LIFT UP THE HANDS THAT


HANG


DOWN.


you complain


that this gives you little infor-


mation about Florida?


a history that


Well, be patient.


requested-only the


that yearly visits to a land


dearly


It was not
impressions


loved have made


on my own mind-impressions which I feel confident
do not differ materially from well-authenticated facts,


although


alone


am responsible


for what


write.


Three or four years steady efforts of earnest laborers


have
tales.


shown


results


that are almost


fairy-land


I write con more, and therefore "hasten slow-


ly," making perhaps the common mistake of thinking


what


interests


one most deeply must have the


same attractions for all.