July 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, Why does daddy insist on Instant Sanka coffee?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Your father says, Instant Sanka is one hundred percent pure
coffee and the only instant coffee that lets him sleep.
And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert
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Remember the old saw about the fellow who went into
the auction sale to get out of the rain and
sneezed and found he bought a set of dishes. Well,
(01:17):
I doubt if that ever really happened, But Jim Anderson
had an experience this afternoon at an auction sale. He
got the bargain to end all bargains. Margaret hasn't heard
about it yet. She's at home in the kitchen of
the white frame house on Maple Street, baking a cake
like this.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Dear, I hope that recipe isn't the same one that everly,
I'm all, bud, don't slam the door.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I have a cake in the oven. Oh, and don't
stand through the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'll go around to the front door.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That would be much safer, thank you. That's okay, byde, byde,
don't slam. Oh no, what's all the racket out here?
That was your ba. They're tiptoeing out the back door.
I'm afraid to look at the cake. Well, wonder of wonders,
(02:08):
is it flat? No, it weathered the storm. But I
wanted to ask you, mother.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Jamie Liggett and I and some of the other girls
got the most perfect idea at school today.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Listen and see what you think of it. Go right ahead,
I have to make this frosting.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We decided that we're all simply too utterly unaware, oh,
unaware of what books mother, the great books, the classics.
We've decided that we're going to organize a reading club.
We're going to elevate our minds to higher planes of though.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Who's gonna go where?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Nobody's going any place, dopey. I'm talking to mother. So
we thought a perfect place for the club meetings would
be our playroom downstairs. We almost never use it. Could
we have it for our club meetings?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, far as I'm concerned, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, that's good because I invited the girls for the
first meeting tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Jan back. Now, I don't want to drop this cake.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm reading home.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Deer.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh, hi, kids come, father dead, Hello, honey, Hello, dear,
careful of this cake? Pan, it's sizzling hot.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Mm. Good that for dinner.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, this is my contribution to the Harvest Jubilee. Oh,
you know, the big charity circus out of the fairgrounds.
It's for the Children's Home. I have to hurry. I
told missus Michaels the cake would be ready by six.
Her husband's going to stop by for it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Sounds like a worthy cause.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh, by the way, there hasn't been anything delivered this afternoon,
has there No?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Why were you expecting something?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Father?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You buy something, Dad, Hi, daddy, what.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Did you get? I'll wait, I didn't say, did you
get a new suit? No?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What is it? Father?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, if it hasn't been delivered yet, I'm not going
to tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'll bet it's a new car. No, a new chair
for the living room.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No, nothing like that. You'd never guess in a million years.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Where'd you buy it?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, they were.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Having an auction sale over at the commercial warehouse, and
I stopped in just.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
For the fun of it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
What in the world could you get at a warehouse auction?
Is it a baby sister?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You don't buy baby sisters?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Not go ahead, Marion Wilbur says they're still paying for
her baby sister and she's three years old.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh tell us, father, ooka, it's nothing to get excited about.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I just got a very unusual bargain, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well what is it?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Oh, it isn't exactly an it, it's more of a them.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, for goodness sake, I'll never get this cake frosted. Mother,
Make him tell us. I can't make him tell Hey.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
There's a truck backing the driveway. Well, here they are.
I guarantee this is going to be the world's biggest surprise.
Let's go out and see. I'll stay here. The man
will bring him in. I can't stand the suspense.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I simply can't stand this. There's the many man.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't push. I'll have to sign for it. Hello there,
mister Anderson. That's right, delivery from the commercial warehouse. Sign
right here? Please? Oh right there you are, Thank you.
I brought one bag in. Where should we put the others? Oh?
You can just stack them in the back porch. Here
in this back porch. Sure, just stack them up, all right,
(05:18):
if you say so.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Jim, What in the world is in that bill up bag?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I told you you'd never guess. Here. I'll drag it
in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I close the door, Bud, hurry, father opened the bag?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
All right? Brace yourselves for the big surprise.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh no, peanuts? Peanuts?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is that what you bought? Dead peanuts? Oh? Boy, the
whole day.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Millions of them. Father, Is this some kind of a joke?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
No, I picked them up at the auction. I just
stopped in for a minute to see what was going
on in the auction.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He said, what a my bid for these bags of
fine roasted peanuts?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Bags? You mean there are more of them.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh, probably a few more. Anyway, he didn't get any bids,
so he said, will anyone start the bidding?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Who'll give five dollars for this five hundred pounds?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Five hundred pounds? You got five hundred pounds of peanuts.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I hadn't intend to bid on anything, but five dollars
for five hundred pounds of peanuts. It's a fantastic bargain.
I had no idea i'd get them. It was too
good to be true. Anyway, I said, I'll bid five dollars.
