Paddling under Palmettos — page 204: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 197 CHAPTER XVI. BRUIN RECEIVES A WARM RECEPTION. An hour later Archie discovered that the rain had ceased. ‘The wind still continued but the clouds had been riven, and the bright stars peeped forth. The storm was over. They passed the night comfortably, all things con- sidered, being old enough campaigners, and up to the many little tricks that come into play on such oc- casions. Besides, they were possessed of the phil- osophical spirit that takes things just as they come and makes no complaint. The fire was easily resuscitated, and before its cheerful blaze they chatted and told yarns of past ad- ventures. Strange things some of them had seen, and such stories always lose half their flavor when told away from the camp-fire’s ruddy glow. They had been wise enough to save quite a supply of dry pine knots, and some of these pitched upon the fire made a flame that, for intensity of light and Gomichoo CS (E(0)