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hey

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daddy you should have done that what

kind of a man are you

stand by and see your wife so surely

daddy didn't mean nothing

you may be able to wear that wretch

around but if you so much to lay a hand

on me again i'm gonna bite your fingers

off

shameless woman your nakedness is an

abomination before the lord

and who put me in that state ortho

wheeler you're a wicked man

cover yourself

teddy i don't want you raising your hand

to my wife

you i buy you a newspaper

and what do you do the first thing you

send off with this

this mail order baggage here and you

marry her

without so much as a buy your leave

you don't say nothing to me nothing me i

i'm only your daddy and then to make

things worse you go down in the store

and you steal a dress for her

far and back there's only one way to

handle enough of the kid

like you

you come on down to the bar and get your

licking

faith and now i've heard everything any

man who allows himself to be beaten by

another

will remain husband to me in name only i

can't get him wrong

he won't leave me nothing what have you

got now nothing

including me you better go and get your

whipping

i mean if i stand up to daddy

things gonna be different between you

and me

well i don't know if they will be until

they are

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you want drive to see this

yes sir all right

maybe cross the saddle horse and take

you're going with me you're gonna whip

me with your fist

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so we

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are you alright

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where's daddy you thrashed him

and right proud i am of you

me i hope daddy aye

and so sound that he went hooting over

the hill vowing he'd never return again

daddy run off

that's what you wanted ain't it

i'll be moving my clothes into your room

tonight

hugo wheeler you're a shameless man with

evil thoughts

have a feeling i'll be welcomed on a

dark night

we raised a hand against our elders

i go one with you and your spook no such

thing as the hollow watcher

here come on in the house and i'll turn

to your scratches

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i wonder how many of you have had the

urge to

to eliminate one of your in-laws oh come

now

chances are it has occurred to you at

least once but

but after a moment's thought you decided

against becoming a murderer

of course i wouldn't presume to ask if

you made the right decision

but i would however be interested in

your reason for refraining

was it respect for human life fear of

the law

or terror of the unknown

the wrath of a demon such as

the hollow watcher for the sightless

eyes of the hollow watcher

see more than you might imagine

even now they can perceive the leading

players in tonight's story

they are

audrey dalton sean mcglory

and warren oates

well i certainly don't need the

hollow watcher to tell me that you're

skeptical

but as sure as my name is boris karloff

the people who live in black hollow

believe in him

the beliefs of simple country folk can

create forces that can

certainly surprise you perhaps even

frighten you to death

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great cheese pickles

onions going caught in bowls

you're fixing to get yourself whoops

you uh forget something yesterday mr

croxton

i um found a flower

an add of the 10 pounds you laid in

yesterday

man can't get too much flour

you nothing from mr wheeler mary

been a month he'd like all

also to let business slip that way he's

just letting hugo

get his feet wet running things

he'll turn up when he's in mind of it

well i ain't holding my breath till i

stand in his shadow

say out what you mean oh he ain't coming

back

you go and that foreign woman don't dig

him in

hi miss curtis howdy tommy

now that i learned to live with the

vapors

is the heel the hole taken off again

yeah took the misses to see the doctor

over to mardell

she's been kind of puny since mr wheeler

left

he goes eating hip high on the hall with

that fancy woman

well i suppose he can do most what he

wants to

when his daddy's away he's boss

and he took grant to marry a woman from

this here valley has to send off and get

himself a

woman that speaks in tongues sometimes

see her shaking like a calf with the

aggie

i wouldn't be too surprised if the

hollow watch ain't been looking at her

hollow watcher might have gotten old

ortho he was mean enough

no hollow watcher always leaves the

corpse

a part of it as a warning

i hear a word the

town got a letter sold everybody else

here

i did not who's it for

it ain't for you what is it for one of

us here

i mean you got no right to hold it it

ain't

i i go past most of the houses in the

hall on my way home

i'll be right proud to drop it off for

you hmm

it ain't going no further than here

it's for ms wheeler wheeler

what to say i can't tell

they got it wrapped in some brown paper

that's

all stuck together why don't you lay it

up against the flat of the window pane

light might shine through

already i the paper's too thick to see

through

you reckon you could show it to us

i never seen no letter well i suppose a

look at the outside

wouldn't harm the reading of it none

so

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be with you directly oh at your

