> >Just taking a wild guess here -- did you recently read or re-read >Lonesome Dove or one of it's companion books? > >Liz >Augustus McCrae was a true Southerner > No, but I bought one. It's on the nightstand (Dead Man's Walk). I'm reading the third of Ivan Doig's trilogy about Montana. Maybe now that I'm through taking courses at the university osmosis is working. I tried it once in undergrad school, but it didn't work at all. Now I content myself with nightmares that I'm walking into a final exam, haven't cracked the textbook or attended any lectures. Sigh. Margaret