Lonely Dove
Augustus maintained that pigs were smarter than all horses and most people, a claim that galled Call severely
“No slop-eating pig is as smart as a horse,” Call said, before going on to say worse things
As was his custom, Augustus drank a fair amount of whiskey as he sat and watched the sun ease out of the day. If h
wasn’t tilting the rope-bottomed chair, he was tilting the jug. 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