The Good Earth Page #2

Hey hey! She want me to be a grandfather

I shall go prepare food

Yes food food food!

I know nothing of these things,

when the child is born you need a woman.

Perhaps

here's a woman in the Great House

Someone you knew in the kitchen!

Not in that house!

Well, We're all men here!

There must be someone

in the Great House...

I'll never go back, in that house

It will be with my son in the house

I'll have a red coat on it,

and a red flower trousers,

and a hat with a buddha and tiger,

and I'll go back to the kitchen

where I spend my days as a slave

And into the great hall

where all the mistress

sits with their pipe

and I'll show myself

and my son to all of them

Well, well

I haven't heard you speak so many words

since you came into this house!

Now then, why are you

not in the fields today?

The wheat must be cut!

Today I shall not go into the fields

Look! Dark clouds!

Rain? We'll loose the harvest!

We'll starve this winter!

Bring the others!

Hey hurry with the wheat!

There's hail in that storm! Let's go!

Help me load the cart!

What is it? Is it the child?

I get a woman

No! Go back to the wheat!

I play my king correctly!

No you didn't!

You lost every game correctly!

Of course! How did I know what he had?

You might have looked over his shoulders

But I didn't!

You gave me the wrong sign!

Hey! What did I tell you?

And you made me play another game

while this was happenning!

Is it a man? Is it a man?

A man! A man-child has been born!

Behold we have a son!

A man-child! A man-child!

I'm a father!

And you're a grandfather!

Hey Hey!

I never could get my wife

to work the way

that woman did,

with a child about to be born

If it weren't indignified,

I'd tell her that she's a good wife!

Nephew! I rejoyce with you!

It's nothing that I lost my own wheat

helping with the child, nothing!

Hear him! Huh huh!

I'll get eggs, and dye them red

for the whole village

Everyone must know I have a son!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Oh my son is very pleased!

Oh it was a dismal noise!

No no! Very good noise!

Now then!

Those cakes are not to be eaten!

Well! And I am poor

but at least I can be honest!

My dear nephew, please add this fowl

to the little coloured eggs

which you hadn't offered me!

But they are gift for the Great House!

Very bad for the stomach,

only fit for rich people,

if they are not too rich to accept them

Those people

are not as rich as you think!

They are feeling pinch this year

I've heard that they are selling land

Land? Selling land?

I heard it yesterday from their agent,

At the gambling tea house

Well, am I asked to fill my cup

in this house of properity?

Huh... please please!

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