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7 { a ’ 1° Paddling Under Palmettos. "© Some three miles to Turtle Mound, getting a variety of shells along the sand and watching the surf. Thus Sunday passed. The following day being wild and stormy, they agreed to lie by until the next morning, thinking it might be better for their small craft upon the broad Mosquito Lagoon, near the head of which they were now camped. Mr. Watson invited them to go over among the mangrove islands on the other side of the river and see if they could pick up a few ducks. The ride was a delightful one, Dick taking his canoe. After much wading through saw-grass and mo little work with oars and paddle, they succeeded in bagging two pintail ducks, a blue-winged teal, a mallard, and three willet. | Leaving the marshes, they returned to camp and arranged things in readiness for an early start in the morning. After breakfast the three canoes were put in com- mission, and away they went before a merry breeze that, in an hour, brought them to the “cut-off,” a sort of canal made as a means of saving six miles of Gomicbooks, co m