Speaker 1: Fed up with the everyday grind, tired out by the
Speaker 1: dull routine, you want to get away from it.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are crouched in the middle of an immense hurricane, houses, animals,
Speaker 1: trees sweeping past you, and you suddenly realize that you've
Speaker 1: tampered with a universe that you're bringing about the destruction
Speaker 1: of the world.
Speaker 3: Tonight we escape to a placid English village and the
Speaker 3: presence of an equally placid little man who one day
Speaker 3: shook the world.
Speaker 2: As HG.
Speaker 3: Wells told it in his delightful and famous story The
Speaker 3: Man Who Could Work Miracles.
Speaker 2: And now I might say right in the beginning that
Speaker 2: I ain't the kind of chap who has a naturally
Speaker 2: argumentative disposition, meaning the kind who's always engaging in hostile
Speaker 2: discussions with perfect strangers. Quite the contrary, I'm a reasonable
Speaker 2: man who always takes proper thought before he speaks, and
Speaker 2: one who has due respect for scientific truth. Why I
Speaker 2: ain't never open my mouth to utter a word that
Speaker 2: wasn't a pure ahn diluted a fact.
Speaker 4: That's what you say.
Speaker 2: Howsoever, when a man of inferior intellect such as Tuddy
Speaker 2: Beamish has showed himself to be more than once. When
Speaker 2: a man like that insists upon airing his ridiculous opinions
Speaker 2: in a publick places such as the Long Dragon Bar,
Speaker 2: then I've got no choice but to confound him with
Speaker 2: the superior knowledge which I possesses.
Speaker 4: That may be well and good, perhaps, but it's only
Speaker 4: what you say.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, mister Beamish. The statements which I have
Speaker 2: just made are such as might come from any intelligent
Speaker 2: human being with a true knowledge of scientific a principle,
Speaker 2: which same can't be said for some of us here
Speaker 2: at this bar. So you say, that's right, So I say,
Speaker 2: And if you can't contribute nothing but the same three
Speaker 2: words to this discussion, I will thank you to admit
Speaker 2: that you are defeated and a shut your mouth.
Speaker 5: Well now, mister father, I appeal to you.
Speaker 4: She does it.
Speaker 2: I appeal to your constable When I'm only trying to
Speaker 2: enlighten the man from the bug of hgnorance. He's a
Speaker 2: floundering in and he keeps coming up with his infernal
Speaker 2: So you say, well, I'm not wasting my words that's all.
Speaker 6: If the fins of stout and nile flown across this
Speaker 6: bar the why words to why, then i'd have been
Speaker 6: retiring years ago.
Speaker 7: Quite right, miss Bridges, I'll have another the same if
Speaker 7: you don't mind.
Speaker 6: Let's see that was.
Speaker 2: Quite a bit of why. Alright, study Bemish. I shouldn't
Speaker 2: be wasting me time on you, but out of the
Speaker 2: goodness of my heart, I'll do it anyhow suit yourself. Now,
Speaker 2: let's take, for example, that pint of ale that you're
Speaker 2: holding in your end.
Speaker 5: It's pretty empty.
Speaker 2: I've paid for the last one, all right. Now suppose,
Speaker 2: for instance, if that ale was to turn into wine.
Speaker 5: I never cared much for wine.
Speaker 2: I was Lockdale back. Now, if that ale there was
Speaker 2: to turn into wine, then you'd have a miracle, so
Speaker 2: you say, so. Anybody says, perhaps you ain't even aware
Speaker 2: of the proper definition of what a miracle is, mister Beamish.
Speaker 5: Well, some miracles is one kind, and summer's another.
Speaker 6: If anybody left so much as tuppens on the bi
Speaker 6: is a gratuity for my services, that would be a miracle,
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 2: Be that as it may, Miss Bridges. But a miracle
Speaker 2: ain't of one kind or another. A true miracle is
Speaker 2: something contrari wise to the course of nature, done by
Speaker 2: the power of will. So you said something what couldn't
Speaker 2: happen without being specially willed to happen? And miracles ain't possible,
Speaker 2: easy led, easy enough.
