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How long now, Pa? How many more days?

We ain't much more than started.

Is there troublemakers around here, too?

Don't you fret about that Fromes family, son.

We're not really running from them,

are we, Pa?

Us?

We're traipsing along like natural men.

We got other things to do besides fighting Fromeses.

We got to get to Texas.

I can't hardly wait. Are you certain sure

we won't stay long in humility?

Long enough to say how-de-do

to your uncle Zack and aunt Sophie.

Could I count the money again?

You sure there's enough?

Certain sure. Enough for the steamboat

with a mite left over for seed.

10 and 10 is 20...

And 20 more is 40.

Old pharaoh's getting hot. Just listen to him sing.

What's 20 unto 115?

135. hush, boy. Pharaoh's making music.

Fox doubled up.

Same as before, Pa... 215.

You expecting it to multiply?

Give it here. We'll blow the dog in.

Let me try it again, Pa.

Time you can blow it,

I figure you'll be growed up.

He heated you.

Why, sure he did. Old Gabriel himself

will want to borrow this horn

when he blows for judgment day.

You better lie down now.

Your ma up yonder

will be asking why I don't bed you down.

But won't you tell me

something more about Texas?

Well, it's a place for the likes of us.

No people there much. No neighbors to crowd you.

Only wild game to see and to shoot at.

And when you take a breath,

it's got a clean taste to it,

like nobody ain't never used it before.

Man, oh, man.

Smart music, pharaoh.

That's the way Texas is, they say,

and that's the way for us.

It ain't we don't like people.

We like room more...

Room to stretch in, room to see and hunt,

and where you set your foot, no foot's been set before.

That's what ails Kentucky now.

A man can't hardly move

without he nudges up agin a neighbor.

♪ I wish I was an apple ♪

♪ Hanging on a tree ♪

♪ And every day, my love would take ♪

♪ A big bite out of me ♪

Here, pharaoh. Heel.

Get him.

You there. Call your dog off.

He didn't start it.

I have a good mind to put you under arrest.

Resisting an officer,

assault and battery, breach of the peace.

It's ready. They can come and eat now, Mr. Decker.

Can't you wait a minute?

What are you doing here in Prideville?

Passing through.

Let's have your name.

Elias Wakefield.

Some of you Wakefields

just killed Mose Fromes over east.

Weren't me.

No? then you won't mind lying in jail

whilst we find out.

You coming peaceable?

I ain't coming at all.

Get him, men! I'm deputizing you!

Ow!

Please eat. Your Pa would want you to eat.

I bet he will eat.

We was going to Texas.

Texas, now? That's a far piece...

So far I can't think it's there.

I bet it's nice.

There's buffalo.

Sure enough buffalo?

Galore. and deer, too.

And foxes for your hound?

More varmints than you can shake a stick at.

Isn't that swell?

Room, too. And the air has a clean taste to it,

and the people don't crowd you.

No Bond girls there, I reckon.

No what they call indentures.

No alone woman, either.

What, Hannah?

Nothing. I was just dreaming.

I was free once.

I've heard the hounds a-makin' music

and the horn to blow them in,

and you know that no one was on hill or hollow

but some free wild thing.

That's Texas!

Now, you eat.

Stop poking, will you?

And get the food on!

Who said you could feed him?

He's just a boy.

Talk back when your time is up!

You seem to forget

you're still bound out to me.

Now, get them victuals in there.

Now, you eat.

Soon as we can,

we'll take a plate to your Pa.

Psst.

Psst!

John, give him a drink on me.

Where's he at?

Glad you showed up, boys, mighty glad.

I almost knowed your old granddaddy...

Him that got killed first

and so set the 2 families a-feudin'.

Cry, ye young 'uns, cry, sweethearts,

when the feuding and shooting starts.

And weep, ye widows in lone homes,

when a Wakefield meets a Fromes.

He asked where he was at.

Oh, he's here, all right. I got him safe and sound.

It's your chance to get even.

Got him in the jailhouse, huh?

Else where'd you have him?

Oh, you can't touch him there, boys, honest.

The law would know you done it,

and you couldn't say self-defense.

And you got to think of my position.

Let's not push, boys. Let's have a drink.

Let's have a drink and talk.

Obliged for the victuals, miss,

and for tending to my boy.

You rest easy, little Eli. We won't miss that boat.

Pa...

Well?

Uh, her name's Hannah, Pa.

Oh?

Pa... could a lone woman go to Texas?

I reckon, if she was man enough to stand it. Why?

I mean, her... With us.

No. we was just talking outlandish.

I'm not saying anything against you, miss,

but he forgets about...

Oh, I... I couldn't get away even if I wanted to.

Being as we're friends...

Being as we are.

A constable's pay is mighty small.

It's pay he wants.

Oh, just a little something, maybe, between friends.

Just let him out, friend.

Or we can wait, friend,

for that jail door to open.

We're good at waiting...

For a Wakefield.

No appreciation at all.

And I done them my last favor.

Won't buy a drink, won't buy a bed.

Just waiting.

Oh!

Ha ha ha!

We fooled you, Hannah. We sure fooled you.

Morning.

Good morning.

Pharaoh! Pharaoh!

It's pharaoh!

Pa said you'd come back, first chance you got.

He said you'd nose us out.

All right! Stay right there!