Next thing I knew he was saying, sold in the
man in the blue suit for five dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm having a little trouble believing it myself.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Peanuts.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I thought maybe it was a set of antique silver
or something. When can we start eating him?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Daddy, help yourself. There's plenty.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I don't think I want any Wait till I tell
Joe we got five hundred pounds of peanuts.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
He won't believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
But don't go telling it around the neighborhood. We'll have
all all the kids in town over here.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But dear, have you any idea of I mean how
much does this one bag weigh?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh, probably twenty five pounds. But think of it, honey,
At five dollars for five hundred pounds, that's only a
cent a pound. Do you know what you pay for
peanuts when you buy them in the store, Yeah, about
thirty five or forty cents a pound. I got two
hundred dollars worth of peanuts for five dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But the ones in the store are shells.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Dear, Yeah, that's right, but it's still a terrific bargain.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Peanuts. What a letdown.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm going upstairs and make plans for our reading club dead.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
If this s bag is twenty five pounds, there must
be some others.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Huh, yeah, this, there'd be a few more.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's the delivery man again, Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, sir, did you great seizure? We've got a porch bowl.
You told me to stack them out here, MI standers,
and I wondered at the time, I didn't realize there
were so many.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh, for heaven's sake, where's my washing machine?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Can't see it, man, but it's under there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Say look, we got penuts clear up to the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Twenty five pounds to a bag, four bags to one
hundred and you got five hundred pounds. Mister Anderson, that's
twenty bags, and those bags aren't little. Yes, I can
see that. It's none of my business, mister Anderson, But
if you don't mind my asking, what are you gonna
do with them? Eh?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, there are unlimited uses for peanuts, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, send you well, dear, what do you mean? Sure,
it seems like a lot of penis just looking at
them and the bags there.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
But you'll have to admit it, Margaret, that that's the
greatest bargain you ever heard.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Of, a penny a pound, think of it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
What are we gonna do with him?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Why, there's no end of what you can do with them.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We can shell some of them, put them in jars,
we can grind them up, make our own peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
When do we do all this?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It's in our spare time, long winter evenings. Think of
the fun the whole family sitting around the fire.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, I have to finish this cake. Mister Michael will
be here in a little while.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Simply a case of knowing a bargain when you see one.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Dear, Yes, honey, can I help you?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Mommy? You'll have to admit it was a bargain. Margaret, Yeah,
dear Bud, I think it was a bargain. Dead well,
of course it was.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I don't care if it's peanuts or real estate or
what it bargain's or.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Bargain, Sure it is. You know what you were doing, Dad,
Thank you, son. What are you gonna do with them? Well,
we can't leave them there on the back porch. I'll
tell you what we'll do, Bud. I'll give you a
quarter if you'll move them down into the playroom, the
whole five hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, you can take them one bag at a time.
The playroom's a good place for them.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Okay, down to the playroom, Margaret, I'm crosting the cake deer.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's a funny thing, the way a person just stumbles into.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
An opportunity like that, Like what, dear, the auction down.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
At the warehouse. You can't imagine that, out of all
those people down there, I would be the only one
to realize what those peanuts were really worth.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can imagine it. Hand me the spoon for the frosting.
Cathy this right, don't lock.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It a two hundred dollars value for five dollars How
could anybody in his right mind pass it up?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I just don't know what what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Let go? Dad told me.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
To better brace yourself. Dear, sounds like you're in for
a storm.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Father.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're not putting those peanuts in the playroom, certainly, Why not, Princess?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Why not? My club is meeting there tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, that's all right. The bags of peanuts won't be
in your way. Just push them over against the wall.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Father, this is my reading club.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We're taking up the classics, the treasures of literature, and
I'm the president.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, I don't see what did.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You see us reading Milton's Paradise Lost surrounded by peanuts?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well throw a cover or something over there.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'll be the laughing stock of the whole school, a
peanut queen of Springfield.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Now, Princess, you're getting all upset about nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
How can you do this to your own daughter.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I didn't know you were going to use the playroom,
I told mother, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, I didn't know the peanuts were going into the
playroom if you'd ask me about it, Dear.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Here we are.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Trying to absorb a little culture to rise above our surroundings.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
There's nothing wrong with these surroundings.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Might as well try to read the classics and.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A chicken coop Betty, just because of it? What is it?
But I didn't get all the peanuts into the playroom.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Well, thank goodness, one of the bags broke, Jim, Jim,
I smell something burning.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Some of the peanuts went down the furnace fence. Oh no,
you'll have.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
To get them out of there, Dear, it'll be all
over the house.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It isn't bad enough father, that you turn the house
into a peanut gallery.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Now we have smug.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What are you gonna do? Dad?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
You know bud By the oddest coincidence. I'm asking myself
the same question.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, we've heard about folks having an embarrassment of riches.
Looks as if father has an embarrassment of peanuts right now, though,
suppose we leave Father with his problem and help mother
solve one of hers.
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Speaker 3 (14:00):
Well, it probably seemed like a wonderful idea of Jim
when he was able, by the greatest good fortune to
pick up five hundred pounds of peanuts at auction for
just five dollars. But for some mysterious reason, the other
members of the Anderson family are not sharing Gym's enthusiasm
over the remarkable purchase. In fact, perfectly frank about it,
the darned peanuts are just about upset the entire household.
