ILLUSTRATIONS

“There goes your pet.  That’s the last of him,”

“Dick hunted all the turtles he saw”

“A silvery, twisting body shot ten feet in the air”

“The Everglades at last”

“We’ve gotter have one of them young turks if it takes all night”

“The Seminole was standing in his canoe, looking fixedly at us”

“He found Dick standing in water shoulder deep, hanging on to the
flipper of the manatee”

“The stricken tarpon leaped six feet in the air”

“The tarpon began A series of leaps”

“Groups of tall PALMETTOES, or magnificent tall palms”

“He held the jaws of the ’gator shut while Dick seized the hind legs
of the reptile”

“The tarpon leaped against Ned with fury”

“Out came the reptile’s head from the cave”

“See the baby ’gator sit up, Ned!”

“A few of the homeless bees lit on the comb”

“All beyond the dark meadow was A livid mass”

“The barb caught in the reptile’s lower jaw”

“The coon scrambled to the top of A little tree”

“He saw the gently swaying head and the lightning play of the forked
tongue”

“Ned found A good camping site marked by A freak palmetto”

“The lynx sprang into the canoe and seized one of the fish”

“Porpoises rolled their backs out of the water”

“The hard, pointed head of the big tarpon tore through the bottom of
the fragile canoe”