Art by Leo Morey for “The Second Deluge” by Garrett P. Serviss in “Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol 7, No. 1 (Winter, 1933).
“It was the procession of the beasts. Cosmo Versal had concluded that the time was come for housing his animals.” [Accompanying description]
“The time was come for housing his animals in the ark. He wished to accustom them to their quarters before the voyage began. The resulting spectacle filled the juvenile world with irrepressible joy, and immensely interested their elders.
“No march of a menagerie had ever come within sight of equaling this display. Many of the beasts were such as no one there had ever seen before. Cosmo had consulted experts, but, in the end, he had been guided in his choice by his own judgment. Nobody knew as well as he exactly what was wanted. He had developed in his mind a scheme for making the new world that was to emerge from the waters better in every respect than the old one.
“Mingled with such familiar creatures as sheep, cows, dogs, and barnyard fowl, were animals of the past, which the majority of the onlookers had only read about or seen pictures of, or perhaps, in a few cases, had been told of in childhood, long since sleeping in their graves.
“Cosmo had rapidly collected them from all parts of the world, but as they arrived in small consignments, and were carried in closed vans, very few persons had any idea of what he was doing . . .” [Quoting from the story]
Art by Leo Morey for “The Second Deluge” by Garrett P. Serviss in “Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol 7, No. 1 (Winter, 1933).
“It was the procession of the beasts. Cosmo Versal had concluded that the time was come for housing his animals.” [Accompanying description]
“The time was come for housing his animals in the ark. He wished to accustom them to their quarters before the voyage began. The resulting spectacle filled the juvenile world with irrepressible joy, and immensely interested their elders.
“No march of a menagerie had ever come within sight of equaling this display. Many of the beasts were such as no one there had ever seen before. Cosmo had consulted experts, but, in the end, he had been guided in his choice by his own judgment. Nobody knew as well as he exactly what was wanted. He had developed in his mind a scheme for making the new world that was to emerge from the waters better in every respect than the old one.
“Mingled with such familiar creatures as sheep, cows, dogs, and barnyard fowl, were animals of the past, which the majority of the onlookers had only read about or seen pictures of, or perhaps, in a few cases, had been told of in childhood, long since sleeping in their graves.
“Cosmo had rapidly collected them from all parts of the world, but as they arrived in small consignments, and were carried in closed vans, very few persons had any idea of what he was doing . . .” [Quoting from the story]