After Abner (Norris Goff), the owner of an Arkansas general store, learns that he has inherited a railroad from his uncle, his business partner, Lum (Chester Lauck), comes up with a scheme to sell stock in the company. When they realize the railroad company is virtually worthless, and they are broke from paying fees and taxes, the pair are in a bind. Abner suffers a fall and is misdiagnosed with a terminal injury. Lum has him perform dangerous stunts to earn their way out of debt.
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00:01:00Miss Dunn, call up that map company and ask them if they have any other maps.
00:01:03Yes, Mrs. Dark.
00:01:04Here it is. I found it.
00:01:06Where?
00:01:07In Arkansas.
00:01:09Right here.
00:01:10Pine Ridge, Arkansas.
00:01:15Partner in the firm of Edwards and Peabody, old mercantile establishment in Pine Ridge.
00:01:20All right, Miss Dunn, get that letter in the mail.
00:01:22Yes, Mrs. Dark.
00:01:24Oh, you better send it air mail.
00:01:25Oh, yes, Mrs. Dark.
00:01:27Air mail special.
00:01:28Yes, dear.
00:01:32Yes, Mrs. Dark.
00:01:34Yes.
00:01:44Morning, Mom. Morning, Abner.
00:01:47Morning, Ulysses.
00:01:48Ain't saw you around for several days, Ulysses.
00:01:51No, mail's been kind of slow coming in.
00:01:53Besides, I wanted to wait till I got a full sack before I started out.
00:01:56Natural, natural.
00:01:57There's any one thing I hate, just toting around a half-empty sack of mail.
00:02:01Sure.
00:02:02Besides, I've been trying to save on rubber.
00:02:05Save on rubber?
00:02:06Yeah.
00:02:06You ain't got no automobile.
00:02:08No, my heels, my heels.
00:02:10Oh, here.
00:02:10I think I got a letter here for you, too, Abner.
00:02:13Well, good for me.
00:02:15Move right there, Lon.
00:02:16Hmm.
00:02:17Gomer Bates is over Cherry Hill, this and relates.
00:02:21Well, I do know.
00:02:22Went to a picnic.
00:02:24Him and another fella won the three-legged race.
00:02:27Huh.
00:02:28I never know Gomer's three-legged.
00:02:30Ah, here's your letter, Abner.
00:02:33Come about a week ago.
00:02:35Special deliverer.
00:02:36Special deliverer?
00:02:37Yeah.
00:02:38I mean, what's that?
00:02:39I don't know, Lum.
00:02:40I've been looking at that stamp for the last three or four days, trying to figure out what that ten
00:02:46-cent stamp is for.
00:02:47Comes actually, huh?
00:02:48Yeah.
00:02:49I'm aiming to ask the inspector just what that stamp is for the next time he comes through here.
00:02:54Yeah, more than likely something new the giver meant studied up.
00:02:57What'd the letter have to say, you lizard?
00:02:59Move on.
00:03:00I don't know, Abner.
00:03:02It's sealed up.
00:03:03Oh.
00:03:05There it is.
00:03:06Well, read it.
00:03:07Read it.
00:03:08Read it.
00:03:08You want me to read it for you?
00:03:09Yeah, go ahead.
00:03:10I'll be in the air.
00:03:11Well, I'll do it, but I never like to read other people's mail.
00:03:17I care, man.
00:03:18Mr. Abner Peabody, Pine Ridge, Arkansas.
00:03:21Dear Mr. Peabody, according to the terms of the will of your late uncle, Ernest L. Peabody,
00:03:29you have inherited complete ownership of the C&O Railroad.
00:03:34Well, right there.
00:03:36Please call at our office to settle details at your earliest convenience.
00:03:42Yours truly, J.J. Stark.
00:03:45Stark, Stark.
00:03:46That's a familiar name.
00:03:48Move on.
00:03:49Go on.
00:03:50Hey, Granny, I believe I got you cornered this time, Abner.
00:03:52Ah.
00:03:53Well, guess we'll be mousing on with the mail.
00:03:56Sorry to hear about you, Uncle.
00:03:58Yeah, I'll move right there.
00:03:59Might have thought the oven will leave you a railroad.
00:04:02Might.
00:04:03Railroad?
00:04:04Jump in the gym and it created you.
00:04:06Abner, you've inherited a railroad.
00:04:08Railroad?
00:04:09Where?
00:04:09Yes, sir.
00:04:10Right here it is in black and white.
00:04:12Tight road in Abner.
00:04:13You know what I'm talking about?
00:04:15A railroad.
00:04:16You know, that's to Chicago and Ohio.
00:04:19Abner's inherited crazy.
00:04:21Enter.
00:04:23Abner Peabody, pray us, then.
00:04:25Abner, I got a surprise for you.
00:04:27Huh?
00:04:27I brought you a present.
00:04:29A present?
00:04:31Well, what is it, Uncle?
00:04:33Conductor's cap.
00:04:34For me?
00:04:34Why, sure.
00:04:35Well, I do know.
00:04:36That ain't all, either.
00:04:37Looky there.
00:04:38What's that?
00:04:39It's a punch.
00:04:40Punch?
00:04:41Yeah, a conductor's got to have a punch to punch tickets with, ain't he?
00:04:44Oh, sure, yeah.
00:04:45Yeah.
00:04:47But I thought I was going to be president, Uncle.
00:04:50Well, I know you did say that, Abner, and I got to studying about it.
00:04:53The president don't even get to ride on a train.
00:04:55He don't, huh?
00:04:56Why, no, he sits in office back there in Chicago.
00:04:59Oh, well, I don't want to be president, then.
00:05:01No, sir.
00:05:03No, sir.
00:05:03So, if you're looking for somebody to sort of take that job of president off your hands,
00:05:07I'll do it for you.
00:05:08Would you show us, Lon?
00:05:10Why, sure?
00:05:10I don't get hit to be, lad.
00:05:13Back to the years, I've been studying about it, Abner, I got some big ideas figured out first.
00:05:16Yeah.
00:05:17Oh, yeah.
00:05:17Some of them so big to scare me.
00:05:19Well, what is it?
00:05:20What is it?
00:05:21Well, maybe I'd better sit down with my desk.
00:05:23Oh, sure, yeah.
00:05:23Sit right there.
00:05:24Sit right there.
00:05:25That's a president's chair.
00:05:30Lon Eddard's president.
00:05:32Oh, yeah.
00:05:33Hey, doggies, you do get things did in a hurry, don't you?
00:05:36I told you.
00:05:36You've got a president now.
00:05:38Yeah, I see.
00:05:40Now, the first idea I had, Abner, we ought to run a spur line into the county seat.
00:05:44A spur line?
00:05:45Yeah, bring some of your trains down here and just run them backwards and forwards.
00:05:49Oh.
00:05:50Well, Lon, these folks ain't going to let us run trains backwards and forwards across their farms.
00:05:55We'll buy their farms.
00:05:56Get what they call right-of-ways.
00:05:58Well, where do we get the money to do that with?
00:06:00I've done got that all figured out.
00:06:03Told you you had a president.
00:06:04Yeah.
00:06:05Well, we'll sell stock to the folks here in Pine Ridge and your railroad company.
00:06:10Oh.
00:06:11Well, you reckon that's a safe investment firm?
00:06:13With you as conductor and me as president.
00:06:17Yeah, that's right.
00:06:18We'll make them all rich.
00:06:20Everybody a thousander.
00:06:22That's their master.
00:06:23Well, sure.
00:06:23Well, it's well there.
00:06:25Yes, sir.
00:06:26You sure look fancy in outfits with all them stripes and everything.
00:06:30Well, see, all conductors wear them.
00:06:32That's to show how long he's been working for the railroad.
00:06:35Oh.
00:06:37Now, Abner, do you think it's a good idea for me to put my money in this new railroad?
00:06:41I think it's the finest thing that ever hit Pine Ridge, Mamie.
00:06:45And Lum says it's a good invest.
00:06:48Well, if Lum says so, I'll take my savings out of the bank in the morning.
00:06:52Well, good for you, wonderful world.
00:06:55I've been saving up a long time.
00:06:58But I know I can trust you, Lum.
00:07:01I'll guarantee you won't have no regrets, Grandma.
00:07:14$95.
00:07:16$10,000.
00:07:18$10,005.
00:07:20And one is $10,006.
00:07:22Well, don't you worry, Lum.
00:07:24I'll have the rights of the way all signed and sealed for you before you get back from Chicago.
00:07:28Well, good for you, you are.
