July 31, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know Kathy Anderson.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
She's the little girl that.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Lives in the white frame house on Maple Street in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Did you ever notice her ears? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, she has two of them, and they're small, just
like most little girl's ears. The puzzling thing about those
little ears is how they can hear so much from
so many in.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
So little time.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And right now those little pink funnels have gathered in
so much news that it's about to spill over like this,
Margaret a home, where's the family?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh, hollo, honey, Betty's upstairs that isn't home yet, And
Kathy's around somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know exactly got it, never mind?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I found her? Well, kitten, what are you bubbling over
for you don't know yet?
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Do you? You don't know about that?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Know about Bud? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He eats and sleeps. What else is there to know
about Bud?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
God quit school so well, he's always doing quit school.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Calm, Margaret, Calm.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
It's all because of a girl.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Because of a girl, Millie Ferris.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He's in love with her. He asked her to a
movie and the did you found out about it? Everybody's talking?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
M have the papers heard about this?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
But Jim, Margaret, I.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Want first hand information before I get all worked up
over it.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I can tell you all about it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Dan, Oh, I'm sure you can, but I want the truth, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Please send Bud into the den.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
When he comes in, it's probably but now coming in
the back way, we might as well have it out
right here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Let's just take it easy. We'll see what he says
when he gets in here. Quiet, I don't say anything.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Ill he's going up to his room.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Bud Anderson, you come back here?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Why what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Can I go up to my room?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Well?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
What are you?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Sterna?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Uh, Bud, We've just heard a little distressing news report.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Has it that the people?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What's all the fuss? Betty, your brother has decided to
quit school, and he refuses to give us any reason refuse,
Holy Carl.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Let's give a boy a chance, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Please, I can give you a good reason. He's just
too dumb to go any farther.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Cool me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Mother, I've been looking over my room and I'd like
to talk.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
To you about something later, Princess.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Now, Bud, you might as well get it off your chest.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Mother, Kathy's got about fifty dollars in our room.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I haven't got room to breathe Betty.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Later, all right, Bud, Okay, So I quit. It was
on account of that Milly Millie Ferris. Yeah, she sits
between me and Don Curry.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So well.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I wrote a note to Don asking him if he
could go to the movies with me tonight. And the
teacher saw me handing the note to Milly so she
could hand it to Don.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And the teacher thought, you'd written a note to Milly.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Yeah, I forgot to put Don's name on it. So
the teacher took the note and read it to the class.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Big laugh, didn't you explain you meant the note for Don?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Sure what happened then, big life?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, the whole thing is very silly.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It was not silly at all.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
At noontime, did I get it? All the guys were
kidding me, saying I'm in love with Milly, saying I'm
a sweetie pie.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
That's not good, not good at all.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I didn't go back this afternoon. I'm never going back.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, Bud, you can't give up your whole education because
of a little embarrassment. How do you think Milly feels
about him?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
She thinks it's great.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Why don't you marry the girl if you're so crazy
about her?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Who ask you anything?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, dear, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Well, it's obvious Bud can't make any headway at school.
That girl chasing him. You know how shy he is?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So if you don't go to school, what do you do?
You go to work? We'll have to find but a job.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Hey Dad, you really mean that?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Jim Anderson, I mean it.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Oh boy, I'm going in the den and call.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Some Yeah, no more school.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Jim, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'll explain, honey, the girls you run along.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I want to talk to your mother alone.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, I'm sure Bud's ignorance doesn't concern me. In the least.
I'd like to talk to you later, mother.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And you run along too, kitten.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Gee, Daddy, I don't know where to go.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Oh well let's see.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well you see this closet right here, the one with
a thin door that sound carries through.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
So well, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Well, don't go in there. You go upstairs to your
room and close the door.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Ah heck, I never have any fun.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Now, Margaret, Just let me talk.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
If I forced Bud back to school right away, it
might break the poor kid.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Everybody laughing at him.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It was all a mistake.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Who knows it?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, the fairest girl knows it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And she won't tell. She's got herself a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And we've got a boy who won't go back to school.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Margaret, it's a how simple as this.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I'm going to give but a job working for us,
the Andersons. What wait until you hear the work out
outline for him. He'll be so sick of work by
Monday morning that he'll be glad to go back to school,
even if he has to sit on Millie's lap.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Simple, won't you admit?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yes, you and your plans, Oh honey.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Just leave everything to me dead.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Hey, dad, you know what your father knows everything.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Dad, If I.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Start to work now by next June, I ought to
get two weeks of vacation with pay.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
See Margaret a forward looking businessman.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Pardon me while.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I finish getting dinner.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'd kind of like to pack into the woods by mule.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Would you like to go, Bud?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
There's one mule to another. Let's get you a job first.
