Speaker 1: Hey, shit, dad, Mom, come on your story.
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Speaker 3: Hello, boys and girls.
Speaker 4: This is Uncle Dan and I'm Aunt Carol.
Speaker 5: Welcome everyone, kids, moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins. Ah, yes,
Speaker 5: cousins and friends too. We are glad you could all
Speaker 5: join us.
Speaker 3: If you've ever loved an animal, you really like today's story.
Speaker 5: Well, Uncle Dan, I think just about everyone has had
Speaker 5: a special pet in their lives, So let's get started
Speaker 5: right away. We call this story the Bluest Ribbon.
Speaker 6: This one happened on Milkmore Farm, one of the largest
Speaker 6: dairy farms on all of the Eastern Sea Coast. There
Speaker 6: were nearly three hundred black and white Holstein cows on
Speaker 6: Milkmore Farm, and it took many workers to run the farm.
Speaker 6: One of the workers was mister Nelson, father of Whit
Speaker 6: and Corky. The Nelson family lived right on the farm,
Speaker 6: and many times father would let Corky and Whit help
Speaker 6: him with the milking. In this way, the boys got
Speaker 6: so they knew all the cows by name.
Speaker 1: Hey, Dad, may I help with the milking tonight?
Speaker 4: You'll have to ask mister Hank.
Speaker 6: He's the boss. Mister Hank was the herd manager from
Speaker 6: mister Lindley, the owner who lived in the city. Mister
Speaker 6: Hank was a nice man and usually let Corky and
Speaker 6: Wit help do the milking. Once in a while, he'd
Speaker 6: even send them on errands.
Speaker 7: Hey, whit, you and Corky can go into the field
Speaker 7: after one of the cows. Lady Queen. For some reason,
Speaker 7: she didn't come up with the other cows.
Speaker 4: Sure, mister Hank, Lady Queen's a good cow. We'll go
Speaker 4: get her. Come on, Corky, matter, get a hustle on.
Speaker 4: It's getting late.
Speaker 1: Well, hurry, say Wit, which cows? Lady Queen?
Speaker 4: She's that good cow, the one that won those ribbons
Speaker 4: of the fair. She's got two blue ribbons? What mean
Speaker 4: that means Lady Queen got first prize twice?
Speaker 1: Why didn't she come up with the other cows?
Speaker 4: I don't know where?
Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
Speaker 4: She is down in the woods, somewhere near Catfish Creek.
Speaker 1: I suppose what would Lady Queen be doing way down.
Speaker 4: There, nice lonely place for her to hide a calf?
Speaker 1: She got a calf?
Speaker 4: I reckon she has by now? That's probably why she
Speaker 4: didn't come up with the other cows. I hope it's
Speaker 4: a heifer. Everybody gets tick all over a girl calf.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody cares much about a bull calf.
Speaker 4: Why heifers make milk cows when they grow up and
Speaker 4: bull calves. Don't hurry up, corky, it's getting late and
Speaker 4: we've got a long ways to go.
Speaker 1: Wait for me, would It's.
Speaker 4: Just like a jungle in here. Can't hardly push through
Speaker 4: those brambles.
Speaker 1: Do you see her yet? Do you see Lady Queen yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: But I've got a glimpse of something white. It might
Speaker 4: be a cow. I can't be sure. There there, I
Speaker 4: see it again, so do I? Yeah, that's Lady Queen,
Speaker 4: all right. She looks a little peeved like she don't
Speaker 4: want us around when the calf hit around. It's hard
Speaker 4: to tell what she might do.
Speaker 1: Why does she keep stamping around in front of that
Speaker 1: briar patch.
Speaker 4: That's where she's got her calf hit? I spect you
Speaker 4: wait here, I'm going in there. Hold on, now, lady's
Speaker 4: going to hurt your calf. Oh well, look at here?
Speaker 4: Oh isn't she cute? Hey, Hey, kirky, it's a halfer calf.
