When you get a reptile of his size, that reaches thirty feet up into the air when he stands on his hind-legs, the ordinary circus wagon of commerce can't be made to hold him, and your menagerie-room has to have ceilings so high that every penny he brought to the box-office would be spent storing him." "Mischievous, too," said Adam, "that Iguanadon.

You couldn't keep anything out of his reach.

We used to forbid animals of his kind to enter the garden, but that didn't bother him; he'd stand up on his hind- legs and reach over and steal anything he'd happen to want." "I could have used him for a fire-escape," said Mr.Barnum; "and as for my inability to provide him with quarters, I'd have met that problem after a short while.

I've always lamented the absence, too, of the Megalosaurus--" "Which simply shows how ignorant you are," retorted Noah.

"Why, my dear fellow, it would have taken the whole of an ordinary zoo such as yours to give the Megalosaurus a lunch.