Florida Trails as Seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April Inclusive; Illustrated from Photographs by the Authors and Others (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Florida Trails: As Seen From Jacksonville to Key West and From November to April Inclusive; Illustrated From Photographs by the Authors and Others This lighting Of the myrtle warbler on the passenger's hat is not persiflage, either. Several times it happened. Along in the afternoon a negro, sitting in a sunny corner Of the steerage deck, held nevertheless the very center Of the stage for several minutes with a junco perched on the crown Of a well-brushed black soft hat that might have been as Old as he was. It made a rather pretty picture and the Old man's eyes shone with delight long after the junco had flown. Ya-as, he drawled to his companions after the bird had gone, dem birds, dey al'ays does laike dat hat. One day down in Souf Ca'lina ah was sitting in de field a long time an' one Of dem cuckoo birds des came along and laid an aig in dat hat. Yessir, it done did. This may be true. I tell it as I heard it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.