The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-09-28
FROM THE GULF.
Mrs. T.. III. Pratt Writes Another
s Cosby Letter from Her
Sunny Southern Home.

Mrs. T.. III. Pratt Writes Another
Cosby Letter from Her
Sunny Southern Home.
CRoMANToN, FLA, Sept. 10, 1898.
Dear UNION and friends in the
dear old home: / have been think
ing of writing something to you
for some time and now will take
time to do it. Our long warm
summer is drawing to a close even
here, where summer weather is
the general order of things nearly.
the whole year round. The heat
is not so intense, but. most of the
time it is just nice and pleasant,
though sometimes rather too
warm for comfort in the sunshine
in the middle of the day. One
hundred and two degrees is the
Warmest that I have heard of it's
being the past summer and that
only once or twice.
=8s The late storm lon the Atlantic
coast didn't reach here with force
enough to do any particular harm.
We had large amount of rain,
and small sail and row boats came
to grief. Our own row boat broke
from her moorings and took a sail
Of her own accord up the: coast
about a quarter of a mile where
we found her beached and half full
Of sand, and our sail boat ''The
Flying Dutchman,' filled with
water, then upset and lay prone
upon her side with rigging, mast
and sails all under water, however,
by taking off her rigging and pull
ing out her mast her hull soon
righted up filled with mud, water,
minnows and crabs, enough to
make any crab-eater's heart sing
for Joy, but as we have not learned
to eat crabs yet they afforded us
no particular satisfaction though
their shells we're very pretty to
look at. Presently another storm
was seen coming from away out
over the Gulf, and I noticed what
looked like a long line of smoke
far away over the water. I won
dered if some steamer was going
to be over-taken by the storm, but
as the line advanced nearer [ saw
that it was a flock of hundreds of
pelicans accompanied by their in
separable companions and enemies
the sea gull. They came in ad.
vance Of the storm, probably for
safety, and alighted on Hurricane
Island out about a mile from the
coast and which serves admirably
to prevent the swell from striking
all along the shore of our home.
Since coming here [ have fire.
Iquently seen illustrated the term
'being gulled." The pelican lives
upon fish, he sails about until he
sees favorable opportunity wher
down he goes head first, clear I'm.
der water out of sight as if he
must break his long crooked neck:
but instead of that he almost al
ways catches his fish, and the in
slant he raises his head above
water with the fish in his beak the
waiting gulls pounce upon him
and he is frequently obliged to ea5
it under water or be ''gulled" ou
| of his dinner.
There is a pretty good demand
for school teachers this fall, though
from the fact that about $30,00(
we're taken out of Florida las
year by transient teachers, tn
State has decided to employ actua
residents as nearly as possible.
The recent, financial trouble
have not affected us here much
There was little doing before an
not much going on now. We ca
; gather oysters, catch fish, gro'
sweet potatoes and pork, clea
land, plant orchards and eat on
Eown fruit just as well, no matte
whether it is Grover OF somebod
else who occupies the Whit
House and raises babies in clover