FIRE-HUNTING THE ALLIGATOR.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1921, Page 1

FIRE-HUNTING THE ALLIGATOR.

j by T. 01FF0HD. : old \ho Hunter lmd hist his ‘'pt '.nt■JL" Ih" brute had gone 'done to the hike to drink ami a ---.odor" lying it- the saw g,ass had (licked him in with his tail, and vagg,.,, him down to his mysterious la,dm deep under the hank. q„ \hc vowed vengeance against tl. assassin, and came to me hn= m-ighhour, for my boat. In - •’ It,, borrow oil me as w"ll a- mi • hiddin- me -o hold myself in wad-.m-.-s f,„. the first “gn««>" ™* hl ' . . f . This was in Augitst. am' sforn, was over, hut- nIVr M.nsel '-■ > ~1,,,'1s SI ill Hotted the sky. a.ul '■ t “r.r. > liar it was i.iien.-el\ '.ail.. ii, .ii.ni, ~|,i„''.'. !":•' 1 ■ ■ , , IM I 111- I. ,i", ... a--- 1 "7""f;; 1, 1. ».-> l “;; ;

lantern. ■ . •• i„. are -\ ~M pa,hlh- mt-.-hiy nun •- "d :d"> r , , ~,„.U class. The hi- lab-’ was 1,1 * ' ' - licnil from suit* ,1 ... \ •!«' 11H *Vl*< l , i lid,- (he h,uteri, InH. I"’^ D'"" U ' - fmm under ifui-tly we nmwd on tm , 1 ‘ til- shore the d'-a le'iinu ; '" a aiidth - frog- -hn' .dirill "I I 'm ‘ j’ ill ,-ompiiraiive ssil'-n*' 1 *- s , I Alien sml--11 ill nil linin' U ;H ‘ V 4 '' M... 1 '"'.rlS-ii. > ,r N", " r '• vtw ' . , , |U and the next Al '" a ni -ht was split by a niouieiit th, s • , r) - (1V( „ vanished, arifJimiv: « ■ ■ l(> lonni »«y inn tin 4 w*• ,t j o‘\j o ‘\j rockilii’.i—bin" mid Hn n°- u - -v.„, 1..1.H '!"■ '"Q"’" i"‘"- -‘ l "' 11 ,7" , | I .ii iv,, .I -.-'" \ s soon -as the boat 1|„. .1i,,,,,-.! a nqie round the all's- ■ ■ us we hauled him Voaro. :l ” ,! l,rt . , r lu . v.eiHiol folly A ticklish mb. h» lu ' tv (hri-e hundred I'liundc. 1 . . for the brute stn-H ahommahK a hard,, musky reek, which nlm„:4 mm'" "'lie'was dead enough. Tn spite eihis arn.ourplated hid", the H.ehsho a, ~,„se a range had blow,, h,s head to ' '"r mighty nice skin,” said Abe apprnvingly. “T reckon shell tot-h , - dollars. I am t- hny a pßO l*=lWß*»« m l KWia