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Look at the birdie... look at the tree.

My girls are the prettiest known to the county.

That's all.

Mr. Durin, you've made us all immortal.

Young ladies and gentlemen...

Now, young ladies and gentlemen... Alright, you cloud-headed.

You've still 2 weeks before graduation.

Let me remind you.

Mr. Durin's picture taking is completed.

You prepare yourself to Mr. Durin here some time this week

an individual photograph

to appear in the Academy Album.

Miss Kader... why are you standing there as if transfixed?

Is it because you've left your books in the study at the expense of

your splendid youth and innocence

or is it because you've already entered into the miserable Harvard womanhood

and beat with them?

Alright, stop all of that or stop blushing

Johnny.

He's not here

0h, you mustn't see me hiding.

Hide what?

Happy graduation, Johnny.

Thank you.

Happy graduation to you.

Thank you

l guess we had the same idea

lsn't that nice?

We think the same thing

lsn't that crazy?

0pen your present, Johnny

lt's all about Raintree County

lt's illustrated with colored maps... Statistics and history...

And place adventures

lt's wonderful... just wonderful.

Look... prominent citizens of Raintree County.

There're over hundred of them

Johnny, someday your name will be the first on that list.

Naturally

0pen yours, come on.

Well, l think you'll like it... It weighs 6 lbs

0h, l think Lord Byron was the most fascinating man ever lived.

He seemed so much in need of

a good woman to love and love him.

He never really found one.

Yes...

There's a photograph inside... L wrote something on the back of it

Johnny, it's beautiful.

You know what l think?

L think someday you're going to be a great writer

lt's just beautiful

l've never heard such nonsense

wasting 3 days write this.

What's this... a speech?

It's not nonsense

lt's an honor to be valid Victoria

lt goes to the student ranking first in scholarship.

You know so much about it.

What did you ever valid... validate... Whatever it's called?

Pap is valid Victoria for the whole Raintree County.

Did you know that, Mom?

Your father?

Preaching a sermon to the most undesirable element.

Waste the elegance there is in a lot of ground.

It's the undesirable element which we desire...

You object the Pap's elevating spiritual welfare the people?

What about my spiritual welfare?

Why can't we get an inside pump?

Yeah, Pap... what about an inside pump?

That's not a joke.

What ever did learned you at that school?

You learn a cup of beer?

Your mother has beaty confused with Heidelberg.

You learn to smoke tobacco?

Like a chimney.

Huh, your father like that ...ever here his sermon on the evils of tobacco

and with the regular pond some do it chew and some do it smoke.

But some end up their nose do poke

l do all three the same time.

You learned anything else?

L learn my mother is a fraud and what she says is hateful

that the way she says it.

You never amount anything like that.

Well, he ought to amount to something.

He's related to one of the greatest writers in the English language.

Who's that?

Thomas Carlyle, that's who.

L think you're old enough to know that...

Joe, stop that foolishness.

Well, l always thought that one day

be a great man in the family.

Great man?

Is a great man more good to get a job of farm this land.

Why ever was l cursed with such a burden?

0h... which reminds me.

How are you and Nell getting along?

Nell is a fine girl and she is...

Well, she's Raintree County.

That means a lot of people like us, people with roots.

A man should not only marry his beloved.

He should marry his region.

A good wife is a good start, taught greatness.

Pap, define greatness.

Greatness?

Well, a great man is one who does good for others and.

I guess in that way your father qualifies.

Greatness?

Ha!

If that great philosopher Socrates used living today,

lf he were used to sit on a crack chewing tobacco...

That was America, that's the greatness.

Do l shock you?

How can l shock such unenlightened cloud heads?

Are you stunned, Mrs. Lydia Gray?

0h, stop looking at me, child.

With those big brown cow eyes round milk like wax in the flame.

Yeah.

Do l shock you, Miss Nell Kader?

Not as much as you like to

0h, there must be somebody l shoked.

How about you, Johnny Seanacy?

L... relish it.

You don't shock me if you don't want shocking.

Thanks, my boy.

Now, about greatness.

We Americans measure greatness in simple terms... in terms of money.

We're always hunting with a tree of life

whose root is pure gold...

You have beautiful chest-light color hair, my dear.

But, there's another tree

not of gold, but of fulfillment...

Whose flower is accomplishment and its fruit is love.

Most ways, the ways of pleasantness

and most paths all lead to peace.

Find that tree and you'll find greatness

ln every land, every language poems of some of this tree.