Speaker 4: Come see it.
Speaker 1: Well, Lady Queen sheep, we're ahead of me.
Speaker 7: I'll take you in.
Speaker 4: I guess Lady Queen's more used to me or something. Anyway,
Speaker 4: she's not gonna hurt either one of us.
Speaker 1: She shears a cute little calf. There's a white place
Speaker 1: on her head that looks exactly like a seven little
Speaker 1: white spot on her nose too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and her legs are white. She looks like she's
Speaker 4: got socks on.
Speaker 1: Feel of her feels like she's got a coat made
Speaker 1: of velvet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Lady Queen's got herself a little princess.
Speaker 8: Say that's a good name for a little princess. Yeah,
Speaker 8: a little princess. Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna call you little Princess.
Speaker 8: Come on now, little princess, you've gotta get you up
Speaker 8: to the barn. Help me, Corky, I gotta pick her up.
Speaker 4: Wow, she's heavy on, come on, lift harder.
Speaker 1: We're gonna carry her all the way to the barn.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 4: As soon as we get her out of the brush,
Speaker 4: we'll put her down and see if she can walk.
Speaker 6: Little princess could walk, but she made it only half
Speaker 6: way to the barn. Lady Queen coaxed her cab, but
Speaker 6: she couldn't move another step. She just laid down and
Speaker 6: wouldn't move. By this time it was getting dark. Wit
Speaker 6: was getting worried.
Speaker 4: From here, it looks like the lights in the barn
Speaker 4: are all out.
Speaker 1: They probably got the chores all one.
Speaker 4: You go to the house, Kirky, and tell mister Hank
Speaker 4: that Lady Queen's got a calf and we got it
Speaker 4: as far home as we can. I'll stay here and
Speaker 4: take care of her.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll be back as still as I can get.
Speaker 10: Mister Hank, come in. Oh, it's you, Corky. You'll find
Speaker 10: Lady Queen yep.
Speaker 1: And she's got herself a calf. We can't bring her
Speaker 1: all the way.
Speaker 7: In though, mister Hank, I cannot walk.
Speaker 1: It got tired.
Speaker 7: I guess, well, why don't you haul at the rest
Speaker 7: of the way in a wheelbarrow. I got a good
Speaker 7: TV program on.
Speaker 3: I don't want to leave.
Speaker 1: Well, it's overall be out, okay, mister Hank.
Speaker 6: After Corky and Whit got little Princess into the barn,
Speaker 6: they fixed her up in a nice clean stall. Then
Speaker 6: they stayed around for a while, talking to the calf
Speaker 6: and rubbing her soft velvet hair. Almost at once, Corky
Speaker 6: and Wit loved that brand new ca Now.
Speaker 4: I know we shouldn't love little Princess so much, Corky,
Speaker 4: for she's not ours, but somehow it just seems as
Speaker 4: if she is ours anyway, I can't help but love her.
Speaker 6: Almost every night after school, Corky and Wit would jump
Speaker 6: into their jeans in a hurry and run out to
Speaker 6: the barn to see how little Princess was doing. She
Speaker 6: grew just fine at first until mister Hank took her
Speaker 6: away from her mother. On the third day. They started
Speaker 6: feeding her milk from a pail like they did all
Speaker 6: the calves, and for some reason it just didn't agree
Speaker 6: with her. She began getting sick. Then she got very sick,
Speaker 6: and soon she was so sick she was almost dead.
Speaker 4: Look at little Princesskirky. She can't even lift her head and.
Speaker 1: She's not hardly breathing. Did they have the.
Speaker 4: Vet, Yeah, the doc was here twice, kept dosing her
Speaker 4: with medicine, but it's not doing her any good.
Speaker 1: What are they gonna do with her now?
Speaker 4: Well, I heard mister Hank say he was gonna shoot
Speaker 4: her put her out of her misery.
