OMAM A3:S2

Question 1

There now. Now. I won’t never tell George. He’ll know. He always knows.

Answer 1

Get in the tules-quick.

Question 2

I ain’t done nothing, George.

Answer 2

Get in the tules-damn you.

Question 3

Where is he? You want-I-should-go away?

Answer 3

Lennie!

Question 4

Where’s them guys goin?

Answer 4

Huntin’.

Question 5

Whyn’t we go with ‘em? I like huntin’. Is it ‘cause I done a bad thing?

Answer 5

It don’t make no difference.

Question 6

Is that why we can’t go huntin’ with them guys?

Answer 6

It don’t make no difference. . . . Sit down, Lennie. Right there.

Question 7

George!

Answer 7

Yeah?

Question 8

Ain’t you gonna give me hell?

Answer 8

Give ya hell?

Question 9

Sure. . . . Like you always done before. Like-“If I didn’ have you I’d take my fifty bucks . . .”

Answer 9

If I was alone I-could live-so easy. I could get a job and not have no mess . . .

Question 10

Go on, go on! “And when the end of the month come . . .”

Answer 10

“And when the end of the month come, I could take my fifty bucks and go to-a cat-house. . . .”

Question 11

Go on, George, ain’t you gonna give me no more hell?

Answer 11

No!

Question 12

I can go away. I’ll go right off in the hills and find a cave if you don’t want me.

Answer 12

No, I want you to stay here with me.

Question 13

Then tell me like you done before.

Answer 13

Tell you what?

Question 14

‘Bout the other guys and about us!

Answer 14

“Guys like us got no families. They get a little stake and then they blow it in. They ain’t got nobody in the world that gives a hoot in a hell about ‘em!”

Question 15

“But not us.” Tell about us now.

Answer 15

“But not us.”

Question 16

“Because . . .”

Answer 16

“Because I got you and . . .”

Question 17

“And I got you. We got each other,” that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.

Answer 17

Take off your hat, Lennie. The air feels fine!

Question 18

Tell how it’s gonna be.

Answer 18

Look acrost the river, Lennie, and I’ll tell you like you can almost see it. “We gonna get a little place . . .”

Question 19

Go on! How’s it gonna be? “We gonna get a little place . . .”

Answer 19

“We’ll have a cow. And we’ll have maybe a pig and chickens-and down the flat we’ll have a . . . little piece of alfalfa. . . .”

Question 20

“For the rabbits!”

Answer 20

“For the rabbits!”

Question 21

“And I get to tend the rabbits!”

Answer 21

“And you get to tend the rabbits!”

Question 22

“And live on the fat o’ the land!”

Answer 22

Yes. Look over there, Lennie. Like you can really see it.

Question 23

Where?

Answer 23

Right across the river there. Can’t you almost see it?

Question 24

Where, George?

Answer 24

It’s over there. You keep lookin’, Lennie. Just keep lookin’.

Question 25

I’m lookin’, George. I’m lookin’.

Answer 25

That’s right. It’s gonna be nice there. Ain’t gonna be no trouble, no fights. Nobody ever gonna hurt nobody, or steal from ‘em. It’s gonna be-nice.