Speaker 1: The makers of Campbell Soup present the Campbell Playhouse, Orson Wells.
Speaker 2: Producer.
Speaker 3: Good Evening, Missus Orson Welles. Our story has promised is
Speaker 3: Huckleberry Finn, and our guest is Jackie Cooper. But since
Speaker 3: that promise was made, another star has joined the cast.
Speaker 3: Walter Catlett, whose face you remember from at least a
Speaker 3: hundred movies, whose voice of most recent memory is unforgettable
Speaker 3: in Pinocchio, in which mister Catlet created for mister Disney
Speaker 3: the character of j. Worthington, honest John fowl Fellow, the Fox,
Speaker 3: and who I'm still talking about Wall the Catlet will
Speaker 3: enact for us tonight the taxing role of the Duke.
Speaker 3: Also with us in the Campbell Playhouse are Clara Blandick,
Speaker 3: Robert Warwick, Clarence Muse, and William Allend. These and others
Speaker 3: await their cues to play as many of the Mark
Speaker 3: Twain characters as we could cram into a single broadcast.
Speaker 3: They will strive to please you every one, But right
Speaker 3: now they'd like me to read to you in a loud,
Speaker 3: clear voice the words printed on the title page of
Speaker 3: tonight's story. I quote persons attempting to find a motive
Speaker 3: in this narrative will be prosecuted. Person's attempting to find
Speaker 3: a moral and it will be banished. Persons attempting to
Speaker 3: find a plot in it will be shot by order
Speaker 3: of the author. Now before Huckleberry Finn Ernest Chappele has
Speaker 3: something to say about entertainment and other sort of chapel, sir, thank.
Speaker 4: You arson, wells, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: When you entertain at dinner, your first concern is the
Speaker 1: pleasure of your guests. You want to be sure that
Speaker 1: they enjoy themselves and enjoy the food you serve. And
Speaker 1: to this end, don't you often play safe and served chicken?
Speaker 1: I imagine you do, because you've noticed that nearly everybody enjoys
Speaker 1: chicken in some farm roast chicken or fried chicken.
Speaker 5: Or chicken frick a sea.
Speaker 4: Let's say, as much as you yourself probably enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm sure it must be this general liking for
Speaker 1: chicken that has.
Speaker 4: Made people take so wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3: To Cambell's chicken soup.
Speaker 1: One after another, families have tried this chicken soup and
Speaker 1: found it rich in chicken flavor, clear through from its
Speaker 1: golden surface to the very bottom of the plate. They've
Speaker 1: seen how it's brought fairly glistens with chicken richness, and
Speaker 1: they've relished the.
Speaker 6: Fluffy rice and the pieces of tender chicken meat in.
Speaker 4: It in every plateful. They've told others.
Speaker 1: How much they like Campbell's chicken soup, and so its popularity.
Speaker 3: Has grown and continues to grow.
Speaker 1: Have you tried this deep flavored, home like chicken soup
Speaker 1: of Cambell's.
Speaker 3: Why not enjoy it tomorrow?
Speaker 1: I promise you, just as sure as you like chicken,
Speaker 1: you like Campbell's chicken soup. And now orson well starts
Speaker 1: our Campbell Playhouse presentation talk about tim starting Jackie Cooper.
Speaker 3: Last week we said that this week we broadcast Mark
Speaker 3: Twain's Sockleberry Finn. Well, you're expecting then a dramatization could
Speaker 3: clear concise ladies and gentlemen, you will hear no such thing.
Speaker 3: We're sorry, but we think Carckoberry Finn is too good
Speaker 3: a book to be dramatized, exactly speaking, and so we won't.
Speaker 3: We won't even try a nicely parted version of the story.
Speaker 3: We couldn't do it anyway. We don't even have to.
Speaker 3: For one thing, the story hasn't got what you'd call
Speaker 3: a nice plot. The principal part of it, of course,
Speaker 3: relates to the deathless saga of a voyage down the
Speaker 3: Mississippi by the most celebrated wrath the world has ever known.
Speaker 3: We're going to tell most of that story, and as
Speaker 3: many of the others as we can, and as nearly
Speaker 3: as possible. In Mark Twain's own words, you'll forgive me, please,
Speaker 3: but I must inject what may seem at first to
Speaker 3: be the personal note. Ladies and gentlemen. It would appear
Speaker 3: that during the course of this past week there have
Speaker 3: been circulated rumors, rumors, evil, unfounded and unfair, nasty, vile
Speaker 3: rumors whose sources I cannot place, and whose origins I
Speaker 3: am at a loss to discover. It has been said
Speaker 3: that I will perform the role of Huckleberry Finn. You'll
Speaker 3: all be relieved. I am sure to hear from my
Speaker 3: own lips that this is not the case. Must be said, however,
Speaker 3: in all candor, that I restrain myself none too easily
Speaker 3: to be Huckleberry Finn, even for an hour. This was
Speaker 3: not likely to be put to one side. However, I'm
Speaker 3: as happy as possible and as proud as I really
Speaker 3: ought to be to welcome now to the Campbell Playoffs,
Speaker 3: that gifted and very young performer who will be Huckleberry
Speaker 3: Finn and who is actually Jackie Cooper.
Speaker 6: I'm mighty proud to meet you, mister Wells.
Speaker 3: Goberry Finn and a friend of Mark Twain's as always
Speaker 3: welcome here.
Speaker 6: Mister Twain did write proud by me in his story,
Speaker 6: didn't he?
Speaker 3: Right, Proud is a bit of an understatement, hug Well,
Speaker 3: when I think at the very beginning of the book,
Speaker 3: you don't know about me without you've read a book
Speaker 3: by the name of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Speaker 6: That I thought you wasn't gonna play Huckleberry Finn.
Speaker 3: Mister Wells, Oh, pardon me, all right, huck.
Speaker 6: You don't know about me without you have read a
Speaker 6: book by.
Speaker 2: The name of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But that
Speaker 2: ain't no matter.
Speaker 6: That book was. That book was made by mister Mark Twain,
Speaker 6: and he told the truth madely.
Speaker 2: There were some stretches in it, But then I never
Speaker 2: seen anybody but lied one time or another.
Speaker 6: Without it was Aunt Polly or the witty Douglas.
Speaker 2: Anyways, that book winds up by Tom and me finding
Speaker 2: the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and
Speaker 2: it made us rich. And the widow Douglas, she took
Speaker 2: me for a son and allowed she would civilize me.
Speaker 2: It was rough at first, going to school every day
Speaker 2: and living in the house all the time, consider and
Speaker 2: her dismal regular and decent. The widow wasn't all our ways,
Speaker 2: but mostly things was going pretty smooth. That is till
Speaker 2: the night I killed a spider. I was a setting
Speaker 2: in my room.
Speaker 6: And I have just a paragraph or two, Huck, no
Speaker 6: more than.
Speaker 3: A paragraph or two, Thank you well. Huck was sitting
Speaker 3: in his room, tired and lonesome, trying to think of
Speaker 3: something cheerful, but it was no use. He felt so
Speaker 3: lonesome he most wished he was dead. The stars were shining,
Speaker 3: the leaves rustled in the woods, ever so wonderful. And
Speaker 3: there was an hole away off of Hoohoo, and about
Speaker 3: somebody that was dead, a dog crying about somebody that
Speaker 3: was gonna die, and the wind was trying to whisper
Speaker 3: something to him the way out in the woods. He
Speaker 3: heard that kind of a sound of the ghost makes
Speaker 3: wants to tell something that's on his mind. The candle
Speaker 3: was almost burned away.
Speaker 2: That's more than a paragraph or two, mister Wells. All right,
Speaker 2: that's right, mister Wells. When this year spider went calling
Speaker 2: up my shoulder, I flipped it off and lifted the candle,
Speaker 2: and before I could budget, it was all shriveled up.
Speaker 2: I didn't need Miss Watson's slave Jim to tell me
Speaker 2: that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch
Speaker 2: me some bad luck. But I thought maybe I might
Speaker 2: as well know the worst, because then.
Speaker 6: The thought of my pap came into my mind.
Speaker 2: Mighty powerful folks claimed, you know that my pack was dead.
Speaker 6: But something inside me told me better.
Speaker 2: So I put out the candle and climbed out the wind,
Speaker 2: and shinned down the light and rod and started out
Speaker 2: to Jim's place.
Speaker 6: For Jim had a hair ball as big as your
Speaker 6: fist which had.
Speaker 2: Been took out of the four stomach of an Ox,
Speaker 2: and he could do magic with it.
Speaker 6: And inside I wouldn't knows anything of what you want?
Speaker 6: Don't know now, huh? Think about the bath pretty considerable.
Speaker 7: Well, let me see, let me see what the spirit
Speaker 7: done say. He's say, he say, you old fall, don't
Speaker 7: know yet what he wanted to do. Sometimes the spect
Speaker 7: you go away, and then again he spect you stay.
Speaker 6: This's he's and let the old man take his the
Speaker 6: old way.
Speaker 8: The Jew's all right.
Speaker 7: You want to have considerable foot in your life and
Speaker 7: considerable joy. Sometimes you want to get hurt, sometimes you
Speaker 7: want to get sick.
Speaker 6: Well every time you want.
Speaker 3: To get well again.
Speaker 7: He wants to keep away from the water as much
Speaker 7: as you can, and don't run no risks. He's down
Speaker 7: in the buildings which just want to get hung.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Jim. It isn't everybody can rest easy. You
Speaker 6: know for sure he's going to be hung. I was
Speaker 6: kind of low spirited.
Speaker 2: Next morning, and I went down to the front garden
Speaker 2: and clumb over the stile where you go through the
Speaker 2: high board fence. There was an inch new snow on
Speaker 2: the ground, and I've seen somebody's tracks. I didn't notice
Speaker 2: anything at first, but next I did. There was a
Speaker 2: cross in the left heeled boot made with big nails
Speaker 2: to keep off the devil.
Speaker 6: Then I knew. And that night when I lit my
Speaker 6: candle and went up to my.
Speaker 7: Room, there sat tapping his own self, said rise.
Speaker 9: Yeah, here's Leason stars crows. Hey you're a good zeed
Speaker 9: of a big.
Speaker 8: Bug, don't it?
Speaker 7: No, I don't stops him.
Speaker 8: In under your lip.
Speaker 9: Hey, put on consider her many frills as I went away,
Speaker 9: and I'll take it down.
Speaker 8: Pay the fire. I got down with you.
Speaker 10: You're educated, too cold, read right?
Speaker 9: You get better in.
Speaker 8: Your own man, now, don't you, cause he can't. I'll
Speaker 8: take it out of you.
Speaker 9: Who knows you your good middle and set high?
Speaker 8: Fool foolish? Who told you you could the window? She
Speaker 8: told me? Widow?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 8: Who told the.
Speaker 9: Widow she could have put in her shovel? Bouts say?
Speaker 8: It ain't gone her business?
Speaker 6: Nobody never told her.
Speaker 8: I learn how to meddle.
Speaker 6: And look here, you drop that school.
Speaker 9: Yet I learned people to bring up a pirefore on airs.
Speaker 6: Over your own pammy, what's that young on the wall? Well,
Speaker 6: it's a picture of the widow gave me. It's just
Speaker 6: a little old.
Speaker 8: That'll do with that.
Speaker 6: I'll give you something better than that.
Speaker 8: I'll give you a card.
Speaker 11: Ain't you a sweet sanded down there? A bed bed cullers,
Speaker 11: looking glass, piece of copper on the floor. Your pappy's
Speaker 11: got to sleep with the hogs and the tang hos.
Speaker 12: I've never seen.
Speaker 8: It's like that song.
Speaker 9: But I'll take some of them pills out of here
Speaker 9: before I'm coming here.
Speaker 8: I there an't no end to your heirs. You say
Speaker 8: you're rich.
Speaker 6: Yes's so, I ain't got no money.
Speaker 8: That's a lie.
Speaker 9: Yes that she's done it. You get it.
Speaker 12: I want it.
Speaker 6: I ain't got only a dollar and I want it.
Speaker 8: Don't make no difference what you wanted for you just
Speaker 8: shell out.
Speaker 12: Well, you can have the dollar biking every dollar.
Speaker 9: Hey, you gonna bet your bottom dollar.
Speaker 8: I'm a gun.
Speaker 12: I'm on that.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna take a you woman if that gits that
Speaker 9: share and you're would have doug this. Once you're bad enough,
Speaker 9: they can come get you because there's a law. I've
Speaker 9: said a child belongs to parents. They want you. They're
Speaker 9: going to penny me understand that.
Speaker 8: Are you coming over your path?
Speaker 6: I'm not going.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, y'all, I don't know. Pepa can't leave.
Speaker 3: H don't you think you need a minute to recover? Huck,
Speaker 3: You know you just got hit and the kids you're
Speaker 3: I'm all right. I think you better let me take
Speaker 3: over for a little while.
Speaker 2: Oh, you ain't fooling anybody, mister Wilder. You just want
Speaker 2: to read some of mister Twain's book yourself.
Speaker 3: Well, old man Finn took cock over to the ill
Speaker 3: Noise short when old log hot word was woody, and
Speaker 3: there was no house with this hut, a place where
Speaker 3: the timber was so thick you couldn't find it if
Speaker 3: you didn't know what it was. He'd lock hockey and
Speaker 3: go off with the gun, which he'd stolen someplace, and
Speaker 3: get game fish and trade him for whiskey and fetch
Speaker 3: it home, get drunk and lick hug, and then reach
Speaker 3: for the drug again, saying he guess he'd add enough
Speaker 3: in that jug, but too drunks and urium treeman, and
Speaker 3: he had too.
Speaker 2: It's all just as much, Twain says. But I finally
Speaker 2: fool Papp and I got away. I was as scared
Speaker 2: of being followed.
Speaker 6: I didn't want nobody knowing where I was. Pap was
Speaker 6: a widow, Douglas or Judge Thatcher, nobody, So I just
Speaker 6: bided my time.
Speaker 2: I had an old saw hit out, and when Pap
Speaker 2: was gone, which was considerable, I'd hack away at the
Speaker 2: boards of the cabin till I made a whole big
Speaker 2: enough to get through.
Speaker 6: And one day Pap went away in town to get drunk.
Speaker 6: I found an old canoe and.
Speaker 8: Hit it up the creek aways.
Speaker 6: But it was the wild hog I caught in the
Speaker 6: marshes that gave me my real idea. It was pretty good,
Speaker 6: if I do say it myself. Only I did wish
Speaker 6: for Tom Sorry to be there.
Speaker 2: I knowed he'd have taken an interest in the business,
Speaker 2: and would I added some fancy touches.
Speaker 3: What'd you do, huck?
Speaker 6: Ain't you gonna let me tell?
Speaker 3: Of course, I was just asking.
Speaker 8: Well, here's what I did.
Speaker 2: I shot the pig and fetched it in and laid
Speaker 2: it on the floor of the cabin, and hacked into
Speaker 2: his throat with an axe and laid him down on
Speaker 2: the floor to bleed. And I dragged him clear down
Speaker 2: the river bank, leaving a trail all along the way.
Speaker 6: I pulled out some of my hair and blood of
Speaker 6: the axe is good.
