But he was looking for something else.

He never talked about it, but he'd sit often with his knees hunched up and his eyes staring out at nothing like a bird's.

I never know'd who he was or whar he come from.

You say it was Virginny ?" "Aye, Palmer County.

I mind his old dad, who farmed a bit of land by Nelson's Cross Roads, when he wasn't drunk in Nelson's tavern.