1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: The thin Santa Claus by Ellis Parker Butler. Missus Grots 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,519 opened her eyes and looked out at the drizzle that 3 00:00:08,679 --> 00:00:12,919 made the Christmas morning gray. Her bed stood against the window, 4 00:00:13,359 --> 00:00:16,320 and it was easy for her to look out. All 5 00:00:16,359 --> 00:00:18,640 she had to do was to roll over and pull 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,320 the shade aside. Having looked at the weather, she rolled 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,000 again on to the broad flat of her back and 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,280 made herself comfortable for a while, for there was no 9 00:00:28,399 --> 00:00:31,039 reason why she should get up until she felt like it. 10 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 2: Such a Christmas, she. 11 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: Said good naturedly to herself. 12 00:00:36,439 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: I guess such weathers as bad for Sandy Claus. Maybe 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,359 it is because of such weathers he don't come by 14 00:00:41,359 --> 00:00:44,399 my house. I don't blame him so muddy. 15 00:00:45,359 --> 00:00:49,079 Speaker 1: She let her eyes close indolently. Not yet was she 16 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,240 hungry enough to imagine the tempting odor of fried bacon 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:57,000 and eggs, and she idly slipped into sleep again. She 18 00:00:57,159 --> 00:01:00,000 was in no hurry. She was never in a hurry. 19 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:02,759 What is the use of being in a hurry when 20 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:05,439 you own a good little house and have money in 21 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,000 the bank and are a widow. What is the use 22 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,319 of being in a hurry? Anyway, Missus Grots was always 23 00:01:13,359 --> 00:01:17,680 placid and fat, and she always had been. What is 24 00:01:17,719 --> 00:01:19,519 the use of having money in the bank and a 25 00:01:19,519 --> 00:01:22,400 good little house if you are not placid and fat? 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,439 Missus Grots lay on her back and slept placidly and fatly, 27 00:01:27,599 --> 00:01:31,040 with her mouth open, as if she expected Santa Claus 28 00:01:31,079 --> 00:01:33,959 to pass by and drop a present into it. Her 29 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,200 dreams were pleasant. It was no disappointment to Missus Grots 30 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,599 that Santa Claus had not come to her house. She 31 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,319 had not expected him. She did not even believe in him. Yes, 32 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,799 she had told Missus Flannery next door, as she handed 33 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,920 a little parcel of toys over the fence for the 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:54,760 little flanneries. 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: Once I believes in such as Santa Claus myself, Yet 36 00:01:58,879 --> 00:02:01,120 I make me pretty good time then. But now I'm 37 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:03,799 too old. I don't believe in such things. But I 38 00:02:03,879 --> 00:02:06,519 make pretty good times. Still. I have a good little 39 00:02:06,519 --> 00:02:07,959 house and money in the bank. 40 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,319 Speaker 1: Suddenly Missus Grots closed her mouth and opened her eyes. 41 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:17,680 She smelt imaginary bacon frying. She felt real hunger and 42 00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:20,960 slid out of bed and began to dress herself. And 43 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,840 she had just buttoned her red flannel petticoat around her 44 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,879 wide waist when she heard a silence and paused for 45 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,080 a full minute. She stood trying to realize what the 46 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:37,000 silence meant. The English sparrows were chirping as usual and 47 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,680 making enough noise, but through their bickerings, the silence still 48 00:02:41,719 --> 00:02:46,039 annoyed Missus Grots, And then quite suddenly again she knew 49 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,919 her chickens were not making their usual morning racket. 50 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: I bet you I know what it is, sure, she. 51 00:02:53,719 --> 00:02:57,879 Speaker 1: Said, and continued to dress as placidly as before. When 52 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:02,080 she went down, she found that she had won. A 53 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,879 week before, two chickens had been stolen from her coop, 54 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,960 and she had had a strong padlock put on the 55 00:03:08,039 --> 00:03:11,800 chicken house. Now the padlock was pried open, and the 56 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,599 chicken house was empty, and nine hens and a rooster 57 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:20,120 were gone. Missus Grots stooped and entered the low gate 58 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,960 and surveyed the vacant chicken yard placidly. If they were gone, 59 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:25,800 they were gone. 60 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: Such a Santy Claus, she said, good naturedly. I don't 61 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:34,319 like such a Santa Claus taking away and not bringing 62 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:36,680 pretty soon, you don't have such a good name anymore 63 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:39,240 if he keeps up doing like this. People likes the 64 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,240 bringing santy Claus. I guess they don't think much of 65 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,800 the taking away business. He gets a bad name quick 66 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:46,000 enough if he does this much. 67 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: She turned to bend her head to look into the 68 00:03:49,199 --> 00:03:53,039 vacant chicken house and stood still. She put out her 69 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,360 foot and touched something her eyes had lighted upon, and 70 00:03:56,439 --> 00:03:59,960 the thing moved. It was a purse of worn black leather, 71 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:04,120 soaked by the drizzle, but still holding the bend that 72 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,439 comes to men's purses when worn long in a back 73 00:04:07,479 --> 00:04:11,199 trouser pocket. One end of the purse was muddy and 74 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:14,520 pressed deep into the soft soil, where a heel was 75 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,600 tramped on it. Missus Grots bent and picked it up. 76 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,279 There was nine hundred dollars in bills in the purse. 77 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,639 Missus Grots stood still while she counted the bills, and 78 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:29,800 as she counted, her hands began to tremble and her 79 00:04:29,879 --> 00:04:33,439 knees shook, and she sank on the doorsill of the 80 00:04:33,519 --> 00:04:36,959 chicken house and laughed until the tears rolled down her face. 81 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,240 Occasionally she stopped to wipe her eyes, and the flood 82 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,959 of laughter gradually died away into ripples of intermittent giggles 83 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,480 that were like sobs after sorrow. Missus Grots had no 84 00:04:49,639 --> 00:04:52,240 great sense of humor, but she could see the fun 85 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,720 of finding nine hundred dollars. It was enough to make 86 00:04:55,759 --> 00:04:57,639 her laugh, so she laughed. 87 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,519 Speaker 2: Goodness, Such just Santi Claus. 88 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,399 Speaker 1: She exclaimed, with a final sigh of pleasure. 89 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: Such a Christmas present from Santa Claus. No wonder he 90 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:12,040 is so fat yet when he eats ten chickens in 91 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:14,800 one night. Already, But I don't kick I like me 92 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,480 that Santa Claus, all right. I believes in him pretty 93 00:05:17,519 --> 00:05:18,720 good After this, I bet. 94 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: She went at once to tell Missus Flannery, and Missus 95 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,560 Flannery was far more excited about it than Missus Grots 96 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,639 had been. She said. It was the hand of retribution 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,680 paying back the chicken thief, and the hand of justice 98 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,439 repaying Missus Grots for sending toys to the little flanneries, 99 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,959 and pure luck giving Missus Grots what she always got, 100 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:42,759 and a number of other things. 101 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 3: Tis the luck of you, Missus Grots, m'am, she said, 102 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,439 And often I do be saying it is the Dutch 103 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:54,000 for luck, meaning no disrespect you. I'm the father of 104 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,160 the luckier, as I often told me, old man, rest 105 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:04,399 his soul and him so thin and Christmas morning at that, ma'am, 106 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:08,120 which has nothing at all but the judgment of havin 107 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,879 on a dirty chicken thief packing such a day for 108 00:06:11,959 --> 00:06:15,120 a steven when there's plenty other days in the year 109 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:19,480 for him. Keep the money, ma'am, for it is yours 110 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,120 by good rights. And I knew there'd be some good 111 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,800 come to you the minute you hand in me the 112 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,560 presents for the kids. The good folks shaw all gets 113 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,399 the reward in this world. Only some don't. And I'm 114 00:06:34,439 --> 00:06:39,399 only sorry man is a pig instead of chickens, But 115 00:06:39,519 --> 00:06:41,439 not wish you need the money yourself at all. But 116 00:06:42,439 --> 00:06:46,160 who would come to steal a pig and them such 117 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:51,600 loud scoilers? And who do you suspicion? It was Missus Grad's, ma'am. 118 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: I think maybe I got me a present from Santa Claus. 119 00:06:55,439 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: Yes, said Missus Grad's. And hear the woman said Missus 120 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,800 Flannery Jeer. 121 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 3: That night, Well trefia, ma'am. Stuck to it. There's no 122 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,079 telln he'll be claiming the money. And have ever Santa 123 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,279 Claus brought a thing to a mortal soul, twas him 124 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:17,079 brought ya that, and twas only yesterday you were saying 125 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,160 you'd no belief in him yesterday. 126 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 2: I don't have no beliefs in. 127 00:07:20,399 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: Him, said Missus Grots. 