Speaker 2: Stuck it on the backside, and after hacking up the
Speaker 2: cabin considerable, I slung the axe in the corner. And
Speaker 2: when I was done, I could have sworn and have
Speaker 2: been a murder committed, and I was dead. And then
Speaker 2: sticking the pig in the sack, I jumped in the
Speaker 2: canoe and took off down stream.
Speaker 3: Well Hawk followed the river for a couple of miles
Speaker 3: and more, and the further he got along to that
Speaker 3: river scene stretching miles and miles and miles, it seemed
Speaker 3: the moon was so bright he could calm the drift
Speaker 3: logs that went to slipping along black and still hundreds
Speaker 3: of yards up in shore, everything was dead quiet. It
Speaker 3: looked late, It smelled late.
Speaker 2: You know howidays the sky looks ever so deep when
Speaker 2: you lay down in your back in the moonshine, and
Speaker 2: how far a body.
Speaker 6: Can hear on the water such nights.
Speaker 2: I had a little laugh all in myself, thinking about
Speaker 2: how all them boats was cruising about, looking from my
Speaker 2: drowned body and me lying within shouting distance. It was
Speaker 2: about three days later that I saw fire through the
Speaker 2: trees and a man laying on the ground.
Speaker 9: It was MS.
Speaker 6: Watson's Jim. Hello Jim, I says, hello, Jim. Don't you
Speaker 6: hurt me, don't don't let me doom.
Speaker 8: I ain't never done no harm to a ghost. Ghosts
Speaker 8: alls like dead people.
Speaker 6: And don't put for him.
Speaker 7: You can go and get on back in the river
Speaker 7: again where he belongs, and don't you do nothing to
Speaker 7: old Jim as all as your friend.
Speaker 6: I'm not dead, Jim, that's what you say. Well, if
Speaker 6: I was dead, could have said.
Speaker 7: I'll pretend, Jean. If I find out your ears, I'll
Speaker 7: quit pretending, all right, Jim?
Speaker 8: How you come to be here?
Speaker 7: Maybe I better not tell why?
Speaker 2: Jim?
Speaker 8: Well there's reasons.
Speaker 6: But you wouldn't tell on me if I was attended,
Speaker 6: would you huck blamed? If I would?
Speaker 7: Jim, I believe you.
Speaker 6: Huh Uh, I'll run off, you run off, Jim. Mind
Speaker 6: you you said you wouldn't tell. You know, you said
Speaker 6: you wouldn't tell her.
Speaker 2: Well I didn't. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick
Speaker 2: to it, honest engine. Well I ain't going back.
Speaker 6: There anyway, thank you.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 7: Look at them young words coming along flind the yard
Speaker 7: or two at the time and enlightening.
Speaker 6: What about them young birds? Oh that's a sign that's
Speaker 6: going to ring. Well maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
Speaker 8: But I can't tell him who. You can't. You can't,
Speaker 8: you mustn't. That'll be this.
Speaker 6: A lot of things are bad luck, aren't they.
Speaker 8: Jim.
Speaker 2: You can't go against the signs. It looks to me
Speaker 2: as though all the signs was about bad luck. Aren't
Speaker 2: there any good luck signs?
Speaker 7: Mighty few? Dana used to nobody, what you wanna know?
Speaker 7: What good luck's gonna come for?
Speaker 6: Won't keep it all?
Speaker 7: If it's got hairy arms in their hair breasts, it's
Speaker 7: a sign that she's wine to be rich. There's some
Speaker 7: use in a sign like that case. It's so far ahead.
Speaker 6: Because you got hairy arms and a hairy breast.
Speaker 3: Jim, it was to use to ask that question.
Speaker 7: Don't you see I have.
Speaker 6: It's raining, Jim, ain't'll surprise me. I see the signs.
Speaker 7: Destiny.
Speaker 6: Child chickens know when that's goining to ring.
Speaker 7: Sold to be buried.
Speaker 6: We got to get them out of these wilson and
Speaker 6: get some face warm.
Speaker 7: I know, cap enough the eyes on the field.
Speaker 3: Rain for twelve days. The river went on rising. We
Speaker 3: went clean over the banks, and one day they caught
Speaker 3: a little section of a lumber after, just big enough
Speaker 3: to hold all their things, of which they had considerable.
Speaker 3: By now eating some women's clothes, they found a deserted
Speaker 3: shackle on the river. In the thirteenth stay of the
Speaker 3: rain stopped.
Speaker 6: I reckon, I slip over the river. Jim and find
Speaker 6: out what's going on.
Speaker 7: That's raised my idea.
Speaker 6: Huh, but you got to go in the dark and
Speaker 6: look mighty sharp.
Speaker 3: How about the women's clothes?
Speaker 6: How about them? Jim, do I look like a girl?
Speaker 3: He looks back the most beat for you?
Speaker 7: And with that sunbotty on, your heat tied tight down,
Speaker 7: seeing your face and be like looking down at the
Speaker 7: jine up a stove fighting.
Speaker 6: Want to be sure you don't hitch up your dress?
Speaker 6: What you means me in your bitch's pocket?
Speaker 12: Well, lan sakes, little girl, come here, thank you man?
Speaker 10: And what might your name be?
Speaker 12: Sarah Walls? Whereabouts do you live in this neighborhood? And
Speaker 12: Norman Hooker pills some miles ball.
Speaker 13: Well, it's a considerable way to the upper end of town.
Speaker 13: You better stay here all night. Take off your body.
Speaker 8: Oh no, no more.
Speaker 12: I'll rest a while, I reckon and then go on.
Speaker 12: I ain't a fear of the dark.
Speaker 13: We've got plenty of excitement around here. A young boy
Speaker 13: called Huck Finn was killed the other day. For a while,
Speaker 13: some people thought that he's on path did it? Almost
Speaker 13: everybody thought it at first.
Speaker 6: You'll never know.
Speaker 13: How nigh he come to get lunched, but before night
Speaker 13: they changed around and judged.
Speaker 6: It was done by a runaway slave named Jim.
Speaker 12: Why he What was you gonna say?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 12: Nothing, ma'am? Are they after him?
Speaker 13: Well, you're an innocent is three hundred dollars laying around
Speaker 13: every day for people to pick up.
Speaker 10: Some people think he ain't far from here. No, I'm
Speaker 10: one of them, but I ain't talking around.
Speaker 12: What did you say your name was Mary Williams.
Speaker 13: I thought you said it was Sarah when you first
Speaker 13: come in.
Speaker 12: Oh, yes, my dear Sarah, Mary Williams. Mary, Sarah's my
Speaker 12: first matom some gord, he sir, God me.
Speaker 10: Mary, I see Sarah, Mary.
Speaker 12: I wonder if you do a favor for me anything
Speaker 12: you're saying, Man, hold this ball yarn for me here? Catch?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 12: Oh shucks. I didn't mean to drop it, ma'am, just
Speaker 12: as I thought.
Speaker 10: Now, what's your real name?
Speaker 8: Is a Bill?
Speaker 12: Or Tom or Bob or what?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 12: Please don't poke for a little girl like me.
Speaker 8: Mom.
Speaker 13: If I'm on the way here, now, you can tell
Speaker 13: me your secret and trust me I'll keep it, and
Speaker 13: what's more, I'll help you.
Speaker 12: What's your real name now?
Speaker 6: George Jones Hoyscot.
Speaker 13: Ma'am, well try to remember it, George, you do a
Speaker 13: girl tolerable, poor blessed shit child. When a girl tries
Speaker 13: to catch anything in her lap, she throws her knees apart.
Speaker 13: She don't clapp them together the way you did when
Speaker 13: you catch that ball.
Speaker 2: Yarn.
Speaker 13: Now, I'll Followong Sarah, Mary Williams, George Jones, hoys rot
Speaker 13: and if you get into trouble, you send word to
Speaker 13: missus Judith's loftus, which is me, and I'll do what
Speaker 13: I can to get you out of it.
