SENATOR.
Yes ma’am. (He drops bone on ground down stage and trots off frowning.) Soon as we men git to doing something dese wimmen…. (Exits, right.)
(Enter TEET and BOOTSIE left, clean and primped in voile dresses just alike. They speak diffidently and enter store. The men admire them casually.)
LIGE.
Them girls done turned out to be right good-looking.
WALTER.
Teet ain’t as pretty now as she was a few years back. She used to be fat as a butter ball wid legs just like two whiskey-kegs. She’s too skinny since she got her growth.
CODY.
Ain’t none of ’em pretty as dat Miss Daisy. God! She’s pretty as a speckled pup.
LIGE.
But she was sho nuff ugly when she was little … little ole hard black knot. She sho has changed since she been away up North. If she ain’t pretty now, there ain’t a hound dog in Georgy.
(Re-enter SENATOR BAILEY and stops on the steps. He addresses JOE CLARK.)
SENATOR.
Mist’ Clark….
HAMBO.
(To Senator) Ain’t you got no manners? We all didn’t sleep wid you last night.
SENATOR.
(Embarrassed) Good evening, everybody.