The crocodiles all lay nose toward it, some of them twelve or fourteen feet long, some smaller, and some very small indeed, all interested to distraction in the dead tree-trunk.
"That is where he feeds them," Schillingschen announced.

"He has tested them for hearing, smell, and eyesight.

By making fast a living animal to that post be has been able to convince himself that from about nine in the morning until five in the afternoon their senses are limited.

Only occasionally do they come and take the bait between those hours.

They are hungriest in the early morning just before daylight.