Speaker 5: Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say they ain't.
Speaker 2: It's your ignorance. It's talking. Look you see that lamp
Speaker 2: sitting there on the end of the bar, burning as
Speaker 2: bright as you please.
Speaker 4: I said, right.
Speaker 2: Enough now, that lamp, in the natural course of nature
Speaker 2: couldn't burn like that if it was turned upside down
Speaker 2: and hanging in the air. You say it couldn't, mister Beech,
Speaker 2: do you mean to tell me that you're all right?
Speaker 4: All right? Maybe it couldn't, and.
Speaker 2: If it did, it'd be a miracle. Well, now, supposing
Speaker 2: somebody was to come along, take me, for instance, And
Speaker 2: he pointed his finger at that lamp like this, and said,
Speaker 2: turn upside down. Now, if the lamp, if it's sid's preservice,
Speaker 2: if it aren't doing it well now, clime and the
Speaker 2: other visible means of support, I can't keep it up
Speaker 2: there much longer.
Speaker 5: Remarkable remark again, stop it, stopper, immediately. And that's my
Speaker 5: official order.
Speaker 2: I have a care constable watch out there. It goes. Now.
Speaker 6: See what you've done, mister fother and God, my best
Speaker 6: lamp chimney clean more than an hour ago, smashed in
Speaker 6: this smellory.
Speaker 2: But I didn't try to do it.
Speaker 6: You knew you might have caught the whole place of fire.
Speaker 5: Mostly irregular and illegal. Besides, like he's not, we'll have
Speaker 5: no more of it, you understand.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you I.
Speaker 6: Didn't mean you when you're silly conjuring trick.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a conjuring trick, that's what she said. No
Speaker 2: doubt you had a bit too much to drink. All
Speaker 2: I'd done was to point my finger at it like that.
Speaker 2: Stop it now, don't you dare?
Speaker 5: But that's all I've done in that case, mister farther
Speaker 5: and gay, you defeat your own argument right out of
Speaker 5: your own mouth.
Speaker 2: And how is that? Might I ask?
Speaker 5: If it weren't caused by some form of trickery, then
Speaker 5: what happened to that lamp was a miracle?
Speaker 2: Oh here, Now, I ain't hold him with no bloomy
Speaker 2: miracles old with them or not, as the case might be,
Speaker 2: mister farther and gay.
Speaker 5: But you just stood right there and performed a real, true, honest,
Speaker 5: genuine miracle. That's what you'd done.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a matter of being asked to leave the
Speaker 2: long greg And you understand I already had my mind
Speaker 2: set on going anyhow, a place what's full of hignorant superstition,
Speaker 2: and the kind of place for a man of rational
Speaker 2: intellect to be doing his thinking, and thinking was just
Speaker 2: one was called for. On the one end, I weren't
Speaker 2: ready to swallow no miracle theory. But on the other end,
Speaker 2: I wasn't able to recollect no scientific a principle, but
Speaker 2: might account for what that which had happened. As you
Speaker 2: might say, the question had dissolved itself into a dilemma. Oh,
Speaker 2: my landlady, missus Teverington was sitting up in the parlor
Speaker 2: when I come in.
Speaker 8: Good evening, mister Fotheringay.
Speaker 2: But I can't recall saying anything to her.
Speaker 5: Well, very well, mister.
Speaker 2: I went straight to my own room, closed me door,
Speaker 2: licked the candle, and then I sat there on the
Speaker 2: edge of my bed, a grappling with the problem in
Speaker 2: heroic fashion, and trying to puzzle out the ultimate solution.
Speaker 2: Weren't no easy thing to do. It couldn't have happened,
Speaker 2: but it had happened, which ain't logic no matter how
Speaker 2: you look at it. Why it It'd be the same
Speaker 2: situation if I was to point me finger at that
Speaker 2: candle there and say, be raised up in the air,
Speaker 2: and it was to climby hanging there like a blooming firefly.
