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Speaker 1: Victory. Come in and welcome.

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Speaker 2: I'm a g.

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Speaker 3: Marshall.

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Speaker 2: We call a concept of fantasy when it fails to

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fall within the pattern experience has led us to expect. Fantasy,

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Then is unnatural supernatural if you like, because the road

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it takes is heretofore untraveled. Considered in that light, this

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adventure of Ralph and Wilma Albertson's is fantasy. Ralph and

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Wilma have had the sale of the city's turmoil, some

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years ahead of the customary retirement age. Ralph is leaving

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his post at the university as professor of American History.

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Speaker 1: The Light of Booker on the development of the New

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England states.

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Speaker 2: He and his wife are about to depart on a

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meandering tour of New England in search of a home

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in which he may work congenially.

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Speaker 4: Well, will you come and sit on this suitcase? I

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can get it close.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you didn't fell, you had to take a

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lifetime supply of every biddle.

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Speaker 4: If you'd make up your mind where you want to go?

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I know what to pack. Don't you have any idea?

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Speaker 2: We want to end up all travel the back roads

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move and when and where whimsy directs.

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Speaker 4: Wives that's all very well, But where are we going to.

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Speaker 2: Get to some backwater town where they still think the

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world is flat?

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Speaker 4: If I have my way, what you're looking for at

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a ghost town?

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Speaker 2: Well, if the ghosts requiet and mind their own business,

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why not our mystery drama Leapy Village was written, especially

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if the mystery theater by Field and Farrington and stars

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Norman Rose and Martha Greenhouse. There are few places in

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the world better designed to encourage wanderlust than the northeastern

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section of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Especially in early autumn.

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Speaker 2: Ralph and Wilma half forgetting the real object of their quest,

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find themselves at mid morning in the mountainous wonderland of Vermont.

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Speaker 4: I can taste the color around.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine this country before the white man got

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his gadget building hands on it?

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Speaker 5: Well, there haven't been any gadget building hands.

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Speaker 4: Messing around with fIF section. Match.

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Speaker 5: If they hadn't put a little blacktop on the road,

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I'd still cause a wagon track.

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Speaker 1: Child path before that. Bort like, rich, do you expect.

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Speaker 4: To find a town on this road?

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Speaker 1: I know what's d d.

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Speaker 4: Hey, we just got the signs, got the car. If

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there's a town around here, we don't wanna miss it

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for I'll back up. Now, what's the same It has

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hit me on that bush.

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Speaker 1: Three f village, population three hundred and sixty four. I

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call that's more about the lease.

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Speaker 4: Well, if there's anything at all in the name, you

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found what you're looking for.

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Speaker 2: MM call it a ghost town, got people in it.

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Speaker 1: I saw at least three men hanging around outside the

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barber shop.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, and baseda that's two. I think it's just

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about the most beautiful little town i've every scene.

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Speaker 1: Wait on that. I remind you that you said that, Wow,

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that must be the town hall.

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Speaker 4: You know I do a seriality off it.

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Speaker 1: Are you serious?

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Speaker 4: It's the perfect little gem of a town. Route with

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the park and ask somebody, the town's only about four

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o'clocks long.

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Speaker 1: Shop. I'll wait here.

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Speaker 4: You go ahead, one of those manage one of the barbershop. Okay,

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you know you look like an awful city flicker.

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Speaker 2: I am a city slicker. Excuse me. I wonder if

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you might tell me where to find a real estate

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dealer fellow sell's houses and all sight man you want

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to see, I expect to be Ellis Perkins.

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Speaker 1: He's the mayor. Where would I find him. He's right

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over beyond there in the village hall. It might be there,

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might not.

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Speaker 2: I have a look, thank you very much. We have

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to see the mayor, the man. We must sew real

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estate on the side.

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Speaker 1: Mister Perkins. Yes, rag well, thank you.

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Speaker 2: There wasn't any receptionist outside, oh, never felt the need

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for one. Red eh. People just walk in and out.

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My name's Ellis Perkins.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ralph alberts and mister Perkins, and this is missus

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albertson y and you do please meet. Just sit down,

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please sit down. You wouldn't believe how rare stranger. I'll

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get right to the point, mister Perkins. We've we've been

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looking for a place like there's a quiet little place,

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you know, the well to settle down in permanently, have you?

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Speaker 3: Uh will?

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Speaker 2: There is a house available, just one. You're quite sure

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that you want to be this removed from worldly things.

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That's exactly what we do on peace and quiet. I

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find the city lately justus just too much for me.

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I say, did you feel the same way about it?

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Miss Elvis?

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Speaker 5: And oh yeah, not as strongly as my husband perhaps,

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But now I've seen your time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good, well, it's just about lunch time.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you have an engagement, Oh no, nothing of

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the sort. You can come to my house and have

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lunch for me, of course.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, really, we couldn't imposs No, we'll we'll get

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a bite somewhere and meet your la.

