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There was a little boy once, he'd wished for a Plesiosaurus instead of an Ichthyosaurus, because he was too lazy to remember the easy names of everyday things, and his father had been very vexed with him, and had made him go to bed before tea-time, and wouldn't let him go out in the nice flint boat along with the other children, it was the annual school-treat next day, and he came and flung himself down near me on the morning of the treat, and he kicked his little prehistoric legs about and said he wished he was dead.
But soon the reptile's agony draws to an end; its movements become fainter, its contortions cease to be so violent, and the long serpentine form lies a lifeless log on the labouring deep. As for the ichthyosaurus has he returned to his submarine cavern? or will he reappear on the surface of the sea?
If you found a little schoolboy on his half-holiday fishing for minnows with a crooked pin, and you began to tell him of all the wonders of the deep, the laws of the tides, and the antediluvian relies of iguanodon and ichthyosaurus; nay, if you spoke but of pearl fisheries and coral-banks, or water-kelpies and naiads, would not the little boy cry out peevishly, 'Don't tease me with all that nonsense; let me fish in peace for my minnows! I think the little boy is right after his own way: it was to fish for minnows that he came out, poor child, not to hear about iguanodons and water-kelpies.
I don't remember you, but mine is a face which one is not likely to forget. Where did we meet, do you think?" "I'm trying to remember," said the Palæotherium, "it must have been several hundreds of years ago now, and my memory is getting so bad " "I once stayed with the Ichthyosaurus," said the Dodo. "It may have been there." "Ah, that must have been it," said the Palæotherium.
In translating her words into English they fell by accident into that shape. No one but you would find fault with them. Would it have been better if he had translated her words into the scientific phraseology which the doctor made use of with regard to the ichthyosaurus? He might have made it this way: 'Does it bite? 'No; it swallows its food without mastication. Would that have been better?
I can distinguish the eye of the ichthyosaurus glowing like a red-hot coal, and as large as a man's head. Nature has endowed it with an optical apparatus of extreme power, and capable of resisting the pressure of the great volume of water in the depths it inhabits.
The genus Ichthyosaurus, or fish-lizard, is not confined to this formation, but has been found in strata as high as the White Chalk of England, and as low as the Trias of Germany, a formation which immediately succeeds the Lias in the descending order.
Dick plunged in, and soon brought the bird to shore, where he stood for a moment or two, ruefully regarding his white kid gloves, which the salt water had completely ruined, while the bow of his necktie had slipped around to the back of his neck. "A pretty figure I shall cut now at the Ichthyosaurus' At Home," he grumbled.
Oh, Iguanodon! oh, earth! oh, Ichthyosaurus Oh, Melanocephalous saurians! Oh! oh! oh! Oh, Troglyodites obscure oh! oh! At this point of the song, the poor Platypus, whose voice had trembled with increasing emotion and sobbing in each verse, broke down, overcome by the extreme sensitiveness of its fifth pair of nerves and the sadness of its song, and wept in terrible grief.
The spines, in the genera last mentioned, articulate with the backbone, whereas there are no signs of any such articulation in the ichthyodorulites. Such spines are simply imbedded in the flesh, and attached to strong muscles. "They serve," says Dr. Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus communis, restored by Conybeare and Cuvier. a.
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