BOY WILLIE: I come back here with Grace, then I went looking for you. I figured you’d be with Dolly.

LYMON: She just want to drink and spend up your money. I come on back here looking for you to see if you wanted to go to the picture show.

BOY WILLIE: I been up at Grace’s house. Some nigger named Leroy come by but I had a chair up against the door. He got mad when he couldn’t get in. He went off somewhere and I got out of there before he could come back. Berniece got mad when we came here.

LYMON: She say you was knocking over the lamp busting up the place.

BOY WILLIE: That was Grace doing all that.

LYMON: Wining Boy seen Sutter’s ghost last night.

BOY WILLIE: Wining Boy’s liable to see anything. I’m surprised he found the right house. Come on, I done called the man about the piano.

LYMON: What he say?

BOY WILLIE: He say to bring it on out. I told him I was calling for my sister, Miss Berniece Charles. I told him some man wanted to buy it for eleven hundred dollars and asked him if he would go any better. He said yeah, he would give me eleven hundred and fifty dollars for it if it was the same piano. I described it to him again and he told me to bring it out.

LYMON: Why didn’t you tell him to come and pick it up?

BOY WILLIE: I didn’t want to have no problem with Berniece. This way we just take it on out there and it be out the way. He want to charge twenty-five dollars to pick it up.

LYMON: You should have told him the man was gonna give you twelve hundred for it.

BOY WILLIE: I figure I was taking a chance with that eleven hundred. If I had told him twelve hundred he might have run off. Now I wish I had told him twelve-fifty. It’s hard to figure out white folks sometimes.

LYMON: You might have been able to tell him anything. White folks got a lot of money.

BOY WILLIE: Come on, let’s get it loaded before Berniece come back. Get that end over there. All you got to do is pick it up on that side. Don’t worry about this side. You wanna stretch you’ back for a minute?

LYMON: I’m ready.

BOY WILLIE: Get a real good grip on it now.

(The sound of SUTTER’s GHOST is heard. They do not hear it.)

LYMON: I got this end. You get that end.

BOY WILLIE: Wait till I say ready now. Alright. You got it good? You got a grip on it?

LYMON: Yeah, I got it. You lift up on that end.

BOY WILLIE: Ready? Lift!

(The piano will not budge.)

LYMON: Man, this piano is heavy! It’s gonna take more than me and you to move this piano.

BOY WILLIE: We can do it. Come on—we did it before.