Speaker 1: Look what little princess. Just twist your nose a little bit.
Speaker 4: I'm going in there and rub her a little bit. Kirky,
Speaker 4: you say a prayer for little princess, and so will I.
Speaker 4: She just can't die, Kirky, she just can't.
Speaker 7: Hey, there, boys, you wouldn't be annoying that calf, would you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, sir, we aren't bothering her. Mister Hank, what.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna do with her? Mister Hank got to
Speaker 4: shoot her.
Speaker 7: I guess it's too far gone for any hope for her.
Speaker 7: Mister Lindley said not to spend any more VET money
Speaker 7: on her.
Speaker 4: Can I work on her a little bit before you
Speaker 4: shoot her?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 7: What do you think you are a magician or something?
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do with her?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Nothing special. Just thought I might try a few things
Speaker 4: my mother does to me and Kirky when we get sick.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll do any harm. I guess he go ahead
Speaker 7: and mess around. When you get through fussing with her,
Speaker 7: let me know, and I'll get my gun and ease
Speaker 7: her out of us.
Speaker 4: So, yes, sir, I'll let you know. Come on, Kirky,
Speaker 4: we got things to do. You go get a bucket
Speaker 4: of hot water, and I'll get the curry comb and
Speaker 4: the things from the harness room. Now you're clean, little princess,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna get a rub down with this gunnysack,
Speaker 4: just like your mother would do with her tongue if
Speaker 4: she were here.
Speaker 1: Look what she's trying to raise her head.
Speaker 4: That's the girl, little princess, Lift up your pretty little head.
Speaker 7: That's the way. Keep trying.
Speaker 4: That's right. Get your feet moving too, keep them wiggling
Speaker 4: so you'll be on those wobble little feet. Before you
Speaker 4: know it. You're gonna be our queen yet. Wow, little princess,
Speaker 4: you're gonna break records and win ribbons just like your
Speaker 4: mother did.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 4: That's it. A little higher now, look, Corky, she's trying
Speaker 4: to get up. She's gonna make it.
Speaker 6: The little princess did make it. She did get up.
Speaker 6: At first, she was pretty wobbly, but she kept getting
Speaker 6: better and better. She got so she could take milk again.
Speaker 6: And the next thing, Kirky and whit knew mister Hank
Speaker 6: was planning to enter her at the fair. Mister Hank
Speaker 6: had all hands working getting the other cattle ready for
Speaker 6: the show. One day he stopped the two boys when
Speaker 6: they were walking toward the bottom.
Speaker 7: Hey, you two boys want to fit that calf here's
Speaker 7: up for the fair?
Speaker 4: Oh go on, mister Hank. You know little princess is
Speaker 4: and our calf.
Speaker 7: I wish she were you had like she's yours. Well
Speaker 7: you want to fix her.
Speaker 3: Up or not?
Speaker 4: You mean we can get little princess ready for the
Speaker 4: fair all by ourselves.
Speaker 7: That's what I mean. You got a washer and trimmer,
Speaker 7: shine her horns?
Speaker 4: On who we get to stay with her at the fair?
Speaker 7: One of you? Yeah, be a good help. In fact,
Speaker 7: Oh boy, Kirky, did.
Speaker 4: You hear that little princess is going to the fair
Speaker 4: and I get to go with her?
Speaker 1: She can I go to it? Kid her?
Speaker 7: Only one of you, And don't forget the princess has
Speaker 7: got to be properly prepared.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, mister Hank, you can come and visit me
Speaker 4: in little princess. Kirky, You and father and mister Hank
Speaker 4: and the others. Come on now, we gotta start getting
Speaker 4: a little princess ready. She's gonna win the bluest ribbon
Speaker 4: in the whole fair.
Speaker 1: You wit. Here come some men driving in the yard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you haven't seen that man before. Oh that's the
Speaker 4: county agent.
Speaker 1: Wonder what he wants.
