Paddling under Palmettos — page 40: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 35 he goes back to-morrow. Here’s a key to the new storehouse on the other side of the creek, where we can sleep to-night, for it’s going to be cold.” This was luck, what Ned announced. Archie thought that if cruisers were treated as kindly every- where they would have little to complain of. He knew, however, that letters from their friends in Jacksonville had brought about these favors. Presently they rumbled across the bridge span- ning Tomoka Creek. The flat-car was left in front of the new little one-story storehouse, and the train went on to its destination. In this house the young voyagers made themselves comfortable, cooking a square meal. Then, while Ned made up his log by the light of a lantern and smoked his pipe, Archie and Dick went out for a walk and a tour of investigation. They found that a staging ran down to the water, and it would be easy work to launch their boats, re- lieved, as they were, from most of their contents. The flat-car, with its precious load, stood in the cold moonlight in front of the cabin, and they found it all right when they awoke in the morning. An early breakfast and then to work. One by cS (E(0) Gomiecboo