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OMAM A2:S1 Flashcards

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It wasn’t nothing. I would of had to drown most of them pups anyway. No need to thank me about that.

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Wasn’t much to you, mebbe, but it was a hell of a lot to him. Jesus Christ, I don’t know how we’re gonna get him to sleep in here. He’ll want to stay right out in the barn. We gonna have trouble keepin’ him from gettin’ right in the box with them pups.

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He’d take his end of that sack- pretty near kill his partner. God Almighty, I never seen such a strong guy.

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You just tell Lennie what to do and he’ll do it if it don’t take no figuring.

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Funny how you and him string along together

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What’s so funny about it?

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You know how the hands are. They come in and get their bunk and work a month and then they quit and go on alone. Never seem to give a damn about nobody. Jest seems kinda funny. A cuckoo like him and a smart guy like you traveling together.

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I ain’t so bright neither or I wouldn’t be buckin’ barley for my fifty and found. If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I’d have my own place and I’d be bringing in my own crops ‘stead of doin’ all the work and not gettin’ what comes up out of the ground.

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A guy’d like to do that. Sometime I’d like to cuss a string of mules that was my own mules.

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It ain’t so funny him and me goin’ round together. Him and me was both born in Auburn. I knowed his aunt. She took him in when he was a baby and raised him up. When his aunt died Lennie jus’ come along with me out workin’. Got kinda use to each other after a little while.

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Uh huh.

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First I used to have a hell of a lot of fun with him. Use to play jokes on him because he was too dumb to take care of himself. But, hell, he was too dumb even to know when he had a joke played on him. Hell, yes, I had fun! made me seem goddamn smart alongside of him.

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I seen it that way.

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Why, he’d do and damn thing I tole him. If I tole him to walk over a cliff, over he’d go. You know that wasn’t so damn much fun after a while. He never got mad about it, neither. I’ve beat the hell out of him and he could bust every bone in my body with jest his hands but he never lifter a finger against me. But he never even lifted a finger against me.

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Even if you socked him, wouldn’t he.

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No, by God! I tell you what made me stop playing jokes. One day a bunch of guys was standing around up on the Sacramento River. I was feelin’ pretty smart. I turns to Lennie and I says, “jump in”.

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What happened?

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He jumps. Couldn’t swim a stroke. He damn near drowned. And he was so nice to me for pullin’ him out. Clean forgot I tole him to jump in. Well, I ain’t done nothin’ like that no more. Makes me kinda sick tellin’ about it

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He’s a nice fella. A guy don’t need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it’s jest the other way round. Take a real smart guy, he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.

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I ain’t got no people. I seen guys that go round on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After awhile they get mean.

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Yeah, I seen ‘em get mean. I seen ‘em get so they don’t want to talk to nobody. Some ways they got. You take a bunch of guys all livin’ in one room an by God they got to mind their own business. ‘Bout the only private thing a guy’s got is where he come from and where he’s goin’.

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‘Course Lennie a goddamn nuisance most of the time. But you get used to goin’ round with a guy and you can’t get rid of him. I mean you get used to him an’ you can’t get rid of being used to him. I’m sure drippin’ at the mouth. I ain’t told nobody all this before.

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Do you want to get rid of him?

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Well, he gets in trouble all the time. Because he’s so goddamn dumb. Like what happened in Weed. You wouldn’t tell nobody?

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What did he do in Weed?

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You wouldn’t tell?-No, course you wouldn’t.

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What did he do?

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Well, he seen this girl in a red dress. Dumb bastard like he is he wants to touch everything he likes. Jest wants to feel of it. So he reaches out to feel this dress. Girl lets out a squawk and that gets Lennie all mixed up. He holds on ‘cause that’s the only thing he can think to do.

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The hell!

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Well, this girl squawks her head off. I’m right close and I hear all the yellin, so I comes a-running. By that time Lennie’s scared to death. You know, I had to sock him over the head with a fence picket to make him let go.

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So what happens then?

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Well, she runs in and tells the law she’s been raped. The guys in weed start out to lynch Lennie. So there we sit in an irrigation ditch, under water all the rest of the day. Got only our heads sticking out of the water, up under the grass that grows out of the side of the ditch. That night we run outta there.

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Didn’t hurt the girl none, huh?

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Hell, no, he jes’ scared her.

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He’s a funny guy.

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Funny! Why, one time, you know what that big baby done! He was walking along a road - Hi, Lennie. How do you like your pup?

