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Show Alligntors Benomlti Soaree. The demand for full grown alligators' for northern museums and aquariums begins with the warm days of the spring, and many an alligator's retreat has been carefully marked by the alligator catch-re, catch-re, who, when the signs are ripe, will dig the saurians out and sell them at from $1 to $2 per foot, according to the length of the animals. ' The negroes loop ropes around the big alligators and drag them out in triumph. The alligators are said to be getting fewer in the waters of this section, as they are continually being hunted and killed from the time they come out until they lay up again for the winter. Hundreds of them are shot for the mere sport of shooting, and no effort i made to find them after they are shot. It is only in unfrequented streams and along marshes and impenetrable swamps that they are now numerous. Savannah Hews. - ' ' |