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 9

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.

MUSIC: AIN'T IT FUNNY, HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY