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What you got? (He steps to her and takes the bottle from her and looks at it) That stuff ’s no good. Here! (He steps to cabinet and selects another bottle) If you had n’t spent five minutes stalling around, I might have had a better chance.

[He exits quickly at left.

I allers said ’t was easier to catch flies with honey than ’t was with vinegar.

What ’s Ben know about horses?

A lot.

I did n’t know that.

Neither did Ben, six weeks ago.

[She exits.

Mother was like that, about animals. I guess Ben sort of takes after her.

(shocked)

Ben! Like your mother!

Of course he is. He ’s the “spit and image of her.”

[She exits.

She made him go! It would n’t surprise me a mite if she ’d pushed that old horse over herself.

[Jane enters.