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INSET & CAMILLE'S VOICE OVER -- DAVID'S IMAGES

-- THE STRANGE RENDINGS OF NATURE THEY HAVE SEEN, MAY GIVE THE WORLD NEW POINTS OF VIEW AND MAKE THEIR LOVING, LIVING, AND DOING PRECIOUS TO ALL HUMAN - The night in the woods with his father and Sounder. The shouting and laughter after the baseball game --

HEARTS. AND TO THEMSELVES IN THESE DAYS THAT TRY THEIR SOULS - He, Josie & Earl, running and playing in the field.

THE CHANCE TO SOAR IN THE DIM BLUE AIR ABOVE SMOKE IS TO THEIR - His visit with his father at the County Jail house --

FINER SPIRITS BOON AND GUERDON FOR WHAT THEY LOSE ON EARTH BY BEING BLACK. - His mother, with her head thrown back, her eyes aglitter and laughing.

Camille has finished reading -- she places the book down on the desk as her looks on her from the floor with tenderness --

DAVID LEE
You're a friendly lady, Miss Johnson.

CAMILLE
And you're a tired little boy. I'll make up the cot and you must get some sleep.

She moves into the corner to prepare a place for him in the sitting room.

DAVID LEE
What about Sounder?

CAMILLE
He'll get his place too -- now off with your clothes and into bed.

David unclothes himself and crawls into the bed as Camille stands over him --

CAMILLE (CONT'D)
Now don't you think it's time you told me all about yourself?

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