00:23Hello again, Peabody here.
00:25Today, Sherman and I are going to visit a gym.
00:27The YMCA's?
00:29Mother Bowie's.
00:30Never heard of it.
00:31Not it.
00:32Him.
00:32I still don't...
00:33Never mind.
00:34Get into the wayback machine.
00:35As I was saying, today we are going back to Mississippi in the year 1825, and we shall
00:40visit the legendary James Bowie, who created the Bowie knife.
00:43In less time than it takes to tell, we found ourselves on the main street of Biloxi, Mississippi,
00:47facing a somewhat ornate-looking restaurant.
00:50Bowie's Beanery.
00:51Golly, I didn't know he owned a restaurant, Mr. Peabody.
00:54Neither does he, evidently.
00:56There he is over there, sitting on the curb.
00:58What are you doing out here, Mr. Bowie?
01:00Gets pretty lonesome in that restaurant all by myself.
01:04What about your customers?
01:06What's a customer?
01:07Someone who eats your food.
01:08No one eats my food.
01:10He took us inside the deserted establishment and led us to a table on which sat a huge,
01:14four-pound, two-inch-thick porterhouse steak.
01:16Mind if I take a bite, Mr. Bowie?
01:18Not at all.
01:19I'll cut you off a hunk.
01:20We stared in horror as Bowie produced a large bowl revolver and pumped six shots into the steak.
01:28Look, Mr. Peabody, he didn't even dent it.
01:32This didn't bother our host, for he then picked up a large battle axe and deftly cut the table in
01:38two.
01:40But not the steak.
01:41Now you see why nobody eats here.
01:43They can't cut the steaks.
01:45I'm as good as room.
01:46Have you tried a knife?
01:47Oh, I wouldn't take the coward's way out.
01:50No, no, no.
01:50I mean, have you tried a knife on the steaks?
01:52Sure, but they just up and break.
01:54Watch.
01:55What you need is a knife stronger than any in the world.
01:59Yes, a Bowie knife.
02:01Wouldn't do no good less than I can get it by dinner time.
02:03I got a steak eaters convention coming in here, and if they don't eat, I'm banker up.
02:07Then there's no time to lose.
02:09We dashed across the street and into a general store.
02:12Knives?
02:13What kind of knives?
02:14What kind do you have?
02:15Big and small and sharp and dull and...
02:16This knife must be very unusual.
02:18Only one like that is a factory reject.
02:21It's too big, too heavy, and too sharp.
02:24Here it is.
02:25What he held up was to become famous as the Bowie knife.
02:29What'll you give me for it?
02:30A nickel.
02:31Suddenly, an unexpected voice rang out from in back of us.
02:34A dime!
02:35He's trying to outbid us, Mr. Peabody.
02:37He wasn't the only one.
02:38Half a buck.
02:40A dollar.
02:40Yes, we were in the middle of a spirited auction.
02:43Two dollars.
02:44Three.
02:44Four.
02:45One thousand.
02:46Why do they want the knife so badly?
02:48Well, that's quite obvious, Sherman.
02:49The little fellow is named Jack.
02:50He wants it to be called the Jackknife.
02:53The portly fellow in the middle is named Pen.
02:55He wants it to be called the Penknife.
02:58Who's the man on the end?
02:59Mr. Butterfield of the Butterfield Stage Line.
03:01He wants to call it a butter knife?
03:02No, he wants to call it a fork.
03:04But why?
03:05He's the village troublemaker.
03:07Just then, Bowie made his final bid.
03:09Six thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars.
03:12Sold.
03:13Congratulations, Mr. Bowie.
03:14You now have your knife.
03:16I will have, if I can borrow some money from either of you.
03:19You mean you don't have six thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars?
03:22Well, not quite.
03:23I got a nickel, though.
03:25That means we have to raise six thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-five cents.
03:29And we didn't have much time for a glance out the window revealed the Steak Eaters Convention was already entering
03:34Bowie's Restaurant.
03:35Golly, Mr. Peabody, we got two minutes to get the money.
03:38Just enough time for next door to Bowie's Beanery was the Biloxi Bank.
03:41In front of it were three horses with their motors running.
03:44That could mean but one thing.
03:46A hold-up.
03:47Mr. Peabody, you're going in the wrong direction.
03:50The bank's over here.
03:51There was no time to explain.
03:53I made tracks to a schoolhouse on the edge of town.
03:55Seconds later, the robbers emerged from the bank, got on their steeds, and took off, going right past the schoolhouse.
04:02I thought it would be fitting proper if they would be told off.
04:06So, cutting the school bell.
04:12Neatest job outlaw kitchen I ever saw.
04:15Here's your reward.
04:16Ten thousand dollars?
04:17All we need is six thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-five cents.
04:21The remainder goes to the school bell fund.
04:24And so, the school got its new bell.
04:27The storekeeper got his money.
04:29Bowie got his knife, and the steak eaters were able to cut their steaks.
04:33Thanks, Mr. Peabody.
04:34I owe it all to you.
04:36Poor Mr. Bowie having to lug those heavy steaks.
04:39Yes, as you can see, it had a damaging effect on his legs.
04:42My gosh, he's bow-legged.
04:45Bowie-legged, Sherman.
04:47Oh, Bowie, Mr. Peabody.
04:49Touché, Sherman.
04:59You have to find out our friends.
05:02You have to come.
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