The Second Head of Chocalata: Short Stories - Hardcover

by Elmo D. Ziebach (Author)

Duck Hunting, fishing, and outdoor Stories are found in the Second Head of Chocalata. This book is a series of short stories based on memories from a boy. He remembered the stories his father shared with him about his youth when he became a duck hunter and fisherman. Then the boy remembered his own adventures with his family and his friends. Most of the stories deal with some type of outdoor activity such as hunting, fishing, frog gigging, or taking girls water skiing. Some are serious, some are sentimental, and some are meant to entertain, but all are based on real incidents.

Duck Hunting and fishing stories based on the lives of a man, his brothers, and a boy who lived near Mobile, Alabama and in particular near Mobile Bay and the Alabama River Delta. Most of their adventures chronicled in this book occurred on these waters.

The stories begin with the boy remembering his dad and his brothers' favorite hunting and fishing spot, "The Second Head of Chocalata".

Then the second story is one his dad told of his first duck hunting trip in 1928, and the third one is a fictionalized account of "Slim", a crewmate of the man's who was washed overboard during a gale in the Gulf of Mexico about 1931.

The majority of the stories are from the boy's life that begins with his first hunting trip at age five. Then the stories progress in time through the boy's teenage years, college years, and youthful adult time with some flashbacks from the present to those teen years. His adventures were only possible because of the friends he shared them with and each story highlights these friendships.