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I tell you , I am going to see a live dinosaurus , or bust . You hear me ? '' and Pa heard them cooking breakfast , and we got up . Before noon Pa had organized a pack train and hired three cowboys , and got some diagrams and pictures of dinosauruses from the scientists , and we started north on the biggest fool expedition that ever was , but Pa was as earnest and excited as Peary planning a north pole expedition , and as busy as a boy killing snakes . After the cowboys and the scientists had tried to get Pa to make his will before he went , and got the addresses where Pa wanted our remains sent to in case of our being found dried up on the prairie , and our bones polished by wolves , we were on the move , and Pa was so happy you would think he had already found a live dinosaurus , and had him in a cage . For four days we rode along up and down foothills , and divides , and small mountains , and all the time Pa was telling the boys how , after we had located our dinosauruses , we would go back east and organize an expedition with derricks and cages as big as a house , and come back and drive the animals in . And when we got them with the show people we would run trains hundreds of miles to see the rarest animals any show ever exhibited to a discriminating public , and we could charge five dollars for tickets , and people would mob each other to get up to the ticket wagon .