00:07:30We know we could deep end on it.
00:07:32Yes, sir.
00:07:32We figured a fair price for their land.
00:07:34Oh.
00:07:34We want this railroad to do good for everybody.
00:07:37Yes, sir.
00:07:38Everybody a thousand there.
00:07:40That's our motto.
00:07:41Well, come on, Lum.
00:07:42We better get started.
00:07:43All aboard!
00:07:58All aboard!
00:07:58Yeah, Columbia Exposition must still be going on.
00:08:03My, Granny, there's that hotel that fellow on the train told us to stop at.
00:08:07That over there?
00:08:08Hotel Richmore.
00:08:09Yes, sir.
00:08:10That's your tour.
00:08:10Come on.
00:08:14I'm sure this place looks a little fancy for us, though.
00:08:18Oh, don't be silly, Abner.
00:08:20Don't forget we're a couple of railroad executives now.
00:08:23Good morning.
00:08:24Oh, good morning.
00:08:25Good morning.
00:08:26Peabody's my name.
00:08:30You're kind of new at this, ain't you, bud?
00:08:32I've been conductorin' that long.
00:08:35Cabbage!
00:08:36Call me a taxi.
00:08:38Mom, call me a taxi.
00:08:41Oh, all right.
00:08:43You're a taxi.
00:08:46Peg?
00:08:47Yes, sir.
00:08:54Oh, my baby, Pa.
00:08:56Oh, have you registered?
00:08:58Oh, well, we're way yonder 2-0 for the draft.
00:09:01Is the landlady in?
00:09:03Landlady?
00:09:04Oh, really, I don't think you'd feel at home, dear.
00:09:07Well, we weren't aiming on making our home here.
00:09:09We just wanted to board here two or three days.
00:09:11Oh, well, have you any letter of credit or, uh, credentials?
00:09:15Credential.
00:09:15Oh, dear.
00:09:17Show him that letter you got from the lawyer's editor.
00:09:19Oh, yeah.
00:09:20Yeah, I got that.
00:09:28Here, compliments of the head conductor.
00:09:30Just put your name in there if you ever want to travel.
00:09:33Ha, ha!
00:09:35Why, why, thank you, Mr. Peabody.
00:09:38A thousand pardons and my compliments, Mr. Edwards.
00:09:41Uh, welcome to the Ritz-Moore Hotel.
00:09:43Our entire staff is at your disposal.
00:09:45Well, that's mighty thoughty of you.
00:09:47But all we wanted was just a small...
00:09:49Yes, yes, I know exactly what you want.
00:09:51You leave everything to me.
00:09:52Run.
00:09:53Now, if there's anything else we can do, anything at all, Mike...
00:09:56Uh, maybe you could tell us how to get to this lawyer's office.
00:09:59That's the first thing we've got to do.
00:10:01Of course, of course.
00:10:02First things first, I always say.
00:10:0441, call me a taxi.
00:10:06What does everybody want to be called a taxi for?
00:10:09I'll explain that to you later.
00:10:11Now, you step right outside, and you'll find your cab waiting.
00:10:14You tell the driver you want to go to the bar building.
00:10:16All right, much obliged.
00:10:17I wonder if you could watch your valises first while we're gone.
00:10:21Yes, yes, of course.
00:10:22I'll send them right up to your suite.
00:10:34What loft is it we're looking for, Long?
00:10:3724.
00:10:39I'll never make it.
00:10:50All right, Granny's Admiral.
00:10:51This is worse than trying to climb old Piney Mountain.
00:10:58Coming back, I believe it'd be quicker to jump out of one of these windows.
00:11:12As long as we ain't trying to walk up to see Uncle Ernest, dare we?
00:11:28Hurry up, Edna.
00:11:31I'm coming, I'm coming.
00:11:34Yeah, more to a friend.
00:11:38More to a friend.
00:11:43What store is this, Long?
00:11:46Granny's, I've lost count, Edmund.
00:11:49You mean we gotta go clean back down the bottom and start over again?
00:11:54I reckon so.
00:11:56Swan 2, goodness.
00:11:58Wait a minute.
00:12:00Granny's, no wonder we're so tired, Edmund.
00:12:03Look in there, we've climbed 2400 floors.
00:12:05Uh-uh, 2420.
00:12:10Yeah.
00:12:12Granny's, there ought to be somebody.
00:12:14Wait a minute, Edmund.
00:12:16Look at yonder.
00:12:17There it is now.
00:12:19Stark and Stark, lawyers.
00:12:21Well, it's always no wonder Uncle Ernest passed away so soon.
00:12:25One trip up here, kill him.
00:12:27Well, you see, I really know nothing about this matter.
00:12:31Mr. J.J. Stark is handling it.
00:12:32Kristen, you'll be back in a few days.
00:12:36In a few days?
00:12:37Well, we've got to get back to Pine Ridge and folks are waiting for us.
00:12:42I'm sorry.
00:12:43Uh, do you reckon there'd be any objections if me and Abner went and looked the railroad over before Mr.
00:12:49Stark gets back?
00:12:50We won't hurt nothing on us, we won't.
00:12:52I guess it'll be all right.
00:12:53Well, good.
00:12:54Now, how do we get to where it's at?
00:12:56Well, you remember the Chicago Depot you came into?
00:12:59Came into?
00:13:00Did I inherit that, too?
00:13:03Will you take a train out of there to Gold City?
00:13:05Gold City?
00:13:06Just an overnight trip, I'd say.
00:13:09There you are.
00:13:15Gold City Junction.
00:13:18So you know, huh?
00:13:20Uh-huh.
00:13:22Dreamliner ought to be along right now.
00:13:24Boy, ha-ha-ha!
00:13:28There she comes.
00:13:29There she comes.
00:13:34All right, Granny's already got out there and flagged them down.
00:13:36Tough charge right now.
00:13:38Ha-ha-ha!
00:13:39Yeah, sir, I just can't hardly believe that that's all mine.
00:13:43No.
00:13:44Yours?
00:13:44Yeah, my Uncle Ernest left it to me.
00:13:47Ernest Peabody?
00:13:48Why, sure.
00:13:49Did you know him?
00:13:50Know him?
00:13:51Ha!
00:13:52Used to sit around and swap lives with him.
00:13:53Well!
00:13:54Actually, it's lying right there.
00:13:56Ha-ha-ha!
00:13:56Yeah, we know it.
00:13:59Huh?
00:14:00Come on, I'll show it to you.
00:14:13Yep, old Ernie was a character, all right.
00:14:15Called it the C&O.
00:14:17Shorted for Chinnacoot and Orville.
00:14:19That was an English gold mine he staked out around here about 50 years ago.
00:14:23Well, is this all this last of the C&O?
00:14:27Yes, Ernie built this line to carry the ore down to the smelter.
00:14:30But most of the track's gone now.
00:14:33Well, as long as it's my property, Lomb, I might as well look over what's left of it, I reckon.
00:14:38Yeah.
00:14:39I wouldn't go in there.
00:14:42I forgot to tell you that the steps are rotten.
00:14:45I know there's no wonder the railroad went through.
00:14:47Oh, what about that gold mine he owned?
00:14:49Oh, that's petered out long ago.
00:14:51That's what finished his railroad.
00:14:54Oh, come on, Ernie.
00:15:07Well, sorry to hear about your investment in those right-of-way.
00:15:10However, your C&O line isn't a total loss.
00:15:13A salvage dealer has filed an office in the Bronx.
00:15:16Well, good.
00:15:17How much?
00:15:18Two hundred dollars.
00:15:20Oh.
00:15:22Well, that'll at least get us back to Pine Ridge Road.
00:15:25I strongly advise that you gentlemen accept this.
00:15:28I know this, it's a deal.
00:15:29Huh?
00:15:30It's a deal.
00:15:31I'm going to take it.
00:15:32Will you kindly sign right there, please?
00:15:34Yes, sir.
00:15:35Right there.
00:15:36Now then, there are a few minor things to be taken care of, such as, well, county tax,
00:15:42inheritance tax, and, of course, the usual executive's fee, but then you gentlemen understand that,
00:15:46I believe.
00:15:47How much does all that come to, Mr. Stark?
00:15:50Uh, one hundred and eighty dollars.
00:15:52You mean Abner just gets twenty dollars for his uncle's eye?
00:15:56There is an unpaid lien of sixty-seven dollars.
00:15:59Twenty-seven.
00:16:00Well, if that don't beat the bugs, if I...
00:16:03Uh, Abner, you owe him forty-seven dollars.
