"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."
"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.