DAVE I couldn't fool _you_, Daisy, cause anything I say bout lovin' you, I don't keer how big it is, it wouldn't be half de truth. Y DAVE I'd come down de river riding a mud cat and leading a minnow. DAISY Lawd, Dave, you sho is propaganda. JIM (Peevishly) Naw he ain't--he's just lying--he's a noble liar. Know whut I'd do if you was mine? DAISY Naw, Jim. JIM I'd make a panther wash yo' dishes and a 'gator chop yo' wood for you. DAVE Daisy, how come you [Note: corrected missing space] let Jim lie lak dat? He's as big a liar as he is a [Note: corrected missing space] man. But sho nuff now, laying all sides to jokes, Jim, there don't even know how to answer you. If you don't b'lieve it, ast him something. DAISY (to Jim) You like me much, Jim? JIM (Enthusiastically) Yeah, Daisy, I sho do. DAVE (Triumphant) See dat! I tole you he didn't know how to answer nobocy like you. If he was talking to some of them ol' funny looking gals over town he'd be answering 'em just right. But he got to learn how to answer _you_. Now you ast _me_ something and see how I answer you. DAISY Do you like me, Dave? DAVE (Very properly in a falsetto voice) Yes ma'am! Dat's de way to answer swell folks like you. Furthermore, less we prove which one [Note: corrected missing space] of us love you de best right now. (To Jim) Jim, how much time owuld you do on de chain-gang for dis 'oman? JIM Twenty years and like it. DAVE See dat, Daisy? Dat nigger ain't willing to do no time for you. I'd _beg_ de judge to gimme life. (Both Jim and Dave laugh) DAISY Y'all doin' all dis bookooing out here on de railroad track but I bet y'all crazy 'bout Bootsie and Teets and a whole heap of others. JIM Cross my feet and hope to die! I'd ruther see all de other wimmenfolks in de world dead than for[Note: corrected missing space] you to have de tooth-ache. DAVE If I was dead any any other woman come near my coffin de undertaker would have to do his job all over--cause I'd git right up and walk off. Furthermore, Miss Daisy, ma'am, also m'am, which would _you_ ruther be a lark a flying or a dove a settin'--ma'am also ma'am? DAISY 'Course I'd ruther be a dove. JIM Miss Daisy, ma'am, also ma'am--if you marry dis nigger over my head, I'm going to git me a green hickory club and season it over yo' head. DAVE Don't you be skeered, baby--papa kin take keer a _you_. (to Jim) Counting from de finger (suiting the action to the word) back to the thumb--start anything I got you some. JIM Aw, I don't want no more fight wid you, Dave. DAVE Who said anything about fighting? We just provin' who love Daisy de best. (to Daisy) Now, which one of us you think love you de best? DAISY Deed I don't know, Dave. DAVE Baby, I'd walk de water for you--and tote a mountain on my head while I'm walkin'.