Out of the Dust

What does "Aren't we in clover," mean?

• Enjoying comfort and luxury

• Struggled to have a good fortune

"Mad Dog came by to see how we made out after the duster."

• A dust storm

• A cloth or brush for dusting furniture

"I've been restless in this little Panhandle shack we call home."

• beg in the state

• one state into another state

"Now they can't be civil with each other."

• relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns

• involving the armed forces

"It all started at the rabbit drive last Monday over to Sturgis when Mr. Noble got himself worked up about the damage done to his crop by jacks."

• Rabbits

• Buff

"In the kitchen she is my ma, in the barn and the fields she is my daddy's wife, but in the parlor Ma is something different."

• A living area

• a room in a public building for receiving guests

"He ran into the storm, his overalls half-hooked over his union suit."

• one-piece long underwear

• a nice formal gown

"I watched the plants, surviving after so much drought and so much wind, I watched them fry."

• period of abnormally low rainfall

• moisture

"Daddy was just seventeen when he fought in the Great War of France."

• military conflict

• between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy

"There is barely a blade of grass swaying in the stinging wind, they are only these lumps of flesh that once were hands long enough to span octaves, swinging at my sides."

• hard wind/half the frequency of vibration of the other

• wind that hurts/I don't know