The Long-Lost Secret Diary of the World's Worst Dinosaur Hunter by Tim Collins

Author:Tim Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures / Action & Adventure / General / Humorous Stories
Publisher: North Star Editions
Published: 2018-05-22T19:03:51+00:00

Instead of rolling his eyes and admitting his mistake, the first bandit simply said, “In the sacks.”

“These are just old bones,” I said. I tried to sound calm, but I could hear my voice wavering. “There are hundreds more in the ground around here.”

The man just pointed his gun to the empty sack, and then back at us.

“Please let us go,” said Father. “These old scraps aren’t worth anything.”

It was true. The broken skull of an ancient creature would be worth nothing to these bandits. It wouldn’t even make an interesting curiosity to wager in a card game. Yet to me, it meant everything. It was a piece of solid evidence of an entirely new creature that I could take back to the Geological Society.

The bandit just stared at us in silence. I suspected his expression wouldn’t change if he pulled the trigger. It was probably something he’d done a hundred times before.

I loved the broken skull, but it wasn’t worth being killed for. I carried the pieces over from the trunk into the cloth sacks. At every stage, I was expecting the men to realize they were stealing something worthless and give up. But it never happened. Eventually, I’d handed all the pieces over. The bandits tied the sacks to their horses and galloped away.

We trudged back to our boarding house as the men rode out of sight and my precious skull disappeared with them.

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