Speaker 12: Thank you, ma'am. You've been off a kind of pulling
Speaker 12: gr She ain't never watch that.
Speaker 6: I mean to a little boy, and he ain't never
Speaker 6: gonna forget it.
Speaker 12: Hey, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 3: If i'd been in your spot with that woman hawk,
Speaker 3: I think I could have done better. But we'll just
Speaker 3: forget about that.
Speaker 6: You could not have done better, mister Wells. Even Tom
Speaker 6: Sawyer couldn't have done better.
Speaker 3: I said, we forget about it for days. Huck and
Speaker 3: Jim on the raft slid down the water as the
Speaker 3: Mississippi bomb for Cairo. At the bottom of Illinois. They
Speaker 3: traveled at night, laying up along the Missouri shore in daytimes.
Speaker 3: Mornings before daylight, Hug could slip into a melon patch
Speaker 3: and it'd be nice and cool for their breakfast, and
Speaker 3: they laid through the day swimming a little maybe or
Speaker 3: how could show off his education? He'd read the gym
Speaker 3: out of a book they'd picked up in one of
Speaker 3: their excursions. Considerable in this book about kings and dukes
Speaker 3: and hurls. How much do you king get?
Speaker 2: Why they get one thousand dollars a month as they wanted.
Speaker 2: They can have just as much as they want. Everything
Speaker 2: belongs to them.
Speaker 8: Ain't dead, ghee?
Speaker 6: And what you got to do? They don't do nothing?
Speaker 6: They just sat around?
Speaker 8: No is that so?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 6: They're just lazy around or go hawking or other times.
Speaker 2: When things is due, left us with the parliament, and
Speaker 2: if everybody don't go, just so he whacks their heads off.
Speaker 6: But mostly they hang around the harem, around the witch harem.
Speaker 7: What's the harem?
Speaker 2: The place where the king keeps his wife? Don't you
Speaker 2: know about the harem?
Speaker 6: Solomon? Oh he had about a million wives.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so I didn't forget it. A hand's a
Speaker 7: boarding house, I reckon. Most likely there was racketed times
Speaker 7: in the nustry.
Speaker 6: And there's other kings, Jim.
Speaker 2: There's a little sixteen that got his head cut off
Speaker 2: from France long ago. And there's a little boy the
Speaker 2: Dolphin that would have been king, but they took and
Speaker 2: put him in jail.
Speaker 3: And some say he died there pool living fella.
Speaker 6: Some say he got out and got away and he
Speaker 6: come to America.
Speaker 3: That's good, but he'd be pretty lonesome.
Speaker 6: He ain't no kings.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's up. No, then he can't get no situation.
Speaker 8: What do you wanna do?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 2: No, some of them gets on the police, and some
Speaker 2: of them learns how to learn people how to talk.
Speaker 6: Prince. I don't French people talk the same way he does.
Speaker 2: No, Jim, you couldn't understand a word they say, not
Speaker 2: a single word.
Speaker 7: No, No, I'll be deen busted.
Speaker 8: How to do that? Come? Oh?
Speaker 6: I don't know, but it's so I got some of
Speaker 6: the jabber out of a book.
Speaker 2: Supposing a man was to come to you and say,
Speaker 2: Polly Voo Franzine, what would you think.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't think nothing.
Speaker 6: I'd take him and bust him over their head.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't let nobody call me that shucks.
Speaker 6: They ain't calling you anything. It's only saying do you
Speaker 6: know how to talk French?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 6: Then white, wouldn't he see it?
Speaker 8: Well? He is saying it.
Speaker 6: That's a Frenchman's way of saying it wants a blamed,
Speaker 6: ridiculous way.
Speaker 7: I don't want to hear no more about it.
Speaker 6: A sis in it? Look ahead, Jim. Does a cat
Speaker 6: talk like we do?
Speaker 8: No? Cat?
Speaker 7: Don't?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 8: Then does a cow? No?
Speaker 6: Cow, don't either? But does a cat talk like a
Speaker 6: cow or a cow talk like a cat?
Speaker 8: No? Don't.
Speaker 2: Well, it's national right for him to talk different from each.
Speaker 8: Other than ain't it cool?
Speaker 6: And then the inter natural right for a cat and
Speaker 6: the cow to talk different from us?
Speaker 8: Why? Most surely it is?
Speaker 2: Well, then why isn't it naturally right for a Frenchman
Speaker 2: to talk different from us?
Speaker 10: You answer me, that.
Speaker 7: Is a cat a manho?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 6: Well, then there ain't no sense in a cat talking
Speaker 6: like a man.
Speaker 8: Is a cow man?
Speaker 12: Or is a cower?
Speaker 2: Cat?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: She ain't neither of them?
Speaker 8: Well, there they ain't got.
Speaker 7: No openings to talk like either one or the other
Speaker 7: of them.
Speaker 6: He is a Frenchman a man?
Speaker 7: Yes, Well, then then blame it. Why don't he talk
Speaker 7: like a man.
Speaker 8: You answer me that.
Speaker 3: Well, fucking Jim Judge. Three nights mar bringing inside of
Speaker 3: the lights of Carro where the Ohio River comes in.
Speaker 3: They could sell the raft and get on a steamboat
Speaker 3: and go way up the higher amongst the free states,
Speaker 3: where human be safe, maybe out of trouble. So for
Speaker 3: three days and three nights they floated on, Huck and Jim,
Speaker 3: alternating on watch see most A dozen times one or
Speaker 3: the other of them thought they saw the lights of
Speaker 3: care over. Every time it turned out to be nothing
Speaker 3: but a little settlement the sentiment. Then suddenly, on the
Speaker 3: evening of the fourth day, Oh.
Speaker 8: What's a word on you now?
Speaker 9: Jim him nice to you all day?
Speaker 6: So many lights game. We've been pulled before.
Speaker 9: It's Cato.
Speaker 8: He's a nice Carol.
Speaker 9: We'll say, well, we'll save jump up and crack up
Speaker 9: your heels.
Speaker 8: That's the good old Carol.
Speaker 12: Laugh. I heard his findation, Jim, I reckon, you're right,
Speaker 12: look at them.
Speaker 6: Life's Jim left like a Christmas tree.
Speaker 12: I'm going over and take a ton no.
Speaker 6: And see tell me for there you and here my
Speaker 6: cook put in the bottle.
Speaker 8: How you being more comfortable that way? Let him go
Speaker 8: Jim good by, Uh he.
Speaker 7: Goes ooh to h the only white gentleman that he
Speaker 7: ever kept his promise to old Jew.
Speaker 2: Well, that was quite a priviio, huck. I guess saw
Speaker 2: mister Wells. Only I was getting sicker and sicker.
Speaker 5: I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 6: It was my bond and duty to Miss Watson not
Speaker 6: to help a runaway slave.
Speaker 2: But Jim had always been mighty good to me, and
Speaker 2: his last words seemed kind of to well to take
Speaker 2: all the.
Speaker 6: Tuck out of me. I went along slow, not knowing
Speaker 6: what to do.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: Then along comes a skiff with two men in it
Speaker 6: with guns.
Speaker 15: Say, why.
Speaker 16: What's that?
Speaker 8: Flows in yonder?
Speaker 6: He's a raft a minnes only one.
Speaker 12: Sir Wells.
Speaker 17: Five slaves run off the night up yonder about the
Speaker 17: head of a man, your man white.
Speaker 6: Oh god, well, be good, why he he's white?
Speaker 15: Mister al right, boy, to see any one away slaves?
Speaker 9: You can help now you can make some money, right, goodbye, sir?
Speaker 9: All hold them no runaway slaveship by me if I
Speaker 9: can help it.
