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<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">I group 2</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">Since the first two chapters of Merlyn the
Magic Turtle have
already been<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>sent to
the membership in
general, I’m sending the 3<sup>rd</sup>, as of yet, un
submitted chapter. The
first 2 chapters are sent as attachments. You may comment on
any or all of
these, but only the pasted chapter 3 version<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>is expected.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:black">Have fun</span></p>
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<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
<br>
Merlyn Part Three</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">743 words </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">I had always enjoyed paddling through the
swamps and islands in South Florida.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Whether on the east or west coast of the state, they
were pretty much
the same. It was upsetting for me to see the changes that
the dredging
operations were having on them. But right now, in the
sixties, there is no
shortage of these mysterious, saltwater places where wild
life was abundant.
Mangroves are the nurseries for huge populations of sea
life.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was paddling
through a series of narrow
canals and open water. Concentration was necessary if I
didn’t want to get
lost.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Mangrove
islands and thickets make
up one of natures most complex and beautiful mazes that grow
along tidal
shores.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">Momentarily, my attention was distracted by an
impressive white
ibis, landing atop the<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>mangrove
tangle
twenty feet away.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Hey, you’re not listening,” Merlyn
reprimanded. </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“I’m sorry. It’s difficult trying to navigate,
watch what’s going
on around us, and listen to your story at the same time.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“I believe you,” he said sarcastically.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>“You said you could
walk and chew gum at the
same time. By the way, I think you just went off course.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“How would you know?” I asked.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Because I live here, Dummy.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“My name’s Leonard, not Dummy.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Okay, I apologize, Leonard.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>It’s just that I’ve been blathering to deaf ears for
the last five
minutes. Maybe I should save the story till we get to your
campground.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Good idea. Let’s stick to small talk until
then. I really want to
listen with my full attention.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“You got a deal, Buddy,” he said good
naturedly. “By the way,
Leonard, you’ll get us there faster if you cut around the
left side of that
island.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Are you sure? I’ll be lost if I do that.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Do Mexicans eat tortillas? I’m the navigator.
You’re the motor.
Okay?”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Okay, but if you get us lost, I’m going to
have turtle soup for
dinner.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“That’s not funny,” he said, as I suppressed a
laugh.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">On the rest of the journey, I learned that a
turtle could be a
very annoying back-seat driver. Only in this case, it was a
top-of-shoulder
driver. </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Point your bow ten degrees right. Not fifteen
degrees. That’s
better. There's an oyster bank where you’re headed. It’ll
cut your bottom to
ribbons. I wish you had a hat so I could get some shade.”<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He went on and on until
I was really tempted
to throw him overboard and call it a day, but finally, our
little voyage
reached his destination. I could see my car and pup tent
perched on the packed
sandy surface of my campsite. </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“The next part of the ride might be a little
rough on you, little
guy, I said. “ I’m going to have to do a lot of bending over
and getting into
other positions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That’s
going to make
shoulder riding hazardous.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Good point.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I’ll
stay in
the tent and leave you to your labors.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">I put Merlyn on top of the kayak, dragged it
halfway up the sandy
beach, carried him to the tent, and said, “I’ll be back in a
jiffy. Make
yourself at home.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Do you have any refreshments in a cooler or
something?” he asked.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">As I walked back to the kayak, gathered up my
equipment and stored
it in my car, I wondered where the turtle had gotten all his
camp smarts and
other worldly information.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I made a
third trip back to the water’s edge, swung the boat over my
head and carried it
to my campsite.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Then
I grabbed my dry
ice cooler and dragged it into the tent.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Merlyn had crawled discretely into a corner to get
out of my way.</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“What can I get you, my friend?” I asked</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“What kind of vegetables do you have?”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“There’s lettuce on tuna and rye.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“That sounds good,” he said, “I haven’t had a
tuna sandwich for
years.”</span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">I thought about the absurdity of a turtle who
used to eat tuna
fish sandwiches. I had to be dreaming. It turned out he was
partial to carrots
and tomatoes, which he gorged himself on. </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">Afterwards, my new friend relieved himself
outside the tent. I
settled down in a fabric camp chair and turned on my radio.
I was a little
concerned that it might sound strange to a passerby to hear
someone talking to
a turtle, and a little music would offer some degree of
auditory privacy. </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="aolmailmsonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">“Okay,” Merlyn said, “Where did I leave off?”<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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