Speaker 1: Read Henry old great coming father.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's the Aldridge Family transcribe and written by Clippe.
Speaker 3: Goldsmith.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows Centerville, USA because it's your own hometown, and
everyone knows the Aldridge family because they're your bury next
door neighbors. And everyone especially knows Henry Aldridge because he's
your son's pale, your daughter's boyfriend, a real American boy.
The scene is the Aldridge living room. The time is
early evening.
Speaker 4: Henry get washed.
Speaker 1: It is almost ready.
Speaker 5: Sam, I think Henry's getting ideas again about my birthday
present this year.
Speaker 4: I hope you gave him a clear hint as to
what I wanted.
Speaker 1: I did a clear hint.
Speaker 6: I told him you wanted Hemingway's new book, The Old
Man in the Sea.
Speaker 3: You got a clear hint.
Speaker 4: Well, Henry. I'm not sure did he say.
Speaker 6: Anything, No, but I had a definite feeling he was
wondering why you were interested in other old man when.
Speaker 3: You had me.
Speaker 4: Now, Dear, I just hope it sinks in. I don't
want another pair of Siamese fighting fish like last year.
Speaker 1: It was depressing the way those two fish hated each other.
Speaker 3: Father, I've been here with your mother Henry.
Speaker 1: Jeers, I didn't mean any rock.
Speaker 4: It's all right, dear. I was just telling your father
how much.
Speaker 5: I wanted to read The Old Man in the Sea,
The Old Man in What's that?
Speaker 7: Mother?
Speaker 5: Sam?
Speaker 3: I'll try again?
Speaker 1: Father? Did I tell you what I'm going to put
over on Charlie Clark?
Speaker 4: Boy?
Speaker 1: Am I gonna make money.
Speaker 4: Put over on him? Henry? I hope you're not planning
to do something you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Charlie wants to buy this flashlight.
Speaker 3: See, and you're telling the flashlight I bought you this?
Oh no, sir, one just like it looks the same
to me.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, they're both super ray hydrojet cosmic beams, only
this one doesn't work. Oh, Charlie wants to buy my
super ray hydrojet cosmic beam. Only I wouldn't sell it. See.
But today I happened to be talking to another guy
and he said, just casually, do you want to buy
a super ray hydro jet cosmic beam? And it was
exactly like mine except for the difference. So I said,
I'll give you twenty five cents for it. He said thirty.
I said, no, twenty five.
Speaker 3: He said how much?
Speaker 7: Did you?
Speaker 6: Finally, pay for it thirty cents, and now you have
two super something or other cosmic beams.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, but isn't a clear father. I'll buy batteries
for twenty five cents. So one flashlight to Charlie for
a dollar and make fifty cents clear profit. Hmmm, Father,
would you going to take a look at it?
Speaker 3: Why should I look at it?
Speaker 1: Boy just told me maybe you'd like to make an offer.
Speaker 3: I have a flash dive, but do.
Speaker 1: You have one you can buy for a dollar? I mean, well,
this one will help you see where you're going.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Henry, but I know where I'm going.
Speaker 1: Mother. Would you like to get in on the opportunity? Mother?
Be right there, Mary pors your mother.
Speaker 4: No, thank you, Henry.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't be interested in owning something that could keep
it from stumbling over stuff?
Speaker 4: Mother?
Speaker 3: Apparently she'd rather stumble.
Speaker 1: Father. Now that mother's going, I can tell you why
I'm making all this money. Why it's for her birthday.
Speaker 6: I thought you had some money, at least enough to
give her that book she.
Speaker 1: Wants I have, Father, but I certainly don't want to
give her just a book for her birthday.
Speaker 6: After she slaved over me all these years, she wants
Hemingway's book.
Speaker 3: Son.
Speaker 1: This flashlight is only the beginning. I'll make at least
fifty cents on it. Then I'll invest that and double it.
Then I'll invest that and triple it. She by the
time her birthday comes around, I can get.
Speaker 6: Her anything what she wants, Henry. Is the book, Henry?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Mother, If you answer the phone, please, and if it's
for you, keep it short.