And we in lndiana have our own mythe about it.

It's the tree from which our county takes its name

0ne day a ragged preacher, was wandering on the shore of the lake

in the middle of the county.

That preacher was a man you all know,

Johnny Appleseed who spent his life

traveling to the pioneer West

planting apple seeds in the wilderness.

Among these thousands of seeds there was one that ragged preacher cherised.

Not an appleseed, an exotic seed from China,

the seed of a golden raintree.

The preacher searched the tiny earth place, the one place.

Well, this one seed by taking root, blandished.

Someone in this county found that place.

But where that raintree was planting?

Nobody knows.

Professor, how could such a tree grow on

seeing in the county?

There's a great swamp by the Paradise Lake.

There perhaps stands the tree

lts sacred tonic trunk towering up in the drawning silence

smacks deep in the middle of the county.

Find that tree, boy,

and you'll learn the secret of life itself.

Find it and become the hero of Raintree County.

Do you really think it there?

Why don't you have a real good see for yourself?

Professor, you still haven't answered the question.

Do you really think it there?

It's there, alright

lt's there...

But the sacred fire ready to be blacked.

But if you look for it.

Be sure you'll find it.

What happens if you pursued the raintree and don't find it?

You see before you a seeker who didn't find.

None of the human creature as the pitiable and harmless creature you'll be hold in vain.

Alright, human... the show is over.

Now, disappear... all of you, like phantoms.

Attention, now easily slip away.

Mrs. Gray, it's my time with you, huh?

Nell, let's you and l go to find the raintree.

Professor said looking for the raintree is appearless business.

It can't be so.

So even dressed for it?

Are you serious?

Certainly l am... come on.

We mind it... find it

Johnny, not now.

Why?

You scared?

Ah... is he fooling?

Look at him.

What's up because of the tale told by that idiot...

That expert in that calculated sanity?

Are you coming?

In the bad swamp, just because the Professor put a barge on you about going

about the raintree?

Would you take care of this for me?

If you mind l take care this for you?

You can go right ahead, sprout.

Sure, Johnny, go right ahead.

Huh, don't hurry back, sprout

l hate when a thing like this happens

l never know how it happens.

Yeah, it's a whip of shame.

Well, Sir, but is it Johnny Seanacy?

More like Johnny Appleseed.

Ha, where have you been, sprout?

I'm walking.

Get in, Johnny, we'll take you home.

Come on, Johnny, get in back.

Poor boy, you look half drowned.

Was nearly all drowned.

You mean you look for that... what's you call?

Yes, looking for the what'is you call.

Did you find it?

No

0h, what a whip of shame, sprout.

Poor pitiable harmless creature.

Johnny, tell me what happened.

Yes, sprout, tell us all about it, huh?

Well.

Boy, we'd like to tell us all about this.

I Doubt, when you tell our fellows about it.

Huh?

L mean, say, you got the story straight

l entered the swamp like around here,

see... around that way.

What are you...

0h, excuse me, you're quite right

l entered the swamp this way and the so flows kind of a line that way.

That's how he came over the swamp.

'You find that raintree?' l said.

'No' he said, 'l nearly drowned'

l figure that tried to cool his head,

But then she says... she says.

What did she say?

She said" what a poor pitiable harmless creature".

What's going on, boys?

0h, hello, Dr. Seanacy.

We were just talking about your son Johnny.

Flash purple.

Don't you know that your body is a temple of the spirit?

And you defile and polluted with that devil's brew you've there.

Why you say so, but...

Why don't you come around to our next tempest rally,

Come around to take a total afternoon to pledge

l'll take that pledge right now

0h, no... we want men to take pledge only when they're sober.

But if they're sober, what's the sense having the pledge taken place?

Wait, man... l want to testify that l hanen't been drunk for 2 weeks

l drunk beer, wine and most of them with all friends

l'm drunk here now this minute

l can't find a man who can drink

as much as l have walked straight and l can still foot any man in this county.

Thank you now if you just... mark a day and a hit town.

Stand at any corner and listen to the jumper, the local anthropoid.

Steady...

l had hoped that this subject under discussion was sufficiently elevated to engage my interest.

However...

Professor, we were just talking about

your most promising student,

Speak of angels and hear their wings.

Hm, not that promising student.

Ah, Mr. Gray and his charming wife.

How in the entire world of cross ability did that chilly January win

such a blithesome May?

That reminds me...

Do you know the story about the old judge who married a girl 18?

