Steamboat Round the Bend Page #2

You can count on me, Moses.

I ain't got no more use for liquor.

Hey, Doc!

That's two bottles you got.

Cost you a dollar.

I ain't got any money, Doc, but

I can work it out.

-'Work it out.' What can you do?

-Steamboat engineer.

Yeah? Steamboat engineer?

Are you an engineer? Huh?

Say, boy, you just drunk yourself

into a job. Come on in here.

Well, engineer, what do

you think of it?

Kind of looks as though a lot

of rats have to...

find themselves a new hole.

Well, of course it don't look

so good right now.

But you got to remember that...

Well, a steamboat...

is a female, you know?

And when they're struttin' up and

down the river where...

everybody's lookin' at 'em...

they're just like a woman with a

new Easter bonnet on.

But when nobody ain't lookin'

at 'em, why...

they get kind of careless and

don't care.

-Yeah-sloppy.

-Sloppy. That's right.

But with a-with a good, live man

on this boat like you are...

say, you can make this thing

perk up and strut.

Get some paint on her nose and get

these chickens out of here.

We can put them right in

the pot now.

Here. Here. Start flirtin'

with that.

But, Doc, you told me yourself

that a...

man couldn't do a lick of work

when he's on Pocahontas.

Oh, that's the first bottle.

But after that...

you've got to work to get the

best results out of it.

Now, hurry up. Duke's gonna be

here any day now...

and he'll be here.

Ooh! Look at that.

It says 'Captain.' It says

'Captain' on it.

Ain't that great? Oh, uh-Oh,

no. No, no.

Now, listen. We'll find a sign

painter up the...

river somewhere...

and Ill-we'll have 'Chief

Engineer'...

put on there, see?

And if I have any room, you know...

and you work good, we'll put

'First Mate.'

Come on, now. Let's get

goin'. Hurry up.

That you, Duke?

-Hello, Uncle John.

-Hey, you're kind...

of late, ain't you?

I guess I am, Uncle John.

Who-Who's that...

This is Fleety Belle, Uncle John.

She-She- She's a swamp

gal, ain't she?

Oh, I guess that's right. But...

But there's some mighty fine

people in the swamps.

You're actin' awful queer, Duke.

You done some thin' bad, ain't ya?

Mighty bad, Uncle John.

What'd you do?

I killed a man.

Well, was it on account of her

you done it?

Yes, sir.

Can Fleety Belle sit down and

get dry, Uncle John?

Guess so. Half the Claremore

Queen's yours, ain't it?

Its all right, Fleety Belle.

Uh, you all ain't had nothin' to

eat, have you?

I'd mighty like something

for Fleety Belle.

She's about worn out.

I got-

I got some hot coffee here.

Ill get some bacon in a minute.

Where'd you meet her?

Well, there ain't much to tell.

We was down at Blue Bottom

Bayou back of...

Hannan gettin' out timber.

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