Read it through once

'If you had had as much experience of alligators as I have, you wouldn't talk like that. You dredge an alligator once and he's _convinced_. It's the last you hear of _him_. He wouldn't come back for pie. If there's one thing that an alligator is more down on than another, it's being dredged. Besides, they were not simply shoved out of the way; the most of the scoopful were scooped aboard; they emptied them into the hold; and when they had got a trip, they took them to Orleans to the Government works.'