Speaker 1: Earlier this evening, Daddy played by Henley Stafford, sent Snookes
to the store with a dollar to buy him a newspaper.
Two hours of past, the child has returned. As the
scene opens, Daddy is on the telephone trying to locate Snuks.
Speaker 2: Listen, Hello, Hello, is this Grundy's candy store. This is
mister Higgins. I sent my daughter down there.
Speaker 3: You flip here. Miss Higgins created a flock of kids
ice cream sash she did? Did she pay for them? Yes?
And you gave her a dollar for her birthday.
Speaker 2: That's fine, thanks very much, Grundy. Goodbye. So that's where
she's been with my dollar. Wait till I get my
hands on it, Snookes, Snuks, is that you?
Speaker 3: I don't think so, Daddy, come in here. I have
to put my block away.
Speaker 2: I'll put your blocks away, Snokes. Look me, take a
good look at me. I gave you a dollar to
go and buy me an evening paper.
Speaker 3: Where's my paper? Where's my paper? Mm hmm, it's no
in the mud. Mud. There's no mud in the street.
It hasn't rained for over a week. No, oh, dry
a very now, how did the paper fall in the mud?
I found a puddle and I fell on it. Oh,
I see it. Well, how come your clothes hunt wet?
The sun dried them?
Speaker 2: Since when does the sun come out after six o'clock
at night?
Speaker 3: Yes, no, you don't wait. I'm gonna get the bottom
of this.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: What did you do with my dollar? At I did? Now?
Speaker 2: I see who said you bought ice cream? All I
know is I sent you for an evening paper. Until
you confess the rest. Uh, all right, snooks, you came
home without the paper. I presume you have my dollar?
Well where is it?
Speaker 3: I'm got it? Snooks.
Speaker 2: Is it possible that you came home without the paper
and without the dollar too?
Speaker 3: Could that be? Could be?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to bandy words with you any longer.
Now I want to hear the truth from your own lips.
What did you do with that money?
Speaker 3: I swallowed it? I told you. I want the truth.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Why didn't you go to buy the paper in the
first place? They didn't have no papers in the place.
Oh no, no, So I went to the second place, gone,
and I tried to die the paper, but they grabbed
the doll Who grabbed a dollar? The three Burglins? What
three burglars.
Speaker 1: What did you say, Dad?
Speaker 2: You said three burglars grabbed the dollar. Well I am waiting.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, daddy. Oh brother, I never heard a story
like this.
Speaker 2: No, I what about those three burglars?
Speaker 3: Well, one came from the back and one came from
the top. And then ohs topics.
Speaker 2: You can't make me believe any excuse about three burglars. Oh?
Speaker 3: Will you believe it about two burglars? Burglar? No, burglars.
I won't listen to anything about burglars. Are you scared
of burglar? Oh? Snow? Time had enough of this, don't
you Dare this true?
Speaker 2: This is a very serious matter, and I want the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Speaker 3: Comprehend copy head? Alright, now, what happened to my dollar?
Remember the truth? I? Well, an elephant sniffed it up
this trunk? Oh, an elephant? Where did you meet this elephant?
He followed me to the star? I see? And why
would an elephant follow you to this tour? Maybe he
was going to a Republican convention? All right?
Speaker 2: So an elephant followed you to this tour and sniffed
the dollar up his truck?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: Oh sure, I believe that's tough about the three burglars too,
because there's a patrol wagon in my pants. And go
on with your fantastic story. How what happened when the
elephant sniffed the dollar off his nose?
Speaker 3: I think he sneezed. Oh, he sneezed, and he threw
me right into an ice cream bar.
Speaker 2: No truth, all ice snops, you can drop yourself to feud.
Speaker 3: Can't you spank me with them ones?
Speaker 2: You went to the ice cream parlor with a plug
of kids, didn't you, And you have bout ten ice
cream sodas and you all drank them.
Speaker 3: No, I drank them all. What about the other kids?
They watched snooks?
Speaker 2: Do you mean to tell me you guzzled ten ice
cream sodas all by yourself?
Speaker 3: I only godle mine? What about the other one? S
a female Tony Galo?
Speaker 2: Why did you go to such great trouble to make
up those awful pibs and to think it should happen
on this day, of all days, it's the only day
you gave me a doll.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about that. You know what day this is?
Speaker 2: Dolladay, No, it happens to be George Washington's birthday?
Speaker 3: Is he going to have a pie? Snooks?
Speaker 2: George Washington is the man who never told a lie?
Why because he believed in the truth. When his father
asked him who chopped down the cherry tree, he said,
I can't tell a lie.
Speaker 3: Pop I did it? Pop I do it now, Pap,
I didn't do it. George did it. Blame the pope.
Speaker 2: He didn't blame it on anybody. He confessed that he
did it himself. Who did George Washington? Oh, don't tell
me you've never heard of George Washington. Why don't you
learn anything at that broken down stool?
Speaker 3: I can't believe this, Oh, snooks, you must have heard
of him. Who was our first president? Clamby?
Speaker 2: No, it was Washington, George Washington. That's the first thing
you learned, the names of our Presidentdence. The first president
was Washington, the second was Adams, and the third was
the third president.
Speaker 3: You mean you tell me you never heard of Snookes.
Speaker 2: You've seen that wonderful picture Spirit of seventy six. You
have to One man is carrying a pitheadrop that's right,
and the other.
Speaker 3: One you had it. No, that's a bandage.
Speaker 2: He's wounded fighting for George Washington and our glorious country,
and you picked today to tell the most abominable string
of im tooth I've ever heard, Snookes, I'm ashamed of you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Well, I've simply got to punish you. It's going to
be a very painful lesson for you. I know it'll
upset mother, and I don't want you to think I'll
get any pleasure from it, but I must spank.
Speaker 3: You want to make everybody feel bad?
Speaker 2: Oh no, After tonight you remember to tell the truth,
then you be sure to get your reward, and then.
Speaker 3: That's well all. We's get it. Turn over snoops, there
we go again.