Paddling under Palmettos — page 29: what you’re looking at

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26 Paddling Under Palmettos. An early breakfast and they were afloat once more upon the river. Up to noon everything worked well, and they had made good progress. Then a halt was declared in order to make a pot of coffee and eat lunch, for all had by this time become thoroughly chilled. They had just finished the frugal repast when Ned made a discovery—there was an orange grove back of them, and of course a house. — Archie was sent to procure a supply of the golden globes for immediate consumption. Some thought caused him to take his paddle along —perhaps he had a vague idea that a pole would be necessary in order to knock the oranges down. However that may be, he was ere long glad of such an available weapon. A couple of savage little curs assailed him, and it was only by alternately knocking over first one and then the other with the canoeist’s best friend— his paddle—that he kept the small fiends at bay until a “Cracker,” or native, ran out of the cabin and put his assailants to flight. As Archie yearned for oranges and the Cracker was sadly in need of funds, they soon struck a bar- Gomichbooks (EO)