Scalawag Page #5

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That's it. The silks.

Come on. Let's get the silks.

Jamie, Sandy.

The fire pit. A big one.

Lucy-Ann, got your needles?

Yes, Mr. Aragon.

Well, then. Start sewing.

Sandy.

Thank you for this leg.

I won't be using it much longer.

But-

Use a little more light?

No, thank you.

Here. Let me give you a hand.

Just want you hung,

by the first dragoons we meet.

Jamie.

Did you lose this?

That's enough wood, Jamie.

Now let's get the sheets.

What are you doing?

Hooray.

Come on up.

- Jamie.

Come on up.

And the sheriff says 'we kill too.'

With his bloody boys in blue.

There's a hanging job to do.

And I...

And it's up the rope I go. Up I go.

And it's up the rope I go.

Up I go.

So it's up the rope I go.

And the folks all down below.

They'll say 'Sam.'

They'll say 'Peg, I told you so.'

And then I'll...

Hey.

How'd you lose your leg?

I've told so many lies about it,

I can't even remember.

You don't have much of a memory.

I don't.

Jamie.

I can remember things

that never happened.

Did it hurt when they sawed your leg off?

Not much.

They did it in New Orleans. The folks

in Baton Rouge heard me yelling.

That's only 50 miles off.

I can still feel that leg. Yeah.

Sometimes it itches

right at the bottom of my foot.

And I close my eyes and wiggle my toes.

Ah, it's a nice feeling.

The Lord giveth.

And the Lord taketh away.

Right now, that leg's in heaven.

That's right.

After all,

if I'm bad, it don't mean

every part of me's bad.

When they hang me,

the rest of Peg Stewart will be in hell.

Oh, I deserve it.

Strange.

To have your leg up in heaven.

The rest of you, down below.

I might've been a different man.

If I hadn't lost that leg.

Scalawag. Scalawag.

I'd like to fry you. Shut up.

Here. You better hurry.

I'm disappointed in you.

You lied.

And you ran away from your sister.

And now while on guard duty, you try

to help a desperate criminal to escape.

You wanna grow up to be like me?

Yes.

Yes I do, Peg.

Don't you ever think that way, you hear?

You ain't learned a thing.

I reckon it'd be best

if you saw me stretched by the neck.

That's a pretty ugly sight.

I thought you'd growed up.

When I saw you up in that balloon,

I was proud of you.

Jamie will do, I thought.

Jamie's got more savvy

than a tree full of owls.

But I was wrong.

Be like me?

No, sir.

You had me fooled. But I'm staying.

Please, Peg. Leave now.

Nothing can make me change my mind.

They'll hang you.

It wouldn't surprise me

if you tried to follow me.

No. No, I won't.

Promise?

I promise.

All right.

I'm going.

Will I ever see you again?

Oh, I wouldn't be as hard to find

as a punk house rat.

One day our paths may cross.

Maybe when you're full growed up.

I'd rightly enjoy seeing you full growed up.

Where you go?

New Orleans.

New Orleans?

Yeah, I always figured

to settle down there someday.

If I ever got money ahead.

I'd put up a fine restaurant.

The best of everything.

Shhh.

You ever get to New Orleans,

you drop in.

Sure, Peg.

You promise?

- I promise.

All you can eat.

On the house.

Oh.

I want you to have this.

It came out of the biggest shark

ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico.

I caught it.

Bring you luck.

Old Peg.

He was born to set a bad example.

Now you remember me that way.

You hear?

I will, Peg.

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