This precipitated another stridulent dispute among the two Kings and the 
Queen. Everyone got very short-tempered, and there probably would have been 
serious trouble if the tide had not come in and washed a few whale carcasses 
and dead elasmosaurs onto the beach. As you can imagine, we fell upon these 
gifts with abandon, and while I was eating my fill, I also managed to swallow 
innumerable birds, shrews, and ants who were feasting on the same pieces of 
meat as I.