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A cricket seeks to rescue a poor toymaker and his blind daughter from an exploitative miser.
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00:28I suppose
00:29I had never seen a happier room.
00:33And there, in the corner,
00:36was the nicest little hearth you could ever hope for.
00:43Christmas is sort of special for everybody.
00:46And we have a very special show
00:47that I sincerely believe will heighten your Christmas.
00:50Now, as you all know,
00:52Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
00:54is one of the most famous pieces in literature.
00:57But very few people know
00:58that Dickens wrote another beautiful rendering of Christmas
01:00called Cricket on the Hearth.
01:02Matter of fact, I just found out about it myself.
01:05You never heard of the lucky cricket on the hearth?
01:09Well, it all started in merry old England
01:12a long time ago.
01:14Here, lend an ear.
01:22One Christmas morning
01:24You may look into your stocking
01:26And find that something shocking has occurred
01:31Among the candy canes and toys
01:34You'll hear a funny little noise
01:37You've got yourself a cricket on the heart
01:46Cricket on the hearth
01:48Take that horseshoe off your door
01:51With a cricket on the hearth
01:53You can leave that lucky penny
01:56Sitting on the floor
01:59Cricket on the hearth
02:01Throw that rabbit's foot away
02:03With a cricket on the hearth
02:06You can save that sticky wishbone
02:09For another day
02:10Let him abide by the fireside
02:15And luck will come and knock it on your door
02:20And the spirit of Christmas
02:23Will live with you
02:28Forevermore
02:31Cricket on the hearth
02:33See that mistletoe above
02:36With a cricket on the hearth
02:38Cut it down
02:39You'll still be lucky
02:40Step on a crack and spill the song
02:43Cause the captain's back
02:44Not a thing can hold your love
02:46When you have a lucky cricket
02:48Bring it on the hearth
02:58Deck the holes with boughs of holly
03:00La la la la la la
03:02La la la la la
03:03Tis the season to be jolly
03:06La la la la la
03:07What a cool
03:08Oh, it's a chilly one
03:10Oh, right
03:11Oh, excuse me
03:13I've been with you in a blink
03:24Home at last
03:25Well, Merry Christmas to you
03:29I suppose you're all wondering
03:30What me, a cricket
03:32Is doing here on Christmas Eve
03:34With a home of me own
03:37See, I am a part of the family
03:39As it were
03:40Oh, and it's a lucky household
03:42What has a cricket on their hearth
03:44And indeed, I am good luck
03:46For if it hadn't been for Cricket Crockett here
03:49Why, there wouldn't be no blinking family
03:51I'll tell you how it all began
03:55Long time ago it was
03:58Springtime
03:58If I remember's correct
04:02Oh, I was some cracking cricket
04:04I can tell you
04:06Ready to take on the world I was
04:09I was looking for a proper family to adopt
04:13When all of a sudden
04:14I spies
04:17About the happiest house I'd ever seen
04:21And a toy shop, too
04:25I'll return in a little while
04:28Here now, here now
04:29You watch it
04:30But it's a cricket
04:32Here now, just watch it
04:35I am very fragile
04:36There, there
04:37I mean you no harm
04:38Why, I've heard that you crickets bring good luck with you
04:43How about staying with us for a while
04:44Come on now
04:46Just go inside and make yourself at home
04:49If you've a mind to
04:51Oh, well
04:52Oh, it's not a very exciting place
04:54Just me and my daughter
04:56And of course the toys
04:58Sir, I'd be delighted
05:01Crockett's the name
05:02Cricket, Crockett
05:04I'm Caleb Plummer
05:06We'll work out the arrangements later
05:08After I deliver these talks
05:10Ta-ta
05:15I suppose I had never seen a happier room
05:19And there, in the corner
05:22Was the nicest little hearth you could ever hope for
05:30Perfect
05:30Here now
05:36What's this?
05:38Oh, Edward
05:39I shouldn't
05:40No
05:42No, Bertha
05:43You go right ahead and cry
05:45But I don't want you to remember me like this
05:47All, all teary
05:49Any memory of you
05:51Could be the most precious a man could carry
05:54But I promised myself that I'd be brave
05:57And smile to the very end
06:01Oh, why must you go away?
