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Speaker 2: In the world where your father says so, and your
Speaker 2: father knows best.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's father knows best.
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Speaker 4: good to the last drop. Since the dark beginnings of time,
Speaker 4: superstition has played a dismal part in the fumbling progress
Speaker 4: of man. We, however, live in an enlightened age, and
Speaker 4: thank good we've thrown off.
Speaker 5: The yoke of ignorant superstition.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, knocking on wood.
Speaker 3: Isn't really a superstition. You do it just because.
Speaker 4: Well, anyway, in Springfield, in the white frame house on
Speaker 4: Maple Street, we find Jim Anderson packing for a trip
Speaker 4: to Chicago, and for a change, everything is peaceful and
Speaker 4: quiet like this.
Speaker 2: Jim, it certainly won't hurt to take.
Speaker 5: Them along, Margaret, I'm only going to be gone three days.
Speaker 6: How many pairs of socks do you think I can wear?
Speaker 2: Well, you never can tell, dear, and it's best to
Speaker 2: be on the safe side.
Speaker 5: Twelve pairs of socks anybody think I was going to
Speaker 5: Alaska for the entire winter, Jim.
Speaker 2: They weigh practically nothing, and I certainly all.
Speaker 5: Right, all right, put them in. I don't have enough
Speaker 5: socks for everybody at the whole convention.
Speaker 2: Dad, we're upstairs, bud, Jim, you don't need all those shirts?
Speaker 6: What do you mean all those shirts? I'm only taking six.
Speaker 2: But you'll only be away three days, you said so yourself.
Speaker 5: Well, honey, I've got to look neat all the big
Speaker 5: shots from the Home Office will be there.
Speaker 2: I think three shirts are quite enough. You just have
Speaker 2: to be a little careful, that's all.
Speaker 5: Okay, three shirts, fine thing.
Speaker 6: A man can't even pack the bag away he wants
Speaker 6: to stay.
Speaker 7: Dad, can I talk to you for a minute about what?
Speaker 6: Well, handkerchiefs. Mustn't forget handkerchiefs.
Speaker 2: I've already put them in there.
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you? Well, what is it, buddy?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: Could I have three dollars?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: What happened to that bottle opener I had in the
Speaker 5: top drawer, Jim.
Speaker 2: If it's going to be that kind of convention, it.
Speaker 5: Isn't, Margaret, But I just thought, well, never mind, Dad,
Speaker 5: But I said, no.
Speaker 7: I know, Dad, But this is an emergency.
Speaker 6: What kind of an emergency?
Speaker 7: The worst kind?
Speaker 6: I've never known you to have any other. Why do
Speaker 6: you need three dollars?
Speaker 8: Well, it's for the baseball team. I need another bat.
Speaker 5: You mean you've broken the old one already?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: But well I I think I've used up all the hits.
Speaker 6: You what?
Speaker 8: I'm in an awful sump? Dad, I haven't had a
Speaker 8: hit in two weeks. And if I can just buy
Speaker 8: a beat with some hits in it, that's.
Speaker 5: The most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 5: You've got a perfectly good bat. Why weighte three dollars
Speaker 5: on another one?
Speaker 7: But Dad, I've got to do something to change my luck.
Speaker 5: Luck superstitious twaddle. If you can't get a hit with
Speaker 5: the old bat, you won't get one with a new one, either,
Speaker 5: But articularly if I have to pay.
Speaker 6: For it, Well, I guess I'm all packed.
Speaker 2: You haven't forgotten anything, have you, Dear?
Speaker 6: I don't think so. But how about taking the bag
Speaker 6: downstairs like a good fellow.
Speaker 8: Okay, but look, Dad, we're playing a very important game
Speaker 8: this afternoon.
Speaker 2: In just a moment, Bud, what is it? Kathy?
Speaker 1: I don't care what she says?
Speaker 6: You can't go.
Speaker 5: Mother.
Speaker 1: Betty says I can't go to the club with her
Speaker 1: this afternoon, and you said I could.
Speaker 2: I said I'd ask her, dear mother.
Speaker 9: It's bad enough going out with a boy I don't
Speaker 9: even know, but if I have.
Speaker 1: To drag her along, they're gonna play tennis and I
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 6: Watch, Kathy.
Speaker 5: If Betty says you can't go, then you can't go,
Speaker 5: and I'll stop arguing.
Speaker 1: You love her more than you love me. That's why
Speaker 1: you're always sticking.
Speaker 5: Up for I'm not sticking up for anybody. You can
Speaker 5: watch Bud play baseball.
Speaker 8: No, what, holy cow, Dad, you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't, huh.
Speaker 7: She's worse on a black cat. She's worse on an umpire.
Speaker 6: Now listen, Bud. There's no reason but dead.
Speaker 7: You've never heard her. She sounds like a fire siren.
Speaker 7: She gets both teams rattled.
Speaker 1: Hmm, a bunch of sandlodders.
Speaker 2: It's all right, Kathy, you can stay home with me
Speaker 2: this afternoon.
Speaker 1: But I want to do something.
Speaker 2: We'll find something to do.
Speaker 6: How about the beast?
Speaker 8: But okay? Not having enough trouble. They want me to
Speaker 8: take her all.
Speaker 6: Father, What is it.
Speaker 9: Betty is mister Davis's nephew, tall and dark?
Speaker 6: How do I know?
Speaker 5: I've never even seen him? What difference does it make anyway?
Speaker 9: Well, Janie Liggott told my fortune yesterday and the cards
Speaker 9: said to be careful of a tall dark man.
Speaker 1: And if he's tall and dark.
Speaker 5: Betty, if he's eight feet tall and has hair made
Speaker 5: of licorice, you're still going out with him.
Speaker 6: He's only going to be in town this weekend.
Speaker 5: And I gave it Davis my word father, idiotic thing
Speaker 5: I've ever heard in my life, just because Janie Liggott
Speaker 5: hasn't got a brain in her head.
Speaker 9: It wasn't Janie's idea of father. She has a fortune
Speaker 9: telling set and it's wonderful.
Speaker 2: It costs four dollars.
Speaker 6: Oh, pardon me.
Speaker 5: I thought it was one of the cheap two dollars sets.
Speaker 2: Jim. I know you're going to say it silly, but
Speaker 2: I did have a dream about a wedding.
Speaker 6: Last night, Margaret, not you too.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 2: You remember my grandmother Williams.
Speaker 6: It's a hot and todd kid, Jim.
Speaker 2: Grandmother Williams was a very sweet woman, and she said,
Speaker 2: when you dream of a wedding, it means trouble.
Speaker 6: Well, that depends on who's getting married.
Speaker 2: Jim.
Speaker 5: You certainly don't believe in that poppy cock.
Speaker 10: Do you.
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: No, But if Betty's going to feel uneasy.
Speaker 6: Feel uneasy about what?
Speaker 5: Since when is a dream something to be afraid of.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of dreams.
Speaker 5: Batty nine years old, and she's the only intelligent one
Speaker 5: in the whole house.
Speaker 6: You're a very sensible little girl, Kathy.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of anything because I've got a lucky
Speaker 1: penny and a rabbit's foot and a horseshoe and Margaret.
Speaker 5: What's gotten into this family anyway? These aren't the Middle Ages.
Speaker 5: This is the twentieth century. We're supposed to be intelligent
Speaker 5: human beings.
Speaker 2: Jim. It's not that we believe in these things.
Speaker 5: And what does it mean all this twaddle about dreams
Speaker 5: and fortune tellers and bats with hits in them?
Speaker 6: You sound like a bunch of stone simpletons.
Speaker 2: Why father, now, just a moment, Jim Anderson, you have
Speaker 2: just as many silly little superstitions as anyone else.
Speaker 6: I certainly do not.
Speaker 2: You most certainly do, Kathy.
Speaker 6: Yes, Daddy, go downstairs and help Bud.
Speaker 1: What's he doing?
Speaker 6: Do I know what he's doing?
Speaker 5: Go downstairs and find out and help him. Jee Wills,
Speaker 5: Now see here, Margaret.
Speaker 2: Yes, in my time, I've.
Speaker 5: Walked under hundreds of letters, broken, thousands of mirrors, ignored,
Speaker 5: millions of black cats. And if you can call that
Speaker 5: being superstitious.
Speaker 9: I'll bet that's Charlie. Who Charlie Davis and father? If
Speaker 9: he's tall and dark?
