Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — Crocodiles of Old. [ARTICLE]

Crocodiles of Old.

The galaxy of lies about crocodiles found in old books dazzles the understanding even of the experienced reader of mediaeval natural history. He la a great wo'rrn. He Is afraid of saffron. He eats honey. The crocodile runneth away from a man If he wink with his left eye and look steadfastly upon him with his right eye. He carries water in his mouth to make the roads slippery and so catches people alive. There Is an amity and natural concord between swine and crocodiles and much more of the same kind. Herodotus’ little plover, which walks Into the croco dile’s mouth and picks off the leeches, Is changed by Bartholomew into fish, with crests like saws, and a fowl and a serpent, all of which walk about Inside the crocodile’s stomach as if It were a parlor and find him “right nesh and full tender.”—London Spectator.