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star, Allan Soulay. Thank you, George Jone and on behalf of Rave
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At least that's what Steve Dalton thoughtuntil he began managing Lefty Magruder, a
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the manager of a Bush League baseballteam. The team is leaving town and
he has come to pick up hisstar pitcher, Lefty McGruder. So he
knocks on the door and Paul LaftyBlacky, let me in, and Lefty
answers thirty forty fifteen, every Kidbra, Lefty, do you hear me?
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Sixty seventeen eighteen, every kid loft, Lefty. We've got to meet that
new owner down the lobby nineteen twentytwenty Loty was your evrakdbra, Steve.
You shouldn't want to interrupt the guywhen he's doing something important. Yeah,
you're sitting here mumbling is important.I wasn't mumblin. I was counting to
twenty one with an abracadabra. Weneed every three numbers you gotta do And
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I wait. I know they havefunny house rules on this hotel, but
don't tell me they it ain't hostrules. But when you start to leave
a place, they forget something andhave to combab all. Sure, sure
that's bad luck. Yeah, wellyou see, I got a spurs the
elevated then falling out. I pumpforgot hercules between those fool superstitions of yours
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and that mouse you pack around forno sensible reason. Boy, got a
reason. Hercules is my mess cut. Look, Lefty, I'm a patient
man. I try to be agood manager for the team. But if
you don't, hercules and me iscoming. He waits, Steve Shay.
Bread and butter, Lefty, Iwarn you, breadon butter quickly, okay,
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bred, but bread and butter fullonce you see you went on the
road side of the table. Ohthose screwball superstitions. That's what's driving us
down in the cellar took her lastnight's game, You coming in with a
run that might have beaten them,and then stopping dead in your fact.
Yes, Steve, but ahead todo it and reciting starlight, starbright,
first star I've seen tonight. Well, I was wishing for a whole run.
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Then we to beam go. Igave up. The things are gonna
change, Lefty, wait, willwe meet the new owner? It would
have happened to old Spike, wU s told us. If you read
something in the papers besides your ownwrite ups, you know what happened.
Spike died, probably worried himself todeath over guys like you, budd.
He left the team to a cousinof his. And if you don't mind,
Lefty, that cousin is waiting tomeet us, well, wonder what
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he looks like. He shouldn't orderto meet him now, Steve. But
dream book says they ain't working dayfor meeting anybody. Your dream book will
be right too. If you mentionedany of those superstitions in front of this
guy, and I remember he's theold Spike's cousin. Bet you he'll get
mad if I even ask him toturn his code inside out when we're one
run behind. But Steve, howis he gonna recognize this? You recoon?
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If I put Bertie Lee's up onmy shoulder like this, should you
put that bounce away before we gotthrown out of here? I won't have
to recognize this. I'll have himpaged. Oh boy, yes, well
you see if i'm mister Huggins,is in the lobby, please, Emmy
Huggins. Yes, oh, mister, do you see him Steve? Oh
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boy? Oh come on, letme pardon me. Miss. If you're
mister Huggins secretary, will you tellhim Steve Dalton is here? Steve?
Oh, yes, the manager ofmy team. That's right. What did
you say? I thought the samething. Steve sounded just like she said,
we're a team, didn't this?That's what I did say. You
see, I'm Emmy Huggins. Me Well, Emmy lou is my full
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name, but I always use Emmybecause that makes it your numerology at number
seven and you can't get a luckiercombination. Yeah, but you're a girl.
Yes, yes, I don't thinkthere's ever been any doubt about that.
But we was expecting a guy.Look, even Hercules can't believe his
own eyes. He's the curiousest littleguy. Did put him away? Miss
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Huggins, You might as well knowthe worst to start with this is Lefty
Magruder. Oh yes, our starpitcher. Wonderful. Oh, even if
I am, you should not havesaid it right out. Look, miss
Huggins. Now the surprise is over. I begin to realize what a lot
of unexpected grief you're in for.Oh you mean because we've been losing a
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few games. Well maybe with alittle womanly intuition we'll start winning. Winning
games is only part of it withour team, thanks to left you've also
got to worry about seeing bearded manand a straw hat, or putting on
the wrong shoe first, or spillingthe saw. Oh silly, did you
hear that? Left it? Shemight be a girl, but she's a
real Huggins, she says, howsilly? Well it is because when you
still sow dog has to throw alittle lep over your shoulders. Children well,
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of course, and then, ofcourse, of all, the bearded
man in the straw hat, ifhe's going away from you, it's good
love. No, oh no,you're kidding. Oh, you have to
be kidding. This couldn't happen tome. And if you put it on
the wrong shoe first look, whenyou come to the wish they let me
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make it. I will spike Hugginsand never had a cousin. Let's not
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hit them. Yeah, I'll haveto admit it. Lefty's as good as
he says he is. That makeseight games in a role. What did
I tell you? Aren't you gladyou finally agreed with us how to win
games? Now? Wait at theteam's really clicking? Sure, but it
isn't because of those crazy superstitions.Oh no, then why did you arrange
for that wagonload of barrels to bedriven by the park this morning just as
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the team arrived for practice. Thatwas for psychological effects. If Lefty wants
to believe it helps him to seea wagon load of barrels there drawn by
white horse. Oh yes, yes, of course Lefty wants to believe that
sort of thing helps him. Well, he pitched a wonderful game today thanks
to that wagon and it was Itwas awfully nice to you, Stephen too,
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especially when you don't really believe inthat, Well, do you appreciate
it enough to have nerve with someonewho does believe he's got an off the
cute boss of course, Stephen,And then it'd be nice to go somewhere.
