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Hound dog man.

Hound dog man. Hound dog man. Hound dog man. I want to be a hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man.

I'm going to get me an old hound dog.

I'm going to let him live away.

Then I'm going to turn him loose and go hunting every day.

That's the kind of life for me.

There's one thing I want to be and that's a hound dog man. Hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man.

I'm looking for a girl who'll be waiting when I come home.

She's going to meet me with a kiss.

She's going to be one pretty miss. And every time I go, she's going to miss me

more and more.

She's going to have a tear in her eye. The time's going to pass so slow.

That's the kind of life for me.

There's one thing I want to be, and that's a hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man. I want to get up in the morning, oh yeah,

with the rising sun.

I'm going to stay right on that trail till the day is done.

I think that I'm old enough.

I'm young in years, but I'm mighty tough like a hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man.

You told me, too, you didn't hold breaking promises.

What promise?

Not exactly a promise.

What's so?

I hear you.

Didn't know then I was going to twist my ankle and be laid up for a week.

Or the weather was going to go bad and hold up the crop.

We just got to get this land broke.

Yeah, and we just had to hold weeds all last summer instead of fishing.

And we just had to pick cotton all last fall because we couldn't get no hard

help.

And now we won't get turned around twice. We just have to start the

planting. Well, the farm don't run itself.

School holiday or no school holiday?

I just can't take the time off now to go hunting.

We got to make a crop.

How else do you expect to eat or where close to school?

I can quit school.

Got me a saddle job promised at Dave Wilson's ranch.

Anytime you let me quit.

You knew your ma wouldn't hear of that.

She's been on you boys getting an education.

Now that's the end of it.

Once and for all.

I spread another plate.

What's that about another plate?

Lucky Stanley's coming down the road.

Just once, I'd like to see him show up when it weren't mealtime.

Well, Bachelor gets kind of cagey about them things.

Bachelor? No account fiddle-footed rake. That's what he is.

Has he ever married and tried to make a home? Has he ever raised children and

done a lick of work to feed and educate them? What's a man good for if he dodges

that kind of duty?

Well, maybe never met the right kind of woman.

You know, one who could settle them down, study them.

Yes, we don't want to settle down.

Leastwise, not with one woman.

What do you mean by that?

You know very well what I mean.

Yeah, but I never hear them having to get rough with them for Sweden.

Where you been, Blackie? Been coon hunting by a gum. Lookie here.

So big and all, eh? Went on a fight like they don't rock up a lot.

Fighting this coon I reckon that fool hounds ever see.

Howdy, Aaron.

Howdy, Blackie.

Wasting a mighty good coon I'd kill me that season.

Yeah, them old fool hounds don't show no more sense than a red ant in a hot

skillet. Me and Clint might have caught one like him if you kept your promise.

Get your shirt on.

Howdy do, Miss Kenny.

Well, I can tell you had bread breaking mile down the road.

Ain't nobody's bread in the whole county smell as sweet as yours. You ought to

know. You ain't Mr. House.

Well, that's the trouble with being single.

Some of the crook in a man's got to put up with.

You hold on, O'Ann. You're a lucky man.

I hope she didn't get the idea I was hidden.

I don't know what would have put a thought like that in her head.

Get out!

They never done a thing like that before.

I guess the smell must have meant too much for them to resist.

Well, I guess no woman will put up with a yard full of hounds like I keep.

And between hounds and women, I reckon you'd pick... Yeah, you'd pick the

hounds.

Well, Flick, take it down. Where are you going to find a woman who'll put up with

what a dog will?

Yeah. Well, you take that pesky old rock hound of mine. I can stow him to a

shadow.

Yeah, I can run him till his feet's wore right down over a bloody bone.

Get on a high lonesome trunk and kick him all over the place. But he's still

my dog, ready to lick my hand or warm my feet on a cold night.

Now you show me a woman who'll do the same.

Well, uh, you better wash up, Blackie. It's about time for breakfast.

Well, another personal.

Just trying to tell why it wouldn't work for me to settle down and get married.

Me too.

That's why I ain't never going to get married.

Well, what's matter and white these boys got a doll I don't when you was there

age You was a romping through the woods after a pack of hounds day and night

Well things is different now We got the farm to run and they got their school a

tent to dog take it looks to me like all that recent writing is a Waste of young

man's time lab and ruin his shoot night.

No, I never would myself with it ain't mister. No another Mars little touchy on

that subject Some things women just don't seem to understand

Well, it ain't that their ma don't want them to go hunting. It's just that I

can't spare the time to take them. And then she figures that Spud is too young

to go traipsing off with just Clint. Why don't we just hook up Daisy, throw a

cork beside a bacon in the wagon, and go gim around?

Could we, Pa?

Blackie's the best hunter in the whole world.

