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    Assateague Rum Runners
    Assateague Rum Runners
    Assateague Rum Runners
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    Assateague Rum Runners

    By Nelson Lynch

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    A semi-fiction story of rum and scotch being unloaded to Assateague Island during prohibition. The schooner anchored offshore and the whiskey was brought to shore by small boats. A storm approaches and the ocean becomes nasty. The small skiff’s engine dies when it is caught in a huge breaking wave. The two men struggle toward shore as the men on shore watch.
    Also Love in the Valley of Kings.
    A soldier waits as a scimitar is being sharpened just for him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNelson Lynch
    Release dateJul 13, 2011
    ISBN9781466068872
    Assateague Rum Runners
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    Nelson Lynch

    An Eastern Shore native. A charter member of "The First Saturday Writers." An army vet and retired school teacher. He lives on his farm with his wife Jeanne, Clyde, the Taylorville Hound, three chickens and a marauding fox.

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      Assateague Rum Runners - Nelson Lynch

      Assateague Rum Runners

      Nelson Lynch

      Copyright 2011

      Published by Hogskull Press at Smashwords

      ISBN 978-1-4660-6887-2

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

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      He heard the schooner’s captain yelled for the crew to haul up the anchor and set a course toward the southeast before he had finished stowing the last case of scotch whiskey on top of the rum. His partner shifted the transmission into forward and gently increased gas to the engine. He was surprised at how rough and windy it was. In the thirty minutes it had taken to load the skiff, the wind speed had doubled and somehow the wave height had tripled. The Model-A engine labored and blew black smoke from the pump pipe that served as an exhaust as it slid down the backside of a wave. Keeping both hands tightly on the gunnel, he turned and looked for the

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