All language subtitles for Hound Dog Man

Hound dog man.

Hound dog man. Hound dog man. Hound dog
man. I want to be a hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man.

I'm going to get me an old hound dog.

I'm going to let him live away.

Then I'm going to turn him loose and go
hunting every day.

That's the kind of life for me.

There's one thing I want to be and
that's a hound dog man. Hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man.

I'm looking for a girl who'll be waiting
when I come home.

She's going to meet me with a kiss.

She's going to be one pretty miss. And
every time I go, she's going to miss me

more and more.

She's going to have a tear in her eye.
The time's going to pass so slow.

That's the kind of life for me.

There's one thing I want to be, and
that's a hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man. I want to
get up in the morning, oh yeah,

with the rising sun.

I'm going to stay right on that trail
till the day is done.

I think that I'm old enough.

I'm young in years, but I'm mighty tough
like a hound dog man.

I want to be a hound dog man.

You told me, too, you didn't hold
breaking promises.

What promise?

Not exactly a promise.

What's so?

I hear you.

Didn't know then I was going to twist my
ankle and be laid up for a week.

Or the weather was going to go bad and
hold up the crop.

We just got to get this land broke.

Yeah, and we just had to hold weeds all
last summer instead of fishing.

And we just had to pick cotton all last
fall because we couldn't get no hard

help.

And now we won't get turned around
twice. We just have to start the

planting. Well, the farm don't run
itself.

School holiday or no school holiday?

I just can't take the time off now to go
hunting.

We got to make a crop.

How else do you expect to eat or where
close to school?

I can quit school.

Got me a saddle job promised at Dave
Wilson's ranch.

Anytime you let me quit.

You knew your ma wouldn't hear of that.

She's been on you boys getting an
education.

Now that's the end of it.

Once and for all.

I spread another plate.

What's that about another plate?

Lucky Stanley's coming down the road.

Just once, I'd like to see him show up
when it weren't mealtime.

Well, Bachelor gets kind of cagey about
them things.

Bachelor? No account fiddle-footed rake.
That's what he is.

Has he ever married and tried to make a
home? Has he ever raised children and

done a lick of work to feed and educate
them? What's a man good for if he dodges

that kind of duty?

Well, maybe never met the right kind of
woman.

You know, one who could settle them
down, study them.

Yes, we don't want to settle down.

Leastwise, not with one woman.

What do you mean by that?

You know very well what I mean.

Yeah, but I never hear them having to
get rough with them for Sweden.

Where you been, Blackie? Been coon
hunting by a gum. Lookie here.

So big and all, eh? Went on a fight like
they don't rock up a lot.

Fighting this coon I reckon that fool
hounds ever see.

Howdy, Aaron.

Howdy, Blackie.

Wasting a mighty good coon I'd kill me
that season.

Yeah, them old fool hounds don't show no
more sense than a red ant in a hot

skillet. Me and Clint might have caught
one like him if you kept your promise.

Get your shirt on.

Howdy do, Miss Kenny.

Well, I can tell you had bread breaking
mile down the road.

Ain't nobody's bread in the whole county
smell as sweet as yours. You ought to

know. You ain't Mr. House.

Well, that's the trouble with being
single.

Some of the crook in a man's got to put
up with.

You hold on, O'Ann. You're a lucky man.

I hope she didn't get the idea I was
hidden.

I don't know what would have put a
thought like that in her head.

Get out!

They never done a thing like that
before.

I guess the smell must have meant too
much for them to resist.

Well, I guess no woman will put up with
a yard full of hounds like I keep.

And between hounds and women, I reckon
you'd pick... Yeah, you'd pick the

hounds.

Well, Flick, take it down. Where are you
going to find a woman who'll put up with

what a dog will?

Yeah. Well, you take that pesky old rock
hound of mine. I can stow him to a

shadow.

Yeah, I can run him till his feet's wore
right down over a bloody bone.

Get on a high lonesome trunk and kick
him all over the place. But he's still

my dog, ready to lick my hand or warm my
feet on a cold night.

Now you show me a woman who'll do the
same.

Well, uh, you better wash up, Blackie.
It's about time for breakfast.

Well, another personal.

Just trying to tell why it wouldn't work
for me to settle down and get married.

Me too.

That's why I ain't never going to get
married.

Well, what's matter and white these boys
got a doll I don't when you was there

age You was a romping through the woods
after a pack of hounds day and night

Well things is different now We got the
farm to run and they got their school a

tent to dog take it looks to me like all
that recent writing is a Waste of young

man's time lab and ruin his shoot night.

No, I never would myself with it ain't
mister. No another Mars little touchy on

that subject Some things women just
don't seem to understand

Well, it ain't that their ma don't want
them to go hunting. It's just that I

can't spare the time to take them. And
then she figures that Spud is too young

to go traipsing off with just Clint. Why
don't we just hook up Daisy, throw a

cork beside a bacon in the wagon, and go
gim around?