Your money sure tell young Rooster to be worrying about going on a big hunt, but

you know your ma wouldn't, unless she wouldn't.

Well, thanks for asking, Blackie.

Why, sure, Spud.

Now, you look out. That's a real pig's digger.

I'm going to rip this water right in half.

Rip!

You done it.

Blackie invited the boys to go hunting.

I don't wonder.

He'd like everybody to be as shiftless as he is.

Well, a little hunting and fishing won't make him shiftless.

You want our boys to run wild in the woods with a pass of our pesky hound

dogs?

Cora, I made the boys a promise.

I'd be obliged if you helped me keep it.

What about the farm?

You said yourself you needed Clint to help you get the land broke.

Clint and Spud worked hard here.

They'd do a little rest.

On top of that, Clint has reached the age when a boy gets as stubborn as a one

-eyed mule.

He wants a little room to spread out, as I see it.

If we don't give him the room, he'll just reach out and take it.

Not Spud.

He's just a baby.

Baby Coon don't learn to catch a frog by setting back in his den till he's growed

up.

Time to loosen up the strings on Spud, too.

As soon as we finish breakfast, I'll get the things ready.

Here's a clip on the bacon, all right? Yes, sir.

There you go, son.

What are you cooking that along for?

Somebody's got to feed my grasshopper.

Now,

Clint.

You be careful.

Look after the squad and listen to what Blackie has to tell you.

Y'all get hurt or sick, you might all be up in my hair like a mad horse.

Nothing to worry about, Pop. We'll make out. We sure will.

Here's a change of clothes and some molasses for sweetening.

Thanks, Mom.

Well, let's giggle.

Come on, Daisy.

Bye now, boys.

Bye. Don't touch them all.

Mosk in it and power on stand up there.

Lookie on.

Who's that messing around with that old fool horse?

Need a stringer.

He can't get.

You talk too much, bud.

That's what everybody tells me. Oh.

What's the trouble, honey?

Oh, crazy horse.

A runner stuck it in here way back.

Last summer, it never got over.

You gonna just sit there?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Easy, boy.

Whoa, easy now.

Much obliged, Clint.

Oh, weren't nothing much.

Clint? Yeah?

Got me new dress for that candy porn Saturday night. Well, I might not get

there.

Well, me and Black are going off on a big hunt, and we might not get back in

time.

Well, so long.

Honey!

Honey!

Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey!

Honey! Honey!

Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey!

Honey!

Honey!

up and feeling like a man i'm growing up oh yes i am

i just got a funny feeling i want to be on my home on the back of my

bags give me a horse and find a place to roam i want to go hunting over this

wild land gotta be something just like hound dog man i'm growing

up and feeling like a man

I'll do most things just like any man can.

They better start knowing I'm not a boy no more.

One thing I know, raring to go, I'm growing up for sure.

Want to go hunting over this wild land.

Got to be something just like a hound dog man. I'm growing up and feeling like

a man.

I'll do most things just like...

One thing you know, I'm raring to go. I'm growing up for sure.

One thing you know.

Boulders is the place to take the starch out of the salty one.

Them slick river rocks, they keep him thrown off balance.

Y'all stay put, you hear?

But Dave, how about you if that old horse throws you on them rocks?

Looking down for them rocks, that'll keep me in the saddle, too.

I tell myself now, Dave, if you let him stack you, the only thing it's going to

give when you hit is going to be your own old bones.

So I screw down tight in that saddle and hang and rattle.

Oh, Blackie.

Blackie.

Not that you're interested, of course, but this here is Donnie Waller. Sister

to my woman, Rachel.

She is a ring-tailed sinner that Donnie is.

You mean Fiddlin' Tom's littlest girl?

That's her.

You wasn't hardly flying size the time I slung them gals around Dave's wedding,

Dad. Well, I've feathered out some since then.

That's a mortal fact.

I reckon you'd better see what sort of a walk this old boss got in his backbone.

Now, get him through there.

Come on. Come on.

For cow hands and dang fools.

Pretty girl, she wants a frolic and wear silk and fancy for some man.

I can do them things, too.

Yeah, I bet you can.

out something? Is he to come hunting down your way?

Am I?

Providing he knows how to go about it.

Y'all catching any bondage?

Just got here.

Don't look to make a big catch.

Old dogs ain't much to count.

Yeah.

Prettiest she is, man ought to put her in a picture frame.

Have it sitting on his mantel board, just to look at.

Thought you didn't know I was getting married.

Me get married?

Ha! Man alive, that'd stop all the clocks. The day old Blackie Scanlon gets

married.

Come on, let's go.

Set us up camping and get us out of Fishland.

Right here's a place I hung me a catfish, the size of a boat.

That's the size we aimed the catfish. Me?

Not certain for one the size of a dog.