convenience my dear sir at your

convenience

oh allow me sir would you

you sure are pretty well now

you know seldom has such loveliness

covered so

silver a tongue oh excuse me would you

for a moment

hello madam huh my pleasure

bye ladies something for you stranger

yes as a matter of fact a little

information if you don't mind

you lost or something no no not if this

is the general store of black hollow

north carolina

it's that ah well now it's margaret

o'donner that i seek wife to the man

wheeler

what be your business with her i know

you'll forgive me but

what be your business asking me my

business huh

she ain't here abouts now oh she's not

huh

that's pretty very well then i shall

wait

no the dust of your roads clogs my

throat

they say that if a man chews enough dust

it makes his teeth grow short

i uh i don't suppose you'd have a little

dram of irish whiskey to restore them

huh

no but we got something that'll grow you

teeth a foot and a half long oh

never better sit in county go away all

right pour it son for it

you got money drinks a dime

that's a quarter you'll gotta take two i

got no change

i'll take two and one half that is a

quarter as you so rightly pointed out

what'll you leave for a tip oh very well

then all right i have one for you

well here's good

that undoubtedly is the worst whiskey

that i

ever passed my tongue well uh i got some

other i'm not strong no no please please

spare me if you will ah

oh what have we got here now uh when did

this arrive

uh this morning uh give me your back

right now

i could have delivered this myself

couldn't i and save myself one pound

six now you've got no right take it out

calm yourself my dear so calm yourself

i wrote it and it's merely an

announcement of my arrival so

since that's an accomplished fact this

is hardly necessary now is it

no you listen i made that whiskey you

didn't like well don't make it again

you shouldn't have torn up that letter

do take your hand off my arm

and stop breathing on me

all right you just step outside i'm sure

gonna whip you

well now i feel sure that you've made a

number of unfortunate decisions in your

life

and i know that this is one yes sir

delighted

after you

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foreign

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woof

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hmm

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so

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so

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boy would you stay with my horse and rig

for me please

oh yes i forgot

excuse me please

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sure don't take you long to stir a place

up stranger

oh incidentally my name is sean i'm the

odanna

mrs wheeler is my sister judge that

reckon she told you mr wheeler's gone

all right

well when did he die don't know as he

did

but he's gone i see where might the

widow be now

widow oh the missing wheeler is

father-in-law to your sister oh her

husband hugo is with her i

see i see what uh what happened to the

old man

talk has it that the hollow watcher got

him

oh now that's a pity that's a great pity

and eat

what the devil is the hollow watcher

it's a thing that sneaks around in the

shadows

stares at the guilty until their grit

gives way

does amen well now you know

in my country they call that the she see

fairies little people

or hollow watches big might be a bear

or a mountain lion or horse even a man

reeks vengeance with claws feet or teeth

ming meg here i am

ah oh mr megging oh sean thank heaven

you're here

oh it's been so long too long meg oh

sean something awful is happening here

and dreadful horror is opposition

darling i'm here now everything is going

to be all right

oh sean so terrified has made me sick oh

sure you've gone to bones all right

maybe i can hardly and how are all the

rest

oh terrible sad thing it is meg

and more than two weeks ago my own

darling bernice

fell underneath the wheels of a wagon

was crushed to death

now you're all i've got meg my own

little sister

oh sean i'm sorry

sean this is my husband hugo oh how do

you

do sir meg spoke your name many times

another mouth to feed i reckon

hugo sean just lost his wife

oh i'm sorry oh that's

that's all right i i won't be a burden

to you i brought my own money in a good

strong back

and a dislike for staying long in the

one place

with money and a strong back you're

welcome as long as it comforts you to

stay

you can sleep in the barn if you like no

brother mine gnaws bones while i eat

meat

he'll share quarters with us meg i want

our privacy

privacy what for mr hugo

feliridian from north hill said your new

plows sitting on a

siding up there could you use it

sean that'd be a good job for you to cut

your teeth on

it's only 25 miles up the north hill you

could be back before tomorrow

uh well uh i intended to remain in

mourning for another week

hugo you should be ashamed of yourself

all right i'll go up and get it mason

help me hitch up the other team

you folks got family problems to talk

over

sean pour up with us

hi you're a man of heart brother

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meg

why does hugo wheeler still live

could it be that you find that scrawny

little nothing to your liking

i know far less of that scrawny little

nothing than you probably know of that

lanky lady bernice

oh i feel sorry for the poor thing and

after all

she did love me so much

as i do oh no

no may love not as you

oh you're do hawk

an eagle she was better wren with a

broken wing

and now she has a broken neck well it

was merciful

yes and profitable too you know

you still haven't told me why hugo still

is

i don't know where the money is

hugo knows nothing

his father hated us wouldn't give us a

penny

he was the first stone in the path

and when it was done i stuffed his body

into the old scarecrow

thinking the scavenger birds would find

it and hugo would be blamed

the place was too obvious for even these

bumpkins to find

too obvious wha what do you mean well it

stands in a field that's

laying fallow now for two years no one

goes there but

field mice and copperheaded serpents

why do you suppose the carrion birds

ignored huh

because because it isn't quite dead

oh don't talk so foolishly meg how could

it

me meg you're not listening to me

do you have to cling to that blasted

piece of stuff drag the rest of your

life

this is the only thing in all this world

that i've always had it's nothing but a

silly toy a filthy piece of rag here

give it to me

no shall no no marshall will you grow up

you can't be a child the rest of your

life you know

better the hand of your own meg in the

flames than this please sean

i'm sorry

i'm sorry please forgive me oh meg

listen to me we can't let this get to us

it's nothing but a legend a fable i tell

you it's it's this place this

dismal flowing place it's like a valley

on the moon

but it is there sean it is

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it gets closer and closer

i could see it up there on the hill in

the twilight

from the knees and the shoulders

then just ahead as it as it came toward

the house

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i see nothing now not today this

afternoon either

it isn't there now but it was earlier

well i could very easily have missed it

you know but

we'll soon remedy

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what am i going to do i'm going to

stride out into the fields

find the scarecrow that dance my darling

and pluck it down

sean it's not there at night in the

darkness it wanders abroad

no one goes out tonight in black hollow

no one with a black irish

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tail

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so

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wow

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so

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we should pack our bags it's your team

