And I saw a thing like a rat run into one of them and a thing like a turtle run into another and I think I've got you now--" Her delightful laughter made the forest silence musical.
"You poor boy! No wonder your faith is strained.

The Crackers call the gopher a salamander, and they also call the land turtle a gopher.

Their burrows are alike and usually in the same neighbourhood." "Well, what I want to know is where you had time to learn all this ?" he persisted.
"From my tame Seminole, if you please." "Your Seminole!" "Yes, indeed, my dear, barelegged, be-turbaned Seminole, Little Tiger.

I am now twenty, Mr.Hamil; for ten years every winter he has been with us on our expeditions.

A week before we start Eudo Stent goes to the north-west edge of the Everglades, and makes smoke talk until he gets a brief answer somewhere on the horizon.