(14:23):
Jim is retired to the den to ponder the problem,
like this, I swear if I ever buy anything.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Again, what were you saying, dear, Oh, nothing, I.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Was just thinking, from now on, I'm not going to
buy so much as a dozen eggs without getting a
signed affidavit from everyone.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
In the house.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Don't let it upset you, dear. I'm sure it will
all work out, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Oh, it's going to work out.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I'm going to get rid of every last one of
those peanuts. How dear, How Margaret, you and the children
don't seem to realize that they're valuable.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
People buy them, Yes, I know, I mean other people.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They're a fine food. They're rich in protein, practically the
same as meat. Everybody likes peanuts. Everybody will buy them.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Who for instance, well everybody Button Kathy can put them
into little bags, sell them around. Can you get so
many five cent bags of peanuts we have down there
in the playroom?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Nine million?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Not quite that many. There are several thousand. Button Kathy
can earn all their Christmas money and put some in
the bank. Besides, all out of that five.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Dollars sounds fine, dear. I have to start dinner. I'm
putting the cake for mister Michael's on the hall table.
Will you give it to him when he comes?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, I'll give it to him. Father. Yes, princess, you
can have the playroom.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, I won't take my club down there.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
If those ridiculous don't worry they're going.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
But the time you and your reading club get in
there tomorrow night, there won't be a single solitary goober
on the premises.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well, I'm glad you finally came to your senses.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
What do you having?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The spray gut florashill with those peanuts down the furnace vent,
the house smells like an old insiderator.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I thought it was rather pleasant. But Kathy, what do
you want there?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You call me daddy?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
What is it? Then?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I have a wonderful idea how you and Kathy can
earn a lot of money. You take the peanuts and
put them up in paper bags and sell them around
the neighborhood for five cents a bay. You can easily
make one hundred dollars clear profit.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She I don't know, Daddy, We.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Couldn't sell them all before tomorrow night. Anyway. Well, I
thought if we'd make the deal, you could move them
into the garage. Just temporarily move all those sacks again.
We'll think of the money you can make. You'll be rich. No,
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I'd feel silly going around selling peanuts.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
What's silly about it? I don't know peanuts. Everybody'd laugh.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What do you care.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's a legitimate business. No, i'd feel silly.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thanks anyway, Dad, Yeah, thanks anyway, Dad. Wait, kids, listen,
it sounds like you're having a little difficulty. Dear.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I don't know what's gotten into kids. Afraid somebody will
laugh at them.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Father, Yes, Princess, I'll get rid of the pea nuts.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Has mister Michaels come by for the cake?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
No? Not yet. Well, there's one sure way to get
rid of them. People will take anything if it's free.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I'll give the darn things away Christmas presents.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, I'll just call some of my friends and tell
them to come and get them. After all, that's not
a bad gift. Twenty five pounds of peanuts. I'll call
that Davis next door. You'll be tickled to death. Loves
to get something for nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
See that the children don't get into this case.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I will hello ed, this is Jim. Are you busy? Well,
come on over.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I have a little surprise here for you. No, you
can see when you get here, right, you're Mike Man,
that'll be twenty five pounds gone.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Bud. Yes, go down in the playroom and bring up
one of those bags of peanuts. Will you what for?
I'll tell you when you bring it up. I know,
I know. Oh, hello, Ed, come on here. What's up, Jim? Oh,
just a little surprise something we thought you and your
wife might like. Oh what is it? Check for one
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thousand dollars. No, no, this is a real surprise, Bud.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Okay, it's really kind of a crazy sort of it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Gif Hey talk about crazy things that fell down the
street works over at the commercial warehouse. He was telling
me a few minutes ago about some of the goofy
things people buy at those auctions. You all believe this, Jim.
But he said today that some poor sap bought five
hundred pounds of peanuts. Can you imagine dealer either, just
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some lame brain money burning holes in his pockets. Now,
what would an ordinary guy do with five hundred pounds
of peanuts? Uh? I couldn't imagine. Okay, Dad, I'll go
down in the playroom. No, no, never mind, Bud, But
you said you wanted me to get run along. Son.
(19:10):
It's all right. I'll take care of the playroom. I'll
clean it up. You run along, okay, but that's fine.
Thanks anyway, son, we'll do some weird things. Come to
think of it, I believe it was eight hundred pounds
of peanuts the guy bought. No, I was five. Well,
you can't imagine anyone buying more than that. Well, I
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have to get back to him. What's a big surprise?
A surprise? Oh the pride? Well, Jim, this is too much.
What is the cake? How did you know this is
Martha's birth? Well? The cake? Is that to go about
a surprise? Wait till Martha sees this? Yeah? Well, Ed,
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you know you and Margaret are just about the best
neighbors and the best friends we've ever had. Well, thanks, Ed,
but you tell Margaret that we think she's just great,
just great. I got a run Thanks again, Jim, Bye bye.
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What happened then?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Something awful. I'll never be able to explain this to
your mother. Never, where's the cake go? That's what I
can never explain to your mother.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I heard you talking to someone, dear. Oh, mister Michaels
came by for the cake.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Well i'll see you that. Well, come back, but I
don't leave me.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Maybe I should have contributed more than the cake, but
they'll sell it for at least a dollar and a half.
