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"There were giants in the earth in those days."

Nearly every group of animals has its giants, its species which tower above their fellows as Goliath of which tower above their fellows as Goliath of Gath stood head and shoulders above the Philistine hosts hosts; and while some of these are giants only in comtheir fellows, belonging to families whose members are short of stature, others are sufficiently great to be called giants under any circumstances.

Some of these giants live to-day, some have but recently passed away, and some ceased to be long ages before man trod this earth. The most gigantic of mammalsthe whales -still survive, and the elephant of to-day suffers but little in comparison with the mammoth of yesterday ; the monstrous Dinosaurs, greatest of all reptilesgreatest, in fact, of all animals that have walked the earth-flourished thousands upon thousands of years ago. As for birds, some of the giants among them are still living, some existed long geologic periods ago, and a few have so recently vanished from the scene that their memory still lingers amid the haze of tradition.