A "Thousand- Mile TValk 



three dogs. I was viciously attacked by the lat- 

 ter, who undertook to undress me with their 

 teeth. I was nearly dragged down backward, 

 but escaped unbitten. Liver pie, mixed with 

 sweet potatoes and fat duff, was set before me, 

 and after I had finished a moderate portion, 

 one of the men, turning to his companion, re- 

 marked: "Wall, I guess that man quit eatin' 

 'cause he had nothin' moire to eat. I'll get him 

 more potato." 



Arrived at a place on the margin of a stag- 

 nant pool where an alligator had been rolUng 

 and sunning himself. "See," said a man who 

 lived here, "see, what a track that is! He must 

 have been a mighty big fellow. Alligators wal- 

 low like hogs and like to lie in the sun. I 'd like 

 a shot at that fellow." Here followed a long re- 

 cital of bloody combats with the scaly enemy, 

 in many of which he had, of course, taken an 

 important part. Alligators are said to be ex- 

 tremely fond of negroes and dogs, and natu- 

 rally the dogs and negroes are afraid of them. 



Another man that I met to-day pointed to a 

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