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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fire Please, Quiet Please. M The American Broadcasting Company presents

(00:29):
Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Women's cooper
At which features artist Chapel. Quiet Please for tonight is
called tangle foot. Back in the old days when g

(00:49):
I didn't mean general issue. It's just been jalbinized by
I used to be a plumber. There are no cracks
about leaving fools in the shock when you want in
a job. Because of the farmer took along all the
two of these label and need on a job you
don't know nothing about that he gets there, he'd need
one of those moving vans to tote them. That's the

(01:09):
same what you're gonna do with a fortun and still
fron wrenching the nit full of open. You'll be surprised
the place when I work. Well, you ever smell a
plumbon cap? Can I tell you what you smell? Open? First,
thing like creosoap, that's what you start with, linseed oil,
that's and the red lead to use on the drunks

(01:30):
and stuff. Smell a hot lead where the kids up
and down, scraped lead and a little pig you can put.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
In your bag.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Galvanized dying. Yeah, sure you can smell galvanized dying to
pass the bins where the the l's and the t's,
and the streets and the cups and the unions, all
sizes and forty teen sizes. You can smell galvanized down
all right thenner just smell a rat that live back
behind the bins. Dasoline bringing and the blow touches and

(01:59):
the furnishing, and the thing I remember best of all
the smell of the fly paper. I have seemed to
be flat paper every place. I don't know, maybe in
the old days there was more of it, or there
was more flies or something. Then like any place you went,
you're running the flat paper. Remember that smell like varnished

(02:22):
for sugar in it, like tappy that got spoiled, kind
of the fasteners, the smell in the sticky way. Think
about it and you kind of think, you know, one
of the flies like the smell and went forth smell.
Sureflies can smell. They got smells of the blood. I'm
jealous if you made it. And if I've got lots

(02:45):
of things, Yeah, you got a jillion eyes, six fancy leads,
winds bend the trunk like an elephant, only a little there.
The bust kiss they call it. Huh, they are not
the flies. They can't up. Boy, how did you break good?
I don't know a lot about flies. I'll tell you

(03:07):
about it and we can see it today. There was
people living upstairs about the permanent staff where I works.
That was in the summer nineteen fifteen. I guess that's
kind of while I go that back porch hume over
the back porch of the shot not kind of a

(03:30):
shed where we used to tread pipe, meltow, scrap bread,
stuff like that. And Ricketts the horse used to be
tied up back there in the alley with a wagon
when he was working back there, it was quiet and
shady and hot. All you could hear was Rick's stamping
his feet and switching his tail at the flies. Maybe
there who the gasoline furnace, whoever he was working. We

(03:53):
were talking kind of lazy and slow in the heat, Eh, boy,
was it hot? Iron to the who was threading three
quarter inch black iron pipe? You want the body skirts
in the night box, what bodice skirts? Croppielot? When the
Percy swinging the night thought smor oh, all right, yeah,

(04:18):
that's good enough. There's another length of pipe hiding it.
I wanted amount of in the stage roll ricords out
there in the front heads in the shade. What are
you hiding about? Flying nigger? He put the flying leading

(04:40):
on him. Yeah, look out down stepping the fly paper,
fly paper every place that Bert chin Jady's nuts about
fly paper ground stuff. It was all over the place
and that's where you're throwing it. You can thrown out
the pipe. I'll take care of the fly paper. You
think of all that step around, it wouldn't be so
many flies. I was just small. How do you mean smart?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Not fly paper?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Fiberkers always problem.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
And then sit down flies my ones look at it
and smell up and fly away.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Name on people. Horses take a bike there longer, And
I wonder how long fries do. Yeah, I don't know
who any more like the type of employer m good.

(05:31):
I don't wonder what science to think about eating. That's
what I'm thinking about, kind of. I thank you knew
this flock years. That's pretty much new Donna downed. You
ain't go with me. I wasn't jumping that. You wasn't well.

(05:53):
No flies down you brother, So wow, that makes a
nice teams see that from him, your mama, I see
what after three hours this morning. Ye, deadman's gotta sail
or something. I have to stop at everything, get some
involved timer stopping when it make sundays. Ah, we got
sright because stopping. No, he's off flight start dedsn is

(06:29):
going to stop such simple and easy and nothing and
nothing wasn't I mean anything? Well, you're good at my moments.
You get a lot of stuff, una, stuff. I started
that way with devon types and picking factors, go around
and and stuff. We went after I skim off over

(06:49):
his house, sipping the pitching and it is kind of
cool and got Francity to go back to work. I
hate pick that back tip had like that lad I
put there? Oh shut yeah, breaking Kady Kenyon. Yeah yes

(07:11):
that was a fly. Yeah the bait their king kid
right around one. If he's a bar, I don't have bro.
That's my right think Now we turn three min sho.
Don't like that? If you want tomorrow round four? Thanks,

