1 - When'll you be back, Roy? - Oh, in a couple of weeks. 2 Don't do nothing you wouldn't want me to hear about. 3 - Well, so long. - So long. 4 How about a lift, mister? 5 - Can't you see that sticker? - Sure, I see it. 6 But a good guy don't pay no attention to what some heel makes him stick on his truck. 7 Well, scrunch down on the running board till we get around the bend. 8 - Going far? - No, just a couple of miles. 9 I'd have walked her if my dogs wasn't pooped out. 10 - Looking for ajob? - No. My old man's got a place. 11 40 acres. He's a sharecropper, but we've been there a long while. 12 Oh. 13 - Been doing ajob? - Yeah. 14 I seen your hands. You been swinging a pick or a sledge. 15 That's what makes them shiny. I notice things like that all the time. 16 Got a trade? 17 - Why don't you get at it, buddy? - Get at what? 18 You know. You been goin' over me since I got in. Why don't you ask where I've been? 19 I don't stick my nose in nobody's business. I stay in my own yard. 20 That big nose of yours been goin' over me like a sheep in a vegetable patch. 21 I ain't keepin' it secret. I've been in the penitentiary. Been there four years. 22 - Anything else? - You ain't gotta get sore. 23 - Ask me anything. - I didn't mean nothing. 24 Me neither. I'm just trying to get along without shovin' anybody, that's all. 25 See that road ahead? That's where I get out. 26 You're about to bust a gut to know what I done, ain't you? I ain't a guy to let you down. 27 Homicide. 28 Hmm, He's my saviour 29 Hmm, my saviour 30 Hmm, my saviour now 31 - Howdy, friend. - Howdy. 32 Say... 33 Ain't you young Tom Joad, old Tom's boy? 34 Yeah. I'm on my way home now. 35 Well, I do declare. 36 I baptised you, son. 37 Ain't you the preacher? 38 Used to be. 39 Not no more. 40 I lost the call. 41 But, boy, I sure used to have it. 42 I used to get an irrigation ditch so full of repented sinners 43 I'd pretty near drown half of 'em. 44 But not no more. 45 I lost the spirit. 46 I got nothing to preach about no more, that's all. 47 I ain't so sure of things. 48 I remember you preaching a sermon 49 walking around on your hands, shoutin' your head off. 50 Yeah, I remember. |