| The less said about the pterodactyl the
better. It was a spectacle, that beast! a mixture of buzzard and alligator,
a sarcasm, an affront to all animated nature, a butt for the ribald jests
of an unfeeling world. After some ages Nature perceived that to put feathers
on a reptile does not ennoble it, does not make it a bird, but only a sham,
a joke, a grotesque curiosity, a monster; also that there was no useful
thing for the pterodactyl to do, and nothing likely to turn up in the future
that could furnish it employment. And so she abolished it. - "Flies and Russians" |
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