The Shepherd of the Hills
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- 1941
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Kinda free with your powder, ain't ya?
Not when I'm aimin' at a moonshiner
with four jugs slung over his shoulder.
Accordin' to the law, a man's
got a right to tote his liquor...
wherever it fits him best,
inside or out.
And he ain't a moonshiner
till he sells it and gets caught at it.
The way you talk up for these
superstitious mountain people,
you'd think that every third 'shiner
is your nephew.
Well, I've been up here long enough for
the government to know just where I stand.
And you better be careful potshottin'
at these nephews whose uncle I ain't.
Hey, Charlie, come here!
Take a look at this!
I told you I got him.
Cow. Cow?
Yeah. Lamentin' cow.
Full udder and nobody to milk her.
Lamentin', huh?
Snakes.
Get these hid away from here.
Let Wash do it.
Do what you're told. Jim Lane's
standin' watch for us at Holler Ridge.
Let him find his own cover.
Douse that fire. Watch that smoke.
Are you deef?
Revenuers! Dump that mash
and scatter till I call ya.
Who lives there?
Jim Lane and his daughter, Sammy.
Come in.
Andy!
Hello, Sammy.
You're lookin' fine.
How's everything with you, Jim?
Well, Andy, I can't complain.
You're here just in time. We got a powerful
lot of johnnycake and squirrel stew.
There's only one more plate, unless
they wanna eat stew out of their hands.
No, thanks, Sammy.
Well, are you satisfied?
So long, Jim.
Bye, Sammy.
Good-bye.
They hit me without no warnin'.
Easy. Easy, young'un.
Don't hurt out loud, Pappy.
Here. Careful.
The murderin' hounds. I was right
down at the fork of the creek.
Young Matt givin' you sorghum beer
for spottin' revenuers...
while he's totin' his corn whiskey
down into town!
Someday I'll... Don't aggravate
yourself. It's me is shot.
'Tain't like it was Young Matt's fault.
Yeah!
It's you that's shot, just like you said.
Not him!
Come in.
What do you want?
My name's Daniel Howitt. I...
Don't you touch him!
This looks bad.
It's stopped bein' bad and turned worse.
I can take care of him.
That bullet's still with him.
I said I can take care of him.
I got salve. I got cobwebs...
This is no time to argue!
Boil some water
and get some clean rags.
When do you aim to take him?
Take him?
You're just wellin' him
to take him to jail, ain't you?
I've been tryin' to tell ya.
I'm Daniel Howitt.
I came here to get some information,
to get acquainted.
Why?
Well, I'd like to buy a piece
of land, settle down here. Why?
I... gonies! The man was
right clever with me,
and you act like he was a fine-hair.
Folks like him don't come to land
what's been corned out.
Land with seed ticks and chinch bugs
and whoopin' cough and...
Why'd you come?
I didn't ask you how he got shot.
No, you didn't, for a fact.
Evenin', brother.
Hello, Sammy.
Keep joggin', Young Matt.
Don't get off that horse!
Don't get your dander up.
I just come to see is your pa home.
He is, and we don't need
you and your kind askin' after him.
I guess then I'll have
Get on up the hill, Rowdy.
Tell Aunt Mollie
I want stack cakes...
and roast yearlin'coon
with plenty of gravy!
And tell her we ain't aimin' to stand
for no more sickness and misery!
My, ain't the birds a... hollerin'
pretty. You and your devilment!
Aunt Mollie and Old Matt and their poison
ways, makin' people scared of livin'!
There's bluebirds nestin'
all over the mountain.
Liquor totin' and gettin' drunk
and raisin'Jupiter to suit yourselves!
Your eyes are cussin' pretty tonight.
Makin' the hants do your biddin'!
Givin' the sick a soon start to die,
makin' the well dark-eyed and fearful.
Why can't your dead mother
keep her unhappiness in her grave?
Leave my mother be.
Oh, Matt, why do you keep doin' it?
All the way up the trail he bled.
What are you talkin' about?
They shot him, Matt.
Did they...
I'm all right.
What happened? I was drinkin'
when I should've been watchin'.
Andy Beeler?
Yeah.
And two new ones with him.
Looks like... he'll never learn.
Well, they're startin' somethin'
they better know how to finish.
Who's he?
My name's Daniel Howitt.
What's he here for?
He's my cousin.
Now, that isn't...
This here's young Matt Mathews.
Mr. Howitt says he's gonna live here.
That's right. I plan to stay here.
It ain't likely for strangers...
to find these parts to settle down in.
good fishing tackle.
We might give 'em a try
when the weather's right.
Let me know can I do
anything for ya, Jim.
Even Sammy's sayin' it now, Ma.
All the lies they teached her.
Blamin' us for all
their ails and sufferin'.
You for all the unseen things
God lets be.
Me for the fightin' and meanness.
Well, maybe they're right
about me, but you...
I'll stop 'em.
Some one of these days I'll find him,
him that... never came back to ya.
Do you suppose the Mathews
would sell me some of their land?
Might... if you was that crazy.
They got money cramps.
But don't let 'em sell ya
Moanin' Meadow.
Moanin' Meadow?
That's where the hant comes from.
Frogs as quiet as grave rocks,
and the light comin' from nowhere.
The trees don't rustle,
and the flowers grow big,
but they don't have pretty smells.
Bad land,
like everything has got
the name of Mathews is bad, exceptin'
'Ceptin' Young Matt!
He ain't naturally bad.
Them's the ones that makes him so.
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