" "But they're on the bus," ses Sam, staring.

" They stayed till it was over, and on the bus he gave Sam some strong peppermint lozenges wot 'e always carried about with 'im, and took some 'imself.

When I put her on the bus to Philadelphia to go home for her stuff, life was bright.

"I thought you might come on the bus.

Twelve or fifteen people got on the bus, most of them his age or younger, mostly women in twos and threes.

They continued sporadically on the bus, but later, when Oliver was by himself, he couldn't recapture the beat.

He typed it himself, showed it to me on the bus 38 years ago.