Alligator Playground
“Such a moniker must fit somewhere, and time would tell, though women collecting their kids from school saw what a suitable name it was as he stood by the pillar, enjoying a short pipe of tobacco such as no shop ever sold, and looking at white clouds above the slate roofs of the estate as if to foresee the malice of any weather on its way.
The tall leathery-faced man replaced by Sailor had given no hint of his departure, such birds of passage being soon forgotten, until one morning Sailor stood ...by the gate in dark blue dungarees as if it had been his post for years.
Short white hair came to a line at the back of his neck, and his face was of such pinkness from being scrubbed every morning that the features had little time to settle into place until the afternoon. Prominent lips didn’t go much towards handsome, they all agreed, and there was little definite shape to his nose, but the lit up blue of his eyes suggested absolute ease with himself, and confidence in getting unlimited trust from others.MoreLess
The tall leathery-faced man replaced by Sailor had given no hint of his departure, such birds of passage being soon forgotten, until one morning Sailor stood ...by the gate in dark blue dungarees as if it had been his post for years.
Short white hair came to a line at the back of his neck, and his face was of such pinkness from being scrubbed every morning that the features had little time to settle into place until the afternoon. Prominent lips didn’t go much towards handsome, they all agreed, and there was little definite shape to his nose, but the lit up blue of his eyes suggested absolute ease with himself, and confidence in getting unlimited trust from others.MoreLess
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