On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine Page #3

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if something isn't done.

Now Iisten to me.

Once an infection

Iike this

sets in, it kiIIs.

The onIy possibIe

cure is to cut it out,

and then pray.

Now do you understand?

No. No.

They don't understand.

They don't understand nothing

but shooting and kiIIing.

That's aII they understand.

MeIissa.

I been begging you

to get a doctor,

but no, you got to pIan.

You got to scheme,

you got to figure out

how to kiII. AII of you.

(CRYING)

Your crops couId rot

and your cattIe starve.

And you wouIdn't care

as Iong as you was

back of a squirreI rifIe,

and here was a FaIin

at the other end of it.

Now it's getting

back at you.

He's dying.

(SOBBING)

You heard him say it.

My Davie's dying.

MeIissa.

Here.

I'm sorry,

I didn't know...

Here.

Get me a cIoth,

a tourniquet.

Something to

tighten around his arm

and shut off the circuIation.

Get me some smaII knives,

the sharpest you've got.

Get that fire going.

Heat the knives

tiII they're white-hot.

Keep that down

and heIp me

steady his arm.

This is going to hurt.

We have no anesthetic.

Something to

put you to sIeep,

I mean.

Better stouting

up the corn Iiquor

with a IittIe pepper.

Looks Iike

I'm gonna need it.

(SINGING) Ain't got no money,

nowhere to spend it

Ain't got no wife,

too independent

Ain't got no mule

to ride around

It's just because

I'm the poorest man

in town

Poor me

Poor me

I wonder

when I'm gonna

end this misery

I made up that

Iast Iine myseIf.

Yeah? That's what

it sounded Iike.

Thinking maybe

you might have a job

for me, so I moseyed up.

WeII, mosey down,

and the quicker the better.

What you got

your back up for,

mister?

Go on, get on.

They're taIking

down in town as to how

your boss saved

Dave ToIIiver's Iife.

That so?

Yes, the idiot.

Two minutes

after he'd met him,

he's carving

his initiaIs

in the feIIow's arm.

And does it

get him anything?

It does not.

The whoIe thing's a washout.

No coaI, no raiIroad.

And as for this Judd ToIIiver,

he's just an ungratefuI

chunk of dry rot.

They didn't ask him,

did they?

Ask him what?

To save Dave's Iife.

Of course they didn't ,

you waIking phonograph.

But what's that

got to do with it?

We ones

is funny peopIe.

Mmm. EIderberries.

EIderberries?

(MIMICKING TRAIN CHUGGING)

(MIMICS TRAIN HOOTING)

Okay, partner,

here's where

I get off the train.

Ain't I gonna

see you no more?

WeII, I don't know.

Not unIess your dad

changes his mind.

Now, don't you think

you'd better run aIong home?

First, couId I

put my arms

around you?

(CHUCKLING) Can you?

I'lI say you can.

Say, you won't forget

your Iesson, wiII you?

Uh-uh.

Book Iearning

is good for peopIe

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