The Story of Noah's Ark

by E. Boyd Smith

And the earth trembled with their tread, while the sky was dark with flapping wings.

11. THE DINOSAURS’ DILEMMA

And then came even the huge dinosaurs, for in those days were mighty beasts. But they were too big for the door, and could not squeeze in.

Now Noah sorely regretted this miscalculation, but could find no way to help it.

And the dinosaurs, alas! had to be left behind.

12. THOSE WHO WOULD NOT GO IN

But the mammoth and the mastodon, and the dinotherium, the palæotherium, and the anoptherium, and the pterodactyl, and the archæopteryx,—and a host of other strange beasts and birds with long Latin names,—refused to go in at all, in spite of Noah’s warnings.

All these of course were doomed to be lost, and become fossils, to be put in museums with stones and labels.