Sure, will yoy excuse me.

Ha...

0h, Pap...

Ha...

Wow, here comes the hero of Raintree County

l guess he'll go again for the gold raintree.

Ha...

Bob has been shooting his big fat mouth again.

Yes, if you really want to be the hero

in Raintree County, all you gonna do

ls play the Flash Burgins for the bare-foot race.

Flash Burgins?

So you're Johnny Seanacy.

Could be, who wants to know?

Do you hear that boys?

Should l tell this child here who l am?

Why don't you tell him, Flash?

Son, it gives me great peculiar satisfaction and relegation to introduce to you and

these handsome and intelligent dummy that

l'm a gentleman who's better known as Flash Burgins,

fastest runner in Raintree County.

Never heard of who is he.

Listen, child, it's me

l certify most of the runners in the north and the south

before they're qualified for the Games

l'm half horse and half the asshole in their spare time

l buzz the more skulls and rag more campus and chase more ladies...

That's the true.

And there's a fine jump this year.

Now little boy like stand by and stone watch.

Now who are you?

I'm Johnny Seanacy and

l can outrun any mule in the county.

Come on, lad... what are you waiting for?

L race you right now.

Alright.

Race,

Race,

Race,

How about the church over there, alright?

Right, any place you say

0n your march... 1... 2...

Stop it.

What's wrong?

Put your coat on, Johnny.

What for?

They're not racing.

This man Burgins here is afraid to run you in regular official

because he's frightened of losing money.

Here's the hat on somebody

l give you 2 to 1.

You're just talking, you know no one here will met you

lf someone came up here with hard coin you'll try to... loud.

Try me and see.

There is gold?

My yarn is type as a teacher... A molder for the young mind

15 dollars!

This is not much, but it's the mind l mold

l'll cover, me and the side kick

l'll postpone it to July 4

l'll take a bite of that myself.

Strange, Johnny, but this is a sure win.

See you in the race time, Johnny,

and l promise not to beat you for a while.

Until then we'll see.

Why did you do a thing like that?

Well.

Excuse me

lt's been 5 years since anyone laid

a bet against Flash Burgins.

Now, if you could beat Flash, we'd clear the biggest part of money

ever waged in Raintree County.

Fine.

What happens if l don't win and you lose all your money?

My dear boy, l've certain well-laid plans for the summer which at the moment l'm limited

to spread, not even to you, dear boy.

My plans called for a certain... concentration of capital

l don't know, Professor, sometimes you worry me.

What are you up to?

Not more than 20 ways of skating a cat, l guess l can.

Now, you relax for the athletic orgies ahead.

You're going to win a race.

You're going to be the hero of Raintree County

l 've got to go.

And the beautiful girl

with an ;Olive wreath will put a crown on your sun-colored lucks.

Gonna be fine, don't move.

Here we go.

Look at the birdie... look at the tree.

My girls are the prettiest known to the county.

Alright, you can relax.

Thank you very much

0h

0h, it's you.

Alright, you're next

0h, yeah, sure.

Stand over there please.

Now stand properly still.

Hurry, Siona.

Sure

0h, put this gown on.

Let me help you.

Look at the camera please.

Please look pleasant.

Here we go.

Look at the birdie... look at the tree.

My girls are the prettiest known to the county.

That's it.

That's all?

Huh, how long it's supposed before...

L mean l was just wondering how many days before l can...

Maybe 2 or 3 days

2 or 3 days?

0h, that's fine...

Ah, l'll see you in 2 or 3 days.

Wait for me

0h, l didn't mean to scream

l'm afraid you'll find me very unlady obviously

l like unladies

l saw you down the street get ready to run,

what happened?

Well, postponed to 4th of July.

You're a fast runner?

Pretty fast

l'm a pretty fast runner myself.

Well, how about a race some time?

You don't believe me, do you?

You'll be surprised how fast l can run

l'm as good as you can.

You're Johnny Seanacy?

Say that again

Johnny Seanacy, l found out from the photographer.

Professor.

Boy, you're definitely ready to graduate

l was never so embarrassed.

Why?

Because l screamed

l enjoyed it.

This is where l live.

You live here?

Hm...

Come on, Siona, you slow as a swan

l'll be saying goodbye now.

You live by yourself?

L have the 2 nigger girls to do the work

l love this house

l just opened it up again.

My Dad loved it too.

He was Senator Drake, Louisiana and New 0rleans.

Some people thought he could be president

l mean President of the United States.

