AN ALLIGATOR'S DINNER.
An alligator's throat is an animated sewer. Everything which lodges in his open mouth goes down. He is a lazy dog, and instead of hunting for something to
eat he lets his victims hunt for him. That is, he lies with his great mouth open, apparently dead,, like the 'possum. Soon a bug crawls into it, then a fly. then several gnats and a colony, of mosquitoes. The alligator doesn't close his mouth yet. He is waiting for a whole drove ot things. He does his eating by ' wholesale. A little later a' lizard will cool
himself-under the sbade of his upper jaw. Then a frog will hop up to catch the mosquitoes. Then more mosquitos and gnats will light on the frogs. Finally a whole village of insects and reptiles settle down for an afternoon picnic. Then all at once there is. an. earthquake. The big jaw falls, the alligator blinks one' eye, gulps down the whole menagerie, and opens his greal front door a^ain for more.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4423, 8 March 1883, Page 4
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171AN ALLIGATOR'S DINNER. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4423, 8 March 1883, Page 4
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