Speaker 1: Dinner isn't five minutes? Sure? Mother? You know father, I
wonder why more people don't go into business.
Speaker 3: Answered the phone?
Speaker 4: Yes, or I'm answering it.
Speaker 1: Hello, Henry, My mother said you wanted me to call
you about something, and I'm also to say we've got
to eat in three minutes. Oh is that you? Charlie?
Hello Charlie, old timer. What do you want, Henry? It's
a great opportunity, Charlie. I've located a Swell super ray
hydrojet cosmic beam so wild well, I might be willing
to sell it to you. I don't want one anymore.
You don't want one. I'm going to save up and
get a camera. See with Charlie. That leaves me holding
two super That's no way to do business. Who's talking
about business. I just want a camera now. Well, wouldn't
you like a flashlight so you can see where you're going?
I'd rather take pictures and see where I've been. But
Charlie so low.
Speaker 8: Oh boy, I've got to go to class.
Speaker 1: Henry, either you do or you don't want to buy
this camera. But Homer, two dollars for a second hand camera?
You sound like my mother at the meat markets. Wait
a minute, would you take the super ray hydrojet cosmic
beam for it? Ma? Oh gee, let's see it. It
doesn't like any ordinary flashlight.
Speaker 4: Well let's see.
Speaker 1: Just press the old super ray button here and well,
if you had a battery, you get your cosmic beam.
Oh boor about it. I don't want it. I'll wait
a minute, Homer. I'm not asking you to pay me
for this. I'll give it to you for the camera.
Well give me the super ray hydro jet cosmic beam
and a dollar. I'll give you the super ray hydrojet
cosmic beam and fifty dollar fifty seventy five, sixty seventy
sixty five. So you know, Homer, that's the way I
like to do business. And if you see Charlie Clark
tell him. I've got something for him. But gee, whiz, other,
Charlie's only coming over for a little while tonight. For
how long, dear, we'll probably haggle a little?
Speaker 4: How long will it take you to haggle?
Speaker 1: It depends on who's the best haggler. Only I'm sure
I can out haggle him.
Speaker 3: And your pardon my mentioning anything is unimportant as homework.
Speaker 1: It's perfectly all right, father.
Speaker 3: Thank you. When are you going to attend to it?
Speaker 1: Just as soon as I've cleaned up, Charlie. And don't worry, father,
The assignment tonight is a breeze. It's an essay, and
I've got it all down in my mind.
Speaker 6: And may I suggest you start transferring it from your
mind to paper?
Speaker 3: Pardon me start writing?
Speaker 1: It won't take me a half hour, honest. We all
have to write about the profession I am preparing for.
Speaker 3: Well, that's fine.
Speaker 6: You know I wasn't much older than you when I
started thinking seriously about preparing myself for law, for law.
Speaker 1: For law. Well, the only thing that really appeals to
me is selling things.
Speaker 3: Selling things.
Speaker 1: Sure, I buy something for a little and I sell
it to you for a lot.
Speaker 4: Why do you want to do that, dear.
Speaker 1: Gee, mother, I guess I have an act for it.
That's so, maybe it's hereditary. Did we ever have any
tycoons in our family?
Speaker 6: I don't mind just shooting high son, but don't overlook
the legal profession.
Speaker 3: Well it isn't bad, you know. I have provided a
very comfortable home here, haven't I? As a lawyer?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: Sure, father, But wasn't the man that told it to you?
A businessman? He was there? You are. He's got all
your money and all you've got was this house.
Speaker 3: Boy.
Speaker 1: I hope that isn't Charlie yet, but.
Speaker 4: You're expecting it.
Speaker 1: Only Toby's supposed to get here first.
Speaker 4: I agreed to Charlie.
Speaker 1: But Toby, he's part of the same deal. Mother. If
you want to see how big business operates, stick around.
Oh boy, Toby. For a minute, I was afraid you
were Charlie.
Speaker 3: Well I'm not.