Well, let me ove your oldlefty boy came through again. Not
only then, I'm even gonna takeit at dinner. Oh is cute,
Seeve, Yes, Look, wereally do congratulate your on the game.
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It was swell. But now aboutthat dinner day. Oh that's all right.
Let my fans do without me forone evening or they should be working
around too. When a cun ofthis picture in the paper, Steven me
have a page. Yeah, youcan even see my famous McGruder wart right
there on the first finger. Ohyou know I never noticed that before?
Did you always have it? What'spactically your trademark, isn't it? Lefty?
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My whole families, You mean,every one of us nine kids had
that. It's the only way Monkwould tell us from the neighbor kids at
meal time. Yeah, if youhad to show your ward for you'd look
at sit down. Okay, leftit. But now about that dinner,
Well, all right, you talkme into it. I'll let you take
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me to dinner. But I getto bring every little wall. Oh,
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Natty, I could listen to thosestories of yours for hours, couldn't you,
Steve? Yes, we certainly havelefty. Look now, how about
you shuffling off your frontle bit.It's after ten and during playing season the
rules of Steve that baby stoop justfor the regular peers. Oh but Natty,
Steve means, well, you see, we sort of plan to take
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a rock somewhere. It's so niceout tonight. Well, what are we
waiting for? The only ball playingbarnacle in the world. Oh thanks,
Steve? Hey finished them with mean emy? Oh no, well,
but I know where we can getfully four wards dozens of them? Really,
Steve, isn't a wonderful and witha new moon to wish on?
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Oh quick? Where the ballpark acrosstown? Where's that other team place?
You mean Sam Gordon's ballpark? Eh? Are you crazy? Probably we stay
away from that chisne me because ofall those things he's doing to take the
team away from him. Yeah,now that we're winning, we figured he'd
have the game sewed up in thistown. And he doesn't care how he
does. It's all the more reasonwe need them. Four leaf forvers.
You don't use your head about thesethings, Steve. Yeah, Oh,
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Jackie's right, Steve, it's theonly sensible thing to do while with four
leaf povers and a new moon towish. I don't care if there's a
new sky. Nobody's going to catchme crawling around on my knees in Sam
Gordon's Outfield's grasps its damp. Itgoes right through the knees of these trousers.
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What's wearing me? I'm not findinga single four leaf clover. Oh,
there's millions of them here. Aguy told me it's just the moon
ain't light enough for us to seethem. Yes, but what do you
suggest asking Sam Gordon to cancel histeam's game tomorrow so we can hunt them
while the sunshiny? Oh? Idon't think the guy do it? Say?
What's shame they use front lights whenthey play night games here? Maybe?
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Ah, look, we're not turningon any lights. No, he's
right that we couldn't risk it,of course, not not for more than
two or three minutes of the mostListen you to please you realize what those
blood lights on. Yeah, wecould see planners down that we can well.
Thank goodness, one of you smartbecause we don't know where the switch
is. And I'll hold it probably, I'll wait a minute. Dear old
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lefty, you'll give it a tour. Top of you. If that isn't
the life, he ain't going.It's a strikler, quick, quick,
turn it off. You're flooding thefield. Who came off? A kid?
Get fish? Alarm quick me,Come on, we're getting out of
here, God help us. Takeanother look. That's the police. Yeah
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see, I just stock. Iwant three on a patrol wagon. That's
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Dalton manages a bush League baseball teamwhich has hit a losing streak and dropped
five games in a row. Hisstar pitcher, Lefty Magruder, blames it
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all on bad luck and the factthat Steve refuses to be superstitious. Then
the team's new owner arrives, prettyMiss Emmy Huggins, and Emmy is just
as superstitious as Lefty. Steve givesin to their ideas, and the team
wins eight games in a row atthe same time that Emmy wins Steam's hard.
For more good luck, Lefty takesthem to a rival ballpark at midnight
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to pick four leaf clovers, andinstead of switching on the lights, they
turn on the sprinkling system by amistake. Before they can save bread and
butter, they find themselves in thelocal jail and as our second act opens,
it's a short time later a jailerslides their cell door open, it
playing shut behind them, and theyare free to walk right into trouble again.