Speaker 4: Probably wants to see mister Hank as usual. Oh, boys,
Speaker 4: hank around, Yes, sir, mister Wallace, he just went into
Speaker 4: the big.
Speaker 3: Barn milk More Farms.
Speaker 4: Got any good show cattle this year, yes, sir, lots
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 7: You're not a four H member, are you?
Speaker 4: No, sir? I don't think I know your name, do I? No, sir,
Speaker 4: my name's Whittaker Nelson and this is my little Brotherkirky Nelson.
Speaker 4: Corky's pretty young to join the four H. But you
Speaker 4: should be in the club, Whittaker.
Speaker 9: In four H the boys own their own animals and
Speaker 9: show them at fairs.
Speaker 4: Oh, we have good times. Wouldn't you like to join? Yeah?
Speaker 4: But I can't. I don't own an animal, not even
Speaker 4: a calf. Couldn't you get one? Well, there's no place
Speaker 4: to keep it. Even if I could. There ought to
Speaker 4: be plenty of room and feet around here. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: room enough for mister Lindley's stock. And that's all. But
Speaker 4: I am going to get to show little princess at
Speaker 4: the fair. Want to come in the barn and see her?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Surely do she's mister Lindley's calf, but I look after
Speaker 4: her sort of like she was my own.
Speaker 6: Mister Wallace fell in love with Little Princess, just like
Speaker 6: everyone did. He tried to get mister Linley to sell
Speaker 6: her cheap enough so that Quit and Corky could buy her,
Speaker 6: but mister Lindley said she was too valuable to sell
Speaker 6: to boys. He told mister Wallace that there were sixteen
Speaker 6: boys and girls on the farm and if he provided
Speaker 6: cabs and room and feed for all of them, he'd
Speaker 6: have to move his own stock out. Mister Wallace didn't
Speaker 6: like it too well about mister Lindley not selling Little
Speaker 6: Princess to the boys, because well, mister Wallace was wonderful
Speaker 6: to them, and he kept coming back and spending a
Speaker 6: lot of time teaching Whit how to groom and lead
Speaker 6: little Princess into the show ring. When fairtime came at.
Speaker 6: They gave with a good place to sleep right near
Speaker 6: little Princess, and he spent all the time with her,
Speaker 6: beating her, keeping her clean, rubbing her and talking to her.
Speaker 4: Their little Princess, that takes care of your left foot,
Speaker 4: and now your right one there now, and the back
Speaker 4: ones are already done. Say you look just dandy. Your
Speaker 4: white spots are whiter than snow, and your black just shines.
Speaker 4: And you're gonna look like that blue ribbon hanging on you, said,
Speaker 4: little princess, you're gonna win the bluest blue ribbon they
Speaker 4: ever gave away, if it's fair. Oh, hey, kirky, so
Speaker 4: you got here?
Speaker 1: Yep? Mother and Dad are waiting outside in the roof
Speaker 1: for you to show them, little princess.
Speaker 4: How soon do you and little princess go out anytime?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 1: Say she looks beautiful? Is she gonna win?
Speaker 4: Well, there's some stiff competition, lots of good junior yearlings
Speaker 4: in the show, not as.
Speaker 1: Good as little princess. Ah, shine her up good and
Speaker 1: pretty even her feet.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't know she was just a mite from being
Speaker 4: dead once, would you? Uh huh, Little princess, you're the
Speaker 4: prettiest ghost I ever saw.
Speaker 2: All Right, boys, get your hostings, you your earlings ready,
Speaker 2: those of you in class ah, bring your animals and.
Speaker 1: Line up in a ring.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, quirky, that's us little princesses in class A.