You just take the spring and pull the lips. Right there we'll whip the fat out

of the biggest kind of a catfish in no time at all.

Well,

if there ain't no hogfish.

Who give you permit to dog hunt along this river here?

Ain't nobody give me permit.

I ain't ask for none.

I got hogs running on this here river. I don't want to get them showing up with a

couple of mangy dogs.

He ain't got nothing to worry about. My dogs won't touch it.

Meat's too tough.

Before you get to laughing too much at your own jokes, any harm come to my

hogs, I'll take it out of your hide.

What's hog want to stir up a stink about?

If he in a long land, he ain't got a right to run hogs on him.

Well, that's how some folks is.

Ain't satisfied owning a controlling interest in all creation.

Still want to crack the whip on the old man.

Listen, that's old Trump.

That's old Trump.

Bitch, he's speaking something.

Well, come on. Let's go.

Sounds like them old pot hounds got something to treat.

Yeah, there's something up there.

You guys run too fast.

Be careful.

Might be a big old borkoo.

Yeah.

Some borkoo.

How about that?

He's no bigger than a little end and nothing whittled down to a fine point.

Poor little fella's scared to death.

The only thing he's good for is to grow up into a big possum.

In all his life, he's going to think he's a real smart possum. Remember how

he fooled us into leaving him alone.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, Rock Drum, let's go.

Easy now spot don't want to snap it I'll get it Good

but

looks like it's hung up got on tight first, but I'll do it easy now. I'm not

as slippery as an eel in a hurry

I've been a rover everywhere, free as a bird up in the air.

Single, I'm gonna travel single.

I'm never gonna let a single woman ever tie me down.

I'm gonna wander through the trees, do as I want to when I please.

Single, coming and going single, with a little coin to jingle.

When I wanna come to town, I got my hounds and my man.

Rock and drum and daisy. And now what do we want with a nagging wife to drive us

crazy? Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy.

So pretty, baby, don't you grieve. I'm going to love you, but I'll leave

single. I'm going to keep you single.

I know you want to make me mango.

You're never going to tie me down, down, down.

You're never going to tie me, never going to tie me down, down, down.

Three of my hogs come home all charred up. Now, I warned you to keep your dogs

away from them. All my dogs do is to chase them out of our camp.

Well, they won't do that no more.

Next time you come around here with a loaded rifle, I'll bend a barrel right

over your head, you hear? Now go on, get out of here.

I hope

your dog's tearing to

pieces. Them two really have.

You reckon they'll strike a trail?

Can't tell what them clabbermouth digits might do. First foot.

Here I am.

Why don't you stay with us?

I had to go.

He's after something.

I wonder what that old fool hound thinks he smells.

Come on.

a fancy eatin'. When we gonna cook him? Well, it'd be a shame to ruin a big, fat

gobbler like this cookin' him over a little old campfire.

Why would we ruin him? We just put him over a fire and let him cook.

You see, a bird rates better than that. He ought to have all the trimmin'. I'm

so hungry, I wouldn't care how I would taste it.

When it comes to fixin' turkey, you can't hardly beat woman cookin'. We

ain't gonna go home already, are we?

Well, who said anything like that?

Well, I thought you meant you gonna have my cookies.

Not that your ma ain't a fine cook, but there's other womenfolk live a lot

closer. Who?

Well, I'll think of one.

Look out yonder if you want to see the hand of the Almighty in all its glory.

Just look at the color in them there trees.

There ain't no picture-painting artist ever got them colors put down right.

And there ain't none never will.

Yes, Papa.

Now you'd better put some clothes on.

You take after your mama.

You're always telling me what to wear, when to eat.

Somebody's got to think of them things for you.

Hey, ain't you dressed up kind of fancy?

What's fancy about this old dress?

Ain't that the wallet girl we saw yesterday?

My jolly? You're it. Yeah, I forgot.

She lives there, too.

Oh, bitch, you know it all along.

Kind of suspicious, little cussing.

All right, Jody.

Well, look who's here.

Hello, boys.

Hi. Hello, Brackett.

We had us a hot trailer going, and the first thing we'd know was right here at

your back door.

Think it ought to be Naverly dropping.

What's he talking about?

You thinking you're on the trail or something?

You're mighty right I'm on the trail or something.

I like a man what don't let the grass grow under his feet.

Well, uh, we come by to talk to your pa.

Oh, you told me.

What kind of fiddling is that?

That ain't no fiddle tune anyone ever played before.

Papa, he just made it up out yonder while he watched the sunrise.

Hmm. I'll be darned.

Well, uh, were he always playing in his sleeping drawers?

Papa generally stays lost in some kind of pearly dream.

You sort of have to take care of him.

Well, Clint, you take this gobbler over to Miss Waller, and you and Scott help

her do up the work, huh?

Here, boy.

