62 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



for exhibition knows about the skeletons of living 

 creatures, the better skilled is he in his work. 



Piece by piece the bones of this monarch of other 

 days were adjusted until at last he stood upright on 

 his huge feet, his body more than twice as tall as the 

 tallest man and over seventy feet in length. Iron 

 braces were used to support the monster when he was 

 placed on a platform in the main exhibition room of 

 the museum. 



Thus it was that the bones of . the Dinosaur 

 which had been killed ages before any human 

 being lived found a home in a great city where 

 each year many thousands of people would look at 

 him with amazement. And all round about him in 

 this same museum were the skeletons of other ani- 

 mals which had lived before man. Some of them 

 had made their homes on the land, some in the air, 

 some in the water. Many among them had been 

 rulers in their time just as had the Dinosaur in his. 

 And how these rulers looked when alive, and where 

 they lived, and how they were at last found in their 

 rocky tombs, are stories well worth the telling. 



