Of Mice and Men Page #3

I wrote Murray and Ready...

for two men to work this morning.

Where's your work slips?

Is my slip in there?

It wasn't Murray and Ready's fault.

Says right here you were supposed

to be ready to work this morning.

Bus driver lied to us.

We had to walk ten miles.

I don't give a damn about that.

- What's your name?

- George Milton.

- What's yours?

- His name's Lennie Small.

- Where you boys been working?

- Up around Weed.

- What about you?

- Yeah, him too.

He's not much of a talker, is he?

No, no, he ain't. But he's a hell

of a good worker. He's strong as a bull.

Strong as a bull?

Uh, he can do anything

you tell him. He's a...

He's a good skinner. He can wrestle

grain bags, drive a cultivator.

Cultivator. Ah, but...

I ain't sayin' he's bright - he ain't.

But he's a... he's a damn good worker.

Say... what you selling?

What's your stake in this guy?

Are you taking his pay from him?

Hell, no.

He's my cousin.

I told his old lady I'd take care of him.

He got kicked in the head

by a horse when he was a kid.

All right.

But you'd better not try

to put anything over on me.

Now catch your grain teams after dinner.

Well, I wasn't kicked in the head

with no horse, George.

Be a damn good thing if you was.

Save everybody a hell of a lot of trouble.

You... you said I was your cousin.

Well, that was a lie. If I was

a relative of yours, I'd shoot myself.

Come on, I'll show you the bunkhouse.

Come on. Come on, boy.

Come on, come on.

You can take these two bunks right here.

That's a hell of an old dog.

Yeah.

And he's getting older too.

I had him since he was a pup.

God, he was a great sheepdog

when he was younger.

Hey... what the hell is this?

Says "Positively kills lice,

roaches and other scourges".

What the hell kind of beds

are you giving us?

Now, wait a minute there, young fella.

Wait a minute.

Let me see what you're talking about.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Now I remember.

Last guy that had this bunk

was a blacksmith.

He'd squirt this stuff around

even if there was no bugs.

He used to... he used to wash

his hands even after he ate.

Candy!

- You seen my old man?

- Yeah, he's up at the house.

- You the guys the old man's waiting for?

- Yeah, we just came in.

- Let the big guy talk.

- Suppose he don't wanna talk?

What the hell you gettin' into this for?

We travel together.

- Oh. Oh. So it's that way.

- Yeah, it's that way.

And you won't let

the big guy talk, is that it?

We just come in.

Yeah, well, next time

you answer when you're spoken to.

Say, what the hell?

Lennie didn't do nothing to him.

That's the boss's son.

Curley's pretty handy with his fists.

- Done a lot of fighting in the ring.

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