(07:32):
let's shot a couple of minute from more. Don't prod around. Yeah.
Uh thinking about cries he told you about priest today,
I just stop thinking about it. What's the thing, aboug
I was out of the back fly. What's happened like

(07:53):
to get under the full ship. Keep cool if you
hand it down a gun, that's sound. A top fly's crazy.
Got a top flyer basing work, I know me and
right man, you little busy work, you that kind it
should be a great big sid thick as a bad

(08:14):
pertain to a gud. I thought, whole color of mattiss
fly that big bite. She's the room of the fly
with a nothing of fines are though, Yeah, I don't
see no one nothing mean looking facey arveston, good, big eyes,
shaggy knights, look at you from all over. I always

(08:36):
washing my faces like a flat big pay drums, I'm sure, James, though,
see big five shore the time. She be a swell
pup up entertainment. Well, I'd tell him a very bigger
see as big, as strong as a boy, put a

(09:00):
chain on him and fly away with you and try
to train him to take any places fry. You know, yeah,
you should think him a educated cry fly, the smile fly,
fakeery catches and good old tangle foot boys. I thought,
not for big people telling her foot to catch yourself. Boy,
ain't got much tangle foot the world ain't know fly

(09:20):
like that in the world either or her brother felwise
didn't she hears the whistle, come on and play the one. Yeah,
I know I shouldn't see the fly that too, have
to feed him people, I guess you. Now, let's go

(09:50):
and remember was putting in. Three four months later, it
was just getting turn of the first days of Paul
and people were starting to bring dry leaves along the
Crebchtne held the news it's not half water either, for
Frank and Edith, for Gibbons to telegraph, my fir live
out there where Washington runs into Court Street. Kind of
cool out there. I remember missus Gibbons. She was drawn

(10:10):
at us because she said he was so slow. She
wanted that hot water heater. It takes right this minute.
She wanted to take her back before the chicken pie
up at Christian Church. She had to put the ice
and yet on two devils food cakes, and but we
please hurry up. She was out of tiggery. Yeah, finally
Handy coming to reduce her to he was waiting for
missus Gibbons. She went out to the kitchen to look
at the cakes and don't put.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Back and things.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
You want to make my cakes fall, she said, He
said yes, ma'am for about the forty eighteenth time, and
she shut the door and lived down at bartene Hammer.
And he said, who me too, I can't woman leave
you alone.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I get the union after her. She thinks she knows
so much of the plumbing.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh this is cool atmatic. Yeah, I got ma I'm
born the fly paper. I haven't thought she still got
fly paper before he let me do it. Kind of
take off the skin too. Just groot me some gasoline
and I got gup all over me. Anything in the flies?
The true wat you more gasoline? I know what is

(11:17):
a fly? Huh? I know where there is a fly?
The ony. Don't you swap them?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, for two reasons firsday kind of like this fly,
like them, raised them.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
From a pop, raised a fly from a pop. Second
thing is you want to swap this fly? You better
have a baseball bat black. Your flyes eight inches? Love? Huh?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Hand me the red land.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I'llby maybe nine. Where you're gone? What do you come
here for? Asylumb up? The same flies? Night is live. Yeah,

(12:12):
under the crawl chef, Come on daddy, Yeah, Teddy boy, Yeah, Teddy,
come on, Daddy, come on out that boy, Come on, Maddy,
good bye, good dog. Come on, Teddy, hear.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Mean, come on out in there, come on.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out, come on you just see maybe maybe you ain't there.
Maybe he's done too. I can see him laying out
in there. Yeah, he say, I'll read chill and pull
him out. Dog. Come on, fid you ain't anything. I

(13:00):
mean that I killed it. No, I don't mean kill
They putting cherms on him like that. I mean who
heard it? By fly?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
This your flyer long?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
This here fly killed Teddy. That was Herbie Butterworths dog.
There was a hand dog that weighed forty two pounds
on John Apra scared of the day before this is
so you just up and killed poor old Teddy. But
maybe Teddy was scared of that got to fly first.
There's nobody in the whole great, big wide world ever
seen a fly that was eight nine inches long. Nobody

(13:37):
but first Herbie and Teddy and afterwards me. I didn't
found him that. Maybe he got thirst to that.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Kind of scarsked me about that of you.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
He cans up to me. I beat him on the head.
It'll come flying up to you. I'm flying up. He
won't even see his wings, you know, our flies wings
is you can see through him. Any he's strokes to death.
Flies can't stand cold weather. They die, They don't always die.
Sometimes they go into what is in a conna.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
When they get warm, they.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Come to again.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
And then they're hungry.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well, I think he did, because we ain't hurt about
anybody croaking, you know, with a with a mystery, not
since Teddy. Yeah, I doesn't see the flock. Try not
thinking about Teddy. Maybe d'lease some fly paper around big
hunks of fly peckers. I got fly paper all around