Could we, Pa?

Blackie's the best hunter in the whole
world.

Your money sure tell young Rooster to be
worrying about going on a big hunt, but

you know your ma wouldn't, unless she
wouldn't.

Well, thanks for asking, Blackie.

Why, sure, Spud.

Now, you look out. That's a real pig's
digger.

I'm going to rip this water right in
half.

Rip!

You done it.

Blackie invited the boys to go hunting.

I don't wonder.

He'd like everybody to be as shiftless
as he is.

Well, a little hunting and fishing won't
make him shiftless.

You want our boys to run wild in the
woods with a pass of our pesky hound

dogs?

Cora, I made the boys a promise.

I'd be obliged if you helped me keep it.

What about the farm?

You said yourself you needed Clint to
help you get the land broke.

Clint and Spud worked hard here.

They'd do a little rest.

On top of that, Clint has reached the
age when a boy gets as stubborn as a one

-eyed mule.

He wants a little room to spread out, as
I see it.

If we don't give him the room, he'll
just reach out and take it.

Not Spud.

He's just a baby.

Baby Coon don't learn to catch a frog by
setting back in his den till he's growed

up.

Time to loosen up the strings on Spud,
too.

As soon as we finish breakfast, I'll get
the things ready.

Here's a clip on the bacon, all right?
Yes, sir.

There you go, son.

What are you cooking that along for?

Somebody's got to feed my grasshopper.

Now,

Clint.

You be careful.

Look after the squad and listen to what
Blackie has to tell you.

Y'all get hurt or sick, you might all be
up in my hair like a mad horse.

Nothing to worry about, Pop. We'll make
out. We sure will.

Here's a change of clothes and some
molasses for sweetening.

Thanks, Mom.

Well, let's giggle.

Come on, Daisy.

Bye now, boys.

Bye. Don't touch them all.

Mosk in it and power on stand up there.

Lookie on.

Who's that messing around with that old
fool horse?

Need a stringer.

He can't get.

You talk too much, bud.

That's what everybody tells me. Oh.

What's the trouble, honey?

Oh, crazy horse.

A runner stuck it in here way back.

Last summer, it never got over.

You gonna just sit there?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Easy, boy.

Whoa, easy now.

Much obliged, Clint.

Oh, weren't nothing much.

Clint? Yeah?

Got me new dress for that candy porn
Saturday night. Well, I might not get

there.

Well, me and Black are going off on a
big hunt, and we might not get back in

time.

Well, so long.

Honey!

Honey!

Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey!

Honey! Honey!

Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey! Honey!
Honey!

Honey!

Honey!

up and feeling like a man i'm growing up
oh yes i am

i just got a funny feeling i want to be
on my home on the back of my

bags give me a horse and find a place to
roam i want to go hunting over this

wild land gotta be something just like
hound dog man i'm growing

up and feeling like a man

I'll do most things just like any man
can.

They better start knowing I'm not a boy
no more.

One thing I know, raring to go, I'm
growing up for sure.

Want to go hunting over this wild land.

Got to be something just like a hound
dog man. I'm growing up and feeling like

a man.

I'll do most things just like...

One thing you know, I'm raring to go.
I'm growing up for sure.

One thing you know.

Boulders is the place to take the starch
out of the salty one.

Them slick river rocks, they keep him
thrown off balance.

Y'all stay put, you hear?

But Dave, how about you if that old
horse throws you on them rocks?

Looking down for them rocks, that'll
keep me in the saddle, too.

I tell myself now, Dave, if you let him
stack you, the only thing it's going to

give when you hit is going to be your
own old bones.

So I screw down tight in that saddle and
hang and rattle.

Oh, Blackie.

Blackie.

Not that you're interested, of course,
but this here is Donnie Waller. Sister

to my woman, Rachel.

She is a ring-tailed sinner that Donnie
is.

You mean Fiddlin' Tom's littlest girl?

That's her.

You wasn't hardly flying size the time I
slung them gals around Dave's wedding,

Dad. Well, I've feathered out some since
then.

That's a mortal fact.

I reckon you'd better see what sort of a
walk this old boss got in his backbone.

Now, get him through there.

Come on. Come on.

For cow hands and dang fools.

Pretty girl, she wants a frolic and wear
silk and fancy for some man.

I can do them things, too.

Yeah, I bet you can.

out something? Is he to come hunting
down your way?

Am I?

Providing he knows how to go about it.

Y'all catching any bondage?

Just got here.

Don't look to make a big catch.

Old dogs ain't much to count.

Yeah.

Prettiest she is, man ought to put her
in a picture frame.

Have it sitting on his mantel board,
just to look at.

Thought you didn't know I was getting
married.

Me get married?

Ha! Man alive, that'd stop all the
clocks. The day old Blackie Scanlon gets

married.

Come on, let's go.

Set us up camping and get us out of
Fishland.

Right here's a place I hung me a
catfish, the size of a boat.

That's the size we aimed the catfish.
Me?