06:03I must serve out my enlistment
06:05I must go to sea tomorrow
06:07For two years?
06:09It's just not fair
06:11Darling, I'm a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy
06:14And...
06:15Oh, I hate that commission
06:16And I hate that uniform
06:18And I hate the Royal Navy
06:19Bertha
06:21Oh, no, I don't
06:23Really
06:25I'm sorry
06:27I'll release you from your promise
06:28If you want
06:30Oh, no
06:31Oh, Edward
06:35I couldn't help myself
06:36See, that's the way it is with us crickets
06:39We get involved
06:42My darling
06:43You will be here when I return
06:45Promise?
06:48Oh, Edward
06:49I love you so
06:54Don't give your love away
06:58Wait for me
07:01I will come back to you
07:04And we'll have a thousand days of May
07:09Don't give your love away
07:17I've kissed your smiles away
07:22I know waiting will be hard for you
07:26And I wish I could do more than say
07:32Don't give your love away
07:40My longest day
07:43Will be when I remember
07:46Today
07:47And I'll wonder
07:51If you'll be there
07:54If the years
07:56Haven't touched our long affair
08:05Still moment
08:08Speak for me
08:10Tell her words are much too weak
08:14For me
08:15What I feel comes to my lips one way
08:20Don't give your love away
08:36Well, the time passed right quick
08:38I suppose it always does when you're busy
08:40Ooh, and busy we was
08:42Christmas was getting nearer and nearer
08:45Two tacks, Cricket
08:46Two tacks on their way
08:54More red paint, Crockett, if you please
08:56Hmm
08:57Make it smiling red
08:59Smiling red you want
09:01Smiling red you get
09:14How's that, love?
09:16Ooh, divine
09:17The perfect colour for a smile
09:19I suppose I'm being extravagant with the paint
09:23But no child wants a doll who can't smile
09:29Now, now, what's this?
09:31Was that a tear that I saw, Bertha?
09:34Now, you shouldn't get yourself all unhappy and teary
09:36Over thinking about your young man
09:39It's been a year and a half since Edward went away
09:42And, well, sometimes when I think about him
09:44I smile and cry
09:46Because I'm happy
09:47If a tear falls when you're smiling
09:51And you're still gay inside
09:54Then it means that you've found a happiness
09:59Your tears can never hide
10:02Smiles go with tears
10:06Smiles go with tears
10:09Sometimes when you're happiest
10:13Smiles go with tears
10:16When you haven't seen a loved one
10:20And he suddenly appears
10:23Even though you try to control yourself
10:27You'll never hide the tears
10:30Smiles go with tears
10:34Smiles go with tears
10:38Sometimes when you're happiest
10:41Smiles go with tears
10:44Let a happy little tear fall
10:48Let it cry right down your face
10:51Let it say, I love you, I missed you so
10:56No one can take your place
11:00Smiles go with tears
11:03Smiles go with tears
11:06Smiles go with tears
11:08Sometimes when you're happiest
11:11Smiles go with tears
11:18Now for the eyes
11:20Brown or black or sky blue pink?
11:27Oh!
11:29What, uh, what can I do for you?
11:32You are a certain Caleb Plummer?
11:35I am
11:36Call me Jeremiah Bleak
11:38I am a certain agent of Her Majesty the Queen
11:41Oh?
11:43You have a certain Bertha Plummer for a daughter
11:46Who in turn was engaged to a certain Edward Belton
11:50You mean is engaged?
11:53You mean is engaged
11:53I am sorry
11:54But it is my melancholy duty to inform you
11:57That a certain Edward Belton
11:59Late of Her Majesty's Royal Navy
12:01Is lost at sea
12:03Law, have mercy
12:05No!
12:06No!
12:07No!
12:11His small mournful effects
12:14Will to the girl
12:21Bertha, Bertha, my darling daughter
12:24It's all a mistake, I'm certain
12:26It could be a mistake, couldn't it?
