Show Tilt CnOCODILC IUCULIAII tttuisaeu In II Wry hlut VVIirn llr It Murh VIIr There It I llttlo In the animal kingdom that can boom dead nnd be so much alive us n crocodile Thn number of uniut peelIng persons who have mistaken him for a log and have failed to discover discov-er their mlttako until It wiia too late lo bo of any benefit to them will never bo known In ancient time several years prior to the llrlllsh occupation of Kgypt 1 tome of tho people of thai country coun-try worshipped the crorodllo at n god there being nothing nIce lllc him ThIrd > Th-Ird him on dalnlle oath logged I him out with jewelry In other part of URpt lion ever the natives looked upon him at a devil Having no firearm they did not flit him with lead but they managed to Immolate him successfully successful-ly I with inch weapons at memo fashionable fashion-able at the time The crocodile Is I not n M A It ro numerous in tIme Nile III ho Val In Iho days of Iho Ilameaca family In fact ho rather shuns the river now below the second cataract on account of the annoyance Inseparable from tourist traffic U seems Impossible for n tourist tour-ist to ace a crocodile without trying lo plug him with n revolver and lo a reptile rep-tile that III I fond of a quiet llfo this ort of thing I tlmply Insufferable lie will not molest n man unless ha can lake him at a disadvantage and aa long as man does not unthinkingly step on him tho crocodllo will go hula own way ami ralmly await lila opporuiv He feeds on nth but for a courno dinner would rather havo humanity black pre fcrred which shows that there It no accounting for toate oven among reptile rep-tile Hit methods ot capturing large game aro plural as well na singular Sometimes ho will lIe on a river bank partly covered with und or mud until nn absentminded native wanders within with-in reach Having grabbed hla prey he will waddle Intu the water and there drown the ttruggler Ho will then drag hit victim ashore and bury him In snout or mud and wall for day bcfom ho gorges himself |