Beluthahatchee is a country where all unpleasant doings and sayings are forgotten, a land of forgiveness and forgetfulness. When a... woman accusingly reminds her man of something in the past, he replies, 'I thought that was in Beluthahatchee.' Or a person may say to another, to dismiss some matter, "Oh, that's in Beluthahatchee.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Diddy-Wah-Diddy ... is a place of no work and no worry for man or beast. The road to it is so crooked that a mule pulling a load o...f fodder can eat off the back of the wagon as he plods along. All curbstones are chairs, and all food is already cooked. Baked chickens and sweet potato pies, with convenient knives and forks, drift along crying, 'Eat me! Eat me!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Semin...ole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fish in neighboring streams and lakes are so voracious, it is said, that fishermen have to stand out of sight behind trees whi...le baiting their hooks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The almost unexplored Everglades lay close by and with a half- hour's start a man who knew the country was safe from pursuit. As o...ne man cheerfully confided ..., 'A boat don't leave no trail, stranger.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling si...gns that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
West Hell, said to be the hottest and toughest part of that notorious resort, was once the home of Big John de Conqueror, who elop...ed with the Devil's daughter.... The Devil pursued them on his famous jumping bull, and when they met, Big John tore off one of the Devil's arms and almost beat him to death with it. Before Big John left Hell, he passed out ice water to everybody, and even turned down the dampers, remarking that he expected to return to visit his wife's folks pretty soon, and he didn't like the house kept so hot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Heaven has a Sea of Glass on which angels go sliding every afternoon. There are many golden streets, but the principal thoroughfar...es are Amen Street and Hallelujah Avenue, which intersect in front of the Throne. These streets play tunes when walked on, and all shoes have songs in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Along the highway, all but lost among blatant neon lights flashing 'Whiskey' and 'Dance and Dine,' are crudely daubed warnings ere...cted by itinerant evangelists, announcing that 'Jesus is soon coming,' or exhorting the traveler to 'prepare to meet thy God.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir: Between buccaneers, no ceremony; I take your dry goods, and in return I send you pimento; therefore, we are now even. I enter...tain no resentment.... Nothing can intimidate us; we run the same fortune, and our maxim is that the goods of this world belong to the strong and valiant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »