Of Mice and Men Page #2

that gives a damn about us.

If them other guys gets in jail,

they can rot for all anybody cares.

But not us, George, because I...

See, I got you to look after me,

but you got me to look after.

But, George, tell about how it's gonna be.

OK.

Someday...

we're gonna have us

a little house and a couple of acres,

- and a cow and a pig and chickens.

- Pig and chic...

We gonna live off the fat of the land,

and have rabbits.

And have rabbits.

- George, tell what we got in the garden.

- OK.

Then tell about the rabbits in winter,

and about the stove and, uh...

- how thick the cream was on the milk.

- Yeah.

- Go ahead, tell it.

- Why don't you do it? You know all of it.

George, no! George, no,

it's not the same when I tell it.

That's not the same.

Tell, um, what...

how I get to tend the rabbits.

We're gonna have a big vegetable patch

and we're gonna have a rabbit hutch.

- And down in the flat, we'll have a...

...little field of alfalfa for the rabbits.

- And I get to tend the rabbits.

- Yeah, you get to tend the rabbits.

When it rains in the winter,

we'll just say

"The hell with going to work,"

and we'll just build a fire in the stove,

and we'll just sit there

and we'll listen to the rain.

Lennie, I want you to look around here.

If you get in any trouble,

I want you to come right here.

- You hide over here in the brush.

- Hide in the brush.

You hide in the brush until I come

for you. Can you remember that?

Sure I can, George.

Hide in the brush till you come for me.

If you do get in trouble,

I ain't gonna let you tend the rabbits.

I'm not gonna get into any trouble.

OK.

I can remember, by God.

Let's get some rest.

It'll be nice sleeping here,

just looking up at the leaves.

George?

What do you want?

I... I think we should get

them different color rabbits.

Sure.

Red rabbits and blue rabbits

and green rabbits.

- Leave 'em alone.

- Be quiet, dogs. Be quiet, goddamnit.

Be quiet!

Shut up, Smiley! Shut up.

Smiley, down.

- You fellas looking for something?

- Yeah. We come here to work.

- Where's the boss?

- He's up at the ranch house.

I'm Candy. Come on,

I'll take you up there.

He was expecting you last night.

He was sore as hell that

you wasn't here to go out this morning.

He come in

when we was having breakfast.

He said "Goddamnit,

where the hell is them new men?"

And he gives the stable buck hell too.

You see, the stable buck's a n*gger.

Ah! There he goes.

He got a crooked back

where a horse kicked him one day.

The boss gives him hell

every time he gets mad.

But the stable buck...

The stable buck

don't give a damn about that.

Boss's office in here.

Come in.

These guys just came.

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