"Let's see now," said the double-jointed tail alligator. "I'll carry
this rabbit home, and then--"

"You'll do nothing of the sort!" interrupted the other, and not very
politely, either. "I'll carry him myself. Why, I caught him as much
as you did!"

"Well, maybe you did, but I saw him first."

"I don't care! It was my idea. I first thought of this way of
catching him!"

And then those two alligators disputed, and talked very unpleasantly,
indeed, to one another.

But, all the while, they kept tight hold of the bunny uncle, so he
could not get away.

"Well," said the double-jointed tail alligator after a while, "we must
settle this one way or the other. Am I to carry him to our den, or
you?"

"Me! I'll do it. If you took him you'd keep him all for yourself. I
know you!"

"No, I wouldn't! But that's just what you'd do. I know you only too
well. No, if I can't carry this rabbit home myself, you shan't!"

"I say the same thing. I'm going to have my rights."