Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 26
from a pool. It was only by the op-portune arrival of aid that he escaped. They prefer negroes to white men, and hogs anddogs to either. An alligator will follow on thetrail of a dog for a long distance, and it is difficultfor settlers near the banks of an alligator-hauntedriver or lake to keep… … with alligators. It was a strange sight to me, andI rather shrank from proceeding any further; butmy friend, who had been acquainted with gatorsfor years, said there was no danger, and we wentin. On every side were the knotty heads and evil-looking eves of scores of alligators. They swamabout us,…
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