October 16, 2025 • 29 mins
A horror and fantasy anthology series that delves into the eerie and the unknown, offering stories that unsettle and provoke thought. Its minimalist production enhances the chilling narratives.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Cooper and which features Ernest Chaplin.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Quiet Please for Today is called the Time of the
Big Snow. We were so small and it was such
a big stove, wasn't it, dear my? I remember remember
(00:41):
it did. It was the day after New Year's New Year's.
I remember we hadn't had much snow that year, only
a little Thanksgiving Day, but no, the day before Thanksgiving
the new.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Mile standards in the exercise, and I was Priscilla and
Irving Ball was brought al at the Indian.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'll never forget. He was the fattest daddy and Irish saw.
I can still hear him now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What a woman can.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
See by the fiery eyes of the captain. Angry is
he in his heart? But the heart of the brave.
What a woman is not afraid at the second?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And then you handed him a bag full of bullets
and he dropped them and yelled out, and his Indian
headdressed still off, and.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Missus Maveny was so mad. And then we went.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Out and it was snowing.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh but that was a little bit of a snow,
not like.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The big one.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Not a bit like the big one.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I remember Mama were just lighting the lamps and I
looked out the windows and I saw the first flakes
coming down, and I said.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh, Mamma, the old woman's picking her geese.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
My grandma always used to say just.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
That everybody did when it started to snow.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And I remember how I wanted to go out with
my new sled that I got for Christmas, and my
dad would let me.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
There wasn't snow or not.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I knew it, but I was so disappointed. And I
sat with the window.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And looked out bald and bald, till my dad sprang
to me I had to carry in the cold.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That was one time I didn't mind it because.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
It was snowing and it got dark so quick.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We sat by the snow after supper and Mama ritus,
what are.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Your snowboun I remember you too.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
The next day of the day after New Year's and.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We finally got out.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Gee, it was so high, almost at the top of
the fence. Mama said not to go far because it
was snowing so hard.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Remember they didn't want me to go out at all.
They said I'd get lost, but I said I was
going to be with you with Ted, and Ted's a
big boy.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You lost. We lived on South Fifth Street then, didn't we.
The houses were kind of far apart, kind of back
from the street.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
There were big trees on each side.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Of the street that almost met in the middle, and
it kept the snow from getting too deep out in
the street. I dragged you along on your sled. He
was my new twenty two rifle I got for Christmas.
There was hardly anybody on the street. Everything was so white,
so quiet. We were sleigh bells.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Remember it was Roos, the male man at his cutter.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, it wasn't a pretty kate.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
How that old horsey is? Who was that's right?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Queen?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
How queen's hoofs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Made the snow fly without making any noise at all.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Only the sound of the sleigh bells. We got out
of his road and mister Diffmerd dashed down past this cutter,
all bundled up.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yeah it was cold too, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We were bundled up too. I had on my red
tassel cap. I remember you had on that little squirrel
skin muff and Red met. We were seven years old,
so happy.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I don't mind how the snow is coming down. You
could almost see it getting deeper and deeper. We could
hardly tell where we were. Was that uh Mars this
house there on the right, or was it walf Myers.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Oh ah, it was fun, wasn't it, Kate.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's the two of us alone together and the in
the great big white world. And then I began to
get a little worried, and the wind was starting to
blow pretty hard.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I couldn't see a thing.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I turned around and close and I said, Katie, we
better turn around, and.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
You turn around and go back.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
Why I said, we better turn around and go back.
I can't see where I'm going, yeady more. I'm not scared.
I mean we might get lost, and you don't know
what why. I don't wanna get no spanking. Uh yeah,
might be a long stanks, Yes she will. She said,
(05:07):
to stay right near home?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Well where right now?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Long? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:12):
But I don't know where. Well, there's Mike to House,
then Wealth Mya, then living Ballman, There's then there's ball
Anders and Willy Janssens and Judge Curns. Holy. I don't
know where I am fly. No, we ain't lost you,
(05:33):
but I wanna know where we are. Let's go in
the sidewalk and look and see. Small's awful deep over there. Well,
if you can't pull the fat, do it.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
I'll get off and lock.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
You can help me pull it.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
Yo, ny isn't this fast?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Poor? Come close by here, come on and help me
with us with just see they shut up? Where are
you going? The sidewalks over here? Chislass? This one is
not just toss it final. Besides, you told your mother
you wouldn't get lost if he was with me. Well,
(06:16):
well don't you get me lost? Come on now, it's
this way night they keep business one. I don't see
a cheese.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
You're right here? Come on, my This is like being Lars,
isn't it?
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Say?