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One thing I had to sail witha lucky number. Yeah, but
gosh, what if will Hurtles hadbeen with me? Imagine a mouse Willard
chain record. They wouldn't have beenin jail if you hadn't thought up that
bright idea of breaking into Sam Gordon'sballpark. We didn't break in, Steve.
We just wanted to go there toget some four leaves clothes. Yeah.
Yeah, then they couldn't get thesprinklers turned off for an hour last
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night, but out of the field, and they had to cancel today's game.
And Gordon filed a claim against usfor seven thousand dollars. He's just
being ridiculous. He knows I haven'tgot seven thousand dollars. We could afford
it after we win the series.Right way, we won't win the series.
Hey, twice your fingers, willyou talk like that? Fly with
me? Fetch it for Emmy Lu'steam. We might not be Emmy Lou's
team. Remember, we've got onlyten days to pay off that seven thousand
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dollars. What if she changed upthe door in that case? Left to
you will probably win the series,all right, but the team will belong
to mister Sam Gordon. But Steve'sseven thousand dollars is nothing compared to what
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we'd have if we've won the series. Sure, sure Gordon knows that he
takes the team over. Now,the series money I'll go to him.
I guess there's no use kidding oursounds. I'll wash out. I rent
all the way. Look telegram,Maybe Gordon changed his mind. I'll answer
that. It's probably more bad newsm arriving tomorrow. I want to catch
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Magruder in action. Holy smoke,this telegram. It's sign Johnny Griffith.
Johnny Griffith. Yeah, I meanfrom the big league, the one that
looks for new players. Sure,EGI Griffith, the smartest scout in baseball.
What does that mean to him?It could mean everything. He's coming
here to check on Lefty, andif he likes him, he'll pay you
enough for his contract to take careof that damnage suit a dozen times over.
Oh would we need Natty for theseries. Oh, don't worry.
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Good as I am. He'll agreeto anything you can make him. Let
me stay here till after the showery, Lefty for once? You're right?
Man? No man? What abreak? One? Two? What are
you doing well? When he hassome unexpect you said luck? You're supposed
to crawl around three times and stampyour foot. You'll do me, won't
you? Lefty? Lefty? Whatdo you mean, Lefty? The three
of us are doing lest say.I shouldn't even let you come downtown to
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later tomorrow's game. You sure yourpitching arms? Okay? Oh, don't
worry, Steve, I already tookcare of tomorrow's luck. Look I found
three pins on the sidewalks. Ohfine, fine, Well I've got to
get back and line things up fortomorrow. Don't take any wooden, poor
leaf cor Oh good bye, Steve, Oh leftie, aren't things working out
wonderful? Yep? Oh, Letchino. My mother told me to take this
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all window shopping. Huh yep,we and Hercules is gonna pick out a
new tie. Well, let mesee how about that that went red room
right there? No, no,red always gets Hurcules kind of fidgety.
See you won't even look at it. He's a shy, little guy.
Yes, well, maybe you betterput him back in your pocket. He
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might catch cold. Oh not hurtteeth, strongest white, most you ever
small, He is all white.That hair on the top of his head
is sort of orange. Oh dad, uh, that's just the iron in
his system. Sure we took ashower. He got a little rusty.
Oh yeah, you ought to seehow strong he is. You see I
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teary him in the same pocket withMarie's silver dollar. He pushes that thing
all around him there for exercise.I was speaking of exercise. Why aren't
you practicing? Oh, Steve gaveme the more than off so I could
get slipped up with the MC data. Mara. Look, even got a
manicure where, well you really arein the big league? Yep? Reckon
on the world's number one song forthat's why I'm kind of worried about something.
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What that oils and some of apublic figure. I gotta be hid
fast and that manicuring Gal says thatthis water ain't so hot. Oh the
famous Magruder wards. Yep. Shesays they ain't wearing them this season.
Oh well, it might be unluckyto have it cut off. Yeah,
maybe if you got it off anotherway. It wouldn't be a jiek You
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mean that the one that goes shompworld water short, shout water. Of
course you had to do it one. There's a poor moon this one to
night. You have to find somestuff off, you know, on the
top of an oe stump and maybethose woods on the edge of town.
I'll do it, boy, thistexture and everything, Steve, let's sit
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this one. We did three ina row. Don't tell me as a
jinx against four. No, Jimmy, are you superstitious about falling in love
to only on the second Tuesday ineach week? Why? Well would you
think it was bad luck to fallin love with a red haired guy about
twenty eight years old with a socialsecurity number that greens two three, five
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days, four nine eight three one? Would you, Steve? I already
had you know this? Well?I wasn't sure. Every time he tried
to talk left he comes bargie,say, how come, old superman,
who's left us alone tonight? Ohhe's busy, he's I'm getting that wart
taken off. Well, I'm gladhe found something wart getting that war taken
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off. Yes, he wants tobe stylish now that he's in the big
time. Oh, emmy, doyou know why he's in the big time.