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He’s brown and white jus’ like I wanted.

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Lennie!

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What you want, George?

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I tole ya, ya couldn’t bring that pup in here.

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What pup, George? I ain’t got no pup.

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Take pup

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Give him to me, George

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You get right up and take this pup to the nest. He’s got to sleep with his mother. Ya want ta kill him? Jes’ born last night and ya take him out of the nest. Ya take him back or I’ll tell Slim not to let you have him.

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Give him to me, George. I’ll take him back. I didn’t mean no bad thing, George. Honest I didn’t. I jus’ want to pet him a little.

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All right, you get him back there quick. And don’t take him out no more.

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Jesus he’s just like a kid, ain’t he?

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Sure he’s like a kid. There ain’t no more harm in him than a kid neither, except he’s so strong. I bet he won’t come in here to sleep tonight. He’ll sleep right alongside that box in the barn. Well, let him. He ain’t doin’ no harm out there.

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Why, hell, I had him so long! Had him since he was a pup. I herded sheep with him. You wouldn’t think it to look at him now. He was the best damn sheep dog I ever seen.

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I knowed a guy in Weed that had an airedale that could herd sheep. Learned it from the other dogs.

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One of my lead mules got a bad hoof. Got to get some tar on it.

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Anybody like to play a little euchre?

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Candy, you can have any of them pups you want.

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Sounds like there’s a rat under there. We ought to set a trap there.

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What the hell is takin’ him so long? Lay out some cards, why don’t you? We ain’t gonna get no euchre played this way.

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Well, let’s get to it.

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Yeah . . . I guess you boys really came to work, huh?

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How do you mean?

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Well, you come on a Friday. You got two days to work till Sunday.

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I don’t see how you figure.

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You do if you been round these big ranches much. A guy that wants to look over a ranch comes in Saturday afternoon. He gets Saturday night supper, three meals on Sunday and he can quit on Monday morning after breakfast without turning a hand. But you come to work on Friday noon. You got ta put in a day and a half no matter how ya figure it.

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We’re goin’ stick around awhile. Me and Lennie’s gonna roll up a stake.

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Oh, he won’t hurt ‘em.

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If that crazy bastard is foolin’ round too much jus’ kick him out.

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See the new kid yet?

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What kid?

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Why, Curley’s new wife.

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Yeah, I seen her.

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Well, ain’t she a lulu?

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I ain’t see that much of her.

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Well, you stick around and keep your eyes open. You’ll see plenty of her. I never seen nobody like her. She’s just workin’ on everybody all the time. Seems like she’s even workin’ on the stable buck. I don’t know what the hell she wants.

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Been any trouble since she got here?

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Seems like she can’t keep away from guys. And Curley’s runnin’ round like a cat lookin’ for a dirt road. But they ain’t been no trouble.

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Ranch with a bunch of guys on it ain’t no place for a girl. Specially like her.

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If she’s give you any ideas you ought to come in town with us guys tomorrow night.

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Why, what’s doin’?

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Always cracking jokes. Like she says when we come up the front porch last Saturday night: Susy opens the doors and she yells over her shoulder: “Get your coats on, girls, here comes the sheriff.” She never talks dirty neither. Got five girls there.

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What does it set you back?

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Susy don’t give a damn. She ain’t rushin’ guys through, or kicking them out if they don’t want to flop.

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Might go in and look the joint over.

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“I know what you boys want,” she says: “My girls is clean,” she says. “And there ain’t no water in my whiskey,” she says. “If you guys want to look at a kewpie doll lamp and take your chance at gettin’ burned, why, you know where to go.” She says: “They’s guys round here walkin’ bowleggged because they liked to look at a kewpie doll lamp.”

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Gladys runs the other house, huh?

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We don’t never go to Gladys’s. Gladys gits three bucks and two bits a shot and she don’t crack no jokes. But Susy’s place is clean and she got nice chairs. A guy can set in there like he lived there. Don’t let no Manila Goo-Goos in, neither.

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Aw, I don’t know. Me and Lennie’s rollin’ up a stake. I might go in and set and have a shot, but I ain’t puttin’ out no two and a half.

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Well, a guy got to have some fun sometimes.

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Didn’t bring him back in, did you, Lennie?

44
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Say, how about this euchre game?

A

Okay. I didn’t think you wanted to play.

45
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Where the hell’s Slim?

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Went out in the barn. He was goin’ put some tar on a split hoof.

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How long ago did he go?

