THE ADVENTURES OF
LOREN AND DON |
ON CADDO LAKE #2 |
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IF MARK
TWAIN HAD BEEN BORN ON CADDO LAKE INSTEAD OF IN
HANNIBAL, MISSOURI HE MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN THE
ADVENTURES OF LOREN AND DON INSTEAD OF TOM SAWYER
AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN.
CHAPTER
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ONE DAY
A FISHERMAN CAME IN WITH HIS OWN BOAT. HE STOPPED
AND PAID GRANDMOTHER TO LAUNCH HIS BOAT ON THEIR
RAMP AND THEN DROVE DOWN TO THE RAMP. HE TURNED
AROUND AND BACKED HIS BOAT UP TO THE RAMP. THEN HE
STOPPED HIS OLD PICKUP SO HE COULD PUT ALL HIS
FISHING GEAR IN THE BOAT BEFORE HE BACKED DOWN THE
RAMP.
AFTER HE
HAD EVERYTHING LOADED IN HIS BOAT, HE BACKED DOWN
THE RAMP. THEN HE SHUT OFF THE MOTOR OF HIS PICKUP
AND GOT OUT TO PUSH HIS BOAT OFF OF THE TRAILER.
AS HE
CLIMBED UP ON THE TRAILER TONGUE TO PUSH, THE OLD
PICKUP SLIPPED OUT OF GEAR AND STARTED ROLLING
BACKWARDS DOWN THE RAMP. IT DIDN’T STOP UNTIL THE
WATER WAS UP IN THE CAB.
AT LEAST
THE GUYS BOAT FLOATED OFF THE TRAILER, BUT HE HAD TO
WADE OUT OF WAIST DEEP WATER. HE OPENED THE CAB
DOOR AND SAT DOWN IN THE SEAT AND TRIED TO START HIS
PICKUP. BUT THE WATER HAD GOTTEN OVER ENOUGH OF THE
MOTOR THAT IT WOULDN’T START.
THERE HE
SAT, HIS BOAT WAS FLOATING FREE OUT IN THE LAKE, HIS
PICKUP WOULDN’T START AND HE WAS WET UP TO HIS
WAIST.
HE
FINALLY WALKED BACK UP TO THE HOUSE AND TOLD
GRANDMOTHER WHAT HAD HAPPENED. GRANDMOTHER CALLED
WAYNE AND ASKED HIM TO COME PULL THE GUYS PICKUP OUT
OF THE LAKE.
WAYNE
DROVE HIS OLD PICKUP DOWN TO THE RAMP AND TOLD THE
GUY HE WOULD PULL HIM OUT FOR TEN DOLLARS. WAYNE
WAS JUST FULL OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY. WHAT ELSE COULD
THE GUY DO? HE PAID HIM.
IN THE
MEAN TIME LOREN HAD PADDLED ONE OF THEIR BOATS OUT
TO THE GUYS BOAT AND PULLED IT TO SHORE. HE ASKED
LOREN HOW MUCH HE OWED HIM FOR DOING THAT AND LOREN
TOLD HIM NOTHING, I WAS JUST HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO
HELP YOU. YOU KNOW WHAT? HE GAVE LOREN A DOLLAR TIP
FOR HELPING HIM.
CHAPTER 10
GRANDMOTHER TUCKER DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO PAINT THE
OUT SIDE OF THE CABINS AGAIN. THEY WERE ALL WAYS
PAINTED A DULL RED COLOR. LOREN ASKED HER WHY THEY
WERE ALWAYS PAINTED THAT COLOR AND SHE TOLD HIM IT
WAS BECAUSE GRANDDAD TUCKER HAD BOUGHT A 55 GALLON
DRUM OF THAT PAINT ONE TIME AND IT WAS GOING TO LAST
FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS BEFORE SHE HAD TO BUY ANY
MORE.
THE
MORNING LOREN STARTED PAINTING NUMBER ONE CABIN DON
WAS ABLE TO SNEAK OFF AND COME OVER TO WATCH HIM.
LOREN OFFERED TO GET ANOTHER PAINT BRUSH AND LET HIM
PAINT ALSO BUT HE DECLINED. HE WAS SITTING IN THE
SHADE OF A TREE EATING AN APPLE, WATCHING LOREN
PAINT WHEN THREE SMALLER BOYS WALKED UP.
