Dead Man's Walk

by Larry McMurtry

You couldn’t be thinking about girls in general stores, when you were out in Indian country and needed to be alert.

“Eating fish is like eating air,” Jimmy Tweed observed. “It goes in but it don’t fill you up.”

“Love’s a terrible price to pay for company, ain’t it, Matty?” Caleb said. “I won’t pay it, myself. I’d rather do without the company.”