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.