Sammy wiggles away from the little boy, Billy.
Billy cried out to him, "Sammy, Sammy! Come back. Come back!"
But Sammy was too hurt. He felt destroyed. He wiggled away quickly. Miles and miles came between him and the boy. Until he got tired. Sammy got tired.
But, as Sammy wiggled away from the home that he knew tears filled his eyes. He knew he couldn't go back to the boy that he knew for such a long time.
Sammy's thoughts were that he should go South. He felt the feeling to go there because he knew that when he reaches south he'll meet the Florida Everglades and that's where he knows he has family.
So he went south and he walked and walked and he was getting hot and tired and all of a sudden he sees this great big lake. And he says, "Oh i need to cool off." So he jumps into the lake and he starts swimming around and it felt so good.
And then he felt something pulling at his tail. And he said out loud, "Who is that pulling at my tail?" And he heard a lot of laughter and there was a school of fish coming around toward his face. And they said, "Hi, Gee, you're a big fish! My goodness you're so big!" And Sammy said, "I'm not a fish." They said, "Oh yes you are. We have only fishes here. But you're a BIG fish! My goodness you're a big fish. And on top of that you're so rough. You have such rough skin. And your mouth is so big. What kind of fish are you?"
Sammy said, "I'm not a fish. And my name is Sammy. And I'm a little alligator." And they said, "Alligator? We don't know what alligators are. Why don't you play with us?" And he said, "I love to play! But what are you playing?" They said, "We're playing Tag and you're IT." "What? How do you play that?" "Well, Tag you're It, meaning, if you're It, you gotta go and tag somebody and not be It anymore. It's not being good It."
He said, "Oh ok." So as Sammy was swimming around all the little fish were laughing. "Hee hee hee hee." Sammy's hands were so small, he couldn't tag anybody. So he thought maybe if I tag them with my tail, that will work out better. So he starts moving his tail up and down and all of a sudden you hear, "Owwww!...Owwww!" And he says, "What's wrong? What's wrong" "Owwww!" and the little fish say, "You hit George. You hit Georgie and he's hurt. And you tagged him with your tail and you hurt him."
Sammy said crying, "Oh I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry." And all the fishes were "You have to leave. Get outta here!" And so Sammy got out of the big lake. He had tears in his eyes. Again he was hurt and thrown out by people he thought were his friends. And he said, "South...South. I've got to go South. I know family is waiting there for me. They will love me. They will be my friend. South....South...."