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Speaker 1: No, I won't hear of it. You're coming home with me.

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Speaker 2: We'll enjoy a good country lunch because we call it dinner,

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you know, and then we'll proceed to a discussion of

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whether or not our sleep of allage is the pace

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you're looking for.

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Speaker 4: Oh dear, I may not eat again for day.

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Speaker 2: Do you always eat like this at lunchtime? Hamsteak home,

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five potatoes, green bean?

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Speaker 1: Where that's really the main meal?

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Speaker 2: Supper isn't quite as elaborate except on occasion.

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Speaker 4: Well, it certainly was delictening. I'd beat that as a

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pig if I had the lunch like this.

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Speaker 1: Everybody ready for the apple pie?

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Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness, too much? Oh yes, no, Lucas, I

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guess you better save the.

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Speaker 1: Pie for supper. To bring the coffee in hemspekins or

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in the sitting room.

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Speaker 2: In the sitting room, I think, Lucas, where should we

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go in more comfortable talking in there than around the table.

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Speaker 5: Now, if Lucas does everything else as well as he cooks,

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he's really a gem.

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Speaker 4: Mister Perkins.

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Speaker 2: Did he live in Oh yes, yes, has for ten

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years or more. Now take that chair, won't you? Missus Abison?

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: He used to be my dear wife's favorite. I'll be

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the for miss Perkins. Or just leave the tray.

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Speaker 1: I put it on a coffee table to alcohol.

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Speaker 2: You go have your dinner now, Lucas, what did they

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just holler up? Yes, Lucas is the only family I

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have since my wife passed over. He gets ristless sometimes

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talks about leaving me, but I don't think he ever will.

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I don't know what I'd do if he did.

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Speaker 1: Cream and sugar both of you real dream.

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Speaker 4: No thanks, we'd both take it black.

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Speaker 2: What a pity. Well, now let's get down to the

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business of finding out whether or not you and Sleepy

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Speaker 4: The town me fine, We'll have to look at the

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heart of course.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, of course. What is your profession, mister Eberson.

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I'm I was a college professor American history. I've decided

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to leave that and well work on a book I've

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had in mind good, very good there the village could

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use good historian, interesting history this place has. You'd be fascinating,

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as I can imagine.

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Speaker 4: Look at makes good coffee too.

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Speaker 1: Well. Now, I don't mean to pry, but are you people.

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Speaker 2: People who have a great many friends? That is, two

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old friends are table important? Well, we have an average

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number of friends, I suppose, although I can't see what

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we're living in an isolated place like this might be.

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Speaker 4: Well if we miss them, what we'll ask to come

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and see.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but you are looking for a place where you

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can get away from people, and I assume that includes

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friends as well as strangers. Mister Perkins find I don't

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understand what difference all this makes to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry. I hope I haven't offended you.

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Speaker 2: It's a very small village, mater, I've soon and well,

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the relationships are very close intimate.

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Speaker 1: You might say. We find we.

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Speaker 2: Have to make sure we're getting the sort of people

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who will blend.

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Speaker 1: Oh see sort of gentleman's agreement of got what you mean?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, nothing like that at all.

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No whatever, It's just well, now, how can I make

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you understand it? It's just that come ins and goings

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upset our people terribly. We can't have people moving in

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and then just pack it up and moving out again.

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It's well that say, it's quite impossible. I think perhaps

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the best plan would be not to move in in

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the first place. Oh yeah, I've done this very badly.

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I've given you the wrong impression altogether.

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Speaker 4: Ralph, don't you think.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's such a sweet little place, and maybe the

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Speaker 4: So much is that mister Perkins does make sure he

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is the right people before well, you know, before going.

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Speaker 1: On with it.

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Speaker 4: Not just anybody we've get in here.

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Speaker 1: You have to knit there.

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Speaker 2: What did help mister Orbitson if I said I'd be

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very happy, very happy indeed to have you and missus

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Albertson come and live in our community.

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Speaker 1: There is he rare?

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Speaker 2: Well, all right, at least we'll look at the house splendid. Well,

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I'll go and make the arrangements right now, before you

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have a chance to change your mind. I'd just like

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to make a phone call. If you excuse me, please

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help yourself to more coffee.

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Speaker 1: Well, well it didn't you think that was a bit much?

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Speaker 5: Well, except you know, he's right, a little village I says,

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Speaker 4: Conversation from a big city.

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Speaker 5: It wouldn't be a good thing for either the villages

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or us if we moved in and then all hated

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each other.

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Speaker 1: I suppose not that it's very strange all the same.

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Speaker 5: Oh m oh, look it I was just telling mister

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Perkins the coffee is up to your standard.

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Speaker 4: Very good.

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Speaker 2: May I speak to you in confidence?

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Speaker 3: Huh?

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Speaker 2: Oh well, yes, of course. Have you went and have

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you decided to stay? Well, nothing's been settled here. Mister

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Perkins is making arrangements now for us to see the

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house or what? Uh that don't mean, does it that?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Your dad's said on staying. Oh no, of course not.