00:16:06Forty-seven dollars?
00:16:07What for?
00:16:07Just hope we got enough left to pay it.
00:16:10I ought to have more cents to put any deep in it than Uncle Ernest.
00:16:14Grandpa Peabody always says he's a black goat of the family.
00:16:18What he is.
00:16:19Here you are.
00:16:20It's ten, twenty, thirty, thirty-five, forty, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven dollars.
00:16:27You know how much that leaves us, Abner?
00:16:28Ain't got to leave, guys.
00:16:30Fifty cents.
00:16:30Oh, uh, there is a notarizing fee.
00:16:33Fifty cents.
00:16:35Come on, Abner.
00:16:36Let's get out of here while we can.
00:16:39Might not wish now Uncle Ernest hadn't a die.
00:16:44Now, how are we going to get back to Pine Ridge?
00:16:47I don't know.
00:16:48Hike, er, hitchhike, I reckon.
00:16:50Wait a minute.
00:16:51Uh.
00:16:51I granted we better telegram Squire's camp and tell him not to buy them rights away.
00:16:55That's right.
00:16:55We better do that, Long.
00:16:57Well, but here, here, you don't aim to walk all the way down them steps, do you?
00:17:00Why, sure?
00:17:01My granny's ain't.
00:17:03My feet are a war to a couple of nugs.
00:17:05I'm just as tired as you are long.
00:17:07Oh, come on, Abner.
00:17:08Just this once, let's ride the elevator.
00:17:10No, sir, them things are too dangerous.
00:17:17Look out, Abner!
00:17:19Help!
00:17:20Help!
00:17:21Help!
00:17:24Help!
00:17:25Are you hurt, Abner?
00:17:27Are you hurt?
00:17:28Oh!
00:17:28Oh, my leg's broke.
00:17:30You were the worst.
00:17:31Pick one, Edric.
00:17:32Oh, my right one.
00:17:33Maybe my left one.
00:17:34I don't know who it is.
00:17:35Hold on, will you?
00:17:36I've got to make a report.
00:17:37I told you the elevators are not easier.
00:17:39Bob, don't try to start no argument with me now.
00:17:42Triple of my legs.
00:17:44You were tenant of this building, or just a flunky without portfolio.
00:17:48And he says, what is it, what is it, what is it?
00:17:52Now, time is the answer.
00:17:53Yes, there's an old man fell down the stairs.
00:17:56An old man fell down the stairs.
00:17:57An old man fell down the stairs?
00:17:59Yes, yes.
00:17:59Oh, dear, another damaged suit, I suppose.
00:18:02Oh, trouble, trouble, always.
00:18:04Where is it?
00:18:04The 25th floor.
00:18:05The 25th floor.
00:18:06All right, all right.
00:18:09Everything happens to me.
00:18:11There's one thing, it's nothing, it's never nothing.
00:18:14No, Bob, no.
00:18:15Here's a cup of water.
00:18:16Oh, thank you, man.
00:18:19Let's not lose our head, everything is under control.
00:18:21All right, now, you take your shoulders.
00:18:22Take your shoulders.
00:18:24There we are.
00:18:25Got him?
00:18:26Not him.
00:18:27Not him, him.
00:18:28Oh, well, don't stand there gaping.
00:18:30Pick him up.
00:18:31Pick him up.
00:18:31Every moment.
00:18:33What's going on?
00:18:34Wait a minute.
00:18:34Put him down.
00:18:35That's my partner.
00:18:36It's all right, it's all right.
00:18:37We're just going to take him to a doctor's office for examination,
00:18:39just to make sure that there's no damage,
00:18:41then he can sign a release.
00:18:42Release?
00:18:43Yes, a release.
00:18:45Hold on to these.
00:18:47There, now, come on, we'll carry him to the elevator.
00:18:49Oh, no, that thing is dangerous.
00:18:51Oh, excuse me.
00:18:51Through elevators.
00:18:52Oh, sir.
00:18:52You control yourself.
00:18:55Oh, dear.
00:19:01How are we going to pay for this?
00:19:04Grandjus, I never thought about that.
00:19:06Well, what are we doing up there anyway, Long?
00:19:09I don't know what he brought us.
00:19:11Handed me this release, or whatever he called it.
00:19:23Oh, dear, oh, dear, another five minutes wasted.
00:19:26I'm a busy man.
00:19:27I'm sorry, but the doctor is still busy with the patient.
00:19:30We'll take care of Mr. Peabody as soon as he's through.
00:19:32I hope so.
00:19:33Mr. Strauss is ready now.
00:19:35Oh, thank you.
00:19:36Oh.
00:19:42The doctor's report on Mr. Strauss will be ready in just a few minutes.
00:19:46For it.
00:19:48All right, Mr. Peabody.
00:19:49The doctor will see you.
00:19:50Mr. Peabody, there we go.
00:19:51Come on.
00:19:51How are you?
00:19:52Go on, where?
00:19:52In the doctor's office.
00:19:55Well, Long, I believe I feel all right.
00:19:57Come on, let's get out of here.
00:19:58No, you better be examined while you're here.
00:20:00You might have some internal injuries.
00:20:02Oh, dear, I hope not.
00:20:03Now, go on, you get in there.
00:20:04For goodness sake, now, you know, I'm a busy man.
00:20:05Well, look what happened to that fellow.
00:20:09Only the patient.
00:20:10Oh, just the patient.
00:20:12The patient.
00:20:16What's the latest war news, Doc?
00:20:21Inhale, please.
00:20:23I don't inhale.
00:20:24The fact is, I hardly smoke at all.
00:20:27Mm-hmm.
00:20:29All right.
00:20:30Now, say 99 and keep on saying it.
00:20:3699, 99, 99, 99, a hotter, uh, 99.
00:20:46How old are you?
00:20:4899.
00:20:4999.
00:21:05Have you noticed any marked fluctuations in your weight lately?
00:21:09Uh, uh, come over that again, Doc.
00:21:11I believe I jumped back there.
00:21:13What's the most you ever weighed?
00:21:15Oh, uh, 138.
00:21:20And the least?
00:21:21Uh, five and a half pounds, I believe it was.
00:21:31Well, you stop pacing, you make me nervous.
00:21:34I wasn't pacing, I just walked it.
00:21:36Well, then, let's get in step.
00:21:41And will you stop typing so loud?
00:21:43I'm typing as quietly as I can.
00:21:45Well, then, type louder.
00:21:46I loathe the sneaky typewriter.
00:21:48Well, if you ever get down Pine Ridge, why come see me, Doc.
00:21:52Oh, 23 and a half hours leave?
00:21:55How wonderful.
00:21:56Oh, are you all right?
00:21:58Everything, what, what, what'd you say?
00:21:59Are you hurt anywhere, if ever?
00:22:00I don't think so, Mom.
00:22:01He listened at my chest with a little telephone,
00:22:04and then he dropped a bandage around my arm and pumped me up,
00:22:07but I believe it helped my leg.
00:22:09It feels better.
00:22:10Well, good.
00:22:11Yeah.
00:22:13I miss you, too.
00:22:14Mr. Planch, what was the name of that patient that just went out?
00:22:17Just a minute, dear.
00:22:18Um, Strauss.
00:22:20Strauss.
00:22:20Uh-huh.
00:22:22I like that.
00:22:23And what was the name of that other patient?
00:22:25Um, Peabody.
00:22:28Peabody.
00:22:29Oh, that would be wonderful.
00:22:32Give these to Miss Morris, please.
00:22:33Uh-huh.
00:22:34The camp is in at 8 o'clock.
00:22:36I'll be there.
00:22:41He was in there beating me on the knee with a hammer.
00:22:44What?
00:22:44Yes, sir.
00:22:45What's the matter with you?
00:22:47Nothing.
00:22:48I'm on a furlough.
00:22:52She's on a what?
00:22:53On a furlough, she said.
00:22:54I thought she's walking.
00:22:56That must be the reef work.
00:22:57Yes.
00:22:58There you are, Mr. Strauss.
00:23:10Whoopi!
00:23:13Whoopi!
00:23:14Whoopi!
00:23:14Whoopi!
00:23:15I told you there was nothing wrong with me!
00:23:18Whoopi!
00:23:19Hey, you forgot your tricycle!
00:23:23You'd better break this to him gently.
00:23:26Oh.
00:23:29Oh, my goodness.
00:23:40Two weeks to live.
00:23:44Grab his feet there, Adner. He's fainted.
00:23:46Oh, oh! All right, Dogies, we ain't gonna have to carry him all the way back down them stairs, are
00:23:51we, Long?