Speaker 4: Come on, little princess, you're going out there in the
Speaker 4: ring and you're gonna win. Remember to walk like a princess.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 4: Hold up your head, it's a good girl. Back, straight tail, snug, careful,
Speaker 4: now steady and keep calm and can get almost their
Speaker 4: little princess quirky. You go along and stay with mom
Speaker 4: and dad and keep saying a little prayer for a
Speaker 4: little princess and me.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: When the judge took his time looking all the calves
Speaker 6: over very carefully, he kept marking things down on a card.
Speaker 6: When he cut the little princess, he twisted his mouth
Speaker 6: around the side kind of strange like and squinted. He
Speaker 6: squinted at her long and hard, kept walking around her
Speaker 6: and around her and bending over, running his hands over
Speaker 6: the calves, legs her back, and feeling her shoulders. He
Speaker 6: spent some time on the last two calves, and then
Speaker 6: he straightened up kind of quick like and raised his hand.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, like.
Speaker 2: Your attention here, I'm going to rearrange the calves in
Speaker 2: order that there placing in the show.
Speaker 4: Heh, boy, you move your calf over here. That's right now.
Speaker 2: Number five and three you come along here. You're next
Speaker 2: our lad. Now six two and four you come along
Speaker 2: up here too.
Speaker 4: And line up there.
Speaker 2: You are, hold your numbers up nice and high.
Speaker 6: I wonder which number was wits and if Little Princess
Speaker 6: placed in the show.
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Speaker 6: The bluest ribbon, Young Wit Nelson is showing the calf
Speaker 6: Little Princess at the county fair. The judge raised his
Speaker 6: hand to get the attention of the crime.
Speaker 2: Enough, folks, I like to point out a few things
Speaker 2: about these calves. Number four as a mighty nice muzzle,
Speaker 2: good white pins, and plenty of girds. Number six has
Speaker 2: a neat back line and some other good points, but
Speaker 2: lacks a little body death. Number three is the winner
Speaker 2: because she is just about every feature to make her
Speaker 2: a top dairy type calf. She has the body, the legs, muzzle,
Speaker 2: her back line.
Speaker 6: By that time, Wit wasn't listening to anything. The judge
Speaker 6: said Little Princess was the winner, and WIT's head was
Speaker 6: all filled up with glory enough to burst, and he
Speaker 6: was shaking all over. Little Princess had come into her
Speaker 6: own She was a true princess, a queen. Only a
Speaker 6: few weeks after the fair, the boy's father died of
Speaker 6: a heart attack. The boys and their mother moved to
Speaker 6: a little house with a couple acres of weedy land,
Speaker 6: a little bit of weather beaten barn in a garden patch.
Speaker 6: She took in sewing, and the welfare did the rest.
Speaker 6: There wasn't much of anything for Corky and Wit to
Speaker 6: do anymore except to work for mother and go to school.
Speaker 6: On the weekend, they'd sometimes walk over to Milkmore Farms
Speaker 6: to see Little Princess. She never forgot them. When they'd
Speaker 6: come to her stall. She'd raise her head and nibble
Speaker 6: at their sleeves and try to climb out of her
Speaker 6: pin and reach them better.
Speaker 4: There there, little Princess, you're getting to be a pretty
Speaker 4: big girl. Remember you're a queen now. You can't go
Speaker 4: climbing up on your stall and jumping on my shoulder
Speaker 4: like that. You're too big. Hey, here's the usual treat
Speaker 4: for you there. What do you say, Look, Corky, she's
Speaker 4: nodding her head as usual. She remembers everything we taught her. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I wish she was ours, so do I, But maybe
Speaker 4: that's covetous. She belongs to mister Lindley and we got
Speaker 4: no right to water.
Speaker 8: Hum.
Speaker 4: She was definitely want nearly cost them a bullet that time.
Speaker 4: But we can't keep brooding about it, Kirky, Come on,
Speaker 4: we better get back home. Four miles takes a long
Speaker 4: time to walk.
Speaker 1: Mister Hank's coming this way. You don't suppose he mind
Speaker 1: just coming here like this studio.
Speaker 4: I don't suppose so.
