Tobacco Road Page #3

- I near about run into her.

- Well, is it nice here?

Jeeter, Captain John's coming back.

- Captain John's dead.

- It's his son, Captain Tim. It's the same.

He's coming back to Tobacco Road.

- He's gonna give us farmers credit?

- That's what everybody says.

Ada. Ada.

Praise the Lord,

Captain John's coming back.

- Why, I thought Captain John was dead.

He is.

Gonna get me a good mule

and some seed cotton...

...and some guano, and I'm gonna...

Who put this old plow

down in the dirt?

You did, seven years ago.

First thing I'm gonna do

is to burn off all this old broom-sedge...

...and clear my fields.

And, Dude, see if you can find

some harness.

There used to be a bridle

in the kitchen.

Oh, I think Grandma ate it.

Yes, sir. It looks to me

like Dude and me...

...we is gonna raise us

about a bale an acre...

...because the way I feel now, Ada,

it's just like I used to feel every spring.

Why, you can smell

the smoke from the burning sedge...

...and the wind blowing

from the fresh-plowed ground...

...it just gets down into your soul...

...and you just feel like you...

Just feel like you gotta plant

or bust.

What ails you now?

Spring come and gone already?

Well, there ain't no use

starting today. Look.

What? I don't see nothing.

Well, there ain't no use

starting a fire...

...if a rain's gonna come up

and put the fire out, is there?

You ain't gonna have no crop

no how, Jeeter Lester.

Not if Mr. Tim was to come,

give you a mule and some seed cotton...

...some guano and the sun

would shine day and night...

...you still ain't gonna have no crop

this year.

What are you talking about?

You ain't gonna have no crop

because you got a sin on your soul.

You stole them turnips from Lov...

...and it's the wrong time

of the year for stealing.

Lov is my son-in-law.

You can't steal from your son-in-law

because he's kinfolks.

And right on top of that...

...you got to go and tell Sister Bessie,

a religious woman...

...that you didn't steal no turnips.

And I didn't, neither.

The Lord don't hold with anybody

that steals around planting time...

...and he sure don't hold with anybody

that steals...

...and then lies and says he didn't.

You wait. You'll see.

Well, I ain't scared.

You just wait.

Well, I ain't scared.

No little old turnips

is gonna scare me.

No, sir, no...

No use getting scared of a turnip.

A little old turnip.

Whoever heard tell of such a fuss

over a few little old turnips.

Jeeter, that one was pretty close.

Ada, you know what I...

What I done to Lov Bensey is sure

beginning to bother my conscience.

- Morning, Henry.

- Hey, Jeeter.

Is Sister Bessie home?

Sister Bessie? Jeeter...

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