At 7:10 in the morning, Bull drives to Hobie's Grill, where he has proudly become a regular over the last six months. In the car, he pictures the rituals occurring even now at Hobie's. Ed Mills, the mailman, will have arrived at seven on the dot when Hobie opens for business. Hobie will refrain from speaking to Ed until Ed has had his first cup of coffee. At 7:05, Zell Posey, the one-legged lawyer, invariably arrives. Johnnie Voight, Cleve Goins and Doc Ratteree always drift in a few minutes after Ed and Zell.
On this first Tuesday in February, Bull arrives dressed in his dark green winter uniform and greets his friends by calling them "grits," They respond by calling him Douglas MacArthur, and the teasing proceeds from there as Bull takes up the.....
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