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The Heart o' the Hills [Original narrative cards,
reconstructed dialogue cards:]
1 In the heart of the
Kentucky mountains
dwells a primitive and picturesque people.
2 Often misunderstood
are these simple
mountain folk, for theirs is a quaint humor, an elemental courage and a stern code of justice.
3 At the ancestral cabin
of the Honeycutts lives Little Jason.
4 Steve Honeycutt,
Jason's stepfather.
5 To shoot straight
is the chief aim
of the mountain girl,
Mavis Hawn.
6 One of the few men from
the lowlands, trusted
by the mountaineers, is the geologist and school teacher,
John Burnham.
7
"Lawdy, child, bullets are
a-buzzin' round here as thick as bumble-bees!"
8
"When I kin hit the belly-
band two outer three, I'm a-goin' to - git him!"
9
"- one day my pap was
a-goin' down to Louisville, peaceful-like, when --"
10
"I've never knowed who
done the shootin', but I promised pap I'd git him -- an' I'm a-goin to keep my promise."
11
"What you need, Mavis, is
books, not bullets."
12 Widow Hawn,
Mavis' mother.
13
"Wimmen ain't got no sense
'bout business no-how. Reckon you-uns order have a man 'bout here."
14
"Mavie, my pap's been
a-wearin' me out with a hick'ry."
15 "Who?"
16 "Mammy."
17 "If anything happens, me an' you air a-goin' to git married."
18
"Say, Mavis my old man
air a-sweetheartin' yore old woman to git her land."
19
"I air a-goin' to show you a
secret."
20 A matter of business brings
a party of lowlanders
to the mountains.
21 Gray Pendleton, a blue-grass
aristocrat, cherishes a
boyish affection for his father's ward, Marjorie Lee.
22 Colonel Pendleton, a Southern planter, is associated with Morton Sanders, a Northern capitalist, in a project to exploit mountain coal lands.
23
"Marjorie and I are going
for a gallop. We'll wait for you at the crossroads."
24
"There's heaps more o'
this here coal up the gap."
25 "Hol' on thar!"
26
"Hol' on! What fer? Ye got a
still hid up thar?"
27
"I don't reckon you-uns
dare to come nary a bit further!"
28
"I'm of a notion to fetch me
a stick an' whoop the life outer ye!"
29 "My whoopin' days air over!"
30
"She'd shoot fer sartin!
We-uns better come back later."
31
"Say little fellow, can you
direct us to the crossroads?"
32
"I ain't answerin' no
questions from a feller that wears gal's socks."
33
"Girl! Perhaps you can
tell us the way?"
34
"It air over the spur --
a whoop an' a holler."
35
"I seed ye a-lookin'
at her!"
36
"Tain't so! I seed ye
a-lookin' at him!"
37
"D--- ye, Mavie, fer
a-doin' me dirt afore the furriners!"
38
"I seed ye with yer
hair oiled ..."
39
"... and mammy a-wearin'
of her Sunday dress on Wednesday."
40
"I reckon ye air a-goin' to
treat me like I was growed."
41
"Be my dinner, ready,
mammy?"
42 Grandpap Jason Hawn
entertains his lowland
guests with a "shin-dig."
43
"Men folks, grab
yer partners!"
44 Grandpap Jason,
Patriarch and
leader of his clan.
45
"This shanty air so
turrible small ye can't cuss a cat without gittin' hair in yer teeth."
46
"The Colonel is an honest
old fool. He mustn't find out how we're getting possession of these lands."
47
"What will you-uns gimme
if I marry Marthy and git her land fer ye?"
48
"Mavie, I reckon the
furriner's a-whoopin' Jasie."
49
"Ho! on thar; I done
lost me teeth!"
50
"They be dancin'
down thar!"
51
"May I have the
pleasure?"
52 "I air a lady!"
53
"Furriners ain't no good
no-how! They get rich diggin our coal, an' cuttin' our timber, an' --- raisin' h--l ginerally!"
54
"Thar ain't a-goin' to be no
upscuddle here! Ye beg the stranger's pardon."
55
"We-uns air beholdin to
you-uns."
56 After the jollification
at Grandpap Hawn's.
57
"Don't ye care, pap!
Mammy air a no-account! ... She skinned out an' left me."
58 Uncle Lige, the circuit
rider, who administers
to the spiritual needs of the mountaineers.
59
"Me and Jasie wants to
git married."
60 "Hev ye got yer license?"
61 "How old air ye?"
62
"I aim to be thirteen the
30th or 40th of May."
63
"Ye can't git married; ye
ain't growed."
64
"It ain't no use, Jasie, the
law's ag'in us! We gotta wait."
65 Mavis brings to the Cross-
Roads the latest news
of Morton Sanders' treachery.
66 "Mavie, what's ailin' ye?"
67
"That there low-down
hound, Sanders, he's fooled us folks outer our lands --"
68
"--- this mornin' he driv
me from my shanty, p'int blank ----"
69
"--- we-uns want our land
back! An' we-uns want that skunk, Sanders, run plumb outer these mountings!"
