 I'm glad we got an early start this morning there aren't many cars out on the street yet at all That's why I wanted to start this earlier Cal I Sure, want to thank you for asking me along on this trip. I don't mention it You're the thank Henry ready had to stay but bill needed his help I did thank him until he was almost tired of hearing me say it Just think my sheriff's convention, and I'm going to it. Don't get too carried away, Jojo Might be a little disappointed the meetings might get pretty boring to you after a while. Oh, I doubt that Even if they do I'll have central city to look at since I've never been there before yep There'll be enough there to keep you busy. All right. Oops red light Well, I'm glad to see that you obey traffic laws to share There's a little temptation to forget about them at this time of the morning not another car in sight Yeah, it looks like all of naughty pine is asleep I think you spoke a little too soon on that one Jojo look over there. Oh, oh, man Who would be out at this time of morning? I look a little closer. Oh It's dr. Springer. I Guess doctors never sleep Hey, he's coming this way. Good morning, doc This is a rare pleasure indeed Seeing why the way human beings at this time morning. Well, we really aren't very much awake. We're kind of surprised to see you too I'll take care of trouble this morning. No purely pleasure. How about you? Yeah, wish I could say the same Mrs. Krause decided she could do without her appendix last night So I had to help her out. Oh help her out or get up All the way look at it Where you fellas heading fishing? Well, not exactly. They're having the annual sheriff's convention in Central City this week And we're going up there to it. Oh What are you going along for Jojo an example of a juvenile delinquent? No, he's mainly going along for the ride And to see what I can learn Well, they have a nice time you two you've got a long drive ahead of you and All I can still catch a few more hours asleep and we drop you somewhere doc. Thanks a lot, but no I'm parked right over here Have a good time We'll see you back nice fellow Doc Springer Cal I don't know how to break this to you you being the sheriff of Naughty Pine and all but why what's on your mind? Well, you started up and went right through that red light back there Oh, it's beautiful scenery and Soothing vibration of the car the early hour and the early hour It's all making me so sleepy. Well, feel free to take a nap. It's a long trip. Oh Sure, that would be real nice for you You're probably as sleepy as I am. Oh, here comes something that should keep you awake for at least another minute. Oh, sure What's that? Well, you see these signs were coming to Yeah They're usually pretty good. Let's see the story reads like an open book Caveman loses caveman look hey, hey, that's neat You shave yet Jojo Once in a while, but you don't look much like a caveman when you don't know not much Well, when you start to think about it, I guess none of us do Oh, I don't know. Did you ever watch the football coach at school? I Don't know about it. I think that's funny, but It was Watson's a nice fellow. So we're a lot of cavemen. I suppose. Yeah, maybe you're right Boy, what's the trouble? I was just thinking Those cavemen must have had a pretty rough time. How do you mean that? Well, you know They didn't have anything like we do today and they lived in awful circumstances. Oh, maybe you're looking at it the wrong way Jojo What do you mean? Well the way I figure they had the same problems we do Well, maybe but what about sickness and then those big prehistoric animals? Well, the men may have lasted but lots of them were killed by these things Of course, you don't read of any cavemen being killed in auto accidents or being hurt falling downstairs today. Do you know? No, I'm afraid not too many Now I see what you mean though I guess every age has its monsters and killers even if they aren't the same ones. That's right When we can't find enough other things to cut down the size of the population we start wars That's more like cavemen than anything Hang on sharp curve coming up Well, we must be getting into the mountains, but good, huh? Yeah, it won't be long before well Hey, look in the road that tree is falling. No time to stop. Hang on. I'll try to go around it. No, there's no room Jojo, are you all right? I think so. That's what I was gonna ask you Vibing out long. I Don't know but I don't think so. I Think we just landed. Oh, we better get out of this mess. We can I think I'm free Let's try it. Yeah Look out. Oh, come on away that falling glass. Yeah sharp got enough scratches. I'll get some more there Oh, I'm out. Oh What's the matter? Oh my arm. Why does it hurt? Yeah, let's let's take a look at it once Uh-huh, take it easy might be broken. You'll care otherwise As I know, how about you? I guess I got a couple of cuts here and there, but nothing workmate work With making much of a fuss over It's almost a miracle sure seems like it judging how far we fell from up there Yeah, I can't even see the top of the hill from here. Oh We must have come a long way sure didn't seem that far Didn't think so either Well, I guess we'd better start climbing out of this valley or pass or whatever it is We fell into and sure is a strange-looking place Tuck your arm inside your shirt like a sling and don't try to use it here. Let me they help you a little bit That is better Count how do you figure we're gonna get up out of here? Well, if you can buy the where the car landed we ought to be near the highway. You think so Guess you're right. So we should climb as straight up from here as we can and then hope another car comes along Yeah, if another car doesn't see that tree up there, we might just as well wait for here for them