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Mr. Tex Smith?
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-Cops?
-Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
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Is this your son, Perry?
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Yep, that's him all right.
:54:25
Gets his looks from his mother.
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Part Cherokee.
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-Will you have some coffee?
-When did you see him last?
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-Couple of years ago.
-In prison?
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I was just fixing to make some grub.
You want some eats?
:54:40
He was in for three and a half years.
He's bren out on parole for six months.
:54:45
Well, then I guess I haven't seen him
for five or six years.
:54:48
That's not surprising though.
He's a lone wolf just like me.
:54:51
You can rest easy on one thing sure...
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...you won't be having
any more trouble with Perry.
:54:55
He's learned his lesson for sure.
:54:57
When he wrote me from prison,
I wrote him back pronto.
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''Boy, you take your punishment
with a smile.
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''I didn't raise you to steal,
so don't expect me to cry...
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''...because you got it tough
behind the bars.''
:55:07
Perry's no fool. He knows when he's beat.
:55:11
You fellows have got him whipped forever.
The law's the boss.
:55:14
He knows the difference
between right and wrong.
:55:16
I taught my kids a golden rule:
Always tell the truth...
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...wash in the morning,
be sober and independent.
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I showed him how.
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How to prospect, how to trap fur,
how to carpenter, how to bake bread...
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...how to be his own boss.
:55:30
Yes, he's a chip off the old block, all right.
:55:33
I never had no trouble with my kids,
not as long as Flo and me was together.
:55:39
But she wanted the wild life.
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So she took the kids and ran off.
Turned them against me.
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All but Perry.
:55:47
I don't know what got into her.
:55:49
She started drinking.
Turned into a hopeless drunk.
:55:52
Started stepping out with young men.
I caught her once and I....
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Anyway, she died drunk.