WOODMYTH & FABLE <^J 



THE GRASSHOPPER THAT 



MADE THE MISSIMO 



VALLEY 



^HE vast low Jurassic Island 

 had been raised above the 

 level of the sea, where now 

 the great continent stands. 

 A Matriarchal Dinosaur was leading her 

 ponderous troop in single file across the up- 

 heaved marshy plain. A dry season had 

 blighted the lower pastures and forced 

 them to travel, and as she was about to 

 turn northerly, a Jurassic Grasshopper 

 said Bizz! under her nose. The insect 

 is quite harmless, but it protects itself by 

 imitating the fearful bizz of the ancestral 

 Rattlesnake. The old Dinosaur wheeled 

 to one side and raised her head. Her 

 little twinkling eyes fell on a rank green 



