Freddy Goes to Florida by Walter R. Brooks

Author:Walter R. Brooks
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497692091
Publisher: The Overlook Press

“We alligators will have our little joke, you know.”

“Oh yes, you old fraud!” said Henrietta. “Ask him to come back so you can eat him? No, Charles will stay right where he is, in the top of that tree.”

“Your suspicions are most unjust,” said the Grandfather of All the Alligators with a sigh. “We wouldn’t harm him for worlds. We respect and admire him greatly. However, I see you are anxious to be gone, and it is indeed getting late. My children,” he said to the other alligators, “show these animals safely to the edge of the swamp, and see that no harm comes to them. Good-bye, my friends. I thank you one and all for your entertainment. I am sorry that you took our little joke in earnest. However, that is past now. No hard feelings, I trust?”

“Oh, none at all!” said Henrietta sarcastically. And the Grandfather of All the Alligators sank slowly out of sight.

The alligators showed the animals a dry and easy path to the edge of the swamp, and they were very happy when they were on dry land once more. Charles had not come down within reach of the alligators, but had fluttered along in the tree-tops. Then the alligators said good-bye and wished them a pleasant journey.

When the animals had gone on a little way, they looked back and saw the alligators sitting in a row and looking after them, and great tears were rolling from their eyes and dropping to the ground, and the sound of their sobbing could be heard for miles.

“Why, I believe they really are sorry to have us go,” said Alice, the duck. “I suppose it is lonesome in that dreary swamp.”

“Humph!” said Henrietta. “Of course they’re sorry! But they’re not crying because they like us. They’re crying because they’ll have to go to bed without their supper to-night.”

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