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Sure you look out for the polar bears. Oh, I'm
not as sad as an. He'll pullar dance. I shoot
him anyway. Seels though, mon about seals they bite? I
shoot the seals two and get you a sealskin coat.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
I don't see the sidewalks ready, See, it's why here?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
What din't matter? Why this is deep? Swow, that's the
deepest in the world. Yeah, hasaya the sidewalk?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No it ain't.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
I told you was that way?
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Come on, I know where I'm going.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
I'm cold? You see hee? What se?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What?
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Teddy?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Well? Stop calling me cheddy.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
My name's d.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Did you fall down?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
It's the sea?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Finally, Teddy kid?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
You scared?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
No, well, come on the sidewalks right here, No it
is it's the other way.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
All right. Let's see just right over there. See if
the snow would only what up a minute and then
we could sing. Oh, I guess calm an old Perry
didn't need to see.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
He's older than that snow.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
You see it light work. I can't see anything.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
I'm been awful tired.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Put your arms around me. I don't think I did
walk another step? Want to stop and rest?
Speaker 9 (08:35):
No little rest?
Speaker 8 (08:37):
When we get to the slidewalk, why hang on to me?
Then it's this way.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
No, you're going wrong, it's this way.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And then the wind came up stronger, and the snow
was a solid white wall before us. Because it's true,
we were both very small, but nevertheless it was a
deep snow and going deeper by the second. I don't
know how long we wandered, but my legs were getting
awfully tired. I was staggering a little the sledge seemed
to be dragging this backward as we struggle along. And
(09:13):
I admit that I by the intrepid explorer. Yeah, I
was very close to it is only the thought of
Kate's reaction to my das definitely from busting out bawling.
And then I smacked full force, and there's something solid,
and I saw a million sid Wow.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
What's the name I've buzzed in my head?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Wow, I've bugged into a tree, a tree where I'm here?
Oh well, anyway, they found the slidewalk. Now I will
see what we all. Maybe if we knock on somebody's door,
somebody else.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Take us home.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I knows hurt. H I'll get some orncle or something
from the people in the house.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
Yes, plays the house's.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Right up here, has to be right up here.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Maybe lady, we should have it.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, that's still.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Jans.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
How do you know?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
That's Jess? How well?
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Whoever it is? Hey, now listen, did you hear something?
I thought maybe I'll hear a jol?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Ray it was I never was such a welcome sound
in all my life?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Did you Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I should say not? I know what I thought of
a nice, great big red.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Hot stove and me sitting just as close to it
as I could without bursting into flames, and steam rising
up from our wet clothes, and the good smell of
coffee and fresh baked bread coming from the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I thought about coffee too, even though my mother
never let me taste it, And I thought, by maybe
they'll have some oyster stew, Only it's kind of earlier
in the day for people to have oyster stew. That's
bird tonight. But maybe a couple of cocoas. There'll probably
be Albert Morris or Willie Jansen and beat a bowlunder
(11:19):
to help drink the cocoa, beat the.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Oyster stew, if they have any.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I tell you, I just crashed my way through the
snow toward the sound of that voice we heard calling.
Then sudden the kid yelled, I see the whole house.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Steady, say I sy.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
Who I can't tell? Oh, here's a step.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Oh hell, there isn't anybody.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
They went inside, so they think they're gonna stand out
here in the snow and they don't have to.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Well not hum made it.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
They ran into the other room where the joy open.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Come on, come on, I can't stand any all the man.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
So there wasn't any nice, big red hot stove.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
There wasn't any oyster stew either, or coffee a cuckoo.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
There wasn't anything. The house was empty.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Katie and I walked into the big, bare, empty room,
and it was almost as cold as air as there
was outside, only of.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Course it wasn't snowing.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But now we could hear the sound of the snow
on the windows, its soft, little padding sound, the sounds
you wouldn't hear ordinarily. There was loud in the beating
of our hearts, and we just stood there. Katy was
still stiffening, and I admit I didn't feel much like
(13:08):
Commodore Perry because the house was empty, you see, And
there wasn't an empty house anywhere on South fifth Street.
Marsh's Waldmeres and Reverend Bowman's, Bolaners, and Willie Janssen's and
Judge Curns, but no empty house wholly. And I couldn't
(13:30):
think where we are at all. I knew we were
on South fifth Street, but I didn't know where.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Explorers always wandering circles.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And I looked around. There wasn't a thing in the room,
not a chair, nor a table, not anything, but.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
The room seemed somehow to look as if somebody.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Lived there anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Then I said to Katy, I don't know where we are.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Maybe we'd better get out of here, huh whoa, and
stay a minute and try to get warm. But we
better not stay your room.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
I'm cold.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Well, let's sit down here in the corner and try
to get warm. Huh used to in any wind? Nice?
Don't wonder I didn't snow.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah, my goodness, you'll have to Katy.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
We have to go home, baby, I will come looking
for it here anyway, How could we find our way
home again? I could find it and found this house,
didn't I You hit yourself on a tree and I
found it though, Kay, put your arms around me.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Why i'm cold, Well, put your arms around me. I'm cold, fool.
Let's let's put our arms unties to each other. Oh, why.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
I'm colly. Oh my mama was making sick. I'll stop
at your house when we go back. Maybe your mother
will give me some.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
I sure wish we had some.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Now we'll stop thinking about it.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
I sure wish I could.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I wanna go home.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Oh shut up, no, I won't shut up.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
I wanna go home.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Katie, listen, who can't go home on a snowy so?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (15:22):
No, world, stop snowing. I don't know when the old
woman finishes picking a gas of schools? Who stop? Get
see somebody come and looking for it? You see what, Katy? Still?
I braid it that your dad hid?
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Bess?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Who who is this?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
I'll see who it is?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Hello? Oh, I thought i'd heard somebody calling. Were the
few children?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well you're all right now, so stop squalling.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
I'm not squalling, I'm just cold.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
Well, sit down.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
We were called, are you so?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Am?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I excuse me, ma'am. We got lost and we don't
know where we are while you're in my house, yes, ma'am,
but we don't know. I mean, is this south the street?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
No it isn't. Slowly hah, it'd be surprised.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Children, How I can go home?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Well, you can't go home right now, Katie, So you
and Teddy might as well come along and help me
with my work. Well don't you walk.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
To Well what kind of work, ma'am?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Why are I picking the feathers off my geese?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, sir, you know what? There was another room and
there were well, it seemed like I'm Willian white geese
stacked up out.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
There, and she put us to work without another word.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Did you ever cook?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Piece or plucking or whatever you call it?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And you're part of the country.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Geese are almost as big as yourself. Geese that didn't
especially want to be plucked.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I guess not, But we did, Teddy and me, didn't
we kate?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You certainly did.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
And it was so cold.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
To chose a nice old woman, wasn't she Teddy?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Don't you call me Teddy?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
My name's ted.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And it got dark and there wasn't much light, and
we just sat there on the floor.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Ticking the geese, and the old woman talked to us
so nice, my, how nice she was.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
You see, if you're keep working like that, you won't
feel the cold so much, Kitty.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I do feel as though, well, if you stayed home
like your mother wanted you to, you wouldn't have to
be doing all this work, and you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Be the cold.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But I wanted to go out and play. I was
with her.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I wouldn't let anything happen to.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Work, but you did.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You got long well, I wasn't afraid with Teddy, ted.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
You like Teddy, don't you kitty?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Yes, now you like her?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Ted Wow, you too gonna get married when you grow up?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Whoa?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Well what I was gonna be a fireman and firemen
aren't usually home much.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I guess I don't think you want to be a fireman, Teddy.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I know I one wouldn't want to be one.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Why too warm?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
You like cold?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You bet I doing?
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Katy?
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Aren't you gonna marry me when you grow up?
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I haven't decided?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Well you are, Teddy.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I can promise you that, Katie, I know.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Unless unless why unless you.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Freeze to death?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Oh well, I'll try not to let you freeze to death.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Oh agree, I'm glad, but I'm pretty cold now.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Or you'll keep right on working. That's more geese to
be picked.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
This is going to be known for years as the
time of the Big Snow.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I need all the help I can get.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
You always pick your geese on it snows, of course,
that's why it snows.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Must have a lot of geese.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Hundreds thousands all over the world keeps.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Me pretty busy.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You don't have any geese in Africa that where it's hot.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh I have them there, daddy, but they're way up
high up on top of the mountains.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
There's always snow up there.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Do you have lots of helpers?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
No, you're the first I ever had my there's enough
a lot of we need 'em.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Katie, I tell you, though, I think we might as
well get rid of this bunch. Open the window, and
the window blow them out. Sure, No, No, not that one.
This one.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
The winds from the north o this.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
One, and the wind came reaching right in, and the
white feathers threw out the open window with it. Katie
and I gathered up great armloads.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Of the feathers and tossed them out the window.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
And laughed and laughed.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
If the wind whirled them high in the air, they.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Seemed to mutifly. New Hall was full of bright blurries.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Again in the dust house side.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We laughed some more.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The old woman laughed with us.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right, gracious, we did that just in time this week.
Get it pretty near shop.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
You know what, I bet we're the first people that
ever helped us to know.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You certainly are children, and you're doing a very good
job of it. I don't know, but what I'll have
to call on you again to help me.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Muntill we get one of well I've handled it pretty.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Well all by myself all these years.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
So have you been doing it a long time?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Now?
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So long?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Two yang?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Longer than that?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Ten yea twenty?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Why I've been doing it ever since?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, just ever since?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Has you got a name?
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Would you tell us?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well? When I lived on that mountain in Greece, they
used to call me the meter. I was pretty important.
Then then the Indians they called me na Coomas.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Nocormas m. Why you're Hiawatha's grandmar Of course I get
all these geese.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Hia Walter is a fine hunter.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Why do you have any more names?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Up in the Northland they called me Freya and the
Japanese people call me. I'm a ratsa.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Why I've got more names?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And you can shake a stick at.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
And all I do is pluck geese?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh close that window, Teddy?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Will your mind? Oh sure?
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Don't you ever get called missus?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I'd rather be called Nacomas. No, I never get cold, yee,
I do. Well, you should have stayed home.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
You think I'll get a spangy when I get home.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
No, I don't think so, Katie.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
I think I could promise you you won't well then
I'm glad we get get lost in thunders place, so
my I don't get a looking geez. That's getting dark,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
And I must go outside and get some more geese.
Have to keep working children.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know? Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Yes, but I like to go home.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Please.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Oh, plenty of time for that, Teddy. We've got work
to do.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
My mama always gives me a nickel.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
If I work hard.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Do you earn many nickels?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Teddy? No, not very many. Really, I haven't got any nickel, yes, ma'am.
And you mustn't hit you know, no, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
But I'll give you something, Teddy for all the work
you did.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
And you too, Kady, But you tay, I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Hm.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I am kind of scared, Teddy. I am too, Katie.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
What do we do?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
I don't know. I'm tired too. Should I put my
arms around your Katy? Yes?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Please, I'm getting so sleepy. I'm so cold, Seady.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Don't go to sleep, you'll flee. I can't help us.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I have to go and sleep, Teddy.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
No, don't, please, Katie?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Whoa you tired?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
I I'm so sleepy, you too, Teddy?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I'm not very sleepy.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Why you poor kids.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
You worked so hard.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You just go to sleep.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
No, we're free, you know you won't.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'll cover you up with feathers.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
That's so cold.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
They'll be nice, warm, salt downy warm feathers.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Here.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Put your head on Teddy's arm, Katie, that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Now, these nice fat geese.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
With lots and lots of nice salt feathers, wops and
lots of nice white feathers.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Teddy and Katy.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
You said maybe you'd give us something for all the work.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Why, of course.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I gave my little grandson gifts. Here, Teddy, here, Katy
now school to.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
See.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Thank you, Thank you, and your Clomas kissed me the night,
yeady world, wipe you nose.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
And the very last thing I remember was the feathers.
How they were all star shaped and crystal was not
at all like the feathers I'd ever seen. It was
almost midnight when they found us, Katie's father and mine,
and the blacksmith was to Wright and Arthur Donoghue and
his brother Harry, and there wasn't any house there at all.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
There wasn't anything.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We were buried under a huge snow drift. And if
they can blot not a hundred feet from our backyard.
There wasn't any old woman either, just two kids. We
sleep in the snow in each other's arms. Mm, not
frozen to death after all.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And they took us home, and we had our oyster
stew in our cocoa, and we sat with a big stone,
and then we slept.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
We slept and slept, and neither one of us ever
did this today our parents again.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Did we kid, We hardly ever done. But we never
did tell anybody before because they wouldn't have believed this.
They'd have said it was a dream. But how did
we both dreamed the same dream? And we we did
get married, just as she said we would. Mm. We
still have got that little red clay feastpipe, just like Hiawatis.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
And the little bird and arrow she gave.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And besides it, wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Day Weather Bureau forecast for January second, nineteen forty nine,
five thirty pm. Temperature thirty six degrees, humidity sixty two percent,
barometer twenty nine point eight. Tonight, considerable snow somewhere Tomorrow,
snow Tuesday, more snow.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
All right, city, and kay, come on, we've got.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Geese to pick.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
The title.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Of today's Quiet Please story is the Time of the
Big Snow, which was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The man who spoke to you with Ernest Chapple and
Kate was Abby Lewis, Teddy was Sarah Fussell. Katie was
played by Cecil Roy, and the old woman was Vicky Baugh.
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As you was, your music for Choiet Please is played
by Albert Burman. Now for a word about next week,
our writing director, Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to
Quiet Please. Next week I have a story story that
I call the biography of a character. And so until
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next week of the same time, I am quietly yours,
Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Now a listening reminder.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Tonight, Drew Person analyzes the news and predicts future events
for the year nineteen forty nine. So be sure to
hear Drew Person's exciting predictions tonight. This is ABC, the
American Broadcasting Company.
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Cooper and which features Ernest Chaplin.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Quiet Please for Today is called the Time of the
Big Snow. We were so small and it was such
a big stove, wasn't it, dear my? I remember remember
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it did. It was the day after New Year's New Year's.