Speaker 2: Well, they went off, mister Wells, and I got aboard
Speaker 2: the rat, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very
Speaker 2: well I've.
Speaker 6: Done wrong, and I see it.
Speaker 2: Warn't no use for me to try and learn to
Speaker 2: do right. A body that don't get started right when
Speaker 2: he's little, well, he just.
Speaker 6: Ain't got no show.
Speaker 2: Then I thought him minute, and I says to myself,
Speaker 2: hold on, now, suppose you'd have done right.
Speaker 6: Suppose you'd have done right and give Jim up. Would
Speaker 6: you have felt better than what you do now? Well,
Speaker 6: I was stuck. I couldn't answer that, so I reckon,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't bother no more about it. But after this
Speaker 6: allays do whichever comes handiest.
Speaker 2: At the time, you.
Speaker 1: Are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Puffaberry Finn,
Speaker 1: produced by Awson Wells and starring Jackie Cooper.
Speaker 5: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System, and now Orson Wells.
Speaker 1: Resumes our Campbell Playoffs presentation of Pacoberry.
Speaker 3: Fin starring Jackie Cooper.
Speaker 8: Wells.
Speaker 6: Two or three days and nights went by. I reckon,
Speaker 6: I might say they swam by.
Speaker 3: You'd better let me take over a while, Huck. I'm
Speaker 3: sure you're tired.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm not tired, mister Wells.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're tired, Huck. Two or three days went by,
Speaker 3: I reckon, I might say, they swum by. They went
Speaker 3: along so quiet and smooth and lovely. Some monstrous, big
Speaker 3: river down there, sometimes a mile and a half wide.
Speaker 3: Huck and Jim and run at night in high daytimes
Speaker 3: you only always in the dead water under a tow head,
Speaker 3: and cut young cottonwoods and willers, and hide the raft
Speaker 3: with him. They'd slide into the river and have a
Speaker 3: swim so it's to freshen up and cool off. And
Speaker 3: then they'd sit down the water where it's about knee deep,
Speaker 3: and watch the day like them, not a sound anywhere,
Speaker 3: perfectly still, just as though the whole world was asleep,
Speaker 3: only sometimes the bullfrogs cluttering. Maybe now I'm in a raft.
Speaker 6: Sliding by, please mister Wells.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 2: Then one morning, about daybreak, I took the canoe and
Speaker 2: crossed over a shoot to the knee shore. I wanted
Speaker 2: to get some berries for Jims in my supper. Just
Speaker 2: as I was passing a place for a kind of
Speaker 2: a cow path across the creek, it comes a couple
Speaker 2: of men tearing up the path as tight as they
Speaker 2: could put it, and a hanging on to a couple
Speaker 2: of the radiest, fattest carpet bags.
Speaker 8: You ever did see boy boys?
Speaker 18: Save us?
Speaker 8: Hid you guys the new boy? If you don't, they just.
Speaker 2: Here on afros let us sen Jim, Jim Gravelholme to.
Speaker 18: Jim, I'll come home, my boy.
Speaker 8: You will never regret it this year, good teed no
Speaker 8: sart boy, you have saved the life. Two lives, young men,
Speaker 8: two lives.
Speaker 2: Don't you too know each other?
Speaker 8: Not till we just met on the way, so to speak?
Speaker 3: What got you into trouble?
Speaker 8: Brother, well Sae, I've been selling a little article to
Speaker 8: take off the tartar from the teeth, and it does
Speaker 8: take it off too, and generally did enam along with it.
Speaker 8: But I stayed about one night longer than I all do.
Speaker 8: What about you, Bob Well?
Speaker 3: I've been running a little temperance survival and that that
Speaker 3: town about a week. But somehow or another little report
Speaker 3: got around last night that I had a way of
Speaker 3: putting in my time with a jug on the sly,
Speaker 3: and a fellow routed me out the morn, told me
Speaker 3: the people was gathering on the quiet with their dogs
Speaker 3: and horses, and they'd be along pretty soon and give
Speaker 3: me about half an hour start, and then they'd run
Speaker 3: me down if they could, and if they got me,
Speaker 3: the hard feather man right me on a rail shore.
Speaker 3: So I didn't wait for no breakfast, day went hungry.
Speaker 8: Say I'm ref and we might double team it together.
Speaker 8: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I ain't indisposed? What's your line print of bitrade?
Speaker 8: Do a little patent medicine? He had a actor tragedy,
Speaker 8: you know, take a turn at mesmersement phrenology and then
Speaker 8: there's a change. Occasionally, keep singing geography school for change.
Speaker 8: Sling a lectionis sometimes. Oh, I do a lot of things.
Speaker 8: Most energy in it cons handy as long as it's
Speaker 8: not work.
Speaker 3: I have done considerable in the douct way in my time,
Speaker 3: laying on the hands at my best, to preaching too
Speaker 3: and working camp meetings and missionarying around dear lass, what
Speaker 3: are you laughing about?
Speaker 8: To think that I should have lived to be leading
Speaker 8: such a life and be degraded down in such company?
Speaker 8: And Donia skin ain't to comp me good enough for you? Yes,
Speaker 8: tis good enough for me, but as I deserve. Who
Speaker 8: fetched me so low when I was so high? I did?
Speaker 8: I did it myself. I don't blame you, gentlemen, far
Speaker 8: from it. I don't blame anybody. I deserve it all
Speaker 8: for let the cold world do its worst. One thing.
Speaker 8: I know that somewhere there's a grave waiting me. The
Speaker 8: world may go on just as it's always done, take
Speaker 8: everything from me, loved ones, property, everything, But it can't
Speaker 8: take away my little old grave. Someday I'm gonna lay
Speaker 8: it down in it and forget it all. My poor
Speaker 8: broken heart will then be at rest. I ain't blaming you, gentlemen.
Speaker 8: I brought it upon myself, Yes I did. I did
Speaker 8: it all myself.
Speaker 3: Brother, brought you down from where where was you brought
Speaker 3: down from? Uh?
Speaker 8: You wouldn't believe me the world ever believed. So just
Speaker 8: let it go. Let it go, Let let it pass,
Speaker 8: Let it pass.
Speaker 2: No matter.
Speaker 8: The secret of my birth, secret to your birth?
Speaker 12: Do you mean to say?
Speaker 8: Brother? Do you mean to tell gentlemen? I am going
Speaker 8: to reveal it to you, for I feel that I
Speaker 8: may have confidence in you. A right, gentlemen, I am
Speaker 8: a duke A do No, you can't mean it.
Speaker 9: Yes, my great.
Speaker 8: Grandfather, the eldest son of the Duke of Bridgewater, pledge
Speaker 8: to this country about the end of the last century
Speaker 8: to breathe the purer Freedom married here and died, leaving
Speaker 8: the son his own father. Dying about the same time,
Speaker 8: the second son of the late Duke seized the titles
Speaker 8: in the estate. The infant real Duke is ignored, and
Speaker 8: I am the lineal descendant of that infant. I am
Speaker 8: the rightful Duke of Bridgewater, gentlemen, and here am I
Speaker 8: for Lord, Lord from my highest brother men despised, but
Speaker 8: the cold world ragged Lord, the heart brooking and degraded
Speaker 8: to the companionship of fellas.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, don't go crying there, mister Duke. I'm
Speaker 6: powerful sorry for you.
Speaker 8: Thanks hell that helps. That helps, if there's.
Speaker 6: Anything we can do to help you.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 17: Well, now, if you were just to bow to me
Speaker 17: when you speak or call me your lordship, I wouldn't mind.
Speaker 8: In fact, I wouldn't mind me called me playing Bridgewater,
Speaker 8: because after all, that's the title, not a name.
Speaker 6: Of course, your lordship.
