Speaker 1: Ah, don't touch that dial. Listen to.
Speaker 2: The folks.
Speaker 3: Was another half hour of fun with Blondie and Dagwood,
brought to you by the Colgate Palm Olet pea company,
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cream to clean your breath, Pilot cleans your teeth. Last week,
the Riley Brothers circus came to town and Dagwood promised
to take Cookie and Alexander. But as the days went by,
Dagwood forgot all about it. So one morning, before Dagwood
came down to breakfast, Alexander said to Blondie.
Speaker 4: Mom, which pop gonna take us to the circus?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know, Alexander. Your father's been very busy
at the office this week.
Speaker 4: He promised to take us.
Speaker 5: Well, Cookie, why don't you an, Alexander, use the power
of suggestion on your father?
Speaker 4: What's the power suggestion?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: You just hint around about the circus until suddenly your
father gets a brilliant idea.
Speaker 7: What idea to take you to the circuit? Oh but
that's my idea. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, believe me, children, it'll work a lot better if
you let your father think it was his idea.
Speaker 7: Well, SOPs, kind of goofy to me, but we'll do it.
Speaker 5: Hey Day's coming downstairs now. Now remember then the power
of suggestion, but don't be too obvious about it.
Speaker 7: Okay, mom? Oh stop, I come ready or not? Oh?
Speaker 6: Dad?
Speaker 2: Would you're not dressed? You forgot to put on your trousers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 7: Here, I come ready or not?
Speaker 5: Daddy, Kids, I won't watch to sit down, dear, Your
breakfast will be ready in a minute.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm beating.
Speaker 7: Yes, Alexander, we want to try the power suggestion on you.
You do, yes, we suggest you take us to the
circus and I look, kids, be quiet and let it.
Let your popp read the paper pleasing.
Speaker 2: Here's your restless time.
Speaker 4: Oh thanksgiar. Did you see this big ad in the paper?
Speaker 7: Pop? Yeah, passes all please, cookie, which added at Alexander.
It says Rollie Brother Circus Educational enjoyment for every child.
Cream and sugar too, Cookie. I'm singling thrills for kids
from sixty Yeah, boy, these ages are just right. Blondie
one and fifty that's the fine ass. Forty marching elephants,
fifty lions and tigers. Boy, than this good coffee Blondie
sixty for the four Girl sixty. Yeah, I just got
a brilliant idea.
Speaker 4: What if the top let's all go.
Speaker 1: To the circus tonight?
Speaker 4: Ye guys five years?
Speaker 7: Well, oh, I wouldn't say that, Alexander, but I don't
mind if you say it. Oh, look at the time
right away? Oh wait, day, don't go yet, don't go yet. Gee, honey,
you sort of hate to see me go out the door,
don't you, huney, yes.
Speaker 5: Dear, particularly without your pants on.
Speaker 3: I gotta hurry.
Speaker 7: I'll be right down. We're going to the circus. We're
going to this. Then I thought it.
Speaker 4: Was all his idea.
Speaker 1: Gosh, that part.
Speaker 4: Of suggestion really were h.
Speaker 6: Mom?
Speaker 8: Once?
Speaker 7: Ready?
Speaker 5: Almost Alexander going upstairs and rush your hands and face?
Speaker 4: Oh gee, do I have to?
Speaker 7: Yes, you have to.
Speaker 2: Oh dear, what's that?
Speaker 4: Peculiar?
Speaker 1: Odor?
Speaker 4: I don't know anything.
Speaker 2: Oh well, where were you all morning?
Speaker 5: Alexander over Jimmy death Thro's house. Well, going upstairs and
rush your hands and face? Oh gee, Mama just washed
my hands and face this morning.
Speaker 2: I wonder what in the world that is?
Speaker 7: Why Jimmy Detter and I had a farm this morning.
We were playing circus with us at billy goat.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not wondering anymore. So you and Jimmy were
playing with a billy goat all morning? Yeah, Alexander, I've
changed my mind.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 5: Don't go upstairs and wash your hands and feeth. Okay,
go upstairs and take a long, hot bath.
Speaker 2: Look fall mom circus tonight.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll take a bath. But can I ask you
something first?
Speaker 2: Well, buddy, want to ask me?
Speaker 4: Can I have Jimmy Dexter's billy goat?
