326 HOME LIFE IN FLORIDA. 



It is an every-day complaint, for three or four months 

 every spring, that fences, trees, even houses, have been 

 destroyed, and groves and fields thrown open to the rav- 

 ages of the roving stock for whose benefit all this destruc- 

 tion is wantonly caused. 



If it occurred only once in several years, that would be 

 bad enough ; but to go through the same scenes of toil, 

 loss, and anxiety every year is almost more than mortal 

 can endure. 



'' Let us have peace." 