Speaker 2: But it's contraary wise that poor up there, it goes
Speaker 2: Oh black as your hat. Now where in the tar
Speaker 2: nation did that confounded thing get to? At any rate?
Speaker 2: There should be some matches around here somewhere. Oh, I say,
Speaker 2: maybe I could let there be a match in me hand. Well,
Speaker 2: now just like that, oh safety, imagine a lot of
Speaker 2: blooming good that's going to oh half a half? Now,
Speaker 2: maybe I don't need no match. Maybe I could candle
Speaker 2: wherever you are be lighted. Oh he now, not in
Speaker 2: the middle of my bed. I will not be having
Speaker 2: any of them. Now, well, come in.
Speaker 5: It ain't lot, mister fothering guy.
Speaker 8: Can't I inquire what's coming off a here?
Speaker 2: You maright inquire and took places with you? Can't you
Speaker 2: recognize a man who's got his hands full.
Speaker 5: Of trouble tables.
Speaker 8: Indeed, I'll have you understand, Oh, mister furthering guy, why
Speaker 8: you smoke coming out of that bed.
Speaker 2: Because it caught on fire.
Speaker 8: That's why, oh may war comforter with a null band
Speaker 8: in it and taking lighted candles to bed with you.
Speaker 2: I am not taking no candles anywhere, and I will
Speaker 2: thank you to leave me the privacy of my own
Speaker 2: a bed chamber.
Speaker 8: Well, I never you have been drinken.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, I have been cogitating upon matters of science,
Speaker 2: which is far beyond the range of your feeble hintellect.
Speaker 8: And with all the money I have to spend on candles,
Speaker 8: I'll let you know that if any candles are going
Speaker 8: to bed fussed around loose like in this house, I'll.
Speaker 2: Do the tousson missus Teverington. I might remind you that
Speaker 2: good steady lodgers such as a man like myself, ain't
Speaker 2: so easy to come by nowadayes with which I will
Speaker 2: bill you are highly a respectable A good a night.
Speaker 8: I've never been so insulted in all my life, and
Speaker 8: you can rest assure you.
Speaker 5: Ever done the last of this.
Speaker 2: Old vulture. Don't know who she's talking to me. A
Speaker 2: bloke what's only got to point his finger and say.
Speaker 4: Be and it is.
Speaker 2: Yimy. If I ain't suddenly got the power to perform miracles,
Speaker 2: real genuine miracles like as not the result of my
Speaker 2: long devotion to the true principles of science. Well I
Speaker 2: got through the next day without no trouble, and come
Speaker 2: evening I went walking down the lane that leads around
Speaker 2: Millsdale's Pond, tempting to put my mental processes into order.
Speaker 2: As you might say, mostly I kept trying to cogitate
Speaker 2: on some honest to betsy miracle I might up and perform,
Speaker 2: But it ain't such an easy matter for a chap
Speaker 2: who's unaccustomed to goings on at that nature. Now, what
Speaker 2: I wanted was the genuine art, all you understand, no
Speaker 2: little shenanigans, one with which to make people stop and
Speaker 2: say blame me. Now, if that ain't a real, downright
Speaker 2: miracle for you, all of a sudden I had it.
Speaker 2: I just happened to recollect a chat somewhere who stuck
Speaker 2: his staff into the ground and commanded it to blossom.
Speaker 2: So I poked me walking stick into the edge of
Speaker 2: the turf our back doorful wee bit and pointed my
Speaker 2: finger at it. Walking stick become a blooming bush of
Speaker 2: posies roses by heaven, I've done it, just like that
Speaker 2: fellow in the opera? What's going on here, Constable Winch,
Speaker 2: confound a man anyhow, Say.
Speaker 5: And assist whatever it is you're doing in the.
Speaker 2: Name of the crowd. You there, rose bush, go bet
Speaker 2: now faster?
Speaker 7: Who is your thrown brammel bushes at last and France
Speaker 7: white into him and severely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, confounded, blundering idiot.
Speaker 7: I've seen now who's conducting the various activities under the
Speaker 7: cover of darkness, assaulting an officer and gains in the
Speaker 7: pursuit of his natural.
