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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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luck. This is paying work, as asalted green alligator hide is worthfrom fifty cents to a dollar and ahalf, the average price being about adollar. The most successful huntersI ever met were two crackers whoslew three thousand saurians in sixmonths and pocketed as many dol-lars for their hides. I asked one of these men if he hadever been attacked by an alligator.No, was the reply, because I -»never gave one a chance. I alwayskill my gator before he gets his madup bad enough to pitch into me,though I have often seen one grabat the boat or lash it with his tail.Green hands at the business get hurt,however, by taking hold of the gatorstail before the critter is dead. Are alligators inclined to fight whenwounded ? I asked. That depends, he said. Theywill jump at anything when theyrecrazy with wounds, but if youdont put yourself in their waytheyre more likely to try to getoff than to fight. Did you ever know an alli-gator to make an unprovokedattack on a white man ? Not a bull gator, he an-
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THE gators nursery. 302 OUTING FOR JANUARY. swered, except in one instance, and per-haps that might be called a provokedcase. The man was cleaning fish at themouth of the Cootee River, and throwingthe entrails into the water. There weresome gators round the head of a bendthat were devouring the offal, and as itbecame scarcer they drew closer to thepile of fish on shore. The fishermanwasnt out that day to feed gators, sohe began thrashing the water and throw-ing sticks and stones at them. A hugeold bull gator, who must have been thefather of all the others, didnt like this,and made an open-mouthed rush at theman. That fellow was scared, I tell you,for he went ashore so fast that he madeas great a noise and raised as high asea as if he was a porpoise charging intoa school of mullets. The gator put offafter scaring him, and Bill Smith toldme that the old bull had a grin six feetlong on his face, and was shaking his fatsides with laughing. What made him grin so ? Why, the bull was so old

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