128 00:07:22,959 --> 00:07:23,279 Speaker 4: To day. 129 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:25,839 Speaker 2: I have plenty of beliefs in him. I like him plenty. 130 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:29,319 I don't care if he comes every year, Sure. 131 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: Not, said Missus Flannery. 132 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 3: And you, with the nine hundred dollars in your pocket 133 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,160 a big lad of the chance. I'd believe in him 134 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:38,920 myself for four hundred and fifth. 135 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: By that afternoon, Missus Flannery, whose excitement had not abated 136 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:47,000 in the least, went over to Missus Grots to spend 137 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,240 the afternoon talking to her about the money. She felt 138 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,240 that it was good to be that near it at 139 00:07:52,279 --> 00:07:55,360 any rate. And when one can make a whole afternoon's 140 00:07:55,399 --> 00:07:59,240 conversation out of what Missus Casey said to missus O'Reilly 141 00:07:59,279 --> 00:08:02,160 about Missus Neelie, it is a shame to miss a 142 00:08:02,279 --> 00:08:06,879 chance to talk about nine hundred dollars. Missus Flannery was 143 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:11,680 rocking violently and talking rapidly, and Missus Grots was slowly 144 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:15,920 moving her rocker and answering in monosyllables. When some one 145 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,839 knocked at the door. Missus Grots answered the knock her 146 00:08:20,959 --> 00:08:23,959 visitor was a tall, thin man, and he had a 147 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,120 slouch hat which he held in his hands as he talked. 148 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,040 He seemed nervous, and his face wore a worried look, 149 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,519 extremely worried. He looked like a man who had lost 150 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:40,360 nine hundred dollars. But he did not look like Santa Claus. 151 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:45,039 He was thinner and not so jolly looking. At first, 152 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,879 Missus Grots had no idea that Santa Claus was standing 153 00:08:47,919 --> 00:08:50,519 before her, for he did not have a sleigh bell 154 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,639 about him, and he had left his red cotton coat 155 00:08:53,759 --> 00:08:56,919 with the white batting trimming at home. He stood in 156 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,600 the door, playing with his hat. Unable to speak, he 157 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:04,840 seemed to have some delicacy about beginning. Well what is it, 158 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:09,679 said Missus Grots. Her visitor pulled himself together with an effort. 159 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 4: Well, ma'am, I'll tell you, he said, frankly. I'm a 160 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:18,360 chicken buyer. I buy chickens. That's my business, dealin in poultry. 161 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,320 So I came out to day to buy some chickens. 162 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:26,879 Speaker 1: On Christmas Day, asked Missus Grots. Well, said the man, 163 00:09:27,039 --> 00:09:29,320 moving uneasily from one foot to the other. 164 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 4: I did come on Christmas Day, didn't I? I don't 165 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,639 deny that, ma'am. I did come on Christmas Day. I'd 166 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:38,519 like to go out and have a look at yer chickens. 167 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,519 Speaker 2: It ain't so usual for buyers to come buying chickens 168 00:09:42,519 --> 00:09:43,799 on Christmas Day, is. 169 00:09:43,759 --> 00:09:46,919 Speaker 1: It, interposed, Missus Grots good naturedly. 170 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 4: Well, no, it ain't an that's a. 171 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:52,039 Speaker 1: Fact, said the man uneasily. 172 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,159 Speaker 4: But I always do. The people I buy chickens for 173 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,240 is just as apt to want to eat chicken one 174 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,919 day as another day, and more so turkey on Christmas 175 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,759 Day and chicken the next for a change. That's what 176 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:06,720 they always tells me. So I have to buy chickens 177 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,480 every day. I hate to, but I have to. And 178 00:10:09,519 --> 00:10:11,360 if I could just go out and look around your 179 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:12,080 chicken yard. 180 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,639 Speaker 1: It was right there that Missus Grots had a suspicion 181 00:10:15,639 --> 00:10:17,159 that Santa Claus stood before her. 182 00:10:17,879 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 2: But I don't sell such a chicken yard yet. 183 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: She said. 184 00:10:21,799 --> 00:10:25,919 Speaker 4: The man wiped his forehead. Sure not, he said, nervously. 185 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:28,759 I was going to say, look around your chickenyard and 186 00:10:28,799 --> 00:10:31,879 see the chickens. I can't buy chickens without I see them, 187 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:34,600 can I? Some folks might, but I can't with the 188 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,600 kind of customers I've got. I've got mighty particular customers, 189 00:10:38,759 --> 00:10:40,799 and I pay extra prices so as to get the 190 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,000 best for them. And when I go out and look 191 00:10:43,039 --> 00:10:44,240 around the chicken yard. 192 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,399 Speaker 2: How much you pay for such nice, big fat chickens, maybe, 193 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,120 asked missus Grots. 194 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 4: Well, i'll tell you, said the man. Seven cents a 195 00:10:54,879 --> 00:10:58,320 pound is regular, ain't it? Well, I pay twelve. I'll 196 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,799 give you twelve cents and pay your right now, and 197 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:04,279 take all the chickens you've got. That's my rule. But 198 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,080 if you want to, let me go out and see 199 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,679 the chickens first and pick out the kind my regular 200 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:12,039 customers like. I pay twenty cents a pound. But I 201 00:11:12,039 --> 00:11:15,000 won't pay twenty cents without I can see the chickens first. 202 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: Sure, said missus Grots. 203 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it too. Maybe I go out and 204 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,840 bring in a couple such chickens for you to look at. 205 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: Yes, no, don't, said the man impulsively. 206 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 4: Don't do it. It wouldn't be no good. I've got 207 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,399 to see the chickens on the hoof, as I might say, on. 208 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,799 Speaker 1: The hoofs, said Missus Grots. 209 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 2: Such poultry don't have no hoofs running around explained the visitor. 210 00:11:40,879 --> 00:11:43,159 Speaker 4: Running around in the coop. I can tell if a 211 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,639 chicken has got any disease that my trade wouldn't like, 212 00:11:45,879 --> 00:11:48,559 if I see it running around in the coop. There's 213 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,639 a lot in the way a chicken runs, in the 214 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,519 way it hiss up its legs, for instance. That's what 215 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,159 the trade calls it on the hoof. So I'll just 216 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,879 go out and have a look around the coop. 217 00:11:58,879 --> 00:12:01,399 Speaker 2: For twenty cents I owned. Anybody could let buy er 218 00:12:01,519 --> 00:12:05,200 see their chickens on the hoof, I guess, said Missus Grots. 219 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 4: Now that's the way to talk. 220 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:08,919 Speaker 1: Exclaimed the man. 221 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: Only I ain't got any such chickens, said Missus Grots. 222 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,879 So it ain't of use to look how they walk. 223 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: So goodbye now, I say, said the man. But Missus 224 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,399 Grots closed the door in his face. 225 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 2: I guess such a Santa Claus come back yet. 226 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: Said Missus Grots, when she went into the room where 227 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:30,039 Missus Flannery was sitting. 228 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 2: But it ain't any use he don't leave many more 229 00:12:32,879 --> 00:12:34,480 such presents, the. 230 00:12:34,519 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: Impotence of them, exclaimed Missus Flannery. 231 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,799 Speaker 2: For nine hundred dollars, I could be impudent too. 232 00:12:41,039 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: Said Missus Grots calmly. 233 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,759 Speaker 2: But I don't like such Nowadays Santa Claus is coming 234 00:12:45,799 --> 00:12:48,919 back all the time. Once when I believe in Santa 235 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:50,840 Claus's they don't come back so much. 236 00:12:51,639 --> 00:12:54,759 Speaker 1: The thin Santa Claus had not gone far. He had 237 00:12:54,799 --> 00:12:58,279 crossed the street and stood gazing at Missus Grotz's door. 238 00:12:58,879 --> 00:13:02,600 And now he crossed a in and knocked. Missus Grots 239 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:04,200 arose and went to the door. 240 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,919 Speaker 2: I believe he comes back once yet, she. 241 00:13:07,919 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: Said to Missus Flannery, and opened the door. He had 242 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,080 indeed come back. Now see here, he said, briskly. 243 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 4: Ain't your name Missus Gratz? Well, I knowed it was, 244 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:21,759 and I knowed you was a widow lady. And that's 245 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:23,840 why I said I was a chicken buyer. I didn't 246 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,200 want to frighten you, But I ain't no chicken. 247 00:13:25,879 --> 00:13:29,440 Speaker 1: Buyer, no, asked Missus Grots. 248 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 4: No, I ain't. I just said that so I could 249 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:34,559 get a look at your chicken yard. I've got to 250 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,440 see it. What I am is chicken house inspector for 251 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:39,840 the ninth Ward, and the mayor sent me up here 252 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:42,120 to inspect your chicken house. And I've got to do 253 00:13:42,159 --> 00:13:45,159 it before I go away or lose my job. I'll 254 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,360 go right out now and it'll be all over in 255 00:13:47,399 --> 00:13:47,919 a minute. 