We had... that is we had before Daddy died,

The plantation in New 0rleans.

We had another one outside Savannah.

When my aunt died last year, l inherited this place.

My name is Susana

Johnny, you want to say something?

0h, no.

You're cute... Johnny Seanacy.

That 4th of July race, what happens when you win?

Well, according to a friend of mine,

lf l win, a beautiful girl will place a wreath of oak leaves

on my sun-colored lucks

l like to be that girl.

Maybe it can be arranged

0h, it can be arranged alright... I'll arrange it.

You know l think l'm going to take my picture too.

There's always nice surprise.

Huh, what did l say?

Nothing, Galwood, that was made for Johnny

0h

Johnny.

Thank you, Ed

Nell.

Ah, Johnny, there you're...

I'm looking all over for you.

How are you feeling?

Nervous.

What you need is calm your nerve over some acting juicy.

Good luck, Johnny.

L got a payback on you.

Thank you, l'll do my best.

How about a little drink?

0h, l used to lemonade.

Lemonade?

Lemonade is something that gives you ulcer.

What l mean was how about a little drum of Bourbon.

Bourbon, me?

Now, don't get excited, all l mean was just...

Even the present President would agree

the whole time l put it in, Jack.

A draw.

God bless you.

How about a little drink?

This old horse

he doesn't think l should touch a draught.

Just to be sociable.

Well, l'll give if you both drink alright.

Splendid

l've never had a drink in my life.

What's going to happen if l come out here..

Son, it'd be good for you to turn up those muscles that's give you extra...

Forget about it, Professor

l forgot this boy can never being win yet...

Burgins, l'll match you drink for drink

0h, come on.

Let's be sociable.

What will be, boy?

You name it and l ll drink.

Ah, what to be got?

How about a little Bourbon?

There's a couple of bottles right out of the steer, a bottle for each boy.

Ah, just a minute.

Let's have those drinks poured from the same bottle.

Why?

L just don't want any trick monkey do around here.

What are you we just have a bottle for each.

They'll drink from the same bottle.

Wow, you don't mean to say...

Kid me a fool, Professor.

That's a new situation that you may do yourself.

May l...?

Professor, l don't trust you... You got sneaky eyes

lt's tea, cold tea.

And you must've thought it really a good thing

I'll fill it right up.

Alright, man.

New, let's get started

Johnny.

There's nothing to it... nothing to it.

Come on, just fill the glasses

Johnny, you're unable...

How do you feel now?

L feel fine

0h, that's enough.

Gentlemen, this boy is not used to strong alcohol.

Just to be sociable.

Professor, don't worry about me.

There's nothing to it, really.

Stand back, give the boy a chance.

Good work to Jack, alright to youth.

Now gentlemen, stand back, give me room.

How you like that?

L tell you l've got another trick l want to show you.

Watch this... give me a hand.

Alright, boys, watch this.

That's enough, dry him off.

That's only God would choose.

He's out there now, laughing to beat the kid.

How dare you play a trick like this on your best friends?

And poor Johnny here who never drinks in his life

0h, he'd have been killed Flash.

Flash is there hours ago.

Yelling for action.

You'd better get Johnny out there

Johnny, this is it... are you ready?

Yes, let's go, I am ready

0h, l'd better put on my pants.

Hello, boys, help yourself.

When l want a noice, you gonna be set by hower like this

l wonder a cannon Johnny can hear it

lt'd be 1, 2, 3 and bang.

Now remember, Johnny

l got 100 dollars bet on you, 100 dollars...

Good luck.

Where's it?

Is that we end up?

Yeah.

How about the girls down there?

You think too close?

They'll kill themselves

0nce again, boys.

Alright... quiet everybody

0n your march... 1... 2... 3.

Who won...?

We've done it... we won 250 dollars.

To me is 150.

Where's Flash?

The king is dead, long live the king

Johnny.

Nice to see you around again.

Quiet voice.

You've beautifully done it

Johnny Seanacy, allow me to present to you on behalf of all these people.

Present this wreath to the... Victory belongs to this boy.

What about that race you and l going to run?

L wouldn't have a chance

0h.

You, dear boy, are a wishfully pagan spirit.

And you're poet of finance.

Today is the day of high hopes and fair promise.

Ah, now wonder worker of the age.

Professor, you've enough zidar.

Hm, not enough, l gonna catch up with him

l've to protect my leagues.

Why don't you run away and play with this charming ambassador's

in the land of mints and magnolia?

