. Outing. OUP. FLORIDA. GAUDEN Illustrated with Photographs BOUGHT a few acres in Floridaat a venture, without having seenany part of the State and not hav-ing very accurate knowledge ofwhat I bought. I had only a gen-eral idea that some day I mightlike to get away from the grippe andzero climate, and Florida offered theonly chance in sight. Three years afterthe purchase it became decidedly wisefor me to take advantage of it. Going southward as if into a foreignland, or on a voyage of discovery, Ifound things very different from whatI had expected. My ten acres werecovered at each end with hug
. Outing. OUP. FLORIDA. GAUDEN Illustrated with Photographs BOUGHT a few acres in Floridaat a venture, without having seenany part of the State and not hav-ing very accurate knowledge ofwhat I bought. I had only a gen-eral idea that some day I mightlike to get away from the grippe andzero climate, and Florida offered theonly chance in sight. Three years afterthe purchase it became decidedly wisefor me to take advantage of it. Going southward as if into a foreignland, or on a voyage of discovery, Ifound things very different from whatI had expected. My ten acres werecovered at each end with huge pines,standing from sixty to one hundred feetin height. In the middle there was aruined orange grove, with a wide beltof plums that had died below the graft,making a thicket full of birds was a curious place to Northern ground was full of rabbit holesand gopher-turtle holes, and there werea lot of other queer fellows in posses-sion, while all the ground that was notcovered with pines was given over t
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