AN UNEXPECTED GUEST
. A young lady opened her wardrobe in Manly, New South Wales, and out walked a crocodile. .*: No wonder Miss Margaret Bigriall was startled. Fortunately he was a very small crocodile, about 12 inches. He must have been surprised, too, at finding himself in a world quite unlike what a crocodile might expect. He had only just broken out of his egg, so any kind of world would be strange tohim, but by rights he should have wriggled out in the mud of a mangrove swamp in the Solomon Islands. What had happened was that Margaret and her sister found, a whiteegg on their family plantation in the Solomon Islands,-.and brought it with them.to Australia, where ..they..go to college. It was a: curiosity to'show to their friends. At Mainly they put it ■ into Margaret's wardrobe for safety, and it turned out to be,.more of a novelty than she had expected.The little crocodile was given some meat and milk-and'named Hector. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 20
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161AN UNEXPECTED GUEST Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 20
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