Paddling under Palmettos — page 257: what you’re looking at

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248 Paddling Under Palmettos. They wisely retreated, deeming discretion the bet- ter part of valor, when the enemy made such an ad- vance upon them. Then began a wild chase. Archie was fully aroused, and he followed the troop hither and thither, dealing them blows that sounded through the grove, and at each resounding thwack his companions went into fresh convulsions of laughter. Finally Archie came in, the perspiration streaming from his forehead, but he smiled grimly with the air of a conqueror, since he had dispersed the enemy— for one hour. The hogs run wild in the woods, but all are claimed by owners, and it is a dangerous thing to kill one at any time. This was only one of the humorous memories of the long cruise that would haunt them in the years to come. They were now far away from the coast, and really in the heart of Southern Florida. Birds of beautiful plumage were seen on every hand, for the fiend had, apparently, not yet pene- trated this spot. Gomicbooks (E(0)