Not certain for one the size of a dog.

You just take the spring and pull the
lips. Right there we'll whip the fat out

of the biggest kind of a catfish in no
time at all.

Well,

if there ain't no hogfish.

Who give you permit to dog hunt along
this river here?

Ain't nobody give me permit.

I ain't ask for none.

I got hogs running on this here river. I
don't want to get them showing up with a

couple of mangy dogs.

He ain't got nothing to worry about. My
dogs won't touch it.

Meat's too tough.

Before you get to laughing too much at
your own jokes, any harm come to my

hogs, I'll take it out of your hide.

What's hog want to stir up a stink
about?

If he in a long land, he ain't got a
right to run hogs on him.

Well, that's how some folks is.

Ain't satisfied owning a controlling
interest in all creation.

Still want to crack the whip on the old
man.

Listen, that's old Trump.

That's old Trump.

Bitch, he's speaking something.

Well, come on. Let's go.

Sounds like them old pot hounds got
something to treat.

Yeah, there's something up there.

You guys run too fast.

Be careful.

Might be a big old borkoo.

Yeah.

Some borkoo.

How about that?

He's no bigger than a little end and
nothing whittled down to a fine point.

Poor little fella's scared to death.

The only thing he's good for is to grow
up into a big possum.

In all his life, he's going to think
he's a real smart possum. Remember how

he fooled us into leaving him alone.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, Rock Drum, let's go.

Easy now spot don't want to snap it I'll
get it Good

but

looks like it's hung up got on tight
first, but I'll do it easy now. I'm not

as slippery as an eel in a hurry

I've been a rover everywhere, free as a
bird up in the air.

Single, I'm gonna travel single.

I'm never gonna let a single woman ever
tie me down.

I'm gonna wander through the trees, do
as I want to when I please.

Single, coming and going single, with a
little coin to jingle.

When I wanna come to town, I got my
hounds and my man.

Rock and drum and daisy. And now what do
we want with a nagging wife to drive us

crazy? Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy.

So pretty, baby, don't you grieve. I'm
going to love you, but I'll leave

single. I'm going to keep you single.

I know you want to make me mango.

You're never going to tie me down, down,
down.

You're never going to tie me, never
going to tie me down, down, down.

Three of my hogs come home all charred
up. Now, I warned you to keep your dogs

away from them. All my dogs do is to
chase them out of our camp.

Well, they won't do that no more.

Next time you come around here with a
loaded rifle, I'll bend a barrel right

over your head, you hear? Now go on, get
out of here.

I hope

your dog's tearing to

pieces. Them two really have.

You reckon they'll strike a trail?

Can't tell what them clabbermouth digits
might do. First foot.

Here I am.

Why don't you stay with us?

I had to go.

He's after something.

I wonder what that old fool hound thinks
he smells.

Come on.

a fancy eatin'. When we gonna cook him?
Well, it'd be a shame to ruin a big, fat

gobbler like this cookin' him over a
little old campfire.

Why would we ruin him? We just put him
over a fire and let him cook.

You see, a bird rates better than that.
He ought to have all the trimmin'. I'm

so hungry, I wouldn't care how I would
taste it.

When it comes to fixin' turkey, you
can't hardly beat woman cookin'. We

ain't gonna go home already, are we?

Well, who said anything like that?

Well, I thought you meant you gonna have
my cookies.

Not that your ma ain't a fine cook, but
there's other womenfolk live a lot

closer. Who?

Well, I'll think of one.

Look out yonder if you want to see the
hand of the Almighty in all its glory.

Just look at the color in them there
trees.

There ain't no picture-painting artist
ever got them colors put down right.

And there ain't none never will.

Yes, Papa.

Now you'd better put some clothes on.

You take after your mama.

You're always telling me what to wear,
when to eat.

Somebody's got to think of them things
for you.

Hey, ain't you dressed up kind of fancy?

What's fancy about this old dress?

Ain't that the wallet girl we saw
yesterday?

My jolly? You're it. Yeah, I forgot.

She lives there, too.

Oh, bitch, you know it all along.

Kind of suspicious, little cussing.

All right, Jody.

Well, look who's here.

Hello, boys.

Hi. Hello, Brackett.

We had us a hot trailer going, and the
first thing we'd know was right here at

your back door.

Think it ought to be Naverly dropping.

What's he talking about?

You thinking you're on the trail or
something?

You're mighty right I'm on the trail or
something.

I like a man what don't let the grass
grow under his feet.

Well, uh, we come by to talk to your pa.

Oh, you told me.

What kind of fiddling is that?

That ain't no fiddle tune anyone ever
played before.

Papa, he just made it up out yonder
while he watched the sunrise.

Hmm. I'll be darned.

Well, uh, were he always playing in his
sleeping drawers?

Papa generally stays lost in some kind
of pearly dream.

You sort of have to take care of him.

Well, Clint, you take this gobbler over
to Miss Waller, and you and Scott help

her do up the work, huh?