Of course he's pitching a famous screwballcurve of you, yest, And
it's that wart on the first fingerof his pitching hand that makes that curve.
It gives the ball to find alittle twist. Come on, we
gotta stop him. It's a littlefarther out on this tree. This leads
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to the highway. There aren't anydoctors or hospitals out here. Oh,
I didn't mean left you went toa doctor because that might be bad knocks.
He's going to cure the ward withstump waster. What you know,
You find water on the top ofthe stumps, then you put your hand
in and say stump good night.For a minute, I thought we were
really washed up. We're good.Oh we're still going to get the war
taken off. No sure, surewith stump water. Oh, let's try
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a long about here. Yeah,okay, it's serving right if I left
him out here all night, Buthe's got to get the bed. Nothing
can happen before that gained the block. Now, then if we can find
sir Screwball or did he did hehave an appointment with any particular stuck.
No, no, any stump thathas water and it'll do the word.
Of course, there has to bea full moon. The moon was out
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instead of behind those clouds pitch blackin these woods. You left me,
Oh me, if mother could seeme now searching through the woods in the
middle of the night, looking fora left handed pitcher with his hand and
then a stump. Lessy, lessie, where are you water? It sounds
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like a boys. Come on,stop water, stup water? Who's in
there? Speak? Upper should haveknown, lefty BLI I had a picture
of you. Now. You shouldn'twant to laugh. I'm tired and cold,
been standing here and all with myhand in his water. I bet
I said that pull nine thousand times. Well maybe it's the pixis night off.
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Come on, left you You're goingback to town and go to bed.
You've got to be in shape.Everything depends on tomorrow's game. Yeah,
but don't worry about old lefty boys. Here. I'll help you a
mis shaming a little boy. Ohoh my arm. I guess holding in
that cold water for so long,I can't raise it up. Oh,
poor less you don't worry. We'llput hot pads on it. In a
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few days, it'll be as goodas all. You took that groan right
out my mouth. That's his pitchingarm. Now we are ruin. I
don't know why we even came downto the ball mark baseball. Scott'll turn
Lefty down cold, and that meansGordon gets the team. You won't be
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manager. And oh, Steve,why I don't blame you for hating me?
Look any lool, maybe this isn'tjust the time, but surely you
know darling, I don't hate you. Why hey didn't you betch come out
and watch me warm up? Yes? Okay, left you were coming.
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You might as well stick it outfor a little while. We've got left
jarn Lessy did any better? Ohmaybe a little, But I ain't gonna
be up to my usual magnificent shelf. You can say that and then louder.
No, it's no use emmy,all right, just as well go
tell Gordon you can take over.Fall up over there. Oh it's a
ball from the infield. Oh,chuck it back at him. Wait a
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minute, left him throw that farof a sore arm? Oh yeah,
I forgot o kayo throw it myarm. Everybody else there here aren't come
clear out the center field and rightin it alone. Yeah, nice throw
lefty, Hey, blessing, lettythat ball you through. Don't worry.
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I didn't use my left arm.You told me not good? Yeah,
but you left em huh your rightarm boom the way you threw that fluddy
nothing? What don home I usedto chuck bullish furn left? What did
you throw me for right arm?More to whop us young ones? If
she called us thrown with her left, well, but we thought lefty.
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You never told us. I didn'twant you to find out if when I
start throwing right ahead, people,I'll stop pulling me lifting. What difficult
that name? What difference? Alot of difference. How do you think
it's gonna sound all of them yellow? That's the old chucking in her has
a koyer. But you can throwright handed and better. Oh I can't
believe it. I'll show you seethat little bitty old windoway up there.
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Oh he means that boot clear acrossthe field on top of the grand seat.
Just stand back and watch it.Gos he did that. He did
it in the curve on him thatthey let they get out there on the
mountain. Play ball. Oh,that'll save it. You meet my right
arm. Oh that is the importantthing. What could be more important?
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But there's I just found a fourleave clover. Oh, Steve, it
was wonderful. They get should knowhit no run Gay, Come on,
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we'll meet him in the club.Oh boy, Waitt lefties sesus notes from
the baseball scout. Look. Hesays, the price you're asking for let
is robbery, but he's worth it. I have the check already. Oh,
darling, it's perfect. Everything inthe world is working on something.
After all the things I've done forhim, you should be celebrating. You're
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going into the big league. We'vesaved the team will win the series.
Sure, all that stuff's okay.Well, how do you think I feel
the little guy doing that for me? Oh? What they do? Well?
You don't let for y pugra fond. Well, my old little buddy
Hercules he ate it. Thank you, gentlemen, We're glad you enjoyed the
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night's play. Next week we'll beback with another delightful comedy. Most everyone
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the manager of a Bush League baseballteam. The team is leaving town and
he has come to pick up hisstar pitcher, Lefty McGruder. So he
knocks on the door and Paul LaftyBlacky, let me in, and Lefty
answers thirty forty fifteen, every Kidbra, Lefty, do you hear me?
