Now the first time the buckras run Bruh Deer with the hounds, he didn't know nothin about them. And he just lie down in his bed in the thicket on the edge of the broom-grass field. But here come the hounds, and Bruh Deer so afraid and so, he jump and he run. And he gets away to the river first. Just as he ready to jump off the bluff above the river, he look down and see Bruh Alligator's two big eyes come risin out of the water. Bruh Alligator just waitin for him!

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