WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.310 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:00:02.310 --> 00:00:04.260 align:middle line:84% This is a very nasty thing to do, 00:00:04.260 --> 00:00:06.930 align:middle line:84% I realize, but could I ask you to move down 00:00:06.930 --> 00:00:08.160 align:middle line:90% a little closer to the front? 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:11.130 align:middle line:84% There's something frightening about voids, 00:00:11.130 --> 00:00:13.590 align:middle line:90% and there are lots of those. 00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:18.680 align:middle line:90% 00:00:18.680 --> 00:00:24.410 align:middle line:84% That way that way we can not have to shout at one another. 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:44.770 align:middle line:90% 00:00:44.770 --> 00:00:46.480 align:middle line:84% What I thought I would do tonight, 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:50.830 align:middle line:84% is read a little bit from my first novel, 00:00:50.830 --> 00:00:55.150 align:middle line:84% and then read some poems, and then read from the novel 00:00:55.150 --> 00:00:58.060 align:middle line:84% that I'm doing now, that I've finished actually, 00:00:58.060 --> 00:01:00.280 align:middle line:90% but I'm revising. 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.569 align:middle line:84% It will be a first for me, because I haven't 00:01:04.569 --> 00:01:06.700 align:middle line:84% shown this second novel to anyone, 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:08.690 align:middle line:84% or I haven't read from it, so far. 00:01:08.690 --> 00:01:13.540 align:middle line:84% So any reaction that you have, I would be very grateful for. 00:01:13.540 --> 00:01:16.960 align:middle line:84% I'm reading the poems, one or two of my own, 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:20.860 align:middle line:84% but also of other peoples, because it seems to me that you 00:01:20.860 --> 00:01:23.830 align:middle line:84% get awfully tired of listening to one voice, one 00:01:23.830 --> 00:01:27.440 align:middle line:84% fictional voice for a whole reading. 00:01:27.440 --> 00:01:31.460 align:middle line:84% So we'll try to break it up with that. 00:01:31.460 --> 00:01:36.100 align:middle line:84% This first novel is written as an attempt 00:01:36.100 --> 00:01:41.110 align:middle line:84% to write an oral novel in Southern dialect, 00:01:41.110 --> 00:01:45.430 align:middle line:84% as a matter of fact, the hill dialect, more or less, 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:48.010 align:middle line:84% that you find in Tennessee, North Alabama, West 00:01:48.010 --> 00:01:49.850 align:middle line:90% Virginia, these areas. 00:01:49.850 --> 00:01:52.630 align:middle line:84% And it has no objective narrator. 00:01:52.630 --> 00:01:58.960 align:middle line:84% It's a story that's being told by a man named Mr. Fred, 00:01:58.960 --> 00:02:02.410 align:middle line:84% sitting around a campfire, sitting around a fishing camp, 00:02:02.410 --> 00:02:05.020 align:middle line:84% as a matter of fact, telling the story. 00:02:05.020 --> 00:02:07.030 align:middle line:84% And listening to it, is a Black man 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:11.770 align:middle line:84% named Gus, who was present during the events of the story. 00:02:11.770 --> 00:02:15.290 align:middle line:84% Now he's thinking as Mr. Fred is talking. 00:02:15.290 --> 00:02:17.350 align:middle line:84% And he's remembering the events of the story 00:02:17.350 --> 00:02:19.780 align:middle line:90% from a different point of view. 00:02:19.780 --> 00:02:23.020 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read just a little bit of it 00:02:23.020 --> 00:02:25.570 align:middle line:84% to get something of the flavor of it. 00:02:25.570 --> 00:02:32.450 align:middle line:84% It will be Mr. Fred telling part of the story and Gus thinking. 00:02:32.450 --> 00:02:39.230 align:middle line:84% The story concerns, basically, one Sunday 00:02:39.230 --> 00:02:43.400 align:middle line:84% on which Mr. Fred Ossie, who was the hero 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.010 align:middle line:84% of the story and a hillbilly musician, 00:02:46.010 --> 00:02:51.510 align:middle line:84% and Carl, who is something of a preacher. 