and leave

oh no not when we're this close we've

spent

five long months on this endeavor and

now when hugo

falls off the cliff so to speak we'll

get our hands on close to

five thousand dollars with what bernice

left that should put us at 23

000. just think of it like 23 000

oh i tell you when we get back to island

we're going to live like kings and

queens

i fear we've seen the last of the old

sod

this sour valley will be the death of

both of us oh meg don't freak like that

that thing goals me i swear that you

caress it more than you do me

can you think of it as the child we've

never had the child we've never

oh what would a child have done to our

plans and what kind of talk is this

anyway

it's nothing but a toy

it comforts me

are you sure that you've never given

hugo calls to think that you're other

than what you told him

none

and you you've never been wife to him

i'm wife only to sean o'donnell

and he lied i

lied i when you came in from outside you

said you hadn't seen anything

but i heard your gun explode twice and

your

face it was his white and stretched is

that of the hollow archer himself

all right i did i did highlight to save

your fears

i saw something out there tonight all

right meg

i shot at it there is a hollow watcher

it's the scarecrow

that's inhabited by your own husband

hugo

hugo butcher why would he i don't know

meg i don't know

maybe he found out your secret wants to

avenge his father

he hated his father well maybe

maybe

maybe he wants to frighten his bride

into becoming his wife

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so

would hugo have mentioned to mason where

the money might be in

i doubt if old mr wheeler even mentioned

it to hugo

you wouldn't have put it in a bank would

he sooner in the middle of the street

i suppose the wheelers were never robbed

either

never with success although one night

there was a great commotion out in the

hen house

and almost wheeler grabbed his gun and

ran for the barn

he did huh you ran for the barney

the hen houses in the opposite direction

isn't it

i don't know that's interesting

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what you doing

i didn't exactly hurt my eardrums mason

oh i wasn't the mind of brian

hey what what are you doing

well this uh i i just noticed that uh

some of these boards are getting rather

thin on top so i thought it would tidy

up the face by turn them over

oh well makes it look trim missed odana

but when you know how thick a baud is

you judge when to replace it as wore out

now turning them over looks strong

but a horse stomps through it and buries

his leg

all right in ireland we always used to

turn them over when they were worn out

well city brad no way and knowing no

different

i just wouldn't like you getting

crosswise with mr hugo

well you know something mason i wouldn't

want to get cross-wise with mr hugo

family and all i guess not see mr

o'donner

what's the name of that place in ireland

you and miss wheel is from

county goldwyn i'm a mine she said some

other name

uh well you see i was born in ethan rye

county goldwy that's my home county now

my sister was born

five years later in county ross common

and that's the county she comes from

you sure figure it funny

they sure got some funny sound and names

over yonder

apologies for that that's all right

names taken out of context always sound

funny you've got

pineola and ducktown and etowah here

we got him i ain't never got past

uh

didn't mean to pry or advise about them

boards

ain't none of us want to upset mr hugo

no no no no we wouldn't want to do that

i would

sounds like someone's coming

mr hugo ain't gonna like that

oh

morning brother sean yeah how'd you get

home so listen go unload the wagon

yes sir all right i'll give him a hint

no just a minute you keep dear morning

brother sean

mason needs any help i still got a good

strong arm

lift a lot

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did you see our friend yes i did as

whole as the day he was born

at least we know we haven't killed a

goose who knows where the golden egg is

but if it wasn't hugo who fell on you

last night then what was it oh it was

hugo all right

now what's he doing out there in the

wagon yard i don't know

i only noticed that the gun was primed

and charged now as a safety factor many

people leave out the load until it's

needed that's obviously what happened

i set off an unloaded gun then what of

the missing arm

i don't know i don't know it's some

trick or other

at least we'll know the answer to that

and many other things tonight

tonight what oh sean let's just get out

of here

let's pack our bags and hit your team

and just leave

wasn't a mind of busting in on family

dunes

oh it's just nothing at all you know

woman get yourself up at here that's the

only way to handle them

yes um

that's the only way

you might pass the tip along to you

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brother-in-law

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well the huff's gonna let me for a

