Nineteen The Nail Comes on Holiday

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. One Mere Is Everybody? 5
7. Two The Long load to Texas 9
8. Three Under the Piiion Pines 16
9. Four exploring the Basin 21
10. Five Terlingua 29
11. Six Dignitaries 35
12. Seven Pets 38
13. Eight Polecats and Horses 41
14. Nine Boquillas 44
15. Ten Of Mountains and Basins 49
16. Eleven The Droken Blossom 53
17. Twelve Mama Has a Birthday 55
18. Thirteen The Winter of Change 60
19. Fourteen Reflections on the Rio Grande 66
20. Fifteen The Spa 71
21. Sixteen Into the Limestone Lodge 76
22. Seventeen Maggy 86
23. Eighteen Menagerie 91
24. Nineteen The Nail Comes on Holiday 100
25. Twenty first, do fill the water bucket 107
26. Twenty-one A Lizard, [Ike, and Other Winter Visitors 109
27. Twenty-two Mexican Wedding 114
28. Twenty-three The Steps That Led to Spanish 119
29. Twenty-four Have Some Deans? 122
30. Twenty-five Rocks of the Ages 124
31. Twenty-six Water Tales 126
32. Twenty-seven A Christmas to forget 130
33. Twenty-eight Flight 136
34. Twenty-nine Second Summer 143
35. Thirty On lop of Mt. Bailey 152
36. Thirty-one Kaufman's Draw 155
37. Epilogue 169