Pinky Page #4

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I graduated, then I took

three years' training as a nurse.

Oh, I didn't know. You managed to do

all that on what Dicey could send?

- Yes.

- Hmm.

I won scholarships. I worked,

waited tables. I got along.

Oh, that's good. That's very good.

All the more reason...

you should keep on being a credit

and comfort to your grandmother.

You've had advantages which are

denied to most members of your race...

people likeJake

and Rozelia, for example.

just try to keep out of trouble.

That's all.

Thank you, sir.

- Pinky.

- Yes, Granny?

Why don't you try and...

- Going somewhere, honey?

- Just for a walk.

- Evenin', SisterJohnson.

- Come in, Jake.

Stop sneakin' in here

behind me like that too.

I told Miss Pinky I'd drop around,

so here I is, man of my word.

Good. Pinky give me the $1 5

you give her, said you'd be here

to give me the rest.

I guess she was kind of riled

after that little run-in.

- Run-in? What you mean, run-in?

- Oh, nothing.

- You workin' mighty late, SisterJohnson.

- Oh, I reckon I'll die...

with the shoes on my feet

and that old smoothin' iron

in my hand, good Lord willing.

You're a worker

from way back yonder. Yes, sir.

- I always admire a good worker.

- Look who's talkin'.

Well, there's work and then

there's work. My biggest work,

I do with my brain.

Liable to get top-heavy

overworking that brain, eh, Jake?

That's the way to rise up

in the world. No more

being the skim milk forJake.

- He's gonna be the cream on top.

- Cream gotta be cream frst

before it rise.

- Where you goin', Sister?

- I gotta take this wash

back to Miss Em's.

Oh.

- Give me that.

- Don't you want me to read it for ya?

- Give it back, I say. It's mine.

- I can see... I can see that.

Give me that letter!

Not gonna read this letter

to nobody.

Well, you burned it up, didn't you?

That ain't gonna stop nothin'.

I got a feeling that

a fast letter coming like that

is a shadow moving before.

- Think so, Jake?

- Folks is coming, they come

treadin' on their shadows.

Course, I can stop him. Got his

name and address right here in my head.

Didn't I tell you I worked with

my brain? I can write a letter to him.

Say, I never seen

no colored man write like that.

Two stamps on the letter

and his name and address in

the corner with "M.D." after it.

- That means doctor.

- You think you'd be doing right?

You wanna keep Miss Pinky, don't you?

I'll send him a telegram.

That'll stop him just like that.

Don't you worry, Sister.

jake's gonna take care of everything.

Course, telegrams cost money, and I like

to do everything business-like.

That'll be a deductible item

from what I owe you.

(Train Whistle Blows, Distant)

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