Pretty sure of yourself, ain't you?

Well, now, if I was you and I met up with a fine, upstanding man like me,

well, I wouldn't hardly be able to eat nor sleep or want to see me again.

Tom, I'll let the cows out to pasture.

There's a whole lot there that feels the same way about you.

prettiest looking cow hand ever did see.

I've gone back to help Mama.

Oh, well, she don't need you as much as I do.

You don't waste much time, do you?

What's the matter?

I'm fixing to propose marriage.

Look here, every time a fella kisses somebody, they don't go asking if she's

fixing to marry him.

Could just be I ain't like them other somebodies. If you ain't smart enough to

know that, you ain't smart enough for me to waste no time on.

Come on, son, look at you, don't you?

You got a mighty fancy bed laid out.

If I was either married or kind, you'd be the one. But, boy, this old Fox, he's

robbed too many sexes. Stick his foot in the trap now.

Pity you come all this way for nothing.

There comes a time when a boy can lay his belly to the ground, feel the hot

beach of the earth a-crumbin' up to him through the grassroot.

That's his time to prowl, to hurt with the want of knowin' what's on the yonder

side of the next ridge.

The Almighty, he never meant a boy to miss them things when his time comes.

Ain't never the same after you get older.

Might be better, might be worse.

Never again the same.

Hey, the puppy licked my hand.

He did.

What?

Yeah, boy.

He really did.

Honest. That pup won't take up with nobody.

If I could find somebody he'd take up with, I'd give him to him.

You would?

I don't get all excited, Spud.

You know what Ma said.

Yeah. I guess I better do this.

What if he did take to me?

You and Blackie have a talk?

We talk.

Mama, remember when Rachel and Dave got married?

Blackie danced with me at the wedding.

I've been waiting.

Ever since then for him to find out I growed up.

Today he found out something else.

At least I hope he did.

All this time and you never said a word to me, your papa.

You know now.

Honey, I'm telling you, you fight shy of that Blackie Scandler.

I found an old man like that. He ain't the marrying kind.

Any man is the marrying kind if the right woman gets after him.

Oh, wow. He's cute as a bug with that.

Slick tongue, that little ducktail of hair.

Landon Moses, child, never on this green earth could you hold him. No woman

could. He's a prowler.

I can hold him.

I'll prowl with him.

Who's going to make the living I'd like to know?

The trifling, no-account man, that Blackie.

You're a fine one.

Married up with a left-handed fiddler, then trying to tell me about trifling,

no-account men.

Dolly, don't you talk like that about your papa.

There was never a better-hearted man born.

You don't have to tell me.

In my book, Papa just barely plays second fiddle to the Almighty.

But loving him like I do don't blind me to how he sits and fiddles.

Leaves the heavy work to his women folk.

But, honey, he'll break your heart a thousand times. Of course he will. Then

turn right around and patch it up again.

Just like Papa does for you.

Oh, Tony.

It's no use talking, Mama.

That Blackie, he's something special.

And that something special is what I got to have.

And when I get it, I'll hold it, too.

Don't you worry none about that.

Howdy, Tom.

Hey, Blackie, this puppy licked my hand.

Well, how about that?

Well, that's a fine-looking pup. He sure is.

He won't take up with nobody.

He just eats, lays around under the house of an old wild tomcat that's

staying there.

Here, boy.

Come on. Come on.

Come on. That there's a one-man dog.

He ain't found the right man yet, and he will never be no count he does.

You boys come on in.

Oh, we hate to put your women folk out that way.

Won't put them out. Won't put them out at all.

Come on in.

way nobody can count the pieces I ate.

Hey, that must be the old tomcat you were telling about.

That old cat's too wild to eat at first.

Donnie here's even picking them bread scraps, gently letting them down.

I got a gift for taming wild things.

Well, he's sure eating them turkey bones right now.

Well, I guess you would too if all you did for the last month was cold corn

bread.

Tony, pass your papa a hot biscuit.

Don't you know that old thing would throw a wall I'd fit and Alice would

reach down to grab him?

I bet he'd jump clean out of his eyes.

Well, I sure wouldn't want to try it. Wild as that old cat is, he'd eat you

alive. I ain't scared.

I had my hands on Quidditch, heap wilder hands.

And it still got away with it.

Most of them critters wasn't trying very hard to get loose.

Go on.

Grab that old tomcat.

See how you make out.

Give me that drumstick so I can poke him out.

I can handle it.

Ah!

Don't take on so, honey.

Nothing lasts forever.

Oh, but dang it, I was just... Well, I was just a prank, and I... I think you'd

better go.

Go on.

Let's gather up our plunder boys.

I hate to just eat and run, but... Well, I reckon we better.

Tapping back yonder's a prize sample how womenfolk will make a great big to-do

about a little old bit of nothings.