00:02:51.510 --> 00:02:55.955 align:middle line:84% He gave up knifing people and went to preaching. 00:02:55.955 --> 00:02:59.390 align:middle line:84% He preaches mainly to stumps and beer cans and trees 00:02:59.390 --> 00:03:02.240 align:middle line:84% because no one else will listen to him. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:08.000 align:middle line:84% And the villain of the story, J.D., who is mean. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:09.260 align:middle line:90% Period. 00:03:09.260 --> 00:03:13.280 align:middle line:84% There's no way to explain some kinds of meanness. 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:16.640 align:middle line:84% So, they're telling about what happened when they tricked 00:03:16.640 --> 00:03:19.430 align:middle line:84% Ossie into the cage they had built for the hog 00:03:19.430 --> 00:03:21.800 align:middle line:84% that they were going to haul across the county, 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.100 align:middle line:84% and Ossie's in his tuxedo, and he's 00:03:25.100 --> 00:03:27.950 align:middle line:84% stuck in the cage, which is on the back of the truck, 00:03:27.950 --> 00:03:30.680 align:middle line:84% and they're on their way to Ossie's house. 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.680 align:middle line:84% I'm going read just a little bit of it. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.780 align:middle line:90% Mr Fred's talking to begin with. 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:38.000 align:middle line:84% Ossie is in the back in the cage, and, with him, 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:40.460 align:middle line:90% is Gus, who is the Black guy. 00:03:40.460 --> 00:03:43.310 align:middle line:90% 00:03:43.310 --> 00:03:46.700 align:middle line:84% "Little old sand dirt road with pine straw all over it, 00:03:46.700 --> 00:03:50.000 align:middle line:84% was all there was up to the camp, and we're taking it slow. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.100 align:middle line:84% Woods was steaming all around us, 00:03:52.100 --> 00:03:54.530 align:middle line:84% and seemed like the gnats was outrunning us, getting 00:03:54.530 --> 00:03:56.570 align:middle line:84% stuck in the sweat on our eyebrows 00:03:56.570 --> 00:03:58.400 align:middle line:90% when they come into the truck. 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.730 align:middle line:84% Birds carrying on like a bunch of dagos everywhere. 00:04:01.730 --> 00:04:02.990 align:middle line:90% Truck rattling. 00:04:02.990 --> 00:04:06.710 align:middle line:84% Winding up that old mountain, us swaying up against one another 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:10.190 align:middle line:84% with the ruts in the road, and Ossie there in the back singing 00:04:10.190 --> 00:04:13.670 align:middle line:84% beat hell, 'Mammy, Mammy, tell me. 00:04:13.670 --> 00:04:16.339 align:middle line:90% Mammy, Mammy, mine. 00:04:16.339 --> 00:04:23.000 align:middle line:84% Why do the white folks childrens call me snowball all the time?' 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:25.130 align:middle line:84% And trying to get Gus to join in with him, 00:04:25.130 --> 00:04:28.080 align:middle line:84% and Gus declaring he just didn't feel like no singing right 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:28.580 align:middle line:90% then." 00:04:28.580 --> 00:04:30.800 align:middle line:90% Gus is the Black guy. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.470 align:middle line:84% "Doggedest way to spend a Sunday I ever seen. 00:04:33.470 --> 00:04:36.170 align:middle line:84% That old Carl had got all fired up by J.D. 00:04:36.170 --> 00:04:38.700 align:middle line:84% Asking him if it wasn't a Christian thing to do to get 00:04:38.700 --> 00:04:41.500 align:middle line:84% some more whiskey, and I had to listen to him going on, too , 00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:42.500 align:middle line:90% saying something like--" 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:44.810 align:middle line:90% Talking to J.D., of course. 