00:23:52No, put him in that wheelchair there.
00:23:53Oh, oh, oh.
00:23:57Is he a doctor in the house?
00:24:02Dogies one day gone already. Just a week and six days left.
00:24:07Who was it, Long?
00:24:09He's a porter. Telegram.
00:24:11Telegram?
00:24:12Yeah.
00:24:12Lum Eddard, Richmoor Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
00:24:16Your telegram received too late.
00:24:19Have already closed for all right-of-way and paid out $9,980.
00:24:25Consider this a bargain.
00:24:27Squire skimp.
00:24:29Granted.
00:24:31Now, what are we gonna do, Lum?
00:24:33I don't know. We can't get out of here.
00:24:35We can't even pay our hotel bill.
00:24:37Well, I wanna go back to Pine Ridge, Lum.
00:24:40If I'm gonna die, that's where I wanna do it.
00:24:42We can't go back to Pine Ridge, Adner.
00:24:44We're gonna have to pay back all them investors.
00:24:47That was their life savings.
00:24:49Well, I'm lonesome here, Lum.
00:24:52I'm here, ain't I?
00:24:53Well, yeah.
00:24:55A dog can have fleas and still be lonesome, can't he?
00:25:01Yeah.
00:25:03Ain't you gonna answer it?
00:25:04I just happen to think that ain't our ring.
00:25:07Well, ring them again, then.
00:25:08Yes, of course.
00:25:10Mr. Fleming, I do hope we keep this thing out of court.
00:25:13Now, how high do you think we ought to go to get a release?
00:25:16Well, it's a pretty serious case.
00:25:18You might start with $5,000.
00:25:20Say, this is silly.
00:25:21Hang up.
00:25:22But I...
00:25:23Don't you understand?
00:25:24You'll give them big ideas if you go after them.
00:25:26Now, just sit tight and wait until they come to you.
00:25:30You're right.
00:25:31You're right.
00:25:32No, no, no, no.
00:25:33Can't cancel, will you please?
00:25:34Wrong number.
00:25:35No, sir, Adner.
00:25:36We've got to raise $10,000 somewhere or other.
00:25:40Lum, I've got enough words of my own without thinking about that thing.
00:25:44Well, sit down and rest, Adner.
00:25:45Here, read the paper for a while.
00:25:47Oh, Lum, I can't complicate on nothing.
00:25:50I wish I was in Pine Ridge.
00:25:52That's what I wish.
00:25:59For the land sakes.
00:26:01What's the matter?
00:26:02That article in there.
00:26:03Death and taxes.
00:26:05I can't get away from it.
00:26:06Well, read a book.
00:26:07Read something else.
00:26:08Oh, Lum, I don't want to read nothing.
00:26:10And I'd rather just...
00:26:16I need a man's sake.
00:26:19Doggy, let me turn that radio on.
00:26:22Get a little music in here.
00:26:26Ah, Doggy, that's a music.
00:26:29Have you selected your last resting place in beautiful Birch Long?
00:26:35Right?
00:26:36That's blaming anyway.
00:26:37I can't stand it, Lum.
00:26:38Control yourself, Adner.
00:26:40Come on.
00:26:40You need to lay down and get some rest.
00:26:42Come on.
00:26:42Well, Lum, I'm gonna get catched up on that laying down, Venice.
00:26:46I'd rather stay on my feet as long as I can.
00:26:50You know, as sick as I am, I never felt better in my life.
00:26:56You never seek a little thing to do.
00:26:59Sees it and does it.
00:27:01A high man with great things to pursue
00:27:04Dies, ere he knows it.
00:27:06Browning.
00:27:08No, Lum Edwards is my name.
00:27:10What's in a name?
00:27:11A rose by any other smells and so forth.
00:27:14Shakespeare.
00:27:15Come on in, Mr. Shakespeare.
00:27:16Oh, thank you.
00:27:18Come in, Rover.
00:27:19Attaboy.
00:27:20Rover?
00:27:21Yes, that's my dog.
00:27:23He's dead, but he's with me in spirit.
00:27:26I know just how you feel.
00:27:27I had a dog myself once.
00:27:30Granny, that's kind of dangerous work, ain't it?
00:27:32That winter washing.
00:27:33Dangerous?
00:27:34Well, maybe.
00:27:36But it pays good.
00:27:37If you want to advance, you gotta take a chance.
00:27:40Else you get it in the pants.
00:27:42Giffle, yours truly.
00:27:43Granny, that's pretty good.
00:27:45Thanks.
00:27:46Yeah, that's the way jobs are.
00:27:47The more dangerous, the more they pay.
00:27:49Now, take that flag pole on top of that building, for instance.
00:27:52They'll pay $500 for a paint job on that.
00:27:55But that's not for me.
00:27:57It's a Jinx pole.
00:27:58Yes, huh?
00:27:59Yes, sir.
00:28:00It sways in the breeze.
00:28:03Confidentially, three guys got Jinx trying to earn that $500.
00:28:06No more takers.
00:28:08That pole still needs painting.
00:28:10It does, huh?
00:28:11Mm-hmm.
00:28:14Granny, there's a lot of poles out there need painting, ain't there?
00:28:17Yes, sir.
00:28:17This ain't a one-flag town.
00:28:20Old glory's unpoiled all around.
00:28:24$500, huh?
00:28:25That's right.
00:28:26Mom, I can't sleep.
00:28:27I just laid in there.
00:28:28After, I want you to shake him.
00:28:29What's he doing here?
00:28:30You don't know it, but there stands a friend of ours.
00:28:33Well...
00:28:34Omar Tennyson Gimple.
00:28:35Greetings.
00:28:36I'll be looking forward to other meetings.
00:28:38We write poetry.
00:28:40Ah, Rover, come over here.
00:28:42That's his dog.
00:28:43Ha, ha, ha.
00:28:44Are you going to be with us long?
00:28:46Oh, about two weeks, I reckon.
00:28:48Well, I hope you enjoy Chicago.
00:28:50Word of no.
00:28:51It's his spirit.
00:28:52Like the poets say.
00:28:53You wouldn't understand.
00:28:54Eat, drink, and be merry.
00:28:56For tomorrow you may die.
00:28:57Huh? Tomorrow?
00:28:59Uh, Abner.
00:29:00If a feller knowed he's gonna die pretty soon,
00:29:03it wouldn't make much difference to him when he died or how he died, would it?
00:29:06I ain't thought much about that long.
00:29:08Well, for instance, if this feller owed some folks back home a lot of money
00:29:11and he had a chance to take a job that paid real good,
00:29:14he ought to take it, ought me.
00:29:16I reckon so.
00:29:18Ah, Granny's put her there.
00:29:19You don't know it, but you've just become a flagpole painter.
00:29:22Ha, ha, ha.
00:29:23Flagpole?
00:29:24Oh, no, I ain't getting up on one of them things, no, sir.
00:29:26Now, wait a minute, Abner.
00:29:27If I was in your position, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
00:29:30Long getting up high makes me dizzy, and it ain't a thing of doing,
00:29:34you and your invisible dogs.
00:29:43Let me down, Long, it's dangerous.
00:29:45I want to fall down that street when them cars would run open
00:29:48just sure the world.
00:29:50Long, stay up there.
00:29:51Abner, ain't nothing to be scared of.
00:29:52Look at me.
00:29:53I ain't nervous a bit.
00:29:54Long, you ain't up here neither.
00:29:56Long, get the painting up there.
00:29:58Go on, clean up to the top.
00:30:00Well, Long, let me down.
00:30:01Let me down now, Long.
00:30:02Look out, Abner.
00:30:03Look what you're doing.
00:30:03Mind out.
00:30:04Oh!
00:30:05Look out, Long!
00:30:06Grab that rope!
00:30:08Grab that rope!
00:30:08Ah!
00:30:12I understand what they mean by a jinxed pole, huh?
00:30:18I've always wanted to pull a lucky number off of one of them punch boards.
00:30:22Oh!
00:30:25Hello, Mr. Edwards.
00:30:26Hello.
00:30:28Er...
00:30:28Oh, hello, Mr. Gimple.
00:30:30Come on in.
00:30:31Well, thank you.
00:30:32Come on, Robert.
00:30:33Oh.
00:30:34Well, how's everything with you and your partner?
00:30:36Not so good.
00:30:37He's in there sleeping out.
00:30:39We ain't getting no words.
00:30:41Hotel bills are piling up on us.
00:30:43That's too bad.
00:30:44That's life.
