90 Plated Dinosaurs 



CHAPTER VI 



PLATED DINOSAURS THE MOST UNIQUE OF THEM 



ALL 



When the frost was on the bull berry, we ex- 

 perienced the strange sensation of making jelly 

 in camp. We beat the berries out of the bushes, 

 in which they clung in clusters around sharp 

 thorns, on to tarpaulins spread below on the 

 ground. The single berry is about the size, and 

 color of a red currant. We filled our motor 

 boat full of boxes with the acid fruit, and 

 drove it to our scow. There we took pails full 

 of the berries, and sank them into the clear water 

 of Eed Deer river. Then stirred them with a 

 stick, so that all the leaves, decaded fruit, and 

 bits of branches or other foreign matter could 

 float away down the river, the perfect fruit set- 

 tled to the bottom. The fruit was then cooked 

 on our large camp stove until thoroughly done, 

 when it was pressed through muslin bags, and 

 cooked as long as there was any scum rising to 

 the surface, which was carefully skimmed off the 

 boiling surface. Then equal parts of sugar by 

 weight was put in, the moment it was dissolved 

 the mixture was taken off the stove and put into 

 Mason jars. When cool it was a fine, reddish 

 colored jelly. We made twenty-four gallons, or 