THEY
WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND DON TOLD
THEM THEY WERE TAKING TURNS PAINTING THE CABIN.
AFTER WATCHING A LITTLE WHILE THEY WANTED TO KNOW IF
THEY COULD HAVE A TURN. DON TOLD THEM COULDN’T JUST
ANYBODY PAINT. YOU HAD TO KNOW HOW. HE ASKED THEM
IF THEY HAD EVER PAINTED ANY THING BEFORE? THEY
TOLD HIM NO BUT THEY WERE WILLING TO LEARN.
DON
JUMPED UP AND TOOK THE PAINT BRUSH AWAY FROM LOREN
AND TOLD THE BOYS TO WATCH HIM. HE PAINTED FOR
ABOUT FIVE MINUTES AND ONE OF THE BOYS SAID HE
THOUGHT HE COULD DO THAT. SO DON HANDED HIM THE
PAINT BRUSH AND TOLD HIM TO TRY. HE PAINTED FOR
FIFTEEN MINUTES AND ONE OF THE OTHER BOYS SAID IT
WAS HIS TURN.
THE
SECOND BOY PAINTED FOR FIFTEEN AND THEN THE THIRD
BOY WANTED HIS TURN. AFTER THAT THE FIRST BOY
WANTED ANOTHER TURN. ALL DON AND LOREN DID THE REST
OF THE MORNING WAS TO REFILL THE PAINT BUCKET FROM
THE 55 GALLON DRUM AND MOVE THE LADDER. THE REST OF
THE TIME THEY SAT IN THE SHADE OF THAT TREE.
WE TOLD
THE BOYS WE WOULD BE PAINTING AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING
IF THEY WANTED TO COME BACK AND PAINT SOME MORE.
THEY SAID THEY WOULD SEE US IN THE MORNING.
CHAPTER 11
ONE
MORNING A MAN NAMED JOHN RENTED ONE OF GRANDMOTHER
TUCKER’S BOATS TO GO BREAM FISHING. LOREN HELPED
HIM PUT HIS MOTOR ON THE BOAT AND GOT ALL HIS
FISHING GEAR LOADED. HE TOLD LOREN HE KNEW WHERE
THERE WAS A BIG BREAM BED OUT IN SOME CYPRESS TREES
AND THAT WAS WHERE HE WAS GOING TO FISH TODAY.
LOREN
KNEW ABOUT WHERE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT. THERE WAS A
OLD DUCK BLIND BUILT BETWEEN TWO TREES THERE. AT
LEAST WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE BLIND. THERE WAS A SMALL
PLATFORM LARGE ENOUGH FOR ONE PERSON BETWEEN THESE
TWO TREES AND SOME CHICKEN WIRE THAT USE TO HOLD
BLUSH FOR CAMOUFLAGE.
GRANDMOTHER HAD LOREN MOWING THE GRASS THAT MORNING
AND AT NOON HE HAD STOPPED AND GONE IN THE HOUSE TO
EAT A PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH FOR LUNCH. BY THE TIME
HE HAD FINISHED HIS SANDWICH HE WALKED BACK OUT ON
THE FRONT PORCH AND SAW THAT A LITTLE THUNDER STORM
HAD STARTED. SO HE WENT BACK IN AND LAID DOWN FOR A
NAP.
AN HOUR
LATER GRANDMOTHER SHOOK HIM AWAKE AND TOLD HIM JOHN
HAD NOT COME IN FROM THE STORM AND SHE WAS WORRIED.
THE STORM WAS OVER AND THE SUN HAD POPPED BACK OUT.
SHE ASKED LOREN IF HE KNEW WHERE JOHN WAS GOING TO
FISH THAT DAY. HE TOLD HER WHAT JOHN HAD TOLD HIM
ABOUT THE OLD DUCK BLIND.
GRANDMOTHER TUCKER TOLD LOREN TO GO PUT THEIR LITTLE
THREE HORSE MOTOR ON A BOAT AND GO SEE IF HE COULD
FIND JOHN. AFTER HE GOT THEIR MOTOR ON THE BOAT HE
HAD TO BAIL OUT THE RAIN WATER BEFORE HE COULD GO.