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Oh, five, ten minutes.

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I guess maybe I’d like to see this. Curley must be spoilin’ or he wouldn’t start for Slim. Curley’s handy, goddamn handy, But just the same he better leave slim alone.

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Thinks Slim’s with his wife, don’t he?

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Looks like it. ‘Course Slim ain’t. Least I don’t think Slim is. But I like to see the fuss if it comes off. Come on, le’s go.

A

I don’t want to git mixed up in nothing. Me and Lennie got to make a stake.

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I’ll look her over. Ain’t seen a good fight in a hell of a while.

A

You see Slim out in the barn?

50
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Sure. He tole me I better not pet that pup no more, like I said.

A

Did you see that girl out there?

51
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You mean Curley’s girl?

A

Yeah. Did she come out in the barn?

52
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No-anyways I never seen her.

A

You never seen Slim talkin’ to her?

53
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Uh-uh. She ain’t been in the barn.

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Okay. I guess them guys ain’t gonna see no fight. If they’s any fightin’, Lennie, ya get out of the way and stay out.

54
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Both ends the same. George, why is it both ends the same?

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I don’t know. That’s jus’ the way they make ‘em. What was Slim doin’ in the barn when you seen him?

55
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Slim?

A

Sure, you seen him in the barn. He tole you not to pet the pups so much.

56
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Oh. Yeah. He had a can of tar and a paint brush. I don’t know what for.

A

You sure that girl didn’t come in like she come in here today?

57
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No, she never come.

A

You give me a good cat-house every time. A guy can go in and get drunk and get it all over all at once and no messes. And he knows how much it’s goin’ set him back. These tarts is jus’ buckshot to a guy. You remember Andy Cushman, Lennie? Went to grammar school same time as us?

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The one that his ole lady used to make hot cakes for the kids?

A

Yeah. That’s the one. You can remember if they’s somepin to eat in it. Well, Andy’s in San Quentin right now on account of a tart.

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George?

A

Huh?

60
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How long is it goin’ be till we git that little place to live on the fat of the land?

A

I don’t know. We gotta get a big stake together. I know a little place we can get cheap, but they ain’t givin’ it away.

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Tell about that place, George.

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I jus’ tole you. Jus’ last night.

62
Q

Go on, tell again.

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Well, it’s ten acres. Got a little windmill. Got a little shack on it and a chicken run. Got a kitchen orchard. Cherries, apples, peaches, ‘cots and nuts. Got a few berries. There’s a place for alfalfa and plenty of water to flood it. There’s a pig pen . . .

63
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And rabbits, George?

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I could easy build a few hutches. And you could feed alfalfa to them rabbits.

64
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Damn right I could. You goddamn right I could.

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And we could have a few pigs. I’d build a smokehouse. And when we kill a pig we could smoke the hams. When the salmon run up the river we can catch a hundred of ‘em. Every Sunday we’d kill a chicken or a rabbit. Mebbe we’d have a cow or a goat. And the cream is so goddamn thick you got to cut it off the pan with a knife.

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We can live off the fat of the land.

A

Sure. All kinds of vegetables in the garden and if we want a little whiskey we can sell some eggs or somethin’. And we wouldn’t sleep in no bunkhouse. Nobody could can us in the middle of a job.

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Tell about the house, George.

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Sure. We’d have a little house. And a room to ourselves. And it ain’t enough land so we’d have to work too hard. Mebbe six, seven hours a day only. We wouldn’t have to buck no barley eleven hours a day. And when we put in a crop, why we’d be there to take that crop up. We’d know what come of our planting.

67
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And rabbits. And I’d take care of them. Tell how I’d do that, George.

A

Sure. You’d go out in the alfalfa patch and you’d have a sack. You’d fill up the sack and bring it in and put it in the rabbit cages.

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They’d nibble and they’d nibble the way they do. I seen ‘em.

A

Every six weeks or so them does would throw a litter. So we’d have plenty of rabbits to eat or sell. And we’d keep a few pigeons to go flying round and round the windmill, like they done when I was a kid. And it’d be our own. And nobody could can us. If we don’t like a guy we can say: “Get the hell out,” and by God he’s got to do it. And if a friend come along, why, we’d have an extra bunk. Know what we’d say? We’d say, “Why don’t you spen’ the night?” And by God he would. We’d have a setter dog and a couple of striped cats. But you gotta watch out them cats don’t get the little rabbits.

69
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You know where’s a place like that?