Speaker 8: Then if you want to wait on me in a time,
Speaker 8: Not that I like it, but it's what I've always
Speaker 8: been used to.
Speaker 6: If you hear that, Jim, I reckon, I'll have to
Speaker 6: learn you to say your lordship.
Speaker 7: I can drink of water right now, be necessary, would
Speaker 7: your lordship, I can drink the water right now, sir, Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's good.
Speaker 8: But hey, you've got the idea. Fine.
Speaker 3: I my regret to say, brother, but you ain't the
Speaker 3: only man who's had troubles like that.
Speaker 19: No, no you ain't.
Speaker 3: You ain't the only person that's been snaked down wrongfully
Speaker 3: out in the high place. No, no, you ain't the
Speaker 3: only person that's had a secret of his birth.
Speaker 8: Hold on, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: What builds water? Can I trust you to the bit.
Speaker 7: Of death the secret of your being? Come man, speaking
Speaker 7: build water? I am the late Dolphin. You're the late
Speaker 7: watch Yes, my friend, it is too through your eyes.
Speaker 8: It's looking at this very moment on the poor.
Speaker 3: Disappeared dolphin, Louis the seventeen, son of Louis the sixteen
Speaker 3: and maryanth Nor.
Speaker 8: For you at your age? No you mean you're the
Speaker 8: late Charlemagne. You must be sixty seven hundred years old
Speaker 8: at the very least.
Speaker 3: Trouble has done it too. Trouble has done it. Trouble
Speaker 3: has brung these grows here in this premature voltitude.
Speaker 9: Get you.
Speaker 3: You see before you in blue jeans and misery, the
Speaker 3: wondering exile trampled on a suffering, rightful King of France.
Speaker 6: The King of France, the son of the King of France,
Speaker 6: the King.
Speaker 3: Of France, by now, and if you want me to
Speaker 3: feel a bit easier and better, if you was to
Speaker 3: get on one knee when you spoke to me.
Speaker 6: You always call me your majesty, and always.
Speaker 3: Wait on me first at meals, and don't sit down
Speaker 3: in my presence until I asked you then help a lot, Yes,
Speaker 3: your majesty, Why why.
Speaker 8: Should you be so first? What's this bout sitting down
Speaker 8: in your presence? Now? Bill's water, Bill's water we ought
Speaker 8: in the fight.
Speaker 3: My father was very friendly with your great grandfather and
Speaker 3: all the other dukes of Billswater. They was a good
Speaker 3: deal thought of by my father and was allowed to
Speaker 3: color the palace considerable Bill's water.
Speaker 8: Now, don't call me Bill's water, breakwater, Bridgewater.
Speaker 3: You and I should be friends?
Speaker 8: Well, all right, very well, your majesty, A great like
Speaker 8: it's not going to be together a flame long time
Speaker 8: in this poison rat. So what's the use of our
Speaker 8: being sour?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 8: Everything's uncomfortable in my father weren't born a king? Is it?
Speaker 8: There's no fault. You weren't for her to do. So
Speaker 8: what's the used worry? Make the best of things, the
Speaker 8: way of finances. I that's my motto. This ain't no
Speaker 8: bad thing that we've struck here, you know, funny of
Speaker 8: grub an easy life. Come on, give us your hand, king,
Speaker 8: Come on, let's be friends, friends, friends non forever now
Speaker 8: and forever no king. Yeah, what is it, bille Water?
Speaker 8: I got some friends of actioning in my head. You know,
Speaker 8: there's revival meeting just throwing down the river at peace,
Speaker 8: and I better hang for him to tread the boards again.
Speaker 8: I can teach the king here, my friends, some of
Speaker 8: the fine rudiments of acting built Water.
Speaker 3: I've been looking at your handbuilt about your being correct
Speaker 3: the younger jury lay in London, and I think maybe
Speaker 3: there's as much to be made out of this play
Speaker 3: acting business is in a revival meeting anyways, I'm just
Speaker 3: a freezing some pressure.
Speaker 8: Well fallen granduate the first good time we come to.
Speaker 8: We'll just hire a hall and do the sword fight
Speaker 8: from Richard the Third and in the balcony scene we
Speaker 8: do him, she, Romeo and Juliette. Of course, I always
Speaker 8: have to do my specialty the sort we from halet.
Speaker 3: Well, that's all right by me, do but right now
Speaker 3: I got a hankering for bid, and it's mighty wet
Speaker 3: tonight time plague. What was this exercise? I haven't had it?
Speaker 14: What do you say we turn in?
Speaker 8: Will the far pleasant young host will show us the
Speaker 8: beds in question? I'll be willing to join you in
Speaker 8: nocturnal repose your matches.
Speaker 3: For the Yeah, well there's only two beds.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's Jim's and mine. Mine's a bit better, being
Speaker 2: a straw tick and Jims is a shop.
Speaker 1: Take.
Speaker 6: Well, there's always cobs in a shop tack.
Speaker 3: Well, now, sir, I'll just take your bit that your
Speaker 3: grace built water. I should reckon the difference in rank.
Speaker 3: Would have suggested to you that the corn shot bed
Speaker 3: were just bitten for me.
Speaker 7: We won.
Speaker 3: Your grace, will take the self.
Speaker 7: I will not, Oh, yes, you will.
Speaker 6: No, I won't water?
Speaker 8: All right you, grace? Well, this used to be my faith,
Speaker 8: always to be ground into the mire under the heel
Speaker 8: of oppression. Misfortune has broken my once hotty spirit.
Speaker 12: I yield.
Speaker 8: I submit is my faith. I'm alone in the world.
Speaker 8: Let me enjoy my suffering, Let me alone to suffer
Speaker 8: go way, go way way good we.
Speaker 15: Ladies and gentlemen, hurry, urry, horry, horry, horry, horry, horry, hory,
Speaker 15: howry step this way one night only the world when
Speaker 15: I am Virgilian's David Garrick the Younger and Edmundtine the
Speaker 15: Elder of the Royal haymark here a white chapel, putting lane.
Speaker 8: Ticket in London, London, jetan in London, England, in.
Speaker 15: Their sublime sakety revival, Step back this me.
Speaker 8: Ladies and gentlemen, listen to hamlet.
Speaker 15: Jim mortal Soloe by the illustrious Garrick, done by him
Speaker 15: three hundred marking three hundred consecutive.
Speaker 8: Knights in Paris.
Speaker 15: In Paris, Frans Gabe boy is gabree here for one
Speaker 15: night only an account of imperative European engagement.
Speaker 18: Step by hurry, herryry, horry, hurry, ladies, gentlemen, Admission questified,
Speaker 18: says children tenants ten cents a tin diamond pen posa hurry, hurry, hurry,
Speaker 18: hery horry hi.
Speaker 8: To be or not to be? That is the bare
Speaker 8: bodkin that makes calamity of so long life?
Speaker 16: Or who would podles pare you burnawood do contidentcity tails
Speaker 16: the respect moscimus pause, who would bear the vipson scorns
Speaker 16: of time? Your pressor's wrong and shut charge yourn in
Speaker 16: customary suits of solid back.
Speaker 15: But that's the undiscovered country from which four no travel
Speaker 15: returns breeze, fourth contagion of the world, and us the
Speaker 15: native view of resolution.
Speaker 17: Like the poor captain in the edge, he's sickling all
Speaker 17: with care consummation about little with let's falk you, oh
Speaker 17: not ty ponderous and marble jaws.
Speaker 9: What gets into another earth vector?
Speaker 6: And damn me who first?
Speaker 12: Christ hold enough?
Speaker 6: I suck that to the end, mister Wells, because it
Speaker 6: ain't often.
Speaker 2: You get a chance to hear the greatest poetry ever
Speaker 2: written recited as smart as all that.
