They drank and bet and muttered in an air of electric transiency, old men in gaitered sleeves galvanized from some stained sepia, posting time at cards prevenient of their dimly augured doom.

trucking or truckin' moving along at one's own pace, in one's own, individual way. The walking style performed by Mr. Natural in the Zap Comics, drawn by R. Crumb. A term popularized by the Grateful Dead in their 1971 song Truckin'.

The bay horse was straining at the time the picture was taken, making its heave line more noticeable.

Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown, she said, and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that.