FinalAct5Scene5

//Enter JEDEDIAH, ALVIN, BUBBA, VIOLET, BEULAH, SALLY ANN, Preachin’ Bill, and DAISY // See, I done tol’ you she was a innocent? So is Cap’n Jethro and Abner, who accused her wrongly. T’was that varmint Butch who done caused all this mess. I done talked ta Beulah and she didn’t know whut them villains was up to. Why she wast a victim, too. Well, I’ma glad the worst parts over, and now everthang is gonna be alright. That’s fer dang sher! I’m just a glad I’m not gonna hafta tangle with young Abner. He’s been a mighty good friend to me. Daisy, you and all them women folk needs ta be a hidin’. Abner an’ Jethro should be here anytime. //Exit Ladies // Cap’n Jethro and Abner promised by this hour to be a visitin’ me. You know your job, brother:You got to be a prentendin’ that Daisy is your onliest daughter and that she ain’t Daisy.And then, give her to young Abner. I’ll be glad to do it, brother. Can I ast you fer a favor, Preachin’ Bill? Whatchu a talkin’ about, Bubba? To tie me up, or untie me; one o them.Mr. JEDEDIAH, sir, truth is, good sir, that yer niece regards me with an eye of favor. I ‘speck you might be right about that. And I got the same eye set on her, Jedediah. Yeah, and you can be a thankin’ me and Abner, and the Cap’n fer that later? Your answer, sir, don’t make no sense to me: But, my will, I’ma hopin’ will be yern also, and that’s to stand and be married to Violet this very day in holy matrimony. And that, Preachin’ Bill is the favor I’m a needin’ from you, If’n o' course that’s good with Jedediah. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Welcome to the famly, nephew! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I’m a glad to do my part, too, Bubba. Look, yonder comes Abner and the Cap’n. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Enter JETHRO and ABNER, and two or three others // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Good mornin’ to this fair assembly. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Good mornin’ Jethro; good mornin’, Abner:We’re at yer service. Are you intendin’ to be a marryin’ my brother’s daughter today? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t worry Jedediah. That thar’s exactly whut I’ma doin’ today. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Call her forth, brother; the husband to be and Preachin’ Bill is a ready. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Exit ALVIN // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Good mornin’, Bubba. Why, what's the matter, that face o' yorn looks even stranger than usual? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fer some reason, I thank I’ma seein’ some sign o' weddin’ bells in his baby blues. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t worry bout me; I know whut I’ma gonna be a doin. An I reckon it ain’t a none of yer two businesses. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Look, yonder come the ladies. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Re-enter ALVIN, with the Ladies masked // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Which one o' you is my betrothed.? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This same is she, and I do give her to ye. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why, then she's mine. Sweet, young miss, let me see your face. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">No, that you cain’t do until you take her hand and swar to marry her in front o' this here preacher. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Give me your hand: I am your husband if’n you’ll a be a havin’ me. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And when I lived, I was your other wife: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unmasking // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And when you loved, you were my other husband. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Another Daisy! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Nothing certainer: One Daisy died defiled, but I do live, And surely as I live, I am a maid. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">This cain’t be Daisy! Daisy is dade! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">She died, my Cap’n, but whilest her slander lived. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">All you folks look mighty flabbergasted; I’ll be explainin’ everthang after the weddin’ so don’t fret.I’ll tell you of fair Daisy’s death and how she now live’s again, but first let’s be a makin’ it official twixed Abner and Daisy. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hold on a secont, everbody. Which one o' you ladies is Violet? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[Unmasking] I answer to that name. Is there somethin’ you’re a wantin’ with me? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do you not love me? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why, no; no more than reason. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why, then your uncle and the Cap’n and Abner have done been fooled. They swore you did. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do not you love me? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The truth bein’, no; no more than reason. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Why, then my cousin, Beulah, and Sally Ann have done been fooled; fer they done swore you did. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">They swore that you was almost sick fer me. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">They swore that you were pert near dead fer me. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">No, truly, but more like in a friendly way. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Come, cousin, I am sure you love this here Mountain Man. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And I'll be sworn upon' it that he loves her; fer here's a paper written in his hand, a love sonnet to his most precious Violet. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">And here's another writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket, containing her undyin’ affection fer one Bubba Washburn. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A miracle! here's our own hands against our onliest hearts. Come, I reckon I’ll marry you; but, after a seein’ you in this light, it’ll be cause I feel sorry fer ye. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I reckon I won’t be a sayin’ no to ya in front o' yor friends, but if truth be tol’, I done smelt pertier skunks than you. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Stop right thar. Now you be a givin’ me a kiss, afore I change my mind. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Kissing her // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I don’t know whut to say; Bubba Washburn, a married man? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I’ll be a tellin’ you what Cap’n; even you cain’t ruin my day today. Do you thank I keer if yer a funnin’ with me today? No:I know'd I done spoke somethin’ awful about the constitution o' marriage, but right now, I’m the happiest man on Pine Mountain. On any mountin fer that matter. An’ Abner, fer yer part. I’ma a thankin’ I woulda whooped you good in our challenge, but if truth be known, I’d ruther wrestle with a big ol’ bar than be a tanglin’ with you. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I’ma a glad we never did come to blows, but I’da hated to embarrass you in front o' my new cousin. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Come, come, we are friends: Let’s say our vows so’s we kin commence to the dancin’. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We'll shur nuff have dancing afterward. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cap’n you’re a lookin’ sad, Like I always said, git you a wife, ever man’s a needin’ a wife //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Enter a Messenger with Butch // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cap’n look here whut varmint we done caught down at Blees an’ Ward’s Ferry about to leave these here parts fer good. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Don’t be a thankin’ on him today. He ruin’t yesterday, let’s not let him ruin today. Let me thank up a proper punishment fer that one. Be takin’ him away. But fer now, everbody dance! //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dance //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ACT 5. Scene 5. Front of Jedediah's House **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LVIN **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LVIN **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A ****<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LVIN **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Messenger **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA **
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Exit //**