Speaker 6: But when they started to do it the fourth time,
Speaker 6: I kind of figured I had got everything worthwhile out
Speaker 6: of it already, so I thought i'd go, particularly when
Speaker 6: I noticed a lot of people on.
Speaker 2: The outside of the crowd with buckets of tar in
Speaker 2: their hands. It wasn't going to be healthy around there
Speaker 2: in a little while. That warn't hard to see, so
Speaker 2: I beat it out and made it just as quick
Speaker 2: as I could.
Speaker 6: Down to the river to where I left Jim in
Speaker 6: the raft. Hey, Jim, set or lose Jim. We're all
Speaker 6: right now, I ditched him.
Speaker 8: We're shut of him.
Speaker 6: Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Where are you?
Speaker 8: Jim? Hey boy?
Speaker 12: Hey you hey?
Speaker 2: You know anything about a slave that was dressed in
Speaker 2: brown pants and blue shirt, one sleeve tore off?
Speaker 6: Whereabouts down a.
Speaker 12: Silas Felth's place? Someone had catched him, catched him, said
Speaker 12: he was a runaway slave.
Speaker 14: Who New Orleans?
Speaker 6: Where's the Felps place?
Speaker 12: Not two miles on the way.
Speaker 15: Hey.
Speaker 6: I didn't wait to answer him, mister Wells.
Speaker 2: I was too full of trouble, full as I could
Speaker 2: be losing Jim right away, and I knew there wasn't
Speaker 2: but one thing to do.
Speaker 6: Light out for the Felt's place and just trust the luck.
Speaker 8: I must say.
Speaker 6: My luck held out.
Speaker 10: Then life, and you all keep killing me? Quiet time?
Speaker 10: Good morning, ma'am?
Speaker 8: Is this the Phelps place?
Speaker 14: It is?
Speaker 10: But well then alive?
Speaker 8: It's you last at it?
Speaker 6: Well, mom, I wouldn't have known you.
Speaker 20: You don't look much like your mother's a reckon you
Speaker 20: would Did you get your breakfast on the boat?
Speaker 2: Tom?
Speaker 6: Yes'm I got it on the boat.
Speaker 10: We've been expecting you for days, Tom, but kept you
Speaker 10: get a ground?
Speaker 6: Yes'm where's your brother?
Speaker 10: Said said mom? Yes, didn't he come with you?
Speaker 6: Norman said didn't come?
Speaker 10: Well he was supposed to. Sally here, Well there's your uncle.
Speaker 12: Now what do you mean, Syler's the.
Speaker 10: Boat ain't come in?
Speaker 8: Well, if it did, it just come? Who's that?
Speaker 6: I'm sensir? I mean Tom, Yes, sir, Tom Sawyer?
Speaker 8: And who's that?
Speaker 10: Who is who coming up the road there?
Speaker 8: Who's that?
Speaker 2: Excuse me, ma'am. I didn't mean what I said. I'm
Speaker 2: said what Well, then who's that?
Speaker 8: Who you reckon?
Speaker 14: It is?
Speaker 6: I ain't got no idea.
Speaker 8: Who is it?
Speaker 12: Tom Sawyer?
Speaker 3: Just one minute, Huck?
Speaker 8: Did you say Tom Sawyer? Aunt?
Speaker 6: Sally said Tom Sawyer?
Speaker 3: Tom Sawyer?
Speaker 6: Oh, Tom Sawyer. Well there ain't never been but one
Speaker 6: Tom Sawyer.
Speaker 8: That's right, Huk.
Speaker 2: But still, well you can imagine, mister Wells. By this time,
Speaker 2: I was so confused, I'm most slam through the floor.
Speaker 2: But if the old man and the old woman were joyful,
Speaker 2: it warn't nothing.
Speaker 1: To what I was for.
Speaker 6: It was just like being born again.
Speaker 8: I was so glad to find out who I was.
Speaker 6: I had only one worry. Now that was to get
Speaker 6: to Tom before he got to the farm and tell
Speaker 6: him the way of thing.
Speaker 9: Oh boy ho, Now hold on that Tom Sawyer stopping
Speaker 9: man huckle Berry Finn.
Speaker 6: Well, you don't want to come back and have before
Speaker 6: I ain't come back. Tom ain't been going honest injined
Speaker 6: j Nichols.
Speaker 8: No, I won't ever murdered at all.
Speaker 2: I played it on him just to get away from pack.
Speaker 2: You come here and feel me if you don't.
Speaker 6: Believe me, Reckon, you're real alright, alright, not Tom.
Speaker 2: There's something going on here nobody don't know but me,
Speaker 2: and that is there's a slave here that I'm trying
Speaker 2: to steal out of slavery.
Speaker 6: And his name is Jim, or miss Watson's Jim. Watch Jim.
Speaker 8: I know what you'll say.
Speaker 6: You'll say it's dirty, low down business. But what if
Speaker 6: it is? I'm a low down and I'm gonna steal
Speaker 6: him and I want you to keep mum. Not let on, William.
Speaker 12: I'll do more than that, Huck.
Speaker 6: I'll help your stealing in a little cabin just back
Speaker 6: at the barn. You're meaning that little old shed, Yep,
Speaker 6: it's as easy as pie. Stealing the body out of there. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's the trouble.
Speaker 8: This whole thing is just as easy as can be until.
Speaker 14: That makes it so rotten difficult to get up a
Speaker 14: difficult plan.
Speaker 8: It got in there all the difficulties.
Speaker 14: Now you gotta have a rope ladder and you got
Speaker 14: a shitty down it and break your leg in a moat. Yea,
Speaker 14: I wish there was a moat to this cabin, you know,
Speaker 14: if we get time the.
Speaker 8: Night of the escapable dig one.
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: But what I or what do we want of a
Speaker 2: mode when we're gonna snake Jim out.
Speaker 6: From under the cabin?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't do Yeah, there ain't necessity enough for it.
Speaker 8: Huh, necessity enough for what?
Speaker 6: Why this saw Jim's leg off?
Speaker 8: Good lamb?
Speaker 6: What do you want to sew his leg off for anyway?
Speaker 6: Or some of the best authorities has done it.
Speaker 14: They couldn't get the chain off, so they just cut
Speaker 14: their hand off and shoved and a leg would be
Speaker 14: better still, So well, let it go.
Speaker 8: But he can have a rope ladder. We'll terear for sheets.
Speaker 6: What a nation can he do with a rope ladder?
Speaker 8: Do with it?
Speaker 14: He could hide it in his bed candy. That's what
Speaker 14: they all do, and he's got it too. You don't
Speaker 14: ever want to do anything that's regular. Well, all right, Tom,
Speaker 14: fix it your own way. But if you'll take my advice,
Speaker 14: you'll let me borrow sheet off in the clothes line,
Speaker 14: and borrow.
Speaker 10: Our shirt too.
Speaker 6: What do we want of a shirt for Jim to
Speaker 6: keep a journal?
Speaker 14: On?
Speaker 8: Journals?
Speaker 9: Your granted?
Speaker 6: Jim can't write him, I suppose he can't write.
Speaker 14: He can make marks on the shirt, canny if we
Speaker 14: make him a pin out of an old pewter spooner,
Speaker 14: or a piece of old iron barrel hoop, or a.
Speaker 2: Best candlestick or something, and what will he make?
Speaker 8: Ink?
Speaker 14: With iron rust and tears? But that's the common sort,
Speaker 14: the best I'll thought. He's used their own blood. Jim
Speaker 14: could do that. And when he wants to send any
Speaker 14: little common ordinary in my serious message to let the
Speaker 14: world know where he's captivated, but he can write it
Speaker 14: on the bottom of a tin plate where the fork
Speaker 14: and throw it out the window. The iron mask always
Speaker 14: done that, And it's I'll blame good way too.