256 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: I guess it ain't some use, said Missus Grots. I 257 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,000 guess I don't keep any more chickens. They go too easy. 258 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,840 Yesterday I have plenty, and today I haven't any. 259 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: That's it, said the in Santa Claus. 260 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 4: That's just it. That's the way tuber closest bugs act 261 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,639 quick like that. They're a bad epidemic tuber closest bugs 262 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,159 is you see how they act. Yesterday you have chickens, 263 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,080 and last night the tuber closest bugs gets at them, 264 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:18,279 and this morning they've eat them all up. 265 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: Goodness, exclaimed Missus Grots, without emotion. 266 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,279 Speaker 2: With the feathers and the bones too, sure. 267 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:28,519 Speaker 1: Said the thin Santa Claus. 268 00:14:29,399 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 4: Why them tuber closest bugs is perfectly ravenous. Once they 269 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,960 get started, they eat feathers and bones and feet and all. 270 00:14:36,159 --> 00:14:39,039 A chicken hasn't no chance at all. That's why the 271 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,759 mare set me up here. He heard all your chickens 272 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,159 was gone and gone quick, and he says to me, 273 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,519 tuber closest bugs, that's what he says. And he says, 274 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,200 you ain't doing your duty. You ain't inspecting Missus Gratz's 275 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,679 chicken coop. You go and do it, or you're fired. 276 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:57,559 See he says that. And he says, you inspect missus 277 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:00,200 Grats's coop, and you kill off them bugs before they 278 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,600 get into her house and eat her all up, bones 279 00:15:02,639 --> 00:15:04,240 and all and. 280 00:15:04,159 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: Feathers, asked missus Grots calmly. 281 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 4: No, he didn't say feathers. This ain't nothing to fool about. 282 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,200 It's serious. So I'll go right out and have a look. 283 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 2: I guess such bugs ain't been in my coop last night. 284 00:15:18,519 --> 00:15:20,279 Speaker 1: Said missus Grots carelessly. 285 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 2: I ain't afraid of such bugs in winter time. 286 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,759 Speaker 4: Well that's where you make your mistake. 287 00:15:26,519 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: Set the thin, Santa Claus. 288 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,279 Speaker 4: Winter is just the bad time for them bugs. The 289 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,360 more a tuber closest bug freezes up, the more dangerous 290 00:15:34,399 --> 00:15:37,399 it is. In summer, they ain't so bad. They're soft 291 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:39,879 like and squash up when a chicken gets them. But 292 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,799 in winter they freeze up hard and get brittle. Then 293 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:45,480 a chicken comes along and grabs one, and it busts 294 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:48,759 into a thousand pieces, and each piece turns into a 295 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,200 new tuber closest bug and busts into a thousand pieces 296 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,840 and so on, and the chicken gets all filled full 297 00:15:54,879 --> 00:15:58,039 of tuber closest bugs before it knows it. When a 298 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,960 chicken snaps up one tuber closes bug, it has a 299 00:16:01,039 --> 00:16:03,840 million in it inside of half an hour, and that 300 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,519 chicken don't last long. And when the bugs make for 301 00:16:06,559 --> 00:16:08,919 the house. What's that on your dress there? Now? 302 00:16:09,639 --> 00:16:12,039 Speaker 1: Missus Grots looked at her arm indifferently. 303 00:16:12,679 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 4: Nothing, she said, I thought maybe it was a tuber 304 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,480 closest bug had got on you already. 305 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: Said to the thin Santa Claus. 306 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,399 Speaker 4: If it was, you would be all eat up inside 307 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,919 of half an hour. Then bugs is awful, rapacious. 308 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: Yes, inquired Missus Grots with interest. 309 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 2: Such strong bugs too, is it not? 310 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 4: You bet? 311 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: They are strong, began the stranger. I should think so, 312 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,799 interrupted Missus Grots. To smash up padlocks on such chicken houses, 313 00:16:44,039 --> 00:16:46,360 you make me afraid of such bugs. I don't dare 314 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,159 let you go out there to get your bones and 315 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:49,399 feet all eat up by them. 316 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 4: I guess not, well, you see, you see, said to 317 00:16:54,399 --> 00:16:57,080 the thin Santa Claus, puzzled, and then he cheered up. 318 00:16:57,879 --> 00:17:01,320 You see, I ain't afraid of them, and fumigated against them, 319 00:17:01,639 --> 00:17:06,720 fumigated and anti skepticized, I've been vaccinated against them by 320 00:17:06,759 --> 00:17:08,720 the Board of Health. I'll show you the mark on 321 00:17:08,759 --> 00:17:09,839 my arm if you want to see it. 322 00:17:10,559 --> 00:17:13,079 Speaker 1: No, don't, said Missus Grots. 