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Sixty seventeen eighteen, every kid loft, Lefty. We've got to meet that
new owner down the lobby nineteen twentytwenty Loty was your evrakdbra, Steve.
You shouldn't want to interrupt the guywhen he's doing something important. Yeah,
you're sitting here mumbling is important.I wasn't mumblin. I was counting to
twenty one with an abracadabra. Weneed every three numbers you gotta do And
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I wait. I know they havefunny house rules on this hotel, but
don't tell me they it ain't hostrules. But when you start to leave
a place, they forget something andhave to combab all. Sure, sure
that's bad luck. Yeah, wellyou see, I got a spurs the
elevated then falling out. I pumpforgot hercules between those fool superstitions of yours
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and that mouse you pack around forno sensible reason. Boy, got a
reason. Hercules is my mess cut. Look, Lefty, I'm a patient
man. I try to be agood manager for the team. But if
you don't, hercules and me iscoming. He waits, Steve Shay.
Bread and butter, Lefty, Iwarn you, breadon butter quickly, okay,
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bred, but bread and butter fullonce you see you went on the
road side of the table. Ohthose screwball superstitions. That's what's driving us
down in the cellar took her lastnight's game, You coming in with a
run that might have beaten them,and then stopping dead in your fact.
Yes, Steve, but ahead todo it and reciting starlight, starbright,
first star I've seen tonight. Well, I was wishing for a whole run.
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Then we to beam go. Igave up. The things are gonna
change, Lefty, wait, willwe meet the new owner? It would
have happened to old Spike, wU s told us. If you read
something in the papers besides your ownwrite ups, you know what happened.
Spike died, probably worried himself todeath over guys like you, budd.
He left the team to a cousinof his. And if you don't mind,
Lefty, that cousin is waiting tomeet us, well, wonder what
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he looks like. He shouldn't orderto meet him now, Steve. But
dream book says they ain't working dayfor meeting anybody. Your dream book will
be right too. If you mentionedany of those superstitions in front of this
guy, and I remember he's theold Spike's cousin. Bet you he'll get
mad if I even ask him toturn his code inside out when we're one
run behind. But Steve, howis he gonna recognize this? You recoon?
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If I put Bertie Lee's up onmy shoulder like this, should you
put that bounce away before we gotthrown out of here? I won't have
to recognize this. I'll have himpaged. Oh boy, yes, well
you see if i'm mister Huggins,is in the lobby, please, Emmy
Huggins. Yes, oh, mister, do you see him Steve? Oh
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boy? Oh come on, letme pardon me. Miss. If you're
mister Huggins secretary, will you tellhim Steve Dalton is here? Steve?
Oh, yes, the manager ofmy team. That's right. What did
you say? I thought the samething. Steve sounded just like she said,
we're a team, didn't this?That's what I did say. You
see, I'm Emmy Huggins. Me Well, Emmy lou is my full
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name, but I always use Emmybecause that makes it your numerology at number
seven and you can't get a luckiercombination. Yeah, but you're a girl.
Yes, yes, I don't thinkthere's ever been any doubt about that.
But we was expecting a guy.Look, even Hercules can't believe his
own eyes. He's the curiousest littleguy. Did put him away? Miss
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Huggins, You might as well knowthe worst to start with this is Lefty
Magruder. Oh yes, our starpitcher. Wonderful. Oh, even if
I am, you should not havesaid it right out. Look, miss
Huggins. Now the surprise is over. I begin to realize what a lot
of unexpected grief you're in for.Oh you mean because we've been losing a
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few games. Well maybe with alittle womanly intuition we'll start winning. Winning
games is only part of it withour team, thanks to left you've also
got to worry about seeing bearded manand a straw hat, or putting on
the wrong shoe first, or spillingthe saw. Oh silly, did you
hear that? Left it? Shemight be a girl, but she's a
real Huggins, she says, howsilly? Well it is because when you
still sow dog has to throw alittle lep over your shoulders. Children well,
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of course, and then, ofcourse, of all, the bearded
man in the straw hat, ifhe's going away from you, it's good
love. No, oh no,you're kidding. Oh, you have to
be kidding. This couldn't happen tome. And if you put it on
the wrong shoe first look, whenyou come to the wish they let me
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make it. I will spike Hugginsand never had a cousin. Let's not
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hit them. Yeah, I'll haveto admit it. Lefty's as good as
he says he is. That makeseight games in a role. What did
I tell you? Aren't you gladyou finally agreed with us how to win
games? Now? Wait at theteam's really clicking? Sure, but it
isn't because of those crazy superstitions.Oh no, then why did you arrange
for that wagonload of barrels to bedriven by the park this morning just as
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the team arrived for practice. Thatwas for psychological effects. If Lefty wants
to believe it helps him to seea wagon load of barrels there drawn by
white horse. Oh yes, yes, of course Lefty wants to believe that
sort of thing helps him. Well, he pitched a wonderful game today thanks
to that wagon and it was Itwas awfully nice to you, Stephen too,
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especially when you don't really believe inthat, Well, do you appreciate
it enough to have nerve with someonewho does believe he's got an off the
cute boss of course, Stephen,And then it'd be nice to go somewhere.