70
"Be thar in the clearin'
tonight!"
71
"Go on down an' notify
the sheriff."
72 The mountaineer
is often a law unto himself.
73
"Sanders, we-uns give ye
jes twenty-four hours to cl'ar outer these mountings!"
74
"You can't frighten me
with this night-riding scare."
75 Midnight.
76 "Ye've been a-ridin'!"
77
"You'll find the gal in
that thar shanty."
78 "We've come to git her."
79
"She was seen hiding this
night-rider rigout."
80
"I reckon if ye does a man's
work, Mavie, ye jes naturally take a man's medicine."
81
"You're in luck, Hawn;
there's a $10,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of Sanders' murderer."
82
"You-uns don't git no
granddatter o'mine - not when thar's a bunch o' greenbacks tied to the rope that's pinin' to hang her!"
83 A day later, the kindly
schoolmaster seeks
Mavis in her mountain
hiding place.
84
"Your grandpap told me
where you were hiding."
85
"To prove your innocence
Mavis, you must go down and stand trial."
86
"If you are like your pap,
you can't be a coward and hide here."
87 On trial for murder
in the first degree.
88
"Gentlemen, I have
established that only one shot was fired!"
89
"There sits the black-
hearted murderess with the brand of Cain upon her soul!"
90
"I was a-ridin' but I done
no shootin' --"
91
"D--n it! Didn't ye seed
me kiss the book?"
92
"Gentlemen of the jury,
that gal is telling a deliberate falsehood!"
93 "Order! Order!"
94
"Order, h--l! She may be
a murderess, but she ain't no liar!"
95
"I have proved that she
is the guilty party ---"
96
"--- and that she should
be HANGED! --"
97
"- - - hanged!
HANGED!! by the neck until she is dead!"
98
"And may God rest
her soul!"
99
"The court'll hear the
verdict of the jury."
100
"Pardon me, Jedge, fer
disorganizin' the persecutor but I done that killin'."
101
"Yo' Honor, - this feller's a
liar - I done it my own self!"
102
"I beg pardon, Jedge, them
thar gentlemen air both liars! I fired the shot!"
103
"Air thar anyone else what
done the shootin'?"
104
"Jedge, I reckon I
be excused."
105
"Jedgematically speakin',
I reckon we'll have to dis-charge the prisoner and try the jury."
106 For the first time in her
life, Mavis Hawn leaves
the mountains, to attend John Burnham's school
in the lowlands.
107
"Le's watch her; she may be
tryin' to wreck a train."
108 "What's ailin' you --- skeered?"
109
"Skeered!!!!! I reckon you'd
run if a saw-mill was a-chasin' you."
110 John Burnham's
lowland school.
111 "Look at the funny legs!"
112 "It's Mavis Hawn."
113 Little Jason's longing for
Mavis brings him to
the Land of the Blue-Grass.
114
"I'll work hard for ye --
I'll even w'ar gal's socks -- if you'll jes l'arn me what I wants to know."
115
"That's a forfeit, Mavis!
If I catch you, I'll kiss you!"
116
"I reckon I'll go down
to Louisville to l'arn!"
117
"Jasie, aren't you going to
say-howdy?"
118
"Go on 'long an' play
with yer frien' what w'ars gal's socks!"
119 SIX YEARS PASS.
Mavis Hawn has been
adopted by Colonel
Pendleton in atonement for the trickery of his partner, Sanders, who swindled Mavis out of
her inheritance.
120
"Lawdy, Mavis; that hunt
seems to have been a triumph for you."
121
"Mavis, dear, I can't bear to
have you leave us, because --- I love you."
122
"My people are not yours,
Gray, nor yours mine - not in our generation."
123 After an absence of
years, Little Jason
Honeycutt answers the call of his native hills.
124 "Howdy, Jed!"
125
"Don't you remember
Little Jasie?"
126 "Hol' on thar, stranger!"
127
"H--l, Grandpap! Don't
you remember me? I'm little Jasie."
128
"Wal, Mavie has been
home nigh onto three weeks, -- she jist gone up yonder to her mammy's."
129
"I reckon I'll give Mavie
a little surprise."
130 The intervening years have
dragged Steve Honeycutt deeper into the mire.
131
"What was ye an' Mavis
a-talkin' 'bout last night?"
132
"Nuthin' much - jes
a-talkin'."
133
"Ef ye dar tech me, I'll
tell Mavis it was you -- what killed her pap!"
134 Tragedies are quickly
forgotten in the mountains.
135 "Be ye jealous, Mavie?"
136
"When's Gray Pendleton
coming for you Mavis?"
137 "Aren't some folks lucky?"
138
"Do you remember what
Uncle Lige once said we could do, when we were 'growed'?"
139
"Well, we're 'growed' -
aren't we?"
140 "I reckon - 'we air'."
141
"Meet me at Uncle
Lige's --- I'm going for the license."
142 And on the 30th. or 40th.
of May, they were married.
The End
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