Three Plays - Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing by Zora Neale Hurston
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(snaps fingers and shakes hips)
How does ole booze-selling mama talk? JUDGE Yes, five thousand dollars and ten years in jail. (Snaps fingers and shakes hips) How does ole heavy fining papa talk? (She is led away, shouting and weeping) CLERK De Otis Blunt, charged wid stealin' a mule. (LAWYER arises and comes forward with the prisoner) LAWYER You can't convict this man. I'm here to represent him. JUDGE Yo' mouf might spout lak a coffee pot but I got a lawyer (Looks at other lawyer) dat kin beat your segastuatin'. (Looks admiring at girl) How am I chewin' my dictionary and minglin' my alphabets? |
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