Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 404
it likes warmth and hates cold. It needs water, too, and as the dry season and the cool season come on together in Florida, there is a double reason why the Florida alligator should go into winter quarters. It buries itself in the mud after the manner of its kind and settles down fur a long nap.… … They never suspected the nature of the island until they hadhumped their boat rather rudely into it once or twice, and so vexedthe alligator that it opened its huge mouth with a startling sudden-ness that brought a chorus ot yells from the nest-robbers, and sentthem off in a lit mood to sympathize…
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