Speaker 1: The Fiber McGhee and Molly Show every weekday. At this time,
Speaker 1: NBC brings you Fever. McGee and Mollie transcribed. The show
Speaker 1: was written by Phil Leslie and Ralph Goodman and directed
Speaker 1: by Max Happo. Fibber and Maley will be with you
Speaker 1: in a minute. Here's something most of us have to
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Speaker 1: if you buy United States Savings bonds today. The mailman
Speaker 1: has just left another batch of Christmas cards at seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Whistil this to this morning, and and missus McGhee are
Speaker 1: happily looking the mover.
Speaker 2: Don't you lot to get Christmas cards? McGee?
Speaker 3: Sure do?
Speaker 2: Look at this one from the tuopses picture of a
Speaker 2: big holly reason.
Speaker 1: It says, hope you.
Speaker 2: Have a Christmas wreathed in happiness.
Speaker 3: Here, isn't that suit? Yeah? Oh hey, here's a big
Speaker 3: fancy card.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, oh my, somebody must really like it. That's
Speaker 2: a lovely winter scene, isn't it. Who's a prom?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: It opens up you see, Oh poetry.
Speaker 3: May you have every Christmas joy through winter, spring and
Speaker 3: summer to send your cares all down the drain. Call John,
Speaker 3: the Oak Street plumber.
Speaker 2: Oh isn't that sweet?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I think we ought to answer that McGee. John might
Speaker 2: feel hurt if he doesn't get a Christmas greeting from us.
Speaker 2: I'll write him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do that, You're write.
Speaker 2: Him, I think I'll say, Dear John, Yeah, dear John letter.
Speaker 3: We called you on last.
Speaker 2: New Year's Day.
Speaker 3: You charge twelve bucks a trip. The think reminds us
Speaker 3: till of you. It's such a constant drip. That's great.
Speaker 3: You want to write that to him? Or shall I
Speaker 3: call him up and read it to him on the phone.
Speaker 2: No, neither one.
Speaker 3: It's Christmas Eve. Yeah, besides, we might need him again.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I better check over the gifts again though.
Speaker 3: Before we come in.
Speaker 4: Christmas care season.
Speaker 3: Gree Oh hi, old timer, Hey Christmas.
Speaker 2: He's greeting to you, mister old timer, god bye to
Speaker 2: bring you a peasant kid.
Speaker 3: Well, gee, whiz, you shouldn't have done it.
Speaker 4: I take it back.
Speaker 2: Oh no, then never mind, thank you very much. Nice
Speaker 2: a beautiful package.
Speaker 3: Yeah, big one too. Oh here, we got a peasant
Speaker 3: for you too, old timer?
Speaker 4: Hey, I attle one, ain't it? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Honey?
Speaker 2: How though?
Speaker 4: Probably lovely?
Speaker 2: I hope you like it.
Speaker 4: Oh. I love the holidays kids. Christmas Eve always puts
Speaker 4: me in mind of the fun I used to have
Speaker 4: when I was a kid with that old gang of mine,
Speaker 4: the old gang. Huh yep, gee, but I did the
Speaker 4: world to see that old old guy. Sure was the
Speaker 4: great old gang. Kids, That old gang of mine. You
Speaker 4: used to squad every year singing Christmas.
Speaker 3: Carol who always in your crowd?
Speaker 4: Very exclusive groups hunt all that. There was Johnny and
Speaker 4: Pete and Marny and Skeet. There was Eddie and Slim
Speaker 4: and Teddy and Mara Belle Kloper horn there a Belle
Speaker 4: Klooper or I'll see get in the needed her for harmony. Johnny,
Speaker 4: you had a fine, rich baritone. Myra did. Rest of
Speaker 4: the gang was boy sopranos. She sang aloud only Christmas
Speaker 4: Daughter used to sing the silent nights aloud. We was
Speaker 4: harsh the rest of the year. We did have fun. Kids,
Speaker 4: Me and the whole gang were together all the time.
Speaker 4: I tell you we were insufferable.
Speaker 2: I can imagine.
Speaker 4: And then, as so often happens to good friends and proof,
Speaker 4: a woman came between us. Yep, a woman busted up
Speaker 4: that whole gang of mine. Who was it? Mama moved
Speaker 4: out of town and took me with hers along.
