Danger: Dinosaurs!

The Time Slip

Let us imagine an intricate combination of tubes and coils and relays and knobs and dials and knife switches. Let us suppose that the mind of man has so combined these unrelated pieces of machinery as to allow them to alter the steady progress of time.

Let us call this combination a Time Slip.

Let us assume that the Time Slip can take us back into the past. It can take us to yesterday. It can take us to last Christmas. It can take us back, back...

Back to look over the shoulder of Abraham Lincoln studying his books in the flickering light of a candle in a cabin long, long ago...

Back to Valley Forge, to stand beside General George Washington, to shiver beside the Continental Army, to watch the birth of a nation...

Back to Columbus, and the decks of a wooden ship beneath his feet, and the sails of the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria bright in the ocean sunlight...

And farther back...

Back to the Crusades, and back to Kublai Khan, and back to the days of the Egyptians...

Or why not, why not back to the very beginning? Why not back a million years, ten million years, a hundred million years?

The earth is new, rampant with life, alive with dinosaurs.

The Age of Reptiles.

This is where we will go in these pages. The Time Slip is ours to use as we will. Let us go back to the beginning.

R. M.