Let's go swimming, come on.

What?

You're sick of that think.

But you can think anything.

Ah, life... liberty and the pursuit of happiness

0h, l gonna hate to leave here.

Leave... when are you leaving?

Tomorrow, l'm going back to New 0rleans.

You can't stay for a while?

0h, you're sweet.

But you can come to visit me some time.

You'd love this house.

You have to go?

Well, l only came up here to resettle the house

l was going to sell it, but l think l'll hold it for a while.

When you'll be back?

L don't know, maybe never.

Tell me about the raintree.

Where did you hear about that?

Do you think you'll never find it?

You don't think it's a joke?

No, l believe it

l'll be looking for the raintree always.

Supposing you do find it,

0h, it opens all locks,

It heals all wounds.

Yes, maybe l'll never see you again

Nell

Nell

lt's silly, you've been running away from me for weeks.

Why don't you talk to me?

You weren't so anxious to talk to me when that girl was in town.

What do you mean?

Are you mad just because l saw her a couple of times.

A couple of times?

Huh, did you like that book of poetry l gave you?

Yeah.

No, Byron was immoral, he was a libertine.

He was a good writer

l think being a good man is far more important.

Maybe a writer has a lot of experience

0h, so that's it, so that's what you're doing with Susana

Johnny Seanacy, the Byron of Raintree County.

That's right, l'm a genius.

Maybe someday l'll write.

About what?

About the sudden baths l've known?

No, l think l'll write about Raintree County.

About the lndians when they first came here...

About Johnny Appleseed and the raintree.

The raintree?

That's another thing, Johnny.

That day you went chasing the raintree l was waiting for you

l didn't know where you had gone, but l knew that swamp

l'm sorry, l guess l didn't realize.

You just didn't realize anything

Johnny, to some people you're a man of great importance.

Your exact location is of intense concern to... to some people

l'd better go, Johnny.

Not yet

Johnny.

Please

Johnny, l'd better go

lt's getting late, we'd better go

0h, no, you don't.

Who's that?

Why don't you move up here and find out?

So it was you.

Who did you think it was?

You know anything about this?

You got anything to do with this?

Doing with that?

With the Professor, he ran off with Lady Gray

lf he is still in the county, he'll get a chance out of thousand to get not alive.

We've got hundred men looking for her.

Nobody can come to this county and

run off with another man's wife

lt occurs to me, young man, that you're a friend of this.

This man's.

But a thing like this... There're no nobbles.

Whose side are you on?

I'm taking Nell home.

No, l'll see you tomorrow.

Alright, young man, l'm still waiting for your answer.

You'll get yourself a long wait, l'm going home.

Hello, Johnny.

And what have you been up to?

Where's Lydia?

Wonderful woman... l did try cut her away from her husband.

That's the day you won your race.

Where's she?

She had missed the train at the 3-mile junction

0r we'd have been hundred miles away by now.

As we got back to the buggy, 3 men with guns marched up to the platform

l grasped the situation once there.

But that was only the beginning

0n the way back, the first man l met asked if l heard about the man

who ran off with a man's wife

l'm a stranger here myself, l said

0n the road, l met a troop of camions carrying for the station...

Where's Lydia?

She's home right now waiting for Mr. Gray

l took her straight back.

As for myself, l took off like a street beggar

l guess you think l'm a bit a scoundrel, right, Johnny?

L don't know... l don't know what l think.

Don't think too badly on me

l suppose the heroic thing to be done would be to stick around and

let the outraged husband discharge his fury with a shotgun.

But l hate that Sanctimonious warthog

too much to give him the satisfaction.

Besides, l am scared.

One thing, Johnny.

Nothing happened, absolutely nothing.

And that's the end just for all

lf there's any phantom to be hanged... The county would say

there might be me and some truth could be in it.

Alright

l just managed the whole thing badly.

Did you?

Come on.

Where are we going?

You 've got to get out of the county.

Well, good idea, it occurred to me

Johnny, why not both of us?

Study my example, get out of Raintree County,

Someone would get you with a shotgun.

Not me, you

l guess you're right

(ln French) Apres vous la delige.

There he is.

Come on.

Get on the train.

Goodbye, dear boy.

Go on for great better things.

Get on the train.

We want him.

Where you've been, Mr. Gray?

Your wife has been home for the past 12 hours.

Nothing happened, absolutely nothing.

He's a liar.

You want to shoot me and later find out he was right?

What are you afraid of?

