The Free State of Jones Page #2

I'm just so thirsty.

Why am I so thirsty?

Shh. Shh.

Hang on, boy.

Hang on, boy.

Hang on, boy.

Hang on. Hang on.

There we go. There we go.

There we go.

Shh.

You love god, don't you, Daniel?

Hmm?

Yes.

There we go.

I'm scared.

I know you are.

But you love god,

and god loves you.

You understand?

Jesus loves you, son.

You're not dying.

You're not dying.

You're not dying.

You're not...

You're not dying.

You know

they shoot deserters, don't you?

Well, they shoot everybody

around here anyway.

It don't seem to make no difference

where the bullet come from.

And you're stealing a mule.

You know, we can bury him

proper right here, newt.

We don't have to leave him.

Nah, he's going home, Jasper.

It's where he belongs.

Here.

Take my hardtack too.

It's a long trip.

Appreciate it.

He died with honor, newt.

No, will.

He just died.

I tried

to save him, Annie. I...

I did everything I could.

He... he...

It ain't your fault.

You didn't start

this war, did you?

Or drag him out of here.

He's my boy.

Daniel.

Oh, my boy.

Dan...

Dan...

They hung three deserters

down in Perry.

Didn't put 'em back in the army.

Just hung 'em.

Yeah, I got a leave.

No, you didn't.

A good mama deserves

to see her son again.

Hmm.

She don't deserve

to see him like that.

No.

No, she don't.

"If I go up

to the heavens, you are there.

If I make my bed

in the depths, you are there.

Even in the darkness,

will not be dark to you.

The night will shine like day,

the darkness is as light to you.

- It is you who hath

possessed my reign.

And it is you who hath covered me in...

My mother's womb."

No, not my cloth!

I made that cloth!

Ma'am. Ma'am.

No! I made that cloth!

That's my loom! No! No!

Ma'am. Ma'am, stop it.

- That's for my baby!

- That's not what babies...

- we're just taking what's rightfully ours.

- Please make them stop.

You got the court order?

Yes, but...

What did the court order say?

We take 10%.

You're taking everything! Why are

you taking everything? Stop it!

They took everything

out the smokehouse.

And that ain't tax. They just ate it.

All that meal we ground.

- We'll get you more cornmeal.

- Of course we will.

Well, that ain't the point.

I grew that corn.

Everybody know

how to blow one of these?

Yes, sir.

Now, look here, they come back, blow that

as loud as you can as soon as you hear 'em.

- Yes, sir.

- I'm just over this Ridge here.

I'll be here soon.

You got any more of those?

Yeah, we need some more.

Gettin' hotter.

Let me feel him.

Come on, will.

Be a good boy.

He is a good boy. He's

just got a fever is all.

He's burnin' up.

Where you goin'?

To get a doctor.

You can't go in town.

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