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The house may not be suitable at all.

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Speaker 4: Although I'll be surprised if it isn't.

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Speaker 2: Well, if it does work out so that you can't stay,

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i'd like to all wait, we just can't stay? Well,

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ipy to say, if it works out so as you don't,

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i'd be most bolden to you if you'd let me

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come with you when you go.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, of course, if you want to ride, we'd

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be perfectly willing to take you along.

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Speaker 5: But mister Perkins is oh he don't want me to go.

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Speaker 2: I know that, but it's not fair, is it to

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keep a man against his wish? And I'll talk to

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you again after you' I'll talk to you later on.

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Speaker 1: And it was pretty spooky, wasn't it.

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Speaker 4: I think Lucas has been watching too many late movies.

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Speaker 1: You know this, this whole setup scenes. I don't know. Well,

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we'll see the house at least.

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Speaker 4: Oh, we're going to like it, Ralph if going to

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be just looking.

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Speaker 2: Where splendid couldn't have worked out better?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know you're gonna love it here, mister Perkins.

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When can we see the house in due time? William?

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In due time? Well, what I arrange for just now

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on the phone was for you to meet the village fathers.

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It was lucky pain.

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Speaker 2: I haven't a meeting anyway this afternoon on another matter?

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And why should we meet the village fathers?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Didn't I mention it?

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Speaker 2: Well, you have to appear before the village fathers before

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you can consider settling in Sleepy Village. You have to

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be approved. If a man wants to buy a house

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in a town that he finds attractive if he has

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the money to pay for it, even if one house

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comprises the entire market, doesn't it seem odd to ask

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him to appear before the town's governing body and establish

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his worthiness. But Sleepy Village is a place of many,

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many odd characteristics. We'll encounter more of them when I

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returned shortly with that, too. Wishing to escape the overcrowding,

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the noise, the pollution, the tension of the big city

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is quite common these days, But perhaps there is such

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a thing as going too far in the other direction.

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Ralph Alberson is beginning to think that's just what he

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and his wife have done. They found a place aptly

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named Sleepy Village, but the mayor, Ellis Perkins, has told

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them that they must appear before the village fathers and

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be found acceptable before they may consider settling down. Of

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all the nonsense I have ever been subjected to, this

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has got to be the most ridiculous. Unusual, perhaps, mister Abison,

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but not pretticulous. There are elements involved here that I

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am not free.

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Speaker 1: To explain to you. With this time.

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Speaker 2: Let's get out of here, oh Ralph, not before we

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before we've walt appear. You're in supplication before a bunch of.

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Speaker 1: Small top No, no, I won't do it, Wilma.

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Speaker 2: You'll be treated with the a most dignity.

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Speaker 1: Miss Travison, Please blade me.

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Speaker 2: What have you got going on here, mister Perkins that

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you're so careful about.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't scream.

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Speaker 2: People like this unless there's something going on that you

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can't afford to let the come generally known. Well, you're

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quite wrong about that, mister Avis, who we're very proud.

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Speaker 4: I don't see why you have to be so suspicious, Ralph.

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They just want to make sure we're become possible exactly.

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Speaker 2: She said it exactly, Miss Travison, And we have nothing

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to lose, Wilma, Are you really so taken with this place?

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Speaker 4: I guess I really am all right?

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Speaker 2: All right for that reason, there's no other I'll talk

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to your village fathers, but don't either of you expect

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me to get down on my knees.

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Speaker 1: Meetings.

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Speaker 2: That's procre a tree teddy, Oh, Ralph, Shirley, you don't

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think I think we're damn.

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Speaker 1: Fools for having any part of it. If you really

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wanna know what I think, Miss Buck is here, so

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this on the telephone. Let's talk to you. I didn't

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hear the phone name. Who is it?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't tell me his name, just said it was

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almighty important. I told him i'd tell you that. Oh yeah,

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I mustn't be late for the meeting. Well I won't

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be a minute.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't no call on the telephone, you know. I

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just told him there was, Lucas. Why did you do then?

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Want to have a word with you? But you ain't?

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Uh made a figure? And to stay and sleepy? They jolly, well,

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we're going to see the village fathers. We don't know

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yet whether we're gonna stay or not. Why I wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, I wouldn't, mister Albertson, if I was you, why

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not luke it?

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Speaker 1: Lots of reasons.

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Speaker 2: Well, if it turns out you don't have to stay,

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you promised to take me away with you.

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Speaker 1: Remember what do you mean if we don't have to stay?

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Speaker 2: Well, if well it works out sometimes boy, if he comes,

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I better course. There wasn't anybody on that phone. There

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wasn't No, there wasn't wasn't her talk to him?

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Speaker 1: That's all I know.

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Speaker 2: Well, no time to worry about that. Now, are you

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ready to go?

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Speaker 1: As ready as our get. I guess.

