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    Jesse the Oil Patch Kid
    Jesse the Oil Patch Kid
    Jesse the Oil Patch Kid
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    Jesse the Oil Patch Kid

    By Gertie Mayeux

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    The son of an oil field worker of Irish descent, Jesse lives in a coastal town in south Louisiana. The culture is predominately French. Shortly after his mothers death, his father loses his job when the oil industry goes into a recession. His father accepts a job in the North Atlantic, leaving Jesse with Uncle Rufus, a disabled World War II veteran. Uncle Rufus is military oriented and unable to show his feelings.
    Jesse feels he is a left-over kid and befriends an abandoned dock cat. Ole Tom can be aggravating and remains fiercely independent.
    A life/death crisis develops when Uncle Rufus insists on battling the gulf for shrimp. Jesse rises to the challenge and discovers he is appreciated in his small town school.
    Jesse is the story of a ten-year-old boy frustrated by circumstances beyond his control. Besides trying to fit into a culture different from his own, he is coping with his mothers death, his father having to leave because of job loss and living with his military minded uncle. Woven into these circumstances is the potential within Jesse, which he discovers in crisis that declared him a SOMEBODY in his NOBODY world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 22, 2012
    ISBN9781477240397
    Jesse the Oil Patch Kid
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    Gertie Mayeux

    Gertie Pratt Mayeux; {b.} January 20, l932, St. Landry, Louisiana; {m.} Paul N. Mayeux {deceased}, November 12, 1949; {ch.} Six sons and six daughters; {ed.} O.L.O.L. School of Nursing, Loyola Graduate Studies, McKnight School Of Art; {occ.} Mother, Artist and Retired Teacher of Art and Religion; {pers.} “Words from the heart to the heart deeply move. We must be always aware of this power within us and use it well”; {a.} Ville Platte, LA.

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      Jesse the Oil Patch Kid - Gertie Mayeux

      JESSE

      The Oil Patch Kid

      By

      Gertie Mayeux

      AuthorHouse™

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      © 2012 Gertie Mayeux. All Rights Reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

      or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 08/03/2012

      ISBN : 978-1-4772-3691-8 (sc)

      978-1-4772-4039-7 (e)

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      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 1

      Thirty-six rocks had been kicked into the ditch before Jesse let out a big sigh and slumped down on the side of the graveled road in front of his house. Sitting there with his feet in the ditch, Jesse knew this was another sad day in his life. It was the day after Christmas. Christmas was over and it did not happen.

      How come it has to be this way? mumbled Jesse, as he watched Mrs. Ruby haul out a naked Christmas tree. Just plain dead trees. Leftovers, that’s what they are, just like me.

      The sun was trying to decide whether to shine or not. Twisted live oaks, strong and bent, moved slowly in a damp wind that played with gray clouds promising rain.

      Jesse stood up and kicked four more rocks into the ditch, forty in all. He was the best rock kicker in Oak Grove. The toes of his tennis shoes recorded each rock kicked (skinned, bruised, with toe turned up). You didn’t need to look up to know it was Jesse.

      There wasn’t a whole lot to do in Oak Grove. It was a fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico. Out-of-towners came through, mostly oil field workers and upstate fishermen. The fishermen, with their fancy boats, came early and stayed late. Getting up early, Jesse often watched them back up their big boats to the boat ramps. It wasn’t hard to tell who were the beginners and who were not. Had his mama still been living, she would have insisted he stay away from the docks and ramps. The swearing got real fierce at times. So

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