Sergeant York Page #4

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if nothing made 'em store up nuts

for the wintertime.

- Sure would.

- How do you reckon

birds get to fly north in the summer

if there ain't something a-guiding 'em?

A bird ain't got no way of telling

north from south.

And then there's the bees.

Bees'd sure be in a fix

if they wasn't beholding to something

to show 'em how to get back to the hives.

Well, I ain't no bird and I ain't no squirrel.

- And I sure ain't no bee.

- Well, that's right, Alvin.

The way I figure, there ain't no use for a

fellow going out looking for religion. It's...

Well, it's just gotta come to a fellow.

It'll come, my boy. You'll see.

Maybe slow, like the way daylight comes.

And maybe in a flash,

like a bolt of lightning.

- When?

- When you ain't even expecting it.

Well, I hope so.

Giddap, Noah. I'll be seeing you.

Get after him, now.

Tracks are mighty fresh.

Less than an hour old.

- Reckon it's a red fox?

- Might be red and might be gray.

It's making a big circle.

Can't tell about his course

till he gets out on the flat.

They took to the hill there.

Yeah, that-a-way.

What's the matter, Alvin?

Howdy.

- You're Alvin York, ain't you?

- Yes.

Let's get going, Alvin.

I ain't seen you in a coon's age.

Where you been keeping yourself?

- Hereabouts.

- What's ailing you?

Are you coming or ain't you?

You better go get that fox, George.

You're just tetched.

How's your ma?

I asked you how your ma was.

Tolerable.

I figured it was you out a-hunting.

No mistaking the voices

of 'em hound dogs.

One's a-having a hook to the end of its bay

you could be hanging a bucket on.

The other's a croak, just like a frog,

about moonrise.

- What...

- You ain't Gracie Williams, are you?

Well, I ain't nobody but.

Why, you was only just...

You sure growed up all of a sudden like...

Reckon I have.

Sounds as if they've run that fox

to ground.

I said 'em hound dogs

run the fox to ground.

You better be getting along.

Reckon I had.

- I'll be seeing you.

- Hoping.

Ma.

Yeah?

When you and Pa got hitched,

what did Pa have to set up with?

Well, your pa had this here farm

and a mule and $5, no $6.

What did Grandpa have?

Your grandpa had this here farm,

a pair of horses.

The mare was in foal.

I reckon I wouldn't, George.

Ma.

It's sure ripped down here.

You reckon you can fix it?

I reckon. Come over here, Alvin.

Bend over.

You're a-figuring on setting up,

ain't you, Son?

- Yessum.

- Getting married?

- Who's it gonna be?

- Gracie Williams.

Gracie Williams?

Asked her yet?

No, I ain't.

What's the matter?

I ain't said nothing.

Reckon that'll hold.

Reckon it better.

Hold it thataway, Zeb.

Thinking on going to that there shindig

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