Here I brought in the paper, and let's take a
look at the one edge.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Sit now, m let's see selling, selling, selling, Now, this
sounds good. If you can't make five hundred dollars a week,
we don't want you.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
What does that mean? That means they don't want you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Let's see there may be something in the industrial line. Well,
here's a big paying job. Say this might be it
Equipment analysts able to analyze requirements, prepare cost estimates, select
and purchase machines, and process markups for jig assembly.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Sounds good?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Oh too bad? What must have car that lets you up? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Let's see wanted young man, strong, ambitious, wide awake, and
let's see what.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Else there is in here. But I've got an idea.
What how would you like to make two dollars a day?
And room and board two.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Dollars a day in room and board. Holy Kyle, where
can I get a job like that?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Right here?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
General handy man for the Anderson household. Only until you
get something better, of course.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
But g dead.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
What's there to do around here?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Plenty?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The house needs a lot of repairs, the driveways in
bad shape. There's a lot of digging to do. I'm
sure your mother will find plenty of things. Oh, you'll
be busy, all right.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
What do you say when do I start? Well? Today
is Thursday? How about tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That'll give you Friday and Saturday this week four dollars?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Why can I start tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I don't get over anxious, Bud.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You'll have to get up about six in the morning,
you know, in order to get ready to start at eight.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Gee, I'm gonna call Joe Phillips and tell him about it.
I think i'll start tonight though, if I can.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Caddy, Kathy, what are you doing here? It's really going
to work for us, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You've been eavesdropping, haven't you?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I was listening by the window.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Oh I got a job already, Joe working for my dad?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Is he going to be a hard man for.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
The whole family.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We'll see Kathy, we'll see two bucks a day, impoardant room.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Father, just a minute, Princess.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh, I don't know, Joe.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
I wouldn't want to ask him. Why don't you call
him later and ask him. Yeah, he's in a good mood. Okay, Joe, goodbye? Okay, Dad,
I'm ready to start. What do you want me to
do first?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Father.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If Bud isn't exactly a member of the household, shouldn't
we rearrange the living quarters upstairs?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Don't bother me with that now, Betty, I'm trying to
lay out a work schedule. Yeah, let's see tomorrow attic
and storing records.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Daddy, could I have him work for me a little
while Saturday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Kathy, go play with your dolls.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's another thing. They're at least fifty old dolls cluttering
up our room.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Will you please go away, Jim Chilmen, dinner's nearly ridden.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Hey mom, Mom, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm sure I don't share your enthusiasm, and you'd better
get ready for dinner dead.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Why couldn't I work from six thirty to ten thirty tonight?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
There's another dollar right there.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I haven't got anything for you to do tonight, But mom,
you got any odd.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Jobs that I could do?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It would look very odd to see you doing any job, Betty.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Maybe I could clean out the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You cleaned that out last night.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
But good quiet, kids, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It wasn't even a piece of sorry laugh children.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Now listen, bud, here's tomorrow's work program for you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I want you to dig a four inch pit around
the incinerator about uh ten feet in diameter. I want
to put brick in there a little later. Yeah, then,
w well that's quite a job.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But after that, well, it must be.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
About five cubic feet of ashes in that pile out there.
Spread those ashes thinling over that big bear space by
the fence.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Got that, yep? Then WoT oh, well.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
If you get through that stack all that broken lumber
back of the tool house.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Okay, But what do you want me to do in
the afternoon?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Plans working out nicely, isn't it, Jim.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It hasn't begun yet, But you mean you think you
can do all that in the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Sure that's a sin. Okay, Well, there.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Must be one hundred bundles of magazines in the attic.
Lug goes out by the garage. I'm going to send
them to the paper drive.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I already did that one evening last week.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
You did.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
They're around on the side. Well, then lug them back
up to the attic.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Again, but dead if the magazines are downstairs as well.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Just a minute, it's for you, daddy, all right?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Hello, oh, hello, Joel.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, well, Joe, I'm sorry, but I'm full up right now. No,
don't call me, I'll call you goodbye. What in the
world goes on here?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Joe Phillips? He heard I'm hiring men. He wants me
to give him a job. He's figuring on quitting school too. Well,
how is father going to call this family buff with
(12:29):
a payday insight? Bod has turned into a real ball
of fire running over with them and energy, And there.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Are two ways about it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
That's a mighty fine way for anyone to feel.
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Speaker 3 (14:26):
If you ever need a good handy man, there's a
young fellow lives on Maple Street in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Who's a real worker. You might be able to get
him pretty soon too.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
The man he's working for now, and mister Jim Anderson
is having a hard time keeping the young fellow supplied
with enough to do. He's that efficient. Well, he's been
working there a day and a half. It's almost noon
on Saturday now, and Jim Anderson is in the kitchen
talking to Margaret. It's a kind of worried talk like this, Honey,
(14:56):
there must be something you can have, but do until
I can think of something.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You and your palm, Well, it has to work out.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Have you had him watch the windows yet?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Twice?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I can't understand the boy's energy.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
He acts like a maniac. Will you get that, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
If it's another kid asking about a.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Job, I'm not hiring today.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Hello, just a minute, it's for you, Jim.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's not a boy. No, Hello, Yes, missus Pembrooke. What
other boys do is no concern of mine. I don't
see how I've established any precedent whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I assure you that my boy will be back in
school Monday morning on schedule. Well, what your boy does
is strictly up to you. And him.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You're by I've got to get him back to school Monday.