Here, boy.

Pretty sure of yourself, ain't you?

Well, now, if I was you and I met up
with a fine, upstanding man like me,

well, I wouldn't hardly be able to eat
nor sleep or want to see me again.

Tom, I'll let the cows out to pasture.

There's a whole lot there that feels the
same way about you.

prettiest looking cow hand ever did see.

I've gone back to help Mama.

Oh, well, she don't need you as much as
I do.

You don't waste much time, do you?

What's the matter?

I'm fixing to propose marriage.

Look here, every time a fella kisses
somebody, they don't go asking if she's

fixing to marry him.

Could just be I ain't like them other
somebodies. If you ain't smart enough to

know that, you ain't smart enough for me
to waste no time on.

Come on, son, look at you, don't you?

You got a mighty fancy bed laid out.

If I was either married or kind, you'd
be the one. But, boy, this old Fox, he's

robbed too many sexes. Stick his foot in
the trap now.

Pity you come all this way for nothing.

There comes a time when a boy can lay
his belly to the ground, feel the hot

beach of the earth a-crumbin' up to him
through the grassroot.

That's his time to prowl, to hurt with
the want of knowin' what's on the yonder

side of the next ridge.

The Almighty, he never meant a boy to
miss them things when his time comes.

Ain't never the same after you get
older.

Might be better, might be worse.

Never again the same.

Hey, the puppy licked my hand.

He did.

What?

Yeah, boy.

He really did.

Honest. That pup won't take up with
nobody.

If I could find somebody he'd take up
with, I'd give him to him.

You would?

I don't get all excited, Spud.

You know what Ma said.

Yeah. I guess I better do this.

What if he did take to me?

You and Blackie have a talk?

We talk.

Mama, remember when Rachel and Dave got
married?

Blackie danced with me at the wedding.

I've been waiting.

Ever since then for him to find out I
growed up.

Today he found out something else.

At least I hope he did.

All this time and you never said a word
to me, your papa.

You know now.

Honey, I'm telling you, you fight shy of
that Blackie Scandler.

I found an old man like that. He ain't
the marrying kind.

Any man is the marrying kind if the
right woman gets after him.

Oh, wow. He's cute as a bug with that.

Slick tongue, that little ducktail of
hair.

Landon Moses, child, never on this green
earth could you hold him. No woman

could. He's a prowler.

I can hold him.

I'll prowl with him.

Who's going to make the living I'd like
to know?

The trifling, no-account man, that
Blackie.

You're a fine one.

Married up with a left-handed fiddler,
then trying to tell me about trifling,

no-account men.

Dolly, don't you talk like that about
your papa.

There was never a better-hearted man
born.

You don't have to tell me.

In my book, Papa just barely plays
second fiddle to the Almighty.

But loving him like I do don't blind me
to how he sits and fiddles.

Leaves the heavy work to his women folk.

But, honey, he'll break your heart a
thousand times. Of course he will. Then

turn right around and patch it up again.

Just like Papa does for you.

Oh, Tony.

It's no use talking, Mama.

That Blackie, he's something special.

And that something special is what I got
to have.

And when I get it, I'll hold it, too.

Don't you worry none about that.

Howdy, Tom.

Hey, Blackie, this puppy licked my hand.

Well, how about that?

Well, that's a fine-looking pup. He sure
is.

He won't take up with nobody.

He just eats, lays around under the
house of an old wild tomcat that's

staying there.

Here, boy.

Come on. Come on.

Come on. That there's a one-man dog.

He ain't found the right man yet, and he
will never be no count he does.

You boys come on in.

Oh, we hate to put your women folk out
that way.

Won't put them out. Won't put them out
at all.

Come on in.

way nobody can count the pieces I ate.

Hey, that must be the old tomcat you
were telling about.

That old cat's too wild to eat at first.

Donnie here's even picking them bread
scraps, gently letting them down.

I got a gift for taming wild things.

Well, he's sure eating them turkey bones
right now.

Well, I guess you would too if all you
did for the last month was cold corn

bread.

Tony, pass your papa a hot biscuit.

Don't you know that old thing would
throw a wall I'd fit and Alice would

reach down to grab him?

I bet he'd jump clean out of his eyes.

Well, I sure wouldn't want to try it.
Wild as that old cat is, he'd eat you

alive. I ain't scared.

I had my hands on Quidditch, heap wilder
hands.

And it still got away with it.

Most of them critters wasn't trying very
hard to get loose.

Go on.

Grab that old tomcat.

See how you make out.

Give me that drumstick so I can poke him
out.

I can handle it.

Ah!

Don't take on so, honey.

Nothing lasts forever.

Oh, but dang it, I was just... Well, I
was just a prank, and I... I think you'd

better go.

Go on.

Let's gather up our plunder boys.

I hate to just eat and run, but... Well,
I reckon we better.

Tapping back yonder's a prize sample how
womenfolk will make a great big to-do

about a little old bit of nothings.

