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Emigration and immigration--Fiction, Texas--Fiction, Jews--United States--Fiction, Lithuanian Americans--Fiction.
publication date
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2000
lcc
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PZ7.R8314Sw 2000eb
ddc
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813.45
subject
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Emigration and immigration--Fiction, Texas--Fiction, Jews--United States--Fiction, Lithuanian Americans--Fiction.
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Swindletop
Lois Ruby
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FIRST EDITION
Copyright 2000 By Lois Ruby
Published in the United States of America By Eakin Press A Division of Sunbelt Media, Inc. P.O. Drawer 90159 Austin, Texas 78709-0159 email: eakinpub@sig.net website: www.eakinpress.com ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1-57168-393-3
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This one's for you, Kenn, my Texas-born son
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Contents
Prologue
1
1 The Arrival
3
2 What Next?
10
3 Oil and Strudel
16
4 Speaking in Tongues
22
5 The Holy Spirit
28
6 Jake's Fortune
32
7 Beautiful and Awful
37
8 In the Madhouse
41
9 Gram
45
10 The Two-Headed Nightingale
49
11 No Patience
55
12 Pay Sand
60
13 Witchin' for Oil
65
14 The Earth is the Lord's
70
15 Home, Sweet Home
76
16 Two Hearts
81
17 The Hardest Choice
87
18 Circus Life
92
19 Guilty or Innocent?
98
20 Thar She Blows!
103
21 Back Home
106
22 Mirror Image
111
23 Anything's Possible
115
A Few Historical Notes
121
Glossary
123
Page 1
Prologue: Galveston, Texas September 8, 1900
Jericho Beamus wouldn't have been sleeping on the beach when the hurricane hit if he hadn't had a fight with his daddy over nothing more important than feed for Gram's haughty old chickens.
He lay awake with the sheet around him rippling in the gathering wind like sails on the Gulf. And he thought about sharks. Wouldn't his daddy be sorry if a shark just saw fit to snatch Jericho's foot up in his jaws for breakfast? He looked out at the black, rolling waves, hoping for sign of a shark. Once a ten-and-a-half-footer was spotted here. Folks said he had a mouth big enough to swallow a good-sized boy. Not Jerichohe was thirteenbut some runt, maybe.
Waves rolled off in the distance, their frosting of white foam lit up by the autumn moon. Jericho remembered that one time a twelve-footer towed a man and his boat out to sea. They sent a pilot boat out to rescue the man, and the shark towed both boats until a harpoon stopped him dead.
The moon had an eerie glow now, not too long before sunrise. It shone like a beacon on the midway dance
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pavilion that looked like a big old lacy three-tier wedding cake.
Yes, his daddy would be heartsick, and so would Gram, if Jericho had a foot chomped off by one of those sharks. Didn't have to be a whole foot; just a toe would do. Jericho stood up, letting go of the bedsheet, which wrapped itself around a palm tree like a bandage. He ventured toward the water, daring that shark with his bare feet.
A huge, white blanket of foam roared to the shore and drenched his shirt and shorts. Another wave rumbled ashore before the last one had died down. A third wave, taller than Jericho, flung salt at his eyes and mouth. The wind picked up speed, blasting sand into his brown cheeks. Crystals stuck to his eyelashes like icicles to a roof.
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