I remember we hadn't had much snow that year, only
a little Thanksgiving Day, but no, the day before Thanksgiving
the new.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Mile standards in the exercise, and I was Priscilla and
Irving Ball was brought al at the Indian.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'll never forget. He was the fattest daddy and Irish saw.
I can still hear him now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What a woman can.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
See by the fiery eyes of the captain. Angry is
he in his heart? But the heart of the brave.
What a woman is not afraid at the second?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And then you handed him a bag full of bullets
and he dropped them and yelled out, and his Indian
headdressed still off, and.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Missus Maveny was so mad. And then we went.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Out and it was snowing.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh but that was a little bit of a snow,
not like.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The big one.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Not a bit like the big one.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I remember Mama were just lighting the lamps and I
looked out the windows and I saw the first flakes
coming down, and I said.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh, Mamma, the old woman's picking her geese.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
My grandma always used to say just.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
That everybody did when it started to snow.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And I remember how I wanted to go out with
my new sled that I got for Christmas, and my
dad would let me.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
There wasn't snow or not.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I knew it, but I was so disappointed. And I
sat with the window.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And looked out bald and bald, till my dad sprang
to me I had to carry in the cold.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
That was one time I didn't mind it because.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
It was snowing and it got dark so quick.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We sat by the snow after supper and Mama ritus,
what are.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Your snowboun I remember you too.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
The next day of the day after New Year's and.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We finally got out.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Gee, it was so high, almost at the top of
the fence. Mama said not to go far because it
was snowing so hard.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Remember they didn't want me to go out at all.
They said I'd get lost, but I said I was
going to be with you with Ted, and Ted's a
big boy.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You lost. We lived on South Fifth Street then, didn't we.
The houses were kind of far apart, kind of back
from the street.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
There were big trees on each side.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Of the street that almost met in the middle, and
it kept the snow from getting too deep out in
the street. I dragged you along on your sled. He
was my new twenty two rifle I got for Christmas.
There was hardly anybody on the street. Everything was so white,
so quiet. We were sleigh bells.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Remember it was Roos, the male man at his cutter.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, it wasn't a pretty kate.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
How that old horsey is? Who was that's right?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Queen?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
How queen's hoofs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Made the snow fly without making any noise at all.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Only the sound of the sleigh bells. We got out
of his road and mister Diffmerd dashed down past this cutter,
all bundled up.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yeah it was cold too, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
We were bundled up too. I had on my red
tassel cap. I remember you had on that little squirrel
skin muff and Red met. We were seven years old,
so happy.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
It was a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I don't mind how the snow is coming down. You
could almost see it getting deeper and deeper. We could
hardly tell where we were. Was that uh Mars this
house there on the right, or was it walf Myers.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Oh ah, it was fun, wasn't it, Kate.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That's the two of us alone together and the in
the great big white world. And then I began to
get a little worried, and the wind was starting to
blow pretty hard.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I couldn't see a thing.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I turned around and close and I said, Katie, we
better turn around, and.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
You turn around and go back.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
Why I said, we better turn around and go back.
I can't see where I'm going, yeady more. I'm not scared.
I mean we might get lost, and you don't know
what why. I don't wanna get no spanking. Uh yeah,
might be a long stanks, Yes she will. She said,
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to stay right near home?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Well where right now?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Long? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:12):
But I don't know where. Well, there's Mike to House,
then Wealth Mya, then living Ballman, There's then there's ball
Anders and Willy Janssens and Judge Curns. Holy. I don't
know where I am fly. No, we ain't lost you,
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but I wanna know where we are. Let's go in
the sidewalk and look and see. Small's awful deep over there. Well,
if you can't pull the fat, do it.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
I'll get off and lock.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
You can help me pull it.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
Yo, ny isn't this fast?
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Poor? Come close by here, come on and help me
with us with just see they shut up? Where are
you going? The sidewalks over here? Chislass? This one is
not just toss it final. Besides, you told your mother
you wouldn't get lost if he was with me. Well,
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well don't you get me lost? Come on now, it's
this way night they keep business one. I don't see
a cheese.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
You're right here? Come on, my This is like being Lars,
isn't it?
Speaker 9 (06:39):
Say?
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Sure you look out for the polar bears. Oh, I'm
not as sad as an. He'll pullar dance. I shoot
him anyway. Seels though, mon about seals they bite? I
shoot the seals two and get you a sealskin coat.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
I don't see the sidewalks ready, See, it's why here?
Speaker 8 (07:05):
What din't matter? Why this is deep? Swow, that's the
deepest in the world. Yeah, hasaya the sidewalk?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
No it ain't.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
I told you was that way?
Speaker 7 (07:24):
Come on, I know where I'm going.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
I'm cold? You see hee? What se?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What?
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Teddy?
Speaker 8 (07:36):
Well? Stop calling me cheddy.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
My name's d.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Did you fall down?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
It's the sea?
Speaker 9 (07:48):
Finally, Teddy kid?
Speaker 8 (07:51):
You scared?
Speaker 9 (07:53):
No, well, come on the sidewalks right here, No it
is it's the other way.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
All right. Let's see just right over there. See if
the snow would only what up a minute and then
we could sing. Oh, I guess calm an old Perry
didn't need to see.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
He's older than that snow.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
You see it light work. I can't see anything.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
I'm been awful tired.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Put your arms around me. I don't think I did
walk another step? Want to stop and rest?
Speaker 9 (08:35):
No little rest?
Speaker 8 (08:37):
When we get to the slidewalk, why hang on to me?
Then it's this way.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
No, you're going wrong, it's this way.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And then the wind came up stronger, and the snow
was a solid white wall before us. Because it's true,
we were both very small, but nevertheless it was a
deep snow and going deeper by the second. I don't
know how long we wandered, but my legs were getting
awfully tired. I was staggering a little the sledge seemed
to be dragging this backward as we struggle along. And
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I admit that I by the intrepid explorer. Yeah, I
was very close to it is only the thought of
Kate's reaction to my das definitely from busting out bawling.
And then I smacked full force, and there's something solid,
and I saw a million sid Wow.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
What's the name I've buzzed in my head?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Wow, I've bugged into a tree, a tree where I'm here?
Oh well, anyway, they found the slidewalk. Now I will
see what we all. Maybe if we knock on somebody's door,
somebody else.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Take us home.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
I knows hurt. H I'll get some orncle or something
from the people in the house.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
Yes, plays the house's.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Right up here, has to be right up here.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
Maybe lady, we should have it.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, that's still.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Jans.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
How do you know?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
That's Jess? How well?
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Whoever it is? Hey, now listen, did you hear something?
I thought maybe I'll hear a jol?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Ray it was I never was such a welcome sound
in all my life?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Did you Okay?
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I should say not? I know what I thought of
a nice, great big red.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Hot stove and me sitting just as close to it
as I could without bursting into flames, and steam rising
up from our wet clothes, and the good smell of
coffee and fresh baked bread coming from the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I thought about coffee too, even though my mother
never let me taste it, And I thought, by maybe
they'll have some oyster stew, Only it's kind of earlier
in the day for people to have oyster stew. That's
bird tonight. But maybe a couple of cocoas. There'll probably
be Albert Morris or Willie Jansen and beat a bowlunder
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to help drink the cocoa, beat the.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Oyster stew, if they have any.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I tell you, I just crashed my way through the
snow toward the sound of that voice we heard calling.
Then sudden the kid yelled, I see the whole house.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Steady, say I sy.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
Who I can't tell? Oh, here's a step.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
Oh hell, there isn't anybody.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
They went inside, so they think they're gonna stand out
here in the snow and they don't have to.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Well not hum made it.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
They ran into the other room where the joy open.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
Come on, come on, I can't stand any all the man.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
So there wasn't any nice, big red hot stove.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
There wasn't any oyster stew either, or coffee a cuckoo.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
There wasn't anything. The house was empty.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Katie and I walked into the big, bare, empty room,
and it was almost as cold as air as there
was outside, only of.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Course it wasn't snowing.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But now we could hear the sound of the snow
on the windows, its soft, little padding sound, the sounds
you wouldn't hear ordinarily. There was loud in the beating
of our hearts, and we just stood there. Katy was
still stiffening, and I admit I didn't feel much like
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Commodore Perry because the house was empty, you see, And
there wasn't an empty house anywhere on South fifth Street.
Marsh's Waldmeres and Reverend Bowman's, Bolaners, and Willie Janssen's and
Judge Curns, but no empty house wholly. And I couldn't
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think where we are at all. I knew we were
on South fifth Street, but I didn't know where.
Speaker 8 (13:37):
Explorers always wandering circles.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And I looked around. There wasn't a thing in the room,
not a chair, nor a table, not anything, but.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
The room seemed somehow to look as if somebody.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Lived there anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Then I said to Katy, I don't know where we are.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Maybe we'd better get out of here, huh whoa, and
stay a minute and try to get warm. But we
better not stay your room.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
I'm cold.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Well, let's sit down here in the corner and try
to get warm. Huh used to in any wind? Nice?
Don't wonder I didn't snow.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah, my goodness, you'll have to Katy.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
We have to go home, baby, I will come looking
for it here anyway, How could we find our way
home again? I could find it and found this house,
didn't I You hit yourself on a tree and I
found it though, Kay, put your arms around me.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Why i'm cold, Well, put your arms around me. I'm cold, fool.
