FinalAct4Scene1

//Enter JETHRO, BUTCH, JEDEDIAH, PREACHIN’ BILL, ABNER, BUBBA, DAISY, VIOLET, and Attendants // **JEDEDIAH ** Come, Preachin’ Bill, no need to make this here weddin’ a long, drawn out affair. Short and sweet’ll git us to the vittles the quickest. **PREACHIN’ BILL ** You come here this day to marry this here Daisy Hogue? **ABNER ** No. **JEDEDIAH ** To be married to her: Preacher, you come to marry her. **PREACHIN’ BILL ** Miss Daisy, you come here to be a married to Abner? **DAISY ** I do. **PREACHIN’ BILL ** If thar be any man here what knows any reason these two love birds shouldn’t to ought to git hitched, let him speak now or forever hold his piece. **ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Know you any, DAISY? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">None, Abner. Of course not. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Know you any, Abner? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I kin surely speak fer the boy, No, Preacher. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Excuse me Preachin’ Bill. Jedediah, do you give me yer daughter’s hand freely with no reservations? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">As freely, son, as God did give her me. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">But whut kin I give you back that would be so precious a gift. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Nothing, if you call that girl precious. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">You know what I’ma talkin’ about, Jethro.There, Jedediah, take her back again:I done knowd what this’n is up to, and it ain’t nothin’ precious about it.See how she blushes here, a lookin’ so innocent and sweet.Why anybody with two eyeballs would tell you that she is innocent through and through. But I’ma a tellin’ you all that she ain’t innocent. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">What do you mean, Abner? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Not to be married,Not to tie myself up with some hussy who’s been over the mountain more times that you kin shake a stick at. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Abner, Abner listen to me. If’n you feel a little guilty cause you done gone too far……. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Not me, Jedediah. Not me. I would never dishonor Daisy or your family in that which a way.I was always a goin’ by the code of the mountains when it comes to courtin’. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">And that’s the same way I was with you? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Don’t lie, Daisy! To me, you were like a goddess. You were my dream come true. I ain’t never felt like this fer another woman. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Are you sick? Is something wrong with you? Why are you a sayin’ these thangs? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Cap’n Jethro, why don’t you say something? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">What should I say, Jedediah?I jus’ came this close to marryin’ my dear friend to a common fluzy! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Am I in some kinda nightmare? Is everbody here, Crazy? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUTCH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I’ll vouch fer the truth in whut they say. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">This sure as heck ain’t no weddin’ day. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">That’s fer sure! What’s goin’ on here! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ABNER ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I have to know one thang! Who was that you was with last night after midnight? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Who was it Daisy? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Daddy! You don’t believe that do ya? You should defend me instead o believin’ whut they’re a sayin’.I wasn’t with nobody at that time. I was fast asleep in my bed! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JETHRO ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Why then, you’re not only a fluzy, but you’re a liar, too. We heard ya’ll say how you done met there a hunert times before. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUTCH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">My brother speaks the truth, fer sure. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Daisy, how could you do this to yerself and yer famly? //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY swoons // **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Daisy, are you alright? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUTCH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Come, let us go. What you do in the dark, comes out in the light. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Exit JETHRO, BUTCH, and ABNER // **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">How is Miss Daisy? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Dead, I think. Help, Uncle! Daisy! why, Daisy! Uncle! Bubba! Preachin’ Bill! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Somebody jus’ shoot me and put me out of my mysery. I ain’t never seen such a thang. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Hang in there Daisy. I know you is innocent! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">It’ll be alright Daisy. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Don’t raise yer head around here, Daisy? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Why not Jedediah? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Didn’t you hear whut they was a sayin’? Would Abner lie? Would Cap’n Jethro lie. Would the Cap’n’s brother lie. Don’t all the evidence point right aginst her. Daisy, you ain’t the girl I raised from a baby. You ain’t yer momma’s daughter. Wher did I go wrong. How could you do this to us? I never thought I’d see the day when my daughter would be the biggest fluzy on Pine Mountain. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Jedediah, calm down. For me, I am so shocked I don’t know whut to say. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">All I know is that my cousin has been wronged! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Were you with her last night at that time? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">No, but I almost always am. She hain’t been a sneakin’ off a hunert times with some man. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Hear me a little;For I have only been silent so long. There is somethin’ that jus’ ain’t right about this whole thang. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**JEDEDIAH** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">If’n you’ve got an idie, let’s hear it. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Missy, whut man is it that yer accused o bein’ with last night. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">DAISY ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">That’s the crazy part. Fer them to accuse me o somethin’ like that, Why I ain’t never been with no man. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Somehow, there’s somethin’ mighty queer a goin’ on ‘round here. Our boys seems to truly believe what they’re a sayin’. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Well, two o them is as good as gold, but that Butch, the Capn’s brother is as sorry as they come. Don’t be surprised if’n he’s been up to no good. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I ain’t got no idea whut the truth is anymore. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Here’s whut let’s do. Let’s all pretend that this here horrible news, done kilt Miss Daisy. That she died from the grief o the situation. We’ll let it be knowd to everbody. Sooners or later, somethin’ is bound to come out while we try to figger this thang out. But fer right, now, I’m sorry honey, but you jus’ stay well hid, whilest the rest of us find out jus’ whut happened. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Do you think that might work? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">There will be a little justice, when Abner hears the news that his remarks done doomed Miss Daisy. From there, we’ll hope to flush out some culprit and the truth, I’ma thankin’. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Jedediah, Preachin’ Bill’s Idie seems to be the onliest one we got. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">JEDEDIAH ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I’m in, if’n the rest of yus is. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">PREACHIN’ BILL ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Come Miss Daisy. We’ll die, to live another day. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Exitall but BUBBA and VIOLET // **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I’m a sorry, you’re so upset? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Yea, I jus’ want to cry a little by myself. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I don’t like to see you cry, Violet. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">It’s really none o yorn business, Bubba. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Please believe me when I say that I believe your cousin has been wronged and slandered. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I would give anythang fer somebody to right this mess. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Is there somethin’ a friend might do to help? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">There is a way, but no such friend. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">May a man do it? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">It’s a man’s job alright, but not yours. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I do love nothin’ in the world as well as you: ain’t that strange? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I would tell you the same thang, but right now I don’t know whut I’ma thankin’ or a sayin’. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Jimminy Cricket, Violet! You love me too, don’t cha? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I cain’t believe I’ma bout ta say this! **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Say what, Violet? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I thank I’m about to say, “I love you.” **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Then do it with all yer heart. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I love you with so much of my heart that none is left. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Oh, Violet. I will do anythang fer you. Just say the word. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Kill Abner. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Oh, Violet. I cain’t be a killin’ Abner. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">You kill me to deny me. Leave me, now. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Hold on, sweet Violet. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">I am done, though I am here: there is no love in you: no, I pray you, let me go. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Violet,-- **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Any friend of my enemy is an enemy of mine. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Is Abner your enemy? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">He is my enemy and a villain. He has dishonored my cousin on her most happiest day of all. He has slandered her with public accusation. If I were a man, I would surely kill ‘em and then eat his heart in the market place. Yes, I’d say he’s my enemy. Sweet Daisy! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone. I will die a woman grieving for her. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Violet, by this hand I promise, I love you. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Use it fer my love some other way than swearin’ by it. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">You believe with all yer heart and soul that thar Abner hast done wronged Daisy? **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">VIOLET ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">BUBBA ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Enough, I am off to challenge Abner. For you and Daisy, I will seek justice. Go, comfort your cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, I’lla be a seein’ you after a whal. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Exit //
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ACT 4. SCENE I. In Front of Jedediah's House **