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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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