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    The Blue Bead NORAH BURKE onus Yur teu From des vatercame the aocoile TSU wie | Ouro black water curved with whlpot, and ik the il of old = halos by the steping stones compare cut! vals He was twice the length of a tall man; and inside him, among the stones hich he had swallowed t aid digestion, rolled a sliver bracelet Timber was being floated down this great Indian river from forests fur ther up, and there wee sleepers lying stuck around the stones until some: ‘one came to dislodge them and send them on their way, or until Roods lifted them and jostled them along, The crocodile had no eed to hide him sel He came to resin dhe glasy shallows, among logs and balance there ‘on tiptoe on the rippled sand, with ony his raised eyes out ofthe water an raised nosis breathing the clean sunny ait, ‘Around him broad sparkling water travelled between cls and gas and forested hls jungle track are out of sub each side and down tothe sun-whitened stepping-stones on which litle feather was iting and. ‘ling along, The mugger crocodile blackish brown above and yellowy white _undet lay motionless able to wait forever il food came. This anteivian -sturian—this prehistoric juggernaut, ferocious and formidable, avast force in thewatex propelled by the unimaginable and iesisible power ofthe huge tal lay lapped by ripples, a dhob in his throat. His mouth, running almost the whole length of his head, was closed and fixed in that ev! bony smile, and where the yellow underside came up tit was tinged with green. rom the day, perhaps a hundred years ago, when the sun had hatched hhim in a sandbank, and he had broken his shel, and got his head out and Jooked around, ready t0 snap at anything before he was even fully ‘atched—from that day, when he had a once made for the wate eady 10 ‘fend for hime immediately, he had lived by his brainless craft and feroc- lt. Escaping the birds of pee and the great carnivorous fishes that eat baby crocodiles he has prospered, catching ll he food be needed, and storing it ‘il putid in holes inthe bank, Tepid water to live in and plenty of rotted ood grew him to his great length ‘Now nothing could pierce the inch hic armoured hide. Not even rifle Dulles, which would bounce ff. Only the eyes and the soft underaams offered a place, He lived well in the river, suring himself somesimes with ‘other crocodiles—muggrs aswell asthe long snowed fist-eting hails — ‘on warm rocks and sandbanks where dhe sn deed the lay on them quite ‘white and where they could plop off into the water in moment if alarmed. ‘The big crocodile fed mostly on ish, but also on deer and monkeys

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