And I've done a lot of other work for the jubilee. Dear,
you don't look well.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm not. I'm sick.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, that wasn't Michaels who was here. It was Ed Davis.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Where's my cake?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Honey? Ed took it? Eh, don't ask me to explain.
It's just one of those things.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But you were going to give him the Margaret.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Don't use the word please.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I saw the cake on the table thought that was
why I asked him overs Martha's birthday.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I was trapped, believe me.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But what will I tell mister Michaels father?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
What are you getting those peanuts out of the play road?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I will give me time.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
If I hadn't told missus Michaels that I would bake it, well, Honey,
I'll buy another cake. There isn't time, dear, Oh jam Fiddlesticks.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yes, Bud, I've been thinking about your idea of selling
the peanuts. Maybe I could do it. Oh Bud, I'd
give up that idea if I were you.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But I've got a swell idea if people laugh at me,
I can just tell him I'm helping my father. No, Bud, Well,
would it be any better if I said, my poor old.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Father, Jim.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Here comes mister Michaels up the walk. We'll just have to.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Tell I'll explain to him somehow, Margaret, you go in
the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
What should I do? Dad? Father? Yes, I'm taking care
of it. But here's a dollar.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Get those peanuts out of the playroom.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What'll I do with them? I don't care what you do.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
With the front door? Father, there's Michaels deal all right?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
All right, I could call the zoom make a deal
with the elephants. Maybe. Yeah, that's good elephants, Jim father,
all right, all right, well mister Michaels, Is that right, sir?
I'm sorry I've kept you waiting. I'm Jim Anderson. Well
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it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Thank you. Uh
come in, won't you? Thank you? He is?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, these are busy days, aren't they, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yes, they certainly are busy days. Yes.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Indeed, I was supposed to pick up something for missus Michael's.
I've completely forgotten what it was. Isn't that annoying, she
told me only five minutes ago. Does your mind ever
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do strange things?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
My family often thinks.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
It it was something in connection with the charity circus.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Well, don't worry about it.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Why don't we just let it go until it was
something your wife was contributing, something we were going to
sell at the circus.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Well, I'm sure missus Anderson would know. Oh I doubt it. Really,
these are busy days, you know. Maybe if you went home,
was it a cake? Well, to tell you the truth, well,
you'll just have to forgive me. Really, I'm going in circles.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
My wife is the chairman of the way it means,
committee for this circus.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I've been running my legs off, rounding up things to sell, candy,
soft drinks, peanuts. I am losing my mind over peanuts.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Not you too, Do you know there isn't a peanut
to be had in this town?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What was that again?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Some unscrupulous speculator bought up the last five hundred pounds
in the warehouse.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
No, whoever he is, he has a corner on the
peanut market. You don't say.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
And what really makes me sick is that the rascal
bought the whole five hundred pounds of auction for just
five dollars. If I could have had even one hundred
pounds in the door, will your dance?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
This sack is heavy?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
All in a minute, bud eh, mister Michaels, open a
corner of this bag.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Peanuts? Do you want to buy some? How many? You have?
Five hundred pounds misterns? It was you.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, I'm not exactly a peanut speculator, but I knew
it was a bargain.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Are you interested? Interested? Oh? Thank my lucky stars. Watch
your price? How much for the lot? No charge? Just
say this is missus Anderson's contribution to the charity circuit.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Oh bless you, so bless you forgive me those awful
things I said. I should bite off my tongue. You
are the salt of the earth, the very salt of
this good.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Where are you going?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
I'm going to get a truck to hollowse peanuts.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Oh bless you, Oh, don't change your mind. I'll be
right now. Holy Carl, he must have snapped his cap.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I couldn't help hearing the conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Dear, you probably didn't know you were married to an
unscrupulous speculator.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
He was practically gibbering with joy. Congratulations, dear, the peanuts
were a wonderful bargain.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, thank you. I've been trying to tell you that
ever since I came home. You're pretty sharp man. Fother,
but run upstairs and tell your sister.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
If she has anything to say, she may come downstairs
and addressed me in a respectful tone of voice.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hello, Jerry Marshall.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Well, it's a good thing Jim Anderson got rid of
those peanuts, isn't it. It sure looked as though they
were going to cause them some sleepless nights. Of course,
a lot of us suffer from sleepless nights too, but
we can't usually blame it on too many peanuts.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
No.
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Speaker 3 (27:21):
We'll have to be a little quiet right now, you see.
The Petty Anderson Literary Society is in session in the
downstairs playroom without peanuts. Up in the living room, Margaret
is doing some mending while Jim reads the paper.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
What are you reading, dear?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
No, there's some very interesting ads in the paper tonight. Oh,
such as the big Harvest jubilee in charity circus tomorrow
full page.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh, they'll have a big crowd.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I suppose we'd better go.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, you don't care for those things, dear. Besides, you
made probably the biggest contribution of anyone in town.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No, i'd sort of like to go.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Why do you want to see the exhibits? No, I've
heard the midway is going to be read lively.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
No, it's not that well.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Why in the world do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know, honey, I never did get to taste those peanuts.
