putterings, 507-506
Duane pedaled on through town; his precipitate departure.
He had formed the habit of living with his thoughts,
puttering around the place, patching fences and gates
or else sitting and thinking his long unshared —
“That’s the trouble with trail life. It isolates you.”
“I bought my ticket for Cairo, Egypt.”
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aside —
The sources here — Laura V. Hamner (1935) on Charles Goodnight (506) and Larry McMurtry (1989) on Duane Moore (507) — resonate with each other.