54 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



when it floated on the surface of the lake millions of 

 years before, and as these pieces had been carried 

 far off and lost, the entire skeleton could never be 

 found. But, considering the devastation that is 

 always wrought by living creatures in all such 

 skeletons before they are buried, and the many 

 changes that occur in the earth after their burial, 

 the bones of this Dinosaur were discovered in unu- 

 sually good shape. 



Slowly, but surely, the bluff was made to yield up 

 to man this animal which had died ages before any 

 man had lived. To recount all that it was necessary 

 to do in order to recover the skeleton would be to tell 

 of many months in which every day was filled with 

 the hardest kind of labor. Some of the rock was 

 removed in sections that weighed two tons; and to 

 handle these was a serious undertaking when the 

 tools and appliances at hand were not many. 



But there came a day, about a year after the 

 Dinosaur had been found, when it was decided that 

 all of the skeleton which was in that locality was 

 unearthed. After every piece of rock had been 

 wrapped and numbered and then securely boxed, the 



