Lincoln Page #2

Green's offended at the way Clark is talking to Lincoln.

LINCOLN:

What'll you do after the war,

Corporal Clark?

IRA CLARK:

Work, sir. Perhaps you'll hire me.

LINCOLN:

Perhaps I will.

IRA CLARK:

But you should know, sir, that I

get sick at the smell of bootblack

and I can't cut hair.

Lincoln smiles.

LINCOLN:

I've yet to find a man could cut

mine so it'd make any difference.

HAROLD GREEN:

You got springy hair for a white

man.

Lincoln laughs.

4.

LINCOLN:

Yes, I do. My last barber hanged

himself. And the one before that.

Left me his scissors in his will.

Green laughs.

TWO WHITE SOLDIERS have come up, two young kids, nervous and

excited.

FIRST WHITE SOLDIER LINCOLN

President Lincoln, sir? Evening, boys.

SECOND WHITE SOLDIER

Damn! Damn!

We, we saw you, um. We were at, at -

FIRST WHITE SOLDIER

We was at Gettysburg!

HAROLD GREEN SECOND WHITE SOLDIER

You boys fight at Gettysburg? DAMN I can't believe it's -

FIRST WHITE SOLDIER (CONT'D)

(to Green, with mild

CONTEMPT)

Naw, we didn't fight there.

We just signed up last month.

We saw him two years ago at the

cemetery dedication.

SECOND WHITE SOLDIER

Yeah, we heard you speak! We...

DAMN DAMN DAMN! Uh, hey, how tall

are you anyway?!

FIRST WHITE SOLDIER

Jeez, SHUT up!

LINCOLN:

Could you hear what I said?

FIRST WHITE SOLDIER

No, sir, not much, it was-

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