Speaker 6: Betty, what father Janie says?
Speaker 5: I don't care what Janie said. You are going out
Speaker 5: with Charlie Davis.
Speaker 2: Oh pooh, Betty for you, she'd be right down, bud,
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Betty.
Speaker 9: If this is a twentieth century, why do I have
Speaker 9: to be treated like somebody's slave.
Speaker 6: I don't know what's gotten inn of that curl.
Speaker 2: What are you looking for?
Speaker 10: Dear?
Speaker 6: My gray hat was right up here on the shelf.
Speaker 2: It's downstairs in the hall closet.
Speaker 6: I mean my old gray hat, the one I always
Speaker 6: wear a convention, Jim.
Speaker 2: It was all worn. Oh, it was dirty and the
Speaker 2: ribbon was faded.
Speaker 5: Margaret, What did you do with my hat?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 2: I gave it to mister Adams.
Speaker 6: Mister you mean the junk man.
Speaker 2: Yes, dear, you gave my.
Speaker 3: Hat to the junk man.
Speaker 2: Jim, you have a brand new hat, Margaret, How could
Speaker 2: you do a thing like that to me?
Speaker 6: That was my luck? I mean, how could you?
Speaker 5: But you said, I've worn that hat to conventions for
Speaker 5: fifteen years.
Speaker 6: You know I never go to a convention without it.
Speaker 6: What were you thinking of?
Speaker 5: Father?
Speaker 9: He is tall and he's got the blackest hair you
Speaker 9: ever saw. I won't go with it, and you can't
Speaker 9: make me.
Speaker 6: Oh, I can't, can't I Betty Anderson.
Speaker 5: You'll go out with that boy or you'll never go
Speaker 5: out again. Good Father, There enough trouble give a man's
Speaker 5: hat away at a time.
Speaker 6: Like this, Betty.
Speaker 2: After all, your father knows best, and if he's.
Speaker 9: All right, I'll go. But if anything happens to me,
Speaker 9: you'll have no one to blame it yourself.
Speaker 2: Betty, your father's going away, aren't you going to say goodbye?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 10: Goodbye?
Speaker 1: And I hope you have a very nice time.
Speaker 6: Most ridiculous thing.
Speaker 5: I've ever heard of, perfectly good hat sitting up on
Speaker 5: a shelf, not hurting a soul.
Speaker 2: Jim, you said you weren't superstitious.
Speaker 6: Superstitious? What a superstition got to do with it? I
Speaker 6: like that hat. It was the best hat.
Speaker 5: I've ever had, but it was all worn out. It
Speaker 5: was a perfect hat for going to conventions.
Speaker 6: And you know it, Bud.
Speaker 2: Jim, do you want me.
Speaker 6: To get mister Adams on the phone.
Speaker 5: Oh, mister Adams.
Speaker 7: The junk man.
Speaker 6: Tell him I want my gray hat back.
Speaker 5: It's in the closet, dead, my old gray hat. Tell
Speaker 5: him I'll give him five dollars for it, But that hat, Bud.
Speaker 2: Okay, Dad, Jim, you're being very foolish about this whole thing.
Speaker 6: Oh I am am.
Speaker 5: I just because I have a lucky just because I
Speaker 5: happen to like a certain hat, I'm being foolish.
Speaker 2: That's fine, Jim. Your train leaves in less than an hour, Well.
Speaker 6: Let it leave. I'll take a plane. I'll walk.
Speaker 5: But until mister Adams comes back with my hat, I'm
Speaker 5: not going to What is it, Kathy.
Speaker 1: Mister Jalis is here?
Speaker 6: No, what does he want? I'll be right down. Ed.
Speaker 6: Take your time, Jim.
Speaker 2: Norry, Jim, Please don't make a fuss in front of Ed.
Speaker 6: Of course not. You know I've got better sense than that.
Speaker 9: I do.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 5: I guess I've got everything except my hat.
Speaker 2: I don't understand, Jim. After that long speech you made
Speaker 2: about dreams and fortune.
Speaker 5: Telling, Margaret, my hat has nothing to do with dreams
Speaker 5: and fortune tellers.
Speaker 6: Isn't the question of superstition or anything like that. I
Speaker 6: merely want my hat.
Speaker 5: And in the future, will you please leave my things alone?
