Don’t Mess with Mimosa

Lawrence Wilson

Description

If you are tired of your boring life and want to try something new, and you have adventure in your blood, become a modern-day pioneer.
The sub-title of the book is ‘a tale of two entities’. The first entity takes place in New York City where a boy grows up as a typical street-smart kid, fighting and stealing and playing in the streets. After graduation from high school, his closest friend goes to college to study finance and the stock market and, he encourages his friend to study from his text books so he can some day get a good job in financial institutions, which he does, and becomes very successful. He gets soured on the life in the big city with the New Yorkers becoming belligerent and ill tempered, not life he embellishes, so he wants a change. He winds up in the wilderness of the panhandle of New York State, which is totally opposite of what he was used to. The second entity puts him in a primitive environment where he has to learn to live a different lifestyle and he generates a future with an Indian maiden where they start a family. The adventure of living in the wild is now his passion, and he wouldn’t change it for anything.

Sujets

• Adventure (Guyana)
• Suspenso
• Excitation
• Adventure
• Drama
• Love
• Suspense
• Fiction
• Action

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 29 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669871019
• Langue: English

Extrait

OTHER BOOKS BY LAWRENCE WI LSON
Ole Bu ford
Crack of the Whip
Chopper Chap lain
Relentless to Succeed – Book 1 of 2
Relentless to Succeed – Book 2 of 2
Don’t Mess with Mimosa
 
A TALE OF TWO ENTITIES
 
 
 
 
 
Lawrence Wilson
 
 
 
Copyright © 2023 by Lawrence Wilson.
 

Library of Congress Control Number:
2023904992
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-7103-3

Softcover
978-1-6698-7102-6

eBook
978-1-6698-7101-9
 
 
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Rev. date: 03/29/2023
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Dedication
Author’s Note
Preface
1     Quinton Edward Winton (Q) Relaxing on the Riverbank
2     Q Works at a Bank and Then Becomes a Market Analyst
3     Q Prospers and Moves into an Exclusive Apartment
4     Q Routinely is invited to social functions by rich clients
5     Q Learns of a Big Merger
6     Q Starts Thinking of Leaving the City
7     Harry Weed Gives Q a Cabin in the Wilderness
8     Q Relocates to the Wilderness
9     First Day Alone in the Wilderness
10   They Catch Fish and Ducks
11   They Do the Laundry and Skin a Rabbit
12   They Trapped Animals and Caught Turtles and Swam
13   Q Gets in a Fight in Town
14   Q Finds Mimosa
15   Q Teaches Mimosa How to Cook His Food
16   Q and Mimosa Teach Each Other Their Languages
17   Mimosa and Q Build a Shelter for Their Nanny Goat
18   Q Kills a Bear
19   Bank Robbers Show Up
20   Lady Bank Robber Has Her Baby
21   Jenny Decides to Look for Justin
22   Mimosa Wants Her Own Baby
23   Q Interrupts Terrorist Trying to Set Explosives
24   The Town of Cadiz Is Abuzz; They Make a Baby
25   A Second Baby Is Born
26   The Boys Go to Public School in Olean
27   The Boys Complete the Warriors Challenge
28   They Go to Prom; Edward Tries to Graduate with Sean
29   The Boys Go to College
30   A Rough Winter
31   Return to School for Summer Camp
32   The Boys Graduate and Go into Special Forces
33   The Boys Are Praised for Their First Special Forces Mission
34   SF Units Rescued and Returned Girls from Traffickers
35   The Boys Return but Still Battle Traffickers
36   The Boys at Fort Drum, NY, Begin Covert Operations
37   The Boys Rescued Twelve Girls and Killed Six Traffickers
38   They Still Had Unfinished Business
39   Weekend Is Over, and They Go Back to Work
40   Mimosa Dies
41   Plans to Build Cabins and Marry
42   The Boys Propose to the Couture Sisters
43   Return to the Base; Plan the Wedding and Cabins
44   Q Continues His Story
45   Final Plans for the Cabins
46   Build Cabin Number 1 First
47   New Lives for Winton Woods
DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to all those who are tired of the old way of living and are willing to chuck it all and go for a new life and adventure.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Most people will never experience what it is like to grow up and live in a large city. Your life becomes a routine; you get up in the morning and know in advance what you are going to do that day or are expected to do that day; nothing changes. But people may change . . . their attitude, their demeanor, their status, their outlook, and if that person doesn’t change and get out of their rut, they may find themselves in a boring existence.
Now transplant a person like that into a totally different environment . . . a remote wilderness where there are no modern conveniences and only a few people, but an abundance of wildlife and fish. Everything that person has been familiar with is different, and he must relearn how to adjust and live a new way of life, a life that is easygoing, quiet, peaceful, and relaxing, and he wouldn’t change it for the world.
PREFACE
Our hero found solace in a remote cabin on the bank of a river on a hundred acres of a wild and beautiful forest in the panhandle of upstate New York. It was a ten-mile hike to the nearest small town in one direction and seven miles to Freedom Indian Village in the opposite direction. His only connection to the outside world was an old telegraph, and he had to learn the Morse code to communicate to designated locations that were formerly wired in from years past. One location was an air service located thirty miles away, and it would bring in provisions via helicopter whenever he had the need. He befriended an Indian maiden who was banished from her tribe, and she became his teammate and later became his wife, and they raised a family together.
This story is fiction and is two entities: the first is the life and dangers in the streets of New York City, and the second is an adventure adjusting to a new life in the wilderness.
The names used may be coincidental and are not intended to infringe on anyone’s personal life.
CHAPTER 1

