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was exposed, within a hundred yards of the shack 

 of Dan. McGee, forty yards above the forks of 

 McCheche Creek, six miles west of Drumheller. 

 The entire skeleton except the tail was present 

 Lying on its right side, the hind limbs were doub- 

 led on themselves, the front ones at right angles 

 to the body, and the head bent towards the front 

 limbs. We got the skeleton uncovered and 

 discovered the ribs were expanded and in 

 natural position. The animal lay like a dead 

 dog; I thought I had never seen any thing so 

 pitiful, and forlorn. 



Charlie and I, mounted it the next winter, 

 and were careful to put a little life in the dear! 

 skeleton by straightening out the neck a little, 

 and giving a sense of motion as it were to the 

 tail so that the animal would not look as repul- 

 sive as it otherwise would to some observers: 

 for there is such a thing as breathing life into 

 the skeletons that have been buried out of sight 

 these three million years or more. We have 

 mounted it then with the slight changes in the 

 neck, and, and one hind limb that otherwise 

 would have covered important bones in the orig- 

 inal matrix, and in the position in which it was 

 floated to bank, and was covered up with mud. 

 Even the skin impression is preserved along the 

 pelvis ; and the rows of ossified tendons that cross 

 each other in three rows, like basket work, show- 

 ing they were used to bind the muscles of the 