Wish it hadn't happened so quick.

Didn't hardly get my fill of that turkey and dressing.

What are they growling at?

That's funny.

Little old Ruff sprung up like that, tailing us all the way from fiddling

down. He sure must have a nose on him.

Looks like he's found what he's after.

He picked me out of all the people in the world.

He picked me. He sure did.

I can keep him, can't I?

I don't know, Spuds.

You know how Ma's always been about hound dogs.

You all go to sleep now.

I take you home all frazzled out while I get thrown out of another house.

In this friendly, friendly world With each

day so full of joy Why should

any...

be lonely in this friendly

friendly world with each night so full of dreams

why should

full of

Nobody ever saw this before.

Except maybe the Indians.

Ain't he a great dog?

You better think up a name for him. Can't just go and call him he.

Dogs gotta have a name like anybody else.

How about Mush Head?

He's a smart dog.

I'm gonna call him Spot.

How could you call him Spot when he's all one color?

He's just one big black spot.

Now what's he think he's doing?

Like his legs, bro, plumbin' too.

Spud, you tear back for the wagon, hook up the old man and get down here so we

can haul Dave back to his house.

I'd better do that. No.

You take Dave's horse, head for town and load Doc Coles. Fast as you can ride.

Dave Wilson broke his leg. I'm going to get Doc Cole. Hurry up. They'll be

needing some help.

What's all the big hurry, son?

I've got to get Doc Cole.

Dave Wilson needs help quick.

Dave Wilson, Doc.

He's in a bad fix.

I'm the one who's in a bad fix.

I got me a toothache built to fit a heart.

But you gotta go, Doc.

Dave's leg is broke.

He let a mean rock fall on it.

Damnation!

Anybody and everybody else can afford to get sick. All we gotta do is call a

doctor. Who's the doctor gonna call when he gets sick?

Let the doctor get sick and everybody's in. What's the matter with old Doc?

Don't he know any better than that?

Dave's gotta have help quick, Doc.

He lives clear down past the river.

Boy, I just can't go way off down there.

All right, boy. We got to hurry.

Dave's leg will be swelled up and we can't set it with two crowbars and a

sledgehammer. Don't just stand there.

Go down and get the car filled with gas.

Yes, sir.

What happened to Dave Wilson, Clint?

Broke his leg.

Oh, no.

I can't talk now.

I gotta get Doc's car and find somebody to take care of Dave's horse.

Where's your dandified friend?

Dandified?

You mean Terminus Dooley?

I mean that sweet-talker pawing you around a minute ago.

Why, Clint Kinney.

Terminus is one of the... I don't care what he is. You tell him to keep his

hands to himself.

But, Clint, Terminus is a grown-up man.

You couldn't fight him.

He ever lays a hand on me again, I'll show him who's a man.

Bust his jawbone.

Painkiller.

You're afraid I'll be drunk before we get there, ain't you?

Well... You're right, boy. I'll probably be so pie-eyed I couldn't hit the ground

on my head if I took three throws.

I gotta do something to kill the pain in this old tooth.

Why don't you pull it?

Pull it?

What do you think I've been trying to do?

Can't even see it to get a hold of it.

I had a rotten tooth once.

It was only a baby one, but it sure hurt.

What'd you do about it?

I ate it.

Ate it?

Yes, sir.

I was eating a peach one day, and when I finished the peach, the tooth was gone.

Take more than a peach to get rid of this one.

Well, when Spud gets a loose tooth, Ma ties one end of the string to it and the

other end to a doorknob.

Then she slams the door.

Spud says don't haul air to big.

Where are you going to find a doorknob out here in the woods?

Well, we can use the car wheel instead of a door.

I got some fishing line.

Here you try this around you too

I'll try this sense of the wheel

Howdy, boys.

Hello, Amy.

Doctor. What you got? Fried chicken?

Plenty of it.

Did you tell my papa, Spock? I didn't even have time to go by the house.

You stay outside, Spock.

Come on, Spock.

When our times come, it's come.

Howdy, folks.

Howdy, Doc. Good to see you. Tom, did you bring your fiddle? I sure did.

Rachel? Hello,

Grandma. Wilson, you got here none too soon. Why, he looks bad.

Oh, don't pay no attention to her, Doc. She's been preaching doom for 40 years.

Well, Granny, ain't nobody ever died from a broke leg.

What's the matter, Dave?

Can't you ride the bad ones anymore?

Ride them?

Thunderation. How do you expect me to ride one upside down?

Let's have a look at that leg.

Oh, dang them mighty, Doc.

Watch your cussing, Dave.

The lords are listening to you. It do seem like a body on his deathbed ought

to keep from cussing.

It's a confounded whining and nagging of you women folks that killed us.

Give me three or four good stout men.

Who are you killing me, Doc?

