BAITING FOE AN ALLIGATOR. 51 



like another infant Hercules, strangled the alligator with 

 his own hands, he could not have been more delighted ; 

 he yelled out, * Me so bery glad,' tumbled head over heels, 

 walked on his hands, and exhibited every symptom of 

 negro joy." 



We all laughed heartily at this idea of baiting an alli- 

 gator with a negro boy, and Joe was so tickled that it 

 was some time before he could compose himself to listen 

 to another story. 



