:01:03
l guess you're right.
:01:09
How'd you two meet up?
:01:11
Well, l knew his Aunt Clara.
:01:15
She took him when he was a boy.
She raised him up.
:01:17
When she died,
Lennie just come along with me working.
:01:20
Uh-huh.
:01:23
l used to play jokes on him cos he's
too damn dumb to take care of himself.
:01:27
He'd do any damn thing l told him.
:01:31
Put that on back in here.
:01:34
One day, a bunch of guys standing
around on the Sacramento River,
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l turns to him and
l says ''Jump in, Lennie.''
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And he jumps.
:01:44
Couldn't swim a stroke. He damn near
drowned before we could get to him.
:01:48
He was so damn nice to me for pulling
him out, he forgot l told him to jump in.
:01:55
He's a nice fella.
:02:00
A guy don't need no sense
to be a nice fella.
:02:04
Yeah.
:02:06
He gets in trouble all the time
cos he's so goddamn dumb.
:02:09
Like what happened up north in Weed.
:02:17
What'd he do in Weed?
:02:24
He seen this girl,
:02:27
in a red dress,
:02:28
and the dumb bastard that he is, he just...
:02:31
He wants to touch everything he likes,
so he reaches out to touch this red dress.
:02:38
So the girl starts screaming,
and that gets Lennie all mixed up,
:02:41
so he holds on and he won't let go,
:02:44
cos that's the only thing
he can think to do.
:02:48
So what happened?
:02:52
Well, she runs off
across the field, screaming.
:02:57
So me and Lennie take off running.