Let's let's put our arms unties to each other. Oh, why.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
I'm colly. Oh my mama was making sick. I'll stop
at your house when we go back. Maybe your mother
will give me some.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
I sure wish we had some.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Now we'll stop thinking about it.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
I sure wish I could.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I wanna go home.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Oh shut up, no, I won't shut up.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
I wanna go home.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Katie, listen, who can't go home on a snowy so?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (15:22):
No, world, stop snowing. I don't know when the old
woman finishes picking a gas of schools? Who stop? Get
see somebody come and looking for it? You see what, Katy? Still?
I braid it that your dad hid?
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Bess?
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Who who is this?
Speaker 8 (15:40):
I'll see who it is?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Hello? Oh, I thought i'd heard somebody calling. Were the
few children?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well you're all right now, so stop squalling.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
I'm not squalling, I'm just cold.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Huh.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
Well, sit down.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
We were called, are you so?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Am?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I excuse me, ma'am. We got lost and we don't
know where we are while you're in my house, yes, ma'am,
but we don't know. I mean, is this south the street?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
No it isn't. Slowly hah, it'd be surprised.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Children, How I can go home?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Well, you can't go home right now, Katie, So you
and Teddy might as well come along and help me
with my work. Well don't you walk.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
To Well what kind of work, ma'am?
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Why are I picking the feathers off my geese?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, sir, you know what? There was another room and
there were well, it seemed like I'm Willian white geese
stacked up out.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
There, and she put us to work without another word.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Did you ever cook?
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Piece or plucking or whatever you call it?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And you're part of the country.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Geese are almost as big as yourself. Geese that didn't
especially want to be plucked.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
I guess not, But we did, Teddy and me, didn't
we kate?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You certainly did.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
And it was so cold.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
To chose a nice old woman, wasn't she Teddy?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Don't you call me Teddy?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
My name's ted.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And it got dark and there wasn't much light, and
we just sat there on the floor.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Ticking the geese, and the old woman talked to us
so nice, my, how nice she was.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
You see, if you're keep working like that, you won't
feel the cold so much, Kitty.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I do feel as though, well, if you stayed home
like your mother wanted you to, you wouldn't have to
be doing all this work, and you wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Be the cold.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But I wanted to go out and play. I was
with her.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
I wouldn't let anything happen to.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Work, but you did.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You got long well, I wasn't afraid with Teddy, ted.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
You like Teddy, don't you kitty?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Yes, now you like her?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
Ted Wow, you too gonna get married when you grow up?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Whoa?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Well what I was gonna be a fireman and firemen
aren't usually home much.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I guess I don't think you want to be a fireman, Teddy.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I know I one wouldn't want to be one.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Why too warm?
Speaker 8 (18:29):
You like cold?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
You bet I doing?
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Katy?
Speaker 9 (18:34):
Aren't you gonna marry me when you grow up?
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I haven't decided?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Well you are, Teddy.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I can promise you that, Katie, I know.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Unless unless why unless you.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Freeze to death?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Oh well, I'll try not to let you freeze to death.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Oh agree, I'm glad, but I'm pretty cold now.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Or you'll keep right on working. That's more geese to
be picked.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
This is going to be known for years as the
time of the Big Snow.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I need all the help I can get.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
You always pick your geese on it snows, of course,
that's why it snows.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Must have a lot of geese.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Hundreds thousands all over the world keeps.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Me pretty busy.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You don't have any geese in Africa that where it's hot.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Oh I have them there, daddy, but they're way up
high up on top of the mountains.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
There's always snow up there.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Do you have lots of helpers?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
No, you're the first I ever had my there's enough
a lot of we need 'em.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Katie, I tell you, though, I think we might as
well get rid of this bunch. Open the window, and
the window blow them out. Sure, No, No, not that one.
This one.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
The winds from the north o this.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
One, and the wind came reaching right in, and the
white feathers threw out the open window with it. Katie
and I gathered up great armloads.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Of the feathers and tossed them out the window.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
And laughed and laughed.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
If the wind whirled them high in the air, they.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Seemed to mutifly. New Hall was full of bright blurries.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Again in the dust house side.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We laughed some more.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
The old woman laughed with us.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Right, gracious, we did that just in time this week.
Get it pretty near shop.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
You know what, I bet we're the first people that
ever helped us to know.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You certainly are children, and you're doing a very good
job of it. I don't know, but what I'll have
to call on you again to help me.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Muntill we get one of well I've handled it pretty.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Well all by myself all these years.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
So have you been doing it a long time?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Now?
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So long?
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Two yang?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Longer than that?
Speaker 8 (20:58):
Ten yea twenty?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Why I've been doing it ever since?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, just ever since?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Has you got a name?
