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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8164, 25 July 1906, Page 4

Nature's Masterpiece. i. On a fine da; during the Cambrian Era bright sunshine flooded the best that our old Earth could do in the way of scenery at that remote period. Huge mud-flats extended tor thousands of miles on every hand, and b«tween them a u etched shallow oceans. Humble forms of vegetation flourished in the laud and a hc.vy atmosphere, dense as steam, covered nil. The air was full of noble rainbows—probably the most beautiful phenomena known to Cambrian times. Absolute silence marked the scene. No (eathar made music in the air; no fin rippled the water; no beast or herd of beasts moved upon the face of the earth to break the terrifio monotony of that prehistoric picture. Suddenly upon a steaming mud-flat (here appeared a little lobster-like creature of many joints, large eyes, and various feelers arranged like whiskers around his jaws. He was twenty inches in length and carried himself with conscious dignity, albeit mud knocks dignity out of almost anytbingbut a trilobite. But this trilobite, for such he was, surveyed that Cambrian noon pensively, curled his whiskers with thought and wriggled his shining joints in the sun. Presently a hen trilobite appeared and squatted beside him placidly. " When I surrey this tpeotacle," said the trilobite, " when I reflect that the world it bat far us, I am often tempted to won* He rolled his goggle eye* toward* tha lenltb. " Wonder? What at?" asked hit lajy. Sorely u the lord of creation, yon have a light to everything here ? You're the mvit wonderful thing in the mud, after all: y»U san walk about and talk—in fact, you'ie alive—a lire creature Nature's mast tpiece." "Itwould be easy and pleasant to thiiik lo," muted the trilobite, " but sometimes in tare fits of modesty, I almost fancy that I am not the best that Nature can do. I even picture something bigger, better, more beautiful than a trilobite. It may be morbid, but I do." " This it nonsense and ttoff, my dear. You're Ashing for compliments. Bigger? Good heavens, yon're twenty inches long—isn't that big enough for anybody ? Better? Well, your a good husband and a father—what better could any trilobite be ? And as lo beauty—l shouldn't have married you if yon bad not been about the handsomest gentleman trilobite that ever sat and curled his whiskers in the sun. Nature never made anything better than a trilobite. Why? Because she can't. Can you picture anything different—can you imagine any creature with mora oonvenient limbs, more exquisite joints, more perfect claws, better eyelight, better tenses, better manners, or more teJf-respectiug ? You know you can't." " I actually oannot picture the creature, but I can picture the possibility of such a ereature. "Twaddle," said Mrs. Trilobite, " we Vo the best an i 1 -t, so there's an end of it. The world w.u aude for us," She had the final word, very properly, and the trilobite shrugged his shoulders and waddled 06 to bis family. Still he doubted. 11. Some millions of millions of years having pissed by, we find ourselves, upon a blight afternoon of Mesozoic times, in the compnny of that genial and gigantic Deinosaur, Uiontosauriis Eiceisus. The monster despite pleasant climatic conditiins, was ill at case. He sat upou his haunches, swayed his enormous neck to the right and left, and. listlessly chewed o2 the heads ol six lofty pilm irees. There was a crash—a boiling, seething explosion at of a torpedo in the river at his feet, and forth came the Deinosaar's bride; a monstrous being, much like himself, though somewhat smaller. " Ah, my dear, back again ? " he exclaimed, and, smashing 08 the palm-tree like cabbage stumps, sank down beside her. •' Ton are unhappy, my own Bronto," she siid, with the pretty solicitude of a young wife. " Not nnhappy, merely thoaghtfnl, my love. This good world—the lakes and rivers, the trees and grooves of club mosses—all; I sometimes think it can hardly have been created for us." " Not for us! " " Not for us and our friends alone. Perhips some day something greater, wiser, belter even than Brontosaurus Exoelsus may browse here, and swim these rivers, and lift its head to the sun." " This is mere moonshine, my dearest. Greater than yoa ! Is it possible to ho greater than 100 ft. long. Is it possible to be heavier than 50 tons ? And, for therest, wl.o should know your goodness and wisdom litter than I. No, no; you let your humility run away with you, my sweet. You are the first and best—Nature's masterpiece, her joy, her unutterable delight." " There's Atlantosaarus," said Bronto dubiously. His wife frowned, and her huge lizard eyet were clouded. "There is Atlantolanros," the admitted, " the hulking, bloodthirsty, ignoble wretch I A thing that eats other live creatures: a debased, degraded, distant relation-r-a cannibal 1 Nature blushes when she thinks of him and his kind ; but we, we are upon a plane apart; we eat the green grass, the juicy cane, the young fronds and ripe fruit of the palms ; we '' A shadow hid the tun. High above the trees rose a dreadful head with eyes like bicytle-wbeels and teeth that glittered and dropped blood. " It's Allan to - come 1" Two timultaneous splashes east a huge column of water upwards as Brontosaurus and hit better half vanished beneath that Ifetoioio river. _ A BOON TO DAIRYMEN A bail lias been patented by a Taraflald firm, which is far in advance of any other contrivance for securing cows while being milked. It is operated from the back of the cow, and she can be bailed up or released with the greatest ease by even the smallest milker. Dairymen will find these hails are not only groat time-savers, hut are reliable, easy to hi, and never get out of repair; in fact, can be fixed with little alteration in any shed in which old bails are at present in use. The articles supplied are:—2 screw pulleys 14ft of cord and ring, 1 iron bail; and the cost is only a few shillings. Messrs Bobcrtson and Bond, of Liardet-street, New Plymouth, are the patentees and vendors. An illustrated leaflet, and all .estimates or particulars, will be provided to enquirers free. The folio wing letter just received speaks volumes: —Metsrt. Robertson and Bond, New Plymouth. Dear Sirs,—l hare pleasure in stating that the nc-w cow bails yoa supplied are giving every satisfaction. They are easy to fix, and . Ttct a great caving of time. I firmly believe if they were used continually for twelve months they would more than tare their first cost. I can confidently recommend them to all dairymen. 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