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Speaker 2: Mister Albertson is an historian of considerable repute. Now, as

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you all know, the village records have been gathering dust

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in the archives for too long. Sleepy Village is a

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proud pest. I have no doubt whatever that mister Robertson

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could be prevailed upon to go through those records and

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put them in order and set them down in readable

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form for all to enjoy. I feel no hesitation whatever

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in recommending them wholeheartedly as future citizens of Sleeper Village.

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Speaker 1: I never heard of such a thing. I just never

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in my whole life heard of such a crazy thing.

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Speaker 4: Well, it did seem I first heard of funny funny Ralph.

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Why didn't you just sit down and relax?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry. Well, no reason why I should take

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it out on you.

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Speaker 5: It started out of proportion, I admit that. But then

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there can't be many places like this life's in the

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whole world. Do you think the way things are today?

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And to keep it this way, I guess they'd have

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to protect themselves.

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Speaker 4: Otherwise it would be just like any other small town.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't like to be interrogated.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, So I am so pleased. They've accepted you unanimously,

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not one single objection. Well, I can't remember the last

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time that happened.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so can we go and see the house now

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and get that over with?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: Oh the house? Well, I don't worry about that. I

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think this calls for a celebration first, don't you know?

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I honestly don't if you want my opinion, now, what

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we better do is take a look at the house

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and then do something about finding a place to spend

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the night. Now, now, now, now, I'm not going to

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listen to any arguments about it.

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Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to leave everything to me.

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Speaker 5: Why you have to say one thing for the time

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if not short on hospitality.

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Speaker 2: Mister Alberson, I know that today has been an upseeting

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experience for you, appearing before the village fathers and all.

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But that's all in the past now, don't you see

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you're one of us now, or same as you would,

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missus Albertson belong here. It's been decided, oh decided them.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Look, you and your village fathers have spent the day

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checking us out.

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Speaker 1: Has it occurred to you would all to wonder how

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you look to us. I'm as fussy about who lives

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next door to me. Is my next door neighbor is?

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Speaker 4: Well? Please, that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: And I don't like people prying into my business.

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Speaker 2: I don't like people sitting in judgment deciding whether or

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not I'm good.

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Speaker 1: Enough to mingle with.

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Speaker 2: You use the word neighbor, mister Rabbitson, That's not quite

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the right word. We're closer than neighbors here. We are

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more in the nature of a family.

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Speaker 1: Let's say.

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Speaker 2: Let's say you were considering adopting the child. Now, you'd

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want to know something about him, wouldn't she in his background?

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What did it be like living in the same house

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with him, mister Perkins, I did not come here to

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be adopted. I came here thinking that, maybe, just maybe

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I might want to buy a house and settle down here.

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And but at this moment it doesn't seem like a

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very good idea. Oh, dear dear missus Albison, you don't

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feel the same way your husband Guy's doing not.

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Speaker 5: As strongly, I guess, but I well, I can see

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his point.

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Speaker 1: Well, oh it does. It doesn't work itself out?

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Speaker 2: Would you too care for another simple brande before.

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Speaker 1: They're done out, No, thank you.

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Speaker 2: If you don't you find a motel with a vacancy,

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I think we better start looking right now. Oh no, no,

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that won't be necessary.

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Speaker 1: There is motel that I know of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's just the other side of Morebury anyway, and

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that's close on to a fifty miles.

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Speaker 1: Ride, all the more reason for starting now.

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Speaker 2: And my guests room upstairs a good deal more comfortable

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than any motel room you have to find around these

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partners to Perkins, I I really do appreciate your hospitality.

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I don't want you to think that I don't, but

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I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. This just isn't the

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way things are done. You you find that things are

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not done in sleep the village the way they're done outside. Really,

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mister Albertson, we're exactly what you can I'm looking for,

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and now you're resisting it. Why if you can believe

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that such a place might exist, believe it's strongly enough

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to set out on a journey looking for it, why

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do you find it so difficult to believe that it

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does exist once you found your way to it, you

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know he's right now, It's well, it's there's just something

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creepy about it?

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll spend the night here, mister Perkins. I'm

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sorry if I've seemed rude, but it's very kind of you.

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I'm sure, Yes, thank you, we'll stay. Lucas, oh, Lucas. Yes.

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Speaker 2: And I was just about to go on upstairs to

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come in here for a minute. Please when you want

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to talk to you, Oh, sit down with you. You

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don't have to act like a servant. Well, as long

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as I am one, and I might as well act

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like one. Okay, you're not planning to do anything foolish,

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are you?

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Speaker 1: In I don't know what you mean, mister Perkins.

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Speaker 2: You remember the Collinses the night they spent here before

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they moved into the old Bradley Place or and I

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wouldn't want a repetition of that. The Helbersons have seen

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the village, fathers have been accepted. It's all settled. You'd

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be very unwise to interfere. Well, no, I wouldn't do that,

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mister Perkins. That there with the Collins's. That was a

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long time ago before I got rightly settled in. You

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might say you don't have to worry good because it

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wouldn't work anyway. I give you my word, it wouldn't

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work at all, Wilma. I suppose you think I've overreacted.

