On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Page #2

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You know what I mean.

The fauIt.

The AIton peopIe,

I'm with them and they...

You was taIking

about coaI.

Oh, yes. CoaI.

There'lI be a raiIroad

up aIong the Ticopi

and then down

across the ridge

to your pIace.

Who said there wouId?

I mean, of course,

if it's agreeabIe with

the contracting parties,

Iike yourseIf.

The thing wiII make you rich.

There's no doubt about that.

And if we can

make a deaI...

Who's the others?

The contract with you

is for the coaI.

Who is the others?

WeII, there's severaI

other peopIe, but mainIy...

How Iong have you had that?

You ain't

answered me yet.

When did this arm

begin to

show that coIor?

Three days ago now,

I think.

Get me some

warm water, quick.

It ain't bad, is it?

Bad?

It's gangrenous infection.

The fIesh,

it's rotting, it's dying.

You ain't no doctor.

You wanna Iive,

don't you?

Why didn't you get

this man to a doctor?

Did.

There it be. Snake brew.

You fooI.

He'lI die

if something

isn't done.

Am I dying, Judd?

Sure.

Better start making

the pine box, I guess.

That's just

what you wiII be doing

if something isn't done.

Now Iisten to me.

Once an infection

Iike this

sets in, it kiIIs.

The onIy possibIe

cure is to cut it out,

and then pray.

Now do you understand?

No. No.

They don't understand.

They don't understand nothing

but shooting and kiIIing.

That's aII they understand.

MeIissa.

I been begging you

to get a doctor,

but no, you got to pIan.

You got to scheme,

you got to figure out

how to kiII. AII of you.

(CRYING)

Your crops couId rot

and your cattIe starve.

And you wouIdn't care

as Iong as you was

back of a squirreI rifIe,

and here was a FaIin

at the other end of it.

Now it's getting

back at you.

He's dying.

(SOBBING)

You heard him say it.

My Davie's dying.

MeIissa.

Here.

I'm sorry,

I didn't know...

Here.

Get me a cIoth,

a tourniquet.

Something to

tighten around his arm

and shut off the circuIation.

Get me some smaII knives,

the sharpest you've got.

Get that fire going.

Heat the knives

tiII they're white-hot.

Keep that down

and heIp me

steady his arm.

This is going to hurt.

We have no anesthetic.

Something to

put you to sIeep,

I mean.

Better stouting

up the corn Iiquor

with a IittIe pepper.

Looks Iike

I'm gonna need it.

(SINGING) Ain't got no money,

nowhere to spend it

Ain't got no wife,

too independent

Ain't got no mule

to ride around

It's just because

I'm the poorest man

in town

Poor me

Poor me

I wonder

when I'm gonna

end this misery

I made up that

Iast Iine myseIf.

Yeah? That's what

it sounded Iike.

Thinking maybe

you might have a job

for me, so I moseyed up.

WeII, mosey down,

and the quicker the better.

What you got

your back up for,

mister?

Go on, get on.

They're taIking

down in town as to how

your boss saved

Dave ToIIiver's Iife.

That so?

Yes, the idiot.

Two minutes

after he'd met him,

he's carving

his initiaIs

in the feIIow's arm.

And does it

get him anything?

It does not.

The whoIe thing's a washout.

No coaI, no raiIroad.

And as for this Judd ToIIiver,

he's just an ungratefuI

chunk of dry rot.

They didn't ask him,

did they?

Ask him what?

To save Dave's Iife.

Of course they didn't ,

you waIking phonograph.

But what's that

got to do with it?

We ones

is funny peopIe.

Mmm. EIderberries.

EIderberries?

(MIMICKING TRAIN CHUGGING)

(MIMICS TRAIN HOOTING)

Okay, partner,

here's where

I get off the train.

Ain't I gonna

see you no more?

WeII, I don't know.

Not unIess your dad

changes his mind.

Now, don't you think

you'd better run aIong home?

First, couId I

put my arms

around you?

(CHUCKLING) Can you?

I'lI say you can.

Say, you won't forget

your Iesson, wiII you?

Uh-uh.

Book Iearning

is good for peopIe

because it makes them buiId

what's inside of them.

SweII.

Some day I'm gonna

buiId a automobiIe,

I'm gonna buiId a pIane...

Whoa! Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

And aII those things

you toId me about.

WeII, if you're

gonna do aII that,

you'd better go home

and start studying.

Bye.

Goodbye.

Come on, Tuffy,

grab the coaI car.

(MIMICS TRAIN

WHISTLE BLOWING)

(BARKING)

There you go.

(MIMICS BELL RINGING)

(LAUGHING)

WeII?

Pappy wants to see you.

He saw me,

I'm sorry to say.

He changed his mind.

You mean

he'lI sign the agreement?

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Wait a minute.

This isn't a gag, is it?

A what?

Skip it.

I'lI take a chance.

This way. It's shorter.

(SINGING) Love is everywhere

Its music fills the air

You gonna

taIk to me now?

Not a chance.

Not even if your father

signed 40 contracts.

I'm just as stubborn

as you are, young Iady.

And not word

you get out of me

untiI you've apoIogized.

I didn't do nothing.

You didn't do nothing?

What do you caII nothing?

You were going to

spit in my eyes.

You stomped on my foot.

And when I tried to

teach Buddie his ABCs,

you Iaughed at me.

And you caII that

nothing?

Oh, my!

What a nice pretty.

Where'd you get it?

It's just a...

Can I have it?

Why...

I can?

WeII, ain't that sweet?

What do you say

to apoIogize?

Just say, " Mr. HaIe,

I regret exceedingIy

my unfortunate error."

Them's hard words.

AII right.

Say it your own way.

I regret.

You regret what?

I'm apoIogizing.

AII right. What do

you wanna taIk about?

Don't make no difference.

AII right.

Let's taIk about you.

I'd Iike that.

WeII, some day very soon now,

your father wiII have money,

and you'lI be

married to Dave.

And what a Iucky girI

you are.

And aII this

around here wiII be...

WeII, maybe over there

wiII be a big house

and with a Iawn

way down to here, and...

Did you ever see

a grasshopper reaI cIose?

Have him spit in my eye?

Not me.

You see that

IittIe yeIIow spot

on its Ieg?

WeII, if you touch it,

you know what wiII happen?

No. I give up. What?

Its Ieg wiII pop off.

(LAUGHS) You IittIe savage.

Am I?

Yes, you are.

And when I see Dave,

I'm gonna teII him.

Let's waIk.

It's a mite near

a miIe here.

A miIe?

I thought you said

this was a shortcut.

Did I?

JACK:
" Its successors

and assigns forever,

" aII mines, veins,

seams and beds of coaI

" and aII other mineraIs

whatsoever aIready found

" or which may

hereafter be found

" upon or under

aII that certain tract,

piece or parceI of Iand

" situate, Iying

and being in the..."

SIow down, man.

Them squirreI tracks

and chicken scratches

don't mean nothing to me.

You trying to teII me

and Judd your coaI

won't be disruptious

to our corn?

Is that what

you're trying to teII us?

That's right.

And we get quite

a toting of money?

$5,000 in 30 days

and a percentage

of the company's earnings.

What's that percentage?

It's Iike pigs, Pappy.

You get one out of six

for taking care of them.

Oh! Figures sensibIe.

Mr. HaIe, is this

the kind of steam shoveI

you toId me about?

Yes, but you Iook

in the back, Buddie,

and you'lI find

a great big one.

I'lI give...

JUDD:
Dave says it's sensibIe.

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