Pa Tom : Pa CONCULSION AND RECOMMENDATION
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Second man : What’s so funny about it? I just been out there I been an’ seen it An’ I’m goin’ back to starve – because I ruther
140D52ONGOWi starve all over at once
Dialogue 53 In the camp ground. Pa shows the handbill to the man
Pa : But what about this?
Second man : I ain’t gonna fret 141D53ONGOWi you. Go on Tom
: Wait a minute, buddy. You jus’ done some jackasin’ 142D53TJGOWf
You ain’t gonna shut up now. The han’bill
says they need men. You laugh an’ say they don’t. Now
which one’s a liar?
Second man : How many you all got them han’bills? Come on, how many? Dialogue 54
In the camp ground. Pa and some men are talking about the handbills they got Pa
: But what does that prove?
Second man : Look at em’ Same yella 143D54ONGOWh han’bill - 800 pickers wanted. Awright, this man wants 800 men. So he prints
up 5,000 a them han’bills an’ maybe 20,000 people sees ‘em. An’
maybe two-three thousan’ 144D54ONGOWc starts movin’ 145D54ONGOWf
, wes’ account a this han’bill. Two-three thousan’ folks that’s crazy with worry headin’
146D54ONGOWf out for 800 jobs Does that make sense?
Proprietor : What are you, troublemaker? You sure you ain’t one a them
labor folks? Second man : I swear I ain’t, mister
Proprietor
: Well, don’t you go roun’ 147D54ONGOWc here tryin’ to
stir up trouble.
Second man : I tried to tell you folks somepin it took me a year to fin’ out.
Took two kids dead, took my wife dead, to show me. But nobody couldn’t tell me neither. I can tell ya about them little fellas
layin’ 148D54ONGOWf in the tent with their bellies puffed
out an’
jus’ skin
on their
bones, an’
shiverin’ 149D54ONGOWf an’ whinin’ 150D54ONGOWf
like
pups, an’ me runnin’ 151D54ONGOWf aroun’ tryin’ to get work – not for money, not for wages – jus’ for a cup of flour
an’ a spoon a lard An’ then the coroner came. “Them children
died a heart-failure,” he says, an’ put it in his paper. Heart- failure – an’ their little bellies stuck out like a pig-bladder
Dialogue 55
In the camp ground. Pa, Casy and Tom are doubting the man’s statements about the handbills