Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 350
e it was shot. The men who hunt them for their hidescarry away merely the skins and perhapssome of the teeth ; and it is astonishing howmany alligators are killed for the skins alone.I was talking to an old hunter one day, and hesaid he expected during that summer to get athousand alligator hides.… … ONE OF THE BIG FELLOWS. hunt alligators I always went in a sail-boat or arowboat. Then I could go where I pleasedand stay as long as I liked. Usually several ofus went out together; and, indeed, this wasnecessary, for if a big alligator is killed, and youare to carry him away, it would be hard…
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