You're arrested again, Wakefield,

and this time, not for nothing.

What for?

For enticing the female indenture away from her master.

He didn't entice me.

I came of my own free will.

That's for the law court!

I'll teach you to be so high-headed.

You thought you were so smart, Wakefield,

but it was me that was smart.

I knew the dog would tail you.

Even them Fromeses didn't think of that.

Fromeses? They was after you.

I didn't let on.

I was afeared you'd set yourself to fighting.

Now, come on, all of you!

Now, hold on a minute.

Stand back!

Ain't there something a man can do about this?

Sure. If you had more

than a buckeye in your pocket,

you could buy her free.

How much would it come to?

Higher than you ever counted...

$200.

And my cost, too. Now, move!

Pa! that's our Texas money.

I'll go back. I'll work hard.

You keep your Texas money, Eli.

Son, you got a proper say

in this.

I don't want her

to go back to him.

Do you stand with me?

I stand with you.

You're plumb wore out, Hannah.

Seems like all I want to do

is to leave things behind.

We'll stay the night here.

Come another day or so, we'll all be safe.

Safe for sure?

The mountain people like the Fromeses

stick close to their own briar patch.

Galls me some, though, to think I run.

I wouldn't call it running,

even leaving Texas out.

He ain't got much, little Eli...

Just pharaoh and me.

Been half an orphan all his life,

which is why I made tracks.

Couldn't stand to think he'd be a whole one.

You're a good man, Eli Wakefield.

Don't let anything come between.

That's your uncle Zack.

I'll find out where your uncle Zack lives.

Never say die!

Ohh!

Begging your pardon.

Ah, missed!

I ought to cut that buckskin

off of you!

I just wanted to ask...

Anything you want can wait!

Come on, Clay. Show him how it's done.

Strike true, Bodine.

Flick 'er out.

Steady, Stan. Steady.

Well, son, you had enough?

Now, what do you want?

Begging your pardon again,

but could you tell me where Zack Wakefield lives?

That your wife?

No.

You looking for work?

Wakefield doesn't hire any women.

I could use one here, though,

and over at my still house.

She don't want no work.

I asked you a civil question.

You going to tell me where Zack Wakefield lives?

Wakefield's a particular man.

No use asking here. Thank you kindly, sir.

Second place north on the left,

if he'll let you in.

Howdy, Zack. We got here.

Elias!

Well, praise the lord.

You're a sight for sore eyes.

Is this your young 'un?

Uh-huh. There's 3 of us.

There's 3 of you. Well, come on in.

Sophie! Elias is here!

I'm getting changed!

Ha ha ha!

You wouldn't remember your uncle Zack,

little Eli.

Shake hands with uncle Zack.

How are you, boy?

This here's Hannah.

How do, miss?

How do you do?

We brought something for you.

Oh?

For your innards.

Oh! that's nice, mighty nice!

But you got no business

spending your money on fancies. Ha ha ha!

Well, take off your duds. Sit down, y'all.

Well, Elias!

Aw! ha ha ha!

And here's little Eli all grown up almost!

That hair's pretty enough for a girl.

You must have lost your shears,

you and your pa both.

Uh, this is Hannah, Sophie.

Hannah?

She come with us.

Oh. I didn't get the last name.

Hannah Bowlin.

Pa bought her free with our Texas money.

It cost $200.

A bound girl?

We're all going to Texas.

I see.

You got to take things

for what they are.

Pity you didn't train that hound,

little Eli.

He didn't need no training.

He was natural born smarter than any fox,

weren't he, Pa?

Get down, pharaoh. Here.

Hannah and little Eli

are plumb wore out.

Now, can you bed them down,

or can't you?

Now, take it easy, Eli. Don't get your dander up.

We have a nice cabin out here for the girl,

and you and little Eli can stay right in here.

No.

Thanks all the same, but I'll be going.

I... I wouldn't want to cause no trouble

in a family.

You can't go, Hannah.

We'll all go.

Eli, please.

L- a a

I'll stay the night.

Ah, that's sensible.

Sophie, show her to her cabin.

I can find my own way.

Hannah...

We don't have to stay.

Zack's my brother and all, but...

I'll stay the night,

and then I'll go to work.

Work? where?

The tavern. He said he could use me.

I don't cotton to the man. We'll go right now.

Where, Eli?

Unless you work for your brother,

what'll you do for Texas money?

I'll find something.

Oh, come to your senses, Eli.

Between the 2 of us, both of us working,

we ought to be able to save up

steamboat fare

for you and little Eli.

Your pappy will never get to Texas

unless he uses his head.

Good night, now.

So he spent his Texas money.

He can earn more.

Ah, but not in time,

not before the steamboat sails.

I'll let him fish for mussels,

I'll have him help me around the warehouse,

but he can't make enough,

and we're not going to tell him, you understand?

I knows it, but...

I know what's best for him.

I'll make a businessman out of him.

You leave it to me.

I'll work the buckskin out of him

and off of him both.

He's my little brother.

How will we know

when the steamboat gets here, Pa?

I figure it'll be big enough to see.

Ha ha ha!

But what if it's night?

Most steamboats got a whistle.

We'll keep an ear out

for the whistle, huh?

Oh.

Pa, look!

Well, I declare. Looks like a Pearl.

Must be a Pearl.

A whopper.

