"Oh, don't look at it!" begged Miss Dixon, covering her face with her hands. "Don't look at the horrid thing!"
"No harm in looking at that," laughed Russ. "It's only a log of wood."
And so it proved.
"Well, it looked just like an alligator," protested Miss Pennington, as the others smiled.
"And it sounded like one!" declared Miss Dixon.
"How does an alligator sound?" asked Mr. Towne, who was walking about attired in immaculate white.
"It made a splash."
"So does a bullfrog," observed Paul.
"It does look rather alligatory in there," admitted Alice, as she stood beside the young actor, and gazed into the sluggish stream.
"'Alligatory' is a new one," he remarked. "I wonder if alligators eat alligator pears?"