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All eyes are upon him, including a BLACK BOY and GIRL who are segregated off in the back corner of the room. The TEACHER picks up his clock from the desk and looks at it.

DAVID LEE
I'm sorry, Mr. Clay ...

MR. CLAY
You are one hour late ...

DAVID LEE
Yessir ...

MR. CLAY
Well, take your seat.

David Lee, with all eyes still upon him, moves carefully to a chair in the far corner - sits next to the BLACK BOY and GIRL. Mr. Clay takes up his book from the desk, and looks out on the class ---

MR. CLAY
Now where were we before we were interrupted - Huckleberry Finn, chapter thirty-four! This chapter is called: WE CHEER UP JIM! Here we go: "What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steam boat, nor ... "

38. EXT. FRONT OF MRS. BOATWRIGHT'S HOUSE - DAY 38.

It is a medium size one-family house, painted gray - trimmed in white around the edges of the frame - the yard is surrounded by well-kept hedges - the yard is mostly green and flower beds - with walkways leading to the front and back of the house. The children and the dog move into the yard from the residential street ---

39. EXT. SIDE OF THE HOUSE - DAY 39.

They walk around the side of the house to a back door. The boys put the basket down - David knocks on the door - after a moment, MRS. BOATWRIGHT, a tall, attractive white woman in her early forties, opens the screen door.

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