Wakulla: a story of adventure in FloridaMunroe, Kirk
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Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida
Munroe, Kirk
Florida -- Fiction
"Aunt Emily," as the children called her at once, because she was Edna
May's aunt, welcomed them as warmly as Captain May had done, and
everything in the cabin of the Wildfire was so comfortable that they
felt at home at once. Supper was ready as soon as they were, and as
they sat down to it Mark said he wished "Aunt Clo" could see it, for he
thought it would give her some new ideas of what Yankees had to eat.
After supper each of the children wrote a letter home, and Mark and
Captain May walked up to the post-office to mail them.
About nine o'clock a tug came for the ship, and very soon they had bid
good-bye to Savannah, and were dropping down the muddy river towards
the sea. As it was a fine moonlit night, the children stayed on deck
with Mrs. Coburn to see what they could of the river, which here forms
the boundary line between the States of Georgia and South Carolina. On
both sides, as far as they could see, the marshes were covered with
fields of growing rice, and every now and then they heard the sound of
music coming from the funny little negro cabins which were scattered
here and there along the banks.
They passed the old forts Jackson and Pulaski, both on the south side
of the river, and both deserted and falling to ruin, and very soon had
left behind Tybee Island, with its flashing light, at the mouth of the
river. The tug left them when they reached the siren buoy that keeps up
a constant moaning on the outer bar; one after another of the ship's
sails were loosed and "sheeted home," and then Captain May said it was
"high time for the watch below to turn in."
The sea was so calm and beautiful the next day that even Mark did not
feel ill, nor was he during the voyage. As for Ruth, she knew, from her
experience on the last voyage they had taken, that she should not be
sea-sick, and so everybody was as happy and jolly as possible.
During the afternoon, after they had all been sitting on deck for some
time, talking of the dear ones left at home, and of the many friends
whom they hoped soon to meet, Ruth said she was going down to open her
trunk and get out the album containing the pictures of her girl friends
in Norton, and see if they looked as she remembered them. It was so
long since she had opened this album that she had almost forgotten
whose pictures were in it. She soon returned with it in her hand, and
with a very puzzled expression on her face.
"Mark," she said, "did you ever think that Frank March looked like
anybody else whom we know?"
"I don't know," answered Mark. "Yes, come to think of it, I have
thought two or three times that his face had a familiar look, but I
never could think who it was he resembled. Why?"
Placing the album in his hand, and opening it to the first page, on
which was the photograph of Edna May, Ruth said, "Do you think he looks
anything like that?"
"Why, yes! of course he does," exclaimed Mark, startled at the
resemblance he saw. "He looks enough like the picture to be Edna's
brother."
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