This is one of those rollicking old fashioned stories of boyhood with bullies, crooks, witches, drunks, runaway horses, savage Indians and you-name-it skullduggery going on everywhere with great adventure and a good deal of fun along the way
Occasionally you may be tempted to ask yourself if people really did all these things back in the day, but according to the newspaper accounts at the time, yes they did, and even more.
Set in Florida just before the outbreak of the first World War, you will soon see that although they did not have television and the Internet at the time they were doing and thinking about the same kinds of things people do and think about today.