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With a cheer of triumph the excited sportsmen leaped ashore, and fastening a rope around the dead alligator, speedily towed him to Enterprise. There the original slayer awaited them upon the wharf. When Big Ben was laid upon the shore, opening the animal's mighty jaws he disclosed his visiting-card, and thanked them most politely for their kindness in bringing his 'gator home for him.
This deep river running in front of my door used to be full of them, and there are some there now, but my whole family of children swim in it almost every day without thought of danger. Only two weeks ago Johnny killed a ten-foot 'gator right in front of my house and within a hundred feet of it.
The 'gator was lively and Dick had to chase around the prairie a lot after him and finally get Ned to help before he could tie it. Tom didn't approve of the new member of the family, but he made no trouble while the camp was awake. The alligator became very restless at night and got in the habit of thrashing around almost constantly.
"All 'long side dat tree?" "Oh, yes," I cried; "what is it a big fish?" "No; dat nice lil 'gator, sah." "What? Why, we couldn't eat alligator." "Oh, yes; eat um, got nuffum else," cried Pomp, to my great disgust. "But even if you would eat the nasty wretch, you can't catch it." "No," said Pomp. "Tell um fader can't catch.
He just couldn't help it. Harder and harder laughed the cricket and Uncle Wiggily together, and then, all at once, the alligator began to laugh. He couldn't help it either. "Ha! Ha! Ho! Ho! He! He!" laughed the 'gator, and great big alligator tears rolled down his scaly cheeks, he laughed so hard. Why, he giggled so that he couldn't even have eaten a mosquito with mustard on.
"If she looks down now, and sees that alligator, she'll surely be so afraid that she'll faint, and maybe fall into the water, and then I'll have to jump in to save her, and the alligator will get us both. What shall I do?" Well, the mousie girl was just going to look down, and she would surely have seen the 'gator, when Curly Tail cried: "Don't look! Don't look! Oh, lobster salad! don't look!"
These ponds are full of 'em." "I don't want you to go wading in any more ponds, Dick." "That's all right. Don't have to. There are 'gator caves all round these ponds. You find one of 'em and I'll do the rest." The boys hunted around several ponds till Ned found a hole in the bank of one, just under the surface of the water.
"I kinder guess I c'n smell a rat already, Jack," chuckled Perk as he wrapped up the remnant of the food supply which he had taken from their main stock "I'm the goat in the deal you figger on me stayin' here in this 'gator hole to stand by the ship an' knock the block off'n anybody what tries to get away with our property how's that for a straight hit square in the bullseye?"
Take care, Mass' George, he don't hab you." I felt my heart beat fast, but I tried to fix it upon my mind in the foremost place that the reptiles fled from me, and were perhaps more alarmed than I was; but as I pressed forward, Pomp suddenly said, piteously "No got shoe like Mass' George. Poor Pomp put him foot in 'gator mouf. Oh!"
"Y-e-s," he replied slowly and reluctantly. "Then don't be so quick to doubt a thing just because you've never seen it," retorted Mrs. Quack. "I've seen Mrs. 'Gator build her nest more than once, and I've seen her eggs, and I've seen the baby 'Gators; and what is more, I'm not in the habit of telling things that I don't know are so." "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Quack." Peter was very humble.
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