WHILE HE WAS DOING THIS DON SHOWED UP AND WANTED TO
KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING. WHEN LOREN TOLD HIM, HE
ASKED IF HE COULD GO ALONG. HE SAID HE HAD NEVER
SEEN A DROWNED PERSON BEFORE.
THEY
MOTORED OUT TO THE CYPRESS TREES WHERE THE OLD DUCK
BLIND WAS. BEFORE THEY GOT THERE THEY SAW JOHN’S
BOAT TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND FLOATING AWAY FROM THE
TREES. THEY WENT TO THE BOAT AND DON AND LOREN WERE
ABLE TO TURN IT RIGHT SIDE UP. BUT IT WAS FULL OF
WATER. LOREN STILL HAD THE COFFEE CAN I USED TO
BAIL THE RAIN WATER OUT OF HIS BOAT SO DON STARTED
BAILING THE WATER OUT OF JOHN’S BOAT.
WHEN HE
GOT ENOUGH WATER BAILED OUT HE COULD GET IN JOHN’S
BOAT WITHOUT IT SINKING HE JUMPED OVER INTO HIS BOAT
TO FINISH BAILING IT OUT. LOREN CRANKED THE MOTOR
AND RAN BACK TO THE OLD DUCK BLIND AND THERE SAT
JOHN ON THAT OLD PLATFORM. HE WAS WET AND COLD. HE
SAID HE HAD SEEN THE THUNDER CLOUD COMING BUT HE WAS
CATCHING SO MANY FISH HE WOULDN’T STOP AND GO IN.
WHEN THE
WIND FIRST HIT BEFORE IT STARTED RAINING HE KNEW HE
HAD WAITED TO LONG. HE JUMPED UP ON THE PLATFORM
JUST AS THE WIND TURNED HIS BOAT OVER. HE HAD SAT
THERE IN THE RAIN AS HIS BOAT DRIFTED OFF. HE HAD
BEEN SITTING THERE FOR OVER TWO HOURS. HE DIDN’T
THINK ANYONE WAS EVER GOING TO FIND HIM.
AFTER
LOREN GOT HIM DOWN INTO HIS BOAT THEY WENT BACK TO
DON. BY THIS TIME DON HAD MOST OF THE WATER BAILED
OUT OF JOHN’S BOAT AND LOREN TIED IT TO HIS BOAT AND
PULLED IT BACK TO CAMP. WHEN THEY GOT THERE
GRANDMOTHER TOOK JOHN UP TO THE HOUSE AND GAVE HIM A
BLANKET TO PUT AROUND HIM AND A CUP OF HOT COFFEE.
AFTER
THAT MISHAP THEY CALLED THAT BUNCH OF CYPRESS TREES
AT THE OLD DUCK BLIND “JOHN’S HOLE.”
CHAPTER 12
ONCE A
YEAR GRANDMOTHER TUCKER THREW A BIG FISH FRY FOR ALL
THE NEIGHBORS. SHE HAD TOLD LOREN TO SET OUT SOME
OF GRANDDAD TUCKERS LIMB LINES AND BAIT THEM WITH
WEENIES. HE HAD BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WEEK NOW AND
HE HAD CAUGHT A BUNCH OF CATFISH.
EACH DAY
AS HE RAN THE LIMB LINES AND BROUGHT IN THE CATFISH,
HE WOULD CLEAN THEM AND GRANDMOTHER WOULD PUT THEM
IN THE FREEZER. AFTER A WEEK THEY HAD ABOUT 40
POUNDS OF FISH AND GRANDMOTHER SAID THAT WAS ENOUGH
AND HAD LOREN TAKE UP THE LINES.
NOW IT
WAS TIME TO INVITE ALL THE NEIGHBORS FOR THE FISH
FRY. AS WAS THE CUSTOM EACH NEIGHBOR WAS TO BRING
SOMETHING. SOME NEIGHBORS BROUGHT POTATOES TO BE
FRIED WHEN THE FISH WERE COOKED. SOME BROUGHT A
SALAD AND OTHERS BROUGHT SOME KIND OF DESSERT.
GRANDMOTHER HAD LOREN MAKE THE ROUNDS OF THEIR
NEIGHBORS HOUSES AND INVITE THEM ON A SUNDAY
AFTERNOON AFTER CHURCH. THEY ALL ACCEPTED AND THIS
WOULD MAKE 31 PEOPLE FOR THEIR ANNUAL FISH FRY.
