Granny's Letters:
It has rained almost all after noon but not hard, it thundered for the first since we have been in the south. Frank is helping a man put new brake bands on the machine---December the 8th and they are still working on the machine this morning. I went last evening with Mrs. Willie Bitner. The men went up town. We broke camp at noon, went to the beach about an hour and then came to Lake Worth, found the camp grounds very poor. Came out to the beach this morning, no place for shells. Saw some darkeys cast their fish net, it was about 500 ft long, they got three or four shark in it and in letting them out the fish all got away, so we will not have any fish for dinner. Drove back to Lake Worth and got our lunch, ate it at the Lake bridge drove over to Palm Beach. Frank and Carrie hired suits and went in bathing. Did not go back to Lake Worth, camped at a grounds 3 miles out of Palm Beach where they had hula huts to rent at 50 cents apiece. We did not rent or pitch our tent, came on this morning, stopped in an orange grove and got some oranges, fine ones for 15 cents a dozen, was in a grove that the fruit had been sold on the trees for 10,000 dollars, it was some orchard. We got out about 10 west of Melbourn and our machines went back on us, we tried to fix it and lost part of the parts and dark overtook us 10 miles from a garage and no house in 3 or 4 miles, Carries were a mile away and could not get back because the roads were narrow and rough, so we were alone with no water to fix us anything to eat so we went to bed, we could have slept but something got in our cupboard and gnawed all night. I took the lid off and it got away and we didn't get to see what it was. Frank lost the buttons off of his pants and had had to fasten them up with a spoon, sewed buttons on them this morning, came back to Melbourne, Carry started to pull us but the machine started after being pulled a ways and we ran in all right, they are fixing the machine, we lost all the bearings out of one wheel yesterday, a man came along who had a new cone with him after we had the wheel fixed. He charged us $2.00 for it and was mad because Frank told him it was too much, said they cost more than that. He was from Missouri and he showed us what a holdup was.