Lake Ellis is thickly dotted with small islands, under the banks of which alligators have their bur- 

 rows, and it is exciting business to dislodge them by means of a long pole with a stout steel hook at one 

 end. The three specimens in the foreground, measuring from six and one half to eight and one half 

 feet, were secured in one afternoon 



In White Lake large alligators may be found, but their presence does not prevent the negro boys 

 from fishing there or from gathering the water lilies. Alligators construct their nests near shallows 

 teeming with fish 



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