Yeah, I should have been watching closer. It wasn't your fault count that sharp turn completely hid the tree Yes, but all the same. I know maybe when we get up there We can move the tree out of the way or something or at least set up some kind of warning. That's a good idea I guess we better get started right Say isn't our radio in the car? Maybe we could call for help. Oh Look at that heap of metal Radio is worthless now. Oh well Let's get moving Wait a minute. Well, what's the matter? No telling what we'll meet on our hike. It looks like a good bear country Do you have a gun or something? If I can find it in all this wreckage? There's a gun in a couple of boxes of shells in here Yeah, yeah, just a second Jojo. I'll be right with you. Ah Here it is all intact now. What was it you wanted? Look around here a minute. Uh-huh So Doesn't this valley look uh Somehow strange of course it does. This is a good way as farther than bills district You've never been this far north before that's not what I mean Cal Look for instance at the trees and plants. Don't they look well bigger or something? Hmm now that's imagine a Jojo they do this must be good fertile land It all just seems so strange that's all the only thing that seems strange to me is why we aren't moving up the side of this hill toward the highway Sure Let's go You found the gun all right. Yep. I got it right here. What's so funny? I was just thinking Every word talking about the hard life that the caveman had in the next minute We were having about the same sort of time ourselves. Yeah Except we have it a little better than they did. Oh Sure. We've got that gun What do you make of this? I don't know Cal It looks like an area of about 20 feet along the side of this slope has been torn off All that's left is a few roots and a lot of loose loose dirt Well the angle seems too steep to climb it It looks as though it runs around the whole valley Cal do you suppose it's a road? It couldn't drive anything on a sideways angle like this Kind of looks like the ring some folks leaving a bathtub What could have made it? You couldn't run a big moor along here. It's too steep Yeah besides it looks like things have been pulled out rather than cut down. Yeah, it's strange. All right Yeah, it runs as far as I can see What do you think we ought to do cal? Well, if we had some rope and you didn't have that busted arm the answer would be simple But I guess we'll just have to walk along this dirt strip until the angle gets better and we can cross it Or it stops Yeah I can see sort of an opening in the valley about a Mile I guess in that direction Maybe we'd better head for it. That's a good idea once we get above this ripped out patch Can come back this way along the top and still find the highway Let's go I don't know some animal I never heard an animal was sounded like that before well neither did I That doesn't mean there isn't one does it I guess not now settle down. I've got this gun and everything There it is again. Yeah You had better check to be sure this gun is loaded Cal Well I've been trying not to think what I've been thinking for the last few minutes Now that doesn't make a lot of sense jojo. What are you trying to say? Well cal take a look here at the ridge where all the trees and bushes and stuff have been pulled out I've been looking at it That's why we can't climb any higher up Nothing to grab onto up here. I know that but but look at how the trees have been pulled out What do you get Matt? Oh here for instance See in this hole Big roots like there must have been a pretty big tree here It's just like all the other holes. We've seen yeah, right But look around the edges of the hole Don't these look like big well Teeth marks. Hey, hold on boy Go get hysterical on me. Well, I mean it look at them Cal Well, they could resemble teeth marks, but I wouldn't come right out and say that they are Why not? Oh lots of reasons never saw anything with a mouth so big it could bite off a tree Yeah, that's what I was wondering Besides what would eat off just a ridge along the side of a valley like this Well, now just supposing that this pass some path. Well, okay this wide strip of eating off area was uh eaten by something like a Prehistoric animal now now over there Jojo don't go getting any wise ideas. Oh, no. No, wait a minute. Let's just uh suppose that it was Now if his mouth was so big that it could bite off a tree Wouldn't his body have to be pretty big too bigger than anything I've ever seen. Yeah, right Now if he stood up Isn't it possible that his head would be about as high as this eating off strip is from the floor of the valley? Hmm That makes too good sense Jojo. Yeah, I know but we aren't living in prehistoric time There aren't any of those big monsters left. They all died It's impossible that there should be any of them We just don't know what to make of it, but I know one thing. What's that? We don't find a way out of this place soon And if that thing whatever it is doesn't stop making all that noise I'm gonna be scared enough to jump over this loose dirt and for that matter all the way out of this valley Listen I don't hear anything Yeah, that's exactly it The birds they've stopped See that is funny The only time I know of when birds stop chirping is when they're frightened to death Well, if that sound we heard a while ago didn't scare them. I don't know what would Yeah, but they didn't stop then I guess whatever made that sound wasn't close enough to them to do any harm Sounded close enough though Yeah, but a valley like this can really make the sound fool you What's the matter? I I just thought of something what? They've stopped chirping now that means that there is something close enough to do them harm And if them us too, yeah, that's what I mean