Is it worth something?

I wonder.

As much as $200?

I just wonder.

But is it ours?

Do we have to tell uncle Zack?

He bargained for the shells.

That's all.

And seeing he's so keen

to make a businessman out of me...

And in this bottle, ladies and gentlemen,

in this bottle is the very reptile

that changed the course of history 2,000 years ago.

Yes, this very reptile,

the most poisonous serpent

known to man.

One nip from this fellow, and the gates of eternity open.

I was traveling in Egypt...

Not now, sir.

You, sir!

In good time, I shall offer to the public

my secret herbal elixir,

the certain cure for aches and shakes,

for languishments of the limbs

and troubles of the trunk.

But let us not descend to commerce

until my story's done,

and I'll thank you not to interrupt!

I was traveling in old Egypt...

And I befriended an ancient wise man...

Dead now, bless his bones.

And with his dying breath,

he told me that this was the very asp that Cleopatra

clutched so closely to her bosom.

One stroke, two...

And she was dead...

That haughty queen, that divinity of form,

that perfect Pearl of pulchritude.

He's a windbag,

but high educated, mighty high.

And now, ladies and gentlemen...

Refined and scientificated through the ages

has come to us as by a miracle a medicine,

a balm,

to make your aching joints as supple as a serpent's.

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen.

What'll it be?

I just wanted to tell this gentleman

how pretty his talk was.

I sure admired it.

Well, thank you, sir. I spoke the simple truth.

That part about the Pearl...

"the perfect Pearl of pulchritude."

Meaning beauty, of course.

Uh-huh.

It put me in mind of a freshwater Pearl

I know about.

A freshwater Pearl?

From a mussel, I guess it was.

I don't understand you.

Well, you see, it's, uh...

It's a friend of mine's got it.

Lives over at Prideville, a yon sight of there.

Proceed, sir. It may be that I know of the man,

for, naturally, my travels have taken me far and wide.

He says it's big as a pigeon egg,

and he wants to trade it off.

Did you ever see a Pearl that size,

fresh or salt?

Never will.

But when I do, I'll bid on it myself.

You?

Why not? I like pearls.

Why not, indeed?

Do you manufacture money here

in this humble hostelry?

Some. at least I don't sell medicine.

An insulting remark, my friend,

but I'll forgive you for it, remembering,

as the bard of Avon said so well,

that the quality of mercy

is not strained.

You're so smart, tell us poor folks,

who's going to outbid me?

Jimmy Monroe, that's all.

Who?

James Monroe, president of these United States,

resident in Washington, district of Columbia.

To my certain knowledge,

Jimmy's the biggest collector of freshwater pearls

in the world,

barring only the crowned heads of Europe.

Well, you have been around,

haven't you?

Around enough, sir,

not to butt into others' conversation!

I was talking to this gentleman.

That's all I wanted to know.

Thanks, mister. I'll get word to my friend.

You're welcome.

Oh, and, uh...

Good fortune to him.

I didn't know that...

Shh.

I didn't know that freshwater pearls

was worth anything.

They're not, you fool!

Fletcher stuffed him like a sausage!

Come on, boys! Drinks on the house!

M...

U...

C...

Boys, please! The company's here.

Corning!

We'd better get down. I'm stumped anyhow.

Come on, you two.

I want you to meet miss Susie Spann.

This is my little brother Eli.

How do you do?

Pleased to meet you, miss.

And this is little Eli.

I'm glad to meet you.

And this is pharaoh.

Ha ha ha!

Miss Susie's our schoolteacher.

Sit down, y'all.

He)'-

Come on, pharaoh.

I imagine I'll be seeing a great deal of you, little Eli.

What grade will you be in?

We didn't aim to...

We're bound for Texas, miss.

Oh?

Oh! heavens to Betsy!

It'll be on in a shake, folks.

Then you've been to Texas before?

No, ma'am. That's our reason for going...

To where we ain't never been.

Eli has the itchy foot

and don't know the medicine for it

is to stop scratching.

Ha ha ha!

You don't think you'll like it here?

I've been telling Elias

that that boy ought to learn his letters.

Well, I'm sure his father knows

what's best for little Eli.

Miss Susie's top notch in everything.

Can you spell "mussel"?

M-u-s-c-l-e.

Not that kind. They've been fishing for them.

Oh. m-u-s-s-e-l.

Miss Susie's playing

for the backwoods tonight.

He goes for pearls sure enough. Huh?

Ha ha!

Stan, I was only funning.

So was I.

Hannah!

Yes?

Hannah, dig out a bottle of my best wine.

I'll bet you can't play

possum up a gum tree.

♪ Possum up a gum tree ♪

♪ Raccoon on the ground ♪

♪ Take your little darlin' ♪

Ya-hoo!

♪ And whirl her round and round ♪

♪ I wish I was an apple a-hangin' on a tree ♪

♪ And every day, my love would take ♪

Come on, Sophie.

Chase that rabbit, chase that squirrel,

chase that pretty girl around the world.

♪ Possum up a gum tree ♪

♪ Raccoon on the ground ♪

♪ Take your little darlin' ♪

♪ And whirl her round and round ♪

♪ I wish I had a needle as fine as I could sew ♪

♪ I'd sew my darlin' to my coat ♪

♪ And down the street I'd go ♪

♪ Down the street I'd go ♪

The letter.

