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That was what they were used to in their native lands. So Slider had a warm, sunny place, and now Teddy took the scaly creature out of the tank and put him on a box, where the sun could shine on the long-tailed fellow. As it happened, there was a long, smooth board resting on the upper edge of this box and extending down to the barn floor. Teddy had laid the board slanting fashion on the box when he was making room for the cage of Jack, the monkey. For a little while, after he had been placed in the warm sun on top of the box, the alligator remained quiet, slowly blinking his eyes. Then he began to crawl. "That isn't much of a trick," declared Janet. "Oh, I haven't started to teach him a trick yet," her brother answered. "I'm trying to think what an alligator can do best." But Slider, as he was called, because he seemed to slide around in such a slow, easy fashion, took matters into his own claws, so to speak. He crawled around on his box top and then managed to clamber up on the slanting board, one edge of which rested on the box. "I wonder if he is going to slide down-hill," said Janet in a low voice, as if she did not want to disturb the little alligator. And then, just as if he had made up his mind to do that very thing, Slider wiggled along until he was only holding to the edge of the slanting board by his two hind feet, while his long tail was only partly on the box. A moment later, giving himself a hitch like a boy getting his sled over the top of the hill, Slider went sliding down the smooth, slanting board. Down he slid until he reached the barn floor, and as there was some smooth straw at the point where the board rested, Slider slid across this straw for several feet. "Oh, did you see that?" cried Janet. "See it? I should say I did!" cried Teddy. "Slider slid all right! That's going to be his trick! I'll make a longer board slide, and I'll put the lower end in a pan of water, so when Slider slides down he'll make a splash! That will be a fine trick for the circus! Come on, Slider, slide again!" Teddy was just lifting up his pet alligator, intending to put him on the top of the slanting board, when Trouble was heard calling: "Oh, come an' 'ook at Snuff! Come an' 'ook at Snuff! He's doin' suffin' funny!" CHAPTER IX MRS. JOHNSON'S BABY Teddy and Janet turned their attention from Slider, the pet alligator whose new trick they had just discovered, to Trouble, their l
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