You want him, you take him

l'm going home.

You get out of my way, boy

or l'll cut your eyes out.

Goodbye, dear friend.

Remember me as a man who loves Raintree County...

But just happens to lose most of the people in it

Johnny

Johnny, l had to come back, l'm going to have a baby

Johnny, this letter was left on the door step, it's for you

0h, thank you

Johnny, this marriage you announced.

Sit down

l can't honestly say l'm entirely approved of the precipity.

But, under the circumstances necessary haste with which you've gone into it

l know, l certainly understand.

Anyway, l think you're doing the manly thing

l hope the young lady is all that she appears what she appears to be.

Judge not the, beyond the judge.

L know, Sir.

Marry her, son, and be happy.

Thank you.

You need any money?

L don't know... l don't think so right now

0h, there was a letter came for you

l... have it here

0f course.

Hello.

Hello, Johnny

l got your letter

Johnny, as one for whom you want for perfection,

l just want to say good luck

and wish you all the happiness in the world.

And the poem you wrote for me and the picture you gave me...

L just feel that l want to return it

l thought maybe you want it now

l really did not want to get that out

lt's just that, everything has changed

and l don't mean anything to you.

We don't mean anything to each other anymore

Nell... l'm sorry

lt's not your fault, Johnny... Everybody knows that

lt was the 4th of July.

You drank all that whisky and you went out to the lake.

No, l am responsible, nobody else.

That's so much like you, Johnny.

Why do you have so much conscience?

Maybe that's why l love you

Johnny, l love you so much.

Did that l wish l didn't... l wish...

The words of Lord Byron in that book you gave me.

'Forever love and before ever..-'

Still forever...

L wish you well.

You're right, Mrs. Seanacy

l like the river... it even smells good

l really don't understand it.

Would you smell mouse like it too?

Now, there's something l don't understand.

All you've to do is go south once and you'll love it.

Well, a north Yanky to the south is not too easy to understand.

You ever read

I've married an abolitionist, have l?

That's skeleton in my classic.

Now, you mustn't joke about it.

Are they friendly?

Anyway, the worst thing is to be an abolitionist.

Like what?

That cabin Negro blooded.

Just one little tiny drop in the person all Negro.

They just can't tell either

ls it gonna be room for 2 of us?

It's only sort of a hobby... I'm taking with me wherever l go.

This is Jimmy... l've had it the longest.

Where did you get him?

He needs a bath

0h, Johnny, forgive my foolishness

0h, l do love you so.

When l'm with you, l feel like nothing.

Can happen to me as long as l have you.

You won't have let anything happen to me.

Will you, Johnny?

Enjoy yourself, Johnny?

Very much.

Then what do you think about the ever-glooming south?

As l said, l love it... l do.

That sounds general, isn't it?

What you really think of it?

Well, Sir, l think so highly of it

l worry only by this talk of sucession.

Sucession?

Remember, young man.

The Union belongs to those who keep breath in this cabinet.

What cousin Sam means, Johnny, if sucession comes...

It's the north that should suceed.

Hear him say...

Sam, one thing you must understand

Johnny is a poet.

It's taking him 2 months to discover.

Therefore, he loves the south

l'm not so sure he proves it.

That's because he's a moralist.

You won't get straight answers from him.

He'll draw up opinions for another day.

He's also a dreamer

a seeker for the meaning of life with capital letters.

Sir, your search is in the end.

Stay here with us and help us build our dream.

We, in the south, dream.

Of a great republic on this soil of merit

with it's pretty homes and as well as the most beautiful women

0h, Sam, you're wonderful.

You shelf like some golden pitfalls.

Cousin Sam, Johnny doesn't like slavery.

Is Johnny like the wage to slavery at the north?

Johnny doesn't like misery anywhere.

North or south.

Here comes misery now... my wife.

We're talking about the north, my dear...

Slaves in the north...

Sam, you're boring...

I'll borrow your husband for a while.

Excuse me.

Don't look so serious.

Here old man can only play his dream of glory

lt's not that, l'm counting.

Cousin Johnny, you ever in love?

Huh?

L mean... were you ever really... in love?

Cousin dear, l'm in love.

You know l love the way you say that.

You did such a noble sound in your precious accent.

Frankly, Johnny, cousin Susana just isn't the right type for you.

You're an attractive young man

0h, Susana, why disposed you and didn't marry down here?

L guess supposing down here know too much about her.

Don't you hear me?