Not now. Later.

♪ Possum up a gum tree ♪

♪ Raccoon on the ground ♪

♪ Take your little darlin' ♪

♪ And whirl her round and round ♪

♪ Roast beef when I'm hungry ♪

♪ Cider when I'm dry ♪

♪ Greenbacks when I'm hard up ♪

♪ Religion when I die ♪

Up the river and round the bend.

Be good to your girl,

or she'll go to your friend.

Circle your partner, corner address.

All join hands on the way to the west.

♪ Possum up a gum tree ♪

♪ Raccoon on the ground ♪

♪ Take your little darlin' ♪

♪ And whirl her round and round ♪

♪ Round, round, round ♪

♪ Whirl her round and round ♪

That's smart music. Calls for more.

Tickle that ivory for us, Susie.

Play hold that varmint down.

Oh, no, Zack. Play my darlin'.

♪ I see my darlin' in each day of summer sunlight ♪

♪ I see my darlin' in the leaves that fall ♪

♪ I see her walking ♪

♪ In the rainy April sadness ♪

♪ And hear her name in every bluebird call ♪

♪ I told the possum in the gum tree ♪

♪ The raccoon on the ground ♪

♪ Told everyone but my darlin' ♪

♪ Of the happiness I've found ♪

♪ My heart would cry more than the weepin' Willow tree ♪

♪ If my darlin' and her heart were not for me ♪

Little Eli.

Hannah! come in!

Tell them... tell them Mr. Bodine sent this

for the party.

But, Hannah...

Please don't mention it was me.

♪ If my darlin' and her heart were not for me ♪

♪ Possum up the gum tree ♪

♪ Raccoon on the... ♪

Why, son, it's way past your time to bed down.

Looks like you got your powder wet.

You and that schoolteacher!

Is that what's tormenting you?

Hannah's better than her!

Me and you and Hannah!

That's what we been figuring.

We spent all our money for her.

Whoa, son. I didn't say nothing against Hannah.

We're beholden to her.

You going to write the letter then,

so's we can all get to Texas?

Why, of course I'm going to write, boy.

Mussel.

M-u-s-c...

M-u-s-s-e-l!

Seems like you paid some mind

to that schoolteacher after all, huh?

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha!

Do you reckon we'll get enough...

Enough for the 3 of us, Pa?

Well, that's hard telling, son,

but we'll leave it to the president.

The president wouldn't cheat a man.

That's right, Pa.

I swear, that letter-writing came hard.

No wonder they say

a man ought to have an education.

You're too old to go to school, Pa.

I wasn't thinking of myself.

Harry Milton.

Haggert. Lester Haggert.

Mr. Bodine. Here's another one for you, Stan.

That's all, gents. Now, what's going out?

6 cents. 11 cents. Here's your change.

Pharaoh.

Hannah...

We just about got our Texas money back.

11 cents.

That'll be...

"Mr. president James Monroe

of these United States of America."

What are you sending the president,

a wooden nutmeg?

How much?

4 bits, and cheap at that.

It ain't every day I get a letter to the president.

Ha ha ha!

I guess little Eli couldn't wait.

Tell her, Pa.

Well, the egg ain't hatched yet,

but we sure got a hen setting.

Ha ha ha!

Don't you know that freshwater pearls

ain't worth a dime?

You sure won on me.

You caught me like a catfish.

I've got to hand it to you.

Didn't you say

you'd been around Prideville once?

That I have, sir. Though not too recently.

It's off the beaten track, as you well know.

Ever hear the name Wakefield there?

Wakefield?

Wakefield, Wakefield...

Oh, yes. It's coming to me.

That bitter verse about the feuding families.

Ah, sir.

Weep, you widows in lone homes,

when a Wakefield meets a Fromes.

I'm a Wakefield.

And I'll show you

what Wakefields pay for pearls.

Eli, don't!

Hitting a poor scholar

isn't going to cure your ignorance, my friend.

Get wise,

get educated, Wakefield.

Elias, whoa there.

Haven't you made

fool enough of yourself

for one day?

President Pearl! President Pearl!

Your Pa is president Pearl!

Your Pa is president Pearl!

President Pearl! President Pearl!

Your Pa is president Pearl!

President Pearl! President Pearl!

Your Pa is president Pearl!

President Pearl...

Children!

Children, stop it!

Let me pass.

I'm ashamed of all of you.

A newcomer, a stranger,

his first day in school.

We'll cut playtime short.

Now get inside.

March!

You all right, little Eli?

10 of lug.

48 leaf

Now, the best part of the leaf

is called wrapper,

used for the finest chewing plug.

And the lug here is good only

for cheap pipe tobacco.

You'll catch on

to the difference in grades.

Takes a little time.

It comes hard, Zack,

but I've been trying to say all morning,

I'm obliged to you.

Obliged? for what?

For keeping me from being a double fool.

That snake doctor hit it on the head.

Ah, forget it.

Takes a spell

for a man to come to himself.

Sure, they mortified you.

Just you keep your powder dry.

Our time to shoot will come.

You really suppose a man like me

could fit in?

Fit in? Why, brother!

And as for the boy, don't you worry.

He's just where he ought to be.

Children!

I wouldn't like to tell your parents

how you've behaved today.

Luke.

