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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LOREN MOORE
CHAPTER 2 OF 6

 

 

ONE DAY ON HIS TRAVELS THROUGH THE WOODS HE WAS ON A SMALL HILL OVER LOOKING ONE OF THE LAKES WHEN HE FOUND A MOUND ABOUT 10 FEET IN DIAMETER AND ABOUT 3 FEET TALLER THAN THE SURROUNDING AREA, IT WAS PLAIN IT WAS NOT SOMETHING NATURAL. HE DECIDED IT MUST BE AN INDIAN BURIAL MOUND. THERE WAS A SMALL PIN OAK TREE ABOUT 6 INCHES IN DIAMETER GROWING UP THROUGH ONE SIDE OF IT. IT WAS APPARENT THE MOUND HAD BEEN THERE A LONG TIME. HE WONDERED WHAT TREASURES MIGHT BE BURIED IN THAT MOUND. HE DECIDED HE WOULD COME BACK THE NEXT DAY AND DO A DIG. YOU KNOW LIKE THEY DID IN EGYPT.

THE NEXT MORNING HE WAS UP EARLY AND STARTED MAKING HIS PLANS FOR HIS DIG. HE GATHERED UP WHAT TOOLS HE THOUGHT HE WOULD NEED. HE HAD A SHOVEL, A HATCHET, A BALL OF STRING, A PAINT BRUSH, AND OF COURSE HIS 22 RIFLE. JUST IN CASE YOU KNOW. IN CASE OF WHAT? HE DIDN’T KNOW BUT AN 8 YEAR OLDS IMAGINATION CAN CONJURE UP ANYTHING. HE FIGURED HE BETTER TAKE TWO SANDWICHES AND AN APPLE TODAY BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS GOING TO BE SOME SERIOUS LABOR ON THIS SAFARI.

WELL, WITH ALL HIS GEAR EITHER TIED TO HIS BELT, STUFFED IN HIS POCKETS, OR RESTING ON HIS SHOULDERS, HE STARTED FOR THE MOUND. IT WAS ABOUT A TWO MILE WALK FROM HIS HOUSE. WHEN HE HAD GONE ABOUT A ¼ MILE, HE DECIDED THE HATCHET WAS TO HEAVY AND HE PROBABLY WOULDN’T NEED IT ANYWAY. SO HE THREW IT DOWN NEXT TO THE TRAIL HE WAS ON. AFTER ANOTHER ¼ OF A MILE HE DECIDED HE COULD DO WITHOUT THE PAINT BRUSH AND BALL OF STRING. HE LEFT THEM BESIDE THE TRAIL. THIS LEFT HIM WITH THE SHOVEL, HIS 22 RIFLE, HIS LUNCH, AND HIS CANTEEN.

AFTER HE HAD GONE A MILE AND A HALF HE THOUGHT IF HE WENT AHEAD AND ATE HIS LUNCH AND DRANK THE WATER IN HIS CANTEEN HE WOULDN’T HAVE TO CARRY THEM. SO HE SAT DOWN AND ATE HIS TWO SANDWICHES AND HIS APPLE. HE DRANK ALL THE WATER HE COULD HOLD AND LEFT HIS CANTEEN THERE BESIDE THE TRAIL. HE INTENDED TO PICK ALL HIS EQUIPMENT UP AS HE RETURNED THAT AFTERNOON, BUT THAT’S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

WHEN HE GOT TO THE MOUND HE WAS TIRED AND HIS BELLY WAS FULL. HE SAT DOWN AND LEANED BACK AGAINST A TREE TO REST. HE MUST HAVE RESTED ABOUT 3 HOURS, BECAUSE WHEN HE WOKE UP IT WAS PAST NOON. HE JUMPED UP AND GRABBED THE SHOVEL. HE WAS DETERMINED TO MAKE A GOOD START ON HIS DIG. HE STARTED DIGGING ABOUT HALF WAY UP ON ONE SIDE. AS HE TURNED OVER THE FOURTH SHOVEL FULL OF DIRT HE SAW SOMETHING BLACK IN THE DIRT. HE BENT OVER AND PICKED IT UP. IT WAS AN ARROWHEAD. AN ARROWHEAD! HE HAD FOUND AN ARROWHEAD.

HE GRABBED THE SHOVEL IN ONE HAND AND WITH THE ARROWHEAD IN THE OTHER HE TOOK OUT RUNNING FOR HOME TO SHOW HIS MOTHER HIS FIND. WHEN HE GOT HOME HE SHOWED HIS MOTHER HIS ARROWHEAD. SHE SAID, ”THAT’S NICE BUT WHERE IS YOUR 22 RIFLE?” “OOPS!” ANYWAY THAT’S HOW HE BECAME A CHILD PRODIGY ARCHAEOLOGIST AT THE AGE OF EIGHT.

TO BE CONTINUED

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

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