Well, let me ove your oldlefty boy came through again. Not
only then, I'm even gonna takeit at dinner. Oh is cute,
Seeve, Yes, Look, wereally do congratulate your on the game.
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It was swell. But now aboutthat dinner day. Oh that's all right.
Let my fans do without me forone evening or they should be working
around too. When a cun ofthis picture in the paper, Steven me
have a page. Yeah, youcan even see my famous McGruder wart right
there on the first finger. Ohyou know I never noticed that before?
Did you always have it? What'spactically your trademark, isn't it? Lefty?
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My whole families, You mean,every one of us nine kids had
that. It's the only way Monkwould tell us from the neighbor kids at
meal time. Yeah, if youhad to show your ward for you'd look
at sit down. Okay, leftit. But now about that dinner,
Well, all right, you talkme into it. I'll let you take
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me to dinner. But I getto bring every little wall. Oh,
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Natty, I could listen to thosestories of yours for hours, couldn't you,
Steve? Yes, we certainly havelefty. Look now, how about
you shuffling off your frontle bit.It's after ten and during playing season the
rules of Steve that baby stoop justfor the regular peers. Oh but Natty,
Steve means, well, you see, we sort of plan to take
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a rock somewhere. It's so niceout tonight. Well, what are we
waiting for? The only ball playingbarnacle in the world. Oh thanks,
Steve? Hey finished them with mean emy? Oh no, well,
but I know where we can getfully four wards dozens of them? Really,
Steve, isn't a wonderful and witha new moon to wish on?
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Oh quick? Where the ballpark acrosstown? Where's that other team place?
You mean Sam Gordon's ballpark? Eh? Are you crazy? Probably we stay
away from that chisne me because ofall those things he's doing to take the
team away from him. Yeah,now that we're winning, we figured he'd
have the game sewed up in thistown. And he doesn't care how he
does. It's all the more reasonwe need them. Four leaf forvers.
You don't use your head about thesethings, Steve. Yeah, Oh,
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Jackie's right, Steve, it's theonly sensible thing to do while with four
leaf povers and a new moon towish. I don't care if there's a
new sky. Nobody's going to catchme crawling around on my knees in Sam
Gordon's Outfield's grasps its damp. Itgoes right through the knees of these trousers.
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What's wearing me? I'm not findinga single four leaf clover. Oh,
there's millions of them here. Aguy told me it's just the moon
ain't light enough for us to seethem. Yes, but what do you
suggest asking Sam Gordon to cancel histeam's game tomorrow so we can hunt them
while the sunshiny? Oh? Idon't think the guy do it? Say?
What's shame they use front lights whenthey play night games here? Maybe?
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Ah, look, we're not turningon any lights. No, he's
right that we couldn't risk it,of course, not not for more than
two or three minutes of the mostListen you to please you realize what those
blood lights on. Yeah, wecould see planners down that we can well.
Thank goodness, one of you smartbecause we don't know where the switch
is. And I'll hold it probably, I'll wait a minute. Dear old
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lefty, you'll give it a tour. Top of you. If that isn't
the life, he ain't going.It's a strikler, quick, quick,
turn it off. You're flooding thefield. Who came off? A kid?
Get fish? Alarm quick me,Come on, we're getting out of
here, God help us. Takeanother look. That's the police. Yeah
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see, I just stock. Iwant three on a patrol wagon. That's
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Dalton manages a bush League baseball teamwhich has hit a losing streak and dropped
five games in a row. Hisstar pitcher, Lefty Magruder, blames it
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all on bad luck and the factthat Steve refuses to be superstitious. Then
the team's new owner arrives, prettyMiss Emmy Huggins, and Emmy is just
as superstitious as Lefty. Steve givesin to their ideas, and the team
wins eight games in a row atthe same time that Emmy wins Steam's hard.
For more good luck, Lefty takesthem to a rival ballpark at midnight
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to pick four leaf clovers, andinstead of switching on the lights, they
turn on the sprinkling system by amistake. Before they can save bread and
butter, they find themselves in thelocal jail and as our second act opens,
it's a short time later a jailerslides their cell door open, it
playing shut behind them, and theyare free to walk right into trouble again.
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One thing I had to sail witha lucky number. Yeah, but
gosh, what if will Hurtles hadbeen with me? Imagine a mouse Willard
chain record. They wouldn't have beenin jail if you hadn't thought up that
bright idea of breaking into Sam Gordon'sballpark. We didn't break in, Steve.
