"Then you have a new experience before you, Mr. Butler. Lilly will meet you at your hotel at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, and you may start at once, though it would please me to have you remain with us longer."
"Perhaps we shall see you when we return from the brake," said Tad.
"I should think you young men would not want to go into that awful place," said Miss Millicent with a shudder.
"And pray, why not?" questioned Tad.
"It is such a horrible place."
"Oh, you don't know us fellows," interjected Stacy. "We are used to horrible places. I reckon there aren't many such in this country that we haven't been in. What is there so horrible about this—this canebrake?"
"Snakes, lots of them, foul deadly fellows," answered Miss Millicent.
"Ugh!" exclaimed the fat boy, his eyes growing large.
"Alligators, wild animals, almost anything that you might think of you will find in the canebrake," she added.
"Don't frighten the boys before they get into the brake," begged the Major.