Just Jaunting Round

Treasure?

"Below that feathery veil, and off to one side, is a vivid red flaw or closely bunched up crystalization, brilliantly colored, and looking through the microscope exactly like a ruby."

bone forcompartively long way but the hole shaped tus slants on the edge sharply ana hence thece 1s light spot which in the original isbeautiful ten 14 oo ko oy qirsnrs sn Look now at tie near-central hofe this surface is now all true rock true stone it is no longer bome but sometine in the hundreds of thousands of years since it petrified flaw orystalization sprung up in the center of tmat hole throwingthin feathory frond-like veil aoross from edge to edge as delioate as any downy feather you ever saw And that not on the surface but domn below the polisn githin the stone 32 Bolow that Teathery vett and oft 4o ane sie 1svivid red flaw or closely bunched up orystalization bril1antly calored and looking through the mioroscope exactly like ruby The whole round spot is exactly like looking down bin 1n tihsure vawls with delicately fash toned silvery veil of exquisite workmanship throm across the bia nad below 1t treasures of whloh ruby shows what 15 st111 below Now 1etput the bone back Into the creature instead of round ring of compacted bone matter on whichmagnigioation of firty dlamfers will fail to showblood cand as our our bones at twenty magaifications one can see the opeatngs the blood canals in this bone with the unaided eye one can see the vast number of holes tubes empty spaces-or rather spaces ampty of bometter The bone 1s honeycombed very much It was natureway to omewhat lighten the weight even 5o the oreature was huge unweildy like ell reptiles he kad skinny shanks not those Digital image 2003 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved