August 8, 2025 • 28 mins
Discover "Our Miss Brooks Collection," a selection of the best episodes from the beloved radio comedy series. Experience the humorous and heartwarming tales of Miss Brooks and her school adventures. This collection is a must-listen for fans of classic radio comedies and nostalgic storytelling.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Armist Brooks.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, it's time once again for another comedy episode of
Armis Brooks under the direction of al Lewis Well. Many
of us are spending this Christmas Eve with our families
and friends. But Armist Brooks, who teaches English at Madison
High School, isn't quite so fortunate.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
My family was too far away to visit, and it
seems my friends had other plans. But I made up
my mind not too rude about it, and I was
trimming a rather tiny tree in our living room when
Missus Davis, my landlady, joined me.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
That's quite a nice Christmas tree, cowl.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It isn't really a Christmas tree, Missus Davis. It's called
a friendship tree. See. I trim it by putting all
my greeting cards on the branches with strips of cellophane tape.
Looks nice, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It, Yes, it does. You certainly received some pretty cards
this year, and.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The sentiments are so lovely. Look at this one I
got from my principle, mister Conkline.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But this is it Hazier.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's very heartwarming, Missus Davis. It says to miss Brooks.
May the coming year bring you much more efficiency in.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Your work.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Time, Oh confluence.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh, I can highly believe it's Christmas time again. What
happy memories I have of the earlier Christmas is there
was one I'll never forget. I'll get eight years old,
and when I keiptoed into the living room, there was
my father standing with a tree. A minute he saw me,
his eyes crinkled up and he started to laugh, so
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that this big white beard in this huge paunch just
shook with glee.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Your father was made up as Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
No, he always looked that way. But you get back
to the present, Connie. I'd love to stay here and
celebrate Christmas Eve with you, but I promised my sister Angela,
I come over to her. Please. You remember Angela, the
absent minded one.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Both certainly, Missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He always got a big thrill out of the holidays too,
even when we were girls. Of course, the poor dear
could never remember when it was actually Christmas. And one
Christmas Day she did the funniest sitting.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Or was that, Missus Davis?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What's fucking.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What did Angela do?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Angela?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Your sister, my sister, the evident mind is one.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well? I haven't spoken to Angela and sometime what did
she get up to?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I wish news. Maybe I can refresh your.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Memory Christmas morning, Angela did the funniest thing.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Christmas Morning isn't until tomorrow, Connie. You must be confused.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Don't worry about it. I only get these spells once
in a while.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, you shouldn't let it go, Connie. If you don't
mind my offering a little advice, I'd like to suggest
that you train your mind to concentrate more.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'll do it, Missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Now, then, I've developed a little scheme which works one destiny.
Supposing you have trouble remembering where you put things around
the house, Well I could just keep repeating the location
to yourself with a sort of rhythm. For example, I
just chant to myself, the mustard's in the clause that
the bread is in the box. The mustard's in the
clause that's the bread is in the box. Now, isn't
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that simple? Mustard's in the clause.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's wonderful, Missus Davis. If anybody wants a mustard sandwich,
you're really ready.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Now, before I do anything else, I want to invite
you to join me tonight. Join you, Yes, dear, I'm
going over to Angela's house. Oh, yes, that's right. Oh
she's so cute for that little absent mind of hers.
Why sometimes she forgets what you was talking about right
in the middle of it. Oh, dear me, I hope
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there's enough milk that they get well.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm sure if we but then maybe someday or if
it doesn't seem too And that's why I can't join
you tonight. But thanks anyway, Missus Davis. I'll just spend
a quiet evening at home here.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
But how about mister Bunton. Don't tell me he was
too shy to ask you for a date on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Why do you think there's missiletoe on all four walls? No,
I'm going to ask me, all right, But then he
canceled yesterday, said he's going upstate to visit his folks
for a couple of days. But don't worry about me,
Missus Davis. I'll have a gay time. I'll listen to
the radio, read and from this window I can see
our neighbor's television and Timma.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But what about the little gifts you got for Walter
Denton and mister and missus Tunklon and Harriet when you're
going to deliver them.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They told me not to bother. They said we'd exchange
on the twenty sixth, the.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Twenty sixth, but I don't think the day after Christmas
is the time to exchange gifts.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You know, you should see the department store. What's that,
Missus Ervis?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
He is Minerva?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Where are you, Dear?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, she's over by the trees.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
He are over. I'm a nerve.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Isn't it the strangest thing? How she bites at the
pine needs? I guess there rosin them? Appeals to her.
I swear she likes the taste of it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I guess to her, it's like a Tom and Jerry
or other, a Mini and a Mickey. Minerva, we might
as well get friendly. We're going to spend the evening together.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well, I'll be running along now, Dear. I hope you
won't feel too lonely.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'll be fine, missus Davis. After all, I do have
an imagination. I'll hang up my stocking in a little while. Then,
when I'm pretending i'm a sleep, I'll sneak in and
fill it. Before you know it, it'll be.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Midnight, midnight of Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I can just picture a short, thin man in a
black suit comes sliding down the chimney with an empty bag.