couple days uh

let's go fetching checkers on the

sabbath

what uh yeah me maybe

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say mr o'donnell what is it

can you give me a hand in the storeroom

all right

ain't gonna have it i ain't gonna have

your brother living right here in this

house with us

i know what he's thinking what do you

care what he thinks

is it because he's big and strong and

handsome and everything you're not

i wasn't in no poke when you married me

he won't think anything

he understands our customs

i ran into some irish folk up in north

hill meg

you did now yes i did it's funny they

never heard of your custom of a bridal

pair

living together like brother and sister

the first six months they were married

such customizer it's my custom

you always give me the feeling that

you're smarter than me mate

you know how to use words and all words

hurt me worse than anything

body could do to me oxen don't speak

do you want a wife or an animal

so far i don't have much of either

those wheelers patient men meg

i'm just about to end my tether with you

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oh you're all right huh

brother hugo seemed to be in such a

dizzy i thought he might have roughed

you around a bit

this will have to be tonight i don't

think i can hold him off much longer

it will it will never fear

oh this is going to work out just fine

meg

brother hugo has one more act to play in

his little drama

why does he stage his drama because of

me

i think oh leave that silly thing alone

sit down here and listen to me

you see i wrote you a letter oh trying

to discreet i'll admit but nevertheless

i wrote it and it was here when i

arrived

well i tore it up but the pieces must

have been put back together somehow

by whom or mason perhaps i don't know

doesn't make any difference the point is

that the knowledge is out

to die that he's after only i hold him a

threat

you see the hollow watcher is the

property of the wheelers

they use the legend to keep the valley

people in terror and want

well now we're going to liberate those

good people

along with a vast amount of money

what is the last act oh hugo and a spook

outfit will have to appear tonight

i'll wager my last dollar that he'll

excuse himself before

supper this night

mighty fine little flare up in good

fiddles man delicious it was me

i had a long day today i'm gonna have a

big day tomorrow

is that right honey

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good night brother sean nice

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well it appears you've lost your bet

the night has yet to pass

good night meg i'll clean off the table

for you

good night brother sean

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hmm

hugo

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i heard a noise about the barn i figured

i'll go take a look

and i'll go with you that's all right

my daddy used to do these things by

himself

i reckon i can't make sure the gun's

loaded brother

it's loaded all right all this loaded

just when i'm gonna shoot

what is it john hugo claims that he

heard a noise in the barn

turn out to donna's crow suit no doubt

and try and frighten me

yeah what a surprise he's gonna get

don't go out there

there's a wheeler with a shotgun any

match for a

dana with her knife

worry dear our troubles are almost over

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another hugo

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ah

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so

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i never forgive you for this hugo

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uh

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uh

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uh

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uh

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ah

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laughs

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so

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that's a quarter you'll gotta take two i

got no

change i'll take two and one half

that is a quarter as you so rightly

pointed out

what'll you leave for a tip oh very well

then all right i have one for you

well here's a good duck

that undoubtedly is the worst whiskey

that i've

ever passed my tongue well uh i got some

other i'm not strong no no no please

please

spare me if you will ah

oh what have we got here now ah

when did this arrive uh this morning i

give me your back ah

now i get to deliver this myself

couldn't i and save myself one pound

six now you've got no right to take them

out calm yourself my dear so calm

yourself

i wrote it and it's merely an

announcement of my arrival so

since that's an accomplished fact this

is hardly necessary now is it

no you listen i made that whiskey you

didn't like

well don't make it again you shouldn't

have torn up that letter

do take your hand off my arm

and stop breathing on me

all right you just step outside i'm sure

gonna whip you

well now i feel sure that you've made a

number of unfortunate decisions in your

life

and i know that this is one yes sir

delighted

after you

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up

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woof

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hmm

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so

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boy would you stay with my horse and rig

for me please

oh yes i forgot

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are you alright

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where's daddy you thrashed him

and write proud i am of you

me i hope daddy i

and so sound that he went hooting over

the hill vowing he'd never return again

daddy run off

that's what you wanted ain't it

i'll be moving my clothes into your room

tonight

hugo wheeler you're a shameless man with

evil thoughts

have a feeling i'll be welcome on a dark

night

we raised a hand against our elders

i go on with you and your spook no such

thing as the hollow watcher

here come on in the house and i'll turn

to your scratches

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i wonder how many of you have had the

urge to

to eliminate one of your in-laws oh come

now

chances are it has occurred to you at

least once but

but after a moment's thought you decided

against becoming a murderer

of course i wouldn't presume to ask if

you made the right decision

but i would however be interested in

your reason for refraining

was it respect for human life fear of

the law

or terror of the unknown

the wrath of a demon such as

the hollow watcher for the sightless

eyes of the hollow watcher

see more than you might imagine

even now they can perceive the leading

players in tonight's story

they are

audrey dalton sean mcglory

and warren oates

well i certainly don't need the

hollow watcher to tell me that you're

skeptical

but i'm sure

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so

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daddy you should have done that what