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But this is the damnedest thing I ever heard of.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but it it's kind of sleet.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think I might think so?

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Speaker 2: Yes, if it weren't for the village fathers and their interrogation.

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Speaker 1: I didn't like that, Wilma.

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Speaker 2: No, but once we're part of the jealous I still

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won't like it. I'm not at all sure yet that

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we're going to be part of the village. M I

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have a feeling, though, No, there's more to this than

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Old Perkins has told us this.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: There's I'm kind of a catch. I get a wrong feeling.

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How is that how settling? Or somebody knocking at the door?

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Speaker 4: Somebody knocks really good?

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Speaker 1: Is? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Lucas, Uh, I I have to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, we're all ready for bed. Can't wait until morning?

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Speaker 2: Oh I've got to get it settled tonight, mister Alberson.

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If I can, I got to Can I come in

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and shut the door? It's okay? Okay? I? Uh, what

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is it, Lucas? You folks don't really want to stay

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in this place?

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Speaker 5: Do you.

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Speaker 1: Well, we haven't decided yet.

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Speaker 4: We haven't seen the house. We like the tower, all right,

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but of course we we can't decide anything definite until

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we've seen the house.

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Speaker 2: House ain't got nothing to do with it, Missus Albison,

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nothing whatsoever.

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Speaker 5: Of course it has, we'd be living there, Lucas, Lucas,

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do you have something to count us? Is there something

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about this place that we ought to know before we

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make up our minds?

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Speaker 2: They sure shooting is. But I don't know if you're

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gonna believe me when I tell you. But collins Has

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didn't Collins's last folks come looking for a house to

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00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:49,920
live in here before you in oh, eight ten years now, eight.

471
00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 5: Or ten years since anybody's been here asking about a house.

472
00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 1: Now to the way place this more?

473
00:25:55,799 --> 00:26:01,599
Speaker 2: You know, don't just stumble on the sleepy you got

474
00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:05,559
to be Uh well, I don't know, lead I guess.

475
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,839
I told the collins Is that, but they wouldn't believe me.

476
00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:12,000
You wait a minute, Lucas, led by home, h I

477
00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:15,000
couldn't say. I asked the collins If to take me

478
00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:19,359
away with them too, but they didn't go. They stayed

479
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:25,039
still here, always will be now, of course I can't

480
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,880
understand why you keep asking people to take you away

481
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,119
with them, Lucas. And if you wanna leave sweepy village,

482
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,240
why don't you just leave?

483
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:32,839
Speaker 4: Oh?

484
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,799
Speaker 1: No way, it wouldn't work.

485
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,799
Speaker 2: It wouldn't if I tried it all by myself. I

486
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,000
think you ought to make up your mind to get

487
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,559
out of here, mister Albertson. Not just so as you

488
00:26:44,599 --> 00:26:47,319
can take me, will you, but for your own good?

489
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,359
Maybe they'll still let you go. Matt, I've gone, damn well,

490
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,240
let us go if we wanna go, I sure hope.

491
00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 1: So we could still leave tonight and a chance to

492
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,480
get away the after dark the daytime.

493
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,319
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to explain that with this if you

494
00:27:04,519 --> 00:27:07,000
want us to take you away with us in case

495
00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:09,599
we go, but you're gonna have to tell us what is.

496
00:27:09,559 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: Going on here?

497
00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:19,079
Speaker 2: Well, they're all dead, you know, Not me, I don't think,

498
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:24,119
but all the rest of them dead as dead can be,

499
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:29,319
been dead for years.

500
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: A village full of dead people.

501
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,559
Speaker 2: People who walk the streets speak with a down East accent.

502
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,519
Speaker 1: Oh who eat at dinner time?

503
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 2: Well behave in other words, as we expect living people

504
00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:43,319
to behave.

505
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: Well, declare that one up.

506
00:27:46,519 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: It would be necessary to define death, which would involve

507
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,519
defining life. Would you care to try? Perhaps the definitions

508
00:27:55,519 --> 00:27:57,960
will be forthcoming. When I returned shortly.

509
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 3: With a three.

510
00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 2: One of man's major preoccupations ever since he became man,

511
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,000
has been with life after death and the form it

512
00:28:20,079 --> 00:28:23,559
will take. That it will take, some form he must believe,

513
00:28:24,279 --> 00:28:27,279
for the mortal span is too brief to be acceptable

514
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:28,799
as the entire package.

515
00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 5: He delves and pies, and sometimes at strange moments, snatched

516
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,799
from the commonplace, he seems to get a glimpse. Oh,

517
00:28:39,839 --> 00:28:43,000
but you can possibly go It's never happened before.

518
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: Then this will be the first time, mister Perkins, because

519
00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:47,160
we are going. We'll know now.