A

S’pose I do, what’s that to you?

70
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You don’t need to tell me where it’s at. Might be any place.

A

Sure. That’s right, you couldn’t find it in a hundred years.

71
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How much they want for a place like that?

A

Well, I could get it for six hundred bucks. The ole people that owns it is flat bust. And the ole lady needs medicine. Say, what’s it to you? You got nothing to do with us!

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S’pose I went in with you guys? That’s three hundred and forty bucks I put in. I ain’t much good, but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?

A

I got to think about that. We was always gonna do it by ourselves. Me an’ Lennie. I never thought of nobody else.

73
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I’d make a will. Leave my share to you guys in case I kicked off. I ain’t got no relations or nothing. You fellas got any money? Maybe we could go there right now.

A

We got ten bucks between us. Say, look. If me and Lennie work a month and don’t spend nothing at all, we’ll have a hundred bucks. That would be four-forty. I bet we could swing her for that. Then you and Lennie could go get her started and I’d get a job and make up the rest. You could see eggs and stuff like that. Jesus Christ, I bet we could swing her. I bet we could swing ‘er.

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You seen what they done to my dog. They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else. But when I’m that way nobody’ll shoot me. I wish somebody would. They won’t do nothing like that. I won’t have no place to go and I can’t get no more jobs.

A

We’ll do ‘er! God damn, we’ll fix up that little ole place and we’ll go live there. S’pose they was a carnival, or a circus come to town or a ball game or any damn thing. We’d just go to her. We wouldn’t ask nobody if we could. Just say we’ll go to her, by God, and we would. Just milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens and go to her.

75
Q

And put some grass to the rabbits. I wouldn’t forget to feed them. When we gonna do it, George?

A

In one month. Right smack in one month. Know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna write them ole people that owns the place that we’ll take ‘er. and Candy’ll send a hundred dollars to bind her.

76
Q

I sure will. They got a good stove there?

A

Sure, got a nice stove. Burns coal or wood.

77
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I’m gonna take my pup. I bet by Christ he likes it there.

A

Now don’t tell nobody about her. Jus’ us three and nobody else. They’re liable to can us so we can’t make no stake. We’ll just go on like we was a bunch of punks. Like we was gonna buck barley the rest of our lives. And then all of a sudden, one day, bang! We get out pay and scram out of here.

78
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And not tell nobody. We won’t tell nobody, George.

A

You’re goddamn right we won’t. You know, Seems to me I can almost smell that carnation stuff that goddamn tart dumps on herself.

79
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You know Curley. You know he wouldn’t stay with me if he wasn’t sure. I tell you Curley is sure. You got no right to call me a tart.

A

If you ain’t a tart, what you always hangin’ round guys for? You got a house and you got a man. We don’t want no trouble from you.

80
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I want to see somebody. Just see ‘em and talk to ‘em. There ain’t no women. I can’t walk to town. And Curley don’t take me to no dances now. I tell you I jus’ want to talk to somebody.

A

If you’re just friendly what you given out the eye for an’ floppin’ your can around?

81
Q

I just wanta be nice. Voices offstage

A

Get goin’. We don’t want no trouble.

82
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By God, she’s been in here. I can smell - By God, she’s been in here. You was here. The other guys was outside. Now, God damn you-you talk.

A

Somebody got to beat the hell outa you. I guess I’m elected.

83
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George, make him leave me alone, George.

A

Get him, Lennie. Get him!

84
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Lennie crushes hand

A

Let go of him, Lennie. Let go!

85
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Lennie slams Curley on table

A

Let go his hand Lenne. Slim, come help me, while this guys got any hand left.

86
Q

It ain’t your fault. This punk had it comin’ to him. But Jesus-he ain’t hardly got no hand left.

A

Slim, will we git canned now? Will Curley’s old man can us now?

87
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Com on now. Carlson’s goin’ to take you in to a doctor. Let’s see your hands. Christ Almighty!

A

Lennie was just scairt. He didn’t know what to do. I tole you nobody ought never to fight him. No, I guess it was Candy I tole.

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That’s just what you done. Right this morning when Curley first lit into him. You says he better not fool with Lennie if he knows what’s good for him.

A

It ain’t your fault. You don’t need to be scairt no more. You done jus’ what I tole you to. Maybe you better go in the washroom and clean up your face. You look like hell.

89
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I didn’t want no trouble.

A

Come on - I’ll go with you.

90
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George?

A

What you want?

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