We can hear water and birds singing.

 

Mercer and Alston are Scarlet’s cousins.

 

Scarlet thinks her cousins are best cousins in the world.

 

The Mississippi is a big and beautiful river.

 

Grandma Louise gives Scarlet a fishing rod.

 

Scarlet sees a big house. She thinks it’s pretty.

 

Louise says plantation homes are very impressive.

 

Mercer says Alston is pinching him.

 

Scarlet sees an alligator on the bank.

 

She is scared because she thinks alligators are dangerous.

 

The alligator is eating a bird.

 

Mercer sees a steamboat.

 

Louise loves steamboats and she asks her binoculars because she wants to see it.

 

The passengers are having a party. The people are dancing. A man is singing. The passengers are eating sandwiches and drinking champagne.

 

Two man are fighting and one of them falls in the water.

 

Louise jumps because she wants to save him, but she forgot the alligator.