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apatosaurus?”
    â€œEasily,” said Clawed.
    â€œAnd you’re only a baby one,” said Aviatrix.
    By now she had warmed to this odd-looking, innocent young animal.
    â€œYou must take great care, Banty, dear,” she said. “We can always escape by flying, but you can’t.”
    â€œMom, Daddy,” said Nosy, “please could you do my friend here a big favor?”
    â€œIndubitably,” said his mother, “and before
you ask me, Clawed, that means without a doubt.”
    â€œWhat d’you want?” asked Clawed.
    â€œCould you both come over to the lake with me so that you can meet Banty’s parents? Neither of us knows why, but they don’t seem to like pterodactyls, and you don’t like apatosauruses. Banty and I are friends, but wouldn’t it be nice if we were all friends—both families, I mean?”
    â€œWould you like us to come, Banty?” Nosy’s mother asked.
    â€œOh yes, I would, please!”
    â€œThen we will,” said Clawed. “I could do with a drink anyway.”

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    â€œBanty! Banty!” called Gargantua and Titanic as they lumbered around the rim of the lake, but there was no response.
    When they stopped to get their breath, at a point that chanced to be the nearest to the distant woods, Gargantua gasped, “It couldn’t have taken her, could it?”
    Titanic looked puzzled.
    â€œWhat couldn’t have taken who?” he asked.

    â€œThat T. rex we’ve just seen, you fool,” said Gargantua. “Could it have taken our Banty?”
    Titantic considered.
    â€œDon’t think so,” he said. “It didn’t have anything in its mouth, and we weren’t submerged long enough for it to have time to—”
    â€œStop!” cried Gargantua. “Don’t say it.” And she shuddered the most enormous apatosaurian shudder.
    Just then they saw, flying toward them from the direction of the woods, three pterodactyls. There was a little one, a big one, and a very big one.
    â€œWe could ask those wotchermecallits if they’ve seen her,” Titanic said.
    â€œPterodactyls!” said Gargantua scornfully. “They wouldn’t know the difference between an iguanodon and a triceratops. Stupid things! I’ve no use for them.”

    At that moment the small pterodactyl detached itself from the two much larger ones, which were flying very slowly, and flew very quickly toward the apatosauruses.
    â€œUgh!” said Gargantua. “One of them is coming straight to us. If it speaks, don’t answer, Titanic.”
    â€œGood morning!” squeaked Nosy when he reached them. “I’ve a favor to ask you. Could I introduce my mom and my daddy to you?” There was no answer.
    â€œOh,” said Nosy, “we’ve got Banty with us,” he added.
    â€œWhat?” bellowed both apatosauruses.
    â€œWe’ve got Banty. We’ve brought her home,” said Nosy. “Look, you can see her now.”

    Titantic and Gargantua stretched up their long necks to the fullest extent, and there was their missing daughter, coming toward them, escorted by the two big pterodactyls, which were flying very slowly above her.
    â€œOh, my Banty!” called Gargantua, waddling forward. “You’re safe!”

    â€œMa thought you might have been eaten by that T. rex,” said Titanic.
    â€œOh, you saved her!” cried Gargantua to Aviatrix and Clawed. “You saved my Banty! Oh, how can we ever thank you enough?”
    Clawed looked extremely puzzled.
    â€œSaved her?” he began, but Aviatrix quickly interrupted him.
    â€œWe are glad to have been of help,” she said to Gargantua. “We weren’t sure if Banty was aware of certain dangers.”
    â€œLike T. rex,” said Clawed. “Although actually …”
    â€œBe quiet a minute, Clawed,” said Aviatrix, and “Hang on, Daddy,” said Nosy, a suggestion