Speaker 6: Yes, dear, I'm not asking for anything unusual.
Speaker 5: Just don't give my hats to the junk man.
Speaker 2: All right, Dear.
Speaker 5: Jim, I'm sorry to board jan at a time like this,
Speaker 5: I know you must be kind of busy.
Speaker 6: Well, it's all right.
Speaker 5: How are you crying?
Speaker 6: Margaret? That's fine, Jim.
Speaker 5: I have some property in Chicago, and I wonder if
Speaker 5: you'll do me a big favor while you're there.
Speaker 6: Sure, n I'll be glad to dad.
Speaker 7: Mister Adams wasn't there.
Speaker 6: That's impossible. He must be.
Speaker 8: There, Okay, but missus Adams said he wasn't. She's going
Speaker 8: to say she can find.
Speaker 6: Them, Margaret. Now do you see what you've done?
Speaker 2: Jim?
Speaker 6: You said I know what I said.
Speaker 5: But good grief on anything wrong?
Speaker 6: Jim.
Speaker 5: Everything's wrong. We've had nothing but trouble all day. My
Speaker 5: good hat's gone, the junk man's gone. Betty didn't even
Speaker 5: want to go out with your nephew just because he's
Speaker 5: tall and dark.
Speaker 6: You mean, Charlie, have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Oh,
Speaker 6: I don't understand.
Speaker 5: Oh, Janie Leggett has some kind of an idiotic sept
Speaker 5: that tells fortunes.
Speaker 6: And she told Betty well, I understand that part all right.
Speaker 6: Used to be quite a.
Speaker 5: Hand with a ouiji boid. I don't understand about Charlie. Oh,
Speaker 5: there's nothing to worry about. Ed she went with him
Speaker 5: even though he is tall and dark, but he isn't
Speaker 5: Charlie's sharp, and he has red hair.
Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 4: It's a far cry from the Witches of Macbeth to
Speaker 4: the Andersons of Springfield, but not as far as you
Speaker 4: might think. An hour has passed and the situation has
Speaker 4: altered only slightly. Bud is out playing baseball, Kathy is
Speaker 4: out playing well, whatever it is that nine year old
Speaker 4: girls play. But in the white frame house on Maple Street,
Speaker 4: the air is charged with nervous tension. Not a word
Speaker 4: has been heard from Betty and the Andersons, and Ed
Speaker 4: Davis can do nothing but wait, like this, don't like this,
Speaker 4: don't like it at all.
Speaker 6: Look Ed, I don't care what you do, but do something. Well,
Speaker 6: let's try this.
Speaker 8: Hm.
Speaker 6: Let me see now.
Speaker 2: Jim, I don't understand how you can sit there at
Speaker 2: a time like this and play Canasta.
Speaker 6: Well, what do you want me to do, Margaret.
Speaker 5: We haven't left a stone unturned. We've called all our friends,
Speaker 5: the club, all the authorities, and they've promised to let
Speaker 5: us know the second either one of them turns up.
Speaker 2: There must be someone else we can call, like who.
Speaker 5: I'm not even sure calling the police was such a
Speaker 5: good idea, Jim. You've got to understand my position. After all,
Speaker 5: Charlie is my nephew and we don't know where he
Speaker 5: is the idiot. We don't know where Betty is or
Speaker 5: how the boy with the dark hair got into it.
Speaker 5: It's very confusing. Whose turn is it? Well, the whole
Speaker 5: thing is certainly nothing to worry about.
Speaker 6: That's because Janie Leggett is a superstitious little twerp.
Speaker 2: Jim, After all the us you made about your hat,
Speaker 2: how can you call anyone superstitious?
Speaker 6: My hat has nothing to do with it, and I
Speaker 6: didn't make a fuss.
Speaker 2: Then why did you miss your train?
Speaker 5: Because I decided to fly and I wanted to find
Speaker 5: out what happened to Betty.
Speaker 6: That's all, nothing complicated about it, and it has nothing
Speaker 6: to do with superstition.
Speaker 5: I guarantee that when Betty shows up, there'll be a
Speaker 5: perfectly logical explanation.
Speaker 6: Of the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope you're right.
Speaker 5: Of course, I'm right. Go ahead, Ed, it's your turn.
