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Ellya asks for Myra's hand in marriage. Her father says whoelver brings him the fattest pig may marry Myra.
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Madame Zeroni gives Elya a piglet, and instructs him to walk up the mountain every day, and let it drink from a spring while singing a song. She asks him to do the same for her, and warns him that he will be cursed if he doesn't.
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Myra can't choose between her suitors. Elya boards the boat to America.
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Elya realizes he never took Madame Zeroni up the mountain to drink from the spring.
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Katherine Barlow, the schoolteacher in Green Lake Texas, falls in love with Sam the onion picker.
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After Sam is killed for kissing a white woman, Katherine becomes Kissin' Kate Barlow, the outlaw who kisses the men she kills.
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Stanley Yelnats I is robbed by Kissin' Kate Barlow and loses all of his wealth.
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Stanley the first is found after weeks in the desert, says he survived on God's Thumb.
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The Warden, Kissing Kate's great granddaughter is made to dig holes in what used to be Green Lake, looking for the missing treasure.
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Stanlely the third begins to try to cure shoe order, almost getting his family evicted from their apartment because of the smell. He blames his bad luck on his dirty rotten no good pig stealing great grandfather.
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He takes them home for his dad, but then is accused of stealing them, beginning the main action of the book
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