Jennie Mae: How long?
Showers: This long at least.
Jennie Mae: Oh, C.C.
Showers: Well, maybe this long. But I'll tell you that fish was a fighter. By the time we got him to shore and netted alright he like to bruised up a good dozen men.
Jennie Mae: Well little sunfish and bluegills about all you can catch here. Fish bottom you might find a carp.
Showers: Sure looks awful pretty.
Jennie Mae: It's a nice spot for fishin.
Showers: Now look at this, will you? I just here touch bottom. Must get to ten or twelve foot just a couple yards out there.
Jennie Mae: It gets awful deep towards the middle. Lot a boys like to come here and swim.
Showers: Now if boys in Indiana are halfway like the boys in Kentucky I wouldn't imagine they bother too much with swim suits.
Jennie Mae: Yeah, they're the same then.
Showers: (smiles) I had a feelin they might be. When it comes to swimmin, I'm lucky to float. Do a little dog paddlin-that's about it.
Jennie Mae: I stick to wadin, myself.
Showers: Be happy just dangling my toes in the water. Been a while, I tell you. Too long, I figure.
Jennie Mae: I thought you fished all the time.
Showers: Well, I used to when I was a kid anyway. But when I had a church I was so full a worry. I never found time to do nothin.
Jennie Mae: What'd you worry about?
Showers: Everything.
Jennie Mae: Oh...
Showers: You name it, I worried over it. Like I'd see a family loadin down and taking off for California-they'd say, "Pastor, we ain't got no room for the dog." Well, I'd worry a while, then I'd take the dog. Must had near to a dozen old hounds at once for a while. Good dogs, though. I'd line em all up in the front room and practice my preachin on em. Dogs kinda like bein talked at.
Jennie Mae: Well you talk real nice.
Showers: I talk too damn much, Jennie Mae.
Jennie Mae: It's not your fault, C.C. It's the river. My Mama used to say people sit by the water they can't help but be talkin. River's kinda magic like that.
Showers: Your Mama was right.
Jennie Mae: I don't think she ever liked any place so much as the river. Be down here every other day through the summer. And come fall-well you never been here in the fall, but when the leaves start to changin and the air's gettin cooler...
Showers: Wont' be too long now...
Jennie Mae: And as long as you're here you might as well stay on through winter. Everythings's nice in the spring.
Showers: Sounds like I might have to stay.
Jennie Mae: Less you're missin Kentucky.
Showers: Naw. I tell you what I do miss, though, is them dogs.
Jennie Mae: What'd you do with em all?
Showers: Well, right before I left I gave em all to my kids.
Jennie Mae: You have kids in Kentucky?
Showers: Oh yeah. Must a had a good couple dozen spread clear cross the county.
Jennie Mae: Couple dozen?
Showers: Don't get so darned riled, Jennie Mae. They were church kids.
Jennie Mae: Wll I ought to use you for bait, C.C. Showers, but I can't be so mean to the fish.
Showers: Well... I'm happy just to sit by the water.
Jennie Mae: Alright. (pause)
Showers: You know, Jennie Mae,...you know you're awful nice.
Jennie Mae: Oh...
Showers: Yeah you are, and I been meanin to tell you.
Jennie Mae: You have?
Showers: I sure have. You're real nice, Jennie Mae...and you're also...(they are both about ready to kiss)...real young.
Jennie Mae: I'm nineteen.
Showers: I know. That's awful young, don't you think?
Jennie Mae: I don't feel real young.
Showers: Well you are. You don't know how young, Jennie Mae, let me tell you.
Jennie Mae: My mother was only seventeen when she got married.
Showers: Got Married?
Jennie Mae: Yeah.
Showers: Listen, I think we better head back to the house now.
Jennie Mae: But we just got here.
Showers: I know, but it's gonna be dark before long and I think we best get home before...
Jennie Mae: Are you tired or somethin?
Showers: Miss Layman, I am worn to a T.
