Palm xieach, * a.—Joe Frazier, who
was born with a hankering to get on
in the world, and who could see no
better way than starting an alligator
farm, has starled the millionaire vis
itors at the Beach by moving his
whole menagerie of sawbacks down
from his original lagoon incubating
ground to the sands of the beach,
where he expects to reap a fortune by
selling young live alligators as watch
charms to the men and as substitutes
for chameleons to the ladles. He had
some difficulty in moving them re
cently. Some of them got out, chased
the visitors off the beach and took a
hand at bathing in the surf. “But,”
says Joe, “an alligator is as innocent
a3 a lamb if you take him right, and
take him before he takes you.”
He doesn’t see why anyone should
object to the near presence of his pets.
“Er young 'gator makes a pretty
watch charm if he is tied up by a gold
chain so's he can’t bite,” he says. “An"
they is a heap sight prettier than
them lizzards wat wlmin is a wearing
around on their dresses.”
Jo’s farm, a mile or so back on the
shell road, has been a favorite sight
for visitors, and everyone who goes
there wants to take home a basketful
of young snappers, just to prove that
he has been in Florida.