Speaker 7: Hey, kids still moving over this here, calv why don't
Speaker 7: you buyer it? To sale?
Speaker 4: What sale?
Speaker 7: The sale? We're gonna have big dispersal, sell them all.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, mister Hank, What are you gonna
Speaker 4: sell him for?
Speaker 7: Mister Lindley's gonna sell out and move to Florida, says
Speaker 7: he can't keep any decent help the good ones go
Speaker 7: somewhere else to get better wages. He could keep miffed
Speaker 7: pay more, but not him. We've got plenty of money
Speaker 7: and aims to keep it now. Me, I've been saving
Speaker 7: the way all for years and years.
Speaker 6: That's when the two boys began trying to save up
Speaker 6: some money so they could buy little Princess on sale day,
Speaker 6: several months away. They took odd jobs and saved every
Speaker 6: penny they earned, and they didn't stop to figure how
Speaker 6: they'd feed her even if they got her. When sale
Speaker 6: day came, the boys had only thirty nine dollars and
Speaker 6: twenty seven cents between them. That was a lot of
Speaker 6: money for them, but not enough to buy a yearling
Speaker 6: like Little Princess. Anyway, they gathered it all up and
Speaker 6: went over to Milkmore Farm for the sale.
Speaker 4: Well, from the lots of things, they won't get around
Speaker 4: to sell Little Princess and the other calves till later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we don't mind waiting to do it.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I guess not. I guess they're gonna sell
Speaker 4: Little Princess next.
Speaker 1: Think we got enough to buy her with.
Speaker 4: No, not a chance. The way the other calves have
Speaker 4: been going, Little Princess will start around seventy five dollars.
Speaker 4: No telling how high she'll go from there.
Speaker 1: What we'd prayed about it, remember the sale, as we
Speaker 1: did when she almost died and when she won the
Speaker 1: ribble at the fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, miracle both times, but it's just playing
Speaker 4: asking too much of God to make herself for less
Speaker 4: than forty dollars, and that'd be an insult a Little
Speaker 4: Princess too.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm going to pray about.
Speaker 4: It, Okay, I will too.
Speaker 11: Know, folks, we're going to sell the daughter a lady
Speaker 11: queen the whole princess. You have her pedigree there on
Speaker 11: your sales catalog. She won the Junior Yearling ribbon at
Speaker 11: the fair. All right, let's get the bidding started.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 11: I hear seventy five? Who'll go?
Speaker 4: Eighty?
Speaker 1: Eighty eighty?
Speaker 11: Who'll go?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: I got eighty making one hundred, one hundred, one hundred?
Speaker 4: Do I hear one one hundred, one hundred?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 4: Who will make it?
Speaker 9: One hundred and twenty?
Speaker 4: I'm looking for one hundred and twenty?
Speaker 10: Who making?
Speaker 4: Well? I hope she gets a good home. Yeah, she's
Speaker 4: a good calf, the best.
Speaker 1: You bet she is. Look at her stands there in
Speaker 1: a wing leg A queen.
Speaker 4: She is a queen.
Speaker 2: Got one hundred and fifty four, little princess?
Speaker 4: Who'll make it?
Speaker 10: Seventy one?
Speaker 4: Seventy one seventy? Do I hear one seventy? I got
Speaker 4: one fifty? Who'll make it? One seventy six? I got
Speaker 4: one sixty? Who'll make it? One seventy one?
Speaker 10: Seventy one seventy?
Speaker 4: I got one sixty?
Speaker 7: Do I hear one seventy one?
Speaker 4: Hey? Wit?
Speaker 1: Here comes from mister Wallace, the county agent.
Speaker 4: Where I don't see him?
Speaker 1: He just came in the door at the other end
Speaker 1: of the barn.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I see him. Hey, I'm gonna wave and
Speaker 4: try to get his attention.
Speaker 1: Mister Wallace. Mister Wallace, I don't think he saw you.
