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"Once upon a time, there was a dinosaur 

named "Velly". Velly was a velociraptor. He 

was quite small, so he wanted a smaller 

name. Also, Jaxon's grampa couldn't 

pronounce the word velociraptor, so Velly was 

a good name for him.

     Velly lived with lots of other dinosaurs who roamed around 

playing, and looking for food. Sometimes one of them would 

"TOOT" very loudly, and Velly would laugh loudly. Each kind of 

dinosaur had their very own TOOT sound. Sometimes at night he 

would dream that he was in an orchestra of tubas and kazoos, 

tooting away...

     But Velly was very curious about the world, and wanted to see 

new things. Hmmmmm, how would a rather small velociraptor go 

out to see a world he had never seen? All of his life, the only thing 

he had seen was the dinosaur world.

     He began to think about travel. How would he get beyond 

anything he ever knew?

     As he rambled around, looking for food, he came across the 

word "transport" written with cleverly placed bones. He couldn't 

read words, but his grampa was very good at reading bones. He 

went to his grampa, who was a very wise gentleman. 

     Velly's grampa looked at the bone word, and after making 

little sounds deep in his throat, communicated to his dinosaur 

grandson Velly that the bone word was "transport". Dinosaurs 

don't really talk, but act out the meaning of things. It was kind of 

like dinosaur charades. He acted out the meaning of "transport" 

by lifting Velly up, and quickly moving from place to place.

     Quickly, Velly understood. To 

transport, he would have to take a 

ride! He was confused and excited 

at the same time. That night, he 

dreamed of those large creatures 

that flew above them, going from 

place to place.

     Some people call the flying 

creatures 'pterodactyls'. Velly 

started thinking..."I will have to find 

a pterodactyl, and make friends with 

it!"

     Velly wandered through the valley where the dinosaurs lived, but this 

time he was looking up into the sky. Large, dark shadows would 

sometimes cross over him, and when he looked up, it was a pterodactyl 

flying above, large enough to block out the sun!

     Velly had often dreamed about what it might be like to fly, to soar 

through the air, to see things from up there.

     Just as he was becoming dizzy by the pattern of flying shadows 

crossing quickly over the ground, he thought he heard a curious sound 

nearby. he didn't know if something was laughing or crying! As he 

cautiously walked toward the sound, he saw a medium sized pterodactyl 

sitting on a medium sized boulder in a medium sized field. The odd sound 

became louder.

     Velly approached slowly, and the creature didn't seem to notice. It 

definitely was making sounds like laughing, and then crying, and 

laughing again. Velly was worried that the medium sized pterodactyl 

wouldn't understand his velociraptor accent, but he went ahead and 

spoke anyway.

     "Are you ok?" he asked.

     The pterodactyl's large beak mouth opened as he looked at Velly and 

said "Of course I am. I mean of course I am NOT. Of course that is what 

I mean, that of course I am not."

     Velly understood every single word that the pterodactyl spoke, but he 

had no idea what he meant. He was very confused.

     "Look my velociraptor...you can call me Pterry", said the pterodactyl. 

"My grandfather can't say pterodactyl very well, so I just have everyone 

call me Pterry."

     Velly started laughing and said, "I was just about to tell you 

to call me "Velly" for the same reason - my grandfather can't 

pronounce velociraptor very well, so I just have everyone call 

me Velly.

     Both dinosaurs began laughing at this funny situation, until 

Velly noticed that Pterry was also crying!

     Pterry explained that to pterodactyls, crying and laughing 

are the same thing. He said that when you heard a pterodactyl 

crying, you knew it was laughing, and when you heard it 

laughing, you also knew it was   crying.

     This was all very strange to Velly, but he realized he was 

exploring, just like he'd hoped for. He was seeing the world he 

had never before seen. This made him feel very dreamy, almost 

as if he was flying......to new places.

     He was startled awake suddenly by a very odd sound. 

He looked to see what it was - and there before him 

was his new friend, Pterry, flapping his wings! Velly 

could now feel the wind from the moving wings 

on his face!

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