: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...
:11:03
three or four times a week.
:11:08
But old man Dixon...
:11:11
he had a boy...
:11:13
name of Jesse Dixon.
:11:16
Jesse was more cruel
than his daddy was.
:11:20
He used to make
quite a bit of sport of me...
:11:23
when I was down there
at the schoolhouse.
:11:28
Used to take advantage of the girls
in the neighborhood.
:11:35
They used to say...
:11:38
that my mother was a very pretty woman.
:11:41
They said that quite a bit
when I'd be there at the schoolhouse.
:11:46
I reckon you want me to get on with it
and tell you what happened.
:11:51
So I reckon I'll tell you.
:11:54
I was setting out in the shed
one evening, not doing much...
:11:57
just staring at the wall...