Speaker 1: I know it. Come on in, don't you want me
to come over for I want you to help me
do something? Come on, Toby, we'll go in the dining room.
What's it about Henry? First of all, you're positive you
don't want to buy a camera. Henry. I'm in the
position of not being able to buy even a package
of chewing gum. Well, look, maybe we can work a
little commission out of this. Charlie Clark does I want
to buy a sea but he'll try to get it
from me cheap. And what do I do? You'll wait
out here alone, see and then when you hear Charlie
make an offer on my camera, you come into the
living room as though you wanted it and offer ten
cents more. But Henry, I'll just explained my financial situation.
You don't need any money, Toby. This is just a
way to encourage business.
Speaker 4: Henry, you have another guess.
Speaker 1: Yes, mother, I'm getting things ready for him. I raised
Charlie ten Sam, sure, okay, now stay here while I
go into the living room. Okay, coming father, Hello, Henry,
Hi there, Charlie, sit on my friend. Oh of you, mother, Father,
you mind if we discuss a little business in front
of you? Of course, someday when I have my own office.
Speaker 3: Thank you. But I think I'll do some work out
in the garage.
Speaker 5: It there's a.
Speaker 4: Frost tonight, Sam is too cold to work out there.
Speaker 3: In the basement.
Speaker 1: But if you really like to stay here, I'm not
that blood thirsty.
Speaker 4: It's sam.
Speaker 7: I want to show you for like another shelf of reserves.
Speaker 1: What did your father mean about not being bloodthirsty? Oh?
Just a family expression. Here, Charlie, take a more comfortable chair.
What's wrong with this? I just thought you'd feel better with.
Speaker 4: Your head tip back.
Speaker 1: Nah. How is it out, Charlie? Still cold ice on
the puddles early for this time of year. Uh huh.
How's your family? Yeah? Pretty well, my sister was just
vaccinated on her arm. Say that reminds me. Still need
a camera nowhere? I could get one cheap. I think
I could put my hands on one. What's that in
your pocket? This? Well, I'll be dog gone. It's a camera.
Let's see it. Too bad? I can't sell it to you.
You can't. No, not for less than two dollars. Anyhow
did you hear me, Charlie? I say not for less
than two dollars? I heard you. Of course, if you
don't want it, I have someone that is interested. Yeah,
it's just a second. I thought I heard something out
toward the dining room, like what, No, nothing, I guess
I didn't. He offered me two dollars, Charlie. I can
hear you Henry, I said two.
Speaker 8: Dollars, Charlie, I haven't got that much.
Speaker 1: Oh well, how much have you got? Fifty cents or
fifty cents? That's all here? Take back your camera?
Speaker 7: Good Charlie.
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted a camera. I do, well, how
are you gonna buy it with only fifty cents? That's
what I'm telling you. I can't. But Charlie, don't you
have any sense of responsibility? Would you let me swap
you anything for it? What if you got well? Would
you be interested in a thing that's at homann aar
atic that cost eight dollars and ninety five cents when
it was new? Hey? What is it? A very good
beach umbrella? What didn't you ever hear of a beach umbrella?
What would I do with it? Sit under it so
you don't get sunburned? Don't you know anyone that wouldn't
like to get sunburned?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I might be able to do something with it. It's
still as good as new, it's hardly ever been sat
on them. You'll swap it for this camera and one dollar.
I'll wait, Charlie. You aren't supposed to be selling me anything.
I'm selling you something that's why I invited you over look.
I'll give you the camera and fifty cents for the umbrella.
Fifty cents sixty cents? Who said that?
Speaker 3: I said it?
Speaker 1: Gee, whizz are you here? Toby?
Speaker 3: Sure? Our follous? We're not on the Kirkton?
Speaker 1: Is it all right? Toby? Off of sixty? Hendry? Do
you make it seven? But listen, I'll make it eight.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Wait, Toby, you don't even know what this is about.