ON THE
DAY OF THE FISH FRY PEOPLE STARTED SHOWING UP RIGHT
AFTER CHURCH. THEY HAD A BIG BUTANE- COOKER THAT
GRANDDAD HAD MADE. SOME OF THE MEN FIRED IT UP AND
PUT A BIG POT OF GREASE ON IT TO GET HOT. WHEN THE
GREASE WAS HOT ENOUGH THEY STARTED DROPPING IN THE
FISH THAT THE WOMEN HAD CUT UP AND ROLLED IN YELLOW
CORN MEAL.
AFTER
COOKING A COUPLE OF POTS OF FISH THEY WOULD FRY A
POT OF POTATOES, THE WOMEN HAD PEALED THEM AND CUT
THEM UP FOR FRENCH FRIES. IT WASN’T LONG UNTIL ALL
THE FISH AND POTATOES WERE COOKED.
EVERYONE
HAD BROUGHT SOME KIND OF TABLE AND LAWN CHAIRS. ALL
THE TABLES WERE PLACED END TO END IN A LONG LINE.
ALL OF THE FOOD WAS LAID OUT ON THE TABLES AND WE
FORMED A LINE AT ONE END AND WENT DOWN THE TABLES
AND FILLED OUR PLATES. THEN WE ALL SAT IN A BIG
CIRCLE SO WE COULD VISIT WHILE WE ATE.
GRANDMOTHER HAD PLACED TWO EMPTY 55 GALLON DRUMS
NEAR BY FOR TRASH BARRELS. AFTER EVERYONE HAD EATEN
ALL THEY COULD HOLD THE MEN SAT AROUND SWAPPING
FISHING STORIES WHILE THE WOMEN CLEANED UP.
SOON
THEY BEGAN TO DRIFT AWAY THREE OR FOUR AT A TIME
UNTIL THEY HAD ALL GONE HOME. DON AND LOREN WALKED
DOWN TO THE EDGE OF THE WATER AND SAT DOWN ON ONE OF
THE BOATS THAT HAD BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. DON
ASKED LOREN WHY HIS GRANDMOTHER HAD THE FISH FRY.
LOREN TOLD HIM IT WAS SOMETHING HIS GRANDDAD HAD
STARTED BEFORE HE GOT KILLED AND IT MADE HER FEEL
GOOD TO CONTINUE THE TRADITION.
CHAPTER 13
AFTER
THE FISH FRY DON AND LOREN GOT A REPRIEVE FROM BEING
GROUNDED AND THEY FINALLY HAD SOMETIME TOGETHER.
ONE EVENING JUST AT DARK, THEY WERE SITTING ON A
BOAT THAT THEY HAD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN TALKING. AS
THEY SAT THERE THEY COULD SEE THE FIREFLIES FLASHING
THEIR LITTLE TAIL LIGHTS ON AND OFF. THE TREE FROGS
STARTED CHIRPING AND A BIG BULLFROG WAS DOING HIS
THING.
LOREN
ASKED DON IF HE WANTED TO GO FROG GIGGING? IT HAD
BEEN A WHILE SINCE THEY HAD EATEN ANY FROG LEGS.
DON SAID HE JUST WASN’T UP TO GOING FROG HUNTING
TONIGHT. THEN HE ASKED LOREN HOW LONG IT HAD BEEN
SINCE HE HAD EATEN ANY WATERMELON?
LOREN
TOLD HIM IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME. GRANDMOTHER
TUCKER DIDN’T LIKE WATERMELON SO SHE WOULDN’T BUY
ONE. THEN DON TOLD HIM HE KNEW A PLACE THEY COULD
GET A WATERMELON WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY IT, AND
THAT’S WHAT STARTED THE GREAT WATERMELON RAID.
THERE
WAS THIS FARMER THAT LIVED ABOUT A MILE BACK UP THE
ROAD THAT HAD A BIG WATERMELON PATCH OUT CLOSE TO
THE ROAD WHERE HE RAISED BLACK DIAMOND WATERMELONS.
AS EVERY ONE KNOWS BLACK DIAMONDS ARE THE BEST
TASTING WATERMELONS THERE ARE AND FARMER WYATT WON
BLUE RIBBONS AT THE COUNTY FAIR EVERY YEAR.