323 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:15,799 Speaker 2: I let you go and look in that chicken coop 324 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:17,680 if you want to. But it ain't no use, there 325 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:18,519 ain't nothing there. 326 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,799 Speaker 1: The thin Santa Claus paused and looked at Missus Grots 327 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:22,640 with suspicion. 328 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 4: Why did you find it? 329 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: He asked? 330 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 2: Find what? 331 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: Asked Missus Grots innocently, and the thin Santa Claus sighed 332 00:17:32,839 --> 00:17:35,720 and walked around to the back of the house. Missus 333 00:17:35,799 --> 00:17:40,079 Grots went with him. As Missus Grots watched the thin 334 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,240 man search the chicken yard for tuberculosest bugs, all doubt 335 00:17:44,279 --> 00:17:47,480 that he was her Santa Claus left her mind. He 336 00:17:47,559 --> 00:17:51,160 made a most minute investigation, but he did it more 337 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,039 as a man might search for a lost purse than 338 00:17:54,079 --> 00:17:57,319 as a health officer would search for germs. He even 339 00:17:57,319 --> 00:17:59,559 got down on his hands and knees and poked under 340 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:02,759 the chicken house with a stick. And when he had 341 00:18:02,759 --> 00:18:05,880 combed the chicken yard thoroughly and had looked all through 342 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,440 the chicken house, he even searched the denuded vegetable garden 343 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,920 in the back yard and looked over the fence into 344 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:17,000 Missus Flannery's yard. Evidently he was not pleased with his investigation, 345 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:20,039 for he did not even say good bye to Missus Grots, 346 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:24,640 but went away looking mad and cross. When Missus Grots 347 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,240 went into her house, she took her seat in her 348 00:18:27,319 --> 00:18:31,400 rocking chair and began rocking herself calmly and slowly. 'tis 349 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,200 hemda not sure, said Missus Flannery. 350 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 2: I don't like such come agains much. 351 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: Said Missus Grots placidly. 352 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,279 Speaker 2: I try me to believe in such a Santi Claus, 353 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,200 but I like not such come agains in Germany? Did 354 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:47,839 not Santa Claus come back so much? I don't like 355 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,880 that Santa Claus should be so anxious. Still, I believes 356 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,759 in him, but if he has too many such commegans, 357 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,319 I don't believe in him much. 358 00:18:56,079 --> 00:18:58,279 Speaker 3: I would be set in the place on him. Sainte 359 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:00,799 Claus or no Sante Claes. 360 00:19:01,319 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: Said Missus Flannery vindictively. 361 00:19:03,759 --> 00:19:07,519 Speaker 3: It's a name chicken thief, oh. 362 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: Said Missus Grots easily. 363 00:19:08,759 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 2: I guess I don't care much. Should a nine hundred 364 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,759 dollars Santa clausteal some chickens. 365 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: I ain't mad, but she was a little provoked when 366 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,920 another knock came at the door a few minutes later, 367 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,079 and when on opening it, she saw the thin Santa 368 00:19:22,079 --> 00:19:23,279 Claus before her again. 369 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 2: So she said, Santa Claus is back yet once. 370 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:30,519 Speaker 4: What's that? 371 00:19:31,599 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: Asked the man suspiciously. 372 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,119 Speaker 2: I say, what is it you want, said Missus grots. 373 00:19:38,799 --> 00:19:40,559 Speaker 1: Oh, said the man. 374 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 4: Well, I ain't a going to fool with you no longer, 375 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,880 Missus Grats. I'm going to tell you right out what 376 00:19:46,079 --> 00:19:48,599 I am and who I am. I'm a detective of 377 00:19:48,599 --> 00:19:51,440 the police, and I'm looking up a mighty bad character. 378 00:19:52,559 --> 00:19:54,559 Speaker 2: I guess I know right where you find one. 379 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: Said Missus grots politely. 380 00:19:57,559 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 4: Now, don't be funny. 381 00:19:59,559 --> 00:20:01,559 Speaker 1: Said the in Santa Claus peevishly. 382 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,319 Speaker 4: Maybe you noticed I didn't say nothing when you spoke 383 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,640 about that padlock being busted. Maybe you noticed how careful 384 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,920 I looked over your chicken coop, and how I looked 385 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,640 over the fence into the next yard. Well, I won't 386 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,440 fool you. I ain't no chicken yard inspector, and I 387 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,160 ain't no chicken buyer. That was just my detective disguises. 