We just wanted to go there toget some four leaves clothes. Yeah.
Yeah, then they couldn't get thesprinklers turned off for an hour last
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night, but out of the field, and they had to cancel today's game.
And Gordon filed a claim against usfor seven thousand dollars. He's just
being ridiculous. He knows I haven'tgot seven thousand dollars. We could afford
it after we win the series.Right way, we won't win the series.
Hey, twice your fingers, willyou talk like that? Fly with
me? Fetch it for Emmy Lu'steam. We might not be Emmy Lou's
team. Remember, we've got onlyten days to pay off that seven thousand
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dollars. What if she changed upthe door in that case? Left to
you will probably win the series,all right, but the team will belong
to mister Sam Gordon. But Steve'sseven thousand dollars is nothing compared to what
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we'd have if we've won the series. Sure, sure Gordon knows that he
takes the team over. Now,the series money I'll go to him.
I guess there's no use kidding oursounds. I'll wash out. I rent
all the way. Look telegram,Maybe Gordon changed his mind. I'll answer
that. It's probably more bad newsm arriving tomorrow. I want to catch
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Magruder in action. Holy smoke,this telegram. It's sign Johnny Griffith.
Johnny Griffith. Yeah, I meanfrom the big league, the one that
looks for new players. Sure,EGI Griffith, the smartest scout in baseball.
What does that mean to him?It could mean everything. He's coming
here to check on Lefty, andif he likes him, he'll pay you
enough for his contract to take careof that damnage suit a dozen times over.
Oh would we need Natty for theseries. Oh, don't worry.
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Good as I am. He'll agreeto anything you can make him. Let
me stay here till after the showery, Lefty for once? You're right?
Man? No man? What abreak? One? Two? What are
you doing well? When he hassome unexpect you said luck? You're supposed
to crawl around three times and stampyour foot. You'll do me, won't
you? Lefty? Lefty? Whatdo you mean, Lefty? The three
of us are doing lest say.I shouldn't even let you come downtown to
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later tomorrow's game. You sure yourpitching arms? Okay? Oh, don't
worry, Steve, I already tookcare of tomorrow's luck. Look I found
three pins on the sidewalks. Ohfine, fine, Well I've got to
get back and line things up fortomorrow. Don't take any wooden, poor
leaf cor Oh good bye, Steve, Oh leftie, aren't things working out
wonderful? Yep? Oh, Letchino. My mother told me to take this
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all window shopping. Huh yep,we and Hercules is gonna pick out a
new tie. Well, let mesee how about that that went red room
right there? No, no,red always gets Hurcules kind of fidgety.
See you won't even look at it. He's a shy, little guy.
Yes, well, maybe you betterput him back in your pocket. He
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might catch cold. Oh not hurtteeth, strongest white, most you ever
small, He is all white.That hair on the top of his head
is sort of orange. Oh dad, uh, that's just the iron in
his system. Sure we took ashower. He got a little rusty.
Oh yeah, you ought to seehow strong he is. You see I
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teary him in the same pocket withMarie's silver dollar. He pushes that thing
all around him there for exercise.I was speaking of exercise. Why aren't
you practicing? Oh, Steve gaveme the more than off so I could
get slipped up with the MC data. Mara. Look, even got a
manicure where, well you really arein the big league? Yep? Reckon
on the world's number one song forthat's why I'm kind of worried about something.
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What that oils and some of apublic figure. I gotta be hid
fast and that manicuring Gal says thatthis water ain't so hot. Oh the
famous Magruder wards. Yep. Shesays they ain't wearing them this season.
Oh well, it might be unluckyto have it cut off. Yeah,
maybe if you got it off anotherway. It wouldn't be a jiek You
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mean that the one that goes shompworld water short, shout water. Of
course you had to do it one. There's a poor moon this one to
night. You have to find somestuff off, you know, on the
top of an oe stump and maybethose woods on the edge of town.
I'll do it, boy, thistexture and everything, Steve, let's sit
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this one. We did three ina row. Don't tell me as a
jinx against four. No, Jimmy, are you superstitious about falling in love
to only on the second Tuesday ineach week? Why? Well would you
think it was bad luck to fallin love with a red haired guy about
twenty eight years old with a socialsecurity number that greens two three, five
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days, four nine eight three one? Would you, Steve? I already
had you know this? Well?I wasn't sure. Every time he tried
to talk left he comes bargie,say, how come, old superman,
who's left us alone tonight? Ohhe's busy, he's I'm getting that wart
taken off. Well, I'm gladhe found something wart getting that war taken
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off. Yes, he wants tobe stylish now that he's in the big
time. Oh, emmy, doyou know why he's in the big time.
Of course he's pitching a famous screwballcurve of you, yest, And
it's that wart on the first fingerof his pitching hand that makes that curve.
