Lonely Dove
“A hat ain’t meant to be a chamber pot, you know. If I was you I’
throw it away.
Lippy was so named because his lower lip was about the size of the flap on a saddlebag. He could tuck enough snuff unde
it to last a normal person at least a month; in general the lip lived a life of its own, there toward the bottom of his face
Even when he was just sitting quietly, studying his cards, the lip waved and wiggled as if it had a breeze blowing across it
which in fact it did. Lippy had something wrong with his nose and breathed with his mouth wide open
Accustomed as she was to hard doings, it had still taken Lorena a while to get used to the way Lippy slurped when he wa
eating, and she had once had