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The rest of my family set out for the West. 202
There wasn't nothing to eat, but... I couldn't
leave. Something just wouldn't let me. 203
So now I just wander around
and sleep wherever I am. 204
I used to tell myself
that I was looking out for things 205
so that when the folks come back,
everything would be all right. 206
But I knowed it wasn't true. 207
There ain't nothin' to look out for. 208
And there ain't nobody ever coming back. 209
They're gone! 210
And me... 211
I'm just an old graveyard ghost. 212
That's all in the worid I am. 213
Do you think I'm touched? 214
No. 215
You're Ionely, but... 216
you ain't touched. 217
Well, it don't matter. If I'm touched,
I'm touched and that's all there is to it. 218
The thing I don't understand
is my folks taking it. Like Ma. 219
I seen her nearly beat
a pedlar to death with a live chicken. 220
She aimed to go with an axe in the other
hand, got mixed up, forgot which was which. 221
When she got through with that pedlar,
all she had left was two chicken legs. 222
Just a... 223
Just a plain old graveyard ghost. 224
That's all. 225
She's settling. 226
What do you figure on doing? 227
It's hard to say. 228
Stay here till morning,
go to Uncle John's, I reckon. 229
After that, I don't know. 230
Listen. 231
That's them. Them lights. 232
Come on. Come on. We gotta hide out. 233
Hide out for what? We ain't doing nothing. 234
You're trespassing. This ain't your land no
more! That's the superintendent with a gun. 235
- Come on!
- Come on, Tom. You're on parole. 236
Muley! 237
All you gotta do is hide and watch. 238
- Won't they come out here?
I don't think so. 239
- One came out once and I clipped him...
- Shh! 240
...from behind with a fence stake. 241
They ain't bothered since. 242
He ain't here. 243
Anybody ever told me
I'd be hiding out in my own place... 244
Lord, make us grateful for what
we are about to receive, for His sake. Amen. 245
I seen you. You ate during grace. 246
Just one little dab.
Just one teeny little old dab. That's all. 247
- Ain't he messy though.
- I seen him. Gobbling away like an old pig. 248
Why don't you keep
your eyes shut during grace? 249
What's it say again, Uncle John? 250
It says, "Plenty of work in California.
800 pickers wanted." | 