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Remember the old saw about the fellow who went into
the auction sale to get out of the rain and
sneezed and found he bought a set of dishes. Well,
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I doubt if that ever really happened, But Jim Anderson
had an experience this afternoon at an auction sale. He
got the bargain to end all bargains. Margaret hasn't heard
about it yet. She's at home in the kitchen of
the white frame house on Maple Street, baking a cake
like this.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Dear, I hope that recipe isn't the same one that everly,
I'm all, bud, don't slam the door.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I have a cake in the oven. Oh, and don't
stand through the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'll go around to the front door.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That would be much safer, thank you. That's okay, byde, byde,
don't slam. Oh no, what's all the racket out here?
That was your ba. They're tiptoeing out the back door.
I'm afraid to look at the cake. Well, wonder of wonders,
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is it flat? No, it weathered the storm. But I
wanted to ask you, mother.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Jamie Liggett and I and some of the other girls
got the most perfect idea at school today.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Listen and see what you think of it. Go right ahead,
I have to make this frosting.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
We decided that we're all simply too utterly unaware, oh,
unaware of what books mother, the great books, the classics.
We've decided that we're going to organize a reading club.
We're going to elevate our minds to higher planes of though.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Who's gonna go where?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Nobody's going any place, dopey. I'm talking to mother. So
we thought a perfect place for the club meetings would
be our playroom downstairs. We almost never use it. Could
we have it for our club meetings?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, far as I'm concerned, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, that's good because I invited the girls for the
first meeting tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Jan back. Now, I don't want to drop this cake.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I'm reading home.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm in the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Deer.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh, hi, kids come, father dead, Hello, honey, Hello, dear,
careful of this cake? Pan, it's sizzling hot.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Mm. Good that for dinner.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, this is my contribution to the Harvest Jubilee. Oh,
you know, the big charity circus out of the fairgrounds.
It's for the Children's Home. I have to hurry. I
told missus Michaels the cake would be ready by six.
Her husband's going to stop by for it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Sounds like a worthy cause.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Oh, by the way, there hasn't been anything delivered this afternoon,
has there No?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Why were you expecting something?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Father?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You buy something, Dad, Hi, daddy, what.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Did you get? I'll wait, I didn't say, did you
get a new suit? No?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
What is it? Father?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, if it hasn't been delivered yet, I'm not going
to tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'll bet it's a new car. No, a new chair
for the living room.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
No, nothing like that. You'd never guess in a million years.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Where'd you buy it?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well, they were.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Having an auction sale over at the commercial warehouse, and
I stopped in just.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
For the fun of it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
What in the world could you get at a warehouse auction?
Is it a baby sister?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You don't buy baby sisters?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Not go ahead, Marion Wilbur says they're still paying for
her baby sister and she's three years old.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh tell us, father, ooka, it's nothing to get excited about.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I just got a very unusual bargain, that's all.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well what is it?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Oh, it isn't exactly an it, it's more of a them.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, for goodness sake, I'll never get this cake frosted. Mother,
Make him tell us. I can't make him tell Hey.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
There's a truck backing the driveway. Well, here they are.
I guarantee this is going to be the world's biggest surprise.
Let's go out and see. I'll stay here. The man
will bring him in. I can't stand the suspense.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I simply can't stand this. There's the many man.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't push. I'll have to sign for it. Hello there,
mister Anderson. That's right, delivery from the commercial warehouse. Sign
right here? Please? Oh right there you are, Thank you.
I brought one bag in. Where should we put the others? Oh?
You can just stack them in the back porch. Here
in this back porch. Sure, just stack them up, all right,
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if you say so.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Jim, What in the world is in that bill up bag?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I told you you'd never guess. Here. I'll drag it
in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I close the door, Bud, hurry, father opened the bag?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
All right? Brace yourselves for the big surprise.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh no, peanuts? Peanuts?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Is that what you bought? Dead peanuts? Oh? Boy, the
whole day.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Millions of them. Father, Is this some kind of a joke?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
No, I picked them up at the auction. I just
stopped in for a minute to see what was going
on in the auction.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
He said, what a my bid for these bags of
fine roasted peanuts?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Bags? You mean there are more of them.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Oh, probably a few more. Anyway, he didn't get any bids,
so he said, will anyone start the bidding?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Who'll give five dollars for this five hundred pounds?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Five hundred pounds? You got five hundred pounds of peanuts.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I hadn't intend to bid on anything, but five dollars
for five hundred pounds of peanuts. It's a fantastic bargain.
I had no idea i'd get them. It was too
good to be true. Anyway, I said, I'll bid five dollars.
Next thing I knew he was saying, sold in the
man in the blue suit for five dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'm having a little trouble believing it myself.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Peanuts.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I thought maybe it was a set of antique silver
or something. When can we start eating him?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Daddy, help yourself. There's plenty.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I don't think I want any Wait till I tell
Joe we got five hundred pounds of peanuts.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
He won't believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
But don't go telling it around the neighborhood. We'll have
all all the kids in town over here.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
But dear, have you any idea of I mean how
much does this one bag weigh?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh, probably twenty five pounds. But think of it, honey,
At five dollars for five hundred pounds, that's only a
cent a pound. Do you know what you pay for
peanuts when you buy them in the store, Yeah, about
thirty five or forty cents a pound. I got two
hundred dollars worth of peanuts for five dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But the ones in the store are shells.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Dear, Yeah, that's right, but it's still a terrific bargain.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Peanuts. What a letdown.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I'm going upstairs and make plans for our reading club dead.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
If this s bag is twenty five pounds, there must
be some others.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Huh, yeah, this, there'd be a few more.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's the delivery man again, Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, sir, did you great seizure? We've got a porch bowl.
