Lonely Dove
Not until he felt alert again—felt that he could stil
captain if the need arose—would he return to Lonesome Dove
After supper, when Call left for the river, Augustus, Pea Eye, Newt, Bolivar and the pigs repaired to the porch. The pig
nosed around in the yard, occasionally catching a lizard or a grasshopper, a rat snake or an unwary locust. Bolivar brough
out a whetstone and spent twenty minutes or so sharpening the fine bone-handled knife that he wore at his belt. Th