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Thank you, Miss Boatwright.
It's about the Three Musketeers.
Thank you, Miss Boatwright.
When you read it we'll talk about it...
Yes mam... We gotta go, Miss Boatwright.. .
Tell Rebecca I said 'hi', now...
Would you like to have a cool drink, David?
No, thank you I gotta go do some work in the field today.
I'll find out where your daddy is for you.
Thank you, Miss Boatwright!
Don't mention this to anyone! You hear me, David!
You know where my father is, don't you, Miss Boatwright?
No, he was wrong, David, I didn't find out.
But I saw you you looked in there, and you found out, Miss Boatwright.
If I tell you I didn't, David, that's what I mean.
But, Miss Boatwright, you
I don't know a damn thing, now stop bothering me about it!
Come, I'll take you home.
I'll walk...
Don't pout now, David, it's a long trip.
I'm used to it.
Hello, David...
Hi, Mrs. Boatwright... I'm sorry 'bout the way I acted the other day, Miss Boatwright.
David Lee, it's time for you to get to bed!
Goodnight.
Mama, there's hot meat on the stove!
That's right!
Where did it come from, Mama?
Where all meat come from now git yourself washed up and be snappy about it you got six miles ahead of you to that school.
Ready to go, Mama!
Tuck that shirt in, David Lee.
You got two shirts on?
Yes mam...
When you get outta that school, you come right on back home, y'all gon' have to take this laundry work I done for Miss Boatwright today.
Who's winning, Mama?
Nobody yet it's all tied up.
What do they do in the white churches, Mama?
Same as we they pray.
Who is they?
Children, come here...
Don't take my Daddy! Please don't take my Daddy!
David, come back here!
'Bye, Mama...
'Bye, son I won't be gone long.
Did you see Daddy?
No, son. We havta wait 'til the holiday comes anyway, they won't let womenfolk see their men no time.
Can I go when the holiday comes?
You sure can, son...
Any sign of Sounder?
No mam I looked all over.
I think maybe he was scraped on the head by that shot. I don't think he's dead just gone somewhere to heal himself.
What is it, David Lee?
Listen, Mama...
Poor creature...
He'll be all right, Mama. I'll make him all right.
Mama! Mama! Miss Boatwright, say she gon' help me find where Daddy is!
Good! But you don't have to tell the whole valley 'bout it! You'll get that woman in trouble!
Can't sleep?
No, ma'am... Mama, I wanted Mrs. Boatwright to find out where Daddy is, so me and Sounder can go see him.
So did I. I figured when the time got right, we could all take a day or two and walk up there, but it's not the kind of long trip for a child to take alone.
I can do it, Mama you know that. In the Bible stories you read to us, everybody's always goin' on a long journey. Jacob goes into a strange land where his uncle is and he don't even know where he lives, but he finds him. Everybody finds what they supposed to find.
But you'll be away from home for days what will you do when the dark comes, where will you sleep? I can't send you away from here like that!
Mama, don't I always do what you say every time I go to the fields to plant the corn, to Miss Boatwright's and the woods you tell me what to do and I do it, and you don't worry.
No, I don't and I oughtn't not to after the way you've taken over since they took him away and I would like for you to see 'im so you can come back and tell me about 'im. The field's all planted, so I guess I can spare you for a little while. When do you wanta leave?
Can I go day after tomorrow?
Yes, son. You better get back to bed.
Good night, Mama...
Good night...
I wish you wouldn't take the dog with you, David he's likely to be a burden to you.
I got to, Mama. I know Daddy wants to see him.
Here's your food now you go straight to that place if you need to rest, go into a church or railroad station but don't go into nobody's house, you hear me?
Yes, mam...
Ask your daddy to give you some word about when he'll be comin' home and tell 'im we love him.
I cut it on some glass and we got lost, Mama.
Did you find your father?
Didn't see 'im, Mama. The other men there say they didn't know Daddy.
I guess they musta sent 'im to another camp.
What's that you carryin'?
Some books Miss Johnson gave me.
Who's Miss Johnson?
Miss Johnson is a teacher, and...
So when I left, she gave me these books.
Miss Johnson must be a real kindly lady.
She is, Mama... When the fall comes, she wants me to come to her school.
How can you do that? You don't live anywhere near that school.
She says I can come live with her while school goin' on, and come back home every time there ain't no school.
But who's gonna help me here with the house and in the field?
What's wrong with him, David?
It's the heat.
It's when the heat is so bad, dogs go crazy.
He won't go mad he's just lookin' for a cooler spot.
What's wrong, Nathan?
He can't get up, Mama!
Be good and be smart, little boy.
Yes, ma'm...
What's in there, David!?
Sausage and hambones!
He eats all right his throat ain't scarred.
Then why don't he holler like he usta?
He will... Come on, git down and act like a possum.