Show Haunts and Habits of the Gator The alligator builds a nest of mud and grass and lays a large number of oblong whiteeggs butthe little l oneswhen hatched often serve as lunch for their unnatural papa and this cannibalism more than the rifle prevents their numbers from increasing increas-ing The alligator is not particular as to diet I once found the stomach of a ten footer to be literally filled with pine chips from some tree which had been felled near the rivers bank They are fond of wallowing wallow-ing in marshes and many a man out snipe shooting has taken an involuntary bath by stumbling into their walldws In dry seasons sea-sons alligators will traverse 1 ong distances overland to reach water and travelers have I come suddenly upon alligators crawling amid prairies or woods in the most unexpected unex-pected manner The alligalor as a rule is I i i very wary but at times sleeps quite sound I j ly I saw one struck twice with an oar be j I fore it woke Clarence B Moore in St Nicholas I |