Oh, don't, Doc.

I just can't stand it.

Oh, let him. Why, she's fainted. What are we going to do now?

Do let her lay there. Maybe she'll keep her mouth shut. for a minute get these

cats calling females out of my way you don't want the baby to hear cotton

before he's even

blackie

blackie keep your hands off her legs you hear me hope

you can hold them better than you held that tomcat

We don't know yet.

Doc says these three forced-out men to help old Dave on setting his leg.

Well, one of them's me.

Hey, Charlie, tie my horses.

Where'd Hogg cabbage onto High Roller like that?

Brung her back from the city last fall.

Hogg sure does bed in high cotton. Mm-hmm.

Where has he been keeping her all this time?

Where do you think?

One more put this drinking jug and I'll set it myself.

What you want us to do, Doc?

Take a hold of his arm and his good leg.

I don't want him a-swinging and a-kicking at me while I'm a-setting his

broken.

All right, are you all set?

Let him go.

Everybody hang on to what he's got.

Mrs. Lake will be all right.

What are you doing here?

I went out to help.

Terminus offered to bring me.

Maybe I oughtn't to bother bringing Doc Cole, as long as Terminus is here.

No, Fred, honey.

Weren't nothing to it.

It may hurt a little when he sobers up, but it'll heal straight.

Thank you, Doc.

Now, you all go and wash up for supper. All them folks are coming. Why, we'll

have to eat in shifts.

But we'll eat.

Ain't it nice, Dave, how all the folks come to set up with you? Some of them

even brung vittles.

Think you'll have me that drink now, Dave.

Looks like you're in for the biggest party since Ellie Morgan had twins.

Well, now, that's an I.D.

By a dog, if it ain't.

Please, now, Dave, you keep on, you're going to hurt that leg all over again.

This year's my party, and I don't think you missed one hook or holler at me.

Only got the pretty girl with the pretty green eyes.

Got the pretty girl with the flaming red hair.

A pretty girl.

pretty green eyes.

A pretty little girl with the pretty green eyes. A

pretty little girl with the pretty green eyes. Oh, you have the power to

hypnotize. Oh, you set my heart aflame with the fire of your pretty red eyes.

If it wasn't for this broke leg, I'd be up there feeling it hard to turn myself.

A pretty little girl with the pretty green eyes. Come on, Grandpa. Let's let

you and me show these young'uns how to do it. A pretty little girl with the

pretty green eyes. I love the beauty of your eyes and the fire of your pretty

red eyes.

Well, don't take it. Look out there. You don't bust another one.

I love the beauty of your eyes and the fire of your pretty red eyes.

I love you.

A pretty little girl with the pretty green eyes. A pretty little

girl with the pretty green eyes. Oh, you have a way to.

But she loves me so Who's gonna be my steady beau?

There's nothing special he must be Except to just be mine There'll never be

no jealousy

Special he must be. Blackie, just be mine.

There'll never be no jealousy.

You let some fancy pants come along, they can't see nobody else.

Well, yeah, there's some like that.

Then there's some you can't get rid of. Sort of sick and the dog gone.

Here.

Have a drink, boy.

I'll help you blow off steam.

Fights back, don't you, boy?

Went down the wrong pipe.

Put sand in a man's craw.

There you go, Spud.

Poor little shirt-tail kid.

Hey, Plum, tug it out of here.

Get some sleep here, Spud, because we still got us some hunting to do.

Thank you, Blackie.

You don't reckon it'll wear you, Dave, all that partying out there?

Not at all. It's cheering him up when all his friends and neighbors are having

themselves a good time.

Now, you had enough to eat.

Go back to sleep.

Can I have Spot up here with me?

Sure he can.

Hey,

Postoffer, don't you know about the apartment?

Let's go.

Hey, Postoffer, stop the ground.

Swing them pretty gals round and round.

Now the man will look, he'll look down the land.

Right your partner, right your friend.

Hey, pull it up and stop it down.

Make that stopper go to the ground.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete. I'm Susie Bell-Pete. I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

Shake the hall.

Swing your girl and put her in the middle.

Gents, take a walk and keep time with the fiddle.

Cash her, girl, as you go around.

Swing the next one often.

Hi, Chris.

Think you could get me a drink?

No, I can use one myself.

Swing her out and swing her back.

Gents, bomb a nade on the outside side.

Bring that next girl. Put her back.

I don't see Blackie fighting her off.

for the party. I guess a little one won't hurt much.

Come on, that was strong.

This stuff will draw blood blisters on a real hard move.

They still get used to it.

Oh, excuse me.

You want a drink?

That's just what I'm after.

Water. I was just telling Blackie.

I ain't been since I got married.

Mrs. Payson, you sure look like you never stopped then.

Maybe I got something they want to get close to.

