10 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



Ancient history isjargely a record of the deeds 

 of certain mighty men whose achievements have 

 made them prominent among all their fellows, and 

 it is fitting that something should be said of the 

 mighty animals that peopled the earth long before 

 man made his appearance. 



The following chapters may be looked upon as 

 a series of biographical sketches of some of the 

 most prominent inhabitants, the very early settlers, 

 so to speak, of this and other lands, the story of 

 their lives and deeds as recorded by nature in the 

 stony leaves of the book of the past and translated 

 by man with much difficulty and labor. These 

 translations are very incomplete because many 

 pages from this book of the past have been de- 

 stroyed by Nature herself, and many others we 

 shall never be able to recover, so deeply are they 

 buried in the rocks. But it is a very interesting 

 history, "for there were giants in those days of 

 old" and Miss Mix tells us how they swam through 

 the seas, splashed through the marshes, and tramped 

 over the hills of the ancient world. More than 

 this, Miss Mix shows us how they looked, these 



