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Show K4lllr- Srtciit.v I'trt't in I.fiith. What the mammals are in the scale of creation today the reptiles were in the meso.oie epoch. They swain tho eas, climbed trees and were most phenomenal jumpers. Sotno of them even Hew. While sumo were herbivorous, living npon plants, others wero carnivorous, preserving; existence by devouring their vegetable eating Cousins. The vegetarian vegetar-ian reptiles were enormous beasts, often as much us seventy feet in length. They afforded food for the carnivorous reptiles, rep-tiles, which were seedier than the herbivorous herb-ivorous kind, just as, lious and tigera nowadays are smaller than oxen. Though bilker, the vegetarian creatures creat-ures usually had no armor nor weapons to defend themselves with. Their most powerful defence wan a kick, which, delivered de-livered with a hind leg fifteen feet in length, was assuredly not by any means to lie despised. Professor Cope in Washington Wash-ington Star. |