388 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,079 I'm out detecting a chicken thief, just the plain ordinary 389 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,160 chicken thief. And what I come for is. 390 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,559 Speaker 1: Clues, yes, said Missus Grots. 391 00:20:29,079 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 2: And what is it such clues? I haven't any clueses? 392 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: The thin Santa Claus seemed provoked. 393 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 4: Now look here, he said. You may think this is funny, 394 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,720 but it isn't. I have got to catch that chicken 395 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:45,240 thief or I'll lose my job. And I can't catch 396 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:48,119 him unless I have some clues to catch him with. Now, 397 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,279 didn't you have some chicken stolen last. 398 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: Night chickens, asked Missus Grots. 399 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,799 Speaker 2: No, I didn't have chicken stolen such tuber closes bugs 400 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:01,119 eat them with fetters too, and us right off the 401 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,480 hoofs ain't it a pity? 402 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: It may have been a blush of shame, but it 403 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,000 was more like a flush of anger that overspread the 404 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,319 face of the thin Santa Claus. He stared hard at 405 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:16,039 the placid German face of Missus Grots and decided she 406 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,640 was too stupid to mean it. That she was not 407 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,880 teasing him. 408 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:24,319 Speaker 4: You don't catch on, he said. You see, there ain't 409 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,400 any such things as tuber closest bugs. I just made 410 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,920 that up as sort of detective disguise them chickens wasn't 411 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,039 eat by no bugs at all. They was stole. See 412 00:21:34,079 --> 00:21:36,519 a chicken thief come right into the coop and stole them. 413 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,119 Do you think any kind of bug could pry off 414 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:39,759 a padlock? 415 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:43,519 Speaker 1: Missus Grots seemed to let this sink into her mind 416 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:46,400 and to revolve there and get to feeling at home. 417 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,200 Before she answered no. 418 00:21:49,079 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: She said, at length, I guess not, But Santa Claus 419 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,200 could do it, such a big fat man, sure he. 420 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 1: Could do it? Why you began the thin man crossly, 421 00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:01,279 and then changed his tone. 422 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 4: There ain't no such thing as Santa Claus, he. 423 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: Said, as one might speak to a child. But even 424 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,720 a chicken thief would not tell a child such a thing. 425 00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:14,160 I hope, no, queried Missus Grots. 426 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,319 Speaker 2: Sadly no, Santa Claus. And I was scared of it myself. 427 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,079 With such tuber closest bugs around. He should not have 428 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:24,319 gone into such a chicken coop with so many bugs 429 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,759 busting up all over. He had a right to have 430 00:22:26,839 --> 00:22:30,640 fumigated himself once, and now he ain't. He's all eat 431 00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:33,359 up on the hoof, bones and feet and all. And 432 00:22:33,519 --> 00:22:35,240 such a kind man too. 433 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,839 Speaker 1: The thin Santa Claus frowned. He had half an idea 434 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:41,839 that Missus Grots was fooling with him, and when he 435 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,200 spoke it was crisply. 436 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,319 Speaker 4: Now, see here, he said, last night, somebody broke into 437 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:51,119 your chicken coop and stole all your chickens. I know that. 438 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:54,279 And he's been stealing chickens all round this town and 439 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,440 all round this part of the country too. And I 440 00:22:56,559 --> 00:22:59,720 know that, and this stealing has got to stop. I've 441 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:02,319 got to catch that thief. And to catch him, I've 442 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,960 got to have a clue. A clue is something he 443 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,599 has left around or dropped where he was stealing. Now, 444 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,319 did that chicken thief drop any clues in your chicken yard? 445 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,200 That's what I want to know. Did he drop any clues? 446 00:23:14,799 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 2: Maybe if he dropped some clues, those tuber closest bugs 447 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:18,720 eat them. 448 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: Up, suggested Missus Grots. 449 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,759 Speaker 2: They eats bones and fetters. Maybe they eat clues too. 450 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 4: Now, ain't that smart? 