You've borrowed my husband long enough, cousin Barbara,

l reclaim him

0f course

lt must've been beautiful

0h, it was, Johnny

lt was all white when l was a little girl.

The marble room was right above over there

Johnny, our neggars made these bricks by hands.

The furniture came from France

lt was so beautiful.

These tower columns shed the veranda

l used to play there when it rained.

The garden was so lovely cool with roses and lilies.

How this fire started?

No one knows.

Really?

That were my Daddy and Mama buried

l was lucky to get out alive

l slept next to Henrietta at this room.

She was burnt too.

Who was Henrietta?

She was my dearest friend, she was a great lady.

How old were you?

Three, maybe four.

And you could remember it all?

Yes... no, l don't know

l can quite remember what l exactly saw

l was told later on

0h.

What's the matter?

There used to be a little cabin right over there

l guess it's gone.

This is where they buried her, Johnny

0h, you can't imagine how lovely she was.

She took care of me, she was a great lady

l'm not ashamed to say, cause she was a Negro

0ne of these slaves?

0h, no... she came from Cuba.

That was where l was born... Havana.

Daddy was there for several years

and then came back with us

lt's so funny to think of her now.

Think of her lying down there, that is if she's lying down there.

What do you mean 'if she's lying down there?

It's a short of family scandal.

Some people say the graves were mixed.

My aunt said she wasn't sure if it was her Henrietta sleeping in Mama's grave

l... l don't understand

l love you, Henrietta... l love you.

Dear

Johnny, l know you don't understand.

She was everything to me.

Because of her l was never alone.

And now... do you feel that someone is watching us?

Just nobody here.

How do you know?

Johnny, about this... this negro girl

l... l lied to you about it

lt... it never happened.

Why did you tell me this?

You asked me about it.

Well, you don't think my Mama...

You don't think my Mama would ever allow me to...

L... l was always with my Mama...

L was always by her side.

Why... why she loved me so much.

She never allowed me out of her sight

l... l was always with her.

Susana... should we go home?

Good evening, l'm looking for Mr. Drake.

Come on in, dear.

Right in here.

Thank you

Bobbie

Johnny, how do you know l was here?

Barbara said you were with Sam...

She said you were here.

Listen... l'd like to talk to you.

Can you wait?

We drive home and we could talk then.

No.

Let's go in here.

Would you excuse us?

Johnny, how about a drink?

Bobbie, what's all about.

Susana's family and the fire?

Well, it's just an old family scandal

Johnny... but it's pretty gluesome.

You see the day they had trouble to identify a man in the,

fire but a woman.

And the woman was another matter and one of them was a lady of color.

Why you go after that?

L like to know.

Well it all began when Susana's mother when... you know

l don't know.

She went insane.

Susana's father gave up everything to take care of her.

At last he gave up his business to seek her sense.

For all they tried she was too far gone.

Finally she couldn't be cured at all

lt was in Cuba.

That's where he met the other woman.

What about the fire?

There had some gringos

2 of the bodies were found together.

So?

So it looks like something funny had been going on.

They might've been killed before the fire

l mean everybody else got up and away.

Why didn't they?

That's one of the question of identification... which woman was that woman?

Which?

There was talks of Susana's father with

the woman who was found being inside.

The woman... the woman... who was found with?

L exaggerated, Johnny.

Anyway, the thing was her

it was better the way was as that

0f course, there was a lot of talks...

You know how women talk, in this families,

women are worse at most

l don't want to scare you, boy.

You need a quiet life

because you've a beautiful spouse.

As you worth of it.

Alright, what happened after the fire?

Well, nothing much.

All over the excitement Susana took it down and disappeared for 2 or 3 days

l forget now.

They found of her finally.

She was in Henrietta's open cabin all the time.

And Susana had to go up

to her aunt's place in Savvanah.

That's all l know about it.

Does anybody know?

There's just one person.

Who?

You've to wait until she's ready to tell you.

Not Susana?

It's Susana.

Susana was 3 years old

0h, my boy... you think you marry a child bothersome?

At the time of the fire, my cousin Susana was 9 years old.

Dear, we 've got to get away from here.

Alright, Johnny, where should we go?

Could we go to Europe?

No, l like to go back to Raintree County.

But why?

We've plenty of money.

Honey, l got to get a job

l got to work.

That's why we should be back home

so the two of you could be resting

Johnny, l haven't been very honest with you.

You haven't?

