Lonely Dove
The Hat Creek Cattle Company didn’t trade in them, an
it was unlikely that Bolivar was buying them out of his own pocket—stealing goats was probably his way of keeping up hi
old skills. His old skills did not include cooking. The goat meat tasted like it had been fried in tar, but Augustus was th
only member of the establishment sensitive enough to raise a complaint. “Bol, where’d you get the tar you fried this goa
in?” he asked regularly, his quiet attempt at wit falling as usual on deaf ears. Bolivar ignored all queries, direct or indirect
Augustus was getting about ready to start talking to the sow and the shoat when he saw Call and Pea Eye walking up fro