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251
Wait till I get to California. I'm gonna reach up
and pick me an orange whenever I want it. 252
Or some grapes. Now-now-now, there's
something I ain't never had enough of. 253
I'm gonna get me
a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush 254
and I'm gonna squash 'em all over my face
and let the juice drain down off of my chin. 255
Praise the Lord for victory! 256
Maybe I'll get me
a whole washtub full of grapes 257
and just sit in 'em and scrounge
around in 'em until they're all gone. 258
I sure would like that.
Yes, sir, I sure would like that. 259
Oh, thank God. Thank God. 260
Tommy. 261
Ma. 262
- You didn't bust out? You ain't gotta hide?
- No, Ma. I'm paroled. I got my papers. 263
Oh. 264
I was just scared we was going away without
you and we'd never see each other again. 265
I'd have found you, Ma. 266
Muley told me what happened. 267
We going to California true? 268
We've gotta go, Tommy,
but it's gonna be all right. 269
I seen the handbills about how much
work there is, and high wages too. 270
There's something I gotta find out first,
Tommy. Did they hurt you, son? 271
- Did they hurt you and make you mean mad?
- Mad, Ma? 272
- Sometimes they do.
- No, Ma. I was at first, but not no more. 273
Sometimes they do something to you. 274
They hurt you and you get mad
and then you get mean. 275
And they hurt you again
and you get meaner and meaner, 276
till you ain't no boy nor man any more,
just a walking chunk of mean mad. 277
- Did they hurt you that way, son?
- No, Ma. Don't worry about that. 278
Well, I... 279
I don't want no mean son. 280
It's Tommy. It's Tommy back. 281
What did you do, son? Bust out? 282
Tommy's out ofjail! 283
I... I knowed it! You couldn't keep him in.
You can't keep a Joad in jail. 284
I knowed it from the first. 285
Get out of my way! I told you so. I told you
Tom would come bustin' out of thatjail 286
just like a bull through corral fence.
You can't keep a Joad in jail. 287
- I didn't bust out. They paroled me.
- I was that way myself. 288
- How are you, Uncle John?
- Hello, Tommy. I'm feeling fine. 289
- How are you, Noah?
- Fine, Tommy. Bust out? 290
No, parole. 291
- Hello.
- Tommy. 292
The jailbird's back! The jailbird's back! 293
- Hiya, Al.
- Hello, Tom. 294
- Did you bust out ofjail?
- No, they paroled me. 295
Rosasharn. 296
Busted out. 297
That's Connie Rivers with her.
They're married now. 298
She's due now about three, four months. 299
She wasn't any more
than a kid when I went up. 300
- Hiya, Rosasharn.
- How are you, Tom? | 
