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MR. PARKER
Why, boy, this is the greatest corn I ever tasted!

BOBBY
And Theo puts stuff together like he was born to be a whiskey maker!

MR. PARKER
Where did you learn to make corn like this?

THEO
Don't you remember? You taught me.

MR. PARKER
By George, I did! Why you weren't no more'n nine years old-

THEO
Eight. Let's have another. (Pours another for Parker.) Drink up. Here's to ol' Daniel. You got to admit one thing- he had a whole lot of heart!

MR. PARKER
(Drinks up and puts his hand out again.) Another one, please...

THEO
(Pouring.) Anything you say, Pop! You're the boss of this house!

MR. PARKER
Now that's the truth if you ever spoke it. (Drinks up.) Whew! This is good! (Putting his glass out again, slightly tipsy.) 

THEO
About this idea of mine, Pop: well, it's got something to do with this corn.

MR. PARKER
(Drinks up.) Wow! Boy, people oughta pay you to make this stuff.

THEO
Well, that's what I kinda had in mind. I tested some of it out the other day, and I was told this corn liquor could 

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start a revolution- that is, if I wanted to start one. I let a preacher taste some, and he asked me to make him a whole keg for him.

MR. PARKER
(Pauses. Then in a sudden change of mood.) God! Damnit! 

BOBBY
What's wrong, Pop? 

MR. PARKER
I miss her, boy, I tell you, I miss her! Was it really God's will? 

THEO
Don't you believe that——don't you ever believe that!

MR. PARKER
But I think, boy——I think hard!

THEO
That's all right. We think hard too. We got it from you. Ain't that right, Bobby? 

BOBBY
Yeah.

MR. PARKER
(Pause.) 
You know something? That woman was the first woman I ever got close to-your mama. . .

BOBBY
How old were you? 

MR. PARKER
Twenty.

BOBBY
Aw, come on, Pop!

MR. PARKER
May God wipe me away from this earth ...