Their hides kan be tanned into leather, but they are az hard tew skin az a beech tree iz; and the leather, when tanned, iz just about as limber az a cooking-stove. But one pair ov boots, made out ov alligator, will last az long az a man's name duz; the only way tew wear them out iz tew heave them away.
Alligator meat iz not luscious. If yu ask for it at the fust-klass hotels, they will alwus tell yu "that they are jist out." It tastes az i should think the beef ov a mule would, who had been worked forty years in a brick-yard, and then been struk with lightning, to git rid ov him.
When an alligater's mouth iz wide open, hiz head iz just about in the center ov hiz boddy; but they hav one virtew i came verry near forgitting—they make a verry still noize, altho they hav more jaw than enny other critter i kno ov.
These are sum ov the heavyest fakts i hav been able tew gather about the alligater.
The alligator seems tew be a second edition ov the krokadile, made out ov what waz left.
I think the krokodile usually lays eggs when they want sum more krokadiles, but i don't kno whether i think the alligatur duz or don't; but if they do, and i ever find the nest, and the old feller aint on the nest, i shouldn't hesitate tew hatch out the eggs myself—with a klub.
This iz all i kno at prezent about the alligatur.
The Ren iz the smallest thing surrounded with feathers, except the humming bird.
He iz about the size ov a horse chestnutt.