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the bones within them are visible, and such a place is 

 the region in Wyoming where these three men made 

 their camp. For days, however, after they began 

 their search for fossils, it looked as though they were 

 going to meet with nothing but failure. They hunted 

 on foot and they hunted on horseback, sometimes all 

 keeping together, sometimes each man going alone, 

 but they found nothing of enough value to ship back 

 to the museum that had sent them on their expedition. 

 They finally decided that unless a discovery was 

 made within the next few days, they would break 

 camp and move to some other locality where, per- 

 haps, they would find a richer hunting ground. 



The next day found them all at work again, each 

 man taking a separate route. Late in the afternoon 

 as one of them was making his way back to camp on 

 foot, exhausted in body and discouraged in mind, he 

 suddenly stopped and stared at a rock jutting out at 

 the base of a bluff on his right. There, plainly visible 

 in the tomb within which it had been sealed many 

 millions of years before, was the half-open mouth of 

 the Dinosaur which had died in the lake while 

 fighting so valiantly for his life. 



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