Lonely Dove
Call had no sooner got his sleeves rolled up and his hands clean
than supper began. Joe Rainey just had time to mumble a prayer before Maude started pushing around the cornbread.
Call was faced with more meats than he had seen on one table since he could remember: beefsteak and pork chops,
chicken and venison, and a stew that appeared to contain squirrel and various less familiar meats. Maude got red in the
face when she ate, as did everyone else at her table, from the steam rising off the platters. “This is my varmint stew, Captain,” Maude said.