Quinton Edward Winton was fishing on the bank of the south branch of the Cattaraugus River in the panhandle of New York state. His cabin was in a vast wilderness approximately thirty miles north of Olean, New York, and resting on high ground two hundred feet from the river, a safe distance whenever the river would swell over its banks. Letchworth State Park was twenty-five miles northeast of the cabin. An Iroquois Indian village, Freedom, was six to seven miles north-northeast of the cabin. The cabin was only accessible by helicopter from Olean; there were no roads or highways. The closest small town was Cadiz, and it could only be reached by foot; hiking from the cabin through this treacherous country to Cadiz took about four hours if you always kept in view a targeted white-capped mountain in the distance. The area was a true wilderness with hills, valleys, mountains, and cliffs and all the wild animals of the area, large and small, and the closest humans were Indians.
He sat on the bank with his fishing pole resting on a Y-shaped stick in the ground supporting his pole. A fish was on the hook and swirling around in the river, but Q, which became his adopted moniker since he was a child, paid little attention to it. He was watching the wild geese flying in from Canada and landing in the several surrounding ponds, which were also occupied by wild ducks. His female Indian companion, Mimosa, was gathering eggs the waterfowl were laying along the edges of the ponds. She had a large basket and soon filled it with freshly laid eggs and then returned to the cabin. The clouds had moved out, and the sun was quite warm. He was thinking this could likely be the last warm sun of the season, and he was truly enjoying it, along with the singing of the birds and the river lapping gently on the bank of the river. It made him drowsy, and he dozed off to sleep and, for some reason, dreamed of his past, a boy in New York City. His parents were from the hills of Kentucky, and they moved to the city, seeking work. His father had very little education and worked odd jobs, like washing cars or helping a painter when he needed help painting apartments or buildings. His father did anything to keep food on the table for his family. His best job came when he drove a hack (taxi). People with money called a cab whenever they wanted to go somewhere, and they would tip very generously, and this allowed his father to buy shoes, coats, and hats for Q and his two brothers. He loved his father because he would sit and tell stories of things that happened over the years when he was a boy. He would tell that girls of that time would learn to cook and sew and take care of babies and the boys would tend the animals and do the farm work and make moonshine whiskey.
But tragedy struck when he picked up a fare one night, and the no-good bastard tried to rob him, holding a gun to his head. His father tried to fight back but was shot and killed. Struggles for the family became very serious, but his mother would take in sewing and washing and tried to keep things going the best she could. Q grew to be a typical street kid, stealing an apple or banana from the market, fighting the larger bullies of the neighborhood, but unlike most of the other kids, he was very smart and was near the top of his classes in school.
“Hey, Q, come on out and play some kickball in the street. We have four other guys that want to play,” yelled his best friend in all the world, Sean O’Sullivan.
“Yeah, I’ll be down as soon as I poop,” he answered, yelling out of the third-floor window of their apartment in a row house.
He went out, and they started playing, and like always, the hotheaded Sean started a fight. Q and Sean were known for being sewn together at the hip, and when you saw one, you saw them both, so Q would jump in and join the fight. After they got in a few licks and when the other boys started crying, the fight was over. This became a ritual, with Sean starting fights and Q helping him out, but Sean would fight the little boys, and Q always ended up fighting the biggest boys.