(14:44):
the clothing there where he was heavy enough and don't
have to be so heavy, lands on a hunk of tangle,
but it and get all stuck to the hair and hair,
hair and his legs. Flies got hair on their legs. Real, heir,
he more like this or like Spike's kind of he

(15:05):
get flypaper stuck in his legs, his wings. He ain't
gonna go skit him around much. Maybe he's dead, sure,
hope not hope not Well, I just kind of like him.
He laid up Teddy. I'd be just dis satisfied to
find him, to get to see him. He must be
quite a psyche, though, like looking at a fly through

(15:27):
a magnifying dress. Sure glad he only got to be
eight nine inches long? Who hate to lose him? I
I could put him in a seconds or a side
show or something. Make a jillion dollars. Take him up
at Chicago. People have come from mine, So bounce a
round the LOUI zoom just about their museum, like that
one whors in New York. And he's just quite a thing.

(15:48):
He used to eat mice. I went and caught nice
him and let him have. Let's see what he do
to a dead mind? H thinks her kindly, I see
what he done to Teddy? How you getting so big?
Herbee man? See good becker? Hey, so bet if he'd
lay an egg, if they could be bigger, I mean

(16:10):
the puppet be bigger than he was, fly egg, bigger
than Han Jagger, to be bigger than maybe a turkey egg.
Maybe he's dead. Yeah, yeah, he comes after me. I'm
gonna shoot him, my old troll. Ah. You couldn't hit
the loon with a bullheadle You hit 'em all right? Hello, Luis,
how'd you do? Hey? Who's that bucks? I don't know,

(16:33):
just moved the time from some place in Ohio, Iowa
or some place Louise, Louise mcjenny, McKinley, McKinney, something like that,
but you know better than umpire hall. I dance the
other night. I dance social athletic car down huh uh
night see at the shop in the morning. So now

(16:54):
they call it in it gonna snow feels like snow
or bus water pipes.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, uh, it's all I'm by, stay at after Louise.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
What's your name? That something? Man? Sorry, I feel like that,
sir THI I like it, say uh, Herbie, why listen alright,
listen not that great big fly yours? Yeah, I don't

(17:27):
love him now, this is a great big fly. Uh
something would just be well. I just thought about it
all of a sudden. I never seen this here fly.
Mean you think I'm just fooling, But I was wondering.
I was just making enough was No, I wasn't making

(17:50):
it up. It's just wondred just by. I never made
that up. It's no wish there was which I never
started make 'em flies grow big. I was stocked when
I got one. This day I will. I don't know
whether the the lead yer or not. Listen about when
I think, but that fifth fly remember lay back last

(18:11):
summer when we first talked about it, you said, what
would you feed a great big fly? Yeah? Remember what
you said? What you said? People people just said it,
that's what you'd feed him. Oh yeah, listen, fuck you
already had a doubt I would know about it.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
But I see if you.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Didn't get by now and all this cold, he must
be must be what hungry? Thirty December nineteen fifteen, Yeah, seven,
sixth or three, the third, the night Herby on me park,

(18:53):
Like I told you, I remember because on the seventh,
the boy scouts at a movie at the Capitol Theater
used to be the standard there, and there was a
kid with a bugle blowing it out front. That was
the seven. That was the nice bird king kid from
me up from the shop. And you know, Watson came
over from kind of next door and told me Berke
was calling me. And I'm not old Bert. He says,

(19:13):
you and Hervey betterwork. Go right away to these people,
these Mcinneys and Macinities and Mkinis, whichever it was. It's
because their friend the sun was wrong with it and
they was hot and they was freezing, and I should
go right on over him. Hervey meet me there. He
was already on the way with the wickets and the
wagon and the tools. So I said, all right, and
I went home and put on my over shoes in
my army's sweater. I'm over there. See. The place was

(19:34):
only two doors away from where Herbie lives there by
the Garfield School, and that's why he was there already.
See I'm not reading bout it to that on the door.
I just went around to the cellar door with my
Corman lantern and I come on down and Herby was
there already setting on the cellar steps. So I just
thought fell over him and not looking very happy. So yeah,
I said, I thought there was freezing that out here

(19:56):
in this house with him. I said, furnish, it's not
called down here as well? I said, huh, fakes the
furnaces that was crowded, And I put a known on
a fired appatar. Yeah, what's your something? I'm a seller
first part in a pasa fixed. What's ther something on here?
For it? Well? All right, why you're looking so crabby
about it? Everybody want to be crabby as to me,
I'll want to pay for across town. I'm about what's

(20:18):
you so crabby? About it. Oh, she's down here, Oh Louisia.
You know the mckimney galler whatever her name is. Where
all Yeah, that's what I need. Us can change company
trees right now. Then makes some time. I'm still hear