He made it eighty cents, didn't he? Toby, this is
between Charlie and me. Do you make it ninety? Henry? No,
I will. It's painted orange and green, and I'll make dallar. Listen,
Toby eats your banana, Charlie, I'll I'll offer you the
camera in a dollar sold. Do you want to come
over and get it? Henry? Sure, let's do that.
Speaker 5: I certainly hope you aren't planning to go out in
the code without your windbreaker on.
Speaker 1: Well, it's only to get a beach umbrella.
Speaker 4: Mother.
Speaker 1: It cost eight dollars and ninety five cents. I'll be
back before you know it.
Speaker 9: Hello, missus, boyees, this is Mary Aldrich.
Speaker 1: I'm not interrupting your dinner.
Speaker 3: Am I?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 9: Fine. Yes, we finished quite a while ago too, in
a way, that's why I'm calling. By any chance, have
you seen my brother tonight?
Speaker 1: He did, Jerry, are you going? Yes?
Speaker 9: Well, if he comes by again, will you tell him
to come home?
Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 9: Goodbye. Henry was there, and Missus Borhees is all confused
because he went into a long rigmarole about the dangers
of winter sun.
Speaker 5: Really well, this time, Henry WI simply have to go
without his dinner.
Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, evening.
Speaker 3: Mother.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to bite to eat good. I
wouldn't even think of troubling you.
Speaker 4: Fine, and my conscience won't bother me.
Speaker 7: Henry.
Speaker 4: Where have you been?
Speaker 1: We've phoned all over well, I think the last place. Yes,
I just came from Missus.
Speaker 9: Did she buy the umbrella?
Speaker 1: No? Mary, She says she won't need to keep the
sun offer until next July.
Speaker 4: Mary.
Speaker 9: No, Henry, for the tenth time, I don't want.
Speaker 4: To beach umbrella. Get washed up, Henry. I'll heat up
some supper for you, mother. I thought you said he
was I'm weak.
Speaker 5: Mary.
Speaker 1: Now listen, Mary, you may not want an umbrella, but
there are some birthdays coming along in a few weeks.
Speaker 4: I don't want an umbrella, Eiger, nor do I.
Speaker 6: Oh, good evening, Father, Hi, Henry, Alice. I finished that
shelf for your preserves downstairs. You want to see it later, dear?
Speaker 3: And did you make quite a bit on your umbrella?
Speaker 1: So n, she whized, Father. Isn't a question of how
much I make on it. I mean, with a valuable
bargain like that, it's a question of deciding who will
let in on the deal. That's the way I look
at it. I'll bet. Now listen, Mary.
Speaker 6: A beech umbrella when the frost is on the pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Mary, do you know anybody who's going to Florida?
Speaker 9: Well, Evelyn William's family is, Oh no, they're going to
Vermont for the skiing.
Speaker 7: Excuse me, I'll see that.
Speaker 1: He's kind of dangerous, isn't it. I wonder if I
could psue.
Speaker 3: How much have you put into that umbrella so far?
Speaker 1: Well, so far only a dollar ninety cents, but it's
all for mother's presence. You're out a dollar ninety Well,
I'm out at the moment, but I'm hoping to come
back from the limb. Father, I think you're just looking
at this as though I weren't getting anywhere. Night before
last I had a flashlight. Then I got a camera
with it. No, I've got an umbrella. Don't you call
that progress?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm only a lawyer. I don't know a thing
about big business.
Speaker 1: Well, in big business you have to think big.
Speaker 9: Here and she wants to know if we have any
old mayonnaise jars?
Speaker 1: Any what hi, Henry, evening, mister Aldy, good evening, Agnes.
What do you want mayonnaise jars for?
Speaker 4: I'm collecting them.
Speaker 3: That's an interesting hobby.
Speaker 4: Mister Aldrich.
Speaker 9: My hobby is men, not mayonnaise for something else.
Speaker 3: Hen Well, there's I'm in the basement.
Speaker 1: Okay, follow me, be careful on the stead, Agnes. What
do you do with the jars? Just something?
Speaker 9: I've been working my head off getting.
Speaker 1: Them mayonnaise jars. Isn't there a bore? I suppose any
jar might do?
