Crossword-Solution: GATORS 6 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The 'gators can't bite me, nor yet the rattle-snakes.” “Yes--men are made up differently,” Tavender assented, with philosophical gravity.

The negroes in the Gulf states say that "de 'gators swallows a pine knot afore dey goes into de mud-burrows for de winter;" and the fact that pine knots and pieces of wood are found in the stomachs of these animals at all seasons of the year, gives a shade of truth to this statement.

The fan of it over the silent, black water, the eyes of the 'gators blazing in the dark, these cool, bronze, turbaned devils with axes to sever the spinal cord and rifles to shatter the skull--it's a wild and thrilling scene.

There Ruth and Alice saw 'gators in all stages, from tiny ones just emerging from the shell, to big fourteen-foot ones--regular "man-eaters" they were told.

The Northerners who come down here winters are killing off the 'gators pretty fast, so the pickaninnies are likely to live.