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How about going over to view the remains, Bluff?" he asked as he pulled the dinghy in. "That's just what I was about to propose. My first 'gator, so perhaps I'd like to get his hide, if possible, or some of his teeth, anyway," returned the other, getting into the small boat with Frank. Sure enough, they found a dead alligator up on the bank.
Dreot's, There was the high-road that went through Gator Hill to Clinton and then to Polwint; here were the paths across the fields to Lucent, the lanes that led to the valley of the Lisp, all the paths like spiders' webs through Rothin Wood, from whose curve you could see Polchester, grey and white, with its red-brown roofs and the spires of the Cathedral thrusting like pointing fingers into the heaven.
It was not until Osborne and Lord Easterton had talked for some time about shooting in general, and about "hippo" and "rhino" and "'gator" killing in particular, and I had been forced to listen to a repetition of incidents to do with the sport that Jack Osborne had obtained in Nigeria and elsewhere, that Jack presently said: "Berrington tells me, Easterton, he heard you say that you have let your house to a man named Gastrell, and we were wondering if he is the Gastrell we both know a tall man of twenty-eight or so, with dark hair and very good-looking, queer kind of eyes what?"
Johnny stood beside the pond and grunted in imitation of a young alligator. In a few minutes two black dots appeared on the surface of the water, and, slowly rising, disclosed the eyes and the point of the nose of an alligator. Johnny grunted again, and the big mouth opened wide to take in the baby 'gator which the reptile thought he heard.
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.
"Jumbo's getting real big," said Sue, as she watched the largest of the pets. "And Judy is growing," added Bunny. "I wish we had had these 'gators when we gave our show." "Yes," agreed his sister. "Well, maybe we can have another show. Or we could put the alligators in a store the next time we play." "Yes," said Bunny. "Only maybe you couldn't wrap up a 'gator in a piece of paper.
I cried, catching him by the ear. "How came you to play me that trick?" "On'y for bit ob fun, Mass' George; on'y for bit ob fun." "You dog!" I cried, shaking him. "On'y lil bit o' fun, Mass' George; got de 'gator's head on to frighten um. Nebber tink no 'gator dah, or not nebber done it." "No, I suppose not," I cried. "How dare you try to frighten me like that!"
I shouldn't wonder if it made a pretty good pet, and I don't care how big its mouth is, it couldn't have a bigger bite than that otter of ours." The 'gator was less than five feet long and quite babyish in its ways, but it gave Dick a lot of trouble as he was leading it toward their camp. "Just boost him up on my back, Ned. He's only a baby and wants to be toted."
What Mass' George going to do?" "Put the gun and powder and shot farther away from the fire." "What for?" "A spark might set the powder off." "Oh!" ejaculated Pomp. Then, "What powder do if 'park send um off?" "Blow the fire out and send the ducks into the river." "What? An' de 'gator get um? Pomp not cook de duck for 'gator. 'Gator eat de duck raw, and no pick um fedder. Take de gun away."
But I invariably resisted his prayers, and as we went on, the reptile would suddenly hear our coming and scuffle rapidly out of sight, making a great swirl in the water as he disappeared. "No, Pomp," I would say, "the first 'gator I shoot must be that one in the bathing-pool. Come along."
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