Missus Pembrook's boy wants to quit school.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Now that makes about the fifth and everybody blames it
on me.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I didn't know Bud was so popular. It seems your
son is a leader of men.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Only, certainly not a follower of women.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Hi Mom, Hi Dad, I'll go wash up for lunch.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh, but don't you think it would be a good
idea to maybe take Saturday afternoons off.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And lose a dollar? Heck, no, what do you want
me to do this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'll let you know a lunch.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, want me to do anything about lunch?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, thanks, dear, it'll be ready in a minute. Sit
down and console your father.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Have you made up your mind about Bud's.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Room yet, Betty?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I can't ask Bud to give up his room. I
promised him room and board. Where would he sleep?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
He could put a cot in that little room over
the garage. It's nice and secluded and quiet.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
That's an idea.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I think I'll move in there myself.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Oh, father, don't be so utterly slapstick. That room of
Kathy's in mine is so crammed with doll buggies and
dolls and dollhouses. It's like living in a toy shop.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Betty. I've told you that Kathy and Patty Davis are
having their doll show and parade this afternoon. All those
things will be out of your room by tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
So next week it'll be something else. She'll probably have
a hamster farm in there.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Jim, if you should insist that Bud moved to the
room over the garage, the discomfort might cause him to
dislike his job.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Oh, I hate to do it. It would be a
real blow to.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
The boy, giving up his room for a cubby hole
in the garage.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's for his own good. It might solve your.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Problem, all right, But let me handle it, Betty.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You will casually mention it at lunch and I'll take
over from there.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I'll do it gently. I don't want to hurt it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Good. Now Kathy can have Bud's room, and at last
he can have room.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
We'll discuss that later, kitten.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Okay, have you heard the latest news?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Mary Ferris claims she's going steady with Bud.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
What she thinks Bud really sent that note to her?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
She couldn't have dear, you know how girls that age are.
She probably wants the other girls to think she has
a boyfriend. She'll grab it any excuse.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, Bud is a mighty poor excuse for a boyfriend.
Oh yeah, when you're all rough, isn't so great either.
Oh turn green, Oh turn purple.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Oh cut it up.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
The poor girl has taken advantage of a situation, and
she's glamorizing it. She called here twice yesterday, you know
wanted Bud.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh fine, well, all what concerns me now, father, is
to get the room situation straightened out. I'll be the
happiest girl in the world.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
All right, Just leave things to me.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
By the way, have you any work lined up for
Bud this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Daddy, can I use Bud this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
There's no kind of work you could give him that
he couldn't do with his little finger.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I've got to make it tough on.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Him, but I sure could use him.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I think he's coming downstairs. I don't mention Millie and.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Betty bring that idea of Bud sleeping out over the
garage and very casually, Hi, lunch.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Ready, it's the down Bud mind if I eat fast.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
I want to work most of the lunch hour, so
I can knock off a little early.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Bud, Take it easy, don't you ever get tired?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
All a little?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
But when I think of that, two dollars a day,
rolling in day after day, why.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Pass me the sausage, Bud, Please? What's this afternoon, dad?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Just take it easy, Bud.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But what is it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, it's well, as a matter of fact, Kathy had
an idea, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Father, there's something I wanted to bring up casually, of course.
Oh yes, yes, Ralph and I were discussing family environment yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Bread please.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Ralph is in the opinion it is not good for
a family to live in the same house with a
hired man.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Jam.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
She thinks the hired man should be kept outside the house. Peanut, butter, Bud,
did you hear what I said?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
What's Ralph got to do with it?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Well, it just.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Happens that Ralph is my current Beyonce. What's a current.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Beyonce, the ordinating current kitten? He ordinates with that Roger's boy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh, father, don't be.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
So TV comic, Betty.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I think you may as well forget it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I will not forget it. It'll help you too, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Now, Betty hey dead. I got an idea. I thought
I had one too.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Why not let Kathy have my room and me move
into that little room of the garage.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
What what did you say? Well?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I figure this way.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I figured that room of mine is worth about ten
bucks a week rent, right, suppose so? But that little
room of the garage is worth only about two dollars.
So I'd rather live there, and you could give me
the x eight dollars a week.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But I your father will be very happy to do that.