Luke Lester!

All right, now that's better.

Eli.

Eli Wakefield.

Eli.

You'll never get anywhere looking out the window.

Eli, come back!

Children!

Children, come back!

The Texas steamboat.

Ha ha ha. Look at them run.

Some people never grow up, Eli.

Eli!

Come back, Elias!

Little Eli.

Hannah, it came!

I can't stay more than a minute.

I'm stealing time off.

So am I.

Did you have to fight your way out?

They were making little of Pa.

He's learning how to buy tobacco.

Don't fault your Pa. It's for Texas.

He promised.

You heard him promise.

Well, you'll go. You and your Pa will.

Will we, Hannah?

Sure.

Can you come, too?

Not yet a while, I reckon.

But you two have got to go...

Somehow.

♪ Texas! ♪

♪ It's the land of promise ♪

♪ I tell you no lie ♪

Whoa, hup.

♪ Clean out of the sky ♪

♪ 24 hours a day it's sunny ♪

♪ Nothing but trees that just grow money ♪

I've got to go.

♪ Nothing but milk and honey rollin' by ♪

♪ A-rollin' by ♪

♪ I tell you no lie ♪

♪ The money just floats ♪

♪ The money just floats from heaven on high ♪

♪ 24 hours a day it's sunny ♪

♪ Nothing but trees that just grow money ♪

♪ Nothing but milk and honey rolling by ♪

I'm talking about Texas, man.

He's telling no lie.

I'm talking about Texas, man,

and I know it's no lie.

♪ We're talking about Texas ♪

♪ Texas, Texas, Texas, ♪

♪ Texas, Texas, Texas, Texas, ho! ♪

♪ It's the land of promise ♪

♪ I'll tell you no lie ♪

♪ It's the land of promise ♪

♪ Clean out of the sky ♪

♪ 24 hours a day its sunny ♪

♪ Nothing but trees that just grow money ♪

♪ Nothing but milk and honey rolling by! ♪

Friends, my name is pleasant Tuesday Babson,

and I'm going to Texas.

And I'm not going alone!

People with brave hearts, ambitious hands,

and a feel of distance in their bones

are going with me.

We're going to that rich, Spanish land

where the late, great Moses Austin

won a Grant for meddlesome Americans.

We'll steam to New Orleans,

harness up and saddle up for Texas.

Many have already signed.

There's room for more.

That's why I'm here.

What's wrong with old Kentuck?

It's a fine land. If it suits you, stay.

But pot liquor for the goose sometimes gags the gander.

You don't measure land in Texas by rod and chain,

you measure with the eye.

And when the eye can see no further,

that's where you drive your stakes.

The rifle ball has not been made

that can carry to a neighbor's line.

And game, I tell you by the book,

mine own eyes have seen a sea of buffalo

that took from sunup to sundown to pass.

Is your question answered, friend?

But there is no great hurry, ladies and gentlemen.

The ship will wait the sale of your tobacco.

Meanwhile we will cruise the river hereabouts

so that you may judge our vessel.

And I will circulate far and wide among you.

And now, my friends, if any would care to examine our ship,

come aboard.

Welcome!

Hey»

you're supposed to be in school.

I thought you was buying tobacco.

Ha ha ha!

Where'd you get that shiner?

It don't matter, Pa.

The boat's here.

Out of here.

Get out of here. Come on. Get.

Always messing things up.

Miss Susie is right upset, I hear,

about school

You can't blame her.

You got to excuse little Eli.

He ain't a man yet.

No. he ain't a man yet.

I hate Uncle Zack,

and I hate Aunt Sophie,

and I hate humility

and everything.

Hold on, son.

Zack and Sophie are different from us,

but they mean good.

Think of their side.

Are you 90mg

to earn enough money for Texas?

That black eye makes you cantankerous.

You don't never take me hunting anymore.

You won't hardly see me at all

with me in school and you working.

All right, son, I tell you what,

miss Susie has got an apology coming

after you breaking up school and all.

When she's peacified,

we'll go hunting one night real soon.

It's a go.

Good morning.

Thank you, Tony. Good morning.

Could we have a word with you, miss?

Surely. would you excuse me, Stan?

I'll see you tonight.

Yes, Stan.

Good morning, miss Susie.

Didn't you have something to say to miss Susie?

I thought

you was going to say it.

Well, that ain't the way I understood the deal.

I'm...

Pa says you got to excuse me

because I ain't a man yet,

but I will be a man

when I can blow

the Gabriel horn.

I'm sure you will.

Now, run along to class, little Eli.

He won't tell me

how he got that black eye,

and he's always told me

everything before.

Then I'm afraid I can't.

It was over me.

You know, of course, about the Pearl.

Only what the children were yelling.

A town ain't easy for a hunter,

and he's got

hunter's blood in him.

I can tell you this much...

He didn't run.

He met his trouble in the only way he knew.

You can be proud of him.

I'd like to know you both better.

Can't you come to supper one night next week?

I suppose.

Why, yes. Thanks, miss.

Thursday, then?

Sure.

Sweet music, ain't it, boy?

Too pretty for a body to stand almost.

Man, oh, man.

I guess I'll never be growed-up.

You will. You'll blow it one day.

Now, listen.

Ain't always we can listen.

Hello, Elias.

It's Hannah, Pa.

