Lonely Dove
The border nights had qualities that he had come to admire, different as they were from the qualities of nights in
Tennessee. In Tennessee, as he remembered, nights tended to get mushy, with a cottony mist drifting into the hollows.
Border nights were so dry you could smell the dirt, and clear as dew. In fact, the nights were so clear it was tricky; even
with hardly any moon the stars were bright enough that every bush and fence post cast a shadow. Pea Eye, who had a