Speaker 5: You haven't put down a card? Oh well, just a minute,
Speaker 5: certainly taking long enough.
Speaker 6: I have a right to think about it, don't I
Speaker 6: just don't rush me.
Speaker 5: You know, when I was a boy, we lived in
Speaker 5: an old house on the North Side, and the place
Speaker 5: was simply crawling with ghosts. Well one day, wait a minute,
Speaker 5: don't tell me you believe in ghosts.
Speaker 6: Why not? Well, it's ridiculous. Everybody knows there's no such thing.
Speaker 6: Oh they do, do they? Well, let me tell you, Jim,
Speaker 6: there wasn't a night went by, did he? I'm sorry?
Speaker 6: I what are you doing home? Bud? Thought you're going
Speaker 6: to play baseball?
Speaker 8: Well I started to play, But gosh, Ded, I told
Speaker 8: you that bat wasn't any good.
Speaker 2: Bud? What on earth happened to your eye?
Speaker 6: God's another shiner? But have you been fighting again?
Speaker 7: I got hit with a baseball.
Speaker 6: That's great. You know, if this keeps up, you're going
Speaker 6: to have that eye worn out.
Speaker 8: I couldn't help it, Dad, I asked you to let
Speaker 8: me buy another bat.
Speaker 6: You were hit with a ball. What does a bat
Speaker 6: have to do with it?
Speaker 8: Well, they took me out a pitter and while I
Speaker 8: was sitting on the bench, I got hit in the eye.
Speaker 6: There, you see, that's what you get for being superstitious.
Speaker 2: Why aren't you on the train?
Speaker 6: Who said anything about a train?
Speaker 2: Jim? But his only doing the things you taught him.
Speaker 6: I taught him. When did I teach him anything about
Speaker 6: a bat with no hits in it?
Speaker 2: Well, it amounts to the same thing. Just because you're
Speaker 2: concerned over a silly old hat.
Speaker 6: I'm not concerned about my hat.
Speaker 5: The hat has nothing to do with it. And Margaret,
Speaker 5: will you please stop changing the subject?
Speaker 6: Oh no, not again?
Speaker 5: What was that the glazier's delight, Kathy?
Speaker 2: But tell Kathy to come in here, please, Okay, tells
Speaker 2: me I can't get a new bat, and then blame
Speaker 2: the whole.
Speaker 8: Thing on me.
Speaker 5: As I was saying, Jim, we had a rocking chair
Speaker 5: in our living room and every night it went back
Speaker 5: and forth, back and forth, back and forth. What does
Speaker 5: that prove, well, it certainly wasn't moving all by itself.
Speaker 5: You know ed, you certainly have some very peculiar ideas.
Speaker 6: I don't see anything peculiar about him at all.
Speaker 5: And if you weren't so dog on stubborn and stubborn me,
Speaker 5: you're the one who's being stubborn. I'll show you a
Speaker 5: dozen books that prove there's no such thing as it goes, And.
Speaker 6: I'll show you two dozen books that prove there are.
Speaker 2: Jim My grandmother William said that when she was a girl.
Speaker 5: Oh there's a great authority for you, A dame who
Speaker 5: spent half her life running around with hottentots.
Speaker 2: She was a very sweet woman, and you have no
Speaker 2: right to make fun of her.
Speaker 6: I'm not making fun of her.
Speaker 5: I'm merely trying to tell you that superstition is silly.
Speaker 2: Where did you get that hat?
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Nothing? I was just thinking, come on, Willy, well.
Speaker 1: Stop pulling me.
Speaker 10: Why do you.
Speaker 1: Always have to pull me? Kaddy?
Speaker 6: What did you do out there?
Speaker 1: I couldn't help it, daddy, I was trying to make
Speaker 1: everybody lucky.
Speaker 8: She heaved a horseshoe through the window.
Speaker 5: Oh fine, we just had it fixed.
Speaker 1: But Daddy I was worried about Betty, and they told
Speaker 1: me if I threw it over my right shoulder.
Speaker 7: Your left shoulder dopey.
Speaker 1: Oh well, no, wonder.
Speaker 6: Kathy, Do you see what you've done?
Speaker 2: She was just trying to be helpful, Dear.
Speaker 6: Sure, and I'm going to be.