12:29Hardly
12:31Oh, no
12:33No, no
12:36My poor baby
12:38My poor baby
12:45Blimey
12:45That's a day I'd soon as not remember
12:48The beginning of all our troubles
12:50For you see
12:51The shock of that awful message
12:54Delivered the way it was
12:56Turned poor Bertha
12:58Blind
13:00Oh, my baby
13:03My poor, poor baby
13:19Oh, grim times was upon us, I'll tell you
13:23Oh, how quick everything changed
13:26Poor dear Bertha
13:27Living in her world of darkness
13:29And old Caleb
13:31Beside himself with grief
13:33All he did was nurse his daughter
13:35Didn't touch the unfinished toys
13:36And Christmas was only a short way off
13:40And
13:40When the happy season came
13:42He wasn't ready
13:45He didn't sell one toy that year
13:47Made nary a hapenny
13:49Yeah, what money he did have
13:51All went to the doctors he brought in
13:53But they could do no good
13:55And Caleb
13:56Not thinking
13:57Went out and borrowed
13:58More and more money
13:59Never having any idea
14:00How he was going to pay it back
14:06And one sad day
14:07They could no longer pay the rent
14:09And they were deep in debt
14:12Old Caleb had no choice
14:14But to pack up and leave
14:19Oh, they was hard times
14:22I can tell you
14:24Long, hungry days
14:26Looking for a bit of work
14:27Anything
14:28Ooh, and finally
14:30One day
14:33No use
14:35Can't go one step farther
14:38We have no other choice
14:40No choice, father?
14:43Well, what do you mean?
14:46The poor house?
14:48Oh, no
14:49You can't give up
14:51What else can I do?
14:53Oh, if we ever needed
14:55A little bit of luck
15:00Is that what I think it is?
15:03A toy factory
15:07Now, I'd wager
15:08They could use
15:09A fine toy maker like you
15:11Do you think so?
15:13Well, let's find out, mate
15:14Let's find out
15:21Cricket
15:21Cricket
15:21Is father seeing
15:23Mr. Tackleton now?
15:24Uh-huh, uh-huh
15:25Shh
15:27So you want a situation
15:28As a toy maker, do you?
15:29Well, toy makers
15:30Come throppence a dozen
15:31Correct, Uriah?
15:33Ah, yes
15:35But I'm a very good worker, sir
15:37And I have my own tools
15:39And I'm very good, sir
15:42He's very good, Uriah
15:47My friend, Uriah Kaur
15:49Thinks that's very funny
15:52I'm sorry
15:54I really best be going
15:58Oh, wait
15:58Caleb Plummer, eh?
16:01I've heard of your skills
16:02Well, you won't be paid anything
16:05But you can live on the premises
16:06And there'll be leftover food for you
16:08Whatever you say, sir
16:09Where are the other toy makers?
16:14Did you hear that, Uriah Kaur?
16:16He wants to know
16:17Where the other toy makers are
16:21There are no other toy makers
16:28Is this our new home, father?
16:31What's it like?
16:33Well, splendid
16:37Splendid
16:39Quite palatial
16:40And Mr. Tackleton
16:42What's he like, father?
16:44Oh, he's fine
16:45And he's made me head man
16:47Of his entire factory
16:48Oh, father
16:50How I wish I could see it all
16:54I'll see everything for you, my dear
16:57And everything I see
16:59Shall be beautiful
17:01I promise you
17:05Through my eyes
17:08Through my eyes
17:10You will see the world
17:13As it should be
17:19Through my eyes
17:43Let me dry your foolish tears
17:49Now and forever
17:51Now and forever
17:54Take my love
17:56And throw away
17:59The word
18:00Called never
18:04Let my heart
18:07Teach you how to feel
18:09To my love
18:12My love
18:12Help you to reveal
18:14Feel the secret world
18:19A new world
18:22A new world
18:22Through my eyes
18:30Through my eyes
18:33You will see the world
18:37You will see the world
18:39As it should be
18:42Through my eyes
18:45Through my eyes
18:50And one day
18:53You will see the world
18:55You will be happy
18:56That you found the way
19:03That you saw the world
19:08Through my eyes
19:16Through my eyes
19:21Through my eyes
19:23Through my eyes
19:33Cook?
19:34Oh, I can't call you Cook
19:36What's your name?
19:38Becky?
19:39You're a very quiet girl, Becky
19:41And you are Jarvis, are you not?
