Paddling under Palmettos — page 15: what you’re looking at

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12 Paddling Under Palmettos. trunks, and besides, each possessed a camp chest containing screw-top cans for different articles of food, two flamme force lamps for cooking, and the innumerable odds and ends that go with a cruising and camping outfit, and which are so familiar to those who have journeyed on river or lake that they need hardly be mentioned here. When their eyes had feasted upon the boats, that were to be their future homes for many days and nights to come, until they were satisfied, they re- placed the movable hatches and locked them. | “Where away now?” asked Archie, who seemed to be more of a novice in Florida cruising than either of the others, although all of them had really seen considerable experience in the line of roughing it. Dick looked at the little silver watch he carried. ‘Three o’clock. I think we would be apt to find some of the boys at the boathouse.” ‘‘Let’s go, then.” “Wait a moment.” ‘What idea’s seized you now, Dick?” ‘“T was thinking of our pets here. We've settled the charges, so that the company is no longer re- sponsible for their safety.” Eomicbooks (E(0)