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133. CONTINUED   133.

DAVID LEE
She is, Mama ...
(pause)
When the fall comes, she wants
me to come to her school.

REBECCA
How can you do that? You don't
live anywhere near that school.

DAVID LEE
She says I can come live with 
her while school goin' on, and
come back home every time there 
ain't no school.

REBECCA
But who's gonna help me here
with the house and in the field?

She puts some food on the table before him - he hesitates
before eating - she is about to exit through the back
door - stops in the doorway and turns back to him.

REBECCA (CONT'D)
If your father is back by then
it's all right with me if it'll
be all right with him ...

Rebecca moves out just like that, leaving the boy
thrown and bewildered for a moment - he looks in the
direction of his mother's room for awhile and then
slowly starts to eat, with his appetite practically
gone - Josie Mae and Earl on the other side of the
table are staring at him.

DAVID LEE
Whatcha starin' at?

JOSIE MAE
Tell us some more 'bout the
trip!

134.  EXTS. CORNFIELD - WEIGHING STATION - DAY    134. 
A hot, mid-July day - late afternoon - Rebecca,
David Lee, Josie Mae and Earl are working the mill.

David Lee points with his fingers in giving out
assignments to Josie Mae and Earl. They run across
the fields to a particular row of corn, with croker
sacks in their hands.

CONTINUED