DON TOLD
LOREN ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS WAIT UNTIL AFTER DARK
AND WALK UP THERE AND PICK THEM A WATERMELON.
GRANDMOTHER HAD ALWAYS TAUGHT LOREN NOT TO STEAL AND
THIS SOUNDED LIKE STEALING TO HIM. DON SAID THE OLD
MAN WOULD NEVER MISS ONE MELON. BESIDES HE HAD
DOZENS ROT IN HIS FIELD EVERY YEAR.
THEY
MADE THEIR PLANS TO GO TOMORROW NIGHT AND LOREN
COULD ALMOST TASTE THE WATERMELON. WHEN IT GOT DARK
THEY MET ON THE ROAD BEHIND GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE.
THEY HAD BOTH WORE A DARK COLORED SHIRT AND BLUE
JEANS. THEY HIKED UP THE ROAD TO WYATT’S WATERMELON
PATCH AND SAT DOWN IN THE DITCH NEXT TO THE ROAD.
AFTER
SITTING THERE ABOUT TEN MINUTES WITHOUT SEEING
ANYTHING MOVE THEY DECIDED IT WAS SAFE TO GO OUT
INTO THE MELON PATCH. LOREN STOPPED AT THE FIRST
MELON HE CAME TO AND STARTED TO PICK IT UP. DON
SAID TO WAIT A MINUTE, LET’S GO OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE FIELD AND MAKE SURE WE GOT A GOOD ONE.
HE WAS
WALKING ALONG THUMPING ONE AND THEN ANOTHER WITH HIS
KNUCKLES. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET A RIPE ONE
DON’T WE? HE ASKED LOREN. HE KEPT WALKING AROUND
THUMPING ON MELONS UNTIL HE FOUND ONE THAT SOUNDED
RIPE TO HIM. HE BENT OVER AND PULL IT OFF IT’S VINE
AND PICKED IT UP.
THAT’S
WHEN THE SHOTGUN WENT OFF AND DON DROPPED THE
WATERMELON. THEY BOTH TOOK OFF RUNNING AS FAST AS
THEY COULD. THEY HEARD THE SHOTGUN GO BOOM AGAIN AS
THEY JUMPED THAT DITCH AND TURNED DOWN THE ROAD
TOWARD HOME. THEY GOT HOME A LOT QUICKER THEN WE
HAD GOT TO THE MELON PATCH TO START WITH.
OLD MAN
WYATT MUST HAVE BEEN SITTING OUT THERE WITH HIS
SHOTGUN JUST WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO RAID HIS MELON
PATCH. DON SAID IT WAS A GOOD THING IT WAS DARK OR
HE MIGHT NOT HAVE MISSED US. I KNOW ONE THING LOREN
TOLD DON, I DON’T INTEND TO TRY TO STEAL ANY THING
AGAIN.
THE NEXT
MORNING, WYATT DROVE UP IN FRONT OF GRANDMOTHER’S
HOUSE IN HIS OLD PICKUP. LOREN WAS DOWN AT THE
RENTAL BOATS HELPING A MAN AND HIS WIFE PUT THEIR
FISHING GEAR IN A BOAT WHEN HE SAW HIM. OH NO,
LOREN THOUGHT HE HAS COME TO TELL GRANDMOTHER ABOUT
DON AND I TRYING TO STEAL ONE OF HIS WATERMELONS.
AFTER
THE MAN AND HIS WIFE MOTORED OFF, GRANDMOTHER CALLED
LOREN. HE SLOWLY WALKED UP TO THE HOUSE AND WHEN HE
GOT THERE GRANDMOTHER SAID THAT WYATT HAD SOMETHING
FOR HIM. THEY WALKED OUT TO HIS PICKUP AND THERE IN
THE BED WAS A BIG BLACK DIAMOND WATERMELON. LOREN
LOOKED UP AT MR. WYATT AND HE JUST GRINNED.
CHAPTER 14
ONE DAY
GRANDMOTHER TUCKER TOLD LOREN HE WAS GOING TO HAVE
TO RUN THE CAMP FOR HER. HE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THIS
BECAUSE SHE HAD JUST BEEN TO THE BANK AND GROCERY
STORE TWO DAYS AGO AND THAT’S THE ONLY PLACES SHE
EVER GOES.