It gives the ball to find alittle twist. Come on, we
gotta stop him. It's a littlefarther out on this tree. This leads
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to the highway. There aren't anydoctors or hospitals out here. Oh,
I didn't mean left you went toa doctor because that might be bad knocks.
He's going to cure the ward withstump waster. What you know,
You find water on the top ofthe stumps, then you put your hand
in and say stump good night.For a minute, I thought we were
really washed up. We're good.Oh we're still going to get the war
taken off. No sure, surewith stump water. Oh, let's try
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a long about here. Yeah,okay, it's serving right if I left
him out here all night, Buthe's got to get the bed. Nothing
can happen before that gained the block. Now, then if we can find
sir Screwball or did he did hehave an appointment with any particular stuck.
No, no, any stump thathas water and it'll do the word.
Of course, there has to bea full moon. The moon was out
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instead of behind those clouds pitch blackin these woods. You left me,
Oh me, if mother could seeme now searching through the woods in the
middle of the night, looking fora left handed pitcher with his hand and
then a stump. Lessy, lessie, where are you water? It sounds
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like a boys. Come on,stop water, stup water? Who's in
there? Speak? Upper should haveknown, lefty BLI I had a picture
of you. Now. You shouldn'twant to laugh. I'm tired and cold,
been standing here and all with myhand in his water. I bet
I said that pull nine thousand times. Well maybe it's the pixis night off.
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Come on, left you You're goingback to town and go to bed.
You've got to be in shape.Everything depends on tomorrow's game. Yeah,
but don't worry about old lefty boys. Here. I'll help you a
mis shaming a little boy. Ohoh my arm. I guess holding in
that cold water for so long,I can't raise it up. Oh,
poor less you don't worry. We'llput hot pads on it. In a
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few days, it'll be as goodas all. You took that groan right
out my mouth. That's his pitchingarm. Now we are ruin. I
don't know why we even came downto the ball mark baseball. Scott'll turn
Lefty down cold, and that meansGordon gets the team. You won't be
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manager. And oh, Steve,why I don't blame you for hating me?
Look any lool, maybe this isn'tjust the time, but surely you
know darling, I don't hate you. Why hey didn't you betch come out
and watch me warm up? Yes? Okay, left you were coming.
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You might as well stick it outfor a little while. We've got left
jarn Lessy did any better? Ohmaybe a little, But I ain't gonna
be up to my usual magnificent shelf. You can say that and then louder.
No, it's no use emmy,all right, just as well go
tell Gordon you can take over.Fall up over there. Oh it's a
ball from the infield. Oh,chuck it back at him. Wait a
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minute, left him throw that farof a sore arm? Oh yeah,
I forgot o kayo throw it myarm. Everybody else there here aren't come
clear out the center field and rightin it alone. Yeah, nice throw
lefty, Hey, blessing, lettythat ball you through. Don't worry.
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I didn't use my left arm.You told me not good? Yeah,
but you left em huh your rightarm boom the way you threw that fluddy
nothing? What don home I usedto chuck bullish furn left? What did
you throw me for right arm?More to whop us young ones? If
she called us thrown with her left, well, but we thought lefty.
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You never told us. I didn'twant you to find out if when I
start throwing right ahead, people,I'll stop pulling me lifting. What difficult
that name? What difference? Alot of difference. How do you think
it's gonna sound all of them yellow? That's the old chucking in her has
a koyer. But you can throwright handed and better. Oh I can't
believe it. I'll show you seethat little bitty old windoway up there.
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Oh he means that boot clear acrossthe field on top of the grand seat.
Just stand back and watch it.Gos he did that. He did
it in the curve on him thatthey let they get out there on the
mountain. Play ball. Oh,that'll save it. You meet my right
arm. Oh that is the importantthing. What could be more important?
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But there's I just found a fourleave clover. Oh, Steve, it
was wonderful. They get should knowhit no run Gay, Come on,
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we'll meet him in the club.Oh boy, Waitt lefties sesus notes from
the baseball scout. Look. Hesays, the price you're asking for let
is robbery, but he's worth it. I have the check already. Oh,
darling, it's perfect. Everything inthe world is working on something.
After all the things I've done forhim, you should be celebrating. You're
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going into the big league. We'vesaved the team will win the series.
Sure, all that stuff's okay.Well, how do you think I feel
the little guy doing that for me? Oh? What they do? Well?
You don't let for y pugra fond. Well, my old little buddy
Hercules he ate it. Thank you, gentlemen, We're glad you enjoyed the
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night's play. Next week we'll beback with another delightful comedy. Most everyone
has an uncle, but very fewof us have one, Like Allen and
Marge Charles. Their uncle's name isWill and he decides to visit them right
after he's finished his work for theday, a very neat job of robbing
a bank. I know you won'twant to miss Uncle Will and the Hot
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murl Bremner was heard as Emmy.The orchestra was conducted by Joseph Calippio with
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