Speaker 2: Well, so it's you, mister Fotheringay, the fact being self evident,
Speaker 2: mister Winch, I will not bother myself to hands, so
Speaker 2: you will.
Speaker 5: Not bother yourself to aunts.
Speaker 7: Maybe you'll also deny that you just threw a great
Speaker 7: heavy mass of foliage at me.
Speaker 2: I do deny it.
Speaker 4: They're no doubt.
Speaker 7: It just up and flew through the air all by itself.
Speaker 2: Constable Wench, you have just hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 4: So that's the way the wind blows.
Speaker 7: Some more of them blasted hanky pink conjuring tricks of
Speaker 7: yours is at it.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, it was merely a small miracle.
Speaker 7: You don't say so, in which case his honor might
Speaker 7: enjoy hearing you tell about it.
Speaker 4: So come along with you an now.
Speaker 2: I will do nothing of the kind, Oh, resistant an officer.
Speaker 2: There'll be another charge against your charge in d mister witch.
Speaker 2: You can take your charges and and go to Hades.
Speaker 2: Whoa constable, Oh, mister wincholime me if he had gone
Speaker 2: and disappeared complete like wonder if he I'm thinking this
Speaker 2: miracle business ain't all. It's talking up to me why
Speaker 2: a man might find himself in a whole peck of
Speaker 2: truck before he learns the knack of the thing. I'm
Speaker 2: thinking I'd best go and get myself some really professional
Speaker 2: advice right away.
Speaker 4: Good evening to you, brother, a very pleasant evening.
Speaker 2: And the same to you with many of the mister Maidig,
Speaker 2: that that is your reverence.
Speaker 4: No no formality now done at all. No, just call
Speaker 4: me mister maydig.
Speaker 2: Will thank you kindly?
Speaker 4: Or maidig yip, won't you step inside?
Speaker 2: Much obliged to you, mister reverend.
Speaker 4: Just follow me now this way, mister I can't say
Speaker 4: that I caught the.
Speaker 2: Name fathering Gay a George a w Fathering Gay.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, not from my parish.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, attended services last Christmas.
Speaker 4: Indeed, so many people did last Christmas. Well, here we are,
Speaker 4: mister Bothering Bayture.
Speaker 2: It's a farthering, gayer, nicer diggings you've got here.
Speaker 4: Oh, adequate, mister mothering Way, adequate for my simple wants.
Speaker 4: Now now, just feel entirely free to lay your burdens
Speaker 4: upon my shoulders.
Speaker 2: Well, the fact is, huh, the matter which I have
Speaker 2: come here to talk about might be considered of a
Speaker 2: somewhat delicate nature.
Speaker 4: Oh, oll think nothing of it. You please feel free
Speaker 4: to speak, will speak freely. My housekeeper retires very early.
Speaker 2: Oh no, your reverendship is nothing like that. Then, Like
Speaker 2: what the subject about which I am inquiring is miracles?
Speaker 4: Miracles? Oh? Yes, yes, indeed miracles, any special kind of miracles?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, the kind which I perform myself, which you perform?
Speaker 4: M I see? And what sort of miracles do you perform?
Speaker 2: Well, for one thing, I have just finished sending Constable
Speaker 2: Winch to Hades Hades.
Speaker 4: Indeed, now that's it very interesting.
Speaker 2: Of course, when I realized what had happened, I had
Speaker 2: him transferred to San Francisco wherever that is.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure sure he likes San Francisco much better.
Speaker 2: You don't believe me. I can't say that I blame
Speaker 2: you none either.
Speaker 4: We'll aft all, mister Dutheringly.
Speaker 2: It's Fotheringay, well, very well, there ain't nothing else to
Speaker 2: do but for me to go up and perform a
Speaker 2: few miracles before we go any farther.
Speaker 4: Well, that's very interesting, I'm sure. Ah.
Speaker 2: You just take that jar of tobacco there on the table,
Speaker 2: for instance. Suppose I just point my finger at it
Speaker 2: like this and become a bowl of violets.
Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, it's very inter.
Speaker 2: You see, it ain't no tobacco jar, no more, it's
Speaker 2: a bowl of pilots.
Speaker 4: Well, god BlimE, I mean so it is.
Speaker 2: Of course, it ain't nothing very spectacular, your o friendship,
Speaker 2: But it is the sort of a miracle a man
Speaker 2: can pass without tangling himself up in a mass of trouble.
Speaker 4: Extraordinary, very will is extraordinary.
Speaker 2: You can see for yourself. They're real violets. Indeed, Yes, indeed,
Speaker 2: now take this for example, become a bowl of fish,
Speaker 2: No not that kind live fish in a goldfish bowl
Speaker 2: swimming around. Now that's better.
Speaker 4: It's amazing. How did you do it? You just told
Speaker 4: it to That's that's all.
Speaker 2: That's all. When I tells the thing to do it,
Speaker 2: it does it?
Speaker 4: Incredible?
Speaker 2: It come on with sudden like you might say. And
Speaker 2: I'd like to know if it's a real genuine miracle
Speaker 2: or if it ain't. Will seeing as our miracles ought
Speaker 2: to come under your reverendship special province more or less.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, indeed. However, usually in somewhat more academic fashion,
Speaker 4: these are more more astonishing as.
Speaker 2: Far as I can tell. There ain't no limit to it, like,
Speaker 2: for instance, owl of fish turn into a pigeon. Good heavens,
Speaker 2: look at the thing here here now none of that?
Speaker 2: Or you stay away from mister Maydiger. Perhaps I'd better
Speaker 2: become that jar of tobacco again. Huh, well, Reverend, what
Speaker 2: do you think about it?
Speaker 4: Amazing, it's the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen in
Speaker 4: my life, ever expected to see. No, no, no, I've
Speaker 4: got to think about it too. Consider the possibilities. Well,
Speaker 4: I might come back in the morning. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: wouldn't hear of it. I was about to dine when
Speaker 4: you rang, or wonder if you join me? Of course,
Speaker 4: I'm afraid there's only a cold mutton more. Well, now,
Speaker 4: maybe there's something else you might like better anything. Frankly,
Speaker 4: I've grown to hit the sight of.
Speaker 2: Hm. You don't mean, why not just name it pheasant?
Speaker 2: I haven't tasted pheasant in years, and now is the time.
Speaker 2: Let there be a pheasant on the table, then I know? Now, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: luck like not like that. Let it be dead and
Speaker 2: roasted and ready to eat.
Speaker 5: Look look at it.
Speaker 2: What's beautiful. Smells good too. Maybe we'd best let there
Speaker 2: be two pheasants and traffle traffles it. Maybe some oyster,
Speaker 2: two dozen oysters, you better make it three dozen, and
Speaker 2: some cheddar. Oh you must have some cheddar, a pound
Speaker 2: of cheddar. And what to drink your reflection, champagne?
Speaker 4: Will I really shouldn't you know? But will?
Speaker 2: Perhaps a small bottle of ose Hills, six bottles of Moselle,
Speaker 2: a keg of stout, and a case of champagne. There
Speaker 2: wasn't no mistake about it. I had come to the
Speaker 2: right place for said. Once miss Amite got over his
Speaker 2: first astonishment, he turned out full of ideas for brand
Speaker 2: new miracles, things even I might never have thought of,
Speaker 2: like as not well, we polished off that meal in
Speaker 2: no time at all, as easy as a cat frying
Speaker 2: eggs had. An hour later we was out walking in
Speaker 2: the dark streets of the village, turning out miraculous jobs
Speaker 2: so fast I fairly wore out my finger appointing with it.
Speaker 2: I couldn't begin to tell you all the wonderful things
Speaker 2: we did in a couple of hours. He stalled a
Speaker 2: new railway line, drained Flinders swamp, turned it into a meadow,
Speaker 2: cured the vicar's warts, paved all the roads, limited, eliminated taxation,
Speaker 2: reformed the Lord mayor, and made all the girls in
Speaker 2: the village beautiful. Ah, these weren't none of your Eightney miracles.
