Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Wrong Tennyson

 We sat there, sipping coffee and eating those cakes and talking. She started in about the weather just like we hadn't had those other words at all. I asked her about her Pa, and she asked me about Parmalee and Logan, and then somehow she got started telling me about a poem she'd been reading called the Idylls of the King, by somebody named Tennyson. I knew a puncher back in the Cherokee nation by that name but it couldn't be the same one. The last time I saw him I don't think he could even read a book, let alone write one.

(from Galloway, by Louis L'Amour)

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