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cant man's costliest works compared to the 

 works of the great Creator, His air, and water, 

 His glorious sea forest and plain, the starry fir- 

 mament on high, given us so freely. How rich 

 we were, though possessing only the clothes on 

 our backs, and the few tools I had in my collect- 

 ing bag. A few matches and some strings of 

 sinew I had cut in another age, I also found a 

 file in the lowest corner of my collecting bag, 

 and from fragments of bone made some fish- 

 hooks, we had built a chimney and in the open 

 fireplace Maud heated water in a deep sea shell 

 while I caught a string of nice fishes, which she 

 broiled for supper or fried for breakfast. I also 

 found the tracks of a turtle, whose bones 

 and skull I discovered in the chalk of Kansas. 

 Professor Cope named it Torydheles latiremus. 

 Suspecting that she had hidden some eggs in the 

 dry sand, I dug around in it with my hands and 

 found a hat full of her soft shelled eggs. With 

 the fish we had many most delightful repasts, 

 and we talked of the time when we hoped to ex- 

 plore this new region, the Early Cretaceous. 

 Study its rich fauna and fiora. After building 

 our cabin, as we were very tired after a strenu- 

 ous day, Maud kissed me good night and retired 

 to her room in the cave, while I lay down in the 

 corner of the house. At the first streak of day 

 a fire was builded, and breakfast started. I had 

 made a pail of a deep shell shaped like a woman's 

 hood, and called later by Conrad Haploscapha 