00:30:45It's full of stripe and, uh, giant.
00:30:48Giant?
00:30:49No, but it rhymes.
00:30:51No.
00:30:52Are you still looking for risky jobs to pay big?
00:30:54Yeah.
00:30:55Do you know of any more?
00:30:56No.
00:30:58Oh.
00:30:58But you could advertise.
00:31:00Advertise?
00:31:01Like in newspapers?
00:31:02That's right.
00:31:03I agree.
00:31:04It sounds like a good idea.
00:31:05An ad in a column might get results in full volume.
00:31:09Haha.
00:31:10Sounds good.
00:31:11Glad to compose it for you.
00:31:12Strong prose is my weakness.
00:31:28Yeah.
00:31:36Out here to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
00:31:39Shh.
00:31:40I am the new Dr. Jekyll.
00:31:44You see this?
00:31:45This is the key that opens my prison door.
00:31:49It frees my other self.
00:31:51It loses my animal that is in me.
00:31:54It is in you.
00:31:55It is in you.
00:31:57I ain't got no such thing in me.
00:31:59Well, what is it you want Abner to do?
00:32:01This drug I know will change me into my animal self.
00:32:06But I am not so sure that it will change me.
00:32:10Back again.
00:32:11So?
00:32:12I want him.
00:32:13For my guinea pig.
00:32:15Guinea pig?
00:32:16You ain't gonna make no kind of animal out of me.
00:32:26Hey you, come here, come here, come here.
00:32:28That big Peabody guy.
00:32:30Where did me and Plato find him?
00:32:31Plato?
00:32:31Yeah, that's Plato.
00:32:32Put it down.
00:32:34Put it down.
00:32:38He's always clowning.
00:32:39Clowning?
00:32:40A great Agno.
00:32:40He's the only girl in the world that doesn't adopt him.
00:32:43He throws his partner 20 feet in the air.
00:32:45Mister is beautiful.
00:32:47The only trouble is we keep running out of partners.
00:32:49Partners.
00:32:50What room did you say that Peabody guy was in?
00:32:53He's in 713.
00:32:58Take him out.
00:32:59Take this King Kong out of here.
00:33:01What's the matter?
00:33:01Ereditary?
00:33:02What do you get?
00:33:02Well, get him out of here.
00:33:04The very idea.
00:33:05Oh, my goodness.
00:33:07Oh, my goodness.
00:33:09Now, wait a minute, Abner.
00:33:10It's just an experiment.
00:33:12Besides, he says he'll pay good.
00:33:14Lookie there.
00:33:15There ain't nothing to it.
00:33:18That looks good.
00:33:20I wouldn't mind drinking some of that myself.
00:33:22Would you, Abner?
00:33:24Abner.
00:33:25He must have went in there.
00:33:27Where's my guinea pig?
00:33:28Where's my guinea pig?
00:33:31Where's my guinea pig?
00:33:32Where's my guinea pig?
00:33:32All right, Plato.
00:33:32Now, sit down and be quiet.
00:33:36Where's this Peabody guy?
00:33:38Hey, Peabody.
00:33:39Where is everybody?
00:33:41Hey, Peabody.
00:33:43Hey, anybody in here?
00:33:47Abner.
00:33:48What about you at, Abner?
00:33:58What about you at, Abner?
00:34:00Lomb!
00:34:02Oh, Lomb, you ought not to a drunkie.
00:34:05Lomb!
00:34:07Lomb!
00:34:08Speak to me, Lomb!
00:34:09Speak to me!
00:34:10Lomb!
00:34:10Now, don't do that, Lomb!
00:34:12Don't do that now!
00:34:13Don't!
00:34:15Lomb!
00:34:16Lomb!
00:34:17Lomb!
00:34:18Lomb!
00:34:18Lomb!
00:34:19Abner.
00:34:21Well, good for you.
00:34:22Well, you took the stuff, huh?
00:34:24Dr. Jekyll, it works.
00:34:25Look.
00:34:26Oh, my formula.
00:34:28This is some sex.
00:34:29Wait here.
00:34:29I'll go and get another fun with the green blue bag.
00:34:32Wait.
00:34:33I'll be back soon.
00:34:36Abner!
00:34:37Abner!
00:34:38Abner!
00:34:38Come here.
00:34:39Come here.
00:34:39Sit down over there.
00:34:40Sit down.
00:34:40Did I tell you to sit down over there?
00:34:41Don't talk to him like that.
00:34:43That's my partner.
00:34:44Your partner?
00:34:44He's been my partner for seven years.
00:34:46Abner, tell him whose partner you are.
00:34:48Well, I was yours, but I ain't gonna be if you don't...
00:34:51Abner.
00:34:52Er, Ab...
00:34:53Whichever one's you.
00:34:55I thought that was you.
00:34:56No, that's you.
00:34:58No, it ain't me.
00:35:00The last will of Abner Foddy.
00:35:04Grand Pappy Spears?
00:35:06Nothing.
00:35:07He keeps a chatter.
00:35:09Law matters.
00:35:10Yes, see, now what can I leave, old law?
00:35:15And all Abner's house, you talking about?
00:35:18Yes.
00:35:19Alone.
00:35:20And you pay him a thousand dollars?
00:35:21Yes, if...
00:35:22Of course there's an if in it.
00:35:24If what?
00:35:25If you're alive in the morning.
00:35:28Oh.
00:35:29Oh, but he will be.
00:35:30I don't believe the house is really haunted.
00:35:34Haunted?
00:35:34Now, just a minute, Abner.
00:35:36We need that thousand dollars.
00:35:37Go ahead, Miss Carmen.
00:35:39You see, the legend about the house has kept us from selling it for years.
00:35:43But now I have a buyer for it.
00:35:45If I can prove that...
00:35:47Never mind.
00:35:48Prove what, Miss Carmen?
00:35:51My grandfather died a sudden and strange death in that house.
00:35:54And since that time, anyone who stays alone all night in his room...
00:36:00Well...
00:36:01How many has it been so far?
00:36:03Only five.
00:36:04See, they're Abner, just five.
00:36:05And I'm sure it wasn't the ghosts that got them.
00:36:08It was just their imagination.
00:36:10Uh, just their imagination, huh?
00:36:13Yes.
00:36:13I reckon they just imagine they're dead, too.
00:36:16Oh, no.
00:36:17I don't like ghosts, and I ain't gonna have nothing to do with them, and that is final.
00:36:23I'm sorry.
00:36:25Well...
00:36:27If you gentlemen should change your mind, you can call me.
00:36:30Oh, thank you.
00:36:32Oh, here's your handker.
00:36:34Oh!
00:36:35That's very gallant of you, Mr. Edward.
00:36:38Oh, not at all.
00:36:38Not at all.
00:36:39I'll try to talk him into it.
00:36:41Oh, then I can expect to see you again soon.
00:36:44Perhaps dinner and dancing?
00:36:47I'd love to.
00:36:49Goodbye.
00:36:49For now.
00:36:51Goodbye.
00:36:55Hey, Granny's Abner.
00:36:56I believe she admiars me.
00:36:58For the land's sake.
00:37:00She does.
00:37:00I can tell.
00:37:02Petter fatter.
00:37:03And we're going to a dance, too.
00:37:08Sort of warm out this evening, ain't it, Miss Carmen?
00:37:11Did anybody ever tell you you're beautiful?
00:37:14No.
00:37:15Is this you, Abner Peabody?
00:37:16Oh, no.
00:37:17That's my partner.
00:37:18I got a great spot for him.
00:37:19I'll pay him $5,000 a half a gig.
00:37:21We'll take the $5,000.
00:37:23We don't want no gig.
00:37:24Oh, you got me wrong, chum.
00:37:25What do you want him to do?
00:37:27Definitely.
00:37:29Abner!
00:37:30No!
00:37:31I'll explain this, neighbor.
00:37:32Don't take a minute.
00:37:33Just a minute there, pal.
00:37:34What do you think I'm going to say?
00:37:35I ain't going to do it.
00:37:37How do you know, Abner?
00:37:38You don't know what it is yet.
00:37:39Mom, I told you I ain't.
00:37:42What is it?
00:37:43Ah.
00:37:44I'll explain it, Mac.
00:37:45The name is Higgins.
00:37:46Thrill them in and Higgins, they call me in my profession.
00:37:49Now, you're crowding me, neighbor.
00:37:50Now, this Deathleaf is, there's nothing to it, see?
00:37:52It's a gimmick.
00:37:53It's for the chunks, for the monkeys outside.
