The Adventures of Tessie the Tugboat

By Eunice Pearl MacDougall

Tessies adventures and characters were inspired by Eunices real-life travels, her family members, her pets and her best friend and travelling companion. Her imagination and wisdom, through her writings, are a delight to all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493156399

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Copyright © 2014 by Eunice Pearl MacDougall.

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ISBN:   Softcover   978-1-4931-5638-2

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Tessie the Tugboat is Born

Chapter 2

Tessie the Tugboat Meets the President’s Daughter

Chapter 3

Tessie the Tugboat and the Chocolate Chip Cookie Shops

Chapter 4

Tessie the Tugboat Visits Boston

Chapter 5

Tessie the Tugboat Rescues the Queen Mary 2

Acknowledgements

Our Mom passed away before

The Adventures of Tessie the Tugboat

could be published.

We have worked lovingly to bring these adventures to the readers in their original form.

Daughters:

Margie Pasero

Lorrie van den Arend

Shirley Williams

Son-In-Law:

George Pasero

CHAPTER 1

Tessie the Tugboat is Born

Christina Maybelle MacDougall and Matilda Rose MacDonald, two little old ladies, became friends at Ferry Beach on the coast of Maine in New England. Tessie the Tugboat came into their lives at about that same time.

Christina Maybelle lived in Massachusetts, which is where the Pilgrims landed over 350 years ago to begin to settle our country. Christina Maybelle liked to be called Tina by her friends because it was not such a big mouthful to say. She liked to wear sweatshirts and beaded moccasins and be outdoors all the time. She had a little gray tiger cat named Zigliorita—Ziggy for short.

Matilda Rose MacDonald lived in Maryland, which is near Washington D.C., the capital of our country, where the President of the United States lives. She liked to be called Tilda by her friends because that wasn’t such a big mouthful to say. She liked to wear sweatshirts and white tennis shoes, and she loved nature. She had a gray tiger cat named Kitty Cat—KC for short.

Now it really was too bad that these two little old ladies lived hundreds of miles apart because they both lived alone in their little houses. Their husbands had died a long time ago. Their children were grown up and working, going to college or married, so the little old ladies were very lonely.

Both ladies worked for big, big companies. Tilda’s company sold clothes and furniture and things like that all over the world. Tina’s company sold computers and smoke alarms and things like that all over the world. Their jobs were important, of course, but Tina often thought, I wish I could do something that would make people happy, especially children. I just LOVE children.

And Tilda would often think that, too.

Each lady worked very hard at her big company.

Little old ladies have to earn money to pay for their houses, food, heat, and lights, Tina would think.

And gasoline for their cars, clothes, and cat food, Tilda always thought.

Otherwise little old ladies would be a burden to their grown up children and grandchildren, they would both say out loud, all alone and lonely, each in their own little house hundreds of miles apart.

Tina often wished for a lady friend to talk with and have coffee with, to go to a movie or even to go on a hike and cross country skiing together. Tilda wished for a friend to go to concerts with and canoeing and to church together.

Now fate is something that just happens to people, a kind of mysterious something that life just seems to make happen. That’s what occurred when Matilda Rose MacDonald and Christina Maybelle MacDougall both decided to go to Ferry Beach, on the coast of Maine in New England, to a church meeting called a con-fer-ence. The conference would last a week and, besides learning good things about life and the world and people, the ladies would have a vacation at beautiful Ferry Beach.

On that first Saturday when the two funny little old ladies arrived at the big inn at Ferry Beach, each one all alone and kind of scared (as most everyone feels who is all alone with strangers), they smiled shyly at each other.

Christina Maybelle was a little less scared so she said to Matilda Rose, I’m Christina Maybelle MacDougall. She smiled bravely at Tilda. My friends call me Tina, she said. If you’d like to call me Tina then we’re friends.

Tilda smiled, feeling a tiny bit less scared. I’m Matilda Rose MacDonald, Tilda to you, because THAT means we’re friends.

Without thinking any more about being scared or having to be brave with all those strangers, the two funny little old ladies took each other’s arms, stepped out of the inn, crossed the road, and went down a wooden