Cold Mountain Page #4

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One thing in abundance on this farm,

and that's crows, Shut the gate,

I'd pay a dollar for an egg,

I've got no quarrel with you,

Hey!

Am I near the Cape Fear River?

- Home Guard! Get back there!

- Runaways!

Come on, boys!

let's get 'em!

They're spreadin' out in the field!

- Come back here!

- They're in the field,

They're in the field!

I can get you outta here,

I daresay that's Home Guard followin' you,

They're out on the road,

huntin' down deserters,

And I don't recommend that way,

You'll meet half the town comin' after me

with a noose, thanks to you,

I should have shot you

when I had the chance,

I know where there's a ferry crossin',

Or you can stubborn yourself to death,

- If this is a trap...

- Please yourself, I'm just bein' a Christian,

- You got any money?

- $5,

For $5 I wouldn't give a parched man

a dipper of this river water,

The sign says Ferry $5,

Nobody crosses these waters

unless they're runnin' from someplace,

You wanna wait for your friends?

I can give you $30 Confederate,

well, all right, let's go,

whatever that's worth,

They cut off my hair,

That was hard,

I was vain about my hair,

I had curls,

But I deserved it,

I'm the Reverend Veasey,

Have I seen you in church?

No, Not likely to, neither,

I'd say these days, the devil rules the roost,

we can go over to that cabin

and I can pull this dress over my head,

Have we got $30?

- Get down!

- I got one,

- Is there any other way to cross?

- Barge or boat, The water's full of gators,

what's this wood?

- I don't know,

- In,

- I don't know,

- Pine,

- locust?

- Pine, where's north?

North? Uh...

Name me three herbs

that grow wild on this farm,

I can't, I can't, all right?

I can talk about farming in latin,

I can... I can read French,

I know how to lace up a corset,

God knows,

I can name the principal rivers in Europe,

Just don't ask me

to name one stream in this county!

I can... I can embroider

but I can't darn!

I can arrange cut flowers

but I can't grow them!

If a thing has a function,

if I might do something with it,

then it wasn't considered suitable!

why?

Ruby, you can ask why about

pretty much everything to do with me,

This fence is about the first thing

that I've ever done

that might produce an actual result,

So you never wrapped your legs

around this Inman?

Come on,

Fine piano,

If we're careful,

now we'll get through winter,

I got old man Roy

to give me ten of them sheep,

on account of I said they's so small,

put together they weren't no bigger

than six proper sheep,

My father

always wanted sheep on this farm,

I cut off my hair once for money,

My daddy got $ 2 for it,

Made a wig for some rich feller in Raleigh,

I'm just sayin'

I'm real sorry you had to lose your piano,

Ruby, it was my idea,

Stobrod liked to call himself a musician,

My daddy,

He could play six tunes on a fiddle,

Got hisself shot dead at Petersburg,

I was like his goat,

Or some critter tethered to a post,

He left me once,

Up in them mountains,

I was eight,

He was gone over two and a half weeks,

He left you?

Uh-huh, I was all right,

My daddy, he'd walk 40 miles for liquor

and not 40 inches for kindness,

I'm so plugged up,

Used to be as regular as morning prayers,

Matter of fact,

I could set my watch by my bowels,

Open my gut now, they'd find turds

stacked up like little black twigs,

Home Guard!

- Hey,

- Shh,

- look at this,

- Keep your voice down,

look at this!

- It's a good saw!

- And it's not yours,

You're a Christian,

Don't you know your Commandments?

You'll find the good lord

very flexible on the subject of property,

we could do a lot with this saw,

Cut down a tree,

Play music with it,

You're gonna thank me for this saw,

I'll say thank you when I've lost you

and I've found some food,

You'll see,

You'll thank me,

Shh,

Good day to you,

My old bull... wandered off...

and died in this here creek,

Poisonin' up our water

is how I found him,

Thank you,

You are a true Christian,

- That's a rank odor from that animal,

- Been dead a good while, I reckon,

- This is a tricky one,

You fellers help me out,

my woman'll cook you up a good dinner,

I'm gettin' an idea,

My saw's the remedy,

I believe you need two people,

one on either end,

Yeah,

Give me that saw,

let's do this in chapters,

- That's right,

- Yeah,

Start at the neck,

Aw...!

Oh, well... That is unpleasant,

There's my place,

Hope you can stomach

a yard chock full of female,

Oh, God, Oh, my God,

Hallelujah,

Hallelujah! Oh, hallelujah!

The Israelites!

what happened?

He's got a sh*t comin',

It's overdue,

The tribes of Israel are about to flee

from the banks of Egypt!

Good God,

These boys are stoppin' for supper!

Brought my woman home,

she showed up with her three sisters,

so-called, and their brats,

That's Mae, Dolly, Shyla,

and the pretty one in blue is my wife, lila,

Those are fine examples of the female,

My home brew sneaks up on you,

It curdles your durdles,

Oh, Oh, look, He's gone now,

look, He's gone now,

His eyes, they've gone,

- His eyes are gone,

- what?

- Gone, gone, gone, gone!

I'm leavin' soon as I'm full,

Y'all havin' too much fun for me,

Really? Goodbye,

well, yeah,

I got a bunch of traps need visitin',

but I'll be back before...

before dark tomorrow,

- Y'all still be here?

- That's my fervent prayer,

I'll say my goodbyes,

I gotta go,

I got miles and miles and miles and miles

ahead of me before I reach the Blue Ridge,

Blue Ridge? what's the hurry?

- Maybe I willjust lie down a moment,

- Yeah,

- This house is on a bit of a tilt,

- Yeah, it is a bit crooked,

lie down,

what about you, Reverend?

I'm headin' for that smokehouse,

And I'm ready

to be washed clean of my dirt,

- Yeah, Mae, you go tend to him,

- Mm-hm,

All right,

Y'all get to bed,

Everybody else got their job,

- Come on, get to bed,

- Now?

Everybody to bed,

lila, you stay with them kids,

Get on up those stairs,

I'll be seein' you.

look...

He's mine,

You go rub yourself off on the preacher,

I'm gonna make him hug me till I grunt,

He's purty, ain't he?

Git,

She ain't even supposed to get a man,

Hey,

I know, I know,

I...

How about that?

- what does that favor?

- I...

- ... gotta go,

- Get on,

And ride me all the way to China,

You shy?

- Do you need a hand?

- No, Uh...

let's have a look

and see what we can muster,

Oh, no,

look what you made me do,

Slut!

Home Guard!

Cover yourself up!

I told you, you don't touch the money!

- I had a special prayer you'd come visit,

- Get up,

- Evenin', Hank,

Evenin', Hank,

- You took your time,

- I said get up!

Get in line,

You fools fall for it every time,

God will judge you, you Judas,

- Thanks,

- God will judge you!

- Move out!

- Our lives are on your rotten soul,

- Mister?

- Your rotten soul!

Shut your mouth!

- Pleasure doin' business with you, boys,

- Judas!

Save your breath,

You got a long walk back to the fightin',

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