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CHAPTER XX

DENIZENS OF THE FLORIDA SWAMPS

After all it was perhaps a wise determination
on the part of Jack to thus take time by the forelock
and endeavor to learn the lay of the land
while a fitting opportunity lasted. To start out
when darkness lay over everything, with no
knowledge whatever concerning the prospect
before them, would have doubled the chances
for some grievous calamity overtaking them even
before they were ready to strike their first blow.

Jack had a pretty strong suspicion they were in
ocr>   the neighborhood of some stretch.of swampland--he
fix>   the neighborhood of some stretch of swampland--he
was backed in this supposition by several
things--the general low lay of the ground bordering
the great lake and also the fact that snowy
white egrets, as well as cranes, flew to and fro
during the early morning, as though they must
have a roost not far away and he had been told
that as a rule these gathering places were to be
found in the gloomy depths of a swamp.

If they should chance to lose their way in
those dark and dismal swamps and find themselves
mired in the mud holes, they would be in

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