There's an Alligator in the Watermelon Patch

Down in Southern Louisiana where the Cajuns live Albertine Agnes Ann with her red wagon shows up at Valentin Michel watermelon patch to take his biggest watermelon. She tell Valentine Michel "Maw Maw said so" She intends get his biggest melon and enter it in the Parish watermelon contest. Valentin Michel is none to happy with this girl and tells her she got two problems. One the biggest melons weigh more than her so how she gonna' pick one up and two there's and alligator living in that patch.Albertine Agnes Ann brushes him aside and enters the watermelon patch quickly finding the biggest one. While measuring it, Chomp the alligator sneaks up behind her. She cries out for maw Maw who can't hear her cries for help because she's driving a tractor. So now Albertine Agnes Ann - 'Whatcha' gonna' do?" Fourth in the Maw Maw series a collection of humorous stories.The author who at the age of eleven actually stumbled upon a live four-foot alligator hiding in his backyard's watermelon patch. Story contains local dialect and a few French words and phrasesBook 4 in MAW Maw series