Speaker 3: Kids, marry me Christmas all time.
Speaker 1: There's more fun with the McGhee Shortley. One of the
Speaker 1: outstanding characteristics of a democracy is the right of each individual.
Speaker 1: We go to worship according to his conscience and his beliefs.
Speaker 1: The churches of America symbolize the belief of many the
Speaker 1: through community worship we can gain the moral strength and
Speaker 1: courage to lead a good life. They symbolize the important
Speaker 1: role which religion has played in the shaping of our nation.
Speaker 1: Each day, thousands turned to their religious leaders for personal
Speaker 1: guidance and for material help. Without religion, many of these
Speaker 1: people would have nowhere to turn in their hour of need.
Speaker 1: All of us recognize the important role played during the
Speaker 1: war by chaplains of all faiths in helping our soldiers
Speaker 1: to adjust the military life. Thus, it is manifest that
Speaker 1: religion is an important part of the moral fiber of America.
Speaker 1: It was the need to worship which drove our forefathers
Speaker 1: to leave their native lands and come here. Let us
Speaker 1: not forget the importance of the church in our lives.
Speaker 1: Let us, through recognition of moral and spiritual hungers, guide
Speaker 1: ourselves and our families toward a way of life which
Speaker 1: bespeaks peace and harmony and goodwill toward all mens.
Speaker 3: What do you think the old timer gave us big package?
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll open it tomorrow. I hope he
Speaker 2: likes the pipe and tobacco.
Speaker 1: We give him. Well he better like it.
Speaker 3: I looked all over town to find a bargain like that.
Speaker 3: You can't hardly find a corncob pipe the day. Wonder
Speaker 3: who this is?
Speaker 5: Come in name mister mcga, Miss mcgame, Marry Christmas?
Speaker 1: Well happy you tied?
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2: Tiny, Come on in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I came to bring your presence. It's for both
Speaker 5: of you, and I made it here.
Speaker 3: Oh you made it.
Speaker 1: Jeez.
Speaker 3: That's a beautiful press, lovely package, just beautiful. Well, what
Speaker 3: could be in it?
Speaker 5: A washwag? It's a simply just lovely washwag. And I
Speaker 5: made it in school, oh, because we were any high
Speaker 5: in it and all of us kids were inning saxony.
Speaker 5: My sacks came out of washwag.
Speaker 2: Oh well it's just what we needed. Oh sure it
Speaker 2: is an gile washwag.
Speaker 5: You can both music.
Speaker 3: Well, we just don't know how to thank you.
Speaker 4: Tiny.
Speaker 2: We have a little present for you too, Honey. We
Speaker 2: send it over to your house.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, kay, thanks getting into mc gee. Mm, will
Speaker 5: you do something for me? Delpha Christmas? HM, tell me
Speaker 5: a sty Why do you please?
Speaker 2: That's a jay?
Speaker 5: Okayon?
Speaker 3: Oh k tenny seems as good a time as.
Speaker 5: Enny, Oh, Jeddy, I love your stays.
Speaker 2: Well, I like them too, Tenny. I'll just sit over here,
Speaker 2: out of the way, and I'll keep real quiet, Perie.
Speaker 3: Oh, Tenny, did you ever hear the story about Laura
Speaker 3: the lop sided pine Tree?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, Master, No, I never heard that one. Is it
Speaker 5: a true stime?
Speaker 2: Master?
Speaker 5: A chilling as that moon.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a sort of a little piece of folklore
Speaker 3: that's been kind of handed down from generation to generation.
Speaker 3: Or will it be as soon as I can think
Speaker 3: it up?
Speaker 5: Oh boy, that's the best candor vet.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, well, sir, long time I go. Once upon
Speaker 3: a time that there used to be a great, big forest. Well,
Speaker 3: it was out past dubens like aways, and it was
Speaker 3: all full of tall pine trees. And every year on
Speaker 3: Christmas Day, the king of the forest would invite all
Speaker 3: the people from all around and they'd have a Christmas
Speaker 3: party and sing songs and give each other presents, and
Speaker 3: they have wonderful times.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, every year the king would pick out the prettiest
Speaker 3: tree in the forest to have Christmas under. You see,
Speaker 3: it got to be quite a contest among the local
Speaker 3: pines to see which one would be chose. The King's tree,
Speaker 3: the yeah now, way off in one corner of the forest,
Speaker 3: kind of by herself, stood Laura, the lop side of
Speaker 3: the funniest lookinst poorest, little scrubby old pine tree in
Speaker 3: the whole woods. Her branches were all cock eyed and
Speaker 3: her bark was always falling down, and she was just
Speaker 3: the real sad sapling.
