Paper Moon Page #4

What company are you from?

Kansas BibIe Company, out of Wichita.

- I ain't never heard of it.

- Daddy?

Can't we go? I want to get

to church and pray for Mama.

Yeah, sure we can, honey.

Daddy was just fixing to Ieave.

This is my IittIe girI. It's just the two of us.

- My mama's gone to the Lord.

- So has poor Mr Bates.

Here's his deposit. Let us know

if there's anything we can do.

HoId on there! Wait one damn minute.

- He actuaIIy ordered a BibIe?

- He did. Here it is.

- In goId, for somebody named Marie.

- That's her. She's Marie.

She meant a Iot to him.

He wanted the de Iuxe edition.

- How much?

- That's...

- It's the $1 2 one, Daddy!

- $1 2?

Honey, we have to have a IittIe goodness

in our hearts in the circumstances.

If it'II make that woman happy,

I'II take it.

(MUSlC:
TRAD JAZZ)

You owe me $85.7 4.

(RADlO ) l mean, we're going

to Washington on the Q T,

Molly, she says we can't go on the Q T,

we got to take ''The Pennsylvania'',

l'd better go! Where's my suitcase?

- l don't know, McGee, You had it last,

- l know, lt's in the hall,

He's going to open the cIoset.

( CLATTERlNG AND LAUGHTER)

He'II say he's got to straighten it out.

Got to straighten out that closet

one of these days,

- WouId you Iike to do business with me?

- Instead of paying me back?

I'II pay you back. WhiIe we head east,

how about we do business together?

(MUSIC ON RADIO)

You're Iooking at me

Iike I'm out to cheat you. It's business.

Take it or Ieave it. Turn off that radio.

You'II drive us aII deaf with it.

,,,in an average way, of course,

l can,,,

OK. Remember one thing,

I decide on the price.

Maybe you don't know French,

but there's finesse!

I never soId no BibIe for $1 2.

That man was a Iaw officer!

- We got it, didn't we?

- I don't care if we got it!

Don't you go making the decisions!

You just got to Iook Iike a pretty IittIe girI.

You ain't got a ribbon in that cigar box?

I got my mom's kimono in my suitcase,

Chinaman with umbreIIas.

That ain't what I had in mind.

You Iook reaI nice in that ribbon. First off,

I didn't know was she a boy or a girI.

- I'm a girI!

- WeII, it makes aII the difference.

- Ain't she got a sweet face? Somehow.

- We'II take a ribbon in each coIour.

- How much is that going to cost me?

- That'II be 1 5 cents.

Bought my grandchiIdren ribbons

just Iike this, Iast hoIiday.

GrandchiIdren? I don't beIieve it.

Break a five?

You can beIieve it aII right.

I'm just as oId as I Iook.

Now, here you be.

That's one, two, three, four, five.

This waIIet's about to bust inside. I give

you five ones, you give me that $5 biII.

- How many grandchiIdren you got?

- I got two granddaughters, nine and ten,

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