Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida

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Munroe Kirk. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida

CHAPTER I. PREPARING TO LEAVE THE OLD HOME

CHAPTER II. THE SCHOONER "NANCY BELL."

CHAPTER III "CAPTAIN LI'S" STORY

CHAPTER IV. A WRECK ON THE FLORIDA REEF

CHAPTER V. MARK AND RUTH ATTEND AN AUCTION

CHAPTER VI. A QUEER CHRISTMAS-DAY

CHAPTER VII. ARRIVAL AT THE NEW HOME

CHAPTER VIII. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL, AND MORE MYSTERIES

CHAPTER IX. MARK DISCOVERS THE GHOST AND FINDS HIM IN A TRYING POSITION

CHAPTER X. A RUNAWAY'S STORY, AND ITS HAPPY ENDING

CHAPTER XI "THE ELMER MILL AND FERRY COMPANY."

CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT MILL PICNIC

CHAPTER XIII. FIGHTING A FOREST FIRE

CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE BOYS CAUGHT AN ALLIGATOR

CHAPTER XV. A FIRE HUNT, AND MARK'S DISAPPEARANCE

CHAPTER XVI. BURIED IN AN UNDERGROUND RIVER

CHAPTER XVII. TWO LETTERS AND A JOURNEY

CHAPTER XVIII. THE BURNING OF THE "WILDFIRE."

CHAPTER XIX. UNCLE CHRISTOPHER'S "GREAT SCHEME."

CHAPTER XX. EDNA MAY MARCH

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It lacked a few minutes of nine o'clock when the stage in which the Elmers had left Norton drew up beside the platform of the railway station in Skowhegan. There was only time to purchase tickets and check the baggage, and then Mark and Ruth stepped, for the first time in their lives, on board a train of cars, and were soon enjoying the novel sensation of being whirled along at what seemed to them a tremendous rate of speed. To them the train-boy, who came through the car with books, papers, apples, and oranges, and wore a cap with a gilt band around it, seemed so much superior to ordinary boys, that, had they not been going on such a wonderful journey, they themselves would have envied him his life of constant travel and excitement.

At Waterville they admired the great mills, which they fancied must be among the largest in the world; and when, shortly after noon, they reached Bangor, and saw real ships, looking very like the pictures in their geographies, only many times more interesting, their cup of happiness was full.

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He was so exhausted that he was taken into the cabin, rolled in warm blankets, and given restoratives and hot drinks before he was questioned in regard to his adventure.

Meantime the schooner was again slipping rapidly down the broad river, and Mark, who remained on deck with his father, questioned him about the "river's breath," as he called the clouds of steam that arose from it.

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