00:04:44.810 --> 00:04:50.060 align:middle line:84% " 'You know, J.D., Miss Tidwell seen Jesus in her washing 00:04:50.060 --> 00:04:53.090 align:middle line:90% machine last week.' 00:04:53.090 --> 00:04:57.890 align:middle line:84% And J.D. who wasn't half listening answered, 'that so?' 00:04:57.890 --> 00:04:59.840 align:middle line:90% Carl keeping on, 'Yep. 00:04:59.840 --> 00:05:03.530 align:middle line:84% Witnessed about it in church last Sunday, mama said. 00:05:03.530 --> 00:05:06.320 align:middle line:84% Bent down to take her husband's overalls out, 00:05:06.320 --> 00:05:09.530 align:middle line:84% and there was Jesus looking up at her.' 00:05:09.530 --> 00:05:11.010 align:middle line:90% 'Don't say?' 00:05:11.010 --> 00:05:11.510 align:middle line:90% 'Yeah. 00:05:11.510 --> 00:05:14.660 align:middle line:84% Mama says it must be a sign about what she's heard about 00:05:14.660 --> 00:05:17.510 align:middle line:84% niggers stealing washing machines, or something, 00:05:17.510 --> 00:05:21.050 align:middle line:84% niggers or communists or something like that.' 00:05:21.050 --> 00:05:22.490 align:middle line:90% 'Uh huh.' 00:05:22.490 --> 00:05:25.760 align:middle line:84% 'Of course Miss Tidwell ain't seen Jesus in no automobile 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:27.736 align:middle line:90% yet, but I have.' 00:05:27.736 --> 00:05:29.330 align:middle line:90% 'Mm hmm.' 00:05:29.330 --> 00:05:31.340 align:middle line:90% 'Yeah, I think I have. 00:05:31.340 --> 00:05:35.450 align:middle line:90% A long time ago must have been. 00:05:35.450 --> 00:05:38.840 align:middle line:84% Yeah, I think so, a Chevrolet it was. 00:05:38.840 --> 00:05:42.860 align:middle line:90% 1937 four door, I think.' " 00:05:42.860 --> 00:05:44.810 align:middle line:90% Now Gus is thinking. 00:05:44.810 --> 00:05:48.050 align:middle line:84% " 'Oh, there's lots of things you think, crazy old man, 00:05:48.050 --> 00:05:50.150 align:middle line:90% but not much you know, is there? 00:05:50.150 --> 00:05:52.730 align:middle line:84% See Jesus in a whiskey bottle if there was a chance, 00:05:52.730 --> 00:05:53.700 align:middle line:90% wouldn't you? 00:05:53.700 --> 00:05:57.410 align:middle line:84% But what he's seen and what you've seen be something else. 00:05:57.410 --> 00:05:59.090 align:middle line:84% My mom and daddy talking, I recollect, 00:05:59.090 --> 00:06:02.030 align:middle line:84% after supper in the evening before the lamps was lighted. 00:06:02.030 --> 00:06:03.470 align:middle line:90% Daddy rocking on the porch. 00:06:03.470 --> 00:06:06.050 align:middle line:84% Me sitting with them, being the most oldest. 00:06:06.050 --> 00:06:08.720 align:middle line:84% Daddy seen it, he said, working by the mules. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.550 align:middle line:84% He'd be right near and seen it all. 00:06:10.550 --> 00:06:13.550 align:middle line:84% Great, great big old wench thing, there was. 00:06:13.550 --> 00:06:17.330 align:middle line:84% Mules hooked up to it go round and round and round, 00:06:17.330 --> 00:06:18.350 align:middle line:90% all day long. 00:06:18.350 --> 00:06:22.417 align:middle line:84% Go round and round and round and winching them cars up 00:06:22.417 --> 00:06:23.000 align:middle line:90% the slopes.' " 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:24.530 align:middle line:90% Talking about a mine, of course. 00:06:24.530 --> 00:06:26.270 align:middle line:84% This is in mining country, and the mules 00:06:26.270 --> 00:06:28.490 align:middle line:90% would winch the cars up. 00:06:28.490 --> 00:06:29.690 align:middle line:90% " 'Stop and start. 00:06:29.690 --> 00:06:31.190 align:middle line:90% Stop and start. 00:06:31.190 --> 00:06:35.690 align:middle line:84% Stinking mules black with old coal dust. 00:06:35.690 --> 00:06:37.732 align:middle line:90% Best they figured, daddy say. 00:06:37.732 --> 00:06:38.690 align:middle line:90% Little Schmidt boy--' " 00:06:38.690 --> 00:06:42.410 align:middle line:84% This is Ossie when he was a child. 00:06:42.410 --> 00:06:44.780 align:middle line:84% " 'Come-a following shack rousters that morning, 00:06:44.780 --> 00:06:46.280 align:middle line:84% watching him bring in his daddy.' " 00:06:46.280 --> 00:06:48.980 align:middle line:84% The shack rousters, by the way, were interesting. 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:50.390 align:middle line:84% It was an interesting occupation. 00:06:50.390 --> 00:06:54.020 align:middle line:84% You see, when you lived in a coal mining camp, 00:06:54.020 --> 00:06:55.610 align:middle line:90% you lived in a company house. 