16 The Teeming East 



CHAPTER II. 



''The Teeming East^^ 

 Leaving Charlie and his wife on their ranch, 

 Levi and I returned to Lawrence, George and I 

 prepared the material for sale. As I had sold a 

 20 foot Platecarpus, George had found during the 

 summer, a 14 foot fish, and the Titanotherium 

 skeleton to the Victoria Memorial Museum at 

 Ottawa with the agreement that I was to mount 

 them, I took my son George with me on a trip 

 to the "Teeming East," we left Lawrence on the 

 17th of March, 1912, by the Pennsylvania Eoute. 

 After leaAdng St. Louis we passed through the 

 level reaches of southern Illinois, crossed the 

 Mississippi. The farms along the low lands were 

 covered with water. Farm houses with orna- 

 mental trees around them were pleasing to look 

 upon. In places the land swelled into gentle 

 curves with groves topping the rounded eleva- 

 tions. The less pretentious houses occupied by 

 renters were sprinkled in among the nobler 

 buildings. Snow was still lying on the open 

 stretches. Great wood piles attested to the fact 

 that they had not destroyed all the timber. 

 Woods of black oak, were still common. Straw 

 stacks and corn shocks were not very common, 