Sink Pennyla's the school teacher, Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Well, at least you're not bitter now, Connie, about my
sister Angela? Oh, thank you dear about my sister Angela. Yeah,
good night, Dorothy, Good night Bernice.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh, stop drinking those pine needles, Minerva, come over here.
That's a good kiddy. Now, I'll just settle down in
missus Davis's rocker and we'll have ourselves a nice quiet
rock I've got to exercise more of my bones rusting. Oh,
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it's the rocker. It's just kind of soothing.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's sad.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You seem contented enough, Minerva. But the night before Christmas
and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,
not even the mouth. I'm sorry, Minerva. Oh so I'm
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sleepy now, who can that be? Expecting anyone? Mi nervous?
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Nobody's here.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I'm here where?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Leaning on my knee?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Par a salesman? I don't believe in giving any sales.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Talker sob stories.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
All I do is tell you what I'm selling if.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You want to buy, Okay, it's not okay, okay, what
are you selling?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, Christmas Eve. I'm just a small urchin, a little
on the under privileged side. I'm trying to make a
few dollars to get some wood to heat our tiny apartment.
So while she's singing to my three six sisters, my mother's.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Lips don't turn blue.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's what I like. No sob story. You're selling handkerchiefs.
I'll take sick.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
No, ma'am, I'm selling Christmas trees.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Not on me a dollar piece.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh got, I've already.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Got a tree.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I don't make it fifty said.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
But I don't need to look little boy.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I can arrange payments. Please take one, man, He's an
ordinary treat. You know, no magic magic, Yes, ma'am, you'd
be surprised what miracles will happen if you buy one.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, a quarter isn't too much to pay for a miracle.
It's fifty cents. I thought you said twenty five.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's when you sounded temper to sell.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well before I melt down to my cold buttons in
the soovepie path. Here's fifty cents.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You won't be Simon, here's a little tree.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Say it's kind of cute, too bad? Would you like
to come in help me set it up? I can't.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I got to get right home. My said has been
a long long enough thither What.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
About your mother and the firewood?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's just a routine. My folks are attending at dinner.
The other bank presidents are giving for father.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
With a pitch.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You've got to have your own bank by the time
you're twelve.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Takes a lot. Good night, lady, Night Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Same to you, you little underprivileged millionaire. I'll put this
tree over here. Maybe we can find some extra trimming
for it in the morning. Yeah, Minerva, will you stop
gnawing on those pine needles? Wish I knew what made
them so appetizing to her?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, now you.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Come here and let those things alone. There we are. Well,
I guess I'm not the only one that's sending Christmas
Eve alone without family or friends. But who can tell.
Maybe Santa Claus has something up his big red sleeves
that I don't even know about yet. Of course, I
do have a squeaky rocker, and Minerva jingle bells, jingle
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bells and mary stuff like that. Oh, what fun it
is to rock with a big, fat, drunken cat. Have
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I sat in the living room Christmas Eve with Minerva
the cat on my lap? I couldn't help noticing that
the tree which I bought from that wealthy urchin had
a rather peculiar luminosity. Although there wasn't any artificial illumination,
it seemed to glow from deep down in its branches.
Have I rocked back and forth?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I started to get very drowsy.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oo, little boy said this tree was magic. Minerva. I
don't believe it either, sire. It is Christmas Eve? Who
very strange things have happened on Christmas Eve? Huh? Oh
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than dozing?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Coming?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Well, it's Walter Benson. Come in, Walter no elsa you
know well, gracious, come run into the living room, Walter.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thanks, miss Brooks here, I've brought you this little gift
to put under your tree.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now, that was very thoughtful, Walter put it under this
tree over here.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Kirk saying you got two trees, haven't you, Yes, one's
from a nerve and one for me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
What, don't pay any attention to her. She's Kine needle.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Happy well, miss Brooks. As you know, I was supposed
to spend the evening nestled snugly in the tight little
confines of my own small immediate family circle for heaven fakes,
come out of there. You're giving me close to phobia.
I went to my father and mother and curve their permissions.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Wait a minute, Walter, you crove their mission. Yeah, crave
craven crove, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Crave crave.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Let's see, crave craven. After you crove their permission.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well, they waived my presence for a long enough while
for me to deliver to you, miss Brooks, the little
token of my esteem and affection, which is now ensconsin
under the tree.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Walter, are you still in my English class?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Its sure, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'd better boone up a little. One of us is
gonna plunk this time.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
What I'd like to say, Miss Brooks, is something that
I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Say for a long time. Yes, Walter.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It's a little on.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The sentimental side, perhaps for a so called.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Keep high school of what to be telling the teacher.
But it's sincere, miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It's something I feel deep down inside of me, Miss Brooks,
from when so many of one's warmer emotion stems.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's Wednesday stem from all right, of course, even if
it does seem over sentimental or even downright sticky, Christmas
Eve seems to be the time you can say things
like this and not sound over sentimental or sticky. Christmas
Eve is the time to say them. I just hope
I hear them by New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
What I want you to know this is that I'm
grateful for us, for my association with you during the
past semester at Madison High School.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Well, thank you all. Or I've tried to be a
capable teacher.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Oh sure, teaching was nothing mean sholastically as a teacher,
you are very adequate, stimming personally.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The interest you took in me and my problems.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
For that, I could never thank you. If I lived
to the one hundred the carse you'd be gone a
long time by then.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know to you too.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
You don't know what it's meant to me to have
your ear whenever I needed it.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
There was nothing, really. I have another.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
One, especially about girl. Gosh, remember Hostilly, I used to
act about girls. Every time I've looked at me, I
giggled like a kid, And then overnight I matured. I
met the one woman who mattered, Harriet.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Conklin the water.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I don't know what, but something, And you saw me
through the difficult transition period of Atamore as well, while
Harriet and I were adjusting to one another. It was
wonderful to be able to come to you for advice,
Miss Brooks. It isn't every boy who has such an
interest taken in him by some intelligent elderly person.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Give me back my ear.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Said that you're inching or anything trash. I seen girls
don't look as good as you do.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Girls?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What do you think I am? Yeah? Got up Minerva.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
The way, miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
See he got lots of missile toe on the walls.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Re expecting mister Whitton tonight, Yes, Walter, I was.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We were going for a wheelchair ride together, but he
had to visit his folks upstate.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
His folks. Gosh, they must be well along in years.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
His father's over fifty. They may shoot him next spring
water water here. You might as well pick up the
little gifts I got for you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh but you shouldn't have, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Where is it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I have a tree on your ride? It isn't much,
just a remembrance.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh gee, I almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I can't open it yet? Who why not? Oh you
mean you want to put it under your tree at
home and open it with your family.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Not exactly, but i'll get it later, Missus Gutch?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
There they are now, I'll answer it.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
There?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Who are now?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
John?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And thought she was all alone when I got here.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
It's really a surprise, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We should have stayed home Christmas Eve. Besides, it's freezing.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Out now, odd good, don't see so grousey? Hello, Miss Brooks,
Merry Christmas? Why it's mister and missus Conklin?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Then, Harriet, how are you all?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I'm cold?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Too bad?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Come here, Minerva? Rub up against mister Conklin.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What's that a boy? Cat?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
She seems to like you?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Was good?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Or? Or is she hungry?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Miss Brooke?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
She's not that hungry.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I don't like cats.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Why doesn't you go chase a mouse or something?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You forget, mister Conklin, This is Christmas Eve. There isn't
one searing stay Harriet.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yes, Walter, there's a lot of miss toe on this room.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I know it's.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Real pretty Ah good? Notice all the mistletoe in his roomb.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What oh that green stuff? No not, it makes me sneeze.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Oh, come on, good nexte the dime.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Oh no, motha, don't embarrass me. I don't.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Doesn't make you sneeze, doesn't, Harriet. I'm willing to find out.
Here's the nice threeth of it on this wall. Yeah,
we are here, we are here, we are If it's
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all right with Harriet, it's all right with us.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Come on, wol we're getting old cash.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Here's fleet, Harriet.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Isn't that you are good? Come?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Do you know about one for your faithful old wine?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, it is customary. I guess there. I'm under the stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
After you. Very well.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
See I told you. Now, let's stop this romantic dribble
and act like adult human beings, Miss Brooks. I'd like
to take advantage of this visit to inquire as to
your plans for the coming year's class work. Do you
have your schedule all laid out?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Thank you, mister Conson. I haven't had much chance to
work on anything.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I had much of a chance, but you've been away
from school all week. Your vacation started last Monday.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I know, mister Conslin, and that's what I took the week.
As I mean, a vacation is something you go on
when you get the opportunity to. You don't work on
it or during it. Unless even though I didn't actually
go anywhere when my vacation came along, I went on
it or was on one usually.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
And you wanted to be the head of the English department.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
These are good. This is no time to talk of
school affairs.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
We're here to spend part of our holiday with Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It was very nice of you to think about me,
Missus Tonqulin, it was nice of all of you. I
want to wear a Walter and Harriet.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
N get my daughter away from that missilete at once,
mister Carlin.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Harriet isn't allergic to mischlete.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, but I'm allergic to you.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Here. It's almost irresistible sometimes, especially alongside the older women
like missus Conklin and miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Sounds like the bell. I'll get it. Why, mister Bison,
come in cook?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Thanks Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
But I thought you were going Upstates and see your fault.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I was, but they sent me a wire that they
wanted to come here for about a week or so.
They'll arrive in the morning, so I thought I'd dropped
this little gift off for you tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh but you shouldn't have. Where is it? Let's just
put it under the tree in the living room. Look
who's here?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Well, it's mister Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Pretty cold out, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
This is beginning to get more like Christmas Eve every minute.
Sit down, mister Boyton. I'm certainly glad your folks decided
to visit you instead of vice versa.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So am I there's a particularly good reason why I'm
glad there is? Yes, it gives me a chance to
see how my guinea pigs are affected by this cold snap.
They haven't reacted at all.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What do you expect them to do? Blow on their paws?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Look? Have you pointed out the missile tone, mister Boynton?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Why don't you stop that nonsense?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
It isn't nonsense, mister Boyton, Look at the missile tone?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Missing tone? Oh oh yes. A very interesting example of
the flora found in various areas throughout the globe an
evergreen parasitic shrub. It is indigenous to the regions where
apple trees and oaks are bound.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Now that the lecture is over me, we asked questions.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Certainly, miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I want to stand under it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Stand under it? Well, you see, because of certain characteristics
in its makeup, and allergy is sometimes aggravated by its presence.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'll take a chance if you will, come on, mister
boyte mister boy just bring him over to this wall here.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Hella, I'll get hundred if you like.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Well, don't just stand here. Can't you see Miss Brooks
is cooking.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Well, don't fuss for me. I couldn't need a thing.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Don't you know what's standing under the missilesoe signify?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, I know what it signifies to most people.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But to me, well, I go eighty five cents worth
of missletoe.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What let's do.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Let's open up the presence right now?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Who blend? It's the deestin water?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Shouldn't we wait until just before we leave? Might be
less embarrassing that way.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Well, if you want to open them now, wi, this
one tree is pretty crowded up with some of these
packages under this little one over here, and look out,
water you're bumping into one of the branches.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The girl.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Gosh, I got the sums feeling when I touched that branch.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
What kind of a feeling?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Water, William?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You're Harriet Conklin, aren't you well sure? And Harriet Conkland,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Nothing? And nothing's the matter with me.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
It's just that I want to tell you something, Surriot.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You've gotta change.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You want to try to be more.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like miss Brooks.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
But what do you mean, Walter? If you want me
to stay interested in you, you've gotta be more alluring, youthful, glamorous,
feminine in that real feeling, Brooks away.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Have you been drinking high needles too?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Look at that tweet.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It seems to be growing.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
What do you mean glowing? It's just a reflection from
the street lights. This part is giving me the memis.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Holidays.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Indeed, you know I just moved the free where it
won't glisten in our eyes. Here we go, oh, very Christal,
of course, I'm mister conference. Havey go, lucky, fun loving
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gag A minute, Oz, girl, yeah, a minute.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Sometimes I've wanted to.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Brook You suddenly look so different, so intelligent.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I have made up my mind. You are now head
of the Madison High English Department.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Thank you, fun loving Oz.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I'm going to put this wonderful tree word along right
in the center of the room, give me a handboy, yes,
or mister Cocklan, I'll just take this end here and.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, mister Biden, calar baby, I said clear Connie.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I said, come here, baby, and I'm here. He's taking
her over to the Mitchell tone wonderful. What are you
going to do, mister Biden?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just call me philed Connie at least is what I'm
gonna do. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I feel like I'm in the dream hillis wonderful, beautiful dream.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Mister, mister mister barn where are you? Where did everybody go?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I must have been dreaming. Well that's real enough. I'll
be right there. Oh sorry, man, everybody didn't mean to
drop you.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Right right, I'm cold.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The conference and Walter and mister Bryton, but you all
just left, I mean, come in. We thought it would
be nice if we sent our Christmas Eve together, mister Yes,
and we've brought a few little gifts over for you.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I'll just put them under this tree.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Here, Yes, do that, Walter.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Aren't you gonna ask me why I didn't go up state?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Miss Brooks? I know why, mister Boyton. Your folks are
coming down to see you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
How did you know that I just got the telegram.
Don't let's get too carried away with the holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
We've got to.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Put there for a hard school season ahead, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Oh, let's not talk about school fairs now. I could
Walter look at the mistletoe. Yeah, we work at it now,
just a minute before we go through all that again,
would you please touch the tree, mister Boyton, the one
on the left with the myst gone.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
There's only one.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Tree, Miss Brooks?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Of course, I'm all right. Could I have dreampt that
part too? Mister Boydan. Would you do me a favor? Please?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Christmas Brooks?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Would you touch the Christmas tree?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Touch you please?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's important? All right there, nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What did you expect?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
A miracle? Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't want to lurch you, and I'm selling magic
Christmas tree. But you just came here for one lady.
You only cost fifty cents a piece. Fifty cent, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Here's two dollars. Give me four of them.
Armist Brooks.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, it's time once again for another comedy episode of
Armis Brooks under the direction of al Lewis Well. Many
of us are spending this Christmas Eve with our families
and friends. But Armist Brooks, who teaches English at Madison
High School, isn't quite so fortunate.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
My family was too far away to visit, and it
seems my friends had other plans. But I made up
my mind not too rude about it, and I was
trimming a rather tiny tree in our living room when
Missus Davis, my landlady, joined me.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
That's quite a nice Christmas tree, cowl.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It isn't really a Christmas tree, Missus Davis. It's called
a friendship tree. See. I trim it by putting all
my greeting cards on the branches with strips of cellophane tape.
Looks nice, doesn't.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
It, Yes, it does. You certainly received some pretty cards
this year, and.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The sentiments are so lovely. Look at this one I
got from my principle, mister Conkline.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But this is it Hazier.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's very heartwarming, Missus Davis. It says to miss Brooks.
May the coming year bring you much more efficiency in.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Your work.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Time, Oh confluence.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh, I can highly believe it's Christmas time again. What
happy memories I have of the earlier Christmas is there
was one I'll never forget. I'll get eight years old,
and when I keiptoed into the living room, there was
my father standing with a tree. A minute he saw me,
his eyes crinkled up and he started to laugh, so
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that this big white beard in this huge paunch just
shook with glee.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Your father was made up as Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
No, he always looked that way. But you get back
to the present, Connie. I'd love to stay here and
celebrate Christmas Eve with you, but I promised my sister Angela,
I come over to her. Please. You remember Angela, the
absent minded one.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Both certainly, Missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
He always got a big thrill out of the holidays too,
even when we were girls. Of course, the poor dear
could never remember when it was actually Christmas. And one
Christmas Day she did the funniest sitting.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Or was that, Missus Davis?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What's fucking.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
What did Angela do?
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Angela?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Your sister, my sister, the evident mind is one.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
What do you do?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well? I haven't spoken to Angela and sometime what did
she get up to?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I wish news. Maybe I can refresh your.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Memory Christmas morning, Angela did the funniest thing.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Christmas Morning isn't until tomorrow, Connie. You must be confused.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Don't worry about it. I only get these spells once
in a while.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Well, you shouldn't let it go, Connie. If you don't
mind my offering a little advice, I'd like to suggest
that you train your mind to concentrate more.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I'll do it, Missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Now, then, I've developed a little scheme which works one destiny.
Supposing you have trouble remembering where you put things around
the house, Well I could just keep repeating the location
to yourself with a sort of rhythm. For example, I
just chant to myself, the mustard's in the clause that
the bread is in the box. The mustard's in the
clause that's the bread is in the box. Now, isn't
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that simple? Mustard's in the clause.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's wonderful, Missus Davis. If anybody wants a mustard sandwich,
you're really ready.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Now, before I do anything else, I want to invite
you to join me tonight. Join you, Yes, dear, I'm
going over to Angela's house. Oh, yes, that's right. Oh
she's so cute for that little absent mind of hers.
Why sometimes she forgets what you was talking about right
in the middle of it. Oh, dear me, I hope
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there's enough milk that they get well.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I'm sure if we but then maybe someday or if
it doesn't seem too And that's why I can't join
you tonight. But thanks anyway, Missus Davis. I'll just spend
a quiet evening at home here.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
But how about mister Bunton. Don't tell me he was
too shy to ask you for a date on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Why do you think there's missiletoe on all four walls? No,
I'm going to ask me, all right, But then he
canceled yesterday, said he's going upstate to visit his folks
for a couple of days. But don't worry about me,
Missus Davis. I'll have a gay time. I'll listen to
the radio, read and from this window I can see
our neighbor's television and Timma.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
But what about the little gifts you got for Walter
Denton and mister and missus Tunklon and Harriet when you're
going to deliver them.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
They told me not to bother. They said we'd exchange
on the twenty sixth, the.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Twenty sixth, but I don't think the day after Christmas
is the time to exchange gifts.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
You know, you should see the department store. What's that,
Missus Ervis?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
He is Minerva?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Where are you, Dear?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah, she's over by the trees.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
He are over. I'm a nerve.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Isn't it the strangest thing? How she bites at the
pine needs? I guess there rosin them? Appeals to her.
I swear she likes the taste of it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I guess to her, it's like a Tom and Jerry
or other, a Mini and a Mickey. Minerva, we might
as well get friendly. We're going to spend the evening together.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Well, I'll be running along now, Dear. I hope you
won't feel too lonely.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I'll be fine, missus Davis. After all, I do have
an imagination. I'll hang up my stocking in a little while. Then,
when I'm pretending i'm a sleep, I'll sneak in and
fill it. Before you know it, it'll be.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Midnight, midnight of Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I can just picture a short, thin man in a
black suit comes sliding down the chimney with an empty bag.
Sink Pennyla's the school teacher, Santa Claus.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Well, at least you're not bitter now, Connie, about my
sister Angela? Oh, thank you dear about my sister Angela. Yeah,
good night, Dorothy, Good night Bernice.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Oh, stop drinking those pine needles, Minerva, come over here.
That's a good kiddy. Now, I'll just settle down in
missus Davis's rocker and we'll have ourselves a nice quiet
rock I've got to exercise more of my bones rusting. Oh,
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it's the rocker. It's just kind of soothing.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's sad.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You seem contented enough, Minerva. But the night before Christmas
and all through the house, not a creature was stirring,
not even the mouth. I'm sorry, Minerva. Oh so I'm
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sleepy now, who can that be? Expecting anyone? Mi nervous?
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Nobody's here.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I'm here where?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Leaning on my knee?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Par a salesman? I don't believe in giving any sales.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Talker sob stories.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
All I do is tell you what I'm selling if.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
You want to buy, Okay, it's not okay, okay, what
are you selling?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, Christmas Eve. I'm just a small urchin, a little
on the under privileged side. I'm trying to make a
few dollars to get some wood to heat our tiny apartment.
So while she's singing to my three six sisters, my mother's.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Lips don't turn blue.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
That's what I like. No sob story. You're selling handkerchiefs.
I'll take sick.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
No, ma'am, I'm selling Christmas trees.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Not on me a dollar piece.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh got, I've already.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Got a tree.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I don't make it fifty said.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
But I don't need to look little boy.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I can arrange payments. Please take one, man, He's an
ordinary treat. You know, no magic magic, Yes, ma'am, you'd
be surprised what miracles will happen if you buy one.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Well, a quarter isn't too much to pay for a miracle.
It's fifty cents. I thought you said twenty five.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
That's when you sounded temper to sell.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well before I melt down to my cold buttons in
the soovepie path. Here's fifty cents.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
You won't be Simon, here's a little tree.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Say it's kind of cute, too bad? Would you like
to come in help me set it up? I can't.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I got to get right home. My said has been
a long long enough thither What.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
About your mother and the firewood?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's just a routine. My folks are attending at dinner.
The other bank presidents are giving for father.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
With a pitch.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You've got to have your own bank by the time
you're twelve.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Takes a lot. Good night, lady, Night Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Same to you, you little underprivileged millionaire. I'll put this
tree over here. Maybe we can find some extra trimming
for it in the morning. Yeah, Minerva, will you stop
gnawing on those pine needles? Wish I knew what made
them so appetizing to her?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, now you.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Come here and let those things alone. There we are. Well,
I guess I'm not the only one that's sending Christmas
Eve alone without family or friends. But who can tell.
Maybe Santa Claus has something up his big red sleeves
that I don't even know about yet. Of course, I
do have a squeaky rocker, and Minerva jingle bells, jingle
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bells and mary stuff like that. Oh, what fun it
is to rock with a big, fat, drunken cat. Have
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I sat in the living room Christmas Eve with Minerva
the cat on my lap? I couldn't help noticing that
the tree which I bought from that wealthy urchin had
a rather peculiar luminosity. Although there wasn't any artificial illumination,
it seemed to glow from deep down in its branches.
Have I rocked back and forth?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I started to get very drowsy.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oo, little boy said this tree was magic. Minerva. I
don't believe it either, sire. It is Christmas Eve? Who
very strange things have happened on Christmas Eve? Huh? Oh
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than dozing?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Coming?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Well, it's Walter Benson. Come in, Walter no elsa you
know well, gracious, come run into the living room, Walter.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Thanks, miss Brooks here, I've brought you this little gift
to put under your tree.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Now, that was very thoughtful, Walter put it under this
tree over here.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Kirk saying you got two trees, haven't you, Yes, one's
from a nerve and one for me.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
What, don't pay any attention to her. She's Kine needle.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Happy well, miss Brooks. As you know, I was supposed
to spend the evening nestled snugly in the tight little
confines of my own small immediate family circle for heaven fakes,
come out of there. You're giving me close to phobia.
I went to my father and mother and curve their permissions.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Wait a minute, Walter, you crove their mission. Yeah, crave
craven crove, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Crave crave.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Let's see, crave craven. After you crove their permission.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Well, they waived my presence for a long enough while
for me to deliver to you, miss Brooks, the little
token of my esteem and affection, which is now ensconsin
under the tree.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Walter, are you still in my English class?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Its sure, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'd better boone up a little. One of us is
gonna plunk this time.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
What I'd like to say, Miss Brooks, is something that
I wanted to.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Say for a long time. Yes, Walter.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It's a little on.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
The sentimental side, perhaps for a so called.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Keep high school of what to be telling the teacher.