520
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,279
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll go and have

521
00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:52,400
a look at your house and then come back here

522
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,240
and discuss it over a good, hearty breakfast. How does

523
00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:57,599
that strike you? Well, frankly, it leaves me cold. We'll

524
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,920
get our breakfast along a road somewhere, missus Alberson, I.

525
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 5: Have to agree with my husband. It seems a shame,

526
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,599
But I I don't see how we could possibly be

527
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,440
happy here. Not that I believe what Lucas says for

528
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:11,119
a minute.

529
00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: But what does Lucas say, Oh, oh, that's that's not important.

530
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,640
We're grateful for your hospitality, mister Perkins, and we both

531
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,720
agree that you have a beautiful little village here, but quite,

532
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:22,880
it's just not fosa. Now we're all packed. We'll be

533
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:23,880
out of here in a few minutes.

534
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,519
Speaker 4: Oh, it's gonna be hard hard to find another place

535
00:29:34,559 --> 00:29:35,319
we like as much.

536
00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:38,319
Speaker 1: They'll never find one that's spooky, if that's what you mean.

537
00:29:38,839 --> 00:29:42,839
Speaker 2: Ralph, Yes, do you believe what Lucas says, but that

538
00:29:43,079 --> 00:29:44,319
everybody in town is dead?

539
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,039
Speaker 4: What's that?

540
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,279
Speaker 1: I can't tell. It looks like you got a tree

541
00:29:49,319 --> 00:29:50,880
across the road, or a telephone pole.

542
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 4: Maybe here's a man there.

543
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: He of all good that the two of us ought

544
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,359
to be able to clear that thing off the road

545
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,319
without too much trouble.

546
00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:01,359
Speaker 4: Ralph, he's what the hell?

547
00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:03,839
Speaker 1: God get through this way?

548
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 2: Mister, sure we can, before of us can move that log.

549
00:30:07,559 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: Nobody moving the log or driving through better? Just turned

550
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,720
back the only thing.

551
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 4: You can do. Let's turn around, Ralph the way he's

552
00:30:17,519 --> 00:30:18,400
told him? That gun down?

553
00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: What is this a roadblock? Are you trying to force

554
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:24,079
us to turn back? This shotgun here?

555
00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:28,079
Speaker 2: Mister Albertson sure, hope, I don't have to use it.

556
00:30:34,839 --> 00:30:38,759
I was waiting for you to come back. When I do,

557
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,920
sit down. I know you're angry. Angry, You're gonna have

558
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,720
about half of it. Oh, dear, dear, dear, Well, I

559
00:30:46,799 --> 00:30:52,279
intend to explain everything you mentioned earlier that Lucas tools

560
00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:56,880
to something. Missus Albertson, do you mind telling me what

561
00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,319
it was? What did he say?

562
00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: He he said you're all dead.

563
00:31:04,079 --> 00:31:05,119
Speaker 4: He said everybody in.

564
00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 5: The village is dead except him.

565
00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:13,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, where he is too. Of course, what are you

566
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:19,759
talking about. Oh, it's quite true. We're all changed over.

567
00:31:20,759 --> 00:31:24,599
Well did if you want to use that word, although

568
00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:28,799
as you can see, it isn't accurate. He've finished with

569
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:34,000
the life you're experiencing now and gone on to the neck.

570
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: Oh cut it out, Perkins, Ralph, you wanted him to explain.

571
00:31:39,119 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 2: Thank you, Missus Harbertson. It isn't an easy thing to

572
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,440
give credence to in the beginning.

573
00:31:45,599 --> 00:31:48,359
Speaker 1: I know, continued.

574
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 2: Existence after what you think of his death is as

575
00:31:51,599 --> 00:31:54,599
natural as your heven't been born in the first place.

576
00:31:55,799 --> 00:32:02,039
People are not simply extinguished when they finish the first phase. Well,

577
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,039
I'm sorry, mister Perkers, but I I just don't buy it.

578
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 5: Why would you want us to settle in your village.

579
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,079
We're not dead. Two living persons in a village full

580
00:32:12,079 --> 00:32:12,799
of dead people.

581
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:18,119
Speaker 2: Why a sheepy village is not the place you drive to.

582
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:25,200
It's a place you think yourself into. When you're sufficiently

583
00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:31,119
repelled by the society the circumstances, which is to say,

584
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,920
the life in which you find yourself crapped. Then you

585
00:32:36,119 --> 00:32:40,240
find your way to sleep a village, and once you've

586
00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:44,920
done that, you become candidates for residents.

587
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: Mean what you mean an the dates for death? Is

588
00:32:52,079 --> 00:32:54,880
that what you're trying to tell us? We're here now.

589
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,079
Speaker 2: It isn't death as you think of it, mister Alberson.

590
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:06,000
You'll have to change over, yes, but you'll hardly notice it.

591
00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: That is dead, and I see it no matter what

592
00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:08,559
comes after.

