Paddling under Palmettos — page 133: what you’re looking at

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126 Paddling Under Palmettos. CHAPTER XI SURROUNDED BY SHARKS. Archie would have liked to have spent more time in this delightful spot, but the wishes of his two companions were law to him, so he spent the rest of the day in looking about the place. When night came the norther was still howling down the river. The wind was not a chilly one, the mercury mark- ing sixty. They had advanced too far south to feel the cold now, although this same norther would probably be marked at least to the freezing point in Jacksonville. ‘This was one consolation. That night they all, gathered in the office of the little house, and stories were the order of the»hour. Many strange experiences were told which showed the perils of their past lives. The old captain was requested to again tell of that night of storm on the lakes when his vessel had had the collision with the lighthouse. He did so, mod- estly, but his hearers could infer from what little he Gomicbooks (E(0)