(20:39):
you here. She and he went back there in the
preserve closet before good to bring your jar of apple butter.
The old man makes elderberry wine. Fuss you got some
bottles back there about from Ohio, Iowa or whatever? It is?
Three years old? Yeah, sure, like elderberry wine. I know. Well,

(21:00):
I'll tell you, Herb. I'm a good guy. I'm your friend, Herby.
Soon you got everything fixed up, I beat it. You
don't have to go. I never stood in this guy's way, Herby.
I was walking to the cold and the snow. I'll
ride home and read V. C. Allen's words, editorials and
the Times. I'll leave the coast clear for you. You
don't have to do that. But just as soon as

(21:21):
I have one drink, development very wide. Know that there
was a catcher, it tis go right away an this Herby, Hey,
you've been telling her about the giant flies and things.
Had it out? I thing dead. I guess if it
ever was alive. You got to make us. You got

(21:45):
some tailor made me boss. Ain't you snooking what you're doing?
Making that one? I'm probably heated for at give her
a good smacking of your fancy's fortunate. I want to

(22:06):
give you a good smacking too. Huh. When's you got
out there? And folks are here upstairs? Louise, shut up, hey, Louise,
shut up, back, come on, let's go help her.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Nick Louise wants and had up the people hear you
is here? Hey, Louise, I thought maybe looted them, Louise, Louise,
what's that?

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Hear me.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
That question?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Louise, I could recognize him. My are clothes, My are closes.
All you know? There's personna. Try no, you'll never get
Herbie and I did a big not eight nine inches

(23:08):
long now down on the hot, stuffy cellar, two feet
long and sad and kind of looked at for his
dopey like I have you had a big dinner, and
Louise Herbie the anger the night back there the furnace pipes.
I could see them eyes and Kimian eyes and that

(23:30):
trunk like elephant. It kind of buzzed and wriggless eyes
at me and rubbed his face with it. I paused,
like I can't wash in the space of the dinner,
and I tried to holler, but all I could hear
with this buzzn't that's all? And then it kind of
stumbled out from the pipes and it jumped in it

(23:51):
and I pressed my face and it flew kind of sagging,
kind of out of the clind of eyes. Seem that
it flew out out into the first room. The furnace.
Dog was opened in the fire. You didn't want to
hear anymore, huh. It wasn't a little bit more. You've

(24:11):
come this far with me, so and they placed both hurt,
you and me in jail, and they said we murdered Louise,
but nobody could murder anybody like that, and there wasn't
any other evidence. So I see the fly was dead,
disappeared and wasn't anything to go on, so they had
to let us go. That's really knew the whole story,

(24:36):
and it hurt me. The egg, Oh sure, everybody, you
never forget about that egg and about the egg figure
in a hand's egg, bre's a turkey egg. Back during
the dock behind the pipes. I didn't see it, but
I never told anybody about it.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Did I hurt you?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Nobody but you. And when they left the side of jail,
they come back here, look at you, but it was gone.
I was kind of scratching back there. And we looked
to ensure that flo bra. They caught it in the books,
you know, and we took it away with us. And
sure enough, this mean grow bigger in its father or
its mother or whatever it was. And everyone SIPs the

(25:16):
has got a little bigger and a little hungrier. Is
that so heavy? Ye? Hungry all the time? Never let
him out done? Wait, look at baby, the first real
live bet fly you ever seen. Louise, we call him

(25:40):
Louise lugged in their eyes visions. Look they're en robes.
Is struggling, that cute, nice clean face. See the sharp
vessels on his legs. The biggest flyer in the world,
bigger than the college. They're going to shop on the
pony at that and hungry or two? Come on, Louise,

(26:03):
wake up, wake up, okay, okay, go on in now
you're not talking to it, Ui, say go hig in,
Go on here. Louise is hungry, damn smarter, canmo your feet? Sure,

(26:32):
you're stuck in something. You used to call that stuff.
Try paper. We got a different thing for it. Now.
I know he's trying to get Louise. You're stuck for good,
and Louise is hungry. I only heard a minute. That's all. Careful, Louise, honey,
don't get your feet stuck in the man paper Mmm.

(27:21):
The titles nice Quiet Please story is Tango Pork. It
was written and directed by Willis Cooper and The Man
Who Spoke to You with Ernest Chapel and my friend Hebby.
We'll stay by Jack Lestay as usual. Music for car
Please is by Albert Breman and the songs by William

(27:42):
Jay McClintock. I forget about next six five please. Here
is our writer, director Willis Cooper. Okay, thank you for
listening to cry Please. You're gonna starve for you next day.
His friend's title the Hat, the Bed, John J. Catherine,

(28:04):
That n the Bed, then John J. Catherin next week,
so the next week at the same time, I'm quite
the orse N's Chapel. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting

(28:36):
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