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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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