Sweet Cherries in Charleston

From Hollywood, the CBS radio workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Cherries, sweet cherries, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe, ripe. So sweet, so full, come and smile. Sweet cherries in Charleston, the author Richard Durham, the director William N. Robson, the star Roy Glenn, The story? A saga of Denmark V.C., who lived and died in Charleston more than a hundred years ago.

But they still remember Denmark V.C. down in South Carolina. They still talk about him, and this is what they say. They say he walked as though he was the only free man in the courtroom.

They say he walked as though the world watched him. They say a gamble was the beginning of it. A gamble one night at a carnival when he bought a $20 play on a lottery We stopped in she stopped in she stopped in she stopped in nine number six seven eight Nine blue!

Number nine pays a hundred to one now who's got number nine folks no one's got number nine I got it you you got number nine fella yeah how much am I A number in sight saves a fight.

Show it. Hey, yeah. A name goes with it. Denmark VC. VC? Say, you're Captain VC's slave, ain't you? I am. Nah. I wonder what had happened, say, if I just refused to pay off a slave.

And I wonder what had happened, say, if I should take a barca's neck between my fingers, like this broomstick and snap it. They'd hang it, you know. I'll jamble on it. I'll always jamble, heavy.

All right, I'm into my way. $2,000. Take it and get out of here. They say Denmark wrapped his money in a cotton sack, went to see a lawyer, then went aboard this ship to see his master captain, Vise.