Speaker 2: Why does he want to get rid of it?
Speaker 4: His father does.
Speaker 7: If I ad it, I could start filling circus.
Speaker 2: Heaven forbid.
Speaker 5: Besides, what do you think your father would say about
your having a billy goat?
Speaker 4: Well, couldn't we keep it a secret?
Speaker 5: I'm afraid things like that have a way of getting around.
Speaker 7: Well, jee whish, I don't see what's on terriball having
one billy goat? Remember you and Popper kids once?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 7: Well, you haven't always been old?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I guess it just beings that way.
Speaker 4: Why can't I have a mom?
Speaker 5: You'd better ask your father about having a billy goat, Alexander.
Speaker 4: Well, Pop says, yes, what will you do.
Speaker 7: I'll just pray for a strong wind.
Speaker 1: That's you, if I'm saying, it's where Corporal Julius Diners
hangs out. Joe Klatt, Sergeant Joe Clotts. Remember, Julie, I'll say,
I remember I haven't seen you since the army in
nineteen eighteen. Yeah, you were a corporal and I was
a hard Remember that last leave in Paris?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 1: Well well, Joe clott Yeah, it's been a long time.
What are you doing in town anyway? Tiger's Convention starts today.
Tiger's Club. Oh, sure, you know Tiger's Club like the
Lions Club, the Elks.
Speaker 7: The Moves.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, Tigers Club? Raw? What's that? That's our club?
Speaker 7: Greedy?
Speaker 1: Hey, why don't you join the Tigers Club? Julie, I'll
get you an invite. Oh I don't know, Joe. What's
good for business? You meet a lot of fullers, well blowouts.
Get to go to the convention might be a good
idea for sure. Well could my assistant be a member too?
His name's Bumpstead. What sure thing? Hey? Why don't you
and Bumpstead be my guest tonight? What's tonight? The Tigers
Club Stag Banquet? It's tag banquet. Sure you know Julie
stag Banquet. Oh yeah, wait a second, I'll call Bumpstead. Okay,
corporal dinner. There's your worst jan Kott Bumstead come in here?
Speaker 4: Did you call me?
Speaker 7: Mister ditty?
Speaker 1: I'm said to beat my old buddy Joe. We were
in the army together in nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 7: Oh, glad to meet you.
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 7: What were you in the K nine Corps?
Speaker 1: Of course, Joe was a major and I was a general.
Speaker 7: Oh at general? Lichget is you told me before that
you were an admiral?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, yes, I was an admiral general. I was
just telling Goolie. But I'm sad that you and him
should join the Tigers Club.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Joe has invited us to be his guests at
the Tiger scat Tranquet. Oh that's great. Now let me
see there was something. Yeah, it seems like there was
something I was supposed to do tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh nonsense, Bunny, I didn't give you any homework tonight.
Speaker 2: No you didn't.
Speaker 7: But wait a minute, I must have been thinking of
last night. Yeah. Well, I'll call blondidn't ask her if
I can go with you?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: You mean ask your wife if you can go. Oh no,
Bomb said. The trouble with you is you don't stand
up for your right, make your own decision. What are
you a banner of mouse? Surt yourself?
Speaker 7: Be like me. Well, I don't like to be a rat.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, Bum said, If you don't go, you're
gonna miss a lot of Bump said, this is an order.
You have to go with it.
Speaker 7: Well, I still don't think I should go without telling Brandy.
Speaker 1: You have to go.
Speaker 7: I won't go, all right, your father, all right, I'll go.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Speaker 1: I promise you. It'll be a circus.
Speaker 7: Oh boy, this will be a circus.
Speaker 1: Oh circus.
Speaker 7: Hey, that's just where I was going to go to night.
I was gonna take Alexander Cookie to the circus. Now,
oh my, if I don't take them out, be.
Speaker 1: A flop as a pop.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Hello, oh oh, bandy, this is the first chance
here that I've had.
Speaker 2: To phone you.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, you see, mister Diners is making me have
dinner with a bunch of tigers. Yeah. So you and
the children go ahead and I'll meet you at.
Speaker 1: The circus later. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll see you in front of the side show
where they had that dancer little Egypt. Why well, if
that's the way you feel there, yes, okay, then look
for me by the monkey cage. Yeah, yeah, I'll do that. Goodbye?
