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m in his motor car, Daddy Brown having telegraphed to tell the time of their arrival. "Well, you got here at last, I see!" the orange grower exclaimed, as he came up to welcome his guests. "If Bunny and Sue could have had their way perhaps we wouldn't have come," said Mrs. Brown, with a smile. "Why not?" asked Mr. Halliday, with a smile. "Oh, they went for a ride on a freight train," laughed their mother, and then she told of the adventure. "I guess they have had enough nuts for a time," the fruit grower said, at the end of the little story. "I'll try them on oranges." "May I pick some for myself?" Sue asked eagerly. "All you want!" was the answer. "We have a big crop this year." "And will you please show me where to catch alligators?" asked Bunny Brown. "Oh ho! So that's what you came here for, is it?" exclaimed Mr. Halliday, with a wink at Mr. Brown. "Well, I'm sorry to say we are all out of alligators!" "Aren't there any?" inquired Bunny, in disappointed tones. "Not right around here," went on the orange grower. "But there are some farther down Squaw River. I'll take you down some day and show them to you." "Hurray!" cried Bunny Brown. "My grove and house are a few miles from here," the orange grower said. "You'll soon be there, and I hope you'll have lots of fun." Bunny Brown and his sister Sue felt sure that they would. They liked the sunny South very much, as a change from the cold northland where they had been coasting a few days before. Everything was lovely and green in Florida now, though it was the middle of what is called winter in the North. Trees and bushes glowed in soft green tints, and had been washed clean in a recent rain. As the automobile bearing the Brown family and their host along a pleasant road chugged on and on, Sue suddenly exclaimed: "What's that nice smell?" "I hear it, too--I mean I smell it!" said Bunny. "Those are orange blossoms you smell," said Mr. Halliday. "In some of my groves you will find both blossoms and fruit. We get so used to the sweet smell that we don't notice it, but I suppose a stranger, coming in from another place, finds it very nice." "I just love it!" exclaimed Sue, taking long deep breaths. "So do I!" added Bunny, sniffing hard. They had left the small village behind some time before, and were now on a pleasant country road, lined with trees on either side. The road twisted and turned, and in about an hour, after making
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