Speaker 4: All of these were big.
Speaker 2: We went right on turning him out, one every two minutes,
Speaker 2: just as regular as clockwork. By midnight we passed clean
Speaker 2: through the village and were walking along the lane by
Speaker 2: Millsdale's pond, fairly tired out by all that thinking and
Speaker 2: pointing and performing of miracles.
Speaker 4: Mister Fotheringay, I've just thought of another one, indeed, And
Speaker 4: what might it be the village clock there there.
Speaker 2: And the steeple. Listen, listen to it. Oh, it's terrible,
Speaker 2: true enough, it ain't got a very melodious sound to it.
Speaker 2: Then let's give them.
Speaker 4: A good clock, a great, rich, blooming one, all right,
Speaker 4: mister Maydi.
Speaker 2: Let that their clock become a genuine London style cathedral clock.
Speaker 4: Oh much better, much better. The people of this village
Speaker 4: are going to have a big surprise when they wake
Speaker 4: up in the morning, after all we've done for them tonight.
Speaker 2: I might say, there's one or two things we've done
Speaker 2: that I ain't so sure about, like turning every drop
Speaker 2: of alcoholic beverages into plain waters.
Speaker 4: Nothing to worry about, mister Follingay, you can always turn
Speaker 4: out a miraculous pint or two for your own purposes
Speaker 4: and it will reform.
Speaker 2: All the drunkards in the village. Maybe so, At any rate,
Speaker 2: we might as well wait and see what comes of it. Well,
Speaker 2: what do we perform next?
Speaker 4: I really don't know. Can't think of another single miracle
Speaker 4: that we haven't already. Half a moment, mister maid, I
Speaker 4: just thought of one of my own. I'd best take
Speaker 4: care of.
Speaker 2: Let Constable Wench be right, back in San Francisco again.
Speaker 2: He might be catching a boat or a train or something. Stand.
Speaker 2: I think the best idea is just to keep sending
Speaker 2: it back there every once in a while.
Speaker 4: I don't you have any anything to worry about. San
Speaker 4: Francisco is some distance away, you know.
Speaker 2: Is it. Oh, I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 4: I keep trying to think of one more miracle, the
Speaker 4: big one, something worthy of ending the night with. Eh,
Speaker 4: but I just don't. Oh. Well, now I say.
Speaker 2: There is one, you know, such as he You see
Speaker 2: that moon, mister Fotheringay naturally almost full by the looks
Speaker 2: of it. Remember, Joshua, Joshua, Joshua. Oh, come off it now.
Speaker 4: It would be a one rest thing to see.
Speaker 2: Well, now, that's a pretty tall horder making the moon
Speaker 2: stands still.
Speaker 4: Actually it only appears to stand still. What really happens
Speaker 4: is that the Earth stops rotating.
Speaker 2: You don't have to inform me about scientific prince, which
Speaker 2: I'm already familiar mister Maydie House. However, I think we'd
Speaker 2: best not go monkeying around with the universe.
Speaker 4: Well, you probably don't have the power to do it anyway.
Speaker 4: It's really a superior class of miracle.
Speaker 2: You know I got the power all right, but I
Speaker 2: ain't so sure. It's a good idea. I could do
Speaker 2: it if I wanted to.
Speaker 4: Oh, of course, of course you could. Well, perhaps we'd
Speaker 4: better get along home half a mon now, I I
Speaker 4: might just leave it stopped for a little while if
Speaker 4: you couldn't stop it at all.
Speaker 2: Oh well, now, if that's the way you feel, you
Speaker 2: just take a look at this old blinking world. Stop rotating.
Speaker 4: We are now?
Speaker 2: Who it's all this? I didn't order, no win bringay?
Speaker 2: What did you done? I don't rightly know. Look out?
Speaker 2: Things is starting to blow off.
Speaker 5: Oh you confound a blundering idiot, duck your head.