I knew it was you boys.

Can't fool me on pharaoh, either.

Come rest awhile and listen.

Where did you come from, Hannah?

Mondays and Thursdays,

I do chores at the stillhouse yonder.

Pharaoh is singing

sweet as pie tonight.

Yup. he sure is.

Thursday?

Today.

Well, what's wrong, Pa?

Give me the horn, son.

We got to go.

But, Pa, you ain't even talked to Hannah yet.

I know. But

we got to blow the dog in, boy.

Hannah says we got to go to Texas,

no matter what.

I got your Texas money for you.

Hannah, Hannah.

H ow?

I got it hid away for you.

H ow?

It's honest. That's enough.

Bodine.

By selling yourself back

as a bound girl.

Just say I drawed ahead.

Bodine.

They're making sport of you in the town,

them that don't stand knee-high to you.

Being laughed at don't kill a man.

Just give me time.

If the laughing don't kill you,

the lingering will.

Maybe so and maybe not.

But you give

that money back, hear?

It's on paper, legal-like.

Get the paper, then.

Eli... some are born to stand still,

and some are born to run,

like a hound is born to run.

Can't you see that Texas is the fox for you?

I'm through with running.

Come on, boy.

Oh, what are you mad at Hannah for, Pa?

Look, we're much obliged,

more than I can say.

Eli, you're playing the fool.

Let me be my own kind of fool, then.

Let's go, boy.

Susan?

Yes, mother.

Did the company come, Susan?

No, mother.

My back has started hurting.

Couldn't you come and talk to me?

After a while.

Me and little Eli,

we forgot.

That's all. We plum forgot.

You just forgot?

It was a prime night for hunting.

I promised

little Eli I'd take him out

first good chance we had.

And here comes up a prime night.

It's nice to know

you weren't fishing for pearls.

Good night.

I can't blame you

for making smart of me.

But it was because little Eli,

he apologized so good

for breaking up school and all.

That's why I promised

I'd take him out.

All we know, little Eli and me,

was living free in the woods,

shooting our meals, and following foxes.

It's habit-like with us

and hard to bust.

And maybe it shouldn't be busted.

Eli...

Come back.

That's the nicest apology I ever heard.

Come in.

We'll eat our supper cold.

I'm obliged.

I messed things up, I reckon.

Like it was in my mind to ask you,

if I hadn't been so late,

would you play for me again?

Ask, then.

Oh, Eli...

Big Eli, I'll wait for you.

Oh, Eli, Eli.

"Joe Emery."

Here.

"Brown..."

"Mr. Clay Brown."

Here.

"Posselwaite. .

"John Posselwaite."

Right here, sir.

"Zaiby Fletcher,

Zaiby Fletcher, Zaiby Fletcher."

"Wakefield..."

"Zack Wakefield."

I'm taking it.

Well, if it ain't.

Mr. president Pearl himself.

"Morgan..."

"Hans Morgan."

Here.

"Wakefield..."

"Elias Wakefield."

The president...

The president of these United States.

About time he answered.

Better late than never.

Looks like money, too.

Come on, son.

I never would have believed it...

A letter from the president.

Now we'll see.

Lads.

Hi, Eli.

Zack.

I've got to send you to Pekin tomorrow.

The tobacco season's on us, and I need cash in the bank.

All right, Zack. We'll talk about it at supper.

Tell you what...

Ride that new river queen back.

It'll be her first trip up the Tennessee.

Can I go, too, Pa?

Sure. I'll fix it up with miss Susie

about school

ls that all, Zack?

There's going to be a big crowd

to welcome her,

being it's her first trip up.

Being you're in business now,

you'll need some new clothes.

I'll advance the money.

That's right nice, Zack. Thanks.

Just be careful of those river gamblers.

They'll pick you clean.

Now, son.

"Dear Mr. Wakefield,

"the president regrets

"to advise you

"that he is not

"a collector of pearls.

"Furthermore,

"freshwater pearls

"have no known commercial value.

"The president has suggested

that l..."

It ain't even from the president.

It's just from his hired man.

Better not let on about this letter,

little Eli.

I overdone my fun.

This will poke my paw in the bear trap.

Now I got to show some money.

I got to think like your uncle Zack.

Pardon me, sir.

That is a splendid hound.

Thanks. he'll do.

Ah, fox hunting, raising horses,

perhaps a nip or two,

and now and then,

a friendly little game.

That, sir, is the life

for a gentleman.

You will agree?

Sure do.

A fair, square game, gents.

Where she stops, nobody knows.

No bet's too big, and none too small.

Welcome each one and welcome all.

I think I shall try my luck.

Would you care to watch?

Well, all right.

Black and odd, gents, the black 17.

Ho ho. Me again.

And I bet on 17 last time.

Every roll a chance at fortune.

A winner every turn.

Then spin it, man,

while I'm riding high.

Get your bets down. This gent's in a lather.

You do not mind, sir,

if I bet modestly.

None too big, and none too small.

None too short, and none too tall.

But shake a leg.

How is it you play this game anyhow?

Even on black or red,

the same as odd and even.

35:1 by number.

The corners pay you 8,

half a number... 17.

A fair, square game.

If I can help you, sir.

Well, maybe I ought to find out first

if luck is touching.

A wise decision always.

Ride with the flood.

Lay low on the ebb.