Everything seems to be working out just fine. But I
wish you a long and prosperous career as a hired man.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Now, wait a minute, I think I'll call Joe and
tell him I got a raise.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Just a minute, by, why don't you reconsider this whole thing.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A boy's place is in school.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Father.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I'm not going to lose that room now, and I'm
sure Bud wouldn't want to give up eight dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And I better you stay out of this.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
I guess I better not call Joe. I better get
to work.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Or what do you want me to do?
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, Bud, I ordered three truckloads of bricks. I was
going to have you rip up the driveway and put
in a new one this afternoon. Yeah, but the bricks
having arrived, Kathy had something she wanted you to do.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
The shrimp. I don't want to work for her.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Well, I can't say I blame him, Dear.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I don't like to butt in, But after all, Bud
is working for the family, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Oh yeah, yes, that was the agreement, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Holy Car, I quit school to get away from my girl.
Now you want me to work for one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, but it isn't much to do. Patty Davis and
I are having our dolls show today.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
What's that got to do with me?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
First we've got to carry all our dolls over to
Patty's house, not me, the other girls will be there.
Then we start the parade Bottle fit in Fine in
a doll parade. Then we parade down Olive Street to
Maple Off Maple to willow Over Grand, then back to
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Patty's house where we.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Have the show.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And all you have to do is carry the extra dolls.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh no, but dear, no matter what kind of work
you do, there's always something unpleasant about.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
It, That's right, son.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You see, I promised that you'd work for the family,
not just me. I can't break my promise.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Of course, you could quit your job.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Holy cow, I gotta think this over.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It would be a shame to lose all that money
you're making.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Betty.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What would you and Milly do for spending money now
that you're going steady? Betty Anderson, she called you three
times yesterday, and she's told everybody that you're her steady.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
She did not, all right, asked Kathy.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well that's what Nelly told everybody yesterday.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Okay, come on, shrimp, let's get the parade started.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Oh boy, first, come out in the front yard a minute.
I've got something I want.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, Betty, you certainly fixed up things just fine.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think you'd better go to your room.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well at least I have a room. That's more than
I could say before.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Well, Betty won I lost.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, you'll have to force Bud back to.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
School, I suppose. Well, Bud, why are you heading for
the basement?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Millie Ferris, she's coming up the wall.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Look Jim out the window. She's getting Kathy a note.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
So that's Milly, nice looking youngster.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
What she's going away again?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Well, here comes Kathy. I wonder what in the world
it's for Milly.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It's not too bad. Shall I take it too.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I'll take it here.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Jim, don't read it.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
It's a sense Bud won't. I'll have to read it
to him.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Hmmm, Well, Bud, come up out of the basement. No
good news, Bud. Come on up, Bud.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I'm never coming up.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Milly's gone like fun. If you don't come up, I'm
going to fire you far away, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I hereby give you a week's notice together with a
week's pay.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Twelve dollars, honest, twelve dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That's right, boy, I can get out of town on that.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
You can go back to school with no worries. Listen
to this note for Millie. Dear Bud.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
My mother made me tell both our teacher and Don
Curry that that note was really for him. Teacher is
going to explain to the kids Monday morning, Don can't
go to the movies with you because I'm going with him.
So I guess you and I will have to break up.
Break up, but let you and I still be good friends.
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Yours truly, Millie Ferris.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Gee, Dad, I sure feel better, but kind of sad too.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
What have you got to feel sad about.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh, it's not me, I'm sad about it's Paul.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Don Well, everything's fine, Margaret. I told you my plan
would work. Do it all the time, Margaret, hmm, what
are you smiling at?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Nothing? I'm just smiling.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Ah. Before our final surprise of the show, we've asked
our friend Margaret Anderson back to give us a good
household hinter too.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, as you can plainly see, just about everything happens
to the Andersons, well not everything, really, things could be
lots worse. For instance, Jim could be a real grouch,
mean and nasty like some of the husbands I know
of husbands who have a good case of coffee nerves.
Of course, that could never happen now that Jim's been
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to give him coffee nerves. Actually, we Anderson's all drink
post him. We like it, and I like the money
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See why I like post him? Well, why don't you
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Speaker 3 (26:57):
Them well, it's Monday evening. Bud's been to school, he's
been cleared, and he's twelve dollars richer.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Bet. He's a little disappointed, but she'll get over it.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
And Jim, well, he's pretty well satisfied with himself like this,
you see, Margaret, If you just give things a little thought,
they work out five.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh, you did a splendid job, dear. I just don't
know how you do it.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Well, the whole thing is closed now, probably never hear
another word from it.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Probably not. I'll get it. Hello. Yeah, well I don't know,
but I can ask him just a minute, Jim, it's
Don Curry on the phone, Millie's new boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Oh, what does he want?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
He's quit school. He wants to know if you could
give him Bud's old job.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
You know Kathy Anderson.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
She's the little girl that.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Lives in the white frame house on Maple Street in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Did you ever notice her ears? Probably not?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, she has two of them, and they're small, just
like most little girl's ears. The puzzling thing about those
little ears is how they can hear so much from
so many in.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
So little time.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And right now those little pink funnels have gathered in
so much news that it's about to spill over like this,
Margaret a home, where's the family?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh, hollo, honey, Betty's upstairs that isn't home yet, And
Kathy's around somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I don't know exactly got it, never mind?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I found her? Well, kitten, what are you bubbling over
for you don't know yet?