19:44Yes, my lord
19:46Well, that'll be all, Jarvis
19:48You can have the night off
19:50Thank you, my lord
19:52And it was like we lived
19:53In two worlds
19:55What was real for us
19:58And what was real
19:59For blind, Bertha
20:03Of all the
20:06Blinkety
20:07Blooming hearts
20:08In all the blinkety
20:09Blooming world
20:10This heart
20:11Is the
20:12Blinkiest
20:13And the
20:13Bloomingest
20:17Oh, well, what's the use?
20:19Make do, Cricket Crockett
20:21Make do
20:23Blink!
20:26Evening, matey
20:28We got no place for bugs around here
20:32Hello, hello
20:33Who are you calling a bug?
20:35I am an insect, I am
20:37I will thank you
20:38To address me by my proper rank
20:41I loves to mangle insects
20:44I loves to mangle insects
21:00Uriah, Uriah
21:04What are you doing out here?
21:06Naughty, naughty birdie
21:08Come to beddy by now
21:10Into your cage, Uriah
21:12It's late
21:16Oh, phew
21:20Nighty night, little friend
21:29Well, it was obvious
21:30One of us had to go
21:32Oh, yeah, but I'm getting ahead of my story
21:35It was about a week before Christmas
21:37And poor old Caleb Plummer
21:39Was working night and day
21:40To keep up with the demands of the season
21:42As it were
21:43Plummer, you're using entirely too much paint
21:45On the dolls' faces
21:46Just trying to give them nice smiles
21:49Who the Blazers cares about smiles?
21:51A dot and a half is enough for any doll
21:53Paint costs money
21:56Yes, sir
21:57Oh, but Tackleton toys was mean and grubby things
22:01Oh, all he cared about was the shillings and pennies they'd bring
22:05But Caleb
22:06Oh, he couldn't see them go out into the world like that
22:10So
22:12Every night
22:13Me and him would sneak him
22:15And fix him up proper
22:17Then pop him back in their boxes by morning
22:19So Tackleton wouldn't find out
22:22It was just two days before Christmas
22:24When we met up with
22:25Him
22:26Oh, excuse me
22:28I had so much in my arms that I couldn't see
22:31No, no
22:32It was my fault, I assure you
22:34Here, allow me to help you pick those up
22:41What is it, sir?
22:43My bones ache so terribly
22:45I've no money for a room
22:48Been sleeping out of doors
22:50Why, that's terrible
22:52In this weather
22:54Oh, you must come home with me
22:56I haven't much to offer
22:58But you're quite welcome to share it with me
23:00Bless you, son
23:02Bless you
23:03He was a funny, quiet sort of fella
23:06Wouldn't hardly say boo
23:08Just sat there looking at Bertha with them sad old eyes
23:12We're so glad you could stay with us
23:14Oh
23:15Oh, it is my pleasure indeed
23:19Bertha
23:22What is it?
23:24The way you said my name just now
23:28I'm sorry
23:31Indeed, I am
23:33I was too forward
23:34Miss Plummer, I meant to say
23:38Hear now, hear now
23:40No serious formalities
23:42For we're all one family
23:44And it's almost Christmas
23:45And we're going to have a splendid Christmas this time
23:49Aren't we, father?
