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Show Jeffries, Section 3, Page 100 "Just take it, no talk of money now--to be honest I'll be delighted if my old crackerbox is still here when we make our way back down--" "It could be that bad?" "Listen Mr. Pulitzer-Prize winning writer--" he glanced at February and the women, "ain't you got no sense?" "I want to write this thing and I'm stayin.'" "Boy you can't realize, the way the water will be up. . .when the hurricane comes, Islamorada will be in the domain of the sea. . . "One last story. "It was down Long Key in 1906 when the railroad construction schedule set men to workin' through the hurricane season. Hardly no weather information was available from Miami and Key West to this advance camp. "The foremen checked the weed barometers as regular as they checked their watches. Little weeds in like a test tube. . .showed low pressure, air pressure decreasing, when the weeds rise. "An October night the weed rose steady. Gasoline engines was soaked, and workers were marooned out in the quarterboats - " "Quarterboats?" "Big barracks or houseboats for the workers. Men |