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I just dropped in for a moment, to blast an innocent man's reputation, and destroy a young lady's peace of mind." "Then you needn't go, yet," answered Florida, coldly, "for you haven't succeeded." "Well, I've done my worst," returned Ferris, drawing the bolt. He went away, hanging his head in amazement and disgust at himself for his clumsiness and bad taste.
A freckle-faced parlor pirate with no more credentials than a park pan-handler blows in from nowhere particular, and tells a wild yarn about buried treasure on the west cost of Florida. First off he gets Old Hickory Ellins, president of the Corrugated Trust and generally a cagey old boy, more or less worked up. Mr.
The cutlass-fish, Trichiurus lepturus, unfortunately known in eastern Florida and at Pensacola as the swordfish; at New Orleans, in the St. John's River, and at Brunswick, Georgia, it is known as the "silver eel"; on the coast of Texas as "saber-fish," while in the Indian River region it is called the "skip-jack."
She straightened herself slowly to her full height, and her poise of assurance seemed to come back to its own. "It must sound terribly silly to you," she said quietly. "I wonder if the Florida moon affects every one that way." "You said it wasn't the moon." "No," she said seriously, "it isn't." She paused, stroking the pony's neck thoughtfully.
According to him they'd been staying at one of the swellest joints he could find in the whole state of Florida. Also he'd bought Lucy all the kinds of clothes she would let him buy, from sport suits to evening gowns. She'd taken up a lot of different things, too golf, riding, swimming, dancing. Seemed to be having a bully time when bang!
Florida and its Appropriate Name The First Portions of North America Discovered by White Men Early Vicissitudes of its Explorers An Enormous Coast Line How Key West came to be a great Cigar Town The Suwanee River St. Augustine and its World-Renowned Hotel Old Fort Marion. Florida is the name given to one of the least known States in the Union.
Here on elevated lands around a pretty clearwater lake, directly on the Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad, and near a famous grotto extending deep into the earth, at the bottom of which, like a well, was an abundance of water containing peculiar fish, near the noted Eichelburger cave, and vast forests of gigantic trees with sloping hills around, we founded the town of B .
The first winter the Grays spent at a hotel looking for a house; the second, they were all in Florida on account of Mr. Gray's health. These difficulties were now settled. A town house had been chosen, a Newport cottage leased for a term of years, and Cannie was asked for a long summer visit. It was Mrs.
Congress had responded with alacrity and empowered the President to occupy East Florida in case the local authorities should consent or a foreign power should attempt to occupy it. With equal dispatch the President had sent two agents, General George Matthews and Colonel John McKee, on one of the strangest missions in the border history of the United States.
Though the fellow was well supplied with money, he did not have anywhere near enough to put up the five thousand dollars cash bail demanded by Florida justice. At the jail a watch was kept to see whether Gaston would have visitors, but none came. M. Lemaire and Mlle. Nadiboff were known to be still at the hotel, but they did not go near their man in trouble.
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