00:37:55Now, all you have to do is go up on a big flannesset, see?
00:37:57You walk up on a cronin, and you've got a big thing strapped around you with a hawk in here
00:38:01and a can of stairs.
00:38:01And on here is a big mountain.
00:38:02When they pull you up and you come down, nothing can happen.
00:38:05You understand?
00:38:07Well, you put that in writing.
00:38:10Transfer from one plane to another in midair.
00:38:16I don't deserve one stunt.
00:38:18I've always wanted to see them.
00:38:20Now, I'm going to be up there where I can't watch it.
00:38:22Well, I'll explain it to you when you come back.
00:38:24All right, Peabody.
00:38:25Your time's come.
00:38:26Uh-huh.
00:38:27It's your turn.
00:38:28Come on.
00:38:29We're waiting for the finale.
00:38:30Oh.
00:38:31Well, uh, uh...
00:38:33Let's postpone this.
00:38:34Let's talk to Mr. Higgins long.
00:38:36He's not around.
00:38:37Come on.
00:38:38Your plane is all warmed up.
00:38:39It'll all be over in just a few minutes, Adner.
00:38:42All right.
00:38:47Go on.
00:38:48Get in there.
00:38:48We've done talking over a dozen times.
00:38:51Go on.
00:38:51Go on.
00:38:52Go on.
00:38:52Go on.
00:38:54All right.
00:38:55Get the thing started before he gets out of there.
00:39:11Hey.
00:39:12Hey.
00:39:12Get out of the way.
00:39:13Huh?
00:39:14Put your foot out there.
00:39:17Yes.
00:39:20Well, here, wait a minute.
00:39:21Come on.
00:39:21I better not get out of there.
00:39:22That's it.
00:39:23Oh, my goodness.
00:39:23Look out.
00:39:26Let's get out from here.
00:39:28Hey, wait a minute.
00:39:29Help!
00:39:29Help!
00:39:30Help!
00:39:31Oh, my goodness.
00:39:33Careful, Amner.
00:39:34Careful.
00:39:39Help!
00:39:42We've got a team going up here.
00:39:45Let me get away.
00:39:54I can't hold onto this thing.
00:39:56It's wet.
00:39:57It's slippery.
00:39:58Help!
00:39:59Help!
00:40:00Help!
00:40:11What am I going to do?
00:40:14I'm stranded.
00:40:16Tell Mr. Higgins we'll take half the gate.
00:40:16I'm sorry, Mr. Edwards.
00:40:16I can't hold onto this thing.
00:40:20Get out from here.
00:40:21It'll be down to get in the ground.
00:40:23If I ever get my hands on that crook, I...
00:40:25What am I going to do?
00:40:25I'm stranded.
00:40:26Tell Mr. Higgins we'll take half the gate.
00:40:28I'm sorry, Mr. Edwards.
00:40:29Mr. Higgins is gone.
00:40:31Gone?
00:40:32Where to?
00:40:32That's what we'd all like to know.
00:40:34Don't you get it, sucker?
00:40:35Higgins is gone with the dough.
00:40:37He's taking it on the land.
00:40:38He's skermooched.
00:40:39Courage, my friends.
00:40:40Don't take it too hard.
00:40:41Remember the words of the immortal bard.
00:40:43Who steals my purse, steals trash.
00:40:46Tis nothing.
00:40:47Nothing?
00:40:47It was $5,000.
00:40:50Lucre.
00:40:50Erst, wild, filthy...
00:40:52Say, speaking of Lucre, you overlooked something.
00:40:55The bar building.
00:40:56Huh?
00:40:56Those stairs you fell down were soapy, weren't they?
00:40:58That makes the building owners liable.
00:41:00They owe you for damages.
00:41:02Ah, grannies, that's right, Abner.
00:41:03Come on, let's get over and collect it.
00:41:05Ah, Mr. Edwards, you better go alone.
00:41:07The part of the first part is supposed to be non-compass, uh, compass, uh, physicalis.
00:41:11Oh, yeah, sure, that's right.
00:41:13You write that Mr. Edwards is okay to represent you.
00:41:17You know, I'd like that fella alright if it weren't for that invisible dough.
00:41:22Well, what's wrong with his dough?
00:41:23I'm scared to death all the time I'm going to step on him.
00:41:27Say what?
00:41:27What?
00:41:29Just right.
00:41:31All right, doggies, Lum, don't you reckon we ought to get a lawyer to handle this first?
00:41:35With Mr. Gimple here to advise us?
00:41:37I'm just as the piece down home used to handling legal matters.
00:41:41Well, about all you ever do, Lum, is do some marrying or try somebody for killing a deer out of
00:41:47season or something.
00:41:48I'll phone the superintendent of the bar building for an appointment.
00:41:51Ah!
00:41:53Hello?
00:41:53Give me the bar building.
00:41:55No, no, no, not the bar.
00:41:56The bar building.
00:41:57But, Mr. Fleming, we're not dealing with small fry now.
00:42:01There's someone else in the picture.
00:42:02They're their financial advisor.
00:42:04I'm talking.
00:42:05Offering 10,000 to start with and then go on from there.
00:42:09But don't be too...
00:42:11Oh!
00:42:12Oh, Mr. Edwards.
00:42:15How are you?
00:42:16He's fine.
00:42:17How are you?
00:42:17Shake hands, Mr. Fleming.
00:42:18Well, how do you do?
00:42:20Sit down.
00:42:20Make your acquaintance.
00:42:22That's why I want you to sit down, Mr. Edwards.
00:42:24Sit down.
00:42:25There.
00:42:25How are you?
00:42:26Oh, pardon me.
00:42:27I just asked you that, didn't I?
00:42:28See, I wasn't the one that was hurt.
00:42:31No.
00:42:32No.
00:42:34Now, about this settlement, Mr. Edwards, have you considered any definite amount?
00:42:39Well, I want you fellows to know I'm sort of used to dealing in big figures.
00:42:43Oh, quite so.
00:42:45Of course, of course I understand that.
00:42:48Now, suppose I start with 10.
00:42:5210?
00:42:52Yes.
00:42:5310.
00:42:53I think that's a very fair offer.
00:42:55Comes down right measly to me.
00:42:57Chicken feet.
00:42:58Well, I could go as high as 12.
00:43:0212?
00:43:03Mm-hmm.
00:43:03Aye, grannies, I believe we'd do better by carrying it to court.
00:43:06Oh, now.
00:43:06Now, don't be hasty, Mr. Edwards.
00:43:08Well, then, if you'll just give us some idea of, uh...
00:43:13Well, uh, I've been sort of turning it over in my mind.
00:43:17Seventy-five dollars is my price.
00:43:20Yes, sir.
00:43:21Did you say seventy-five dollars?
00:43:25Well, sixty-five then, but not a cent less.
00:43:29And cash money, too.
00:43:31Well, you certainly drive a hard bargain, Mr. Edwards.
00:43:35Well, like I told you, I'm sort of used to dealing in big figures.
00:43:41Hi, grannies, Abner.
00:43:42I got sixty-five dollars.
00:43:43Sixty-five dollars?
00:43:44Yes, sir.
00:43:45Is that all?
00:43:46Is that all?
00:43:47He tried to get me to take ten, but that's too sharp for him.
00:43:51How do you do?
00:43:54I'm from the classified ad agency.
00:43:55You owe us sixty-four dollars and fifty cents to the ad you took out in the morning papers.
00:43:59Uh, sixty-five, did you say?
00:44:01Yeah.
00:44:02Thank you very much.
00:44:03Here's, uh, fifty cents change.
00:44:05And your receipt, all made out.
00:44:07Thank you again, gentlemen.
00:44:09Not at all.
00:44:11Not at all.
00:44:12We ought to have a collector like him down to jot them down still.
00:44:15Wasn't hurting, I think.
00:44:17Well, we got this out of it anyway.
00:44:20Uh-oh.
00:44:22That's our ring, ain't it?
00:44:24I don't know.
00:44:25I never paid no attention.
00:44:26I'm gonna find it.
00:44:27Got them down.
00:44:28I mean, Lum entered Stokey.
00:44:30I told you, Lum.
00:44:31I found a dime and a lipstick.
00:44:33Who?
00:44:34Well, good.
00:44:35Uh, hold her there for me.
00:44:36I mean, uh, tell her to wait there for me.
00:44:38I'll be right down.
00:44:39Yeah, much obliged.
00:44:43Oh, good afternoon, Mr. Edwards.
00:44:44Where is she?
00:44:45I mean, Miss Corman.
