Paddling under Palmettos — page 254: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 245 Archie found that the alligator was inclosed just back of the forelegs by a loop of rope, the end of © which was fastened to a stout sapling. It was a snare such as rabbits are caught in. Archie had known of wolves being trapped in the same way, and here he found it made use of by some ingenious alligator-skin hunter. The reptile was alive, but helpless, and awaited the coming of the hunter, who might set the snare afresh by bending the straight sapling again. They were now making their way along what ap- peared to be a creek, the water of which was no lon- ger salty; but they only used it for boiling potatoes or washing up tin platters and kettles. Gomicboo cS (E(0)