“Whilst quaffing your wine and
consuming mince pies,
Look over beyond where the horizon
lies,
Take your mind off that agile
ice-skater,
And contemplate these two inland
American alligators…”
My first story comes from the San
Louis Obispo Tribune of California
A MOUNTAIN
ALLIGATOR
William Blackheath,who has just
returned from a six-months soujourn in Arizona
The strange saurian was found in a
small valley in the Wheatstone Mountains
Finally the thing got one of the
dogs by the foreleg and finding that it held on like a terrier, with no sign of
loosing its hold, Mr Blackheath ran forward and struck his pick into its head.
Even then the reptile held on,and it was not until it had been struck several
blows with the pole of the pick that its jaws relaxed and it gave up the ghost.
When the dog was released it was found that his foreleg had been broken at a
point about two inches above the knee.
Mr Blackheath says he has met with
several of the creatures known as Gila monsters that were two feet and two and a
half feet in length, but never before or since saw,or even suspected the
existence of one so large as that whose skin he possesses. It was a surprise to
all the white men in that section, but some of the Indians asserted that far
south in the Sierra Madre
Mountains
FOUND
INLAND
Advocate ( Louisiana