23:50With mistletoe
23:51And a big tree
23:52And decorations
23:53And everything
23:55Oh, promise me, father
23:59Oh, promise me
24:01Even though I
24:03I cannot see them
24:04You will have those things
24:09But of course
24:11Of course
24:13Now, Caleb had been
24:16Stretching the truth
24:17For a long time now
24:18To keep Bertha happy
24:19But
24:21When it came to fibbing about Christmas
24:23Well
24:25He just wasn't quite up to it
24:27Would it be Christmas
24:30Without the mistletoe
24:33Would it be Christmas
24:36Without the winter snow
24:39No firewood
24:42No Christmas tree
24:44No decorations
24:46Just you and me
24:48Would it be Christmas then
24:55On the first Christmas
24:59There was no mistletoe
25:03On the first Christmas
25:07There was no winter snow
25:11No fireplace
25:14No Christmas tree
25:17No decorations
25:19Just the wise men three
25:21And it was Christmas then
25:28The holiday season has changed
25:35But the reason we celebrate the days
25:44It can be Christmas
25:48Without the mistletoe
25:51It can be Christmas
25:55Without the winter snow
25:59No fireplace
26:02No Christmas tree
26:04No decorations
26:06Just you and me
26:08It can be Christmas
26:12Christmas then
26:14Christmas then
26:16For Christmas
26:18Christmas
26:20In the
26:24Hearts
26:26Of
26:28Men
26:31In the
26:36Hearts
26:37Of
26:38Men
26:45We wish you a merry Christmas
26:48We wish you a merry Christmas
26:50We wish you a merry Christmas
26:52And a happy new year
26:54Good tidings
26:55Well the following day
26:56It was Christmas Eve
26:57And we were really busy
27:04Rest period
27:05Do take a rest
27:07I've decided to give you
27:09A Christmas bonus
27:11Four whole shillings
27:14Here
27:14A shilling for you
27:16Girl
27:16I hope it doesn't bankrupt
27:18The old skin flint
27:20Actually
27:21I must confess to
27:22An ulterior motive
27:26This is a lonely old place for me
27:29And I finally decided
27:31That what I need
27:33Is a wife
27:35A wife
27:36Sir
27:37You
27:38And why not
27:39I cut a splendid figure
27:42Oh
27:44You say something
27:46No sir
27:47Hmm
27:48Well
27:49To get to the point
27:50I'm happy to inform you
27:51That I've decided
27:52That the girl
27:53I would most like to
27:54So honor
27:54Is none other
27:56Than your own
27:57Dear
27:58Lucky
28:00Bertha
28:01What
28:02No we could be wed tomorrow
28:04It's Christmas
28:05A holiday
28:05That way we wouldn't lose
28:07A day's work
28:09Oh sir
28:10No you don't have to
28:11Make up your mind right away
28:12Take your time
28:13Think it over
28:14I'll give you
28:16An hour and fifteen minutes
28:18Meanwhile
28:18Back to work
28:20Oh father
28:22I'm so very honored
28:24But
28:25But my dear
28:27You're just a child
28:28Father
28:29I haven't been a child
28:31For a long time
28:33You've just got to
28:34Accept the fact
28:35That I am a big
28:36Grown up girl now
28:41Lullabies
28:42And fairy tales
28:44Pinafores
28:46Piano scales
28:48Satin bows
28:50And cheeks
28:52Of rose
28:53That was yesterday
28:57Little girl
29:00Upon your knee
29:01That was what
29:03I used to be
29:05Funny nose
29:07But heaven knows
29:09That was yesterday
29:11So look up
29:14Your little girl
29:15The lady
29:17With a weight problem
29:19Daddy is her problem
29:24He thinks she's still
29:26A child
29:27Carousels
29:30And wishing wells
29:32Golden shoes
29:34With silver bells
29:36Starry eyes
29:38Starry eyes
29:38And cherry flies
29:39That was yesterday
29:58Carousel
29:59Carousel
30:00And wishing wells
30:02Golden shoes
30:04Golden shoes
30:04With silver bells
30:06Starry eyes
30:08And cherry flies
30:10That was yesterday
30:14Yesterday
30:23Miss Plummer
30:24Miss Plummer
30:25Who's that?
30:26The old gentleman?
30:27I have happy news, sir
30:29And I have something
30:31To tell you
30:31I have waited too long
30:34No, no, no
30:35Let me tell my news first
30:36For it is bursting
30:38Inside of me
30:39The most wonderful man
30:41In the whole world
30:41Has asked me
30:42To be his wife
30:43Indeed
30:45I offer you then
30:47My heartiest congratulations
30:50They don't sound
30:51Very hearty
30:52And now
30:55What had you
30:56To tell me?
30:57Well, I
30:58That is
31:01Oh, blast
31:02All this
31:02Telling one another
31:03We've got no time
31:05For it
31:05This is an emergency
31:06Why, Cricket
31:08What a thing to say
31:09Excuse me
31:12What's wrong
31:14With the old fellow?
31:17Never mind him
31:19Think of her
31:20What can I do?
31:23Have I deceived her
31:24All this time
31:25But to break her heart
31:26At last?
