There are 'gators in these rivers, and there's time before the moon rises to find one or two.
They found little ponds from which small 'gators rose to their calls, but none of a size worth thinking of.
Whenever the boys passed a pond on the prairie they stopped and grunted till the young 'gators came to the surface.
And I'm not sure that I should worry very much as to whether there were any 'gators in it, or not.
Then one day twenty baby 'Gators dug their way out of that mound of sand.
And when Mrs. Quack just happened to mention that little 'Gators are hatched from eggs just as her own children are, it was almost too much for Peter to believe.
All this happened long, long ago when the world was young, and ever since then 'Gators have lived only way down south, where it is very warm and where Mr. Sun will hatch their eggs for them.
She was planning to make a great deal more land, and she wanted living creatures on it, so she gave the 'Gators legs and feet instead of fins, and lungs to breathe air instead of gills for breathing in the water as fish do.
The 'gators here were in dozens apparently, and before the canoe could be righted two men had been dragged below, the brown stream being tinged with their gushing blood.
Brawn, and the 'gators on shore and the tapirs in the woods lifted heads to listen, while parrots shrieked and monkeys chattered and scolded among the lordly forest trees.
They were excellent swimmers, the 'gators were absent from this river, and doubtless hundreds of fugitives would find their way back into their own dark land to tell how well and bravely the pale-faces can fight.
We soon be all at de bottom ob de deep, and de 'gators a-pickin' de bones ob us!
Then arose to heaven a prayer of thankfulness, and a cheer so loud and long that even the parrots and monkeys in the forest depths heard it, and yelled and chattered till they frightened both 'gators and jaguars.
The ground was wet and marshy, and the 'gators very much in evidence indeed.
There was no pretend about that; the ’gators climbed slowly and careful up the steps of the shoot, crawled over the top and then with a loud “thud” dropped their clumsy bodies onto the shoot and slid down into the water.
The ’gators dig out holes in the sand or mud, fill them with eggs, and then cover the whole thing over with more sand,” said Lee.
Now if it was one o' them 'gators I could lash my knife on to the end of the pole and spear a little un, but I s'pose it wouldn't be good to eat.
I've been thinking that when we get on into that great big marsh of a place where the river runs through the trees we might stop and vish, for there must be plenty there, or else the 'gators wouldn't be so plentiful.
They do say, though, that 'gators sometimes eat pickaninnies.
The Northerners who come down here winters are killing off the 'gators pretty fast, so the pickaninnies are likely to live.
A number of dead gators with bullet holes in their bodies had floated ashore.
Out on the surface of the lake numerous old gray-backed alligators lay sleeping, and ever and anon a musket would crack and one of those old gators would clap his hand on his side and go out of sight with a splash.
There's no way but swimming, and this creek's probably inhabited by the usual 'gators and snakes and things.
And if a guy wants a bath, there's the river, all full o' 'gators and cattawampuses and things.
If you don't look out for yourselves, you'll have some of the 'gators snapping off your legs presently.
De 'gators no come here," he said, when we told him what had made us cry out.
Gators are wary of fast-moving boats, and they’re easily scared below the surface by voices.
But ’gators know how to be wary, sir, as you know from having hunted them before.
We-uns was out o’ cartridges but now we done got some ’at will fix ’gators all right.
It’ll be some time befo’ we’re likely to find any more ’gators above water within sound of the shots that have just been fired.
The two dead ’gators were rigged to the stern of the rowboat, in tow, and the small boat’s bow line made fast astern on the launch.
Sometimes these ole ’gators wake and get into the water powahful quick.
If Master Rob there hadn't woke up before morning, the 'gators and pirani, without counting the other critters, would have been having a treat.
They came over the flooded land to feed, and the 'gators came after them.
It's them 'gators coming up out of the water, and it's what I expected.
Little dogs have sharp teeth, my lad; and them small 'gators can bite like fury.
That's what I meant to do, sir; but I was a bit scared about drawing the 'gators about us.
Why, them little pirani fishes will be at him in thousands, and there's 'gators enough within fifty yards to make a supper of him as if he was spitchcocked eel.
If there ain't 'gators under all them sharp snags my name ain't Shadrach Naylor!
Worst of it is, I'm 'fraid it 'tracts the 'gators and fish.
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