Identifier: threeyoungcruso00murr (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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two now and put everything in first classshape before starting their menagerie. They made tables, chairs, and other furniture ofbamboo and some of the prettiest woods; baskets ofvarious sizes and shapes of split reeds and strips ofpalm leaves; matting of rushes, corn husks, and theleaves of several palms; dishes, forks, and spoons ofshells, wood, cocoanuts, calabash fruits, and gourds;ropes and strings of lace-bark, bombax, agave, yucca,wild cotton, and other fibers; beds of Florida moss;pillows of silk-cotton; and hair-brushes of cocoanutfiber. Better and more comfortable clothing was madefrom bombax and lace-bark; while many beautifulbeans had been discovered and collected for Ednasi46 Fixing up for Company M-7 necklaces, among them sea-beans, Jobs tears, alarge bean half red and half black, and a daintylittle coral-red one with a black face. To match Ednas beads, the boys made canes forthemselves of orange, bamboo, cocoanut, mahog-any, and other woods—at least one for each day in
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A tree covered with gray Florida moss, which waves inevery breeze. 148 Three Young Crusoes the week. They even put a hat on the monkey andtaught him to walk with a cane. A line bucket for Snowball, the water-carrier, wasmade from a calabash gourd a foot long, the top be-ing cut open so as to leave a handle; and a smallergourd was cut into a work-basket for Edna, withthe sides carved in an ornamental way. Two newcocoanut dippers were made, one for the house andone for the spring. Edna had long needed a box in the spring branchwhere she could keep things cool, especially thecocoanut milk, fruit punch, and other pleasantdrinks which she always tried to have in abundance;so this was finished next in order and a roof builtover it to keep the cocoanuts from falling on it atnight. Flower pots were cut from big bamboo poles andfilled with orchids and other plants for the windowsand tables. For a few days, a big pineapple plantstood on the center of the dinner table, ripening itscone-like frui

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