00:06:55.610 --> 00:06:57.410 align:middle line:84% And when you didn't go to work, the company 00:06:57.410 --> 00:06:59.630 align:middle line:84% would send men around to drag you out of bed 00:06:59.630 --> 00:07:00.680 align:middle line:90% and drive you to work. 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:07.190 align:middle line:84% They'd put you between two mules and drive you up to the mines. 00:07:07.190 --> 00:07:08.690 align:middle line:84% It was the theory being that as long 00:07:08.690 --> 00:07:10.273 align:middle line:84% as you were living in a company house, 00:07:10.273 --> 00:07:13.160 align:middle line:84% you had to go to work to pay for it. 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:16.130 align:middle line:84% "Old man Tittle bringing him in saying he no he 00:07:16.130 --> 00:07:17.780 align:middle line:84% ain't that sick, and little Schmidt 00:07:17.780 --> 00:07:19.430 align:middle line:90% is slipping along behind. 00:07:19.430 --> 00:07:23.330 align:middle line:84% Don't take long, I reckon, he see old man Tittle be right, 00:07:23.330 --> 00:07:24.870 align:middle line:90% his daddy ain't all that sick. 00:07:24.870 --> 00:07:26.960 align:middle line:84% So we slip over by where the tracks would come up 00:07:26.960 --> 00:07:28.100 align:middle line:90% out the slope. 00:07:28.100 --> 00:07:31.040 align:middle line:84% Go and find him a spike, he'd say, after it all over with. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:34.070 align:middle line:84% Great, big spike what they need for some kind of old spinning 00:07:34.070 --> 00:07:35.690 align:middle line:90% Jenny thing he making. 00:07:35.690 --> 00:07:37.550 align:middle line:84% Well, he look over one side of the tracks 00:07:37.550 --> 00:07:39.800 align:middle line:84% and don't find none, less than it drove in too good 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:40.940 align:middle line:90% to take out. 00:07:40.940 --> 00:07:42.680 align:middle line:84% A little old thing he'd be, and everybody 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.270 align:middle line:84% know him don't pay him no never mind, 00:07:44.270 --> 00:07:47.060 align:middle line:84% so I reckon he decided to look on the other side of the tracks 00:07:47.060 --> 00:07:49.040 align:middle line:84% where he can't see on account of the cars 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.380 align:middle line:90% lined up waiting to be weighed. 00:07:51.380 --> 00:07:53.750 align:middle line:84% Make sure ain't nobody looking mussed up, 00:07:53.750 --> 00:07:56.960 align:middle line:84% and hop he'd go betwixt the cars, step on the coupling, 00:07:56.960 --> 00:07:57.830 align:middle line:90% and clank. 00:07:57.830 --> 00:08:02.780 align:middle line:84% Old mule step, winch turn, cars jerking, down he'd go. 00:08:02.780 --> 00:08:05.690 align:middle line:90% Screamed like a caught bobcat. 00:08:05.690 --> 00:08:08.630 align:middle line:84% Whomp, come the wheel right halfway across his belly, 00:08:08.630 --> 00:08:10.430 align:middle line:90% and stop. 00:08:10.430 --> 00:08:13.270 align:middle line:90% Old mules blink and push harder. 00:08:13.270 --> 00:08:16.430 align:middle line:84% Whomp, come the wheel down, and up come the next, 00:08:16.430 --> 00:08:18.830 align:middle line:90% and somebody stopped the mules. 00:08:18.830 --> 00:08:22.100 align:middle line:84% Well, he don't pass out then, so he can't feel nothing at all, 00:08:22.100 --> 00:08:25.160 align:middle line:84% even explained why he were there while they was a calling 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:26.900 align:middle line:90% his daddy and the doctor. 00:08:26.900 --> 00:08:30.290 align:middle line:84% Everybody is scared to move anything. 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:32.690 align:middle line:84% Scared to move anything just unhitched the mules 00:08:32.690 --> 00:08:34.490 align:middle line:84% and lock the winch till the doctor come, 00:08:34.490 --> 00:08:37.520 align:middle line:84% and him still scrunched half up under that car which, 00:08:37.520 --> 00:08:39.919 align:middle line:90% praised the Lord, was empty. 