Bets down, please.

My bones say black.

I shall place my small pile on it.

Black... My favorite color.

Black, then.

Black it is.

Black and even. You win, man.

You won, Pa.

Everybody wins with the man with the bag.

Delighted that you rode

my winner, sir?

Place your money, man.

Now, what would you

advise?

The trouble with me

is that when I get to gambling,

I don't know where to stop.

But maybe I should go small again

before I ride the flood.

Do we play or palaver, you gamblers?

Name it, friend. I'll go along.

Well, if I could just catch a number,

then I'd sure enough know my luck was in.

A number?

Yes, ma'am. Then I'd know.

I wouldn't let myself

be nibbled to death.

With your luck, monsieur,

strike hard.

Please, gents.

Nope. I'm going to test her

once again.

We'll bet your age, son.

$4.00 on 9.

We'll double it.

Pa!

As you please.

Against my judgment,

I'll stay with you.

9 wins. The red wins.

Pa, I won.

I won, Pa. 9 won.

My friend,

with luck like that...

It will be you who will break the bank.

We won, Pa. Don't you see?

$280 gold.

Pa!

Bets down, gentlemen.

Thanks, gents. Sorry to leave,

but if I ain't mistaken,

we're coming to humility.

That's where me and my boy

get off.

Hold on, my man.

But, monsieur,

with luck upon you and a bag of gold...

Oh, that ain't gambling money.

I never meant to risk it.

How did you ever get such an idea?

Hey there, pilot.

Don't stop at humility.

Good day, gents.

Hey, pilot, stop! Humility.

Pray, dive, or die, boy.

That-a boy.

You all right, boy?

Sure.

Come on, Eli. Come on!

Who is that man?

That's my little brother.

That's my boy.

That's our boy.

Good evening, gents.

Give all the boys here a little nip.

Are you buying, Mr. Wakefield?

He is.

My future partner.

What will it be, then?

Brandy... the best.

Drink up, boys. Name it.

That's right. All of you.

It's a dream I always had, Elias...

You and me in business, partners.

The way you tricked those gamblers,

you were thinking like a real businessman.

It's a rich thing, Eli,

and you can buy in now to earn it.

Pardon me.

My congratulations, sir.

You gave rne a barrel's worth of entertainment

on that boat.

May I buy a drink, gentlemen?

I'm sorry.

We're late for supper as is.

Sophie will be put out

if we hold her up.

Another time, then.

Sure.

Gentlemen...

A toast

to the president

of these United States.

To the president of the United States.

You'll have

these jokesmiths looking for pearls themselves.

Fletcher.

Here's something by way of commission.

Buy yourself a new snake.

The one you got

must be awful tired of biting Cleopatra.

Chicken's coming home to roost,

eh, Stan?

He's sure a smart fella,

that Eli Wakefield.

You got to take your hat off to him.

The last laugh is his...

♪ ...what do you say, boys, let's go find her ♪

♪ What do you say, boys, let's go find her ♪

♪ Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch ♪

♪ Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch ♪

Leave him there, Eli.

But, aunt Sophie...

No buts about it.

He has to learn same as you.

♪ It's a land of ♪

♪ Promise ♪

♪ I'll tell you no lie ♪

♪ It's a land of promise ♪

♪ Clean out of the sky ♪

♪ Out of the sky ♪

♪ 24 hours a day it's sunny ♪

♪ Nothing but trees that just grown Monday ♪

♪ Nothing but milk and honey rolling by ♪

♪ A-rollin' by ♪

♪ A-rollin' ♪ ♪ by... ♪

♪ I'll tell you no ♪ J' lie ♪

♪ I'll tell you no lie ♪

♪ The money just grows ♪

♪ The honey just flows from heaven on high ♪

♪ It's a land of ♪ J' promise ♪

♪ Our land, it is proud ♪

♪ When you get on tiptoes ♪

♪ You're touching the clouds ♪

♪ Touching the clouds... ♪

Hannah, you got to help me with Pa.

He won't talk Texas.

I can't get nothing out of him anymore.

He's making quite a place for himself here.

Who dares?

Who dares to crack a whip with me?

My mammy was a gator, and my pappy was a bull.

I can whup my weight in wildcats

and drink my belly full.

Who dares?

Not you, Stan.

You cut too fine a seam for me.

Whip up or shut up, folks.

We're loaded for bear.

You better track for home, son.

There's a Wakefield over there.

I know it.

And you're not scared?

Listen,

cry, you young' uns. Cry, sweethearts,

when the feuding, shooting starts.

And weep, you widows in lone homes,

when a Wakefield meets a...

What's your name, fighting man?

Luke.

Don't say I didn't tell you, Luke.

I'm not afraid of him.

Well, I'm not saying you're scared, son.

Of course,

there might be some that say you are.

You can walk away

and let folks say what they please.

Wakefield, you don't want to whup this boy, do you?

I ain't got nothing against him.

See, Luke? He doesn't want to whup you.

Bodine.

Mind your business, Hannah.

I'll keep the peace here

if I can hold this wild man back.

Stan, why don't you stop it?

I'm trying to.

Can't you see that, folks?

Don't dare him, Luke.

I dare you.

I double dare you.

All business?

Not one minute to spare?

There.

You haven't told him, have you?

I figured it would be better

if you and me both told him.