kind of a man are you

stand by and see your wife so surely set

up daddy didn't mean nothing

you may be able to wear that wretch

around but if you so much to lay a hand

on me again i'm gonna bite your fingers

off

shameless woman your nakedness is an

abomination before the lord

and who put me in that state ortho

wheeler you're a wicked man

carry yourself

teddy i don't want you raising your hand

to my wife

you i buy you a newspaper

and what do you do the first thing you

send off for this

this mail order baggage here and you

marry her

without so much as a buy your leave

you don't say nothing to me nothing me

ah

i'm only your daddy and then to make

things

worse you go down in the store and you

steal a dress for her

far and back there's only one way to

handle enough of the kid like you

you come on down to the barn and get

your licking

faith and now i've heard everything any

man who allows himself to be beaten by

another

will remain husband to me and name only

i can't get him riled

he won't leave me nothing what have you

got now nothing

including me you better go and get your

whipping

i mean if i stand up to daddy

things gonna be different between you

and me

well i don't know if they will be until

they are

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fun

you want your wife to see this

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yes sir all right maybe cross the saddle

horse and take your leak

you're gonna whip me you're gonna whip

me with your fist

so we

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the people who live in black hollow

believe in him

the beliefs of simple country folk can

create forces that can

certainly surprise you perhaps even

frighten you to death

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gray cheese pickles

onions going caught in bowls

you fixing to get yourself whoops

daddy alley rule

you uh forget something yesterday mr

croxton

yeah yeah um found a flower

an add of the ten pounds you laid in

yesterday

man can't get too much flour

nothing from mr wheeler mary

been a month he'd like all

also to let business slip that way he's

just letting hugo

get his feet wet running things

he'll turn up when he's in mind of it

well i ain't holding my breath till i

stand in his shadow

say out what you mean oh he ain't coming

back

you go and that foreign woman don't did

him in

hi miss curtis howdy

now that i learned to live with the

vapors

is the heel the hole taken off again

yeah took the misses to see the doctor

over to mardell

she's been kind of puny since mr wheeler

left

goes eating hip high on the hog with

that fancy woman

well i suppose he can do most what he

wants to

when his daddy's away he's boss

and he took gran to marry a woman from

this here valley has to send off and

give yourself a

woman that speaks in tongues sometimes

see you

shaking like a calf with the aggie

i wouldn't be too surprised if the

hollow watch ain't been

looking at her hollow watcher might have

gotten old ortho

he was mean enough no

hollow watcher always leaves the corpse

a part of it is a warning

i hear a word the

town got a letter sold everybody else

here

i did not who's it for

it ain't for you what is it for one of

us here

i mean you got no right to hold it it

ain't

i i go past most of the houses in the

hall on my way home

i'll be right proud to drop it off for

you hmm

it ain't going no further than here

it's for ms wheeler venezuela

what to say i can't tell

they got it wrapped in some brown paper

that's

all stuck together why don't you lay it

up against the flat of the window pane

the light might shine through

already i the paper's too thick to see

through

you reckon you could show it to us i

never seen no letter well i suppose a

look at the outside

wouldn't harm the reading of it none

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all right

be with you directly oh at your

convenience my dear sir at your

convenience

oh allow me sir would you

you sure are pretty well now

you know seldom has such loveliness

covered so

silver a tongue oh excuse me would you

for a moment

hello me madam huh my pleasure

bye ladies something for you stranger

yes as a matter of fact a little

information if you don't mind

you lost or something no no not if this

is the general store of black hollow

north carolina

it's that ah for now it's margaret

o'donner that i seek wife to the man

wheeler

what be your business with her and now

you'll forgive me but

what be your business asking me my

business huh

she ain't here abouts now oh she's not

huh

that's pity very well then i shall wait

no the dust of your roads clogs my

throat

they say that if a man chews enough dust

it makes his teeth grow short

i uh i don't suppose you'd have a little

dram of irish whiskey to restore them

no but we got something that'll grow you

teeth a foot and a half long oh

never better sit in county galway all

right pour it son for it

you got money drinks a dime