Old George
By Tom Morris
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Set in a small East Anglian town in the early 1950's Old George tells how an unexpected find was to destroy the tranquil life of a beachcomber.
Tom Morris
Tom Morris was a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame for fifteen years. Since leaving Notre Dame in 1994, he has gone on to become one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the country. Each year he is invited to give keynote addresses at major gatherings of executives at hundreds of the leading companies around the world. The author of True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence, he is also chairman of the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he makes his home.
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Old George - Tom Morris
OLD GEORGE
A Short Story
by
Tom Morris
Published by Tom Morris at Smashwords
Copyright 2012, Tom Morris
All characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Old George was almost as much of a landmark as the long wooden pier that jutted out from the white stucco Penny Arcade in the middle of the bay. Actually he wasn't all that old, no more than early middle age, but his portly figure, tightly encased in a black three-piece suit, his weather-beaten wrinkled face and the dirty iron-grey hair curling from beneath a disreputable bowler hat, pulled low to shade his eyes from the sun, all combined to earn him his