Paddling under Palmettos — page 65: what you’re looking at

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60 Paddling Under Palmettos. aspect of the country was rather disheartening for game. The air was filled with great birds, such as cor- morants, water-turkeys, hawks, buzzards, cranes, and pelicans, but these interested them very little now. They would have given much to have seen a flock of turkeys. Ducks they had shot in abundance, but Archie, fond as he was of the game, turned up his nose when it came to plucking them, for they had such a vil- lainous fishy smell that one must needs possess a strong stomach to go them. Ned finally showed him how easy it was to skin a duck or coot and thus avoid the fishy taste which seems to lie almost wholly just under the skin, On the following morning it was agreed that Archie should ’tend camp while the others went off into the woods to look for came. Archie was nothing loth, for he had heard much of the elusive bass of the St. Sebastian and St. Lucie Rivers, and was bent on giving them a turn. He did try. Fly baits were of no avail; they might have done better in the evening. He experimented Gomicbooks Go