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Ain't I got troubles enough

with the cops

and newspapers bothering me?

And Johnny and Martha.

What's the matter with them?

None of your business.

Just leave us alone.

You never brought

nothing but trouble.

Just stay away

and leave us alone and die.

But leave us alone.

- Two gins. Double.

- Okay.

Turn that thing off.

Turn it off quick!

- Chaser?

- Yeah.

Piece of sausage for me

and water for him.

I thought a little noise

might make you feel better.

Funny how some people

don't like music.

I come all the way

across the country.

I must've been soft in the head,

so help me.

And what do you get for coming

all the way across the country?

A crack in the face.

I don't know.

My old lady ain't like that.

When I come home,

there's something to eat,

something to drink,

she wants a little money.

It's always, "Hello, how are you?"

Shut up.

I must have been crazy in the head.

I must have been nuts.

She just ain't got any heart.

Shoulda slugged her one.

You shoulda...

Buy yourself another one

someplace else.

Go on.

- That's a beaut.

- Maybe we better beat it.

Not me. I'm going in for a dip.

What's the matter with you? Scared?

Come on, fellas, let's go.

How do you do?

How do you do?

No way.

Get outta here.

- Hello, Drina.

- Hello, Tommy.

- What's gonna be for supper?

- Stew.

And lucky to have it.

Maybe I could

buy us something nice.

- Maybe I could buy us a soda.

- What with?

What have you been up to?

Nothin'.

Nothin'. I been up to nothing.

I was just thinking

how hot you looked, and a soda...

- Hi, Dave.

- Hi.

Don't think out loud. I'm here.

Hello, Drina.

You're home early. Any news?

Maybe good news.

Today the boss said our committee

should come in and talk things over.

And maybe, just maybe...

That raise would mean a lot.

I could get him away from here.

Far enough away?

I don't know.

I can only try.

You'll be all right.

You'll always be all right.

I'll be all right.

Drina will be all right.

Drina was good to her mother.

Drina's good to her brother.

Drina works hard.

Drina works, and cooks,

and cleans, and goes to bed

to get enough sleep

to get up the next day and work.

I've heard that ever since

I was ten years old.

I'm tired of hearing it.

Don't say it again.

You want something

for yourself now.

That's right.

Maybe I'll go away.

I mean far away.

You see, I know a man.

He's very rich and he likes me.

I met him in the subway.

He's very good-looking.

It was so hot and crowded.

When I got out,

I was dizzy and he took my arm,

and apologized, of course,

for speaking to me like that.

He brought me a glass of water,

and we started talking.

He looked so clean.

You know, like they always do.

Well, I knew it wasn't right,

but I didn't care.

And he took me to dinner.

The kind of dinner

where you can order anything you like.

He's very, very rich.

He's got a house in New York

and a wonderful house in the country.

I like that one best

because it looks like a Christmas card

with chickens and snow.

He likes me very, very much.

Do you like him?

I don't know.

I made it all up.

Not now.

Years ago, when I was a kid.

I know that house in the country so well,

I could almost build it.

He'd be young and very kind.

I wish I could buy you those things.

I even wish

I could find him for you.

Do you?

Hey, Pascagli, what's-a matter?

You no like-a de water?

Stop crying, Philip.

Nothing's going to happen to you now.

Where are they?

You told me he'd gone

to the garage with James.

It's your business

to know where he is.

But always he goes to the garage.

Always to the garage.

There they are!

They're the ones. He's the one.

He's the leader.

Why did you beat this boy?

What did you do it for?

Hey, fellas!

Don't let him go, Daddy.

He's got my watch.

Don't stand there.

Call the police.

I ain't got the watch,

but I'll get it for you. Honest.

Mister, don't call the cops.

I won't touch him again.

We do it to all the kids and they

do it to us. That ain't nothin'.

- You're breaking my arm.

- Here you are. Here you are.

Here's the watch.

Let him go, mister.

Put the watch down there

and get away from here.

Let him go.

What are you doing to him?

Let him go. You're hurting him.

You know this boy?

No, I'd never seen her before.

Mind your business, lady.

- What's going on here?

- Where is that policeman?

Lemme go, lemme go, I tell you.

Lemme go.

- Come here, will you?

- What happened, Mr. Griswald?

Never mind. Take my handkerchief

and wrap it around.

Let him get away.

Don't do anything now.

All right, all right.

What's the matter here?

- Just an accident.

- I wouldn't call it an accident.

One of these hoodlums

on the block here cut me.

I want you to find the boy

and arrest him.

I'm so sorry you were hurt,

but he didn't mean It.

Well, what's the boy's name?

I don't know. Ask this girl.

She seems to know him.

I don't know him.

I never saw him before.

But I live around here

and I know these kids are wild,

but they don't mean any harm,

really they don't.

If they don't mean any harm,

a beating, a theft, and a stabbing

are pretty good all in one day.

You call that meaning no harm?

Call Dr. Merriam and ask him

to come over immediately.

What does the boy look like?

Thin and dark and...

oh, I don't know what he looked like.

Shouldn't be hard for you to find him.

No? Thin and dark, huh?

How many like that do you think there are?

I want that boy caught and arrested.

- What good will that do?

- It will do this much good.

It'll get the little gangster before

he can do more harm than this.

But he can be punished

some other way. I'll see to it.

I mean I'll speak to his mother.

Find out where he lives

and arrest that boy.

Do you understand?

And let me know when you've found him.

Well... and who

does that guy think he is?

Judge Griswald's brother.

That's all. Just Judge Griswald's brother.

Well, what's the kid's name?

Where does he live?

- I don't know.

- You said before you knew his mother.

And if I did, I wouldn't tell you.

That's the trouble with all you people

around here. You're cop-haters.

A cop asks you something polite,

and right away you're ready to kill him.

Yeah? See this?

We were picketing the store today

and one of you dirty cops hit me.

- What's that?

- I said one of you dirty cops hit me.

- You were picketing, weren't you?

- We got a right to picket.

They hit us right and left.

Three of the girls were hurt bad.

- Yeah, I'd tell you anything.

- Aw, go on. Go on and beat it.

Hey, you.

Do you know who this kid was?

Sure. He was my father.

Why didn't I learn a trade?

I don't know who he was. I don't think

he was anybody from this block.

What's the matter?

Having a little trouble?

It don't pay to be nice around here.

Fine job for a grown man.

Looking for a punk kid because

he gave an old man a pin scratch.

He's fit to be tied.

He's got a brother that's a judge.

He could break me.

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