“Tea Cake! De lake is comin’!” The lake was coming on. Slower and wider, but coming. It had trampled on most of its supporting wall and lowered its front by spreading. But it came muttering and grumbling onward like a tired mammoth all the same. “Dis a high tall house. Maybe it won’t reach heah at all” Janie counselled. “And if it do, maybe it won’t reach tuh de upstairs part.” "Janie, lake Okerchobee is forty miles wide and sixty miles long. Dat’s uh whole heap uh water. If dis wind is … [Read more...]