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Do you? You don't know about that?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Know about Bud? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He eats and sleeps. What else is there to know
about Bud?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
God quit school so well, he's always doing quit school.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Calm, Margaret, Calm.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
It's all because of a girl.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Because of a girl, Millie Ferris.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He's in love with her. He asked her to a
movie and the did you found out about it? Everybody's talking?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
M have the papers heard about this?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
But Jim, Margaret, I.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Want first hand information before I get all worked up
over it.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I can tell you all about it.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Dan, Oh, I'm sure you can, but I want the truth, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Please send Bud into the den.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
When he comes in, it's probably but now coming in
the back way, we might as well have it out
right here.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Let's just take it easy. We'll see what he says
when he gets in here. Quiet, I don't say anything.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Ill he's going up to his room.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Bud Anderson, you come back here?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Why what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Can I go up to my room?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Well?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
What are you?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Sterna?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Uh, Bud, We've just heard a little distressing news report.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Has it that the people?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
What's all the fuss? Betty, your brother has decided to
quit school, and he refuses to give us any reason refuse,
Holy Carl.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Let's give a boy a chance, Margaret.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Please, I can give you a good reason. He's just
too dumb to go any farther.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Cool me.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Mother, I've been looking over my room and I'd like
to talk.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
To you about something later, Princess.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Now, Bud, you might as well get it off your chest.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Mother, Kathy's got about fifty dollars in our room.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I haven't got room to breathe Betty.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Later, all right, Bud, Okay, So I quit. It was
on account of that Milly Millie Ferris. Yeah, she sits
between me and Don Curry.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
So well.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
I wrote a note to Don asking him if he
could go to the movies with me tonight. And the
teacher saw me handing the note to Milly so she
could hand it to Don.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And the teacher thought, you'd written a note to Milly.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Yeah, I forgot to put Don's name on it. So
the teacher took the note and read it to the class.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Big laugh, didn't you explain you meant the note for Don?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Sure what happened then, big life?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, the whole thing is very silly.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It was not silly at all.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
At noontime, did I get it? All the guys were
kidding me, saying I'm in love with Milly, saying I'm
a sweetie pie.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
That's not good, not good at all.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I didn't go back this afternoon. I'm never going back.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, Bud, you can't give up your whole education because
of a little embarrassment. How do you think Milly feels
about him?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
She thinks it's great.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Why don't you marry the girl if you're so crazy
about her?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Who ask you anything?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, dear, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Well, it's obvious Bud can't make any headway at school.
That girl chasing him. You know how shy he is?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
So if you don't go to school, what do you do?
You go to work? We'll have to find but a job.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Hey Dad, you really mean that?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Jim Anderson, I mean it.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Oh boy, I'm going in the den and call.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Some Yeah, no more school.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Jim, I don't understand it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'll explain, honey, the girls you run along.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I want to talk to your mother alone.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, I'm sure Bud's ignorance doesn't concern me. In the least.
I'd like to talk to you later, mother.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And you run along too, kitten.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Gee, Daddy, I don't know where to go.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Oh well let's see.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well you see this closet right here, the one with
a thin door that sound carries through.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
So well, yeah, sure.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Well, don't go in there. You go upstairs to your
room and close the door.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Ah heck, I never have any fun.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Now, Margaret, Just let me talk.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
If I forced Bud back to school right away, it
might break the poor kid.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Everybody laughing at him.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It was all a mistake.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Who knows it?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, the fairest girl knows it.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And she won't tell. She's got herself a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
And we've got a boy who won't go back to school.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Margaret, it's a how simple as this.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I'm going to give but a job working for us,
the Andersons. What wait until you hear the work out
outline for him. He'll be so sick of work by
Monday morning that he'll be glad to go back to school,
even if he has to sit on Millie's lap.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Simple, won't you admit?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Yes, you and your plans, Oh honey.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Just leave everything to me dead.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Hey, dad, you know what your father knows everything.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Dad, If I.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Start to work now by next June, I ought to
get two weeks of vacation with pay.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
See Margaret a forward looking businessman.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Pardon me while.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I finish getting dinner.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I'd kind of like to pack into the woods by mule.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Would you like to go, Bud?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
There's one mule to another. Let's get you a job first.
