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three or four times a week.
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But old man Dixon...
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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.
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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.
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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...
:12:00
and waiting on my mother
to give me my Bible lesson.
:12:06
I heard a commotion in the house...
:12:09
so I run up on the screened-in porch
to look inside.
:12:13
I looked in and seen my mother laying
on the floor without any clothes on.
:12:24
I seen Jesse Dixon
laying on top of her.
:12:29
He was having his way with her.
:12:33
I just seen red.
:12:39
I picked up a Kaiser blade that was
sitting by the door.
:12:42
Some folks called it a sling blade.
I called it a Kaiser blade.
:12:46
It's got a long, wood handle,
kind of like an ax handle...
:12:50
with a long blade shaped like a banana.
:12:54
Sharp on one edge
and dull on the other.
:12:58
It's what the highway boys use
to cut down weeds and whatnot. Yeah.