Paddling under Palmettos — page 236: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 229 lantern and fish-spear and in half an hour secured | as many channel bass, sheepshead, mullet, and pom- pano as they could possibly use. Ned was especially expert with the spear, and sent it home with accuracy almost every time. The breeze kept in the west during the night, and by morning it had become quite puffy, and when Archie awoke at dawn and found that it was still from about the same quarter he believed they would go on, their main object just now being to reach the bay. Ned, however, shook his head. “We're in fora norther. Ask the captain.” The latter corroborated his words, and said it would be howling down the coast before an hour had passed by. As they could not tell what would accompany it, they believed it foolhardy to pass out from the in- let under such circumstances, and, hence, concluded to stay. The prophecy was fulfilled, for down came the norther, and it proved to be a severe one, although not at all cold. Outside it looked wild and stormy, but under the Gomicbooks. co m