Lloyd “Butch” Adams Elly Sheriff Joe } Plank Miss Meredith Bud Bickel The Davis Boy Country-School Boys and Girls [Pg 3] [Pg 3] BIG LAKE THE WOODS Scene 1 Scene 1 (The woods adjoining the Big Lake, near Verdigree Switch, Indian Territory, 1906. It is Spring. Vines creep on the trees just putting out their green. The ground is soft with dead leaves, among which grow the earliest flowers. A fallen log lies in a tangle of last year’s briars. It is the grayness of morning. Color is beginning to show in the East, where the lake lies, and as the light grows the lake shines through the leaves. Lloyd and Betty come from the left, softly over the matted earth. They are very young. Lloyd is tall, dark; he has black hair; his face is sensitive; he