You told me to stack them out here, MI standers,
and I wondered at the time, I didn't realize there
were so many.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh, for heaven's sake, where's my washing machine?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Can't see it, man, but it's under there.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Say look, we got penuts clear up to the ceiling.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Twenty five pounds to a bag, four bags to one
hundred and you got five hundred pounds. Mister Anderson, that's
twenty bags, and those bags aren't little. Yes, I can
see that. It's none of my business, mister Anderson, But
if you don't mind my asking, what are you gonna
do with them? Eh?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, there are unlimited uses for peanuts, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes, send you well, dear, what do you mean? Sure,
it seems like a lot of penis just looking at
them and the bags there.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
But you'll have to admit it, Margaret, that that's the
greatest bargain you ever heard.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Of, a penny a pound, think of it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
What are we gonna do with him?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Daddy?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Why, there's no end of what you can do with them.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
We can shell some of them, put them in jars,
we can grind them up, make our own peanut butter.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
When do we do all this?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It's in our spare time, long winter evenings. Think of
the fun the whole family sitting around the fire.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, I have to finish this cake. Mister Michael will
be here in a little while.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Simply a case of knowing a bargain when you see one.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Dear, Yes, honey, can I help you?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Mommy? You'll have to admit it was a bargain. Margaret, Yeah,
dear Bud, I think it was a bargain. Dead well,
of course it was.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I don't care if it's peanuts or real estate or
what it bargain's or.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Bargain, Sure it is. You know what you were doing, Dad,
Thank you, son. What are you gonna do with them? Well,
we can't leave them there on the back porch. I'll
tell you what we'll do, Bud. I'll give you a
quarter if you'll move them down into the playroom, the
whole five hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Well, you can take them one bag at a time.
The playroom's a good place for them.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Okay, down to the playroom, Margaret, I'm crosting the cake deer.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's a funny thing, the way a person just stumbles into.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
An opportunity like that, Like what, dear, the auction down.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
At the warehouse. You can't imagine that, out of all
those people down there, I would be the only one
to realize what those peanuts were really worth.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I can imagine it. Hand me the spoon for the frosting.
Cathy this right, don't lock.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
It a two hundred dollars value for five dollars How
could anybody in his right mind pass it up?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I just don't know what what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Let go? Dad told me.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
To better brace yourself. Dear, sounds like you're in for
a storm.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Father.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You're not putting those peanuts in the playroom, certainly, Why not, Princess?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Why not? My club is meeting there tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, that's all right. The bags of peanuts won't be
in your way. Just push them over against the wall.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Father, this is my reading club.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
We're taking up the classics, the treasures of literature, and
I'm the president.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, I don't see what did.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You see us reading Milton's Paradise Lost surrounded by peanuts?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well throw a cover or something over there.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I'll be the laughing stock of the whole school, a
peanut queen of Springfield.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Now, Princess, you're getting all upset about nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
How can you do this to your own daughter.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I didn't know you were going to use the playroom,
I told mother, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Mother?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Well, I didn't know the peanuts were going into the
playroom if you'd ask me about it, Dear.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Here we are.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Trying to absorb a little culture to rise above our surroundings.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
There's nothing wrong with these surroundings.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Might as well try to read the classics and.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
A chicken coop Betty, just because of it? What is it?
But I didn't get all the peanuts into the playroom.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Well, thank goodness, one of the bags broke, Jim, Jim,
I smell something burning.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Some of the peanuts went down the furnace fence. Oh no,
you'll have.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
To get them out of there, Dear, it'll be all
over the house.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It isn't bad enough father, that you turn the house
into a peanut gallery.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Now we have smug.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What are you gonna do? Dad?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
You know bud By the oddest coincidence. I'm asking myself
the same question.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, we've heard about folks having an embarrassment of riches.
Looks as if father has an embarrassment of peanuts right now, though,
suppose we leave Father with his problem and help mother
solve one of hers.
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Speaker 3 (14:00):
Well, it probably seemed like a wonderful idea of Jim
when he was able, by the greatest good fortune to
pick up five hundred pounds of peanuts at auction for
just five dollars. But for some mysterious reason, the other
members of the Anderson family are not sharing Gym's enthusiasm
over the remarkable purchase. In fact, perfectly frank about it,
the darned peanuts are just about upset the entire household.
