:13:05
I went in the house...
:13:08
and I hit Jesse Dixon
upside the head with it...
:13:11
knocked him off my mother.
:13:14
I reckon that didn't satisfy me...
:13:19
so I hit him again in the neck
with the sharp edge...
:13:21
and just plumb near cut his head off,
killed him.
:13:27
My mother jumped up
and started hollering...
:13:30
"What did you kill Jesse for?"
:13:33
Well, come to find out...
:13:35
my mother didn't mind
what Jesse was doing to her.
:13:40
That made me madder
than what Jesse'd made me...
:13:44
so I took the Kaiser blade--
:13:46
some folks called it a sling blade,
I called it a Kaiser blade--
:13:53
and I hit my mother
upside the head with it.
:13:56
Killed her.
:14:04
if you had it to do over again,
would you do it the same way?
:14:09
I reckon I would.
:14:13
Anyhow, they put me in here...
:14:15
and here I been
for a great, long while.
:14:20
I've learned to read some.
:14:24
Took me four years to read the Bible.
:14:26
I reckon I understand
a great deal of it.
:14:29
Wasn't what I expected
in some places.
:14:34
I've slept in a good bed
for a great, long while.
:14:39
Now they've seen fit
to put me out of here.
:14:41
They say they're setting me free today.
:14:47
I reckon that's all you was
needing to know.
:14:51
You want more details.
I reckon I can tell them.
:14:55
I don't know whether that's enough
for your newspaper or not.