00:44:46Oh, she's in the grill room having luncheon.
00:44:48I suppose you'll want some flowers sent in.
00:44:51Flowers?
00:44:51Oh, yes.
00:44:52That would be nice.
00:44:54But I think of the truth, I'm a little short of cash right now.
00:44:57Why, that's all right.
00:44:58Just charge it on the bill.
00:45:00And anything else, whatever it is, we'll pay for it.
00:45:03Flowers, theater tickets, or ballet service.
00:45:05And you'll pay for it?
00:45:06Yes, just Ritz-Moore service.
00:45:08And by the way, there's a fine play at the Grand Theater.
00:45:12I'm sure you're a lady friend of mine.
00:45:14A lady?
00:45:15Yes.
00:45:16Oh.
00:45:17Do you reckon she would, sure?
00:45:18They all do.
00:45:19The play's the thing, you know.
00:45:20Did you bring your dinner clothes?
00:45:22No, I just eat and eat.
00:45:24Eat it?
00:45:25Yes.
00:45:25But you wouldn't like to sit in a box without a tuxedo.
00:45:29Oh, no.
00:45:30Of course not.
00:45:31All right, I'll have the tailor call on you.
00:45:33Tailor?
00:45:34Just Ritz-Moore service.
00:45:35Oh.
00:45:36Uh, maybe you better have him go up and take Cabner's, Mr. Peabody's measurements, too.
00:45:41Very well.
00:45:42And, uh, while you're at it, get him one of them boxes.
00:45:45I certainly will.
00:45:46We'll take care of everything.
00:45:47Uh, theater tickets, please.
00:45:57So you think I'm the executive type?
00:45:59Oh, yes.
00:46:01And so trustworthy.
00:46:02Oh, yeah.
00:46:05Oh.
00:46:06I don't care if I do.
00:46:10Here, I'll light it for you.
00:46:11Oh, thank you.
00:46:19Here.
00:46:20Excuse me.
00:46:22Awkward, ain't I?
00:46:25I want to confide in you, Mr. Edwards.
00:46:29Uh, couldn't you just call me alone?
00:46:32Alone?
00:46:33Yeah, it sounds better.
00:46:37I want you to help me, love.
00:46:39I've simply got to sell that house.
00:46:42You see, Mother's so ill, and I need some money now, desperately.
00:46:49Bless your heart.
00:46:50Bless your little heart.
00:46:52I know just how you feel.
00:46:54You will speak to Mr. Peabody, won't you?
00:46:57You've simply got to help me prove the house isn't haunted.
00:47:00Well, you're not, fair lady.
00:47:01The deed is as good as dead.
00:47:03Oh, John.
00:47:04Oh, uh, Miss Carmen, I want you to meet my friend, Mr. Gimple.
00:47:07Ah, Rover.
00:47:08Get away from the lady.
00:47:09Oh, hello, Rover.
00:47:11Never seen you jump in.
00:47:12Here.
00:47:13Set up for it.
00:47:14Speak.
00:47:15Sit down.
00:47:17Oh, uh, that's Mr. Gimple's doll.
00:47:21Well, he ain't showing up there.
00:47:23Well, he is there, but he ain't, uh...
00:47:26You wouldn't understand about that.
00:47:28But we'll talk to Abner.
00:47:30Don't you worry a minute.
00:47:31Mr. Gimple's pretty good with words.
00:47:33Say some words for her, Mr. Gimple.
00:47:34Sure.
00:47:36Words, words.
00:47:37Like fleeting birds.
00:47:39Some are sweet and some are sour.
00:47:40Some are...
00:47:41Some are...
00:47:42Maybe it's winter.
00:47:44Charming.
00:47:45I think it smells.
00:47:47Well, thank you.
00:47:49We'll talk to Abner and we'll talk him into it.
00:47:51Now, don't you worry.
00:47:52Wait a minute.
00:47:53I'll climb up the fire escape with you.
00:47:54Mom, haven't you forgotten something?
00:47:57Yeah.
00:47:59Oh, excuse me.
00:48:01Silly of me, ain't it?
00:48:02Uh-uh.
00:48:03Something else.
00:48:04Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:48:05That's a good idea.
00:48:07Well, goodbye and I'll let you know how we come out.
00:48:10Uh, come on, Grover.
00:48:12Up-to-do.
00:48:13That's the time.
00:48:15Mr. Dad, I just called to tell you I've made arrangements for your box.
00:48:18Box?
00:48:20Already?
00:48:21Yes, Mr. Edwards ordered it.
00:48:22I know you'll enjoy the vehicle.
00:48:25Well...
00:48:26All right.
00:48:27Stand it up.
00:48:29Enjoy.
00:48:31I don't get that long dressing things too much around here.
00:48:34I'm supposed to leave till the 17th.
00:48:38Come in.
00:48:40Good morning, good morning, good morning.
00:48:41Mr. Peabody.
00:48:44Mr. Peabody.
00:48:45Oh, I do, Mr. Peabody.
00:48:47Er, uh...
00:48:48Mr. Edwards sent me up.
00:48:49Time to take your measurements.
00:48:51Measurements?
00:48:52Does a fella have to be measured for something like that?
00:48:55Well, of course.
00:48:56You want the perfect fit, don't you?
00:48:57So all the people will say, look at him.
00:48:59Doesn't he look beautiful?
00:49:04How long do you want your legs?
00:49:06Well, I'll need them for a day or two, yes.
00:49:10Thirty-one.
00:49:12Now, if you'll hold your arms in front of your chest with us.
00:49:19All right, Dogish, wait a minute.
00:49:20This measurement business has went far enough around here.
00:49:23Now, you get out of here.
00:49:24And don't come back till the 17th.
00:49:27Go on, get out!
00:49:28Get on out of here!
00:49:31I'll be back on that day.
00:49:32Well, just get out of here now.
00:49:34I'm getting sick and tired of you fellas trying to tell me how to die around here.
00:49:38Down?
00:49:39How?
00:49:39Going up or down?
00:49:41Oh, I won't know till the 17th.
00:49:44We can't wait, brother.
00:49:49Is that it?
00:49:50Yes, sir.
00:49:52Does this belong to you, Professor?
00:49:54I reckon so.
00:49:56I'm afraid they got it a little broad across the chest for me, though.
00:49:59What studio do you want this harp took to?
00:50:02Harp?
00:50:03Is there a harp in there?
00:50:05Well, what'd you think we had in there?
00:50:06A dead body?
00:50:08Well, no, not yet.
00:50:10Well, I never knowed they sent you harps in advance.
00:50:13Well, here, you better bring it on inside and let me get started practicing on it then.
00:50:17I don't want to get up there and not know how to play.
00:50:20Here, this is the room right here.
00:50:22Ah, look out for that last step.
00:50:29For goodness sakes, where'd you get that thing?
00:50:32Oh, they sent it to me, Long.
00:50:34Who's they?
00:50:35You know, they.
00:50:37Ah, music is the food and leaven.
00:50:39For a mortal passage into heaven.
00:50:42Burns.
00:50:42Oh, no, Shelley.
00:50:43Well, I don't care who it is.
00:50:45And stop playing that thing, Ebner.
00:50:46I want to talk business with you.
00:50:47I've been talking to Miss Carmen about sleeping in that haunted house.
00:50:50No!
00:50:58Here's a chance to make a thousand dollars.
00:51:00No!
00:51:02Hello, Ebner.
00:51:03No!
00:51:05Er...
00:51:05Why, Elmer Kelton!
00:51:07Well, look who's here!
00:51:08Well, you old scallywag, you.
00:51:10Proud to see you.
00:51:12What a fancy place.
00:51:14Oh, yeah?
00:51:15It's right comfort, I reckon.
00:51:17How's Grandma Masters and all the folks down home?
00:51:20What do you care, you swindler?
00:51:23Swindler?
00:51:24What about this railroad?
00:51:26Oh, why, we went out and looked at it.
00:51:28It was just a pile of junk, Elmer.
00:51:31Well, just to be honest, we're flat broke.
00:51:34Broke?
00:51:34Hmm.
00:51:35And stayin' at a place like this.
00:51:37That's the honest truth, Elmer.
00:51:39Yeah?
00:51:40You ain't foolin' us, Lomb Edwards.
00:51:43And you're gonna pay back every cent that we invested in that phony railroad of your own.
00:51:48Or we're shuttin' the law on ya.
00:51:50Well, now, wait a minute, Elmer.
00:51:52Elmer, come back!
00:51:54I don't believe he feels good.
