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that his father instantly obeyed, on a branch of the nearest tree.
    Aviatrix and Nosy, hovering above, looked down at Banty, and she looked up at them, and
each knew exactly what the others were thinking.
    Let my ma and pa believe that the pterodactyl family did rescue me somehow, thought Banty, just as Aviatrix and Nosy thought, Let’s pretend we did rescue her. That way they’ll be very grateful and we’ll all be the best of friends.
    When the apatosaruses had finished nuzzling the child they thought they had lost, Gargantua started to make a speech.
    â€œFirst of all,” she said to Aviatrix and Nosy, “please do join your, er …”
    â€œHusband,” said Aviatrix.
    â€œDaddy,” said Nosy.
    â€œ … on that branch. So much less tiring than having to beat your wings all the time,” and when they took her advice, she went on to address the three of them.
    â€œI cannot begin to tell you,” she said, “how grateful Titanic …”

    â€œYour husband?” said Aviatrix.
    â€œMy daddy,” said Banty.
    â€œ … how grateful we are to all of you for saving our beloved child. We have met dear little Nosy before and now are honored to be introduced to his parents, though I fear I do not know your names.”
    â€œAviatrix,” said Nosy’s mother.
    â€œClawed,” said his father.
    â€œI,” said Banty’s mother, “am Gargantua, and my husband, Titanic, and we are the happiest apatosauruses in the world thanks to your pterodactylic heroism in rescuing our Banty from the clutches of T.rex.”

    â€œBut—,” said Clawed.
    â€œHang on, dear,” said Aviatrix.

    â€œI am hanging on.”
    â€œIf you will allow me to say so,” went on Aviatrix, “I think that perhaps you, as Banty’s parents, should have made her more aware of the danger posed by a certain carnivore …”
    â€œT. rex,” said Clawed.
    â€œ … danger,” continued Aviatrix, “of which she may have known nothing.”
    â€œWe should! We should!” cried Gargantua. “Just think, Titanic, she might have become the prey of that T. rex that came to the lake if this brave pterodactyl family had not somehow rescued her. Oh, how grateful we are to you all!”
    Clawed, as so often, looked puzzled.
    â€œWe rescued her, did we, Avy?” he asked.
    â€œOf course we did!” said Aviatrix and Nosy.
    Now Titanic cleared his very long throat.
    â€œAs head of the family,” he said to Clawed, “I must thank you, sir, from the bottom of my heart.”

    Clawed had by now realized that, what with one thing and another, he had not yet performed what was usually his first act of the day, and in some confusion at this thought and at once again being addressed as “sir,” he became muddled and replied, “It is I who must thank you, from the heart of my bottom.”
    Then he spread his huge wings and flew hastily away to a branch on another tree, where he did his morning poo out of sight of the rest.

10

    That first meeting, with all its misunderstanding of Banty’s “rescue,” did indeed lead to friendship between the two families of dinosaurs and pterosaurs.
    The mothers in particular became great friends. They would now meet regularly by the lake or on the near part of the Great Plain. Obviously this was simpler, for the pterodactyls could fly to these meetings. The adult apatosauruses would have
had great difficulty in making their way into the woods. Trees would be falling everywhere before the impact of their bulk.
    â€œIt will be so much easier for you, Gargantua,” said Aviatrix. “It’s not the least trouble for us to fly to the lake or the Great Plain or wherever we want to meet. We are, after all aeronauts of remarkable facility and versatility.”
    â€œHow I admire the way you have with words, Aviatrix,” said Gargantua. “It is such a