Gardener's Son by Cormac McCarthy

Author:Cormac McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

SECOND MAN Never thought I’d live to see the day. Niggers runnin crazy killin folks. Right in ye own county.

He drinks.

PINKY Dont get him started on the niggers, for God’s sake.

Second man slices potato and eats and passes the jar on to the third man. Third man takes jar.

THIRD MAN Thing about James. He never did want to put the jam on the lower shelf where the little man could get some.

FIRST MAN Get ye a little old drink there, Housecat.

THIRD MAN They’s plenty of rhubarb all around the farm. And another little drink wont do us any harm.

Exterior. Night. McEvoy drunk staggering through a field.

McEvoy on a narrow country road, reeling along on his crutch. He pauses to rest, leaning against a barn. He listens to the silence. A few dogs bark in the distance. He goes on. There is a horse leaning over a fence and he and the horse look at each other and McEvoy moves on.

McEvoy hobbling up the road to Graniteville. He has passed a few houses and now several dogs have come into the road behind him and circle to pick up his scent and howl. They are seen by the light of a lamp in the window and their hackles are up and they howl after McEvoy who wobbles on into the darkness.

Exterior. Dawn, sound of the mill bell. People shuffling through the semi-darkness toward the mill. The mill coming to life.

Dawn, light coming on in an old abandoned shed. McEvoy waking. Sound of the second mill bell. McEvoy standing disheveled in the light from the window while the bell tolls. When it is done he puts his cap on and takes up his crutch.

Exterior. Mill. The stockholders arriving at the mill.

Interior. Mill. Patrick McEvoy comes down the aisle and takes his place at his machine. The other workers watch him. He looks haggard and somewhat grim. The overseer comes to him and puts his hand on his shoulder.

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