Wakefield, you better come.

Bodine, for once you've gone too far.

I go where I please, Wakefield.

Enough, Wakefield,

or do I skin you bare?

Next time, Wakefield, I go for the eyes.

Stop it. Somebody stop it.

Come on, you fool.

Now, Bodine.

Pa! Pa!

Yay! Yay!

You all right, boy?

Stop. Oh, Eli.

There's a man for me...

A real Texas man.

We can sit here to talk.

Well, son, I just wanted

the three of us

to sort of talk things over.

You see, me and Susie...

We're going to get married.

And she'll be a mother for you

and a good one, too.

Won't you, Susie?

I'll surely try.

We're thinking of you, too, boy.

Both of us are.

There will be a home for you,

little Eli,

a real home with a roof

over your head

and boys and girls to play with

and school.

We'll have lots of fun.

No Texas?

Son, we have to say good-bye to some things.

They was good things in their time,

but the way I see it,

their time's wore out for us.

You let them tie pharaoh up.

You made me leave him tied up.

We're getting him used to it.

And you've been lying to me.

You've been lying all along.

You never used to lie,

not until we came here, you didn't.

I just been trying to see my way.

I never thought I'd hate you, Pa.

Little Eli.

Not that, son.

Forget you said it.

You can't be meaning it.

I'm trying to be

a right father to you.

I'm trying to think

what kind of man

you'll grow up to be.

What kind of a man are you going to be?

That's the worst of all.

You talk cruel, son.

But even if you was right

about Texas,

I gave my word to Zack

and to Susie here.

You gave your word before.

Oh, please believe in your father...

In all our lives, son,

I don't know as I ever told you

you had to do anything.

We got along good, you and me,

and I pray to god it will be so again.

But now I want you

to take this horn out and lose it.

Throw it away.

Pitch it where we'll never find it,

so it won't be in our minds to blow it.

The way to start off new is to shuck off what's old.

Now, boy.

Sometimes...

Sometimes...

Sometime, he'll love you,

and me, too, again.

That girl,

the one who works for Bodine.

Hannah?

She caught the whip.

She rode the wagon right on top of it.

Hannah did?

I stood there helpless.

Hannah did.

Well, I'll swear.

Eli, you're free

anytime you want to be.

Why, if it came to that,

you could come to Texas with us.

With hands for a pianoforte,

with an invalid mother?

Oh, Eli.

Sometimes, people can ruin

what they love.

Sometimes...

He's growed up.

My boy's growed up.

Hannah.oh,Hannah?

Well, I declare, a late visitor.

Just by accident, son,

we're entertaining

some old friends of yours.

They just happened to drop in, too.

Come on in, boy.

Gentlemen, we have a visitor...

Little Eli Wakefield.

Who's with you?

N-nobody...

But my dog.

Where's your Pa?

L- a a

I lit out from him.

Little Eli.

A runaway, huh?

He'll be looking for you.

I'll take him home.

Keep him.

Oh, come, now, gentlemen,

not against his will.

Cut out the fancy talk.

We'll keep him.

We'll wait for his Pa.

We're good at waiting.

Hannah.

Good morning, sir.

Is Hannah here?

Today, I'm maid and master...

A small favor for my friend Bodine.

Have you seen little Eli?

No, sir.

The young gentleman

does not habituate our grog shop.

Wakefield.

I have a place to go.

You mind if I walk along with you?

It's a piece.

Let's go.

As for the money, you don't need it.

Come as my lieutenant. I want you.

Even so, there's little Eli in school

and all that.

Man, man, I know.

People have to make choices. Choices never are perfect.

It'll be rough in Texas. It'll be hard.

Maybe your son never will be a scholar.

But he'd be something a whole lot better,

I'd say, for him,

something truer to himself.

And you'll both have a life

you'll never have here.

What's important to your son?

You. You, first of all,

you doing the things you were cut out to do,

the things god created you to do,

not you imitating your brother.

Zack is all right.

In his way.

But the Zacks of this world

build businesses.

Men like you could build countries

if you only will.

Wakefield, call it none of my business,

but how does your boy feel?

There's two of them.

How far?

Hoop and a holler.

It's that Texas man... Babson.

That's your meat.

Mine?

You heard him.

We come for Wakefield.

Get him away or kill him.

One or tether.

Well, look, friends,

I'm a businessman.

I've got a reputation to maintain...

Get your gun.

It just goes to show you about me.

It isn't even loaded.

Load it.

I can't afford to get...

Load it now.

Men, I'm clean.

Not clean enough to do your own killing.

I told you where he was. That was my part.

Tattle, then turn tail,

that's you.

Now, are you with us...

Or against us?

I'm staying here.

Killed himself.

Stay with the boy,

and you won't come to no hurt.

You have today to think it over.

It's your life to live, Wakefield.

I believe in living it bold.

All right, Wakefield.

Get away, Texas,

if you know what's good for you.

What's this?

Get away, Babson.

Move on, Texas.

This man is unarmed.

Get away, like they told you.

Run, we said.

Run, they said.

Pa! Pa!

I'll go to school, Pa.

I'll do anything.

You're safe, Pa,

and I'm ashamed.

I ain't so proud, son,

not of myself.

No, Hannah.

Don't leave us.

We're going to Texas.

We're going to live it bold.

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