alpate

Updated: May 17, 2025

Presently he paused, deep in liquid mud to his thighs, his feet working on something below. "Alpate," he said. "'Gator." A commotion followed in the mud; a dark knob appeared above water. There was a thrashing and upheaval and the Indian threw a half-grown alligator upon the bank and dispatched it with a blow from his camp ax.

Henry Oyen - The Plunderer