The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08

& Challenaer's Proofs ssW WWY " ELL, what do you think of
 ~ that?'' cried the professor, rubbing his hands with an
 air of triumph
 t1t is monstrous grotesquew
 @But what made him draw such an animal2''
 Trade gin. should think"
 "Oh, that's the best explanation you can give, is it?Y
 ssWeI1, sir, what is yours ?''
 sThe obvious one that the creature exists. That is actually sketched from the nfe..'
 I should have laughed only that had a vision of our doing another Catharine wheel down the passage.
 Look heret' he cried, leaning for ward and abbing great, hairy saul sage of finger on to the picture ttYou see that plant behind the animal? Isuppose you thought it was dande lion or a brussels sprout-what? We'll, it is a vegetable ivory plant, and they ! run to about fifty or sixty feet. Don't you see that the man is put in for purpose? He couldn't really have stood in front of that brute and lived to draw it. He sketcbed himself in to give a scale of heights. He was, we I will say, over five feet high. The tree is ten times bigger, which is what one 1 would expect,
 .Good heavensps I cried. seThen you think the beast was Why, Charing Cross station would hardly make kennel for such g brutel" eApart from exaggeration, be is cer- 1 tainIy a well grown specimen, said the professor complacently. sBut,, I cried, surely the whole ex- perienee of tte. lautnap raee-is not to be set aside On account of single sketch''-I had turned over the leaves and ascertained that there was noth- l ing more in the book-"a single sketch by a wandering American artist, who may have done it under hashish or in l the delirfum of fever or simply in or 1 der to gratify a freakish ag1nation 1 You can't, as a man of science, defend such position as that For answer the professor took a book | down from shelf 1 ssThis is an excellent monograph zby l my gifted friend, Ray Lankester, said l he .sThere is an illustration here l which would interest you. Ahs. yes, | here 1t isl The inscription beneath 1t l runs: 'Probab1e appearance in life of l the Jurassic Dinosaur Stegosaurus The hind leg alone is twice as tall as a full grown man We'll, what do you make of that?''
 1 He handed me the open book. I started as I looked at the picture. In l this reconstructed animal of 8 dead world there, was certainly a very great 1 resemblance to the sketch of fha sa1Dr l known artist.
 'That is certainly .remarkable,' said
 1 "But you won't admit that it is fna1?"
 'sSurely it might be coincidence, ior ] this American may have seen pie l ture of the kind and carried it in his naemeryl It would be likely to recur to man in delirium."
 Every good" said the professor in diligently eWe leave it at that. I 1 will now ask you to look at this bone" He handed over the ono which he had already described as part of the dead mans possessions. It was about six inches long and thicker than my thumb, with some indications of dried cartilage at ore end of it.
 gro what known creature does that bone belong?' asked the professor.
 I examined it with care and tried to recall some half forgotten knowledge.
 "It might be very thick human col lar bone,''I said.
 My companion waved his hand in contemptuous deprecation,
 CTo Be Continued.)
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