..He""d be grown by now, right?...And you know, the only person that ever knew him was his mother.He never went to school, so he never had any friends...She was everything to him....I mean I doubt Jason would have even known the meaning of death, or at least until that horrible night...I""d do what I""d done again.Killed a guy in a dance hall.We was drunk - he got a knife in me and I laid him out with a shovel.Knocked his head plum to squash...He had a knife in me, that""s why they only give me seven years.I got out in four - paroled.They leisurely walk together to the Joad family tenant farm.Along the way, Casy describes Pa Joad""s behavior during a baptizing.To imitate Pa Joad""s "run at that bush," the eccentric preacher howls and jumps a fence:Last time I seen him was at a baptizin""." She also saw newspaper clippings about Crystal Lake""s bloody history: "KILLER AT CRYSTAL LAKE - BODY NEVER RECOVERED.Why-...Golly, what""s the use? Walter, you-you wouldn""t know what it means to want to be respectable and live a half-way normal life.The Tramp discovered that the distressed man had tied one end of a rope to a large stone and put the noose around his neck.