:09:01
I reckon what you want to know
is what I'm doing in here.
:09:05
I reckon it's because I killed somebody.
:09:10
But I reckon you want to know
how come I killed somebody...
:09:13
so I'll start at the front
and tell you.
:09:19
I lived out in back of
my parents' place most of my life...
:09:24
in a little old shed
that my daddy'd built for me.
:09:28
They didn't want me in the house
with the rest of them...
:09:32
so I sat around in the shed
looking at the ground.
:09:37
I didn't have no floor...
:09:40
but I had me a hole dug out
to lay down in...
:09:44
a quilt or two to put down there.
:09:49
My father...
:09:51
was a hardworking man
most of his life...
:09:55
not that I can say the same
for myself.
:09:58
I mostly just sat around
in the shed...
:10:00
tinkered around
with a lawn mower or two...
:10:04
went to school off and on
from time to time.
:10:07
But the children out there,
they were very cruel to me...
:10:12
and made quite a bit of sport of me,
made fun of me quite a bit.
:10:17
So mostly I just sat around
out there in the shed.
:10:25
My daddy...
:10:27
worked at the sawmill,
down at the planer mill...
:10:30
for an old man named Dixon.
:10:33
Old man Dixon was a very cruel fellow.
:10:36
Didn't treat his employees well
or pay them well.
:10:39
Didn't pay my daddy too much of a wage.
:10:42
Just barely enough to get by,
I reckon.
:10:45
I reckon he got by all right.
:10:50
They used to come out,
one or the other of them...
:10:54
usually my mother...
:10:56
feed me pretty regular.
:10:59
So I know he made enough
so I could have mustard and biscuits...