Speaker 9: Except in the speech that Congressman made, he said, mayonnaise jars.
Speaker 1: You mean they're worth something? Can you keep quiet about it? Sure?
Speaker 9: I mean because if more people realize the possibilities, well
everyone in Centerville might start saving mayonnaise jars.
Speaker 1: What speech? What Congressman?
Speaker 9: It was just a squib in the newspaper a week
or so ago. Yeah, it had to do with conserving
tenC And this congressman is trying to put through a
bill in Congress where c rations for the arm you'll
be put up in things like mayonnaise jars, for example,
instead of ten can. Very interesting, and he said the
government could help reduce taxes by buying them at low
cost from the public.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, do you think the bill will passed? Father
said it was just nutty enough to how much are
they gonna pay for the jars?
Speaker 9: Well, up to now, I've just been collecting, had.
Speaker 7: Done nearly two hundred.
Speaker 1: Geez, Agnes, would you be interested in looking at something
I have for sale? What it's in the cellar closet here?
How would you like to own that beach umbrella?
Speaker 4: Henry?
Speaker 1: Where'd you get it? You like it?
Speaker 9: Henrie?
Speaker 1: It's the best orange and green one I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: Purty, It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Ready, yes, mother, I'll be right there. Listen, Agnes, how
would you like to strike sort of a deal?
Speaker 7: What her?
Speaker 1: How many of your jars would you give me if
I let you have without any cost you whatsoever?
Speaker 4: This umbrella?
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Henry ot Henry and setting out to raise money for
his mother's birthday present, has gone through a series of
intricate business transactions, only to end up with some mayonnaised
yours and so far not a cent of profit.
Speaker 1: The scene opens in the Aldrich Hall.
Speaker 4: Hello, it's Alice.
Speaker 5: Dear.
Speaker 4: Are you busy with anyone at the office? No, dear,
I just had to call you. Sam.
Speaker 5: I was in Missus Browning's gift shop this morning and
I saw the loveliest china tea set.
Speaker 4: Oh you can take that? How much is it? Sound
out of your voice, dear?
Speaker 5: Missus Browning told me Henry had asked her to hold
it for him and Sam. It's twenty dollars, and he
told her the price didn't matter.
Speaker 4: He was in a very successful business.
Speaker 3: Henry did seem pretty happy about something.
Speaker 4: You saw him today to drop by the office.
Speaker 6: Wanted to borrow some of my business stationary, Alice, Yeah,
have you any idea why he'd be writing to Congress?
Speaker 7: Good?
Speaker 4: Heavens?
Speaker 6: No, Well, I thought maybe you might seems to have
something to do with your birthday.
Speaker 1: Nine and three, nine hundred and four, nine hundred and five.
Speaker 3: Allus, Yes, sir, what's this under the sofa?
Speaker 4: It's mayonnaise jars.
Speaker 3: He's keeping that. That's frong with the cellar.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's any more room in the cellar.
Henry took it out with him. I got more jars. Mary,
you're over doing.
Speaker 3: Must have put those bottles down right here in the
living room.
Speaker 1: It's only for a second father, Mother, if you could
have anything for your birthday you wanted, What would.
Speaker 4: You like if I could have anything? Not just a book?
Speaker 1: You mean? Yes, it's just sort of a hyper theoretical question.
Speaker 5: Well, to be honest, it might be a tea set.
I saw it Browning's gift chop with lavender flowers on
the cups?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Lavender flowers?
Speaker 5: But I'm afraid it costs far more than I could
ever pay for it.
Speaker 1: Is that that's right?
Speaker 4: Henry?
Speaker 1: What Mary?
Speaker 9: You've got to take those mayonnaise johns off the front.
Speaker 4: Fall I find a place to put them.
Speaker 9: Marry, Mother, are you actually encouraging Henry?
Speaker 1: Father, I want to make a proposition.
Speaker 3: I do not want to buy any of those jars.
Speaker 1: Oh, it isn't that, Father, How would you like to invest?
Just invest in my business?