Wish it hadn't happened so quick.

Didn't hardly get my fill of that turkey
and dressing.

What are they growling at?

That's funny.

Little old Ruff sprung up like that,
tailing us all the way from fiddling

down. He sure must have a nose on him.

Looks like he's found what he's after.

He picked me out of all the people in
the world.

He picked me. He sure did.

I can keep him, can't I?

I don't know, Spuds.

You know how Ma's always been about
hound dogs.

You all go to sleep now.

I take you home all frazzled out while I
get thrown out of another house.

In this friendly, friendly world With
each

day so full of joy Why should

any...

be lonely in this friendly

friendly world with each night so full
of dreams

why should

full of

Nobody ever saw this before.

Except maybe the Indians.

Ain't he a great dog?

You better think up a name for him.
Can't just go and call him he.

Dogs gotta have a name like anybody
else.

How about Mush Head?

He's a smart dog.

I'm gonna call him Spot.

How could you call him Spot when he's
all one color?

He's just one big black spot.

Now what's he think he's doing?

Like his legs, bro, plumbin' too.

Spud, you tear back for the wagon, hook
up the old man and get down here so we

can haul Dave back to his house.

I'd better do that. No.

You take Dave's horse, head for town and
load Doc Coles. Fast as you can ride.

Dave Wilson broke his leg. I'm going to
get Doc Cole. Hurry up. They'll be

needing some help.

What's all the big hurry, son?

I've got to get Doc Cole.

Dave Wilson needs help quick.

Dave Wilson, Doc.

He's in a bad fix.

I'm the one who's in a bad fix.

I got me a toothache built to fit a
heart.

But you gotta go, Doc.

Dave's leg is broke.

He let a mean rock fall on it.

Damnation!

Anybody and everybody else can afford to
get sick. All we gotta do is call a

doctor. Who's the doctor gonna call when
he gets sick?

Let the doctor get sick and everybody's
in. What's the matter with old Doc?

Don't he know any better than that?

Dave's gotta have help quick, Doc.

He lives clear down past the river.

Boy, I just can't go way off down there.

All right, boy. We got to hurry.

Dave's leg will be swelled up and we
can't set it with two crowbars and a

sledgehammer. Don't just stand there.

Go down and get the car filled with gas.

Yes, sir.

What happened to Dave Wilson, Clint?

Broke his leg.

Oh, no.

I can't talk now.

I gotta get Doc's car and find somebody
to take care of Dave's horse.

Where's your dandified friend?

Dandified?

You mean Terminus Dooley?

I mean that sweet-talker pawing you
around a minute ago.

Why, Clint Kinney.

Terminus is one of the... I don't care
what he is. You tell him to keep his

hands to himself.

But, Clint, Terminus is a grown-up man.

You couldn't fight him.

He ever lays a hand on me again, I'll
show him who's a man.

Bust his jawbone.

Painkiller.

You're afraid I'll be drunk before we
get there, ain't you?

Well... You're right, boy. I'll probably
be so pie-eyed I couldn't hit the ground

on my head if I took three throws.

I gotta do something to kill the pain in
this old tooth.

Why don't you pull it?

Pull it?

What do you think I've been trying to
do?

Can't even see it to get a hold of it.

I had a rotten tooth once.

It was only a baby one, but it sure
hurt.

What'd you do about it?

I ate it.

Ate it?

Yes, sir.

I was eating a peach one day, and when I
finished the peach, the tooth was gone.

Take more than a peach to get rid of
this one.

Well, when Spud gets a loose tooth, Ma
ties one end of the string to it and the

other end to a doorknob.

Then she slams the door.

Spud says don't haul air to big.

Where are you going to find a doorknob
out here in the woods?

Well, we can use the car wheel instead
of a door.

I got some fishing line.

Here you try this around you too

I'll try this sense of the wheel

Howdy, boys.

Hello, Amy.

Doctor. What you got? Fried chicken?

Plenty of it.

Did you tell my papa, Spock? I didn't
even have time to go by the house.

You stay outside, Spock.

Come on, Spock.

When our times come, it's come.

Howdy, folks.

Howdy, Doc. Good to see you. Tom, did
you bring your fiddle? I sure did.

Rachel? Hello,

Grandma. Wilson, you got here none too
soon. Why, he looks bad.

Oh, don't pay no attention to her, Doc.
She's been preaching doom for 40 years.

Well, Granny, ain't nobody ever died
from a broke leg.

What's the matter, Dave?

Can't you ride the bad ones anymore?

Ride them?

Thunderation. How do you expect me to
ride one upside down?

Let's have a look at that leg.

Oh, dang them mighty, Doc.

Watch your cussing, Dave.

The lords are listening to you. It do
seem like a body on his deathbed ought

to keep from cussing.

It's a confounded whining and nagging of
you women folks that killed us.

Give me three or four good stout men.

Who are you killing me, Doc?

Oh, don't, Doc.