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.559 align:middle line:84% Somebody take off in a wagon after his mama, 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.400 align:middle line:84% and wait, wait, wait, nobody move. 00:08:46.400 --> 00:08:47.900 align:middle line:90% Doctor don't come. 00:08:47.900 --> 00:08:50.390 align:middle line:84% Straw boss don't know what to do. 00:08:50.390 --> 00:08:53.090 align:middle line:84% His daddy come up the slope, carbide still a hissing, 00:08:53.090 --> 00:08:54.230 align:middle line:90% and sit with him. 00:08:54.230 --> 00:08:57.320 align:middle line:84% He don't know nothing to do except sit. 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:00.170 align:middle line:84% Talking to him real low and when the wagon with Miss Schmidt 00:09:00.170 --> 00:09:03.500 align:middle line:84% come up, boy still don't move, and they all 00:09:03.500 --> 00:09:06.140 align:middle line:84% sit together trying to talk something or another 00:09:06.140 --> 00:09:08.240 align:middle line:84% to the little old boy, and him not half knowing 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:09.890 align:middle line:90% what they said. 00:09:09.890 --> 00:09:12.020 align:middle line:90% Doctors still don't come. 00:09:12.020 --> 00:09:15.500 align:middle line:84% Sun getting higher, getting hotter and hotter. 00:09:15.500 --> 00:09:20.000 align:middle line:84% Everybody clustering around the car and not making a sound. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.000 align:middle line:84% Finally straw boss, talking through his nose like he always 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.065 align:middle line:84% do, say, 'Gonna die when they move that car, ain't he?' 00:09:27.065 --> 00:09:29.300 align:middle line:90% And boy hear it. 00:09:29.300 --> 00:09:31.370 align:middle line:90% Nobody say a word. 00:09:31.370 --> 00:09:35.390 align:middle line:84% The little boy, he lay awhile, seem to study on it. 00:09:35.390 --> 00:09:39.620 align:middle line:84% 'Momma,' he said after a spell, 'I'm going to Heaven if I die, 00:09:39.620 --> 00:09:41.300 align:middle line:90% ain't I, Momma?' 00:09:41.300 --> 00:09:43.220 align:middle line:90% 'Yes,' she tell him. 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:44.870 align:middle line:90% 'Will you go with me, Momma?' 00:09:44.870 --> 00:09:46.588 align:middle line:90% he asks. 00:09:46.588 --> 00:09:48.380 align:middle line:84% Little nigger, who shovel up the mule shit, 00:09:48.380 --> 00:09:52.460 align:middle line:84% giggle, and straw boss come back hand him across the mouth. 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:56.060 align:middle line:84% 'No,' she said. 'No, I say, I can't go yet.' 00:09:56.060 --> 00:09:59.187 align:middle line:84% 'Daddy,' he said, 'would you go with me?' 00:09:59.187 --> 00:10:00.770 align:middle line:84% Little nigger giggle again and run off 00:10:00.770 --> 00:10:04.040 align:middle line:84% amongst the mules so straw boss can't find him. 00:10:04.040 --> 00:10:07.670 align:middle line:84% 'No, son,' Mr. Schmidt said, kind of choked up. 00:10:07.670 --> 00:10:08.960 align:middle line:90% 'It ain't my time yet. 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.780 align:middle line:84% You got to go by yourself, I reckon.' 00:10:11.780 --> 00:10:14.930 align:middle line:84% Little Schmidt boy lay and study a mite more. 00:10:14.930 --> 00:10:16.762 align:middle line:84% 'Will you meet me there then?' he say, 00:10:16.762 --> 00:10:19.220 align:middle line:84% brightening up and grinning like everything going to be all 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:20.390 align:middle line:90% right. 00:10:20.390 --> 00:10:22.610 align:middle line:84% His momma cried a little bit and say they would. 00:10:22.610 --> 00:10:24.590 align:middle line:84% And he shut his eyes, still a-smiling. 00:10:24.590 --> 00:10:26.300 align:middle line:84% Then directly he opened them up again, 00:10:26.300 --> 00:10:27.950 align:middle line:90% and his mouth kind of hang open. 00:10:27.950 --> 00:10:30.920 align:middle line:84% 'Looky, he says, staring straight up at the sun. 00:10:30.920 --> 00:10:32.060 align:middle line:90% 'Looky yonder Momma. 00:10:32.060 --> 00:10:34.070 align:middle line:84% Ain't that the prettiest man you ever seen? 00:10:34.070 --> 00:10:35.390 align:middle line:90% It's, it's Jesus, Momma. 00:10:35.390 --> 00:10:36.140 align:middle line:90% It's Jesus. 