Speaker 3: What are you doing, Henry?
Speaker 1: Forming a mayonnaise monopoly? Geeze? Maybe I am becoming a
sort of empty jar king right now? Though I need
some working capital.
Speaker 6: Do you mean to say you've actually spent all you
have on nothing but jars?
Speaker 1: Well? She whish why shouldn't. I I'm gonna get a
swell present for mother, and I'll have a fortune to
spend when Christmas rolls around. Father, do you still wish
you could afford to build a wing on the garage
for a swell machine shop?
Speaker 3: How much have you spent all together?
Speaker 4: Son?
Speaker 1: Just a little over seven dollars?
Speaker 6: And Henry, that comes a time in every business when
the investment must begin to show a profit. Otherwise, Master,
little thing thing called bankruptcy is it's ugly ahead?
Speaker 1: Oh, don't you worry. Just as soon as the government
sends for the jar's government. Just wait, father, Henri, you know.
Speaker 5: What happened to that large jar of mayonnaise I bought yesterday?
Speaker 1: Yes, Mother, it's on a plate in the ice box, Henry,
old rich. Oh boy, the mailman, Henry breakfast, just getting
the mail? Mother, Oh boy, it's here. Anything for me, Henry, Yes, sir,
but I think it's for me. Actually, you see I
wrote it on your station area.
Speaker 3: I have it, please, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: But if you could read it aloud, I mean it'll
concern me and in a way sort of concerned mother. MM.
Speaker 3: I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: Sam? Each your serial Henry.
Speaker 3: Dear constituent, this man isn't from our state.
Speaker 6: Please go on, father, It takes a man of your
large vision to see the worthiness of the bill I
presented to Congress and the interest of conserving tin by
using glass jars for military rations. Oh boy, unfortunately my
bill has been killed in committee. What moreover, since my
own party has not seen fit to renominate me for
the first thing.
Speaker 7: Oh boy, Well, Sam, isn't it nice to come home
and not find a house full of mayonnaise jars?
Speaker 3: Where'd they all go?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I simply came up the front walk this afternoon as
a truck was leaving loaded with him.
Speaker 3: Mother.
Speaker 4: Has there been a phone call for me this afternoon?
Not that I know of.
Speaker 3: Get a good bargain for your jars? Henry?
Speaker 7: Boy?
Speaker 1: Did I did? I? Well? Sure, I met a boy
that lives out on a farm, see, and I just
happened to mention casually that I've been saving mayonnaise jars
for the government, and right away he wanted to buy them.
Speaker 4: I hope you're told him the government couldn't use them.
Speaker 1: There wasn't any reason I should tell him, was there?
Speaker 4: Dear? I think you should have.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't even ask me, mother, And in business,
if someone doesn't ask you something, you don't tell them.
Speaker 3: How much did you make?
Speaker 1: Well, that part would be hard to say. I've got
to do a little figuring first.
Speaker 3: Didn't you sell for cash cash?
Speaker 1: Father? When I could get a better proposition?
Speaker 3: What did you pay the jars for?
Speaker 1: Just a little something and there's always a good market
for it.
Speaker 3: I hope you didn't have to pay anything in addition
to the jar?
Speaker 1: Just two dollars? You put two more dollars, I am
it's for me Mary, Gee, whizz, I'll be right back. Father. Hello,
is this the Centerville meat market? Well? Look, how much
would you pay for a pig? A pig? How much
a pound? Is that all?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: So whiz? My mother was complaining about the price, said
pork chops. I don't see why she showed up a
whole piggle, oh wholesale? Well, well, I wish youd come
out and look at her. Only remember I'm in business
to make money, Yes, sir, goodbye?
Speaker 5: Who were you talking to Henry?
Speaker 1: Mother? How did you say you were paying for pork chops?
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, pork.
Speaker 1: Chops as an average for the best what do.
Speaker 3: You think I just found out in the garage?
Speaker 4: Whad you say a hog?
Speaker 1: Said?
Speaker 3: Yes, Alice, in the garage, Bobby, let me explain. You
know where it came from.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, all right, I'll give you just five.