Well, no offense, Mrs. Payson, but if you have, you sure keep it well hidden.

When you grow up, you'll find the men don't seem to think so.

When I grow up.

Come on.

Oh, Clint, you want to dance? I didn't come to dance. I didn't come to argue.

Let's go.

Hold on here, boy. What's this? I don't like you fooling around my girl. Your

girl? What gives you that idea?

You better keep your hands off me.

Clint, what's got into you?

Are you coming with me or not?

Not when you act like that.

Look, I told you once before. Simmer down, boy. Simmer down.

Take it easy.

That don't mean all you're drunk. You're drunker than a bald owl.

I can't go on.

Here's your mom, your pop.

I'm going to fix you in right now. I'm all right.

You'll be all right. I can get through you. Come on.

ain't suffering no pain tonight.

He likely will in the morning.

Evening, Donnie. My boys don't happen to be around, do they? They was the ones

that found me.

Oh, we put Spud to bed in the house.

Where's Clint?

Oh, he's around somewhere.

Seems like a month since I've seen him. I'll just look in on Spud.

And miss all this good fiddling?

We can look in on Spud any time.

Oh, thank you, Rachel.

Mrs. Kinney, may I have the honor?

Let's take a whirl.

Watch Mr. and Mrs. Kinney and don't let them go wandering around till I see if

Clint's all right.

Feeling any better?

I guess I acted up pretty bad, didn't I?

the liquor handles in.

You'd better walk around a little bit before you go back inside.

I'll stall.

Thanks, Blanky.

Blanky? I saw you take Crell outside.

I thought you might be needing help.

Oh, he's all right now.

Sure feels good, don't it?

Sure does.

Oh, yeah.

You're pretty, don't you, my dear?

She's got her eyes on you all night like maybe she owns you.

Don't know a woman on Black East Adler.

Who's my husband you're scared of?

That hog, he can be pretty mean.

Come fooling around, I'll set the dogs on him.

Already did, was.

I'd like to have seen that.

I'm looking for my wife. You seen her around? Susie Bell?

Last I seen, she was dancing with Blackie.

She ain't dancing now.

Blackie ain't neither.

Well, that don't mean nothing.

What's he gonna do? Who mind your own business?

Nothing for you. You all right?

I guess so. Your head is all wet.

Lucky shoved me in the truck.

Well, good for him.

Where is he?

He said he was going back to keep my folks busy until I got there.

You know, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Drinking, fighting.

I am.

I sure wore out that terminus, didn't I?

Keep talking like that, you're going to end up back in the truck.

I don't feel so good.

I'll keep you company till you feel better.

Well, I reckon we better be getting back.

And I heard what a big ladies' man you was.

You've got a funny way of showing it.

Maybe it's cause I'm used to doing the jazzer.

Who's about?

You get over here.

Now, I warned you about that before we come here.

I don't know what you're talking about. Shut up.

Who are you out with? Nobody, I swear. Where's Blackie?

I don't know.

I just stepped out to get a breath of air. I'll learn you to spread your bait

around.

I wasn't out with nobody.

You know I wouldn't go for no country rake like him. I'll learn that varmint

chasing tramp to Tampa with a patient wound.

So he wasn't out with Bucky.

it outside.

This here ain't no place to settle a difference. Outside, that's where they

started it. I'll wind it up in here. Now go on.

All of you.

What's the matter, Blackie?

Ain't you got the guts to come down and open?

This time you ain't got a pack of old dogs to do your fighting for you.

I'll tell you, he wasn't with me.

He had him another woman. I seen him.

You're lying. No, I swear.

All right, if it wasn't you, who was it?

Might ruin some woman's reputation reputation any woman's sorry enough to

let that thing draw out ain't got no reputation So who was it?

It was me You

but Tony I

don't know what all this to do is about

What's between Blackie and me ain't none of your business?

I'll make it my business.

Nobody else got the guts to protect their women, folks.

I'll do it for them.

Mason.

You've caused enough trouble around here.

Put the gun down and go home.

I got no fight with you.

Stay out of this.

Go home.

You can go home with him or not.

It's up to you.

We better be getting home.

finds out he'll kill Blackie.

Oh, Tom. My poor baby in front of all those people.

There ain't nothing wrong with a young couple sneaking off by themselves,

providing his intentions honorable.

How can you talk like that?

Because I got a longer memory than you got.

I can remember way back before we was married.

Tom.

Don't fret so, honey.

We'll have the biggest wedding since Dave and Rachel got hitched. Everybody's

got things all figured out, haven't they?

What got into her?

She was after him, wasn't she?

You wouldn't understand.

Blackie. Blackie.

Hall's going home.

I know.

I hear what you said. She weren't with you. I know she weren't.

She just said that to keep Hall from killing you.

I know.

I've been studying all day.

Well, I've got to see Paul.

