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    The Clam Diggers' Kids
    The Clam Diggers' Kids
    The Clam Diggers' Kids
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    The Clam Diggers' Kids

    By Robert (Bob) Hart

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    Ordinarily, when we kids go with our parents at night, we stay in the car bundled up together on the leather back seat of the car. This is a totally new and different kind of experience. While in the parked car we cannot see the lighted lantern, which is normally set on the sand behind the car, where it is easily seen by Mom and Dad when digging clams. But now we have no car, no back seat, and only a blanket on the sand to lie upon, with the lantern lighting the surrounding area -- corpse, sand fleas and all --- the lantern serving as beacon for Mom while in the ocean, and for Dad when returning. The sand fleas, while harmless, are everywhere around us -- thousands of them some on us, some on the corpse, but most attracted to the bright light, jumping all over the lantern.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 26, 2012
    ISBN9781477233078
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      The Clam Diggers' Kids - Robert (Bob) Hart

      The Clam

      Diggers’ Kids

      Robert (Bob) Hart

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      © 2012 by Robert (Bob) Hart. 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 10/05/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-1649-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-3307-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012911645

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      CONTENTS

      DECISION

      MOVING

      GRANDPA

      OUR CARS

      DANGERS

      HOME ALONE

      DRESSING FOR DIGGING

      LAWFUL LIMITS

      NIGHT DIGGING

      INVENTION

      DIGGING

      SAVING CARS

      LOST AUTO

      FRIENDS

      THE MOORES

      OUR WELL

      PLAY

      OUR DOG

      DUNE DWELLERS

      HOBOS

      TRAINS’ ENGINEERS

      SANDFORDS

      WHITES

      BETRAYED

      PROHIBITION

      KIDS CLAMMING

      MY BIG TOE

      SCHOOL

      DISCIPLINE

      MORE DISCIPLINE

      SCHOOL YARD

      TO AND FROM

      RECESS

      MY PROTECTOR

      SMOKING

      BLACKSMITH

      DROWNINGS

      MORRO BAY

      FLOOD

      HAULING SAND

      RIPTIDE

      FILIPINOS

      A SPECIAL PLACE

      TAR

      BUGGY TRIP

      SHELL BEACH

      OTHER WORK

      RAILROAD TRACKS

      FRANK’S BROTHER

      SUN PORCH

      HUNTING

      TOOTH

      STOVE

      THINGS OF INTEREST

      RIGHT RESULT

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      DECISION

      The year is 1924. We are living in rural Southern California. Montebello is just nine miles east from Los Angeles.

      Mom is quite ill. She has a really huge goiter, and now has neither strength nor endurance to walk across the room from one chair to another. She’s been told by Dr. Brown that thyroid removal is much too risky, that what she needs is daily intake of iodine from a natural source. The question is—how can that be made available?

      Dad farms a small acreage of fig trees. That’s been the source of our living for as long as Betty and I can remember. My sister is seven years old and I’m just five. She has started to school, but I have not. Dad’s meager living is made by selling packed boxes of brown turkey figs in Los Angeles. They’re loaded onto his horse drawn wagon for an overnight trip to the wholesale food market. The horse knows its way home, so that’s when Dad sleeps.

      Our grandmother, Dad’s mother lives about two hundred miles away, in San Luis Obispo county, in a tiny village named Oceano. Most folks there are poor, and many eke out a living by digging and selling Pismo clams. These are found in the sand beneath the shallow ocean water during low tide. The Pacific Ocean is only about a mile from town. Dad decides to lease his farm to a near neighbor, and move north to Oceano, expecting to make such living as may be possible by digging and selling clams. That is so Mom can absorb iodine from the ocean water. This is thought to be the only real hope for overcoming Mom’s thyroid illness.

      MOVING

      Our move to Oceano happened without incident, at night while we kids slept under old woolen army blankets. Our family’s collie dog, Laddie, horse, Dick, and cow, Bonnie, come with us. Once we are all in Oceano, we stay with Grandma for a while. Dad orders a ready-cut lumber kit, for building a small two-bedroom house, to be located on vacant land next door to Grandma’s place. It doesn’t take very long before we move into our new home.

      GRANDPA

      Our Grandpa, Dad’s father, had died before either Betty or I was born, so when we arrive at Grandma’s house we become acquainted, for the first time, with the person we come to know as Grandpa. He

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