Lonely Dove
The days in Lonesome Dove were a blur of heat and as dr
as chalk, but mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside—foggy and cool as
morning in the Tennessee hills. He seldom got downright drunk, but he did enjoy feeling misty along about sundown
keeping his mood good with tasteful swigs as the sky to the west began to color up. The whiskey didn’t damage hi
intellectual powers any, but it did make him more tolerant of the raw sorts he had to live with: Call and Pea Eye an
Deets, young Newt, and old Bolivar, the cook
When the sky had pinked up nicely over the western flats, Augustus went around to the back of the house and kicked th