Speaker 1: Minutes to get it out. It's my investment, Alice.
Speaker 3: Dear, would you mind if Henry and I had a
serious talk together?
Speaker 5: No, dear, I'm afraid it's time sit down, Henry.
Speaker 1: Father, May I suggest something?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, This farm boy what's his name?
Speaker 1: Billy Webber?
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, Weber. I know his father. He had a
bad time of it because of the dry spell last summer.
Speaker 1: I know Billy did say the pig was a little
too thin the market, and I was hoping by the
time Mother's birthday came in.
Speaker 3: Henry, I think you should give Billy back his pig.
Speaker 1: Well, gee, if he was dumb enough to buy those jars.
If I sell the pig, I lose only four dollars. Now,
if I give her back to Billy, I lose everything. Besides,
I don't want those jars back. I've sunk every cent
I have into this. I'm interested, Henry. What are you
going to do? I won't be able to give mother
even a book. We'll have to cancel the tea set.
I'll give him back the pig. Father.
Speaker 3: I'm glad anybody home in here.
Speaker 1: Homer, Hey, you got any more mayonnaise jars to sell?
Why you know that, Billy wherever you sold them to? Hello,
mister Olivich.
Speaker 3: Hello Homer, Yeah, Homer, what happened?
Speaker 4: He sold them?
Speaker 1: He sold them all, three thousand of them, at a
half a cent each to who, the state agricultural laboratories.
They grow culturals in them half a cent. He made
fifteen bucks in the plus what you paid him. Oh boy,
you know what, I'm gonna make Billy take the pig
back and give me what he got for the jars.
You are just because his family needs the money shouldn't
be any reason why should let him get.
Speaker 6: Away with it, naturally, especially since in the profession.
Speaker 3: You're entering, business is business?
Speaker 1: Sure, supposing I'd been poor and he'd taken advantage of me,
how would I have I.
Speaker 3: Mean, how would you have felt?
Speaker 1: Who would have been the dirty trick? Sort of? And Henry,
did I tell you about Agnes selling your beach umbrella
to who? To a junk man? She got two dollars
for it. He's gonna put it.
Speaker 4: On his wagon.
Speaker 3: Oh do you think.
Speaker 1: It's actually possible that I'm not cut out for business? Harry, Henry,
what do you think there was?
Speaker 4: Mister Davis from.
Speaker 9: The meat knockt just went out to look at your page, and.
Speaker 4: Henry, she's a mother.
Speaker 7: She's a mother's a little pain.
Speaker 9: If you want them off your hands, he'll give you
twenty dollars for the whole business.
Speaker 1: Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars. I'll break exactly even. Father, didn't
I tell you my investment would come out all right?
Speaker 2: In this national election year, one obligation of citizenship heads
all the rest. The obligation of every qualified voter to
go to the polls and vote. The ballot you will
receive this year is a symbol of your personal dignity.
There is no man whose ballot is more important than yours,
no man whose ballot will count for more.
Speaker 3: On election day, you will have.
Speaker 2: As much power, as much responsibility in the shaping of
your country and your way of life as the most
influential person.
Speaker 3: Don't ignore this priceless possession.
Speaker 2: Vote as you please, but register and vote. See you
at the polls.
Speaker 3: Henry, I thought you were going to sell you a pig.
Speaker 1: I did, Father. I sold them all.
Speaker 3: In one of those bags of feed doing out in
the garage.
Speaker 1: She was, Father, that doesn't feed in those bags.
Speaker 3: No, what is it?
Speaker 1: Isn't it clear? Mother's birthday is only three weeks off.
I've gone back to collecting maynkese jars.
Speaker 5: No wait on.
Speaker 2: The Aldridge Family is transcribed as written by Clifford Goldsmith.
Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Johnny Fiedler.
Mister and Missus Aldridge, your house, Jamison and Catherine Rot.
Your announcer is Dick Dudley. Listen to that next week,
same time, same station, for another sparkling half hour with
the Aldridge Family.
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