Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-08

1 ioed by local hunters, and very rarely by professionals.
 |Our party tried the first method. l Stepping into the boat the light was trimmed, the rideman took his accus- somed position in the bow and the barty started A mile from camp the | stream widened out into flat marshy prairie, filled with small islands and quantities of driftwood.
 Turning the light full ahead an inn menSe fellow was seen lying on Q pile Df drift and iDtently watching the scoring apparatus. With gentle pad ding the boa& approached closer, twenty feet fifteen, ten-would the man never shoot?
 A hAGh, a roar, and the great beast dropped suddenly into the water, shot through the heart Instantly some part of the body is grappled with the boat hook to prevent it's sinking for sver, and with pulling and hauling it is got ashore.
 The next one shot was swimming at little distance, only his eyes and snout being above water, but an ex- l ol0sivs bullet sent with unerring aim 1 crushed into his brain, and after few minutes work he, too, was lying on | the bank.
 Occasionally the animal sinks to the bottom and Is lost. oftener he is only wounded and crawls away to die by tnehOa, while occasionally & sharp fight .nSues between hunter and hunted, md pair of jaws crunching the gum wales of the boat is no laughing mat ter.
 Proceeding up the creek about a mile we came to a place where two streams met and on point of land lay sbrsa, varying ip size from seven to ten tOst Approaching in the same manner %s before, two shots were fired, apparently killing one and wounding second.
 The wounded one slid into the water and swam softly by the boat; as it passed I blew the top of his head off, but before I could grab him he sunk, All this took but moment, but that was long enough for some lively scenes to be transacted on land. The appar- ontly dead gator was the smallest of tho three, but he was the liveliest corpse 1 ever saw.
 One of the men landed to examine him and inadvertently got within reach of his tail, which appeared suddenly to become possessed of extraordinary life, ard in ap instant he was lying scn>e- :css on his ha"l: ' ( ::on feet away. The btow was a r. ..'l: enc, however, as, under ordinary circUE.Starces, it is suf- 00iSnt to break the legs of horse
 A second shot finished him. The in.
 jurSd man gave place to another at the rias and she sport continued until long after midnight Five gators in all ] l-s1 A1 x>R ;o1, .la,, Sured, represented about $75-not a bao
 nights work.
 An alligator is naturally tinid, but ;
 mother in dsfense of her eggs or young
 is one of the most furious animals i'm
 a2inabls- After the eggs are deposited in tho spring they are covered with dir
 md dehris of various sorts, the wholc
 fAi9E q mound about two feet higI and four feet long; over this the female , watches for weeks until the young ap , psAR whom her vigilance redoubles. Oumsy in appearance they can, wher
 occasion rsQuirSA get over the ground with remarkable swiftness, progress stances the best thing is to take to
 tree and call for help, Escape can alsc
 be nade by turning quickly, care bein: taken to keep out of reach of the tail, RO man has any business alone in tn, SwDmpAs he can never tell at what mo
 mont hs may need help, and that, too when Rapss sway from any human be ie& and where. pSrchance, month aftAxwa<d another hunter may com 1SSa Ais blsAehing bonss to tell tn A ARlo. ThAs ia why two mon invaria bl, kVAA tsSOther in the great wildernes of $h~ south and why so few seriou accidents occur " arlington Star