I just can't stand it.

Oh, let him. Why, she's fainted. What
are we going to do now?

Do let her lay there. Maybe she'll keep
her mouth shut. for a minute get these

cats calling females out of my way you
don't want the baby to hear cotton

before he's even

blackie

blackie keep your hands off her legs you
hear me hope

you can hold them better than you held
that tomcat

We don't know yet.

Doc says these three forced-out men to
help old Dave on setting his leg.

Well, one of them's me.

Hey, Charlie, tie my horses.

Where'd Hogg cabbage onto High Roller
like that?

Brung her back from the city last fall.

Hogg sure does bed in high cotton.
Mm-hmm.

Where has he been keeping her all this
time?

Where do you think?

One more put this drinking jug and I'll
set it myself.

What you want us to do, Doc?

Take a hold of his arm and his good leg.

I don't want him a-swinging and
a-kicking at me while I'm a-setting his

broken.

All right, are you all set?

Let him go.

Everybody hang on to what he's got.

Mrs. Lake will be all right.

What are you doing here?

I went out to help.

Terminus offered to bring me.

Maybe I oughtn't to bother bringing Doc
Cole, as long as Terminus is here.

No, Fred, honey.

Weren't nothing to it.

It may hurt a little when he sobers up,
but it'll heal straight.

Thank you, Doc.

Now, you all go and wash up for supper.
All them folks are coming. Why, we'll

have to eat in shifts.

But we'll eat.

Ain't it nice, Dave, how all the folks
come to set up with you? Some of them

even brung vittles.

Think you'll have me that drink now,
Dave.

Looks like you're in for the biggest
party since Ellie Morgan had twins.

Well, now, that's an I.D.

By a dog, if it ain't.

Please, now, Dave, you keep on, you're
going to hurt that leg all over again.

This year's my party, and I don't think
you missed one hook or holler at me.

Only got the pretty girl with the pretty
green eyes.

Got the pretty girl with the flaming red
hair.

A pretty girl.

pretty green eyes.

A pretty little girl with the pretty
green eyes. A

pretty little girl with the pretty green
eyes. Oh, you have the power to

hypnotize. Oh, you set my heart aflame
with the fire of your pretty red eyes.

If it wasn't for this broke leg, I'd be
up there feeling it hard to turn myself.

A pretty little girl with the pretty
green eyes. Come on, Grandpa. Let's let

you and me show these young'uns how to
do it. A pretty little girl with the

pretty green eyes. I love the beauty of
your eyes and the fire of your pretty

red eyes.

Well, don't take it. Look out there. You
don't bust another one.

I love the beauty of your eyes and the
fire of your pretty red eyes.

I love you.

A pretty little girl with the pretty
green eyes. A pretty little

girl with the pretty green eyes. Oh, you
have a way to.

But she loves me so Who's gonna be my
steady beau?

There's nothing special he must be
Except to just be mine There'll never be

no jealousy

Special he must be. Blackie, just be
mine.

There'll never be no jealousy.

You let some fancy pants come along,
they can't see nobody else.

Well, yeah, there's some like that.

Then there's some you can't get rid of.
Sort of sick and the dog gone.

Here.

Have a drink, boy.

I'll help you blow off steam.

Fights back, don't you, boy?

Went down the wrong pipe.

Put sand in a man's craw.

There you go, Spud.

Poor little shirt-tail kid.

Hey, Plum, tug it out of here.

Get some sleep here, Spud, because we
still got us some hunting to do.

Thank you, Blackie.

You don't reckon it'll wear you, Dave,
all that partying out there?

Not at all. It's cheering him up when
all his friends and neighbors are having

themselves a good time.

Now, you had enough to eat.

Go back to sleep.

Can I have Spot up here with me?

Sure he can.

Hey,

Postoffer, don't you know about the
apartment?

Let's go.

Hey, Postoffer, stop the ground.

Swing them pretty gals round and round.

Now the man will look, he'll look down
the land.

Right your partner, right your friend.

Hey, pull it up and stop it down.

Make that stopper go to the ground.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete. I'm Susie
Bell-Pete. I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

I'm Susie Bell-Pete.

Shake the hall.

Swing your girl and put her in the
middle.

Gents, take a walk and keep time with
the fiddle.

Cash her, girl, as you go around.

Swing the next one often.

Hi, Chris.

Think you could get me a drink?

No, I can use one myself.

Swing her out and swing her back.

Gents, bomb a nade on the outside side.

Bring that next girl. Put her back.

I don't see Blackie fighting her off.

for the party. I guess a little one
won't hurt much.

Come on, that was strong.

This stuff will draw blood blisters on a
real hard move.

They still get used to it.

Oh, excuse me.

You want a drink?

That's just what I'm after.

Water. I was just telling Blackie.

I ain't been since I got married.

Mrs. Payson, you sure look like you
never stopped then.

Maybe I got something they want to get
close to.

