Once more Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were on the train traveling. This time they were in a sleeping car, in which, at night, beds were made from the seats.
"This is better than riding in a freight car, isn't it?" asked Sue's mother.
"Yes," answered the little girl, turning away from the window, out of which she was looking at the scenery. "But we had a pretty good time with Nutty; didn't we, Bunny?"
"Yes, we did," answered the little boy. "And the nuts were good."
There was still for the party an all night ride before the Brown family would arrive at Orange Beach, which was in the southwestern part of Florida.
"Do the orange trees grow right near the ocean, Mother?" asked Bunny, when they had been talking for some time about the place to which they were going.
"Not exactly," his father answered. "I believe oranges do not grow so well too close to salt water. At any rate Mr. Halliday's orange grove is inland a few miles. It is on the banks of a river, but the river flows into the ocean, or rather, into the Gulf of Mexico, which is part of the ocean."
"Can we go swimming?" Sue wanted to know.
"You can't if there's any alligators there," Bunny said. "Anyhow, you can't go in the water till I catch all the alligators."
"If there's alligators I'm not going in," declared Sue.