"The seeds and kernels of the gum tree, terminalia, mangoes, alligator pears, the guava, the bread tree, and the narrow-leaved eugenia, were planted with profusion; and the greater number of those trees already afforded to their young cultivator both shade and fruit.

On the whole he looked more like a school-teacher, or a lawyer then a conspirator; but Yussuf addressed him with great deference as "Noureddin Ali Bey," and even old alligator-eyes became obsequious.

Discovering that the Arabic took no effect on me, the alligator person changed to French.

In the tallest part of St. Louis, its busiest thoroughfares inclosing it in a rectangle, the Hotel Sherman, where traveling salesmen with real alligator bags and third-finger diamonds habitually shake their first Pullman dust, rears eighteen stories up through and above an aeriality of soft-coal smoke, which fits over the rim of the city like a skull-cap.

The writer supped off alligator steaks, and informs the reader that the meat is by no means bad, and has a white appearance like veal.)

It shows the strata of the material, consisting of alternate layers of old motor tyres and reinforced concretethe whole covered with alligator skin and proofed with our patent indispensable" It was then that I killed him and buried him under a pyramid of indispensable gadgets.

Alligator tales.

On a mud bar that we passed a huge alligator lay, taking a sun bath, and though many shots were fired at him he moved away very leisurely.

His face was so brown and tough and netted with seams that it resembled a piece of alligator leather.

It laid the alligator sprawling, feet uppermost.

In the evening (since we had lately seen no appearance of sharks) the people were allowed to bathe; but they had no sooner finished, and everyone on board, than an alligator swam past the vessel.

The cayman of South America is very ferocious, and is popularly styled the hyena of the alligator tribe.

Alligator brig at Taranaki, 160.

Between the alligator edgings, facing each other obliquely, but with the greatest amity, were Mr. Thomas Denby in the fashion of ten years before, very handsome, very well-groomed, with the startled expression which any definite withdrawal from his potational pursuits was likely to produce upon his countenance, and her uncle-in-law, Mr. Henry McCain, also in the fashion of ten years back.

I must try to describe one day's alligator fishing.

There has been a tendency in recent years among Retriever breeders to fall into the common error of exaggerating a particular point, and of breeding dogs with a head far too fine and narrowit is what has been aptly called the alligator headlacking in brain capacity and power of jaw.

Even in that dark corner you could see they had the alligator-hue that one associates with cruelty.

Naturalists assert that the cayman is not found in the North American rivers, and I should imagine this to be correct, for, although engaged in many alligator hunts, I found from personal experience and minute inquiry that the species found in North America is harmless if unmolested.