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Jim is retired to the den to ponder the problem,
like this, I swear if I ever buy anything.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Again, what were you saying, dear, Oh, nothing, I.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Was just thinking, from now on, I'm not going to
buy so much as a dozen eggs without getting a
signed affidavit from everyone.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
In the house.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Don't let it upset you, dear. I'm sure it will
all work out, all right.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Oh, it's going to work out.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I'm going to get rid of every last one of
those peanuts. How dear, How Margaret, you and the children
don't seem to realize that they're valuable.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
People buy them, Yes, I know, I mean other people.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They're a fine food. They're rich in protein, practically the
same as meat. Everybody likes peanuts. Everybody will buy them.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Who for instance, well everybody Button Kathy can put them
into little bags, sell them around. Can you get so
many five cent bags of peanuts we have down there
in the playroom?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Nine million?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Not quite that many. There are several thousand. Button Kathy
can earn all their Christmas money and put some in
the bank. Besides, all out of that five.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Dollars sounds fine, dear. I have to start dinner. I'm
putting the cake for mister Michael's on the hall table.
Will you give it to him when he comes?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yeah, I'll give it to him. Father. Yes, princess, you
can have the playroom.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, I won't take my club down there.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
If those ridiculous don't worry they're going.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
But the time you and your reading club get in
there tomorrow night, there won't be a single solitary goober
on the premises.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well, I'm glad you finally came to your senses.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
What do you having?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
The spray gut florashill with those peanuts down the furnace vent,
the house smells like an old insiderator.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I thought it was rather pleasant. But Kathy, what do
you want there?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
You call me daddy?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
What is it? Then?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I have a wonderful idea how you and Kathy can
earn a lot of money. You take the peanuts and
put them up in paper bags and sell them around
the neighborhood for five cents a bay. You can easily
make one hundred dollars clear profit.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She I don't know, Daddy, We.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Couldn't sell them all before tomorrow night. Anyway. Well, I
thought if we'd make the deal, you could move them
into the garage. Just temporarily move all those sacks again.
We'll think of the money you can make. You'll be rich. No,
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I'd feel silly going around selling peanuts.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
What's silly about it? I don't know peanuts. Everybody'd laugh.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What do you care.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's a legitimate business. No, i'd feel silly.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Thanks anyway, Dad, Yeah, thanks anyway, Dad. Wait, kids, listen,
it sounds like you're having a little difficulty. Dear.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
I don't know what's gotten into kids. Afraid somebody will
laugh at them.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Father, Yes, Princess, I'll get rid of the pea nuts.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Has mister Michaels come by for the cake?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
No? Not yet. Well, there's one sure way to get
rid of them. People will take anything if it's free.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
I'll give the darn things away Christmas presents.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, I'll just call some of my friends and tell
them to come and get them. After all, that's not
a bad gift. Twenty five pounds of peanuts. I'll call
that Davis next door. You'll be tickled to death. Loves
to get something for nothing.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
See that the children don't get into this case.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I will hello ed, this is Jim. Are you busy? Well,
come on over.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I have a little surprise here for you. No, you
can see when you get here, right, you're Mike Man,
that'll be twenty five pounds gone.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Bud. Yes, go down in the playroom and bring up
one of those bags of peanuts. Will you what for?
I'll tell you when you bring it up. I know,
I know. Oh, hello, Ed, come on here. What's up, Jim? Oh,
just a little surprise something we thought you and your
wife might like. Oh what is it? Check for one
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thousand dollars. No, no, this is a real surprise, Bud.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Okay, it's really kind of a crazy sort of it.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Gif Hey talk about crazy things that fell down the
street works over at the commercial warehouse. He was telling
me a few minutes ago about some of the goofy
things people buy at those auctions. You all believe this, Jim.
But he said today that some poor sap bought five
hundred pounds of peanuts. Can you imagine dealer either, just
(18:50):
some lame brain money burning holes in his pockets. Now,
what would an ordinary guy do with five hundred pounds
of peanuts? Uh? I couldn't imagine. Okay, Dad, I'll go
down in the playroom. No, no, never mind, Bud, But
you said you wanted me to get run along. Son.
(19:10):
It's all right. I'll take care of the playroom. I'll
clean it up. You run along, okay, but that's fine.
Thanks anyway, son, we'll do some weird things. Come to
think of it, I believe it was eight hundred pounds
of peanuts the guy bought. No, I was five. Well,
you can't imagine anyone buying more than that. Well, I
(19:32):
have to get back to him. What's a big surprise?
A surprise? Oh the pride? Well, Jim, this is too much.
What is the cake? How did you know this is
Martha's birth? Well? The cake? Is that to go about
a surprise? Wait till Martha sees this? Yeah? Well, Ed,
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you know you and Margaret are just about the best
neighbors and the best friends we've ever had. Well, thanks, Ed,
but you tell Margaret that we think she's just great,
just great. I got a run Thanks again, Jim, Bye bye.
(20:14):
What happened then?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Something awful. I'll never be able to explain this to
your mother. Never, where's the cake go? That's what I
can never explain to your mother.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I heard you talking to someone, dear. Oh, mister Michaels
came by for the cake.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Well i'll see you that. Well, come back, but I
don't leave me.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Maybe I should have contributed more than the cake, but
they'll sell it for at least a dollar and a half.
And I've done a lot of other work for the jubilee. Dear,
you don't look well.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm not. I'm sick.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, that wasn't Michaels who was here. It was Ed Davis.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Where's my cake?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Honey? Ed took it? Eh, don't ask me to explain.