Here I brought in the paper, and let's take a
look at the one edge.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Sit now, m let's see selling, selling, selling, Now, this
sounds good. If you can't make five hundred dollars a week,
we don't want you.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
What does that mean? That means they don't want you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Let's see there may be something in the industrial line. Well,
here's a big paying job. Say this might be it
Equipment analysts able to analyze requirements, prepare cost estimates, select
and purchase machines, and process markups for jig assembly.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Sounds good?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Oh too bad? What must have car that lets you up? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Let's see wanted young man, strong, ambitious, wide awake, and
let's see what.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Else there is in here. But I've got an idea.
What how would you like to make two dollars a day?
And room and board two.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Dollars a day in room and board. Holy Kyle, where
can I get a job like that?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Right here?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
General handy man for the Anderson household. Only until you
get something better, of course.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
But g dead.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
What's there to do around here?
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Plenty?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The house needs a lot of repairs, the driveways in
bad shape. There's a lot of digging to do. I'm
sure your mother will find plenty of things. Oh, you'll
be busy, all right.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
What do you say when do I start? Well? Today
is Thursday? How about tomorrow morning?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That'll give you Friday and Saturday this week four dollars?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Why can I start tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Now?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
I don't get over anxious, Bud.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You'll have to get up about six in the morning,
you know, in order to get ready to start at eight.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Gee, I'm gonna call Joe Phillips and tell him about it.
I think i'll start tonight though, if I can.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Caddy, Kathy, what are you doing here? It's really going
to work for us, Kathy?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You've been eavesdropping, haven't you?
Speaker 6 (08:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I was listening by the window.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Oh I got a job already, Joe working for my dad?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Is he going to be a hard man for.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
The whole family.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
We'll see Kathy, we'll see two bucks a day, impoardant room.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Father, just a minute, Princess.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh, I don't know, Joe.
Speaker 8 (09:08):
I wouldn't want to ask him. Why don't you call
him later and ask him. Yeah, he's in a good mood. Okay, Joe, goodbye? Okay, Dad,
I'm ready to start. What do you want me to
do first?
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Father.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
If Bud isn't exactly a member of the household, shouldn't
we rearrange the living quarters upstairs?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Don't bother me with that now, Betty, I'm trying to
lay out a work schedule. Yeah, let's see tomorrow attic
and storing records.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Daddy, could I have him work for me a little
while Saturday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Kathy, go play with your dolls.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's another thing. They're at least fifty old dolls cluttering
up our room.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Will you please go away, Jim Chilmen, dinner's nearly ridden.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Hey mom, Mom, I'm working.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm sure I don't share your enthusiasm, and you'd better
get ready for dinner dead.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Why couldn't I work from six thirty to ten thirty tonight?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
There's another dollar right there.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I haven't got anything for you to do tonight, But mom,
you got any odd.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Jobs that I could do?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It would look very odd to see you doing any job, Betty.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Maybe I could clean out the refrigerator.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
You cleaned that out last night.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
But good quiet, kids, I'm trying to think.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
It wasn't even a piece of sorry laugh children.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Now listen, bud, here's tomorrow's work program for you.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I want you to dig a four inch pit around
the incinerator about uh ten feet in diameter. I want
to put brick in there a little later. Yeah, then,
w well that's quite a job.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
But after that, well, it must be.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
About five cubic feet of ashes in that pile out there.
Spread those ashes thinling over that big bear space by
the fence.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Got that, yep? Then WoT oh, well.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
If you get through that stack all that broken lumber
back of the tool house.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Okay, But what do you want me to do in
the afternoon?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
In the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Plans working out nicely, isn't it, Jim.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It hasn't begun yet, But you mean you think you
can do all that in the morning.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Sure that's a sin. Okay, Well, there.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Must be one hundred bundles of magazines in the attic.
Lug goes out by the garage. I'm going to send
them to the paper drive.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I already did that one evening last week.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
You did.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
They're around on the side. Well, then lug them back
up to the attic.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Again, but dead if the magazines are downstairs as well.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Just a minute, it's for you, daddy, all right?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Hello, oh, hello, Joel.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Well, well, Joe, I'm sorry, but I'm full up right now. No,
don't call me, I'll call you goodbye. What in the
world goes on here?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Joe Phillips? He heard I'm hiring men. He wants me
to give him a job. He's figuring on quitting school too. Well,
how is father going to call this family buff with
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Speaker 3 (14:26):
If you ever need a good handy man, there's a
young fellow lives on Maple Street in Springfield.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Who's a real worker. You might be able to get
him pretty soon too.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
The man he's working for now, and mister Jim Anderson
is having a hard time keeping the young fellow supplied
with enough to do. He's that efficient. Well, he's been
working there a day and a half. It's almost noon
on Saturday now, and Jim Anderson is in the kitchen
talking to Margaret. It's a kind of worried talk like this, Honey,
(14:56):
there must be something you can have, but do until
I can think of something.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
You and your palm, Well, it has to work out.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Have you had him watch the windows yet?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Twice?