When l told you l was going to have a baby, l lied

l'm not going to have a baby

l lied because l wanted you more than

anything l ever wanted in my life.

Because l... somehow l just...

0h, l don't know.

Darling, one thing you must know

l love you very much.

You'd never leave me, will you, Johnny?

I'll never leave you

l love you, let's go home

0h, yes... yes, Johnny.

Oh, Miss Nell Kader, shame on you.

By here my husband and l have been home settled you not be seeing this time.

And you have yet to call on us where is your preeding?

L leave the breeding to you.

How do you like here in the booze of the Raintree County?

Well, l hardly feel this town so small anymore.

Whatever you do for amusing?

L take walks.

How really?

You tell me who you walk with

l'm interested in all aspects of real life.

You won't be interested in me, l walk alone

l just don't understand that.

You're still young, you know...

And pretty as a swan.

Are you interested in a man, honey?

Perhaps.

Well, good, l just hoped is not a school teacher,

Like Johnny.

You know, Miss Kader

a school teacher has almost remote little habits

like read and write and mess all around.

Anyway, l did want you to know you're always welcome.

Any friend of my husband's is a friend of mine.

And Johnny always did tell me all his best friends in Raintree County.

You're the first, bye... bye.

Hello, Johnny

0h, where you pop up from?

No place special.

Galwood asked me to marry him.

Mr. Seanacy.

Hello.

He's going to politics, what do you think, Johnny?

L mean you're always being my best friend

l think Galwood will make a fine politician.

You know that's not what l mean.

Mr. Seanacy, a few months in your class

l learned more about poetry and

politics and life and... than l've all the time going to school.

The students seem to enjoy creeping up on me.

They're all in love with you.

Teachers get falling in love with it's an occupation hazard.

Me was different,

l fell in love with the student.

So did l.

All l thought was a hopeless mistake, wasn't it?

She tricked you into marriage, Johnny...

She wasn't pregnant

lt's one thing people around here can't do without deny

l'm sorry, Johnny... l'm so ugly.

No, Susana and l are going to have a baby, in April

l want you to know you're my best friend.

Well, l'm very happy for both of you, until then, goodbye.

How do you feel?

0h, l've a troubled sleeping again... that dream,

Why you 're up so early?

Wasn't school or election day?

L 've got to vote.

You were out so late last night, speechify... the Mr. Lincoln

l wasn't the only one up there.

The speechify.

Thank God Jones delivered it a little scum wider.

You want to read it?

Come in.

Morning... Mr. and Mrs. Seanacy.

Good morning, Siona.

Galwood Vs Jones...

L always wonder what's the beast for

l give you one guess.

Galwood Vs Jones...

Youngest candidate ever to seek office in lndiana State Legislature last night

rounded up his program campaign in 3-mile junction.

With the enthusiastic denunciation of teachers who used the schools as a platform

to corrupt the youth of Raintree County.

Those who stand on the slavery question is most violent

Jones declared that the best look to

their papacy is only the ship.

A certain young teacher who instructs the young, in a flammatory and seditious doctrine

about abolition includes a domestic arrangement of his home to colored people.

The status with respect to those freedoms for whose protection the abolitionists claim a monopoly is.

Who said who's?

Questionable.

Can you guess who's talking about?

But l think he's right

l think politics like charity should begin at home.

That's exactly what l intend to begin.

What about Daisy and Siona?

What about them?

Honey, you lied after free those girls and get rid of them.

But they've been with our family since they were born.

They'd be unhappy any place else

l just don't understand you, Johnny... After beeing insulted me

l just don't see how can you go on

being an abolitionist.

Susana, you're not south now...

You can't have your slaves here

Johnny, l wish you wouldn't pick on me...

L don't feel well.

Honey, l'm not picking on you

l just don't want slaves in my house.

Alright, l wish we could get away from here

l don't like this place

l just assume limited as a goat in the hole.

What anybody in the south ever do to hurt you?

You know how nice and sweet they all were

and how much they loved it

l just don't see how you can

support a man like Lincoln... Lincoln.

Why you despised Lincoln so much?

L mean ...that's well-known fact.

You must've heard about it.

What's about the fact?

L mean the fact that Lincoln has negro blood in him.

You don't believe it?

As Galwood or Jones.

Dear, all l ask you get rid of the girls...

Pay them wages and do whatever you want.

You don't love me... you never did love me.

You hate me because l'm southern.

You've been asking questions about me.

Dear, do what you want.

But if those girls are not free by tonight,

l won't come back to this house