Show I I I I I III I LITTLE JOURNEYS IN I MONSTERS ARE NATURES NATURE'S OUTPOSTS Junior began Uncle Jack has learned something of the services that that ar are ara I Ipe performed pe ormed by curious monsters monster that still inhabit the earth He knows in in a away r way that they are Natures Nature's outposts placed as it were to keep open the way I for mans man's coming They were heroes on earth before man made his appearance doing work that was essential that the globe might be habitable and today t they ey I are doing a similar work although man by destroying many species has interfered interfered in- in Ino i ite te ered with Natures Nature's plan and has brought himself much so sorrow row and nd trou trouble le Many people are puzzled by the disappearance of of the terrible giants which I formerly lived and by the growing up of types utterly different from those which in the long ago had everything to themselves We shaU shall in time see and Ithen I Ithen then we shall understand how science has been able abie to trace the plan of Nature with regard to her varied family We shall understand how it was that while i j jin I in America we had rhinoceroses bigger than those now Ping Irving others in different dif dif- I ferent parts of Europe grew so 10 small as to be no bigger than han a sheep or pig i We Ve shall see too that the elephant which was once the giant of the I I I north wasted away in Europe to the size of a Shetland pony t I II I We must have a n glimpse of family ro relations In the animal world to r realize co i i how the creatures of the tho earth came to to robe be what they are The hippopotamus j jand and the rhinoceros are the biggest animals in the world except the elephant Their bodies are nearly as al large as that of the elephant but their legs are arc shorter short short- I er r. r Remembering their gre great t size my Junior then you will see ho how hov w wonderful I it is that their heu distant ant cousin is the hyrax a little animal about the size elze of a I r rabbit which lives laves in In parts of Africa It is the animal which is spoken of in the I 1 I Bible as the coney David sang The high hills are a refuse for fop the wild goats and so are the stony rocks for the coney That is a little animal living among frocks rocks and mountains mountain yet it is related both to the hippopotamus and the s. s Its teeth though small are shaped like those of the hippopotamus the tapir and the horse Fancy a horse or an elephant living in a rocky hole in inthe inthe inthe the ground as s the hyrax does es Of course that is impossible But all these animals animals ani ani- mals came cae from the the same Ume stock originally and the little hyrax with teeth like tiny Iny cople copies of f the hippopotamus hippopotamus' teeth h. h has still the feet of a very tiny tapir 0 or dr a still tinier rhinoceros s. s So Sa we thus see that the great monsters of ancient times are with us but m in changed form and we later shall hear of tie the the cause of these great t trans transformations y |