“I have taken up giving news readings,” said Captain Kidd. “Recently lost my wife. I am at loose ends. Thus I will make my living, like you, fiddler, going from place to place.” He smiled and his face creased like old paper, like parchment. “I have just returned from Dallas, Wichita Falls, Spanish Fort, and I’m going back. Maybe in a month. People are hungry for entertainment up there, even if it is just month-old news from the Philadelphia Enquirer.
Capt. Kidd is the main character in Jiles' News of the World, soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks!
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