Copperhead Page #7

...to go pick up Jeff...

...I seen men... Boys really,

some no more than 16 years old.

...without arms and legs and eyes.

And they was the ones that wasn't killed.

They was the lucky ones.

I seen black slaves in Virginia...

...men, 40, 50 years old...

...and they'd get bought

and sold and whipped...

...just because of the color of their skin.

And I seen all this...

...and I wondered what happened

to "love thy neighbor"?

And then I come home...

...and I see that Abner and M'rye's house

got burned to the ground...

...and I thought...

...what happened to "love thy neighbor"?

And I found my father dead.

Dead as any soldier on a battlefield.

And I thought...

...what happened to "love thy neighbor"?

Nothing I can say can bring back Pa.

And nothing I can say

can bring back the Beeches' house.

Maybe in the face of all this madness...

...we can start loving our neighbor.

One-handed fishing

is gonna take some getting used to.

My cooking may take even more

getting used to.

I shall have to ask Ni for lessons.

What do you think will happen first...

...our wedding or the war's end?

That's an easy one.

First lesson of courtship:

Never make a long engagement

to a pretty girl.

It ain't natural.

As for the war...

...she has many a hand left to deal.

Many a sorrowful hand.

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