Speaker 4: I guess he didn't.
Speaker 6: Done one eighty one two?
Speaker 4: Are you all dumb free? And so the young fellow
Speaker 4: sitting on the barrel there? Hey, wit, he pointed at
Speaker 4: you me, but I wasn't bidding.
Speaker 1: You're the only one sitting on a barrel. Looks like
Speaker 1: you bought one princess, even if you didn't mean to.
Speaker 4: He must have thought I was waving at him. When
Speaker 4: I was waving at mister Wallace, I haven't got anywhere
Speaker 4: near one hundred and seventy five dollars.
Speaker 1: We better go tell someone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, let's get out of his side door and
Speaker 4: try to find the man who writes things down.
Speaker 1: What do we do about it?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: I have to sell little princess over again, I guess.
Speaker 9: Oh, I wit Corky want me to truck your cab
Speaker 9: home for you.
Speaker 4: I'm going right by your place now, Jim, I I
Speaker 4: don't have a calf. What do you mean you don't
Speaker 4: have a calf? I just saw you buy one. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the auctioneer thought I was waving at him, when I
Speaker 4: was actually waving at the county agent.
Speaker 9: You mean you didn't really mean to buy her.
Speaker 1: No, we'd like to have little princess. But where'd we
Speaker 1: get one hundred and seventy five dollars?
Speaker 9: Boy, you got yourselves in a jam. Hey, mister Wallace,
Speaker 9: come over here a minute, will you?
Speaker 1: Hello?
Speaker 2: Jim, Wit and Corky?
Speaker 4: Where'd you boys go so quickly?
Speaker 9: I was looking for you inside.
Speaker 4: Mister Wallace.
Speaker 9: These boys here went and got themselves a yearling hepper
Speaker 9: without meaning to Wit waved his hand at you, and
Speaker 9: the auctioneer thought he was bidding.
Speaker 4: On the calf. Yeah, I thought I saw that happen.
Speaker 4: To tell you the truth with it, I was looking
Speaker 4: for you for that very reason. What can I do,
Speaker 4: mister Wallace? I can't pay one hundred and seventy dollars
Speaker 4: for a calf, even if she is a little princess.
Speaker 2: Well, you and Corky just sold tight for spell.
Speaker 4: I want to go over here and talk to my wife.
Speaker 2: Jim, you come along too.
Speaker 6: The boys didn't know exactly what mister Wallace and Jim
Speaker 6: talked to missus Wallace about. But the first thing they knew,
Speaker 6: they were passing hats to all that crowd at the auction,
Speaker 6: and that boy was well, he was waving his hand,
Speaker 6: and the auctioneer thought he was bidding. So the boy
Speaker 6: accidentally bid on the very calf in his life he'd saved.
Speaker 6: And he can't pay for it.
Speaker 7: Oh three dollars help, Oh.
Speaker 6: Thank you kindly, it's sure will and bless.
Speaker 9: You witting that calf he accidentally bought her inseparable, poor boy,
Speaker 9: he should have a calf, his father dead, and.
Speaker 4: All glad to give you something. And let's see you
Speaker 4: what two three five dollars?
Speaker 6: And the boy made the calf a winner if a
Speaker 6: player too. He can't stand apart with that, can Mama?
Speaker 7: You say he's a deserving boy.
Speaker 4: Well, I got some grocery change here, won't need it
Speaker 4: this week?
Speaker 7: Hold that head.
Speaker 9: Closes A good boy who can't pay for his calf.
Speaker 6: Hey, what'd you say?
Speaker 4: He can't pay for his calf?
Speaker 7: Pay for half?
Speaker 6: How much is half for his calf? Mister Deffens can't
Speaker 6: pay for his calf? Well, why didn't you say show
Speaker 6: ten dollars billion?
Speaker 1: Helpout?
Speaker 3: Sure would?
