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er it Sue slipped a round roller, which was a short piece of round tree trunk. Then when Bunny raised up the other side of the raft his sister slipped under it another roller. "Now she'll slide!" cried Bunny, as he had often heard his father or Bunker Blue say. With his long pole Bunny now pried up on the rear of the raft. At first it did not move, and Bunny began to be afraid he and Sue would not, after all, have a voyage down the river. But at last it slid a little bit, and then more and more, until finally it was rolling along quite rapidly. As the bank sloped down to the river like a little hill, Bunny hardly had to push or pry at all now, and a minute later the raft was floating in the water. It would have floated away, but Bunny had tied a rope to one edge, and the other end of the rope he had fastened to a tree stump on shore, so the raft was "made fast," as a sailor would say. Bunny had been around his father's dock enough to know that when one puts a boat into the water one must make it fast or it will be lost. "Isn't our raft nice, Bunny?" exclaimed Sue, as she saw it floating in the water. "Yes," Bunny agreed, "we'll have lots of fun! Wait till I get the lunch and we'll start." "I want a pole so I can help push," said Sue. "All right. You bring the bag of lunch and I'll get you a pole," promised Bunny. Soon the two children were on the raft, each one thrusting with a pole on the bottom of the river, which was not very deep, and so shoving themselves along. In the middle of the raft was the bag of lunch--the dried bread, pieces of cake and a very much flattened piece of pie that Bunny had found on the pantry shelf. "Oh, this is lots of fun!" exclaimed Sue, as they floated along. "Yep!" agreed Bunny, shoving hard on his pole. "I'm glad we came to Florida." It was very pleasant on this part of Squaw River, where it ran through the orange groves of Mr. Halliday. On either side were growing palms and other trees, some of which met overhead in a green arch, making it very shady. Only for this the sun would have been very warm--quite different from the sun in Bellemere, where there was now snow on the ground. "Our snow man wouldn't last very long down here, would he, Bunny?" asked Sue, as she began to feel quite warm from poling the raft. "Nope! A snow house wouldn't either," Bunny answered. "But I like it here." "So do I," said Sue. "There's lots of birds, too." There were. Bun
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