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Show Misunderstood 'Gator. The winter afternoon was like June, and, taking tea under a palm on the lawn of the Royal Poinciana at Palm Beach, a sportsman said: "This morning I photographed an alligator. My boy, to get him, Btripped and waded into the water up to his chin. The boy felt about with his feet in the mud till he found a big 'gator. Then he ducked down, grabbed the 'gator by the nose and dragged him slowly ashore to the waiting lens." "But," said a girl in white, "wasn't it dangerous?" "Not a bit." "But I thought alligators ate you!" "No, no," said the sportsman. "You are confusing the alligator with the crocodile. The Indian crocodile eats men and women, but the Florida alligator alli-gator is as harmless, literally as harmless, as a cow." |