31:28Father
31:28I've made up my mind
31:30When Mr. Tackleton returns
31:32I shall tell him
31:34That I accept his proposal
31:37See
31:38I was determined
31:39That Bertha
31:40Would never get a chance
31:41To say yes
31:42So
31:43I call together
31:44Some of me mates
31:45Well
31:46Right on the dot
31:48He arrives
31:49Do come and sit beside me
31:50Mr. Tackleton
31:51I've made tea
31:53I shall
31:54Oh, I shall
31:55Me pretty little lady
31:56One lump
31:57Or two
31:58Two
31:58Oh, yes
31:59Two
31:59Me pretty
32:00Two
32:01He says
32:02Coming up, matey
32:06Was anything wrong?
32:09Uh, no
32:09Oh, and now my dear
32:11We come to the reason
32:13For my presence here
32:17That's what you think, chum
32:20Pepper
32:22And have you made up
32:23Your pretty little mind
32:25Well, to tell the truth, kind sir
32:28Yes
32:33Oh, oh, what was that?
32:35Never mind
32:36Now
32:37Well, uh, what on earth?
32:40Excuse me, my pretty little
32:41It was that cricket made a fool of me
32:50Uriah
32:51Get rid of him
32:52Once and for all
32:55And this time
32:56No slip-ups
32:57Get professional help
32:59So you won't bungle the job
33:00I want that cricket
33:04Eliminated
33:18All right, quiet
33:19Shh
33:20Malt's gonna sink
33:21Ah, shut up
33:28Diamonds, furs, and ocean trips
33:31They don't go with tuppence tips
33:34Don't feed me champagne talk
33:37When we're eating fish and chips
33:39Half of pints and smoky kips
33:43Were never meant to touch my lips
33:46Don't speak those platinum words
33:49When we're eating fish and chips
33:52Can't you get out of a habit
33:55Sayin' mean
33:56When you mean rabbit
33:58Sayin' sable
33:59When you can't afford raccoon
34:04You've got caviar tastes
34:06And shader's pockets
34:08And you'll never, ever
34:12Buy me the moon
34:15With my life
34:17I've come to grips
34:18Throw away your clever clips
34:21I'm prepared to love you
34:23And to love my fish and chips
34:33Hello, Strangler Slink
34:35I've got a proper evil proposition
34:38To put to you
34:40What's the job this time, Uriah Kool?
34:44We eliminate some annoying cricket
34:47Oh, a cricket
34:50Not that easy
34:51He's a clever one, he is
34:53But he must be put away
34:56I have a better idea
34:59We'll capture him
35:01I know the captain who pays well for captured crickets
35:05Sells them in China
35:07For good luck faces
35:16Hello, lad
35:30Now, where's our pay?
35:32I've got your pay off right here, lad
35:40Oh, I'd hitched up with a lovely crew
35:43I can tell you
35:44And there I was
35:46Setting sail for China
35:48On Christmas Eve
35:49Leaving poor Bertha
35:51In the hands of that
35:53Coo
35:55What'll my family do
35:57Without their lucky cricket
35:58On the hearth?
36:11Aye
36:12You'll fetch a pretty price, you will
36:15A bolt of silk
36:17Or a crate of tea
36:19Uh
36:20Oof
36:21Oof
36:22What be the matter with you?
36:26Oh, deader than a doornaily be
36:32Dead cricket's no good to me
36:35My plan worked perfect like
36:38I only overlooked one thing
36:40Crickets can't swim
36:43But luck was with me
36:45For another thing I forgot was
36:47Crickets float
36:49Now, I know you're not going to believe
36:52How I got back to land
36:53But this is the way it happened
36:55Look, so help me
37:05Do you notice in the way
37:06It's my time
37:06Maybe I'll 밖에
37:11How did you notice the way
37:12Where's the lights
37:12Come and look
37:12How could you notice
37:13I can think
37:13Do you notice
37:14The two consciences
37:15Do you notice
37:26The most frightening
37:36It was just before midnight when I got back.
37:40Home at last.
37:43Coom.
37:44A wedding dress.
37:47She's going to go through with it.
37:50Coom.
37:51It's midnight.
37:53Midnight on Christmas Eve.
37:56The one hour in the year when magical things are supposed to happen.