Well, no offense, Mrs. Payson, but if
you have, you sure keep it well hidden.

When you grow up, you'll find the men
don't seem to think so.

When I grow up.

Come on.

Oh, Clint, you want to dance? I didn't
come to dance. I didn't come to argue.

Let's go.

Hold on here, boy. What's this? I don't
like you fooling around my girl. Your

girl? What gives you that idea?

You better keep your hands off me.

Clint, what's got into you?

Are you coming with me or not?

Not when you act like that.

Look, I told you once before. Simmer
down, boy. Simmer down.

Take it easy.

That don't mean all you're drunk. You're
drunker than a bald owl.

I can't go on.

Here's your mom, your pop.

I'm going to fix you in right now. I'm
all right.

You'll be all right. I can get through
you. Come on.

ain't suffering no pain tonight.

He likely will in the morning.

Evening, Donnie. My boys don't happen to
be around, do they? They was the ones

that found me.

Oh, we put Spud to bed in the house.

Where's Clint?

Oh, he's around somewhere.

Seems like a month since I've seen him.
I'll just look in on Spud.

And miss all this good fiddling?

We can look in on Spud any time.

Oh, thank you, Rachel.

Mrs. Kinney, may I have the honor?

Let's take a whirl.

Watch Mr. and Mrs. Kinney and don't let
them go wandering around till I see if

Clint's all right.

Feeling any better?

I guess I acted up pretty bad, didn't I?

the liquor handles in.

You'd better walk around a little bit
before you go back inside.

I'll stall.

Thanks, Blanky.

Blanky? I saw you take Crell outside.

I thought you might be needing help.

Oh, he's all right now.

Sure feels good, don't it?

Sure does.

Oh, yeah.

You're pretty, don't you, my dear?

She's got her eyes on you all night like
maybe she owns you.

Don't know a woman on Black East Adler.

Who's my husband you're scared of?

That hog, he can be pretty mean.

Come fooling around, I'll set the dogs
on him.

Already did, was.

I'd like to have seen that.

I'm looking for my wife. You seen her
around? Susie Bell?

Last I seen, she was dancing with
Blackie.

She ain't dancing now.

Blackie ain't neither.

Well, that don't mean nothing.

What's he gonna do? Who mind your own
business?

Nothing for you. You all right?

I guess so. Your head is all wet.

Lucky shoved me in the truck.

Well, good for him.

Where is he?

He said he was going back to keep my
folks busy until I got there.

You know, you ought to be ashamed of
yourself.

Drinking, fighting.

I am.

I sure wore out that terminus, didn't I?

Keep talking like that, you're going to
end up back in the truck.

I don't feel so good.

I'll keep you company till you feel
better.

Well, I reckon we better be getting
back.

And I heard what a big ladies' man you
was.

You've got a funny way of showing it.

Maybe it's cause I'm used to doing the
jazzer.

Who's about?

You get over here.

Now, I warned you about that before we
come here.

I don't know what you're talking about.
Shut up.

Who are you out with? Nobody, I swear.
Where's Blackie?

I don't know.

I just stepped out to get a breath of
air. I'll learn you to spread your bait

around.

I wasn't out with nobody.

You know I wouldn't go for no country
rake like him. I'll learn that varmint

chasing tramp to Tampa with a patient
wound.

So he wasn't out with Bucky.

it outside.

This here ain't no place to settle a
difference. Outside, that's where they

started it. I'll wind it up in here. Now
go on.

All of you.

What's the matter, Blackie?

Ain't you got the guts to come down and
open?

This time you ain't got a pack of old
dogs to do your fighting for you.

I'll tell you, he wasn't with me.

He had him another woman. I seen him.

You're lying. No, I swear.

All right, if it wasn't you, who was it?

Might ruin some woman's reputation
reputation any woman's sorry enough to

let that thing draw out ain't got no
reputation So who was it?

It was me You

but Tony I

don't know what all this to do is about

What's between Blackie and me ain't none
of your business?

I'll make it my business.

Nobody else got the guts to protect
their women, folks.

I'll do it for them.

Mason.

You've caused enough trouble around
here.

Put the gun down and go home.

I got no fight with you.

Stay out of this.

Go home.

You can go home with him or not.

It's up to you.

We better be getting home.

finds out he'll kill Blackie.

Oh, Tom. My poor baby in front of all
those people.

There ain't nothing wrong with a young
couple sneaking off by themselves,

providing his intentions honorable.

How can you talk like that?

Because I got a longer memory than you
got.

I can remember way back before we was
married.

Tom.

Don't fret so, honey.

We'll have the biggest wedding since
Dave and Rachel got hitched. Everybody's

got things all figured out, haven't
they?

What got into her?

She was after him, wasn't she?

You wouldn't understand.

Blackie. Blackie.

Hall's going home.

I know.

I hear what you said. She weren't with
you. I know she weren't.

She just said that to keep Hall from
killing you.

I know.

I've been studying all day.

