A Brand New Lawyer

I told y'all Willie's boy, Charles, are a Lawyer in New Orleans. I ain't figured out how good he is at lawyering 'cause he has took out newspaper and television ads. Our lawyers around here don't have to do that and they do pretty good. Just look at their houses. Charles got it in his head to be a lawyer when he seen how good Jethro McGillis' boy, Marcus, were doing. He lives in a great big house and has horses--the kind you ride, not the kind you work. I remember when Marcus were starting out he kept begging his daddy, Jethro, who were a established lawyer here in Harper, for a case to work on. Jethro had him just running to the court house for papers and such. Finally, Marcus were give a case. It were Maybelle and Haskill Varner who worked on Jethro's farm. They was getting divorced. Marcus worked with them for days trying to get them to settle there assets out of court. They come close but couldn't quite get over the finish line. Marcus told 'em he were running to the court house and give 'em a yellow legal pad what he had drawed a line right down the middle. He told Maybelle to list what she were gonna get on the left and Haskill were to do the same on the right. When he come back from the court house and asked if they was settled up 'cause he were gonna leave them to a court lawyer if they didn't; Maybelle said, "Okay, Haskill, you can have the reclining chair what MY mama give us, but I'm getting the Conway Twiddy album.