But it's sincere, miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It's something I feel deep down inside of me, Miss Brooks,
from when so many of one's warmer emotion stems.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's Wednesday stem from all right, of course, even if
it does seem over sentimental or even downright sticky, Christmas
Eve seems to be the time you can say things
like this and not sound over sentimental or sticky. Christmas
Eve is the time to say them. I just hope
I hear them by New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
What I want you to know this is that I'm
grateful for us, for my association with you during the
past semester at Madison High School.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Well, thank you all. Or I've tried to be a
capable teacher.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Oh sure, teaching was nothing mean sholastically as a teacher,
you are very adequate, stimming personally.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
The interest you took in me and my problems.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
For that, I could never thank you. If I lived
to the one hundred the carse you'd be gone a
long time by then.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know to you too.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
You don't know what it's meant to me to have
your ear whenever I needed it.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
There was nothing, really. I have another.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
One, especially about girl. Gosh, remember Hostilly, I used to
act about girls. Every time I've looked at me, I
giggled like a kid, And then overnight I matured. I
met the one woman who mattered, Harriet.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Conklin the water.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
I don't know what, but something, And you saw me
through the difficult transition period of Atamore as well, while
Harriet and I were adjusting to one another. It was
wonderful to be able to come to you for advice,
Miss Brooks. It isn't every boy who has such an
interest taken in him by some intelligent elderly person.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Give me back my ear.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Said that you're inching or anything trash. I seen girls
don't look as good as you do.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Girls?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What do you think I am? Yeah? Got up Minerva.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
The way, miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
See he got lots of missile toe on the walls.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Re expecting mister Whitton tonight, Yes, Walter, I was.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
We were going for a wheelchair ride together, but he
had to visit his folks upstate.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
His folks. Gosh, they must be well along in years.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
His father's over fifty. They may shoot him next spring
water water here. You might as well pick up the
little gifts I got for you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh but you shouldn't have, miss Brooks.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Where is it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I have a tree on your ride? It isn't much,
just a remembrance.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Oh gee, I almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I can't open it yet? Who why not? Oh you
mean you want to put it under your tree at
home and open it with your family.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Not exactly, but i'll get it later, Missus Gutch?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
There they are now, I'll answer it.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
There?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Who are now?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
John?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And thought she was all alone when I got here.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
It's really a surprise, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We should have stayed home Christmas Eve. Besides, it's freezing.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Out now, odd good, don't see so grousey? Hello, Miss Brooks,
Merry Christmas? Why it's mister and missus Conklin?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Then, Harriet, how are you all?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I'm cold?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Too bad?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Come here, Minerva? Rub up against mister Conklin.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
What's that a boy? Cat?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
She seems to like you?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Was good?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Or? Or is she hungry?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Miss Brooke?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
She's not that hungry.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I don't like cats.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Why doesn't you go chase a mouse or something?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You forget, mister Conklin, This is Christmas Eve. There isn't
one searing stay Harriet.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yes, Walter, there's a lot of miss toe on this room.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I know it's.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Real pretty Ah good? Notice all the mistletoe in his roomb.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
What oh that green stuff? No not, it makes me sneeze.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Oh, come on, good nexte the dime.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Oh no, motha, don't embarrass me. I don't.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Doesn't make you sneeze, doesn't, Harriet. I'm willing to find out.
Here's the nice threeth of it on this wall. Yeah,
we are here, we are here, we are If it's
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all right with Harriet, it's all right with us.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Come on, wol we're getting old cash.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Here's fleet, Harriet.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Isn't that you are good? Come?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Do you know about one for your faithful old wine?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, it is customary. I guess there. I'm under the stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
After you. Very well.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
See I told you. Now, let's stop this romantic dribble
and act like adult human beings, Miss Brooks. I'd like
to take advantage of this visit to inquire as to
your plans for the coming year's class work. Do you
have your schedule all laid out?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Thank you, mister Conson. I haven't had much chance to
work on anything.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I had much of a chance, but you've been away
from school all week. Your vacation started last Monday.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I know, mister Conslin, and that's what I took the week.
As I mean, a vacation is something you go on
when you get the opportunity to. You don't work on
it or during it. Unless even though I didn't actually
go anywhere when my vacation came along, I went on
it or was on one usually.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
And you wanted to be the head of the English department.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
These are good. This is no time to talk of
school affairs.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
We're here to spend part of our holiday with Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
It was very nice of you to think about me,
Missus Tonqulin, it was nice of all of you. I
want to wear a Walter and Harriet.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
N get my daughter away from that missilete at once,
mister Carlin.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Harriet isn't allergic to mischlete.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
No, but I'm allergic to you.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Here. It's almost irresistible sometimes, especially alongside the older women
like missus Conklin and miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Sounds like the bell. I'll get it. Why, mister Bison,
come in cook?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Thanks Miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
But I thought you were going Upstates and see your fault.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I was, but they sent me a wire that they
wanted to come here for about a week or so.
