upon He got up and
walked toward a high hill, upon which
grew some strange palms. and when he
reached the hill he found that they bore
fruit ike large dates. upon which he made
hearty meal, and then gathered a great
quantity for the future. Then he walked
on but night came without his seeing
any living thing whatever in this desolate
land he climbed upon the top Of aamass
OF rock when he could see no longer. and
lay down 20 sleep. In the night he heard
awful cries, the wild squeals and grunts
ana snOrts Of unknown animals, ali about
him In the intense darkness. and some
times he saw fiery eyes near him; but
nothing molested him. He didn't get to
sleep until near morning, and when he
awoke the sun was high up above the
horizon He ate a few az the dates. as he
called them. and took a drink from a
brook that ran past the rocks Then he
went on IN search of a house or men, for
ne could not believe that there were no
men in all this land.
a Land of ANCIENT Beasts
Now this was the one country. this
Prehistoric Zoologia, in which ali the ami
mails that ever existed still survived the
awful floods, earthquakes, fires and other
disasters that have DESTROYED all such
enormous and strangely-shaped creatures
everywhere else in the world. Ages
and ages ago, millions and millions
Of years ago, the whole earth was inst
alive with such monsters, both In the
air, the water and on land, things that
wouldn't worry at all over tackling a
rhinOcerOs or devOuring the biggest
elephant you ever heard Of, animals with
the most tremendous teeth. with scales
as hard as stone. or skin as thick as
boards, tails nifty feet long. horns ten
feet long, eyes as big as dinner-pIates
and with names longer. bigger and harder
than anything else. The Ornithorynchus
would be nowhere alongside Of some OF
these creatures, for their names alone
were tremendous. There was the Titano-
therium Giganteus, the Calathumpiumo-
Tits, the HomOgeneOsiscolusus the Tri-
podosquaupus and Protoplasmixoasl1gnn
and hundreds besides, each as well pro-
vided with teeth, claws and hide as the
other, and each hating to see another on
the earth, so you may easily see how
they finally got rid Of each other. 1 sun
pose that they were 50 busy lighting thar
they all finally starved to death; at anv
rate, they disappeared at last. and now
we find their bones deep in the earth.
and set them up In museums with labels
on them that nobody can understand.
Only in Prehistoric Zoologia. somehow.