38:01Oh, look, maybe this bloke's still in luck.
38:03Hello, hello.
38:05Here now.
38:07Here now, what's up?
38:11Climbing.
38:12The toy.
38:14It's coming to life.
38:20Coom.
38:21Coom, coom, coom.
38:23What a sight.
38:26Bravo, bravo, bravo.
38:29Hey, lovely.
38:32Simply lovely.
38:33Oh, we've been absurd.
38:36Deary, humans must never see toys come to life.
38:40Those are the rules.
38:42Here now.
38:43Save your worries.
38:45I'm no human.
38:46I'm a...
38:48Blimey, no.
38:50I am a cricket.
38:51Phew.
38:53Crickets don't count.
38:54And let me be the first to say that I am happy to have you on my side.
38:59Aw.
38:59You're all going to help stop poor Bertha from marrying that crow-loving skinflin, aren't you?
39:04We'd do anything for Caleb and Bertha.
39:07It wasn't for them.
39:08We'd be ugly.
39:13Hush, hush.
39:14But we haven't much time.
39:16In a moment, we'll have to go to sleep again.
39:20Here's the rules.
39:21The rules.
39:22The rules.
39:23The rules.
39:24Yeah, you can't break the rules, so let's get cracking.
39:28Any ideas?
39:30Conference!
39:33Mama!
39:36All right, break it up!
39:38Break it up!
39:39Enough talk!
39:40Let's have the little action.
39:42Right-o!
39:43Follow me, lads!
39:49Huh?
39:51Why are we bothering with that old gazer?
40:04Blimey!
40:05Oh, well, he's coming apart!
40:07Coo!
40:09That is not an old man!
40:12That's...
40:12Edward Belton!
40:14Oh, but he couldn't be!
40:17You were lost at sea, you...
40:18Oh, kindly allow me to explain.
40:21You see, Edward Belton didn't drown when his ship went down.
40:26He built himself a raft and sailed to a beautiful, unchartered island.
40:31And he was there.
40:32Oh, please, sir.
40:35And he was there two years before a whaler found him and brought him back to England.
40:40But then why the disguise?
40:41Well, uh...
40:43Uh-oh!
40:45Our time is up!
40:48What's the matter with you toy blokes?
40:50I ask a simple question.
40:51I expect a simple answer.
40:53My beard.
40:54My wig.
40:55Cricket Crocket's on to you.
40:57Now, speak up!
40:58The whole story.
41:00Well, I may as well tell you.
41:03I was shipwrecked, you see.
41:05I know all that.
41:07The raft and the island and the whaler.
41:09What I don't understand is, uh, the whiskers and the wheeze.
41:13I came directly to her, but then I saw she'd gone blind.
41:17And I realized it was my fault.
41:20I couldn't just step back into her life after what I'd done to her.
41:24Oh, come on, now.
41:26She needs you more than she needs six new eyes.
41:29That's what I hoped.
41:31But I had to be sure, you see.
41:32And so, I adopted the disguise.
41:35This way, I could be near her without anyone knowing.
41:39Blimey!
41:39Oh, there were a thousand times I was on the verge of telling her.
41:43But something always interrupted.
41:47And yesterday, I made up my mind.
41:50You remember.
41:51I came in to tell her.
41:52Only to see her radiant face.
41:55Radiant because the most wonderful man in the world
41:59had asked her to be his wife.
42:01Those were her very words.
42:03Oh, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, nincompoop!
42:07Paying any attention to the words of a gushing female.
42:10Oh, no.
42:11I could tell she meant it.
42:13And he has so much more to offer her.
42:16I'm still poor.
42:18Poor?
42:19Oh, why, she wouldn't trade the Bank of England for you.
42:22I wish I could believe that, Cricket.
42:24I came back tonight for one last look at her.
42:29I, I guess I just fell asleep watching her.
42:33Yeah, you're asleep, all right.
42:35Asleep all over.
42:38Oh, why, you romantic, sentimental ninny.
42:40She don't love nobody else but you.
42:43If I could only believe that.
42:47Bertha, love.
42:50Bertha?
42:52Now, wake up now.
42:54How?
42:55Gentle.
42:56Come on, gentle.
42:57It's only me.
42:58Oh.