Speaker 8 (21:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Would you tell us?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Well? When I lived on that mountain in Greece, they
used to call me the meter. I was pretty important.
Then then the Indians they called me na Coomas.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Nocormas m. Why you're Hiawatha's grandmar Of course I get
all these geese.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Hia Walter is a fine hunter.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Why do you have any more names?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Up in the Northland they called me Freya and the
Japanese people call me. I'm a ratsa.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Why I've got more names?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
And you can shake a stick at.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
And all I do is pluck geese?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Oh close that window, Teddy?
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Will your mind? Oh sure?
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Don't you ever get called missus?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I'd rather be called Nacomas. No, I never get cold, yee,
I do. Well, you should have stayed home.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
You think I'll get a spangy when I get home.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
No, I don't think so, Katie.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
I think I could promise you you won't well then
I'm glad we get get lost in thunders place, so
my I don't get a looking geez. That's getting dark,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
And I must go outside and get some more geese.
Have to keep working children.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know? Oh?
Speaker 7 (22:28):
Yes, but I like to go home.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Please.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Oh, plenty of time for that, Teddy. We've got work
to do.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
My mama always gives me a nickel.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
If I work hard.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Do you earn many nickels?
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Teddy? No, not very many. Really, I haven't got any nickel, yes, ma'am.
And you mustn't hit you know, no, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
But I'll give you something, Teddy for all the work
you did.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
And you too, Kady, But you tay, I'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Hm.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
I am kind of scared, Teddy. I am too, Katie.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
What do we do?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
I don't know. I'm tired too. Should I put my
arms around your Katy? Yes?
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Please, I'm getting so sleepy. I'm so cold, Seady.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
Don't go to sleep, you'll flee. I can't help us.
Speaker 9 (23:22):
I have to go and sleep, Teddy.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
No, don't, please, Katie?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Whoa you tired?
Speaker 7 (23:30):
I I'm so sleepy, you too, Teddy?
Speaker 8 (23:35):
I'm not very sleepy.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Why you poor kids.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
You worked so hard.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You just go to sleep.
Speaker 8 (23:46):
No, we're free, you know you won't.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
I'll cover you up with feathers.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
That's so cold.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
They'll be nice, warm, salt downy warm feathers.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Here.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Put your head on Teddy's arm, Katie, that's it.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Now, these nice fat geese.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
With lots and lots of nice salt feathers, wops and
lots of nice white feathers.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Teddy and Katy.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
You said maybe you'd give us something for all the work.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Why, of course.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
I gave my little grandson gifts. Here, Teddy, here, Katy
now school to.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
See.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
Thank you, Thank you, and your Clomas kissed me the night,
yeady world, wipe you nose.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
And the very last thing I remember was the feathers.
How they were all star shaped and crystal was not
at all like the feathers I'd ever seen. It was
almost midnight when they found us, Katie's father and mine,
and the blacksmith was to Wright and Arthur Donoghue and
his brother Harry, and there wasn't any house there at all.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
There wasn't anything.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We were buried under a huge snow drift. And if
they can blot not a hundred feet from our backyard.
There wasn't any old woman either, just two kids. We
sleep in the snow in each other's arms. Mm, not
frozen to death after all.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And they took us home, and we had our oyster
stew in our cocoa, and we sat with a big stone,
and then we slept.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
We slept and slept, and neither one of us ever
did this today our parents again.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Did we kid, We hardly ever done. But we never
did tell anybody before because they wouldn't have believed this.
They'd have said it was a dream. But how did
we both dreamed the same dream? And we we did
get married, just as she said we would. Mm. We
still have got that little red clay feastpipe, just like Hiawatis.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
And the little bird and arrow she gave.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
And besides it, wait a minute.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Day Weather Bureau forecast for January second, nineteen forty nine,
five thirty pm. Temperature thirty six degrees, humidity sixty two percent,
barometer twenty nine point eight. Tonight, considerable snow somewhere Tomorrow,
snow Tuesday, more snow.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
All right, city, and kay, come on, we've got.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Geese to pick.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
The title.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Of today's Quiet Please story is the Time of the
Big Snow, which was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The man who spoke to you with Ernest Chapple and
Kate was Abby Lewis, Teddy was Sarah Fussell. Katie was
played by Cecil Roy, and the old woman was Vicky Baugh.
(28:39):
As you was, your music for Choiet Please is played
by Albert Burman. Now for a word about next week,
our writing director, Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to
Quiet Please. Next week I have a story story that
I call the biography of a character. And so until
(28:59):
next week of the same time, I am quietly yours,
Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Now a listening reminder.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Tonight, Drew Person analyzes the news and predicts future events
for the year nineteen forty nine. So be sure to
hear Drew Person's exciting predictions tonight. This is ABC, the
American Broadcasting Company.
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