ILLUSTRATIONS
| “They turned south, down the quiet, narrow street at the right” | [Frontispiece] |
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| “This is the living room and here’s the dining room and here, where you can see the river bed, is the porch” | [58] |
| “The owner of the orchard let the girls pick fruit and take pictures” | [80] |
| “They went in wading after crawdads” | [114] |
MARY JANE DOWN SOUTH
“ALL ABOARD FOR FLORIDA!”
THE week between the time Mary Jane heard of the trip South and the time for starting seemed unusually short. So short that Mary Jane thought it surely must have had only three days in it—that is, she thought that till she counted up and found to her surprise that this very, very short week had had Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and now a Tuesday just exactly as all other weeks have.
“But the days haven’t been the same, Alice, I just know they haven’t,” insisted the little girl.
“Yes they have,” laughed Alice, “only you’ve had so much to do and so much fun that you haven’t noticed how many hours have gone by—that’s the difference.”
“I should say we have done lots,” said Mary Jane, “if that’s the matter. I never saw such lots to do—never!”