Speaker 1: What you say she said for me to wear a hat?
Speaker 2: Wall?
Speaker 1: I just found out we're going to march into the
circus behind our tiger band. Yeah, isn't that great? We'll
say if your dealers play any band instrument? Well, mister
DIDs it blows his own horn a little bit. Well, Tom,
Well let's get going.
Speaker 7: Boy. I can't get to this circus soon enough. I'll
march any place you want me to accept in front
of the trombones. Dear, I wonder.
Speaker 2: What's keeping your father? Do you?
Speaker 4: You'll think I should go down to the monkey canyon?
Speaker 1: Look?
Speaker 5: Wan, oh cookie, is that a nice thing to say?
Speaker 4: Who he might be sharing a few peace with them?
Speaker 7: Hey? Look here comes another band. What's a lot of
clowns behind her? And look at that big tiger way
sands in the middle. I'll bet if he had one
a pop stand with your dad's sand would really drassed.
Speaker 2: Call your father was up this?
Speaker 4: I wish you were here?
Speaker 7: What happened? Look?
Speaker 5: Brother, the tiger stopped and the fat part bumped into
what Oh those are men wearing a tiger costume. And look, children,
the man in front is grabbing the man in back
and and trying to stump.
Speaker 9: Them into la.
Speaker 7: Huh its our dinner in our top.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, come on, children, I don't know how your
father got into this, but we're going down there and
get them out of it.
Speaker 10: Oh, dear.
Speaker 4: Boy, that was a small circus I ever saw.
Speaker 7: And pot, you are funnier than any of the other clouds. Yeah,
I suppose. And now let's be quiet. Cookie sound asleep?
And where do you want me to put her? Blondie here?
Speaker 2: Give it to me.
Speaker 7: I'll take her upstairs and put it together. I'll carry upstairs.
Speaker 2: No, I never mind you now come on and give
it to me.
Speaker 5: You'd better rest after your stringy was easy?
Speaker 4: Sha, We go in the kitchen, have something to eat.
Speaker 7: Why didn't even suffer so I'd be able to eat
on a popcorn? And then I didn't judge much popcorn. Yeah, well, okay,
come on, Alexander, I'll fix you a nice sandwich.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 7: Hmmm, while I'm at it, I think I will make
one for myself. See, I think I'll make a fum
Stead number three special. See that some guy to get
rid of his goat? Can I have it? Well, it
would be too hard to take care of Alexander. Oh
I'm not one part. I take good care of there.
Now let's see, now what will I put it? My sandwich,
pickled herring, horse readdish, sharame onion, little limber of the cheese,
little peanut butter that sort of cemented together. Yeah, let's see. Now,
what else will I have in at? The goat? Is
eat is wood and paper and tin can? Yeah, well,
it's the wonder the fool things don't get sick putting
that mixture in their stomach? Oh gee, how can I
have them? I don't think he's better, Alexander.
Speaker 2: You don't think he's better?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 7: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Alexander should have a billy.
Speaker 7: Goat, Blondie, I didn't think you would.
Speaker 5: In fact, I just assumed you didn't even play with
that goat, Alexander.
Speaker 2: After you've been.
Speaker 5: Around it for a while, you you well, I just
assume you didn't play with it.
Speaker 7: Well, gosh, that's where everybody feels.
Speaker 4: I guess there's nothing.
Speaker 7: For me to leave home and join a circus, leave
home just because you can't have a billy goat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I better leave.
Speaker 2: Oh but Alexander, you.
Speaker 7: Can't do that, so you're gonna run away and join
that circus. I imagine a Bumpstead being in a circus.
No Bumpstead and it Alexander, when do you think that
you'll be leaving?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 4: Oh, well tonight, I guess tonight.
Speaker 7: I know it's a hard thing to do, but I'll
just have to be a man and make my own decisions. Yeah, Alexander, Uh,
take a little look outside.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is pretty dark and no place to sleep either.
Speaker 4: Okay, if you want.
Speaker 7: Me to stay tonight, I won't leave home until the
first thing in the morning. The first thing in the morning.
Huh yeah, the first thing after breakfast.
Speaker 3: It returned to dag Wood, Blondie and Alexander.
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Speaker 5: Oh Jack, Jack, what, I'm super worried. Alexander's packing his
suitca he is?
Speaker 2: What for? So don't you remember what he said last night?
