The Education of Little Tree Page #6

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Ain't you Sally's kid?

Sally, who married the Indian.

- Could it be?

- Ain't you?

- What you got in your sack?

- What's in the sack, boy?

- Can I take a look?

- Terrible thing...

...teach kids to be whiskey-runners.

Give it over.

You ain't going no place.

- Watch her.

- Hand the sack out.

Easy as one...

...two...

Get off!

Help me!

He's gettin' away!

Hey, Blue Boy!

Little Tree?

I'm here, Granma. Over here!

Are you all right? Are you OK?

You can let go of the

sack now. Let go, let go.

- Didn't break one!

- Couldn't have done better myself.

You're coming to be one of the best

whiskey-makers in these mountains.

Come on!

Maybe they thought it

was somebody else's kid.

How'd they know he's yours? There's

plenty young 'uns in these parts.

- Sure!

- They recognized him.

Called his ma by name.

One of 'em said, how could we...

...put him in the whiskey trade

at his age? Don't look good.

Bound to get back to

somebody. And then what?

- Is this yours?

- Nah!

Look here what I got.

It's a present.

I owe it to Willow John.

He gave me this.

- It ain't as good, is it?

- Well, I like it.

- You do?

- Did you show him the calf?

The calf?

You name him yet? I've come

up with the perfect name.

- Wanna hear it?

- Sure.

OK. Brown Eyes. 'Cause he's

got them pretty brown eyes.

How is Brown Eyes?

Can I still come up and see him?

He's...

He's dead.

- Say, what?

- He just...

He just... keeled over

and died, just like that.

I couldn't do nothin' about it.

The fellow cheated me.

- I didn't know. He said he was...

- Little Tree, come on to church now.

I'm sorry.

Ain't nobody in the

world oughta cheat you.

All right!

What makes this day

different than all others?

Tell me! Tell me! Speak it!

Testifying day.

Today you will stand before

the Lord and confess your sins.

- Amen.

- Yes, sir.

Stand up and make yourselves clean.

Praise Jesus.

- Praise God.

- I'm a sinner.

- I'm a sinner in the face of the Lord.

- Tell it, sister!

- I committed...

- Tell it!

- ... fornication!

- Amen!

- Beelzebub!

- With...

...Junior Logan.

- And with...

- More!

- Tell it, sister.

- And with...

- Tell it.

- And with...

- Got it?

- Yeah.

You want to be shortening

up on that handle some.

Just kind of let her fall.

See now...

That maul's got enough weight

to split that pine just like a...

Hang on, there...

Son of a gun. It just hit

me like a bolt of lightning.

I'm teaching you everything,

the land, the business,

and I forget the most important one.

What's that?

Half of dinner. You get the other

half, we'll have the whole shebang.

If you come across a frog or two, I

don't believe we need any more gifts.

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