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He had recently returned to England after a year's wanderings in the southern hemisphere, and had arrived at the moat-house on the previous day, bringing with him a dried alligator's head with gaping jaws, a collection of rare stuffed birds and snakeskins for Phil, who had a taste in that direction, and a carved tiki god for Miss Heredith.
The ruler of Nokki wanted, besides gin and cloth, a pair of shoes for his poor feet, which looked clad in alligator's skin; I referred him to his father, and he got little by that motion. On the evening of September 10, Gidi Mavunga, who had been visiting his "small country," returned, and declared himself ready to set out.
Carelessly enough, I strolled on down to the bottom of the garden, looking at the alligator's great grinning jaws as I went by, and out at the end, to see if the pair were in the little hut that had been built for their use, and a laugh which I heard as I drew nearer told me that I was right as far as Hannibal was concerned, while a few excited words which I could not make out proved that Pomp was there as well.
Hortense could see Alligator's throat wiggle as Jeremiah went down. Alligator crawled back slowly. "I must seek my corner and go to sleep," said Alligator, balancing himself on the window ledge. "Hear him?" Hortense and Andy put their ears to Alligator's back. Within they could hear Jeremiah running around and around and crying out. "He's having a fit," said Hortense.
"Say, Mass' George, you pull dat ear right off." "Serve you right too, sir. You insolent rascal. But I'll tell my father, and you shall be flogged." "Oh no, don't do dat ah, Mass' George. Kick um again and pull um oder ear. Pomp won't holler much. Don't tell de massa." "A blackguardly, cowardly trick with that nasty old alligator's head."
They are commonly sought at night, by torch-light, for in this way they can be approached with the utmost ease. A rifle-ball will readily penetrate an alligator's hide, although there exists an unfounded belief to the contrary. The creatures will "stand a deal of killing," however, and frequently roll off a bank and are lost even after being shot through and through.
I'll keep him from running back into his hole; you go and get the rope." I could not stir for a few moments, but stood watching, as I saw Morgan raise up the pole, and bring it down bang across the alligator's back, but without doing it the slightest injury, for the end struck a half-rotten log, and the pole snapped off a yard above Morgan's hands. "Never mind!
They grow on trees, quite like palms, from ten to thirty feet high, the trunk scaly like an alligator's hide, and the leaves pointed. The fruit hangs in a cluster at the crown of the tree, green and yellow, resembling badly shaped melons. The taste is musky sweet and not always agreeable to tyros. The seeds are black and full of pepsin.
"Vaniman," said the examiner, when they pulled on their coats under the alligator's gaping espionage, "this is going to be my busy day and I hope you feel like pitching into this thing with me, helping to your utmost." "You can depend on me, Mr. Starr." "I don't intend to bother you with any questions at present except to ask about the routine business of the bank.
"But I can tell you this much," she said, with great severity, "that if you keep on doing everything the baby tells you to do, I will buy you a ticket back to Virginia and send you home. Do you understand me?" At this, a smile rivalling a rainbow suddenly overspread Kettle's face and his mouth came open like an alligator's.
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