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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 76, 6 December 1887, Page 4

A Yankee observer says an alligator’s throat is an animated sewer. Everything which lodges in his open mouth goes down. He is a lazy dog, and instead of looking for something to eat, he lets his victuals hunt him. That is, he lies with his great mouth open, apparently dead, like the ’possum. Soon a bug crawls into it, then a fly, then severs! gnats, and a colony of misquitoes. The alligator doesn't close his mouth yet. He is waiting for a whole drove of things. He does his eating by wholesale. A little later a lizard will cool himself under the shade of the upper jaw. Then a few frogs will hop up to catch the mosquitoes. Then more mosquitoes and gnats will light on the frogs. Finally a whole village of insects and reptiles settle down for an afternoon picnic. Then all at once there is an earthquake. The big jaw falls, and the alligator blinks one eye, gulps down the menagerie, and opens his great front door again for more visitors.