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Title: Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Murrill, William A.
Subjects: Natural history--West Indies.
Publisher: New York city,: W. A. Murrill
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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d to beentirely different from the star-apple, being some-what larger, green in color, and very rough in ap-pearance, resembling a small pineapple with itscrown of leaves cut off. It was a favorite in thefamily, especially among the younger members, be-cause of its sweetness. It was a great pleasure to watch these trees growand blossom and ripen their fruit from season toseason, and it was no less pleasant to eat the var-ious fruits when ripe and enjoy their novel and at-tractive flavors. Edna also experimented a gooddeal with preserves, sweet pickles, candied fruits,and jellies, greatly to the satisfaction of the entirefamily. There was nothing the monkey and Snow-ball would not do for her on preserving days. There were also some beautiful shrubs in the yard,among them elder, Crape myrtle, oleander, croton,purple dracaena, the Chinese rose, or shoeblack, withlarge pink flowers, and the jatropha, with rose-col-ored flowers. These were all planted for ornament. Three Young Crusoes ?\,p
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i. Kumquat2. Guavas Some Tropical FruitsFigures 4 and 5 arc much reduced 3. Nutmeg 4. Mango 5. Sweet-sop 6. Star-apple 7. Cashew-nut The Trees in the Yard 95 William loved the elder best of all, not because itwas the most beautiful, but because it was associ-ated in his mind with lovely pop-guns and squirt-guns. CHAPTER XVI Some Interesting Discoveries William came in one morning with his face allwreathed in smiles and announced to Edna secretlythat he had discovered some watermelon vines downin the field, that just came up accidently from scat-tered seeds. A few weeks later, he brought in aripe watermelon and put it in the spring until afterdinner, then surprised the family with it. Henry took it rather calmly; Edna feigned a bigsurprise; Snowball grinned knowingly while hestruggled with his memory; and the monkey lookedon with a wizened face as if something was about tohappen. William was confident as the knife crackedthrough it, because he had peeped inside through atiny little plu

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