The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Page #3

figure out how to kill. All of you.

Your crops could rot

and your cattle starve.

And you wouldn't care as long as

you was back of a squirrel rifle,

and here was a Falin

at the other end of it.

Now it's getting back at you. He's dying.

You heard him say it.

My Davie's dying.

Melissa.

Here.

I'm sorry,

I didn't know...

Here.

Get me a cloth,

a tourniquet.

Something to tighten around his

arm and shut off the circulation.

Get me some small knives,

the sharpest you've got.

Get that fire going. Heat the

knives till they're white-hot.

Keep that down and help me steady his arm.

This is going to hurt.

We have no anesthetic.

Something to put you to sleep, I mean.

Better stouting up the corn

liquor with a little pepper.

Looks like

I'm gonna need it.

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

last line myself.

Yeah? That's what

it sounded like.

Thinking maybe you might have

a job for me, so I moseyed up.

Well, mosey down,

and the quicker the better.

What you got your back up for, mister?

Go on, get on.

They're talking

down in town as to how

your boss saved

Dave Tolliver's life.

That so?

Yes, the idiot.

Two minutes

after he'd met him,

he's carving his initials

in the fellow's arm.

And does it get him anything? It does not.

The whole thing's a washout.

No coal, no railroad.

And as for this Judd Tolliver, he's

just an ungrateful chunk of dry rot.

They didn't ask him,

did they?

Ask him what?

To save Dave's life.

Of course they didn't,

you walking phonograph.

But what's that

got to do with it?

We ones

is funny people.

Mmm. Elderberries.

Elderberries?

Okay, partner, here's

where I get off the train.

Ain't I gonna

see you no more?

Well, I don't know.

Not unless your dad

changes his mind.

Now, don't you think

you'd better run along home?

First, could I put my arms around you?

Can you?

I'll say you can.

Say, you won't forget

your lesson, will you?

Uh-uh.

Book learning

is good for people

because it makes them build

what's inside of them.

Swell.

Some day I'm gonna build a

automobile, I'm gonna build a plane...

Whoa! Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

And all those things

you told me about.

Well, if you're

gonna do all that,

you'd better go home

and start studying.

Bye.

Goodbye.

Come on, Tuffy,

grab the coal car.

There you go.

Well?

Pappy wants to see you.

He saw me,

I'm sorry to say.

He changed his mind.

You mean

he'll sign the agreement?

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Wait a minute.

This isn't a gag, is it?

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