awfU beut I made up
my miad to get Mm-
Off I aterted, with a
Bidlve to ^ow me where
Mr. Crocodile lived. We'd
j»at stepped ashore from
a* dofout' canoe, when
met tt’ top of a log, a
h»e oreeodlle rared up.
hk big red mouth filled
with long, sharp teeth.
•Well s’r,- i was. so flab
bergasted,. and I gripped
a’ gun so hard, aat it
went off in a’ ar. Over
a* log jumped th’ croco-
and up a tres went
a’ native and 1 Jike cou-
ple.jo!-monieya Th’ tree
^«s a small one. Th’ cro
codile squinted up at ns for
a minute, and tiien strike
BM pink if he di*i’t start
chewte* OB a’ trunk of a’
tree.
anoaer tree. I was figfaa>’
mad Th’ crocodile was
beadin’ right for me, foam
drippin' from his jaws.
Wia a piece of broken
limb from a’ tree I waited
for him. When he was
square in front of me, his
ugly jaws wide open, I
rammed th’ piece of limb
into his moua and jumped
to one side.
Well s’r, that piece of
limb propped old croco
dile’s mouth open so he
couldn’t bite. With to’ na
tive behind proddin’ him
wia his spear, I rode on
a’ back »f th’ crocodile
right into a’ village. You
bet a’ natives made short
work of that man-eater.
commenced
« at all th’
to qulvef.
and
When a’ native that had
been with me told th’ king
what I had done, th’ old
boy offered to r-ake me
king of th' tribe. I sf^uirra-
ed out of that fix by tellin’
him aat I was bos'n of a
bunch of shell-backs on
board of-a ship, so I could
not take a’ j^
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