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long, with powerful lower jaw, his great pectoral 

 fins were over three feet long. The rays had 

 sharp outer edges. He could set and use them 

 as a sword to gash his enemies, the great white 

 sharks. His forked tail, with span of over four 

 feet, would cause an awful blow when used as a 

 weapon; large glistening scales, covered the en- 

 tire body. Maud called my attention to the fact 

 that our huge fish had finished breakfast, and 

 was swimming back into the deep water of the 

 bay, quite leisurely, so graceful in motion a liv- 

 ing five-horse power-motor boat. "You remem- 

 ber," she said, "the skeleton you sent of this fish 

 to the British Museum." "O yes," I replied, "Mr. 

 Pycraf t wrote a description of it for the Illustrat- 

 ed London News, March 1, 1913." (Fig. 4). 



"My son George found and collected this fine 

 specimen, I prepared it." "You must be as 

 pleased to see the boys make such noted discov- 

 eries," she said. "O yes, because it encourages 

 them to keep at work, in this life work of mine. 

 As a boy I loved nature, I was a hunter too and 

 used to kill buffalo and antelope. But after close 

 association with the most famous Naturalist 

 America has produced. Prof. B. D. Cope of Phila- 

 delphia, who often told me that though we must 

 destroy our enemies and protect our friends, as a 

 matter of self protection, yet wanton destruction 

 of life was a crime. The more I thought of this 

 suggestion the more I came to fully believe it,, 

 God loves the creatures He has created and wiU 