Speaker 7: He's leaving home to join the circle. All stop worrying, dear, Now,
just act tipe. We're not going to try.
Speaker 1: To stop and see.
Speaker 7: He won't leave home, I know, Alexander. He won't even
go out of his room today. Well, by folks, goodbye Alexander.
Hay Hey, wait, where are you going?
Speaker 2: I'm leaving room?
Speaker 7: I guess, of course, if you and I really want stay.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 7: We've changed my mind. We don't want to stand in
your way.
Speaker 5: Oh you wouldn't be standing in my way, pop, Oh no,
you wouldn't be standing in his way.
Speaker 7: There, no, blondy, No, dear, Alexander's made his decision and
I wouldn't want to interfere.
Speaker 5: Oh what have you got in your suitcase?
Speaker 2: Alexander?
Speaker 7: Or I just took the important stuff, only the things
I really need? Know what things?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: My water pistol.
Speaker 7: Everybody should take a water pistol when.
Speaker 1: They go in a.
Speaker 7: In my hotter fly left. You'll need that too, all right, yeah,
and my baseball bat, baseball bat in that tiny little suitcase.
How'd you get a baseball bat in there?
Speaker 4: I saw that now, and that should fit.
Speaker 7: I guess yeah. Well, well, well, well, I guess i'd
better get started if I'm going to.
Speaker 4: Join the circus.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 5: Oh, but you're going to eat first, aren't you, Alexander? Well,
if you really want me to stay, right, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: We want you to day till after breakfast. I mean, huh, oh,
sare go after breakfast?
Speaker 2: Where is he?
Speaker 1: Dagar?
Speaker 7: Well, he's coming down now, Blondie. He went up to
pack his suitcase again.
Speaker 2: Do you think we should let him leave? I don't worry.
Speaker 1: He won't go far.
Speaker 7: He'll come back.
Speaker 1: Just don't let him think that we're concerned. He has to.
Speaker 7: Realize that he can't get things by threatening to leave home.
Speaker 2: Oh, I guess you're right.
Speaker 7: Shere he comes down. Let's just go on eating our breakfast,
all right, All right, Well, I guess I'll get going, okay, Alexander, go.
Speaker 4: Wan mom, bye Pop. It's been nice living here, bad
in this way?
Speaker 7: Yeah, goodbye, Alexander song.
Speaker 2: Well, well, there he goes.
Speaker 7: Hem, I'm don't cry. I'll stay.
Speaker 2: I'm not crying, Alexander.
Speaker 4: Oh you're not.
Speaker 7: Uh huh, Well, I guess I'll be going by folks. Goodbye, Alexander.
Speaker 1: There he goes again.
Speaker 4: What did you say to.
Speaker 1: I?
Speaker 7: H said goodbye Alexander.
Speaker 11: Oh so, uh.
Speaker 7: Huh that's funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Mister Dinners must be in his office.
Speaker 7: I'd better look. Oh, well, good morning.
Speaker 2: Mister Dinner.
Speaker 7: Well how do you feel after last night?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: No, I know, but how do you feel?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: How's your buddy Joe Pott?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 7: Oh, guys, that's too bad. I get It's a good thing.
Blondie took me home.
Speaker 1: Bom said, I feel awful. Oh my head. Shut the door.
I'm saying, okay, j C.
Speaker 4: Door, you have to salva.
Speaker 1: No, my ears are ringing.
Speaker 7: No no, no, that's the poem that's to Diddy.
Speaker 1: I'll get it.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, Blondy, what you think Alexander's really gone? Oh my,
this is all my fault, Blondie dear, Okay, I'll find
out where the circus went to today and see if
he's there.
Speaker 1: Goodbye.
Speaker 7: What's the matter Alexander's well, he's left home to join
the circus, and I gotta go find him.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's nothing new on Every boy wants to run
away and join the circus at some time, or of it.
I remember when I was seven, I told my father
that for two cents I'd run away from home. What
happened The easiest two cents I ever made. See.
Speaker 7: I wonder where the circus went to.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's in Sheridan City today. Go ahead
and find you a little Bumlet.
Speaker 7: See. I wonder when I can get a bus for
Sheridan City.
Speaker 4: Hey, that looks like me is?
Speaker 7: But Borpington's big long limousine coming this way? Why makes
bub Barbington?