They'll arrive in the morning, so I thought I'd dropped
this little gift off for you tonight.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh but you shouldn't have. Where is it? Let's just
put it under the tree in the living room. Look
who's here?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Well, it's mister Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Pretty cold out, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
This is beginning to get more like Christmas Eve every minute.
Sit down, mister Boyton. I'm certainly glad your folks decided
to visit you instead of vice versa.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
So am I there's a particularly good reason why I'm
glad there is? Yes, it gives me a chance to
see how my guinea pigs are affected by this cold snap.
They haven't reacted at all.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What do you expect them to do? Blow on their paws?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Look? Have you pointed out the missile tone, mister Boynton?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Why don't you stop that nonsense?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Mother?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
It isn't nonsense, mister Boyton, Look at the missile tone?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Missing tone? Oh oh yes. A very interesting example of
the flora found in various areas throughout the globe an
evergreen parasitic shrub. It is indigenous to the regions where
apple trees and oaks are bound.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Now that the lecture is over me, we asked questions.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Certainly, miss Brooks.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I want to stand under it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Stand under it? Well, you see, because of certain characteristics
in its makeup, and allergy is sometimes aggravated by its presence.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'll take a chance if you will, come on, mister
boyte mister boy just bring him over to this wall here.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Hella, I'll get hundred if you like.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Well, don't just stand here. Can't you see Miss Brooks
is cooking.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Well, don't fuss for me. I couldn't need a thing.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Don't you know what's standing under the missilesoe signify?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, I know what it signifies to most people.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But to me, well, I go eighty five cents worth
of missletoe.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What let's do.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Let's open up the presence right now?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Who blend? It's the deestin water?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Shouldn't we wait until just before we leave? Might be
less embarrassing that way.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Well, if you want to open them now, wi, this
one tree is pretty crowded up with some of these
packages under this little one over here, and look out,
water you're bumping into one of the branches.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
The girl.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Gosh, I got the sums feeling when I touched that branch.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
What kind of a feeling?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Water, William?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
You're Harriet Conklin, aren't you well sure? And Harriet Conkland,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Nothing? And nothing's the matter with me.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
It's just that I want to tell you something, Surriot.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You've gotta change.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You want to try to be more.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Like miss Brooks.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
But what do you mean, Walter? If you want me
to stay interested in you, you've gotta be more alluring, youthful, glamorous,
feminine in that real feeling, Brooks away.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Have you been drinking high needles too?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Look at that tweet.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It seems to be growing.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
What do you mean glowing? It's just a reflection from
the street lights. This part is giving me the memis.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Holidays.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Indeed, you know I just moved the free where it
won't glisten in our eyes. Here we go, oh, very Christal,
of course, I'm mister conference. Havey go, lucky, fun loving
(24:39):
gag A minute, Oz, girl, yeah, a minute.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Sometimes I've wanted to.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Brook You suddenly look so different, so intelligent.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I have made up my mind. You are now head
of the Madison High English Department.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Thank you, fun loving Oz.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I'm going to put this wonderful tree word along right
in the center of the room, give me a handboy, yes,
or mister Cocklan, I'll just take this end here and.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Miss Brooks.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, mister Biden, calar baby, I said clear Connie.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I said, come here, baby, and I'm here. He's taking
her over to the Mitchell tone wonderful. What are you
going to do, mister Biden?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just call me philed Connie at least is what I'm
gonna do. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I feel like I'm in the dream hillis wonderful, beautiful dream.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Mister, mister mister barn where are you? Where did everybody go?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
I must have been dreaming. Well that's real enough. I'll
be right there. Oh sorry, man, everybody didn't mean to
drop you.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Right right, I'm cold.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
The conference and Walter and mister Bryton, but you all
just left, I mean, come in. We thought it would
be nice if we sent our Christmas Eve together, mister Yes,
and we've brought a few little gifts over for you.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
I'll just put them under this tree.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Here, Yes, do that, Walter.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Aren't you gonna ask me why I didn't go up state?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Miss Brooks? I know why, mister Boyton. Your folks are
coming down to see you.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
How did you know that I just got the telegram.
Don't let's get too carried away with the holidays.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
We've got to.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Put there for a hard school season ahead, Miss Brooks.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Oh, let's not talk about school fairs now. I could
Walter look at the mistletoe. Yeah, we work at it now,
just a minute before we go through all that again,
would you please touch the tree, mister Boyton, the one
on the left with the myst gone.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
There's only one.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Tree, Miss Brooks?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Of course, I'm all right. Could I have dreampt that
part too? Mister Boydan. Would you do me a favor? Please?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Christmas Brooks?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Would you touch the Christmas tree?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Touch you please?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
It's important? All right there, nothing happened.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
What did you expect?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
A miracle? Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
I don't want to lurch you, and I'm selling magic
Christmas tree. But you just came here for one lady.
You only cost fifty cents a piece. Fifty cent, that's right.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Here's two dollars. Give me four of them.
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