Speaker 5: Set back another four dollars and twenty cents.
Speaker 6: For a window.
Speaker 1: But Daddy, they said it was lucky.
Speaker 6: Who said it was lucky?
Speaker 1: The man who fixed the window?
Speaker 5: Look, Kathy, let's examine this thing calmly and with simple logic.
Speaker 6: Why is a horseshoe lucky?
Speaker 1: Well, everybody says it is.
Speaker 5: Horses have millions of them, and are they lucky?
Speaker 1: Some of them?
Speaker 5: Are that idiotic rabbit's foot you carry around? Where's the
Speaker 5: rabbit it used to belong to? Did it bring him
Speaker 5: any lucky?
Speaker 1: Well, he was lucky while he had it.
Speaker 5: It didn't keep him getting shot, did it? He had
Speaker 5: four feet four nice lucky rabbit's feet, He still got shot.
Speaker 1: He must have looked at the moon over the wrong shoulder.
Speaker 5: Now, look, Chaffy, Jim, I'll answered it.
Speaker 2: Dear. If it's Betty, please don't lose your temper.
Speaker 6: Silliest family I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: I think we were living in the Middle Ages, horseshoes
Speaker 5: and rabbits.
Speaker 6: Deep father, how.
Speaker 1: Could you do this to me?
Speaker 6: How could you get inside? I'll talk to you later, Officer.
Speaker 4: We found her at Crandall's drugstore, mister Anderson. She was
Speaker 4: having a soda and he.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't even let me finish.
Speaker 6: Oh well, uh, sorry, you have put all this trouble, Officer.
Speaker 6: I'll see that it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 3: That's okay, We're used to it, Jim.
Speaker 2: Is it Betty?
Speaker 5: Mother?
Speaker 1: Why did you do this to me?
Speaker 9: Having me dragged home by the police and everybody looking
Speaker 9: at me?
Speaker 2: Darling, we were so worried.
Speaker 6: It's Charlie. What did you do with that rattle brained redhead?
Speaker 3: Did you want the boys? Nobody told me to bring them.
Speaker 6: You mean there were two of them?
Speaker 9: Father, Why didn't you listen to me? I told you
Speaker 9: I didn't want to go with Tommy.
Speaker 6: You said it was Charlie.
Speaker 9: I didn't say it was Charlie. I said he was
Speaker 9: tall and dark, and Janie Liggett said I was gonna
Speaker 9: have trouble.
Speaker 2: But you wouldn't listen.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry I listened in the first place.
Speaker 5: Who is the other boy, Tommy, Tommy.
Speaker 9: Who I don't know, but he's a friend of Charlie's,
Speaker 9: and Charlie was trying to get a date for him,
Speaker 9: and he knew he was gonna be late, so he
Speaker 9: sent Tommy and we met him down.
Speaker 2: At mister Cranell's. And it's all your fault.
Speaker 6: What's my fault?
Speaker 5: If you hadn't started that ridiculous thing about Jennie Liggett
Speaker 5: and the tall dark man.
Speaker 3: Will you be needing me for anything else? Hm?
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, officer. I think everything's under control now.
Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't be so sure. Sounds to me like
Speaker 4: the whole house is infested with leprechauns. Better leave a
Speaker 4: bowl of milk out for him tonight, otherwise you have
Speaker 4: nothing but trouble.
Speaker 6: We'll do just that.
Speaker 5: Now we've got leprechauns, Betty, what happened that idiot nephew
Speaker 5: of mine?
Speaker 7: Nothing?
Speaker 9: When the policeman came, he and tom he didn't know
Speaker 9: what to do. So they're having another soda.
Speaker 5: Just wait till I get my hands on that carrot
Speaker 5: headed numbskull.
Speaker 6: Just wait.
Speaker 2: It wasn't his fault ed. The whole thing was a
Speaker 2: very unfortunate misunderstanding that song.
Speaker 6: It's more than that.
Speaker 5: It's a perfect example of what I've been trying to
Speaker 5: tell you. Do you see what superstition has done to
Speaker 5: this family, Jim? It's not that important.
Speaker 6: It is important.
Speaker 5: We're supposed to be a healthy, normal American family, and
Speaker 5: what happened to us. We become involved in a bunch
Speaker 5: of old world superstitions, and.