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I can't understand the boy's energy.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
He acts like a maniac. Will you get that, Margaret?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
If it's another kid asking about a.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Job, I'm not hiring today.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Hello, just a minute, it's for you, Jim.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's not a boy. No, Hello, Yes, missus Pembrooke. What
other boys do is no concern of mine. I don't
see how I've established any precedent whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I assure you that my boy will be back in
school Monday morning on schedule. Well, what your boy does
is strictly up to you. And him.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You're by I've got to get him back to school Monday.
Missus Pembrook's boy wants to quit school.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Now that makes about the fifth and everybody blames it
on me.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I didn't know Bud was so popular. It seems your
son is a leader of men.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Only, certainly not a follower of women.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Hi Mom, Hi Dad, I'll go wash up for lunch.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Oh, but don't you think it would be a good
idea to maybe take Saturday afternoons off.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And lose a dollar? Heck, no, what do you want
me to do this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I'll let you know a lunch.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Okay, want me to do anything about lunch?
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
No, thanks, dear, it'll be ready in a minute. Sit
down and console your father.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Have you made up your mind about Bud's.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Room yet, Betty?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I can't ask Bud to give up his room. I
promised him room and board. Where would he sleep?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
He could put a cot in that little room over
the garage. It's nice and secluded and quiet.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
That's an idea.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
I think I'll move in there myself.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Oh, father, don't be so utterly slapstick. That room of
Kathy's in mine is so crammed with doll buggies and
dolls and dollhouses. It's like living in a toy shop.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Betty. I've told you that Kathy and Patty Davis are
having their doll show and parade this afternoon. All those
things will be out of your room by tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
So next week it'll be something else. She'll probably have
a hamster farm in there.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Jim, if you should insist that Bud moved to the
room over the garage, the discomfort might cause him to
dislike his job.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Oh, I hate to do it. It would be a
real blow to.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
The boy, giving up his room for a cubby hole
in the garage.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
It's for his own good. It might solve your.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Problem, all right, But let me handle it, Betty.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You will casually mention it at lunch and I'll take
over from there.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I'll do it gently. I don't want to hurt it.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Good. Now Kathy can have Bud's room, and at last
he can have room.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
We'll discuss that later, kitten.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Okay, have you heard the latest news?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
I hope so.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Mary Ferris claims she's going steady with Bud.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
What she thinks Bud really sent that note to her?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
She couldn't have dear, you know how girls that age are.
She probably wants the other girls to think she has
a boyfriend. She'll grab it any excuse.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Well, Bud is a mighty poor excuse for a boyfriend.
Oh yeah, when you're all rough, isn't so great either.
Oh turn green, Oh turn purple.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Oh cut it up.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
The poor girl has taken advantage of a situation, and
she's glamorizing it. She called here twice yesterday, you know
wanted Bud.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Oh fine, well, all what concerns me now, father, is
to get the room situation straightened out. I'll be the
happiest girl in the world.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
All right, Just leave things to me.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
By the way, have you any work lined up for
Bud this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I'm thinking, I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Daddy, can I use Bud this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Kathy?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
There's no kind of work you could give him that
he couldn't do with his little finger.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I've got to make it tough on.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Him, but I sure could use him.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I think he's coming downstairs. I don't mention Millie and.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Betty bring that idea of Bud sleeping out over the
garage and very casually, Hi, lunch.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Ready, it's the down Bud mind if I eat fast.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
I want to work most of the lunch hour, so
I can knock off a little early.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Bud, Take it easy, don't you ever get tired?
Speaker 6 (19:15):
All a little?
Speaker 7 (19:15):
But when I think of that, two dollars a day,
rolling in day after day, why.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Pass me the sausage, Bud, Please? What's this afternoon, dad?
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Just take it easy, Bud.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But what is it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Well, it's well, as a matter of fact, Kathy had
an idea, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Father, there's something I wanted to bring up casually, of course.
Oh yes, yes, Ralph and I were discussing family environment yesterday.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Bread please.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Ralph is in the opinion it is not good for
a family to live in the same house with a
hired man.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Jam.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
She thinks the hired man should be kept outside the house. Peanut, butter, Bud,
did you hear what I said?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
What's Ralph got to do with it?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Well, it just.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Happens that Ralph is my current Beyonce. What's a current.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Beyonce, the ordinating current kitten? He ordinates with that Roger's boy.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh, father, don't be.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
So TV comic, Betty.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I think you may as well forget it.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I will not forget it. It'll help you too, you know.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Now, Betty hey dead. I got an idea. I thought
I had one too.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Why not let Kathy have my room and me move
into that little room of the garage.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
What what did you say? Well?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I figure this way.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
I figured that room of mine is worth about ten
bucks a week rent, right, suppose so? But that little
room of the garage is worth only about two dollars.
So I'd rather live there, and you could give me
the x eight dollars a week.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
But I your father will be very happy to do that.
