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August 17, 2025 4 mins
Falstaff's Fables 5xxxxx 50 The Brave Little Tailor
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, have you heard mother? Dear mother, you know you're
the one I love. But our car is out of gas.
So when you get out and shelve.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, it's radio's famous poet Falstaff Openshaw with Falstaff's Fables
transcribe Monday through Faddy by Mars Incorporated, makers of Milky Way,
the malted Milk candy.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Bar, light soft nougat, real malted milk, smooth, creamy caramel,
all wrapped in extra thick, pure milk chocolate. When you
crave good candy, have a Milky Way. And there comes
Falstaff with Falstaff Junior and another Falstaff's fable, The Brave

(00:51):
Little Tailor prepared Falstaff.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Indubitably, in fact, in double dubitably chanced by all means,
thanks to night. I tell the tale of a tailor
and the giant he.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Went forth to hit.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Did he beat the giant?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Definitely, lad, I suppose he gave him a fit? Yes, No,
he did nothing of the kind. There are any of
the other jokes there in your mind. He didn't cut
him out, sew him up, or even follow suit.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Through the way that he did do it was really
quite cute. Well how did he do it?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Would you care?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
To tell gladly.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
But first I've got something to sell. For confection that's
perfection for a treat at work or play, for delicious
and nutritious.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Just remember milk away.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yes, sir, for a candid treat that's always grand. There's
only two words you need say, and I know once
you try it you always will buy it.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Remember those words milk away.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Now Falstaff's fable The Brave Little.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
There was once a little tailor, before the days of
window screens, who forever was battling insects that flew through
his door in streams. I'm gonna swatchease dog on flies,
said the tailor with a mutter, whereupon he sent seven
right off to fly heaven with one blow of his
little fly sweatter.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I killed all seven with just one blow.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
The little tailor cried, and the mayor, out walking by chance,
heard him talking and thought it was men that had died.
Main boy, said the mayor. I didn't the vet you
killed seven men?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
That stupenduls.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Have you heard of the giant that's been though defiant?
Go kill him at once. He's tremendus. The poor tailor
he shook as his needle he took and.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Off to the giant. He traveled.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
He found the big guy was three hundred feet high.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Ah, in a suit that was frazzled and unraveled. I've
come here to kill you, the tailor confessed.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
So it's a job I regard with some cloathing.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Let's us make a trade, would you.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Scram ify made a nice giant size shoot of clothing.
It's a deep here's some cloth you can use a
pad from Barnam and Bailey.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
So the canvas was ripped up.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
The suit was soon ripped up, and the giant departed
quite gaily. The giant is gone, the tailor told the towel.
He's departed for England or France.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
How'd I make him pack?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Why? I gave him a belt on the back and
also a cuff on the pants. So now he's the
town's leading hero and a most successful youth. He's rolling
in riches, and he says, as he stitches.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
You see it sure pays to tell the truth.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Jack, be nimble, Jack, be quick, Jack, jump over the candlestick.
That's a waste of time. I'd say, settle down. Jack,
eat the milky way.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Good night.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Falstaffs Fables starring Alan Reid, Senior and Junior with a
rhyming hand from D. H. Johnson. Is presented by Mars Incorporated,
makers of famous milky Way candy bars.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yes, whenever you crave good candy. Whenever our flag's unfurl,
always say milky Way. Milky Way is out of this world.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Tack two fels picking.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
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