Crocodile was, in the days when animals still could talk, the
acknowledged foreman of all water creatures and if one should
judge from appearances one would say that he still is. But in those
days it was his especial duty to have a general care of all water
animals, and when one year it was exceedingly dry, and the water
of the river where they had lived dried up and became scarce, he
was forced to make a plan to trek over to another river a short
distance from there.
What is implied in the sentence concerning the crocodile: "Crocodile
was, in the days when animals still could talk, the acknowledged
foreman of all water creatures and if one should judge from
appearances one would say that he still is.
Crocodile only appears to be as powerful as he once
was.
Crocodile is likely still as powerful as he once was.
Crocodile has probably ceded his foreman duties to
other creatures
D)
Crocodile seeming authority is mainly an illusion.