00:10:36.140 --> 00:10:37.740 align:middle line:90% He's coming for me. 00:10:37.740 --> 00:10:38.900 align:middle line:90% Can you see, Momma? 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:40.580 align:middle line:90% Can you see?' 00:10:40.580 --> 00:10:44.870 align:middle line:84% Everybody kind of step back and look up. 00:10:44.870 --> 00:10:47.030 align:middle line:84% Mrs. Schmidt bust out a-crying again. 00:10:47.030 --> 00:10:49.370 align:middle line:84% Fall down on the stomach of hugging the boy, yelling, 00:10:49.370 --> 00:10:50.030 align:middle line:90% 'Don't do it! 00:10:50.030 --> 00:10:52.580 align:middle line:90% Don't do it!' right in his ear. 00:10:52.580 --> 00:10:54.350 align:middle line:84% But he keeps staring up at the sun 00:10:54.350 --> 00:10:58.970 align:middle line:84% and smiling all glassy-eyed, and not pay no attention to nobody. 00:10:58.970 --> 00:11:01.580 align:middle line:84% Then Lord God Almighty, they come a whoop 00:11:01.580 --> 00:11:04.910 align:middle line:84% from out behind the mules would have shook the walls of Jericho 00:11:04.910 --> 00:11:06.680 align:middle line:90% down without their trumpet. 00:11:06.680 --> 00:11:09.440 align:middle line:84% Mules and folks all give a jump about half 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:12.350 align:middle line:84% a foot off the ground, and out come the little nigger, 00:11:12.350 --> 00:11:14.930 align:middle line:84% what been hiding, and tearing out like 400 hell 00:11:14.930 --> 00:11:17.870 align:middle line:84% in amongst the folks, riding on the back of the meanest looking 00:11:17.870 --> 00:11:19.970 align:middle line:90% mule I ever seen in my life. 00:11:19.970 --> 00:11:23.120 align:middle line:84% A-whooping like judgment day, the mule scat and a holler 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.370 align:middle line:84% and bust a gut, and when folks see 00:11:25.370 --> 00:11:27.380 align:middle line:84% what it be and get a hold of themselves, 00:11:27.380 --> 00:11:29.120 align:middle line:84% they all commence to cussing and chasing 00:11:29.120 --> 00:11:32.150 align:middle line:84% the mule all around the yard, and by the mule pens 00:11:32.150 --> 00:11:33.680 align:middle line:90% and down by the cars again. 00:11:33.680 --> 00:11:36.500 align:middle line:84% Til finally, little nigger fall off by the dynamite shack 00:11:36.500 --> 00:11:38.120 align:middle line:90% and they pounces on him. 00:11:38.120 --> 00:11:40.440 align:middle line:84% Shack rouster, Mr. Tittle, he the maddest, I reckon, 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.650 align:middle line:84% because he go to kicking the boy, and the rest of us 00:11:42.650 --> 00:11:44.630 align:middle line:90% cool it, kind of back off. 00:11:44.630 --> 00:11:48.110 align:middle line:84% Well, Mr. Tittle got some boots, so he do a pretty good job, 00:11:48.110 --> 00:11:51.650 align:middle line:84% and when he threw, straw boss come out and drag the boy off 00:11:51.650 --> 00:11:52.580 align:middle line:90% under a tree. 00:11:52.580 --> 00:11:55.790 align:middle line:84% Everybody come back and see about little Schmidt boy, 00:11:55.790 --> 00:11:57.920 align:middle line:84% but what they don't know, doctor done 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:00.350 align:middle line:84% come while they be a-chasing the little nigger, and done 00:12:00.350 --> 00:12:02.630 align:middle line:84% got the boy in the wagon and going home. 00:12:02.630 --> 00:12:06.200 align:middle line:84% He ain't died after all, and Jesus done gone away without 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:07.190 align:middle line:90% him.' 00:12:07.190 --> 00:12:13.920 align:middle line:84% 'Yes sir, Mr. Carl, you got a long way to go.' " 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:17.450 align:middle line:84% It's painful, sometimes, to write a book like that 00:12:17.450 --> 00:12:21.260 align:middle line:84% because it uses and explores a great number of attitudes 00:12:21.260 --> 00:12:23.810 align:middle line:90% that may be repulsive to one. 00:12:23.810 --> 00:12:30.080 align:middle line:84% But yet, it was that way, and it does no good to hide it 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:31.820 align:middle line:84% and to pretend it wasn't that way 00:12:31.820 --> 00:12:36.250 align:middle line:84% as a good many of our motion pictures seem to do, nowadays.