42:59Oh.
43:00Oh, Cricket.
43:01You're back.
43:03You're safe.
43:07Cricket?
43:08Cricket?
43:10Oh.
43:14Oh.
43:15Darling.
43:17Am I dreaming?
43:20I...
43:21Oh, Edward.
43:24Edward.
43:25Oh, Edward, you're alive.
43:28You're alive, Edward.
43:31Oh, you're alive.
43:35Edward.
43:36Edward, do you know about me?
43:43I'm...
43:44Through my eyes
43:51You will see the world as it should be
43:58Through my eyes
44:05And one day
44:08You'll be happy
44:12That you found the way
44:20That you saw the world
44:29Through my eyes
44:48Oh, there never was such a Christmas morning
44:51Everybody happier than larks
44:54All except, er...
44:55There I was
44:56Waiting at the church
44:58What's this?
45:00What's this?
45:01What's going on here, anyway?
45:03This just isn't fair
45:06After all I've done for you
45:09Oh, Mr. Tackleton
45:12Mr. Tackleton
45:13I'm so terribly sorry
45:16But you see, my heart belongs to Edward
45:19It always has
45:20Nobody loves me
45:23But we all love you
45:25And there will always be a place in my heart
45:28For a fine and kind and noble and handsome gentleman such as you
45:36Fine, kind, noble and... and handsome
45:46But of course
45:49Dear me, I feel good all over
45:52Nobody ever said such nice things to me before
45:56I feel as light as a lark
45:58Happy as a hummingbird
45:59Why?
46:01Why?
46:01I wonder why
46:03Maybe because it's Christmas
46:05It really is Christmas
46:08But of course
46:09Ha, ha, ha
46:11Of course
46:12Merry Christmas
46:16Merry, merry Christmas
46:23Oh, Cricket
46:24You're the luckiest thing that ever happened to anyone
46:32Cricket on the heart
46:34Take that horseshoe off your door
46:37With a cricket on the heart
46:40You can leave that lucky penny
46:42Sitting on the floor
46:44Well, that's my story
46:47Ended happy it did
46:49Here's hoping all your stories end happy too
46:52May you all have good health
46:54Good cheer
46:55And a good merry Christmas
46:57And above all
46:59May you never, never be without
47:02A cricket on your heart
47:07Cricket on the heart
47:09See that mistletoe above
47:12With a cricket on the heart
47:14Cut it down
47:16You'll still be lucky
47:17Cricket on the heart
47:27I thoroughly enjoyed playing old man plumber
47:30And my daughter Bertha in the play
47:32Was played by my real life daughter
47:34Marlo Thomas
47:35And her boyfriend Edward Benton
47:38Was Ed Ames
47:39And the singing cat
47:41Was delightfully played by Miss Abby Lane
47:43And gruff old Tackleton
47:45That fine actor
47:46And my dear friend Hans Conrad
47:47And our wonderful narrator
47:49The lucky cricket Crockett
47:51Was marvelous actor Roddy McDowell
47:53And in this song
47:55The First Christmas
47:57There are the lines
47:58The holiday season has changed
48:01But the reason we celebrate
48:03Remains
48:05Yes, that reason hasn't changed
48:06Since the very first day
48:08When the wise men presented
48:10Their gifts of gold, frankincense
48:12And myrrh
48:13And on that subject
48:14There's a lovely poem
48:15By the author Edmund Cook
48:17That sums it up pretty well
48:18Mr. Cook wrote
48:20Tis not the weight
48:21Of jewel or plate
48:22Or the fondle of silk or fur
48:25Tis the spirit
48:26In which the gift is rich
48:28As the gifts of the wise men were
48:30And we are not told
48:32Whose gift was gold
48:34Or whose was the gift of myrrh
48:39No fireplace
48:40No Christmas tree
48:42No decorations
48:44Just you and me
48:46It can be Christmas then
48:53For Christmas leaves
48:59In the hearts of men
49:07A
49:09It can be Christmas
49:09A
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49:09A
49:09A
49:09A
49:10A
49:11A
49:13A
49:13A
49:13A
49:13A
49:15A
49:15A
49:15A
49:15A
49:20slices
49:21A
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49:25A
49:29A