Speaker 2: Here comes a cow through the air, missed. Hm, you
Speaker 2: better lie down in the ditch before it gets blown away.
Speaker 2: It's getting worse all the time, and I can't see
Speaker 2: the poor me wits together. Oh, I got it. When
Speaker 2: the earth stopped rotating, everything on the surface kept right
Speaker 2: on moving five six hundred miles an hour, houses, cows,
Speaker 2: the wind, everything. It's a scientific principle. A lot of
Speaker 2: good that puzz a. Stop it man stopped, do something
Speaker 2: to war. Mister Maiding, Oh, mister Maiding, Oh, blimey, if
Speaker 2: he ain't blown clean away? Go oh, now I got
Speaker 2: myself in a fine kettle of fish for certain, only
Speaker 2: there weren't so much confusion. Maybe I could oh ooh,
Speaker 2: I say, now that's it. It's the only answer, all right. Now,
Speaker 2: Let nothing happen until I say the word go, And
Speaker 2: when I do, let everything go back exactly like it
Speaker 2: was just before I turned that bloomy lamp upside down
Speaker 2: in the long dragon bar. And at the same time,
Speaker 2: let me loose to see a miraculous power complete like,
Speaker 2: forget all about it? Have you got it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Everything just as it were, no more miracles, and let
Speaker 2: me forget the old thing, all right?
Speaker 4: Think ready, don't.
Speaker 2: That's only what you say, And the same as anybody
Speaker 2: might say, who's got the least bit of scientific knowledge
Speaker 2: inside of their thick heads? Ain't a right constable witch?
Speaker 7: You could right the same, mister following the subject. Ain't
Speaker 7: exactly in my problems, you know, And all of the
Speaker 7: same miss bridges.
Speaker 2: Right are constable here regardless, mister Beamish, Miracles ain't possible,
Speaker 2: so you say, so, I say, maybe you don't even
Speaker 2: know what ancle is. Maybe if I was to point
Speaker 2: my finger at that lamp there on the bar and
Speaker 2: tell it to turn upside down. I suppose you think
Speaker 2: it might do it? Well, I wouldn't say it would
Speaker 2: You wouldn't say it wouldn't mister be miss you ain't
Speaker 2: got a brain in your head. And I'm only wasting
Speaker 2: the time trying to enlighten you, which I ain't going
Speaker 2: to do any longer. Here you are, Miss Bridges, I thank.
Speaker 6: You, can'dly, mister father and guy.
Speaker 2: I'll be dropping in again when the place ain't quite
Speaker 2: so crowded. I bid you all a respectful her good
Speaker 2: her night.
Speaker 7: I'd say you got the best of the argument tonight.
Speaker 7: I never saw sir, will you talk a look at this?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 5: Miss Bridges?
Speaker 4: Sixpence?
Speaker 6: He left me a sixpence right here on the bard.
Speaker 6: Big is anything, and so he did the like of
Speaker 6: it I never happened before, Sign Spruce service. He be
Speaker 6: dyned A downright lumen miracle.
Speaker 2: That's what it is, A bloomin miracle.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonell. Tonight we
Speaker 3: have brought you the Man who Could Work Miracles by H. G. Wells,
Speaker 3: adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield. With editorial supervision by
Speaker 3: John Buncle. Featured in tonight's story was Ben Wright as
Speaker 3: Mister Fotheringay, with John Dayner's Mister Maydig Wilms Herbert as
Speaker 3: Toddy Beamish and Jeff Corey as Constable Winch Eleanor Audley
Speaker 3: was Missus Tetherington, and Constance Cavendish was Bridges. Special music
Speaker 3: by Ivan Dittmars. With tonight's program, we bring to a
Speaker 3: close the present series of the world's best stories of
Speaker 3: high adventures by the world's greatest authors, presented as Escape.
Speaker 2: Next week.
Speaker 3: At this time, Lomon Abner returned to the air in
Speaker 3: a new half hour program You'll want to hear. Be
Speaker 3: sure to listen Roy Rod speaking for CBS, the Columbia
Speaker 3: Broadcasting System