Speaker 6: Hey said hello, Hello, dear boy.
Speaker 1: How are you? Oh?
Speaker 7: I'm a fiddle.
Speaker 12: You don't You don't happen to play violin?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Hey, no, no, I don't too bad.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 12: This morning I went to the gymnasium for a little exercise. Oh,
they have the handsomest new gym instructor. He left me
simply breathless.
Speaker 1: Oh he did, yes.
Speaker 12: He hit me in the stomach with a medicine ball.
Speaker 7: Me.
Speaker 1: But what did you do?
Speaker 12: But if I didn't, well, I did what any well
bred person would do. I turned blue.
Speaker 7: How are you, dear?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: I ain't not too good?
Speaker 12: Oh you look very good to me, so strong, so handsome,
so gregory package.
Speaker 4: But what's trouble?
Speaker 7: Well, my son wanted to run away from home, you say,
And he well, he wanted to join a circus or
get a billy goat. And I told him that he'd
have to choose between a goat and me, so he
took the goat.
Speaker 12: You I ran away from home when I was dead.
Speaker 7: Did you want a billy goat? No? I wanted a
minky coat. Who are you going? Can I drop you anywhere?
Speaker 12: Dear boy?
Speaker 7: Well, I've got to get to the circus at Sheridan
City and find the Alexander and bring him home.
Speaker 12: Hop right in, hop right in, and I'll take you here.
Dear boys, Oh thank you. You know my late husband
missed bof Opington, the man who had bitted the chicken.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 12: He always used to say, do it ever so humble.
There's no place like home if you can't find any
other place?
Speaker 1: Open board?
Speaker 9: Also, mom, can I have a sandwich?
Speaker 7: Try?
Speaker 2: Alexander?
Speaker 7: Are you still here?
Speaker 5: I thought you'd left home to join the circus.
Speaker 7: Well, I just came back to tell you goodbye.
Speaker 2: But you told me that at breakfast. Well, I was thinking.
Speaker 7: Maybe I could forget about Jimmy Dexter's billy. Go.
Speaker 5: Oh really, if I didn't have to wash my hands
and face every time, I nothing doing, as long as
if you live in this house, you'll have to wash
your face and hands before you sit down to the table.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess i'll get started.
Speaker 7: I'll go out and say good bye to Pop.
Speaker 2: All right, you grew up? And oh, oh.
Speaker 5: My goodness, what's there when your father's gone to the
circus at Sheridan City?
Speaker 7: He asked. Jeez, he's gonna wa have the tail the
tiger again?
Speaker 5: Oh, never mind dead. He's looking for you, and I
guess we better start looking for him. Come on, I
wish only don't want Pop to run a wind? Who
want a circus too? No, sir Alexander, But we better
get him quick before the circus hire is another column?
Speaker 7: A word to where papas We looked just about everywhere
for him. Well, if you were a dad with looking
for an Alexander, where would you go?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess maybe a few of the feed the
animals let's go.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 7: Okay, hey missed the Give him the peanuts, not the
shells mine. You're right, Alexander.
Speaker 8: You that good?
Speaker 6: Hey, hot.
Speaker 7: Hey, Sonny, come here, Sonny. Have you seen a little
boy around here named alex All Alexanders you it is
hot all Alexander, my little old boy. I found your
last and blondie. Yes, look, I just found Alexander. I
thought to myself, where would I go at the circus
if I were Alexander? So if I came here? And
sure enough I found it? Looking for you, tulpot. Oh yeah,
I knew you'd get lonesome for your old pop.
Speaker 5: Well right now, I'm not sure who was looking for whom.
Speaker 2: But we better get home for dinner.
Speaker 7: Oh that sounds good to me. Mom.
Speaker 4: As soon as we get home, you remind me of
something I have to.
Speaker 7: Do right away.
Speaker 2: What's that, Alexander?
Speaker 7: I want to go upstairs and wash my face and
asks for supper.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't go.
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Speaker 5: There y'all tucked in company. Now, good night, Alexander, Good
night Mam. We're certainly glad you decided.
Speaker 2: Not to run away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we sure are, Alexander. You really were a big
help in finding your father.
Speaker 4: I know, Mom, but don't tell Pop. It might spoil
us fun.
Speaker 7: He really thinks he found.
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