Everything seems to be working out just fine. But I
wish you a long and prosperous career as a hired man.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Now, wait a minute, I think I'll call Joe and
tell him I got a raise.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Just a minute, by, why don't you reconsider this whole thing.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
A boy's place is in school.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Father.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I'm not going to lose that room now, and I'm
sure Bud wouldn't want to give up eight dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And I better you stay out of this.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
I guess I better not call Joe. I better get
to work.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Or what do you want me to do?
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Well, Bud, I ordered three truckloads of bricks. I was
going to have you rip up the driveway and put
in a new one this afternoon. Yeah, but the bricks
having arrived, Kathy had something she wanted you to do.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
The shrimp. I don't want to work for her.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Well, I can't say I blame him, Dear.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I don't like to butt in, But after all, Bud
is working for the family, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Oh yeah, yes, that was the agreement, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Holy Car, I quit school to get away from my girl.
Now you want me to work for one.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, but it isn't much to do. Patty Davis and
I are having our dolls show today.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
What's that got to do with me?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
First we've got to carry all our dolls over to
Patty's house, not me, the other girls will be there.
Then we start the parade Bottle fit in Fine in
a doll parade. Then we parade down Olive Street to
Maple Off Maple to willow Over Grand, then back to
(22:39):
Patty's house where we.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Have the show.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And all you have to do is carry the extra dolls.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh no, but dear, no matter what kind of work
you do, there's always something unpleasant about.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
It, That's right, son.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
You see, I promised that you'd work for the family,
not just me. I can't break my promise.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Of course, you could quit your job.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Holy cow, I gotta think this over.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It would be a shame to lose all that money
you're making.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Betty.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What would you and Milly do for spending money now
that you're going steady? Betty Anderson, she called you three
times yesterday, and she's told everybody that you're her steady.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
She did not, all right, asked Kathy.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Well that's what Nelly told everybody yesterday.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Okay, come on, shrimp, let's get the parade started.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Oh boy, first, come out in the front yard a minute.
I've got something I want.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Well, Betty, you certainly fixed up things just fine.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think you'd better go to your room.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well at least I have a room. That's more than
I could say before.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Well, Betty won I lost.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, you'll have to force Bud back to.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
School, I suppose. Well, Bud, why are you heading for
the basement?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Millie Ferris, she's coming up the wall.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Look Jim out the window. She's getting Kathy a note.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
So that's Milly, nice looking youngster.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
What she's going away again?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Well, here comes Kathy. I wonder what in the world
it's for Milly.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
It's not too bad. Shall I take it too.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I'll take it here.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Jim, don't read it.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
It's a sense Bud won't. I'll have to read it
to him.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Hmmm, Well, Bud, come up out of the basement. No
good news, Bud. Come on up, Bud.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I'm never coming up.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Milly's gone like fun. If you don't come up, I'm
going to fire you far away, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I hereby give you a week's notice together with a
week's pay.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Twelve dollars, honest, twelve dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
That's right, boy, I can get out of town on that.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
You can go back to school with no worries. Listen
to this note for Millie. Dear Bud.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
My mother made me tell both our teacher and Don
Curry that that note was really for him. Teacher is
going to explain to the kids Monday morning, Don can't
go to the movies with you because I'm going with him.
So I guess you and I will have to break up.
Break up, but let you and I still be good friends.
(25:23):
Yours truly, Millie Ferris.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Gee, Dad, I sure feel better, but kind of sad too.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
What have you got to feel sad about.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Oh, it's not me, I'm sad about it's Paul.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Don Well, everything's fine, Margaret. I told you my plan
would work. Do it all the time, Margaret, hmm, what
are you smiling at?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Nothing? I'm just smiling.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Ah. Before our final surprise of the show, we've asked
our friend Margaret Anderson back to give us a good
household hinter too.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, as you can plainly see, just about everything happens
to the Andersons, well not everything, really, things could be
lots worse. For instance, Jim could be a real grouch,
mean and nasty like some of the husbands I know
of husbands who have a good case of coffee nerves.
Of course, that could never happen now that Jim's been
(26:32):
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to give him coffee nerves. Actually, we Anderson's all drink
post him. We like it, and I like the money
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See why I like post him? Well, why don't you
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Speaker 3 (26:57):
Them well, it's Monday evening. Bud's been to school, he's
been cleared, and he's twelve dollars richer.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Bet. He's a little disappointed, but she'll get over it.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
And Jim, well, he's pretty well satisfied with himself like this,
you see, Margaret, If you just give things a little thought,
they work out five.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Oh, you did a splendid job, dear. I just don't
know how you do it.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Well, the whole thing is closed now, probably never hear
another word from it.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Probably not. I'll get it. Hello. Yeah, well I don't know,
but I can ask him just a minute, Jim, it's
Don Curry on the phone, Millie's new boyfriend.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Oh, what does he want?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
He's quit school. He wants to know if you could
give him Bud's old job.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
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