River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-04-06

Our bed IN the cottage has to have O mos
quito net canopy over it, as the flies and mos
| quitoes are bad.
This is my idea of Florida but its pretty hot
! am going to take my first ocean bath to-day
There is az ditch an along our path and we
have counted twelve moccasln snakes in it,
They are deadly poison you know. but we have
decided not to harm them, so guess they won't
harm US. What a GLORIOUS work St Patrick
could do here. SO many beautiful flowers
grow along the path, the most gorgeous purple
verbena. morning glories and white star
shaped flower. Yesterday right after break
fast we took bicycle ride to the rubber tree.
could not believe that any bicycle path could
be so beautiful The path winds in zig-zag
turns right through the woods. the branches Of
the trees and the leaves Of the palms meet
ing over our heads
One man had evidently walked it for we
found this verse pinned to tree little way
from where the sign reads TO the rubber
tree two miles
Oh, weary walker you viii see,
From that dadgasted rubber tree,
Instead of two. is fully three
Long-full grown miles
To whore Ananias put up that sign
We nearly ran over black snake five feet
long that slowly crawled across the path but
they are not poisonous Do you wonder
dreamed of snakes last nigh1f And had not
been imbibing either
picked a cocoanut from tree this morning
it weighs -four pounds-will let it stay in the
sun till il dries out little then viii send it.
They just write the address on the she'll, put
on the stamps and send it through the mail as
seed. The boy at the postonice said he had
put over a thousand through the mail this
season
] never get tired OF watching the turkey
buzzards They are the size Of turkey and
look some thing like one They stalk along the
shore looking for what they devour-or fly
through the air, never seeming to tire. There
is a hue Of twenty-five dollars for killing one,
as they are the only scavengers. 1 do love the
red birds They call from the oleauders,
sweet sweet pretty, pretty" No wonder
James Lane Allen could write Kentucky car
dinaL Our old darltey cracked one Of the
green cocoanuts and we drank the milk, il was
fine The Portuguese Man of War are beauti-
ful things / am afraid they won't last for me
to bring one home They are a sort of Jelly
fish look like a toy balloon beautiful blue
shading into pink-and scanoped on the edges.
Not a good description, but I wish you could
see them We are going out in saiIboat
where they get the pretty shells. 1 nope to
find some nice ones
We have had Strawberries, they do not seem
very sweet but the new potatoes, peas and
beans are fine. Ate a tamarind-As we went
by the club house we saw the cook out one
side dressing some thing 50 went up to see and
found green turtle. They don't live in shell
but have scales on their back, and things that
look like wings. The buds on the banana palm
interest me. They are long and beautiful red.
The petal next the stem turns back and a row
OF tiny bananas appear then another petal
turns back and so on TO the finish,
On our way home from the sea we saw an
alligator three feet long in our ditch. Don't
know what we viii ind on our trail next
Freeman's Diarrh9a Mixture is
sold under guarantee to cure
Diarrhoea, Dysentery and all Summer
Com nlaints