Speaker 6: All our lives are affected.
Speaker 5: Bud gets a black eye, Kathy breaks a window. Bet
Speaker 5: he gets the whole neighborhood upset. Where they're tall, dark strangers. Jim,
Speaker 5: it's very well to scoff at superstition.
Speaker 6: But when I was a boy, gods, Now what I
Speaker 6: tell you?
Speaker 5: That chair rock back and forth, back and forth, Sir Anderson,
Speaker 5: my friend, my wonderful friend.
Speaker 6: It's about time you got here. Where's my hat?
Speaker 5: Jim?
Speaker 2: You mustn't blame mister Adams.
Speaker 5: I gave him that, Missus Anderson, Look what I thought
Speaker 5: for you, the biggest box.
Speaker 6: Of Kennedy I could. This is the biggest.
Speaker 5: Box of candy and speak for you, mister, go ahead,
Speaker 5: ticket take it.
Speaker 6: I want you to have it. It's for you, mister Adams.
Speaker 6: All we want is the hat. May I please have I.
Speaker 5: Brought a doll for the little girl, present for everybody,
Speaker 5: a baseball bat and perfume. Mister Adams, I have to
Speaker 5: go to Chicago. May I please have my hat? Look,
Speaker 5: mister Anderson, she guards the biggest box I could find,
Speaker 5: mister Adams, free for a half. That's expensive, but nothing
Speaker 5: is too good for my friend.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much. Now, may I have my hat.
Speaker 5: The hat, that wonderful hat. You know. All my life
Speaker 5: I've been an unlucky man, a junk man, a poor pensilan,
Speaker 5: and then you gave me that hat, that beautiful hat.
Speaker 6: I said, I'd give you five dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh, I couldn't sell that hat.
Speaker 5: Not that hat ten dollars, Jean, mister Edison, fifteen dollars.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't sell it for a million dollars.
Speaker 6: Haven't you heard what it did for me?
Speaker 5: I just won the Irish sweep steaks.
Speaker 6: It's been wonderful news the past few weeks.
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Speaker 4: Just about three days. And that's precisely what's happened in Springfield.
Speaker 4: Jim Anderson has gone to Chicago and come back again,
Speaker 4: and now for the first time in three days, he's
Speaker 4: at the breakfast table with his family like this.
Speaker 5: I guess I made them set up and take notice,
Speaker 5: right in front of everybody. Mister Craig said they couldn't
Speaker 5: have placed the Springfield area in more capable hands.
Speaker 6: Jim, he did, He certainly did.
Speaker 5: And he's only the president of the company. That's all boy.
Speaker 5: You should have seen the eyes.
Speaker 7: Pop.
Speaker 8: Say, Dad, you know how many hits I got yesterday
Speaker 8: with the Batmans?
Speaker 7: Adams gave me six.
Speaker 6: That's fine, Bud. How come he had a game yesterday?
Speaker 8: Well it wasn't a regular league game. I was just
Speaker 8: fooling around with Kathy's team.
Speaker 1: He hit three home runs.
Speaker 7: Oh, it wasn't so much.
Speaker 2: A father.
Speaker 9: Yes, Betty, I'm going to a formal next Friday, and
Speaker 9: I saw the most beautiful dress.
Speaker 2: Again, Betty, your father just got home.
Speaker 9: But mother Tommy said it was going to be the
Speaker 9: most exclusive formal of the year.
Speaker 5: Tommy, you mean the tall, dark one.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know they were gonna have trouble with him.
Speaker 2: After all, Jim. Let's not get started on that again.
Speaker 2: It was a very successful convention, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: It certainly was. I accomplished a.
Speaker 2: Great deal, and you did it all without your lucky hat, didn't.
Speaker 6: You, Margaret. I never said it was a lucky hat.
Speaker 5: I merely said, well, the man's entitled to a few
Speaker 5: little idiosyncrasies.
Speaker 6: That's all it was.
Speaker 11: Oh, let's just forget it, all right, dear daddy. Yes, Kathy,
Speaker 11: is everything all right now? I mean you aren't going
Speaker 11: away in anymore trips or anything.
Speaker 6: Are you no, Kathy, I'm staying right here and everything's
Speaker 6: just as fine as.
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Speaker 1: foot there?
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