The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Page #3

And he ain't going to

taint it just 'cause

a lot of snakes is

a- crawling in the fallows.

We been poor-hogging long enough.

I got a chance for fancies,

and I'm gonna have them.

That ain't no talk

to your pappy.

I'm talking

to you, too!

I ought to

spank your hide.

You don't need no fotch-on

clothes to be happy.

Just a minute, Dave. I didn't

want to start an argument.

Mr. Tolliver, I don't doubt that you have

every reason

to hate the Falins.

They must have done

you a great wrong...

We don't want no preacher talk from you.

The Tollivers don't like

the Falins and they know why.

And we don't want to be

learned off by no outsiders.

But, Dave,

I'm not trying to...

You saved my life.

You was leaving without a

squeal when we turned you down.

You couldn't have done that

without you was meaning right.

Just don't argue,

that's all.

Where do we sign?

Right here.

The company's

offering you $5,000.

That's a lot of money,

Mr. Falin.

Both sides of our right

of way will still be yours.

It won't interfere

with your farming.

Mr. Thurber here can vouch for our company.

He's kept its books

for years.

Yes. That's right.

Indeed it is.

We don't want no tail-ender

drippings of a Tolliver.

Wade's right. You can't make

butter out of goose grease.

Shut up!

What did

Judd Tolliver say?

Well, he said that...

He said he'd rot before he had

anything to do with a Falin.

That sounds like Judd.

Where do I scratch?

Right here

on the bottom line.

Jack, give us a hand.

You know something

about carpentry.

What's the matter with it?

You're doing all right.

Yeah, I'm not running

any kindergarten.

I got very little use

for children.

In fact

I hate the brats.

Look at me.

Look what I'm doing.

If any of

my friends saw me...

Say, did you send that

check to Judd Tolliver?

Yeah, this morning. Listen.

Would you put a nail in here?

Or... Don't let me

keep you.

Going 'coon hunting, Dave?

Skunk.

Mighty nigh well,

ain't it?

That's why

I'm going hunting.

I don't want you to

fight, Dave.

Leave the Falins be.

There's turning over

to be done.

And I'll be wanting corn

husks for my mattresses.

And we got scrapple to make

and all kinds of things.

You're the only

big boy I've got, Dave.

Families round

about got lots.

Maybe they wouldn't

miss them none.

Maybe they wouldn't.

You're always snorting preachments,

Auntie. You make me sick.

Two pink-eyed doves

sitting in a tree.

One for you

and one for me.

Dave.

My eggs.

Ma! Pa! Dave!

We just got a letter.

We just got a letter.

Pa. A letter.

Juny.

We just got a letter.

A man gave to me

up the road.

Ma, look!

You act like

we never got one before.

We got one when Dave come to live with us

and then we got

another one when...

Who's it for?

Whoever it's writ

to on the front.

Sure enough.

Well, might as well

open it.

What for? We ain't going to be no better off.

Well, you ain't

much help.

Open her up

anyway, Judd.

It's from

the coal company. See?

There's a picture

of a mine on it.

$5,000.

It's just

a piece of paper.

This here's a check.

I seen one once

in Gaptown.

Folks, we're richer

than cream cheese.

And I can get the things

I want, can't I, Pappy?

Now, now, now.

Not so jumpy.

There's one thing

we got to get

more important

than that first,

and that's

a new dress for Melissa.

Oh! Judd.

You sure got it

coming to you, Mammy.

With pearl buttons it'll

have. Won't it, Pappy?

Yeah, pearl buttons.

And the next thing

we got to get is hat

and shoes for Mammy.

It just...

You're making me cry.

Judd Tolliver, you said

you weren't talking to me.

That was when

I was poor. $5,000.

Wait a minute. I got

some choosing to do, too.

Part of that's mine.

Sure. Half.

Half? I get way less than half.

My land's just

a little hog bag.

Which way says

you win or lose?

North.

South. You lose, so you get half.

You know the first thing

I'm gonna buy?

Dave Tolliver,

get some pepper in you.

What?

For more than

a month now,

somebody's been a

- keeping a secret in a closet.

And I'm thinking maybe it's a

picture of something she's a-needing.

So the first thing

I'm gonna do...

Oh, no. Now, Dave.

Yes, now.

Dave, don't.

Dave.

Can't hear. Both ears is bad.

If you go in that closet...

Next time I'll puff you

clean over to Coon Hollow.

If you go in there, I'll

never talk to you again.

Why, it's only fun. There

ain't nothing in there you want.

Nothing that'd be important to you. June.

Never.

I only want to buy...

Never.

Dave.

You're sure pretty.

Am I?

Like a budding sapling without

even room for a robin to sit.

You're just silly.

I been silly ever since the

sap come up out of the trees.

I get silly

just looking at you.

When we get married...

It ain't green up yet.

You're going to have ivory combs in your hair

and you're gonna have

blood-red wine to drink.

Wine?

And down by the sty,

we'll build a big house...

With grass growing

all the way down?

The ivory combs,

they was my idea.

And the big house?

Mr. Hale.

He thought of that.

He's drawn me

a piece of paper.

It's got a bathtub

in it, June.

In the middle

of the house it is.

And it's get water that can

be turned on with the handle.

And there's a room where

you keep babies, and it's...

Get out of here, Dave.

Honey.

Dave, please.

Sure.

Love is everywhere

Its music fills the air

All nature seems to hum

"A melody from the sky!"

Over on the hill,

I see a whippoorwill

I hear its song become

"A melody from the sky!"

And there's a bluebird singing

to his lady love above

A love song

taken from the whispering

breeze in the trees

Love is everywhere

Its music fills the air

All nature seems to hum

"A melody from the sky!"

By Juckies, that's what I

call whistling and singing.

I'm awful glad

to see you, Tater.

Well, you never was before.

You've changed.

You're different.

You're... I'm awful glad to see you.

You said that.

Did I?

Well, I am glad.

Well, here he is, safe

and delivered. So long.

Bye, Tater.

Goodbye, engineer. And don't

forget what Mr. Hale told you.

Watch the steam

in your boiler.

Love is everywhere

Its music fills the air

All nature seems to hum

"A melody from the sky!"

Love is everywhere

David, get away

from there.

Dave, you ain't said nothing

about my steam shovel.

Your... Is that what it is?

Yeah. It works, too.

Uncle Jack,

he showed me...

Uncle Jack?

Uh-huh. Mr. Hale. You know. He

said, "When this thing gets up here,

"you got to pull this thing."

See? See how it works?

Hemlocks. Mr. Hale's sure smart, ain't he?

Bet he is. Sis, she says he's

the smartestest man she ever seen.

She said what?

Sure works, don't it?

I'm wanna be an engineer,

too, when I get big.

When did June say

that about Mr. Hale?

She says it all the time, every day

at most, when she takes me down there.

She takes you

down there every day?

Uh-huh.

I sit with Corsey, I do.

Corsey?

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