new scene. Again running after the baby, Popeye's backside is caught in the jaws of Swee'Pea's playmate just as the baby finishes another crossing. The reptile flings his would-be prey through the air and advances as the sailor makes land. "All right, zipper-mouth, you asked for it!" Man and beast tussle, Popeye prevailing, it seems, when he has his rival stretched out flat on its back: gently, he rubs its belly, intoning a lullaby. But this gentleness gives way, and a too-satisfied Popeye steps on the crocodile's slumbering form as he heads for Swee'Pea. Awakened, the beast is ripe for revenge: again they tussle, but though the sailor's brawny arms resist the foe, his exposed midsection falls to the beast's massaging hand, his ears to a grunted lullaby. The creature picks up Popeye with his tail and with a mighty flip sends him again through the air and into the cage of the hippopotamus Groggy, the sailor calls out to his charge, whom we find reclining on his elbow in the great maw of the happy hippo, tickling the beast's hard palate with a feather. Again, Popeye makes a snatch for the child, but he slips past him, and the angered beast shunts the sailor away with a thrust of his huge snout. His pipe whirling about in surprise, Popeye screws up his courage again and marches toward the hippo, who once again sends his opponent flying into the bars—and again. Dazed and maddened, Popeye gulps down the remainder of an open can of spinach withdrawn from his breast-pocket. Quivering with new-found might, hard as a wall of brick, the solid sailor effortlessly resists the onslaught of the charging river horse. Popeye lifts the defeated beast high in the air and with a great, earth-shattering throw leaves him in a crater. Swee'Pea dashes by on a leopard's back, and the chase begins, the hippo's bars bending at Popeye's mad sprint. The sailor man strokes his way to the wildcat's hind, and, grasping his tail, pulls the mount out from under his rider, who falls safe and smiling to the sidewalk in front of Olive Oyl's house as his protector flings the leopard off and into a fence with such force that he drops to the ground senseless and spotless. Popeye carries Swee'Pea to Olive's door, and, setting him on the steps, presents a little toy monkey to the boy as