WINING BOY: A lot of things you got to find out on your own. I can’t say how they talked to nobody else. But to me it just filled me up in a strange sort of way to be standing there on that spot. I didn’t want to leave. It felt like the longer I stood there the bigger I got. I seen the train coming and it seem like I was bigger than the train. I started not to move. But something told me to go ahead and get on out the way. The train passed and I started to go back up there and stand some more. But something told me not to do it. I walked away from there feeling like a king. Went on and had a stroke of luck that run on for three years. So I don’t care if Berniece believe or not. Berniece ain’t got to believe. I know cause I been there. Now Doaker’ll tell you about the Ghosts of the Yellow Dog.

DOAKER: I don’t try and talk that stuff with Berniece. Avery got her all tied up in that church. She just think it’s a whole lot of nonsense.

BOY WILLIE: Berniece don’t believe in nothing. She just think she believe. She believe in anything if it’s convenient for her to believe. But when that convenience run out then she ain’t got nothing to stand on.

WINING BOY: Let’s not get on Berniece now. Doaker tell me you talking about selling that piano.

BOY WILLIE: Yeah . . . hey, Doaker, I got the name of that man Avery was talking about. The man what’s fixing the truck gave me his name. Everybody know him. Say he buy up anything you can make music with. I got his name and his telephone number. Hey, Wining Boy, Sutter’s brother say he selling the land to me. I got one part. Sell them watermelons get me the second part. Then . . . soon as I get them watermelons out that truck I’m gonna take and sell that piano and get the third part.

DOAKER: That land ain’t worth nothing no more. The smart white man’s up here in these cities. He cut the land loose and step back and watch you and the dumb white man argue over it.

WINING BOY: How you know Sutter’s brother ain’t sold it already? You talking about selling the piano and the man’s liable to sold the land two or three times.

BOY WILLIE: He say he waiting on me. He say he give me two weeks. That’s two weeks from Friday. Say if I ain’t back by then he might gonna sell it to somebody else. He say he wanna see me with it.

WINING BOY: You know as well as I know the man gonna sell the land to the first one walk up and hand him the money.

BOY WILLIE: That’s just who I’m gonna be. Look, you ain’t gotta know he waiting on me. I know. Okay. I know what the man told me. Stovall already done tried to buy the land from him and he told him no. The man say he waiting on me . . . he waiting on me. Hey, Doaker . . . give me a drink. I see Wining Boy got his glass.