i prefer a yankee to a halfwit.
what is it you think you'd be fighting for?
and what's that when it's at home?
no.
you cut the wood, you carry the water for good old king cotton. now you want to fight for him. somebody has to explain it to me.
that's teague and his boys. i'd recommend you kick them out except a man don't kick a snake. one time the teague family owned the whole of cold mountain. my farm, your farm, all belonged to his grand-daddy. teague wanted this place bad. you got it. he's here sniffing out an advantage.
will you look at the state of this place!
that your daddy's coat?
don't suit you.
i can't get up to your place this week. she's mad at me --
-- more than i can do to keep this place half-managed. i'm ready-to stop, i tell you. i just want to sit on my porch with sal, watch my boys in the field, holler good job! every hour or so.
and waiting on a feller.
look down our well. she should! look down our well with a mirror, you'll see the future. s'what they say. you do it! don't make that face.
see anything?
don't spread out. why they spreading out?
there's a war on.
get off my land.
ain't seen my boys in four years. they're fighting other boys, not old men and women.
what i gotta give you? a chicken? a lamb?
right then.