Rufus Tweed

About the Book

Rufus Tweed tells the tale of a greedy old sailor, who lived by the shore of a giant lake. He built a boat from an old tree and took people across the lake making them pay gold for the fare. His greed for gold drove him to claim a golden haired farmers´s daughter, in payment for taking the family and their dying son across the lake. Since the son lived, Rufus began to cross the lake to claim the girl with the gold hair for his prize. However, the old boat began to leak and soon started to sink. Rufus filled his pockets with gold, but had never learned to swim and sank with all his gold. The family was happy and together again, while Rufus had lived for gold and died from greed.

About the Author

Jim is retired from Philadelphia Electric (PECO), and resides in Drexel Hill, Pa. and Sea isle City, NJ. He and his wife Lois had four children with Patricia, James and Steven still living in Drexel Hill. Their daughter Kathleen DiGirolamo died in 1994, age 29. Tague served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War as part of the occupation of Germany 1951-54. He holds a BS degree in Economics from Villanova University and a MA degree in Liberal Arts from Temple University. He has already published several books: The Trochilus Bird, Freddy the Football, Rufus Tweed, Essays from the Past, The Krankel Family, and Teeney O’Feeney: King of the Leprechauns.