Lonely Dove
NEWT’S MIND had begun to dwell on the north for long stretches. Particularly at night, when he had nothing to do but
ride slowly around and around the herd, listening to the small noises the bedded cattle made, or the sad singing of the
Irishmen, he thought of the north, trying to imagine what it must be like. He had grown up with the sun shining, with
mesquite and chaparral, armadillos and coyotes, Mexicans and the shallow Rio Grande. Only once had he been to a city: