In addition to crocodiles, snakes also have a significant position at Croc Bank for snakes were Director Romulus Whitaker's first love, and he is still known as the Snakeman, having founded Madras Snake Park several years ago.

Croc Bank also has enclosures and pits for various kinds of turtles and large aquariums with fish in them.

The croc bank is filled with pits.

In the mornings, I helped the workers clean the croc pits, a task which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Then we would clean out the croc shit and the left overs of their food which included a lot of bones.

Normally you try to catch a croc by throwing a sort of a small anchor in and when the croc latches on to it you try and pull it out.

(That's the only way to prevent a croc from getting back into water!).

After the croc bank opened they were back in the business they excelled in, but this time it was to save people and snakes with snake venom extraction.

I felt truly sorry when it was time for me to leave Croc Bank.

Crocs, snakes and the wild had gripped me and I was longing to get back to the Croc Bank.

I came to know of the Eye Clinic through Farida, one of the resident staff at Croc Bank.

I had continued these exercises when I was at the Croc Bank, where Farida seeing me at it, had told me about the Eye Clinic at Aurobindo Ashram where I could get proper training.

As I was also eager to return to my favourite Croc Bank and since Pondicherry is not very far from Mamallapuram I proposed to my parents that I be allowed to go to Pondicherry via Bangalore, complete the eye course there and then proceed to Croc Bank where I could spend a fortnight or so before returning to Goa.

As I was also eager to return to my favourite Croc Bank and since Pondicherry is not very far from Mamallapuram I proposed to my parents that I be allowed to go to Pondicherry via Bangalore, complete the eye course there and then proceed to Croc Bank where I could spend a fortnight or so before returning to Goa.

After the course was over I was eager to get another look at the Croc Bank and as per the prior arrangements made on telephone I set out for Mamallapuram, once again, on the 7th of March.

I had to shell out another 18 rupees for my journey to the Croc Bank!

This time I stayed at the Croc Bank only for a week as Rom, Harry and everyone else on the farm were leaving for Kerala to continue with the National Geographic film programme and there was little else I could do at the Croc Bank with everyone away.

This time I stayed at the Croc Bank only for a week as Rom, Harry and everyone else on the farm were leaving for Kerala to continue with the National Geographic film programme and there was little else I could do at the Croc Bank with everyone away.

I carried with me in my haversack my red-eared turtle, and another small turtle found locally in Goa, the croc teeth and photos of myself at the Snake Park, the Croc Bank, etc.

I carried with me in my haversack my red-eared turtle, and another small turtle found locally in Goa, the croc teeth and photos of myself at the Snake Park, the Croc Bank, etc.

I also showed the croc teeth to those who were interested.

But that he came up past that fort, through the then primeval forest, tradition reports; and tells, too, how the prickly climbing palm, {58} the Croc-chien, or Hook-dog, pest of the forests, got its present name upon that memorable day.

For, as the Spanish soldiers ran from the English, one of them was caught in the innumerable hooks of the Croc-chien, and never looking behind him in his terror, began shouting, 'Suelta mi, Ingles!' (Let me go, Englishman!)or, as others have it, 'Valga mi, Ingles!' (Take ransom for me, Englishman!)which name the palm bears unto this day.

In the two following centuries the science of the pince and of the croc (pincers and hook), as it was then called, alone made progress, and Pathelin (a character in comedy, and an incomparable type of craft and dishonesty) never lacked disciples any more than Villon did imitators.

CROC, m., longue perche de marinier, armée d'une pointe et

" So, in a while, the meal done and crock and pannikin washed and set aside, Beltane's leg is bathed and dressed right skilfully with hands, for all their strength and hardness, wondrous light and gentle.

" Friar Tuck bridled at being so checked in his speech, nevertheless he went straightway to do Robin's bidding; so presently a great crock was brought, and wine was poured out for all the guests and for Robin Hood.

It was a deep, extremely narrow ravine, so narrow indeed that it was merely a great crock in the earth, not more than six feet across at its widest.

That evening when all the campers were gathered around the fire in the bungalow, listening to Dr. Grayson reading "The Crock of Gold" to the pattering accompaniment of the raindrops on the roof, Miss Judy went into the camp office to answer the telephone, and came out with a look of half-humorous exasperation on her face.

I remember how, on Christmas day, Dawson did cry out against the warm sunshine as a thing contrary to nature, wishing he might stand up to his knees in snow in a whistling wind, and taking up the crock Moll had filled with roses (which here bloom more fully in the depth of winter than with us in the height of summer), he flung it out of the door with a curse for an unchristian thing to have in the house on such a day.

Two or three little crock-faced girls, from two to five years of age, had stolen in timidly, and a couple of young, frightened eyes were peering over the door-sill at me.

They were good children, for all the crock of the shop was on their faces, and their fingers were bent like eagle's claws with handling nails.

Crock of Gold, p. 13.

THE CROCK OF GOLD, by James Stephens; illustrated by Wilfred Jones.

SEE The crock of gold.

The crock of gold.

The crock of gold.

The paint on the floors was quite fresh, the workmen had left their things in the middle of the room: a small tub, some paint in an earthenware crock, and a big brush.

Then he found a crock of goat's milk.

He turned so sick and faint that his nerveless fingers could no longer hold the crock.

Turn all into a deep earthen crock or pudding dish, and bake slowly from three to four hours, stirring frequently the first hour.

Boil from four to five hours; take from the fire, pour all together into a large crock.

Put in an earthen crock when cool.

At the end of the hour put the pickle in a stone crock or in glass jars.

PICKLED BEETS Take two pounds of cold, boiled beets, slice, place in crock in layers, sprinkle with one teaspoon of salt, one-eighth teaspoon of pepper, one teaspoon of brown sugar, one teaspoon of caraway seed, if you like, and cover with one pint of vinegar.

After the cabbage is all finely cut let cold water run over it through a colander; put the cabbage in a big kitchen bowl or a stone-crock in layers about two inches thick.

A stone-crock is really the best, as the cabbage will keep in it all winter.

Place the whole in a six-quart crock, cover with water.

Place the cover on the crock and over this cover put a clean cloth.

ROSEL, BEET VINEGAR Place beets in a stone crock, removing greens.