593
00:33:08,839 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 2: The very fact that you found us, found your way

594
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,079
to our village implies a natural readiness for the change

595
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,279
It's will. Don't you understand that it's more than half

596
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:24,359
done already?

597
00:33:25,559 --> 00:33:30,319
Speaker 1: You're here. That says all it needs to be said.

598
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: Doom, mister Perkins, I think I'd like to be alone

599
00:33:34,759 --> 00:33:37,720
with my wife. For a wife, you don't mind, Will

600
00:33:37,759 --> 00:33:42,039
you come with me, Wilma. A remarkable thing is about

601
00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:45,079
to happen to us, and we need to make ourselves ready.

602
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,119
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's very good.

603
00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 5: Well I'm not ready. I won't be ready. You know

604
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,200
I don't understand you at all, Ralse, Why do you firstly?

605
00:33:57,359 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 2: Please please Rouma. We want to make the change gracefully,

606
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:09,360
don't we. We need to prepare ourselves now, Wilma. Do

607
00:34:09,519 --> 00:34:12,199
you think for a minute that I'm going to you said?

608
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,079
Speaker 1: No way. I just realized that they have to be humored,

609
00:34:16,119 --> 00:34:17,079
that's all. Now.

610
00:34:17,119 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: Look, we've we've somehow found our way into a village

611
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:21,159
full of nuts.

612
00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: That's what's happened. Now, Look, we got to play it.

613
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 2: Their way if we hope to get out of here

614
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,519
in one piece. Because that idiot downstairs means what he says, Lucas.

615
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 4: Where's Lucas? He must know how to get away.

616
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he expected to ride out

617
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,079
of town with us in the car.

618
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:37,559
Speaker 4: All the same. I think we ought to see if

619
00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:38,159
we can find him.

620
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:39,519
Speaker 1: Let's give him a little time.

621
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:48,679
Speaker 2: I have a feeling he'll come to us.

622
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: There there, that'll be Lucas. Lucas come in. Where is

623
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:56,039
Perkins Head?

624
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,639
Speaker 2: Went out a while back. I waited a few minutes

625
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:01,559
before I I come up, just to make sure he

626
00:35:01,639 --> 00:35:05,840
wasn't still snooping around. I expect he's making the arrangements

627
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,360
about you folks right this minute.

628
00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:10,519
Speaker 1: Arrangements. Well you know they won't.

629
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,039
Speaker 2: Blot to waste any more time than they have to. Well,

630
00:35:13,079 --> 00:35:16,639
you folks been cutting up, Lucas, Lucas, can you get

631
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,400
us out of here?

632
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 1: I think I can sneak us out, all right. It

633
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,280
could be easy, though, Lucas.

634
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,559
Speaker 5: If you knew the roads would be blocked, then you

635
00:35:24,639 --> 00:35:26,760
weren't expecting just to ride out of town with it

636
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,159
from the car where you might.

637
00:35:29,079 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: Have yesterday hidden the trunk or somewheres.

638
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,199
Speaker 5: Well, if it's just a matter of walking out, not

639
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,320
going to buy a car, why haven't you done it

640
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:39,880
long ago?

641
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 4: Why wait for somebody to take you this funny thing.

642
00:35:45,119 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: I've gone as far as.

643
00:35:46,679 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 2: The village line a hundred times or more, but I

644
00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:53,199
just don't seem to be able to push my way

645
00:35:53,199 --> 00:35:56,360
across it somehow, Standing there all by myself, I can't

646
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:56,880
say why.

647
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: Well, what makes you think it would be any easier

648
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,639
if we were with you?

649
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,199
Speaker 2: I always figured if I had somebody there with me

650
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,159
holding my hand, as you might say, I could make

651
00:36:06,199 --> 00:36:08,960
her never do it without I know that.

652
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: And all right, uh can we leave now? Have to

653
00:36:12,039 --> 00:36:14,480
leave your car behind and your suitcases and that thing. Well,

654
00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:15,360
we'll come back from her.

655
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: I intend to come back here with the police and

656
00:36:18,559 --> 00:36:22,679
clean this place out. Y yep, Well, I wouldn't count

657
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:32,320
on it if I were you. Oh well, just walk

658
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,400
along natural talk there and then yuh going on like

659
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,199
I was, uh showing you around.

660
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,599
Speaker 1: Here's how we'll do it.

661
00:36:41,519 --> 00:36:44,079
Speaker 2: We'll go over and cross the line right in back

662
00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:47,199
at the church pity jeans right there back of the church.

663
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,159
Speaker 1: And I won't they be patrolling there? I wouldn't think so. No, No,

664
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,159
the village folk don't go in back of the church never.

665
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 4: Why not?

666
00:36:55,039 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: Something back there scares 'em off? Seems like I.

667
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:03,199
Speaker 5: Look, you say, everybody in the village is dead, everybody

668
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:03,599
but you?

669
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:04,199
Speaker 1: Hey, yup?