LOREN
ASKED HER WHERE SHE WAS GOING? SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS
GOING FISHING TODAY. WELL, YOU COULD HAVE KNOCKED
HIM OVER WITH A FEATHER. HE HAD NEVER KNOWN OF
GRANDMOTHER GOING FISHING AS LONG AS HE HAD LIVED
WITH HER. BUT HE GUESSED THERE IS A FIRST TIME FOR
EVERY THING.
SHE HAD
LOREN PUT THE MOTOR ON ONE OF THE BOATS AND SHE GOT
A CAIN POLE AND A CAN OF WORMS AND CLIMBED INTO THE
BOAT. SHE CRANKED THE LITTLE MOTOR AND OFF SHE
WENT. SHE DISAPPEARED INTO THE CYPRESS TREES AND
LOREN STOOD THERE LISTENING FOR AS LONG AS HE COULD
HEAR THE MOTOR.
ABOUT
FOUR HOURS LATER LOREN HEARD THE LITTLE MOTOR AND
KNEW GRANDMOTHER WAS COMING BACK. HE RAN DOWN TO
THE BANK AND STOOD THERE WAITING FOR HER. WHEN SHE
SHUT OFF THE MOTOR AND LET THE BOAT COAST UP TO THE
BANK, HE PULLED IT ON UP SO GRANDMOTHER COULD GET
OUT. HE ASKED HER IF SHE HAD CAUGHT AND FISH.
SHE TOLD
HIM THAT SHE HADN’T REALLY BEEN FISHING. SHE HAD
JUST WANTED TO GET OUT ON THE LAKE LIKE SHE AND
GRANDDAD USE TO DO. SHE HAD JUST BEEN RIDING AROUND
REMEMBERING GRANDDAD. SHE WENT BACK UP TO THE HOUSE
AND FOR AS LONG AS LOREN LIVED WITH HER THAT IS THE
ONLY TIME SHE EVER WENT OUT ON THE LAKE.
CHAPTER 15
AS TIME
WENT BY LOREN GREW OLDER AND WENT OFF TO COLLEGE.
GRANDMOTHER TUCKER WAS LEFT TO RUN THE CAMP BY
HERSELF. AFTER COLLEGE LOREN WENT TO WORK AT A
GENERAL MOTORS ASSEMBLY PLANT IN ARLINGTON, TEXAS.
DON
FINALLY LEFT HOME AND GOT A JOB DRIVING A LONG HAUL
TRUCK. LOREN WOULD GET A LETTER FROM HIM EVERY ONCE
IN A WHILE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. BUT THEY QUIT
COMING SOME TIME AGO. LOREN HAD NO IDEA WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIM OR WHERE HE IS. HIS GRANDPA DIED OF
CANCER AND HIS GRANDMA BONNY MOVED AWAY.
GRANDMOTHER TUCKER RAN THE CAMP BY HERSELF IN TO HER
90’s AND DIED OF CANCER. SHE LEFT THE CAMP TO LOREN
AND HE FENCED IT OFF AND MADE IT A PRIVATE PLACE OUT
OF IT. IT IS ONLY A THREE-HOUR DRIVE FROM ARLINGTON
AND HE GOES DOWN ON WEEKENDS AND WHEN HE HAS A
VACATION. HE STILL HAS THE LITTLE THREE-HORSE MOTOR
AND HE GOES FOR A BOAT RIDE OUT INTO THE CYPRESS
TREES WITH ALL THE SPANISH MOSS HANGING ON THEM. HE
SAYS HE THINKS HE UNDERSTANDS NOW WHY HIS
GRANDMOTHER WENT FOR THAT BOAT RIDE.
IT’S
PEACEFUL ON THE LAKE AND YOU CAN RELAX AND REMEMBER
OTHER TIMES. HE THINKS GRANDMOTHER WAS REMEMBERING
HER LIFE WITH GRANDFATHER TUCKER BEFORE HE DIED.
LOREN
SAYS HE WILL NEVER SELL THE PLACE ON CADDO LAKE.
SOME DAY HE WILL MARRY AND HAVE KIDS OF HIS OWN AND
HE WILL LEAVE IT TO THEM. HE HOPES THEY WILL SEE
THE BEAUTY OF THE LAKE AS HE HAS AND WILL PASS IT
ALONG TO THEIR KIDS.
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