you think you know everything.
i didn’t say that.
but you do,
i didn’t say so.
you won the spelling bee.
somebody had to win it.
mrs williams said you were the smartest kid in class.
she had to say it about somebody.
but you’re just a girl.
that is true, i can't deny it.
you will never amount to nothing.
maybe not.
you will just be a teacher or something, or get married and have kids. you will never build a railroad or make a million dollars.
are you going to make a million dollars?
i might. i know something you don’t know.
you probably know a lot of things i don’t know. like whether you had corn flakes or flapjacks for breakfast this morning.
i know where i can get a million dollars.
right.
i do so.
where is this million dollars? is it in one dollar bills, twos, fives, tens, twenties?
i am not sure. i think it is in gold - a bag of gold.
the plot thickens. where is tis bag of gold? have you seen it.
you know old crazy pete - who lives down by the river?
ha, ha! oh, please.
everybody thinks he doesn’t have any money. but he always has enough for a bottle of whiskey, doesn’t he? where does he get it, tell me that.
who knows? catching cattfish, maybe. have you ever seen this bag of gold?
no, but billy joe willard did!
so why doesn’t billy joe willard steal the bag of gold?
because he doesn’t have the guts.
and you do, i suppose.
i do, i just need somebody to help me. but there is no use asking you, you’re just a girl!
you want me to go down to crazy pete’s shack with you? i will go down to crazy pete’s shack with you.
when?
when it gets dark.
it is getting dark now, it will be dark by the time we get down there.
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