Take good care of Jewel.

She ain't no Susie Bell, but at my age, it can't be fussy.

Goodbye.

Howdy, Ma.

Come in.

Howdy, son.

Did you boys catch any varmints? Oh, son.

I've been wondering where you've gone off to.

You look kind of peaked, son.

You been getting enough to eat? Oh, sure, plenty.

That's fine.

Well, Cora, it's about time you and me were getting on home.

Yeah, I'll go with you.

No need for you to cut your hunting trip short.

Oh, that's all right.

I don't want to make such a fuss about it in the first place.

There's nothing to fret about.

Boys like mules.

One don't get butthead now and then generally ain't good for nothing Well,

if you're coming along with us, I'll just go and roust out spot.

We could all go home together Right wagon good There

was something you've done the

hog All I done was what had to be

done

Weren't nothing to take pride in.

I take pride, Nick.

A heap of pride.

It ain't a pleasant thing to humble a man in front of his friends and

neighbors.

I weren't mean on that part.

I take pride watching my pa do what nobody else could do.

Oh, I reckon there was others who could have done the same.

Maybe.

If it had a nerve.

You sure you don't mind cutting the trip short?

Can't waste two weeks fooling around.

We got a lot of plowing to do.

All right, Nita.

I'm sorry for the way I acted in there.

I guess I can't handle that whiskey.

It won't ever happen again.

I was as much to blame as you was.

Oh, no, you wasn't.

You got a right to like anybody you want.

What I mean... I was trying to make you jealous.

I don't really like to miss at all.

You don't?

Well... How are you going to get home?

Mr. and Mrs. Fikes are going right by our place.

I'll follow them.

Oh.

You know, I just got mad that it looked like he cared more about going hunting

with Blackie than taking me to the candy pond.

Could be I can make it to that candy pond tomorrow night.

I'll remember Jeff.

Well, I better go help Pop.

Look at my young and dead to the world.

I bet the boys ain't had a wink of sleep since they left home.

You oughtn't to have let Spud bring the dog in the house. It's one of your kind

of pain. They're all cracked up. That don't matter.

Cora, maybe it ain't none of my business, but it's going to break that

boy's heart if you don't let him keep that pup.

He's already given a name.

Spot. Spot?

I never did a hole with boys running in the woods.

Jason, after a no-good passel, old hound dogs.

If I have me a boy, he's going to have a dog for sure.

Well, a boy and a dog, they go together like a husband and wife.

Pepper and salt.

You ever hear of too much pepper in the stew?

You'll see.

It's easy to talk before they're born, but I want my boys to grow up in a

mountain or something.

When the time comes, you'll want the same.

Tell Dave we'll be by to see him.

Where's Spud?

Who's Spud?

Town pub. Mr. Waller gives Spud. Well, Mr. Waller can just take him right back.

He's going to be awful sorry.

We've been through that before, Clint.

Yes, ma'am. I'll just sit in the back so Spud won't fall out.

Keep on going.

But it wouldn't be fair to keep the pup overnight and then have to take him

back. You said anything about taking him back.

Do you mean I can keep him?

I'll tell you one thing. Don't you ever let me catch that old hound pup

scratching up my flower beds. Hear me?

She sees that pup scratching at the flower garden, she'll skin us all alive.

Oh, boy, he lives! Johnny!

I've been looking all over for you. What are you doing up here?

I just want to be alone.

Now, wait a minute.

Ain't nothing to get bothered about.

Well, this slicker's kind of an old fox that keeps fooling around a bit.

Finally gets caught.

I got by longer than most. So now you feel trapped.

No, now, you wait. I didn't mean that.

I don't want you real bad. It's just, well, a man who sort of hates to give up

hunt and prowl take on a big responsibility.

I done took note of that.

But, well, now, the way I see it, a man can hardly hope to hunt and prowl all

his life.

There comes a time in his life when it's only right for him to step between the

traces and pull his part of the load.

Just what you mean to do.

Yeah.

Sell an old house of mine, and buy me a span of mules, and rip the fields up of

some old place, and grow crops like you've never seen grow before.

Et quoi?

Will you marry me?

Oh, Blackie! I never thought I'd hear you say it for two days.

Oh, Blackie, do you really want to? Want to? What dog... J.K., it ain't I just

offered to give up all I've got or ever been used to. You don't have to give up

nothing for me. Keep your hands hot and proud when you're lost.

All I'm wanting is for you to keep loving me.

God love you.

Good luck, J.K.

I was missing somebody special.

Come on, Spud.

Can't hardly wait till Doc says we can kick him on his footprint.

Don't guess I can hardly make it tonight, Spud.

Sort of tied up.

Tied up?

But you said you'd go with me any time I wanted. I know.

But you see, I done promised Ed I'd take you to that candy pulling.