It's just one of those things.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But you were going to give him the Margaret.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Don't use the word please.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I saw the cake on the table thought that was
why I asked him overs Martha's birthday.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
I was trapped, believe me.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
But what will I tell mister Michaels father?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
What are you getting those peanuts out of the play road?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
I will give me time.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
If I hadn't told missus Michaels that I would bake it, well, Honey,
I'll buy another cake. There isn't time, dear, Oh jam Fiddlesticks.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yes, Bud, I've been thinking about your idea of selling
the peanuts. Maybe I could do it. Oh Bud, I'd
give up that idea if I were you.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But I've got a swell idea if people laugh at me,
I can just tell him I'm helping my father. No, Bud, Well,
would it be any better if I said, my poor old.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Father, Jim.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Here comes mister Michaels up the walk. We'll just have to.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Tell I'll explain to him somehow, Margaret, you go in
the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
What should I do? Dad? Father? Yes, I'm taking care
of it. But here's a dollar.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Get those peanuts out of the playroom.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What'll I do with them? I don't care what you do.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
With the front door? Father, there's Michaels deal all right?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
All right, I could call the zoom make a deal
with the elephants. Maybe. Yeah, that's good elephants, Jim father,
all right, all right, well mister Michaels, Is that right, sir?
I'm sorry I've kept you waiting. I'm Jim Anderson. Well
(22:48):
it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. Thank you. Uh
come in, won't you? Thank you? He is?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Well, these are busy days, aren't they, mister Anderson?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yes, they certainly are busy days. Yes.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Indeed, I was supposed to pick up something for missus Michael's.
I've completely forgotten what it was. Isn't that annoying, she
told me only five minutes ago. Does your mind ever
(23:26):
do strange things?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
My family often thinks.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
It it was something in connection with the charity circus.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Well, don't worry about it.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Why don't we just let it go until it was
something your wife was contributing, something we were going to
sell at the circus.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Well, I'm sure missus Anderson would know. Oh I doubt it. Really,
these are busy days, you know. Maybe if you went home,
was it a cake? Well, to tell you the truth, well,
you'll just have to forgive me. Really, I'm going in circles.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
My wife is the chairman of the way it means,
committee for this circus.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I've been running my legs off, rounding up things to sell, candy,
soft drinks, peanuts. I am losing my mind over peanuts.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Not you too, Do you know there isn't a peanut
to be had in this town?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
What was that again?
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Some unscrupulous speculator bought up the last five hundred pounds
in the warehouse.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
No, whoever he is, he has a corner on the
peanut market. You don't say.
Speaker 7 (24:32):
And what really makes me sick is that the rascal
bought the whole five hundred pounds of auction for just
five dollars. If I could have had even one hundred
pounds in the door, will your dance?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
This sack is heavy?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
All in a minute, bud eh, mister Michaels, open a
corner of this bag.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Peanuts? Do you want to buy some? How many? You have?
Five hundred pounds misterns? It was you.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, I'm not exactly a peanut speculator, but I knew
it was a bargain.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Are you interested? Interested? Oh? Thank my lucky stars. Watch
your price? How much for the lot? No charge? Just
say this is missus Anderson's contribution to the charity circuit.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Oh bless you, so bless you forgive me those awful
things I said. I should bite off my tongue. You
are the salt of the earth, the very salt of
this good.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Where are you going?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
I'm going to get a truck to hollowse peanuts.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Oh bless you, Oh, don't change your mind. I'll be
right now. Holy Carl, he must have snapped his cap.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I couldn't help hearing the conversation.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Dear, you probably didn't know you were married to an
unscrupulous speculator.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
He was practically gibbering with joy. Congratulations, dear, the peanuts
were a wonderful bargain.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Well, thank you. I've been trying to tell you that
ever since I came home. You're pretty sharp man. Fother,
but run upstairs and tell your sister.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
If she has anything to say, she may come downstairs
and addressed me in a respectful tone of voice.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Hello, Jerry Marshall.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Well, it's a good thing Jim Anderson got rid of
those peanuts, isn't it. It sure looked as though they
were going to cause them some sleepless nights. Of course,
a lot of us suffer from sleepless nights too, but
we can't usually blame it on too many peanuts.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
No.
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Speaker 3 (27:21):
We'll have to be a little quiet right now, you see.
The Petty Anderson Literary Society is in session in the
downstairs playroom without peanuts. Up in the living room, Margaret
is doing some mending while Jim reads the paper.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
What are you reading, dear?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
No, there's some very interesting ads in the paper tonight. Oh,
such as the big Harvest jubilee in charity circus tomorrow
full page.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh, they'll have a big crowd.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
I suppose we'd better go.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, you don't care for those things, dear. Besides, you
made probably the biggest contribution of anyone in town.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No, i'd sort of like to go.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Why do you want to see the exhibits? No, I've
heard the midway is going to be read lively.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
No, it's not that well.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Why in the world do you want to go?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
You know, honey, I never did get to taste those peanuts.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Jard Us again next week, when we'll be back where
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