Let's hurry a little jojo We're almost out of this valley All we have to do is make it around that next turn and we should be able to find a place to climb a pyre As far as I'm concerned the sooner the better I don't know where that thing is or for that matter what it is, but I think I'll be just as happy not to meet it Cal I see it I just don't believe it Do you think it's seen us I can't tell for sure It might have been just waiting around this corner for us and waiting till we get there so it catches Just look at the size of that thing. Yeah, it's just like you figured before That must be a hundred feet long if he's an inch for sure Goodness sake His eye is as big as a roadmover's wheel Cal he's looking this way. Yeah hurry up get down quick He's biased I think he's misseeing us too Cal what is it? I've never seen anything like that in my whole life except in books You know, he looks just like one of those prehistoric animals. Yeah, but but but here now I thought things like that. Yeah, I thought the same thing jojo There he is We both have seen him a lot of good this gun will do If I shot him he'd probably think he was mosquito bit or something like that Yeah, he must have been the one that ate this strip around the valley That's a pretty good trick if you ask me good thinking. What do you mean? Clear a 20 or 30 foot path of most dearth around the wall of the valley So is anything that dropped in here couldn't get out Maybe that's why he isn't bothering chasing us He knows we can't get out of here anyhow Jojo we're trapped and I don't hear him anymore uh-uh But you know, I don't hear the birds either. No, that's true. It's bad too Yeah, it looks like night is coming on too. Yeah, my stomach told me we'd been here for a while I'm hungry too, but remember imagine how hungry he must get Well, I don't hanker to serve as a hot dog for him or any such thing I'm gonna look and see if he's still there He's still there Did you see him? I can't say for sure, but he sure yelled at the right time Oh, what's that? Look up there flying above us Another one Looks like a big bird Yeah, look at those jaws. I see something else too Jojo. What there is any question about whether or not he's seen us Here he comes What did you see that? That big fella picked that flying monster right out of the air He sure wasn't long and break him in half either. Yeah and with his jaws Oh, I feel weak all over I know what you mean Yeah, and it all happened so close And that flying thing would have had us if it weren't for that other monster I know He sure saved us. Maybe he saved us just for dessert Well, maybe One good thing though. What's that? You won't be as hungry now Maybe he'll even go to sleep. Yeah, that's a possibility, but Then you know what? Maybe we could sneak by him Could be Only only what? We don't know in how many more Those other fellas there are around the corner, but keep quiet till we get a good distance away Did did you see that mouth? I sure did That's why I say keep quiet. What why he must have been 10 or 15 feet long I figure he could hold both of us on his tongue and still have room for a small tree Jesus, we've had it. I just can't figure it out Cal How could there be monsters like this? Oh, I don't know Time for meditate on that problem was later Right now he's got to get He's looking for us quick. We've got a hide no place here to hide run for it. Jojo Follow us run Jojo. It'll be all think keep running Jojo. Everything will be all right Everything is all right Jojo It's got us everything is all right Jojo Take it easy boy. Oh Cal. We're finished He's got us Jojo. It's all right Steady boy. Huh? What I think he's coming out of it. He must have been having a dream or something. Oh probably due to shock Jojo Dr. Springer What are you doing here? Take it easy Jojo Where am I? Oh, did he get us? I don't know what you were dreaming Jojo, but everything's okay now Dream You mean it was a dream Oh Looks like you broke in the accident Jojo, that's all You were both very fortunate Yeah, but but but doc it was broken in the dream too That must have been some dream Oh, I'll say It was so strange all about Prehistoric monsters and birds must have been the caveman. What's that? Oh just before the accident we were talking about caping while we were riding in the car Mr. Played on Jojo's mind Well, that's possible You all right now Jojo? Oh, I guess a little weak How did I get here? Well after that tree stopped us. Oh, what tree that must be where you left us Yeah, I guess so anyhow when we hit that tree we both fell against the front of the dashboard I went out too When I woke up, I used the radio and called for an ambulance and they brought you right back here So I guess you didn't get much sleep after all hey doc Oh, that's all right Jojo as long as you two pulled through okay You know if my dream had come true We probably never would have been heard from again huh Funny though What's that? It all seems so real And yet I kept wondering how it could really be happening Well dreams are like that sometimes Oh say I almost forgot Bill stopped by a while ago to see how you were and uh, he said be be back as soon as he could but He left this for you Said you might be interested in it. Oh, what is it? Hmm. Look looks like a book. He thought it might take your mind off having to lie here in the hospital him What's so funny Jojo look at the title of this book Oh I Guess I'd better take a look true What is it? Monsters of the past a study of the prehistoric beasts that once prowled the earth Did you ever have a bad dream boys and girls? Maybe you were as happy as I was to wake up Well, we'll see you next week for more awake adventures with ranger Ranger bill was produced in the radio studios of the moody bible institute in chicago