Speaker 6: Jim ain't got no tin plates. I feed him in
Speaker 6: a pan. But we'll get him something can't nobody read
Speaker 6: his plate?
Speaker 12: That ain't got nothing to do with it?
Speaker 6: Then all he's gotta do is to write on the
Speaker 6: plate and throw it out. You don't have to be
Speaker 6: able to read it. Why half the time you can't read.
Speaker 14: Anything a prisoner writes on a tin plate or anywhere else.
Speaker 6: Then what's a sense and waste in the plate?
Speaker 12: Why'd blame it all?
Speaker 6: It ain't the prisoner's plate. Well, it's gotta be somebody's place,
Speaker 6: ain't it, Reckon?
Speaker 8: We'll have to dig him out.
Speaker 2: With our case knives, then, Tom, there just ain't no
Speaker 2: sense in using case knife's to dig jim out in
Speaker 2: that cabin.
Speaker 6: Well, you wouldn't want us to use shovels, would you?
Speaker 8: It's too easy?
Speaker 6: But Tom founded this foolish Tom, don't make.
Speaker 8: No difference how foolish it is. It's regular.
Speaker 6: It's just gotta be done this way, huck.
Speaker 14: Sometimes it takes weeks and wheeks and weeks forever and ever.
Speaker 14: A one prisoner dug himself that way out of the castle,
Speaker 14: deep in the harbor of Marstall.
Speaker 8: How long was he at it?
Speaker 4: Do you, reckon?
Speaker 6: I don't know, thirty seven years? And he come out
Speaker 6: in China, but Jim don't know nobody in China.
Speaker 12: Listen to this letter. Don't betray me.
Speaker 6: I wish to be your friend.
Speaker 20: There is a desperate gang of cutthroats from over in
Speaker 20: the Indian Territory going to steal your runaway slave tonight.
Speaker 20: I am one of the gang, but have got religion
Speaker 20: and wish to quit it and lead it honest life again, and.
Speaker 10: Will betray the hellish design.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 20: They will sneak down from north AND's along the fence
Speaker 20: at midnight with a false key and go in the
Speaker 20: slave's cabin to get him. I am to be off
Speaker 20: the piece and blow a tin horn if I see
Speaker 20: any danger.
Speaker 10: Instead of that, I will bar like a sheep so
Speaker 10: as they get in and not blow at all.
Speaker 2: Then whilst they're getting.
Speaker 20: His chains loose, you slip there and lock them in
Speaker 20: and can kill them at your leisure. Don't do anything
Speaker 20: but just the way I'm telling you. If you do,
Speaker 20: they will suspicion something and raise.
Speaker 12: Hoop jebbery who I do not wish any.
Speaker 10: Reward that you know I have done the right thing.
Speaker 12: An unknown friend, Stylus, you've.
Speaker 8: Got to do something, you are Sally, Oh, we got
Speaker 8: to get help. Silas.
Speaker 12: Round up men from the village with guns. Bring them
Speaker 12: here at.
Speaker 8: Once, stylus.
Speaker 6: Time time.
Speaker 8: What is it?
Speaker 6: The house is full of men with guns?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Is that so?
Speaker 6: She hain't got bully?
Speaker 8: How many?
Speaker 1: Most?
Speaker 8: Hundred? Why?
Speaker 2: Houck?
Speaker 8: That ain't nothing?
Speaker 14: If it was over to do again, I'll bet I
Speaker 14: could catch two hundred. See if we could put it
Speaker 14: off my worst.
Speaker 8: Here are you all? Said? All right?
Speaker 6: I will slide out and give the sheep signal.
Speaker 8: Bam.
Speaker 14: Now run for it.
Speaker 6: Careful Tom, that's the fans. Hurry, Jim, come on to wait.
Speaker 12: I can cut my pants on the butter. Here you
Speaker 12: are you shore? We gotta try and make a hut.
Speaker 12: There ain't no well away there.
Speaker 6: Oh, go on, go on, Tom.
Speaker 10: Don't mind me, Tom, Tom, Well, I'll be blowed if it.
Speaker 6: Ain't the young ones you mean?
Speaker 12: Man? This is your kin, Bob.
Speaker 9: Yes, the rascals want them hert Man, I don't even
Speaker 9: know what it's all about.
Speaker 6: Miss getting away.
Speaker 9: Hey, we'll shut you.
Speaker 6: Up this time where you can't get away, get a
Speaker 6: doctor quick.
Speaker 10: Tom's been shutting the bay.
Speaker 12: Hurry you can't shut him up. You can't aunt Sally.
Speaker 6: He's a spree of cleaners, walks the ear out of
Speaker 6: his head?
Speaker 10: Whatever does the time leave you? I mean every word
Speaker 10: I say, Aunt Sally.
Speaker 6: I've known him all his life and you're talking about said.
Speaker 12: Sorry that's said, Aunt Sally. He ain't seen it.
Speaker 6: Oh slow, use now we might as well tell the
Speaker 6: truth talk.
Speaker 3: I'm Tom Sawyer, but this here is Huckleberry Finn.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 10: I never not thinking Huck was dead.
Speaker 8: I didn't tell you.
Speaker 2: But oh, miss Watson passed on away two months ago,
Speaker 2: and she set Jim free.
Speaker 10: In her will.
Speaker 8: And what on earth did you want to set him
Speaker 8: free for him? Me?
Speaker 10: Seeing he was already free?
Speaker 6: Now that is a question I must say. And just
Speaker 6: like a woman, why houck?
Speaker 14: And he wanted the adventure of it, and we'd have
Speaker 14: been willing to wait neck deep in blood for him.
Speaker 10: Well, I reckon, I ain't think that scams in all
Speaker 10: my years before Lance takes alive.
Speaker 7: Yeah, now, huh, what I tell you? What I tell
Speaker 7: you up there, Jack Sniley, I told you I got
Speaker 7: her breast and what the sign on it?
Speaker 6: And it's come true? He is he is Danna don't
Speaker 6: talk to me. Signs is signed.
Speaker 14: And another thing, Huck, your pap ain't coming back anymore, Hucks.
Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 6: They found his body floating in the river. So your
Speaker 6: money is all yours now, Huck, all yours.
Speaker 8: And Jack was.
Speaker 19: Everything a happy ending, hey, Huck, Well, that depends on
Speaker 19: what you call happy, mister Wells.
Speaker 3: I should say you all ought to be happy.
Speaker 8: Well, that's just it.
Speaker 2: You should say it just so happens that I'm Huckleberry
Speaker 2: Finn and mister Twain wrote the book about me, and
Speaker 2: I'm the one to say, all right, Huck, you say well,
Speaker 2: Tom's most well now, he.
Speaker 6: Got his bullet around his neck and a WatchGuard.
Speaker 2: For a watch, and he's always seen what time it is.
Speaker 2: So there ain't nothing more to write about. And I'm
Speaker 2: a rotten glad of it, because if I'd have.
Speaker 7: Known what trouble it was to make a book, I
Speaker 7: wouldn't attack it.
Speaker 6: And I ain't gonna know more, but I reckon I
Speaker 6: got a light out for Indian.
Speaker 2: Territory pretty soon, because Aunt Sally's gonna adopt me and
Speaker 2: civilize me, and I can't stand him.
Speaker 6: I've been there before.
Speaker 1: You have been listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of
Speaker 1: Huckleberry Finn, produced by Orson Wells and starring Jackie Cooper.
Speaker 4: In just a moment, mister.
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Speaker 12: Good evening.
Speaker 2: Say I'm sorry about that little misunderstanding we had over.
Speaker 6: Who was to read the book.
Speaker 8: That's all right, my boy, quite all right.
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Speaker 3: few years tonight in movies. As you know, he's just
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