JOE CLARK: Well, tell yo' ma I ain't seen her.
SENATOR: Well, she say to tell you when she come, to tell her ma say
she better git home and dat quick.
JOE CLARK: I will. (Exit BOY right.)
LIGE: Bet she's off somewhere wid Dave or Jim.
WALTER: I don't bet it ... I know it. She's got them two in de
go-long.
(Re-enter TEET and BOOTSIE from store. TEET has a letter and BOOTSIE
two or three small parcels. The men look up with interest as they come
out on the porch.)
WALTER: (Winking) Whut's dat you got, Teet ... letter from Dave?
TEET: (Flouncing) Naw indeed! It's a letter from my B-I-T-sweetie!
(Rolls her eyes and hips.)
WALTER: (Winking) Well, ain't Dave yo' B-I-T-sweetie? I thought y'all
was 'bout to git married. Everywhere I looked dis summer 'twas you and
Dave, Bootsie and Jim. I thought all of y'all would've done jumped
over de broomstick by now.
TEET: (Flourishing letter) Don't tell it to me ... tell it to the
ever-loving Mr. Albert Johnson way over in Apopka.
BOOTSIE: (Rolling her eyes) Oh, tell 'em 'bout the ever-loving Mr.
Jimmy Cox from Altamont. Oh, I can't stand to see my baby lose.
HAMBO: It's lucky y'all girls done got some more fellers, cause look
like Daisy done treed both Jim and Dave at once, or they done treed
here one.
TEET: Let her have 'em ... nobody don't keer. They don't handle de "In
God we trust" lak my Johnson. He's head bellman at de hotel.
BOOTSIE: Mr. Cox got money's grandma and old grandpa change.
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