451 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: Sneered the thin Santa Claus. 452 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,039 Speaker 4: Don't you think you're funny? But I'll tell you the 453 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:35,519 clue I'm looking for. Did that thief drop a pocket 454 00:23:35,519 --> 00:23:36,680 book or anything like that? 455 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 2: Oh? A pocket book? 456 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,559 Speaker 1: Said Missus Grots. 457 00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:44,279 Speaker 2: How much should be in such a pocket book? 458 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:50,759 Speaker 1: Maybe nine hundred dollars, said the thin Santa Claus. Promptly. Goodness, 459 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:52,799 exclaimed Missus Grots. 460 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,799 Speaker 2: So much money all in one clues. Come out to 461 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,519 the chicken yard once. I'll help hunt for clues too. 462 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 1: The thin Santa Claus stood a minute, looking doubtfully at 463 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,720 Missus Grot's. Her face was large and placid and unemotional. 464 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 4: Well, he said, with a sigh. It ain't much use, 465 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:13,519 but I'll try it again. 466 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: When he had gone after another close search of the 467 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,880 chicken yard and coop, Missus Grots returned to her friend, 468 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:21,839 Missus Flannery. 469 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 2: Purty soon, I don't believe any more in Santa Claus 470 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,599 at all, she said, Purty soon, I have more beliefs 471 00:24:28,599 --> 00:24:31,839 in chicken thiefs than in Santa Claus. Yet. Awhile I 472 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,880 believes in him, but one more of those come agains, 473 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:35,480 and I don't. 474 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 3: He'll not be comin back any more. 475 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: Said Missus Flannery positively. 476 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 3: A wondering he came at all? The deal so harmbly 477 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:45,559 I have to just call a. 478 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: Cop, sure, said Missus Grots. 479 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,559 Speaker 2: But it is not nice. I should put Santa Claus 480 00:24:51,599 --> 00:24:54,160 in jail. Such a liberal Santa Claus too. 481 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,519 Speaker 1: Have it your own way, ma'am, said Missus Flannery. 482 00:24:58,039 --> 00:25:01,759 Speaker 3: Allow tis some different when chickens STI it's hard to 483 00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:05,920 expend the affections on a bunch of chickens. But if 484 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,799 anyone wants to stay my peg that deal, he would 485 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,200 go Santa Claus. Or no, Santa Claus not. But what 486 00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:16,440 you have a kind heart anyway, ma'am, not wanting to 487 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,839 put the fur fellow in jail. We's already lost nine 488 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:24,200 hundred dollars, which Goodness knows you might have the handback 489 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:25,640 was the lot to take handle. 490 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,279 Speaker 1: It, so said Missus Grots. 491 00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 2: Such is the law. Yet all right, I don't believe 492 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,279 in chicken thieves, no matter how much he comes back again. 493 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,880 I stick me to Santa Claus always will. I believe 494 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,480 in Santa Claus. Chicken thieves gives and wants to take 495 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:44,400 away again, But Santa Claus is always giving and never taking. 496 00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:46,480 Speaker 3: Yeah forgetting the chickens. 497 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: That was tuck, suggested Missus Flannery. Took, said Missus Grots, tucking. 498 00:25:54,319 --> 00:25:58,519 Missus Flannery corrected, Tucked, said Missus Grats. 499 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 2: I believes me not in Santa Claus. That way, I 500 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,359 believes he is a good old man. Forgivings, I believes 501 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,400 in Santa Claus. But for takings, I believes in tuber 502 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,200 closest bugs on. 503 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 3: The busted pod lock then. 504 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,839 Speaker 1: Asked Missus Flannery. Ah, exclaimed, Missus. 505 00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:18,759 Speaker 2: Grots them reindeers. Is so frisky? Yet they have a 506 00:26:18,839 --> 00:26:20,039 right to kick up and bust it? 507 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: Maybe Missus Flannery sighed. 508 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,599 Speaker 3: Tis a grand antier face, ma'am. 509 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 1: She said, yes, said Missus grots indolently. 510 00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 2: That's nice. And it is nice to have nine hundred 511 00:26:36,279 --> 00:26:38,160 dollars more in the bank, ain't it? 512 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 1: And of the thin Santa Claus or the chicken yard 513 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,000 that was a Christmas stocking by Ellis Parker Butler