100 Plated Dinosaurs 



he made the attempt he would simply whet his 

 teeth on the glistening armor, that protected him 

 in vain. He might perhaps break off a tooth or 

 two, before he learned his task was a thankless 

 one. We can even imagine that he would be in 

 danger himself if he carelessly approached too 

 near the tail. For a blow from the powerful club 

 at the end w^ould break in his ribs. 



As the strange saurian passes us we notice the 

 large trail he makes through the bushes as he 

 moves on down into the meadow-like flat for his 

 breakfast. 



See ! Out there on the lake is a plesiosaur fish- 

 ing, he evidently came up the river (that heads 

 in the bottom of the lake ) , from the Pierre ocean 

 not many miles away. We know the lake is full 

 of sturgeon and gar-pike. He has a beautiful 

 head poised on a long swan-like neck, a broad 

 heavy body, and a very short tail. We have seen 

 them before along the shores of the old Cretace- 

 ous ocean. As his bones were common in the 

 chalk of Kansas. Within human history white 

 whales have come up the St. Lawrence river 

 from the Atlantic Ocean. They have one in the 

 Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa, that 

 made the trip once, but never returned, and they 

 dug his bones out of the flood plain of the river. 



