"We may
find monsters there which you never dreamed of."
"That'll be just the stuff for you, Andy," cried Jack.
"Well, bring on your monsters," said the old hunter, as he walked
toward the little lake, where wild ducks abounded. "I'll try and
shoot some for you."
"Andy takes everything as a matter of course," went on Jack. "No
sort of animal seems to frighten him. If he should happen to
meet a dinotherium, such as used to live ages ago, he'd shoot it
first, and wonder about it afterward."
"And we, are likely to meet with stranger beasts than
dinotheriums on Mars," said Mr. Roumann.
"What am dat dinotherium?" asked Washington, entering the room at
that moment and catching the word.
"Washington wants to work that into his conversation!" exclaimed
Jack with a laugh. "But you want to be careful, Wash."
"Why so, Massa Jack?"
"Because the dinotheriurn was a fearful beast. It was about
twenty feet long, lived in the water, and ate all sorts of
weeds."
"How long you say he was?"
"About twenty feet."
"He must eat a pow'ful sight ob weeds, den.
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