Well, I've got to see Paul.

Take good care of Jewel.

She ain't no Susie Bell, but at my age,
it can't be fussy.

Goodbye.

Howdy, Ma.

Come in.

Howdy, son.

Did you boys catch any varmints? Oh,
son.

I've been wondering where you've gone
off to.

You look kind of peaked, son.

You been getting enough to eat? Oh,
sure, plenty.

That's fine.

Well, Cora, it's about time you and me
were getting on home.

Yeah, I'll go with you.

No need for you to cut your hunting trip
short.

Oh, that's all right.

I don't want to make such a fuss about
it in the first place.

There's nothing to fret about.

Boys like mules.

One don't get butthead now and then
generally ain't good for nothing Well,

if you're coming along with us, I'll
just go and roust out spot.

We could all go home together Right
wagon good There

was something you've done the

hog All I done was what had to be

done

Weren't nothing to take pride in.

I take pride, Nick.

A heap of pride.

It ain't a pleasant thing to humble a
man in front of his friends and

neighbors.

I weren't mean on that part.

I take pride watching my pa do what
nobody else could do.

Oh, I reckon there was others who could
have done the same.

Maybe.

If it had a nerve.

You sure you don't mind cutting the trip
short?

Can't waste two weeks fooling around.

We got a lot of plowing to do.

All right, Nita.

I'm sorry for the way I acted in there.

I guess I can't handle that whiskey.

It won't ever happen again.

I was as much to blame as you was.

Oh, no, you wasn't.

You got a right to like anybody you
want.

What I mean... I was trying to make you
jealous.

I don't really like to miss at all.

You don't?

Well... How are you going to get home?

Mr. and Mrs. Fikes are going right by
our place.

I'll follow them.

Oh.

You know, I just got mad that it looked
like he cared more about going hunting

with Blackie than taking me to the candy
pond.

Could be I can make it to that candy
pond tomorrow night.

I'll remember Jeff.

Well, I better go help Pop.

Look at my young and dead to the world.

I bet the boys ain't had a wink of sleep
since they left home.

You oughtn't to have let Spud bring the
dog in the house. It's one of your kind

of pain. They're all cracked up. That
don't matter.

Cora, maybe it ain't none of my
business, but it's going to break that

boy's heart if you don't let him keep
that pup.

He's already given a name.

Spot. Spot?

I never did a hole with boys running in
the woods.

Jason, after a no-good passel, old hound
dogs.

If I have me a boy, he's going to have a
dog for sure.

Well, a boy and a dog, they go together
like a husband and wife.

Pepper and salt.

You ever hear of too much pepper in the
stew?

You'll see.

It's easy to talk before they're born,
but I want my boys to grow up in a

mountain or something.

When the time comes, you'll want the
same.

Tell Dave we'll be by to see him.

Where's Spud?

Who's Spud?

Town pub. Mr. Waller gives Spud. Well,
Mr. Waller can just take him right back.

He's going to be awful sorry.

We've been through that before, Clint.

Yes, ma'am. I'll just sit in the back so
Spud won't fall out.

Keep on going.

But it wouldn't be fair to keep the pup
overnight and then have to take him

back. You said anything about taking him
back.

Do you mean I can keep him?

I'll tell you one thing. Don't you ever
let me catch that old hound pup

scratching up my flower beds. Hear me?

She sees that pup scratching at the
flower garden, she'll skin us all alive.

Oh, boy, he lives! Johnny!

I've been looking all over for you. What
are you doing up here?

I just want to be alone.

Now, wait a minute.

Ain't nothing to get bothered about.

Well, this slicker's kind of an old fox
that keeps fooling around a bit.

Finally gets caught.

I got by longer than most. So now you
feel trapped.

No, now, you wait. I didn't mean that.

I don't want you real bad. It's just,
well, a man who sort of hates to give up

hunt and prowl take on a big
responsibility.

I done took note of that.

But, well, now, the way I see it, a man
can hardly hope to hunt and prowl all

his life.

There comes a time in his life when it's
only right for him to step between the

traces and pull his part of the load.

Just what you mean to do.

Yeah.

Sell an old house of mine, and buy me a
span of mules, and rip the fields up of

some old place, and grow crops like
you've never seen grow before.

Et quoi?

Will you marry me?

Oh, Blackie! I never thought I'd hear
you say it for two days.

Oh, Blackie, do you really want to? Want
to? What dog... J.K., it ain't I just

offered to give up all I've got or ever
been used to. You don't have to give up

nothing for me. Keep your hands hot and
proud when you're lost.

All I'm wanting is for you to keep
loving me.

God love you.

Good luck, J.K.

I was missing somebody special.

Come on, Spud.

Can't hardly wait till Doc says we can
kick him on his footprint.

Don't guess I can hardly make it
tonight, Spud.

Sort of tied up.

Tied up?

But you said you'd go with me any time I
wanted. I know.

But you see, I done promised Ed I'd take
you to that candy pulling.