Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 88
as shown an alligatorfrom Florida sixteen feet in length. Years ago near a place called Enterprise, on GATOR. 75 canoe. A bright idea struck him. He put hisvisiting-card in the beasts mouth and paddledswiftly back. A number of hunters were at thewharf, and the slayer of Big Ben hastenedto inform… … ui; ; ■WW I \W ■ A QUIET NAP ON THE RIVER BANK. a point jutting into Lake Monroe, during allbright days a certain big alligator used to liebasking in the sun. He was well known to thewhole neighborhood. The entire coterie ofsportsmen at the only hotel used to call him Big Ben, and proud hunters…
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