A STRANGE BATTLE. 



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One was seized in either hand, 

 and, summoning his Samson-like 

 strength, he leaned backward and 

 jerked with might and main. 



The spectators heard the bones 

 crack, and they knew that both the 

 crocodile's legs were broken like A 

 couple of pipe-stems. 



The reptile struggled fiercely, 

 lashing his tail, contorting his body 

 and snapping his jaws in a way that 

 seemed impossible in one so griev- 

 ously wounded. But his struggles 