670
00:37:05,119 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 2: How did it happen? You're not wondered about that? A

671
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,679
good deal myself. Come to the conclusion they just slipped

672
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,960
their minds. I wasn't important enough for folks to take

673
00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:16,679
much notice of when I showed up.

674
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,079
Speaker 4: How did you happen to come here? In the first place.

675
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 2: I can't hardly recall anymore. I was hitching at the time. Hey, yup,

676
00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:28,400
mister Perkins. Put me right to work, since the village.

677
00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 1: Father said it was all right.

678
00:37:30,079 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 2: His wife had just made the second change and he

679
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,639
needed somebody.

680
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 1: With second change. Oh, well, they die, well, they don't

681
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,480
live forever here in the village.

682
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,039
Speaker 2: Second change over, they call it, And I reckon, that's

683
00:37:46,039 --> 00:37:46,639
what it is.

684
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: Oh, they're dead, all right, everybody but us.

685
00:37:50,159 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: That's the line right there for that old oak tree

686
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,079
on the side of the oaks, out of the village.

687
00:37:56,199 --> 00:37:58,719
But why do we have to hide here? Can't we

688
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,840
just walk across the line and be out of the village,

689
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,119
you know, and be sure somebody won't take a pot

690
00:38:04,159 --> 00:38:06,760
shat us as we can't. Ain't nobody ever got out

691
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,400
of this village to my knowledge, once they've been accepted

692
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:14,840
by the village fathers. I ain't sure I can make it.

693
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,159
Speaker 4: Why what do you mean?

694
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:17,599
Speaker 1: Well?

695
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: If I get the holding back now, you just take

696
00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:26,199
my hands and pour you hear me, No matter what

697
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,400
I say, you drag me on across that line past

698
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,480
that old oak. But if you ask us not, don't

699
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,559
pay me no mind. Drag me over by the heels

700
00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:41,360
if you have to well, time to go. I reckon here,

701
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,119
take me by the hands, both of you.

702
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 4: What were you shaking like a leaf?

703
00:38:46,519 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 2: Ain't ever been so scared in my whole life. And

704
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you two just walk on up to that tree and across.

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Come on, come on, don't I'll just stay on here.

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See that you too, get cross, all right, but I'll.

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Speaker 1: Just stay on here. Come on, let's go. We changed

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my mind, mister Alberson.

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Speaker 2: Reckon, I'll just stay on here now.

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Speaker 1: Now we're taking you with us, whether you like it

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or not. That's what you asked us to do, and

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that's what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: That was a dial back, mister Alberson. Ella can change

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in my I'm sorry, let me go, you let go

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of me.

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Speaker 1: You here, I yell for Ernie bad And if you

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don't what I said before, don't make no difference. You're

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go with me.

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Speaker 4: You come on, will you now?

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Speaker 1: I hate to doing Allday, hurday, dawn here bag in

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the church.

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Speaker 5: Share you're shouting, damp pool up with a push him,

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push him, get behind the push.

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Speaker 1: Warnie.

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Speaker 2: He's been talking about for about like twenty four hours

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and morning to get away, and I'll come on.

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Speaker 6: You're we're out of a miserable village.

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Speaker 1: We're across the line.

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Speaker 7: Lucas, Lucas well, he's not here, but of course he's here, Lucas.

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Speaker 4: Well, look around you, for heaven safe, look around you?

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Speaker 1: Where's the devil? To the idiot get to?

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Speaker 4: I don't mean that. Look what does this word?

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Speaker 2: Is just a linute ago it was a dacon.

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Speaker 1: Field and well it's just that. Oh it's a graveyard.

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I didn't notice it before.

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Speaker 4: Oh it wasn't here before. Well mean that on the hiptote.

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Speaker 1: Oh he read it.

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Speaker 2: Ellis it comes worn away. Ellis Perkins eighteen thirty four

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to nineteen oh four. But I end this one over here,

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Lucas Madison eighteen ninety seven two.

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Speaker 1: To nineteen sixty three.

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Speaker 2: Ellis Perkins died in nineteen oh four, and Lucas Madison

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in nineteen sixty three. Well that's what it said on

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the headstones. And when Ralph and Wilma looked for it,

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the village wasn't there. They found nothing but wasteland and

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an old church crumbling from age and disrepair. I'll be

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back shortly, Wilma and Ralph Albertson found a fine old

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colonial house, eventually in a lovely little town in Connecticut,

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and Wilma says dreamily, sometimes as I sit down to lunch,

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I wonder what Ellis Perkins is having for dinner today,

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and who's fixing it for him. Well, sleepy villages may

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come and go, but Mystery Theatre will be back with

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another account of the improbable, but not the impossible. Our

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cast included Norman Rose, Martha Greenhouse, Court Benson, and Ken Harvey.

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The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown,

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Missus E. G. Marshall, inviting you to return to our

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Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre.

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Speaker 1: Until next time, pleasant Dreams,