Palatka

And good morning, everybody.

Welcome to the Bible Believers Church here at the bookstore in beautiful downtown Palatka, Florida.

We're so glad that you're here with us today.

And today, a very special day for us here at the Sunday service.

John L. Williams coming out of the ballgame.

A 210-pound freshman from Palatka, Florida.

And the Florida Bush.

I don't know whether you want to throw it.

So on a pleasant morning we embarked on the handsome boat Florence, which has taken so many up the river, and thus secured all the breeze that was to be had.

The Florence is used expressly for a river pleasure boat, plying every day between Jacksonville and Palatka.

It is long and airy and nicely furnished, and one could not imagine a more delightful conveyance.

In hot weather one could not be more sure of cool breezes than when sailing up and down perpetually in the Florence.

Nowhere in Florida does the guest sit at a more bountifully furnished table.

Our desserts and pastry were really, for the wilderness, something quite astonishing.

The St. Johns River below Palatka has few distinguishing features to mark it out from other great rivers.

It is so wide that the foliage of the shores cannot be definitely made out, and the tourist here expecting his palm trees and his magnolias and flowering vines is disappointed by sailing in what seems a never-ending great lake where the shores are off in the distance too far to make out anything in particular.

So it looks like you'd have been headed south, like going maybe...

I mean, there's a lot of ways you could go, or you could go to Palatka.

Was that a Sunday? I think I, that, if it was a Sunday-

Mm-hmm.

Nice

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Palatka to see her sister because she was having trouble with her old man, and she was-

Saturday

It is not practicable to run the steamer up the pier at Mrs. Mitchell's place, but we can land the passengers in the boats.

Of course we can go up the river as far as Palatka, and perhaps farther.

We don't want to go up to what's that place you mentioned? I have heard of it before, and it is forty or fifty miles up, added Owen, who had been too busy looking after Miss Edith to pay any attention to the geography of the state.

This place is Palatka, and it is seventy-five miles up.

It would take all day to go to Palatka.

Besides, I don't wish to spoil all the fun of the trip we are to take next week.

There's a Chinese town or city where Mrs. What's-her-name lives about a dozen miles up," continued my cousin.

He looked the paper over, but he and Mr. Tiffany were almost as much perplexed over it as Owen had been.