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to you.

You have to talk to me.

We do?

Look, you know as well as I know

that you must leave here.

TVA has offered you a fair price

and a new place just as good.

What have you got

against a new place?

Too much work.

You work here, don't you?

No, sir.

Who does?

You don't do any work at all?

How do you manage that?

Just never started.

Ma owns this property

and she ain't gonna sell it.

Certainly I can understand

how a senile old woman

would be sentimental about a place

and not want to leave.

Perhaps, she doesn't understand

what it's all about.

Ma understands everything.

If she understands, then what

is she doing? These floods...

Ma knows about the floods.

Then I really don't understand!

Now, you just quiet down.

We ain't stupid.

I didn't say you were.

- Been reading your mind.

- Mister, Ma ain't selling.

It's up to you to make her sell.

Are you all afraid of her?

Joe John.

Don't say nothing against Ma.

What am I saying against her?

I'm saying that

if your mother is senile

it's up to you

to make her understand

she has to leave.

Ma ain't gonna.

She is gonna.

You know that.

Joe John.

Mister, you'd better go now.

Not until I talk to your mother.

Come on, take me up there.

What's so funny?

What's senile?

Crazy.

He says Ma is crazy?

I never saw so many men

afraid of one...

What are you doing?

Hey, hey. Let me go!

Let go of me!

- Wake up, Mr. Penner.

- What time is it, Mrs. Riggs?

October,

and you haven't got a job yet.

Want to buy a duck?

I'll sell Goo-Goo cheap.

I've been swimming.

Hello, Glover?

You sure got her off in a hurry.

Now start getting the land cleared.

What do you mean I got her off?

What's holding you up?

I've been here one half day.

Yes. There's a possibility

that Biggs was right,

the only way to get her off

may be by force.

We can't use force.

What?

I'm sorry. I can't hear you.

A couple of senators

have got their teeth into us.

They'll use any incident

to destroy us.

I know that.

I'll call you in a couple of days.

Right. Goodbye.

You wanted to see me?

Too bad about this afternoon.

Old Joe John is unpredictable.

What do you want?

Ma says you got an apology

coming to you.

She's sorry about what happened.

Cal and Joe John are sorry.

Carol, she's sorry, too.

And me, I'm all busted up

about it.

If you come tomorrow,

Ma will talk to you.

You better hang them up,

they'll get crinkled down there.

What time?

Any time.

We don't go no place.

The say that President Roosevelt

has a new government, you know.

It's called the New Deal.

What do you think of that?

You know anything

about Mr. Roosevelt, son?

Yes ma'am.

I tell you Mr. Roosevelt

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