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"Yes, I see them, my boy," he said; "and I was deceived too, for the moment, but we must not waste shot on creatures like these." "Why, if it arn't a pair o' 'gators," said Morgan, with a suppressed laugh. "Well, they did look just like Injins, and no mistake." I felt so vexed at making so absurd a mistake, that I remained silent till my father passed the gun to me. "Take hold," he said, gently.
True, he had views of the saurians at the alligator farm near St. Augustine, but this was different. The views he was now getting showed the big, repulsive creatures in their natural haunts. "This sure is a big piece of luck!" cried Jed Moulton, as he brought his rifle up from the bottom of the boat. "It is a rare bit of luck! I didn't know there was so many 'gators in this neighborhood!"
This reminds me of Florida, where I once spent a month shooting 'gators and other things. I guess there'll be all the 'gators we want in there, to say nothing of snakes, mosquitos, scorpions, centipedes, and other `varmint. No; I guess we'll go round, if we can; and if we can't, we must make dugouts, and effect the crossing in them. We'll never be able to do it any other way."
"No, my lad; but if you don't tie down that jockey or chain him by the leg, he'll be off one of these days. I'm always finding him sitting a-top of the fence like a crow with his wing cut, thinking he wished he could fly." "Looking out for the Indians," I said. "Not him, sir; he's thinking about games in the woods; hunting snakes, catching 'gators, or killing 'coons.
I'm goin' ter hang 'round, 'n if you smell trouble jest fire two shots 'nd trouble'll cum a-humpin' fur them fellers," "All right and much obliged, and if anything does come that we can't manage we'll remember you, sure." Whenever the boys passed a pond on the prairie they stopped and grunted till the young 'gators came to the surface.
The negroes in the Gulf states say that "de 'gators swallows a pine knot afore dey goes into de mud-burrows for de winter;" and the fact that pine knots and pieces of wood are found in the stomachs of these animals at all seasons of the year, gives a shade of truth to this statement.
You'd have had no more chance here than a naked nigger in a swamp-full of alligators." "You seem to have hit it off," the other objected. "This is as fine a house as I was ever in." "With me it's different," Thorpe replied, carelessly. "I have the talent for money-making. I'm a man in armour. The 'gators can't bite me, nor yet the rattle-snakes."
The company of players remained in St. Augustine several days, and many fine films resulted, the scenery lending itself particularly well to the camera. One act in a play took place at the alligator "farm," on Anastasia Island. There Ruth and Alice saw 'gators in all stages, from tiny ones just emerging from the shell, to big fourteen-foot ones regular "man-eaters" they were told.
About midnight we were aroused by a most fearful bellowing. We started to our feet, and, supposing that some unknown monsters were approaching, seized our rifles and pistols, ready to defend ourselves. On looking about, however, we could see nothing. Our pilot's laugh reassured us. "Those are only 'gators," he said; "it's the sort of music they're fond of, and it's no use trying to stop them.
Before the great splash which followed his release had died out, from the near bank came the "plop plop!" of heavy bodies dropping into the water. Little swam around the seamen and surged up alongside the skipper, whispering into his ear so that none other could hear: "'Gators, skipper!"
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