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He pointed joyfully at a Spruce Grouse
just off the trail. "Bird" he
squealed. Levi hurried with excitement tripping
and picking himself up. His little head
bobbing just above the bushes as he chased the
bird. Elena was surprised that the Grouse did
not take off. It seemed to know just how
fast Levi could run and kept neatly out of his
reach.
The Grouse led them further up the
hill to where the brush was sparse and the ground
was covered with shale. Elena was not worried
that Levi would go much further for here the hill
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"Ohhh, bird, bird!" Levi
shouted to the grouse as it settled into a bush
half way up the hill. It fluffed its feathers
and looked down at them with a supercilious air.
Levi sat down in disgust. Elena sat down beside
him.
As she looked around, she realized
how much erosion had taken place over the year
since they had last been berry picking.
This part of the hill had been a solid, smooth
piece of rock last year. Now the main part
of that rock was broken into smaller pieces and
had slid further down the slope. Levi
kicked with his feet; pieces of shale skittered
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Before long they were both in a game
of seeing who could make the shale go the furthest.
Soon their feet were down to the solid rock.
Levi was clearing a piece of the ground off.
Sweeping all of the smaller pieces of shale to
the side to look at what was below. "Bone",
he said to Elena. "Dog bone for Kita"
"That’s not a dog bone Levi, that’s
just some weird rock.", Elena replied.
"Dog bone!" Levi insisted.
Elena cleared away more of the rock. Sure
enough, it looked like there was some sort of
gray bone embedded in the rock. What was
showing of the bone was about a foot and a half
long. The joint end was as wide as her hand
with her fingers spread. |
The Discovery Bones
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Now it was Elena who was excited. Her
class had been studying paleontology in school.
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