On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Page #6

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to get her,

didn't you?

(SINGING)

Bam, bam, bam, bam

Went Stack's .44

Next time I saw Billy Lyons

He's stretched out

on the floor

Bad, bad,

bad old Stack O' Lee

Stop your drinking whiskey

With your...

(GUNSHOT)

Look what happened

to poor old Stack O' Lee

Okay, I'm Iicked.

So what?

You got Iots to Iearn,

Mr. HaIe, Iots.

I scratched

a bargain with you

on a piece of paper,

and I kept it.

But now,

you're sticking your nose

in my personaI affairs,

so from now on

bargains don't count.

And you won't be

Iong finding that out.

Jack! Jack!

Dave ToIIiver!

He's coming to get you!

There's going to

be a big fight.

Is there?

What are you doing here?

I'm here 'cause

I ain't going back.

I thought I toId Dave

to take you...

The sheriff said,

"I'm taking you

" to the outskirts of town,

Dave ToIIiver.

" I'm Ieaving the rest

to your own judgment."

Now see here,

I'm not going to

aIIow you...

I ain't Iistening.

You toId me

to get an education,

I'm getting an education.

I'm staying here.

If I can't stay here,

I'lI stay where I can stay.

You can't stop me,

nobody's gonna stop me!

I'lI show the whoIe kit

and boodIe of you

how much I can get Iearned.

I'lI be smarter than you!

That's what I'lI be!

Now Iisten,

you IittIe stick

of dynamite.

You're getting

out of here now.

You're going back

up in the mountains.

I've heard enough of you

and I've seen enough of you.

For the present, at Ieast.

Now, come on, get out.

You...

AII right, I'lI go

if you want me to go.

Sure.

I don't want peopIe

not to want me.

Wait a minute.

How did you do that?

Oh, that.

You did it

when you pushed me down.

I'm sorry.

It might have been

a rusty naiI or something.

We'd better fix it up.

Come over here.

So that's it, is it?

And I thought

you were just interested

in the coaI business.

She's hurt her hand.

You've kiIIed your future,

around here, anyway.

You're not satisfied

with one enemy,

you make two.

You reaIize

what you've done?

Now the FaIins hate you,

the ToIIivers

wiII never forgive you.

The ToIIivers, why?

That's why.

That girI's gonna go back

to the mountains, now.

She didn't come here

to start any troubIe,

it just happened.

She's got a mind of her own,

and if she wants

to stay here she can.

In this town?

ImpossibIe.

I'lI take her

to Brighton.

Or PIenny or Sand Creek.

It doesn't matter

where you take her

around here,

you're about

to meet ToIIivers.

AII right, I'lI take her

to LouisviIIe to my sister.

What do you think of that?

Nothing.

Except that

I'm fIabbergasted.

NonpIussed.

And if you

don't mind me saying so,

I think you're just

a IittIe bit nuts.

Thank you.

Both of you.

Mr. HaIe! Oh, Mr. HaIe!

You forgot the hat.

Thanks, Leo.

WeII, here you are.

Do I...

Are you sure

your sister

wiII recognize me?

I don't see

how she can miss.

Do I Iook aII right?

My dear young Iady,

reticent as I am

by nature,

it behooves me

at this moment

to teII you

that you're wearing

the finest

the city affords.

AII aboard!

WeII, you better get on.

Ain't ... Ain't you

gonna kiss me goodbye?

(BELL TOLLING)

WeII, that's over with.

Is it?

Yeah. What do

you mean, " Is it" ?

No, I mean,

I'm gIad

it's over with.

Are you?

She's nuts.

Is she?

Sure she is.

Any fooI can see that.

WeII, perhaps,

that's why

I'm a IittIe stupid.

Yeah, maybe that's ...

Say, what is this

"isn't " and " is she" ?

My dear feIIow,

if you'lI aIIow me,

Iet us take " isn't "

and " is she."

" Is" is that we both know,

I hope, is a verb.

" It" is a neuter gender,

and she is the feminine.

Thus, we have the neuter

and the feminine,

but no mascuIine.

" What? No mascuIine,"

you say, then I say...

" I'm nuts,"

that's what you say.

Yeah, that's right,

you're nuts!

She's in Iove

with you, Jack.

In Iove? Who?

June.

Are you crazy?

No, no, that's aIready

been settIed.

You're the one

who's crazy.

Why, she's been

goo-gooing,

gee-geeing aII over you

ever since

we started the camp.

Don't taIk nonsense.

In Iove.

Why, she onIy came down to

camp to bring Buddie.

In Iove with me.

You're an idiot.

I hope so.

I sincereIy hope so.

The camp, Thurber.

It's on fire!

A bunch of feIIows

came over the hiII

carrying torches.

The feIIow Ieading

him was a-shooting.

The FaIins.

WeII...

Never mind,

we'lI taIk about that Iater.

I'lI get the stock

out of the corraI.

You get the instruments

and maps out of there.

(BRAYING)

So that's how

you want it, is it?

AII right,

you skuIking coyotes,

I'lI pIay your game.

They're not gonna Iet me...

I'lI put this road through

if I have to use your

dirty rotten bodies for ties.

I'lI do it if I have

to hire every man

in Gaptown to finish the job.

MELISSA:
If you

couId have seen it

I know you wouId have

spIit your sides

a-Iaughing.

I was sitting there

mending, and I hear

the dripping and the sizzIing,

and I says to myseIf,

I says, " I bet a rooster

" it's the soft soap

a-boiIing over."

And sure enough...

Better try some of these

dandeIion greens, son.

Zeke Denker fetched

them over this morning.

I ain't hungry.

But, David,

you gotta

eat something

after aII the pIowing

you've done.

Pappy.

A is the first Ietter

in the aIphabet.

Because it means

"And" " AppIe" and " Ax."

What's this one, Pappy?

You mean this one?

Offhand I'd say

it's aIike an ox yoke.

Didn't Mr. HaIe teII you?

BUDDIE:
He toId me

but I forgot.

It ain't Iike

no ToIIiver to forget.

Now, if I wouId

have been toId...

You know what that is?

Yeah.

CiviIization!

David, you oughtn't

to have done that!

I'm through pretending.

Like you've been doing

aII of Iast month.

Saying things

you didn't mean.

I'm getting sick

of the whoIe thing.

Now, son, Iook,

you gotta keep

your shirt on.

If it's June

you're worrying about,

she'lI be back pretty short.

No, she ain't .

She ain't never coming back.

Not the June I know.

Ain't nothing gonna

be the way it was.

Look at Buddie,

even he's different.

So are you.

Me?

Yes, you are.

Them new fangIed machines

down in Ticopi

that's doing it.

Every day

you traipse down there

with Buddie

and you come back

being different.

HaIf the time

you're feeIing gIad.

Like Iast week,

they tore up

one of our fieIds.

Them machines don't care

who's been pIowing there

for 50 years.

The ToIIivers

don't mean

nothing to them.

I ain't nobody

with a high temper.

But you're taIking

unreasonabIe.

We're getting rich,

ain't we?

Look at them five checks

over there in that bowI.

HaIf of them is yours.

And how did we get them?

Just doing nothing.

And if that's what

you caII civiIization,

then I'm for it.

Judd!

He needs a-taIking to.

It ain't right

for no young man

to brood about nothing.

This you caII

nothing, huh?

Listen, there's got to

be a change, you see?

Not for me,

there ain't .

There ain't no more

chance of me changing

than there is of

that oId Lonesome Pine

changed into a hickory.

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