BOY WILLIE: He told you he bought it. Bought it for a hundred and twenty dollars. I can’t say where he got that hundred and twenty dollars from . . . but he bought that old piece of truck from Henry Porter. (To LYMON.) Where you get that hundred and twenty dollars from, nigger?

LYMON: I got it like you get yours. I know how to take care of money.

(DOAKER brings a bottle and sets it on the table.)

BOY WILLIE: Aw hell, Doaker got some of that good whiskey. Don’t give Lymon none of that. He ain’t used to good whiskey. He liable to get sick.

LYMON: I done had good whiskey before.

BOY WILLIE: Lymon bought that truck so he have him a place to sleep. He down there wasn’t doing no work or nothing. Sheriff looking for him. He bought that truck to keep away from the sheriff. Got Stovall looking for him too. He down there sleeping in that truck ducking and dodging both of them. I told him come on let’s go up and see my sister.

BERNIECE: What the sheriff looking for you for, Lymon?

BOY WILLIE: The man don’t want you to know all his business. He’s my company. He ain’t asking you no questions.

LYMON: It wasn’t nothing. It was just a misunderstanding.

BERNIECE: He in my house. You say the sheriff looking for him, I wanna know what he looking for him for. Otherwise you all can go back out there and be where nobody don’t have to ask you nothing.

LYMON: It was just a misunderstanding. Sometimes me and the sheriff we don’t think alike. So we just got crossed on each other.

BERNIECE: Might be looking for him about that truck. He might have stole that truck.

BOY WILLIE: We ain’t stole no truck, woman. I told you Lymon bought it.

DOAKER: Boy Willie and Lymon got more sense than to ride all the way up here in a stolen truck with a load of watermelons. Now they might have stole them watermelons, but I don’t believe they stole that truck.

BOY WILLIE: You don’t even know the man good and you calling him a thief. And we ain’t stole them watermelons either. Them old man Pitterford’s watermelons. He give me and Lymon all we could load for ten dollars.

DOAKER: No wonder you got them stacked up out there. You must have five hundred watermelons stacked up out there.

BERNIECE: Boy Willie, when you and Lymon planning on going back?

BOY WILLIE: Lymon say he staying. As soon as we sell them watermelons I’m going on back.

BERNIECE: (Starts to exit up the stairs.) That’s what you need to do. And you need to do it quick. Come in here disrupting the house. I don’t want all that loud carrying on around here. I’m surprised you ain’t woke Maretha up.

BOY WILLIE: I was fixing to get her now.

(Calls.)

Hey, Maretha!

DOAKER: Berniece don’t like all that hollering now.