Speaker 2: I saw that dear boy in his cap at the fair,
Speaker 2: one at at at a time, if if Lindley was
Speaker 2: a treating.
Speaker 4: Him right, eight ninety two dollars and twenty eight cents.
Speaker 4: How much do you have, missus Wallace?
Speaker 6: I have ninety eight dollars and eighteen cents, and U Jim.
Speaker 9: Ninety two dollars and twenty eight cents. We need some
Speaker 9: paper to add this out.
Speaker 6: I have some right here, see now, ninety two twenty
Speaker 6: eight plus ninety eight eighteen. That comes to one hundred
Speaker 6: and ninety dollars and forty six cents. Well that's more
Speaker 6: than the calf cor.
Speaker 9: The boys already have thirty nine dollars. Should we give
Speaker 9: some of this back to the people.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, Jim, we never could find them again.
Speaker 6: I know what let's do. Let's let quit have it
Speaker 6: for feed for little princes.
Speaker 9: Come on, let's go find the boys and give this
Speaker 9: money to them.
Speaker 6: When Jim and Missus Wallace handed with all that money,
Speaker 6: I guess he didn't act very grown up. He tried
Speaker 6: to thank them, but he well, he just couldn't talk.
Speaker 6: He stood right there and cried like a girl.
Speaker 9: And they said, that's all right, Wit, you just take
Speaker 9: little Princess home and raise you up a whole herd
Speaker 9: from her.
Speaker 6: And then Jim and mister Wallace loaded little Princess in
Speaker 6: Jim's truck and Corky rode in front and Whit got
Speaker 6: him back. When they drove through that crowd and out
Speaker 6: of the Milkmore driveway, they all looked at Quit, a
Speaker 6: little princess in the back.
Speaker 4: Of that truck. That's right, little Princess, you stand right
Speaker 4: up being and hold your head high. It's just like
Speaker 4: the queen that you are. Do you know something, little
Speaker 4: Princess today, I'm a kig.
Speaker 6: Yes. That crowd looked at little Princess and Wit standing
Speaker 6: so proudly there in the back of the trunk, and
Speaker 6: they waved their hands with tears.
Speaker 3: Now, before we go, I want to encourage you boys
Speaker 3: and girls to keep sending in your riddles, jokes and
Speaker 3: tongue twisters to be printed on the Funnybones page of
Speaker 3: our Clubhouse magazine.
Speaker 5: Uncle Dan likes to collect the riddles before they're printed
Speaker 5: in Clubhouse and try them out on me.
Speaker 3: Oh that's true. Speaking of which, here's a riddle that
Speaker 3: one of our listeners sent in. If a rooster laid
Speaker 3: an egg on the very tip of a roof. Which
Speaker 3: way would it fall?
Speaker 5: Oh, you're going to try to get me to do
Speaker 5: some fancy calculations, but I'm onto you. The answer is
Speaker 5: just that the egg would fall down.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Aunt Carol, No, it wouldn't.
Speaker 6: It wouldn't why or not?
Speaker 3: Because roosters don't lags hens news.
Speaker 5: I can't believe I missed it.
Speaker 3: That was a good one and there are plenty more
Speaker 3: where that one came from.
Speaker 5: If you have a joke, riddler, tongue twister to share,
Speaker 5: just send it to your story Hour box eight Niles,
Speaker 5: Ni l e. S. Michigan four nine one two zero.
Speaker 3: That's Box eight Niles, Michigan, four nine one two zero.
Speaker 5: You may discover it in a future issue of Clubhouse
Speaker 5: or even here. Uncle Dan, try it on me someday.
Speaker 3: So we'll be waiting to hear from you soon.
Speaker 5: And until next time, stay well and keep smiling.
Speaker 2: This has been your story Hour, building for a better tomorrow.
Speaker 5: This is Aunt Carrol
Speaker 3: And Uncle Dann saying goodbye everyone, See you again next time.