Speaker 5: Oh, poor La.
Speaker 3: The other trees, the big, tall, beautiful looking ones, they
Speaker 3: used to sneer a little outside of Laura all the time.
Speaker 3: Some of them trees got so vain about their good
Speaker 3: looks that you just couldn't stand them. Spent all their
Speaker 3: time primping and powdering their combs and combing the birds
Speaker 3: nests out of their hair and looking pretty.
Speaker 5: Oh that's not a good way out, bet you. People
Speaker 5: shouldn't be vain, especially pine trees, that's right.
Speaker 3: But these pine trees got so bad they wouldn't let
Speaker 3: a bird building their branches, and they shook all the
Speaker 3: squirrels out onto the ground. And the only place the
Speaker 3: little creatures had to live was Laura. The little outside
Speaker 3: of Lara gave them all home.
Speaker 5: She had a kine high hunt, sure, But the.
Speaker 3: Other trees used to raz or something in tears. Look
Speaker 3: at Lopsy, they'd say, get her hair full of birds, mess,
Speaker 3: and her lap full of squirrels. Boy, are you a mess?
Speaker 1: They'd say? Oh, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: All them pine trees needled her.
Speaker 1: All the time.
Speaker 5: They were naughty pines. Huh, naughty times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I was gonna say that myself. Well, anyhow,
Speaker 3: one Christmas Eve, little Large just couldn't take it any longer,
Speaker 3: and she just broke down and cried, uh huh, just
Speaker 3: stood there sobbing kind of softly to herself.
Speaker 5: Oh see, just like a weeping mall, Hi, Master, a
Speaker 5: weeping well.
Speaker 3: All, well, she was more of what you might call
Speaker 3: a crying conifers is. Oh and while she was standing
Speaker 3: there crying softly, and the other mean old trees were
Speaker 3: snickering at her all.
Speaker 5: Once it happened, Oh gosh, this is a good fight
Speaker 5: of it. What happened? Is this a good time?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It happened that a young angel was passing by
Speaker 3: that night. She was in a hurry, trying to get
Speaker 3: home for Christmas. You see.
Speaker 5: And where where had she been?
Speaker 3: Master?
Speaker 5: Where he had the angel?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 3: Oh, she'd been over in Pittsburgh or Wichita, oscar Looser
Speaker 3: or someplace to say hello to a couple of new babies.
Speaker 3: She stopped someplace else to sort of spread her wings
Speaker 3: over a young couple that were getting married that day.
Speaker 3: And she looked in to let a little crippled boy
Speaker 3: know that he was going to be okay for Christmas,
Speaker 3: you know, just just business calls like angels do check
Speaker 3: about you. Anyhow, when the angel heard Laura the Lopsided
Speaker 3: Pine tree cry, and she wheeled down to investigate, and
Speaker 3: Laura told her the story through her tears, and the
Speaker 3: angel smiled and just waved her wings, and poor little
Speaker 3: Laura the lop sided Pine became the prettiest tree in
Speaker 3: all the world, getting for high. The tears that poor
Speaker 3: little pine tree shed froze into beautiful shining icicle, and
Speaker 3: her cones gleamed like colored lights, and her branches were
Speaker 3: dusted with snow. Way up on her tip top branch,
Speaker 3: the angel hung a shining star, and they named the
Speaker 3: tree the Christmas Tree. And the people came and admired
Speaker 3: the tree and gave each other presents and wished each
Speaker 3: other happiness and peace and the merry Christmas, just like
Speaker 3: missus McGee, and I wish you.
Speaker 5: An geez that's wonderful. Mister McGhee.
Speaker 3: O Merry Christmas, teenie oo.
Speaker 5: I just hope the whole world has a Merry Christmas
Speaker 5: about you everybody.
Speaker 2: So the wee teeny Merry Christmas to all.
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