00:51:56Yeah, so that's what the folks back home's thinkin' about us, huh?
00:52:00Must be.
00:52:01Elmer, we've got to raise that $10,000 some way or other.
00:52:05Well, all right, Lomb.
00:52:07Where's that house you want me to haunt?
00:52:09Er, that haunted house you want me to sleep in?
00:52:12Good for you, Elmer.
00:52:13I knowed you wasn't scared of ghosts.
00:52:15Well, I never said that, but I'll go out there.
00:52:18I'll call Miss Corman right now.
00:52:21You're wonderful, Mr. Edwards.
00:52:24Oh, yes, you are.
00:52:27All right.
00:52:30Oh, really?
00:52:31Well, then I'll come down to your hotel room this afternoon and give you the final instructions.
00:52:36Oh, Mr. Edwards, you shouldn't say things like that.
00:52:42Oh, all right.
00:52:45I'll see you this afternoon.
00:52:46Hi, Granny.
00:52:48Goodbye.
00:52:50Hi, Granny?
00:52:52What does that mean?
00:52:53I don't know.
00:52:54The little guy finally came through.
00:52:56You better clear out, darling.
00:52:57I still don't like it, Madge.
00:52:59I hope there's no slip-up.
00:53:01Now, look.
00:53:02Let's go over this whole thing again.
00:53:05The little guy gets to the house at 4 o'clock.
00:53:08He's carrying the violin case.
00:53:11The violin case is locked.
00:53:13And inside is the time bomb set before 10.
00:53:17Now, when that goes off, nobody will know who he was.
00:53:21There's nothing wrong with that.
00:53:22Well, I hope you're right.
00:53:24Naturally, everyone will think one of your experiments exploded.
00:53:27Especially when they find your identification bracelet on his wrist.
00:53:31So, I'll act like a widow, collect your insurance, and meet you in six months.
00:53:37What about Edwards?
00:53:38I'll handle him.
00:53:40Now, go ahead. Get out of town and hurry up.
00:53:42And don't write.
00:53:44I still don't get it.
00:53:45Just what?
00:53:46What does this, I grannies, mean?
00:53:50You won't have her out there at the house at 4 o'clock, huh?
00:53:53Mm-hmm. Yes. Alone.
00:53:55Oh, he'll be by, Chef. I'll see to that.
00:53:57And what is it you want us to do with this?
00:53:59Oh, that's a very rare old instrument.
00:54:02I've wanted it for such a long time.
00:54:04And today, the antique shop finally got it for me.
00:54:07Well, good.
00:54:08And I thought, as long as Mr. Peabody's going out to the house anyway, perhaps he wouldn't mind taking it
00:54:14out there for me.
00:54:15Well, of course not. He'd be proud to do that, wouldn't you, Abner?
00:54:18Uh-uh.
00:54:19But you must be very careful with it, Mr. Peabody.
00:54:22After all, it's a Stradivarius.
00:54:25I thought you said it was a fiddle.
00:54:28Oh, and I think you'd better wear this, too.
00:54:31Huh? Oh, no, I don't want to wear an old woman's bracelet.
00:54:34Oh, please, Mr. Peabody. It's a good luck charm to keep the ghost away.
00:54:39Oh! Well, I'll wear anything to keep them things away.
00:54:43I was just thinking, Miss Carmen, while Abner's out the house, why don't me and you go for a ride
00:54:47in a canoe?
00:54:50Canoeing?
00:54:51Yeah, they got some dandy canoes out at Lincoln Park. Two bits an hour.
00:54:55Oh, I'd love to go.
00:54:57I'll be there about four o'clock. If I'm a little late. Wait for me.
00:55:02Oh, sure, of course I'll wait.
00:55:04Oh, uh, you're sure of that address now?
00:55:07Yes, Mom. Uh, 820 West, uh...
00:55:12Laurel. The name of a tree.
00:55:14Oh, yeah, I know to start with a L. Yeah, I got it.
00:55:17Well, goodbye.
00:55:20Goodbye.
00:55:30I never heard my watch tick as loud as a test today.
00:55:39Say, Sonny, uh, can you tell me where 820 West, uh, uh...
00:55:46820 West what?
00:55:48Oh, do you know any streets around here that's got names like trees?
00:55:53Yep, there's lots of them. There's oak, sycamore, cedar, elm, maple...
00:55:58That's it, that's it, elm. I know it started with a L.
00:56:01Uh, how far is that from here? I've got to be there at 4 o'clock.
00:56:054? You won't make it walking.
00:56:08Why not?
00:56:09We got out of school at 3. You must be pretty near 4 now.
00:56:12Oh. Oh.
00:56:14Well, Fitz, you reckon you could give me a lift on your bicycle?
00:56:17Sure. If you can fix it, the spark it flips a little.
00:56:20Oh. Now, here.
00:56:22Pull that out and fix that thing in 2 seconds, her, you believe.
00:56:26See now.
00:56:28Are you going there to take a violin lesson?
00:56:31No, me, no. I'm having enough trouble trying to learn her.
00:56:34Say, there's a funny noise in here.
00:56:37Kind of a ticking noise.
00:56:40Well, it must be termite. She said it was awful old.
00:56:45What did you say was wrong with this?
00:56:48Look, mister, didn't you have an appointment or something?
00:56:51Appointment? Why, no, I never...
00:56:54All right, doggies, wait a minute.
00:56:56I did, too. 4 o'clock, yes, sir.
00:56:58Well, you're late now, and I hate to see you miss it.
00:57:01You can get your bus right on the corner.
00:57:03Back is one now. Hurry!
00:57:05Oh, well, I hate to leave you in this thick, sonny.
00:57:08Oh, that's all right. I can carry it home in a paper sack.
00:57:13Oh, dear, mustn't do that.
00:57:15Oh, she can't hurt it. It's just an old fiddle.
00:57:20Better have her on while she's young.
00:57:23Here, hon, play with it all you want through there.
00:57:26No, no, no, Dorothy, my mother.
00:57:29Do you know what time it is?
00:57:31No, I don't. It's after 4, I think.
00:57:33Oh, how much after?
00:57:35Oh, I don't know. About 10 minutes.
00:57:37Oh, my goodness. Miss Carmel will kill me.
00:57:40Ellyn Street next. Ellyn.
00:57:47Hey, mister, you forgot your violin.
00:57:49Oh, thank you. Thank you.
00:57:51Oh, dear.
00:57:57See anything?
00:57:58They're in there.
00:58:04I can't get anything. The set is absolutely dead.
00:58:07Maybe Fitz thinks it's too dangerous to communicate with us by radio.
00:58:16Wait a minute.
00:58:20I oughta had more sense than to ever let Lum talk me into this.
00:58:25There ever was a haunted house this, this, this.
00:58:32Well...
00:58:37There's someone coming. He's getting a violin case.
00:58:40A violin case?
00:58:41Oh, then, let's send him.
00:58:47Fitz has used that one before. That means let him in.
00:59:12My doggie's bracelet, if you're a good, you'd better do your work right now.
00:59:18Come in, comrade.
00:59:25Who said that?
00:59:27Come upstairs.
00:59:31I told you, somebody's either talking in here or I've lost my mind, one of the two.
00:59:39Hammer, if you had any sense at all, get out of here.
00:59:44We'll be cool.
01:00:06We'll be cool.
01:00:12We'll be cool.
01:00:16And we'll be cool.
01:00:22We'll be cool.
01:00:24That remedy cured me many a time.
01:00:28Now, here, Long, I'll take this.
01:00:31Now, get away with that stuff.
01:00:33Besides, I ain't having nothing to do with you, Mr. Peabody.
01:00:36Scaredy cat.
01:00:38Feared a ghost.
01:00:40Too scared to sleep in a haunted house when I got a chance to make a thousand dollars.
01:00:44I've told you a thousand or a hundred times I weren't afeared.
01:00:48I got up there at the head of them stairs and I...
01:00:51Just draft the subject. I don't want to hear no more about it.
01:00:54Well, at least I never got out in a canoe and fell in and kept a pneumony.
01:00:59What happened? Did Miss Carmen push you in?
01:01:02Now, you just keep her name out of this.
01:01:04She never even showed up.
01:01:06Oh.
01:01:08My grannies, looky here, Abner.
01:01:10How?
01:01:10Alien saboteurs blown up in explosion.
01:01:13Police searched for a mystery man who planted bomb.
01:01:17Ten thousand dollar reward awaiting unknown hero.
01:01:21Now, why couldn't we do something like that?
01:01:24Yeah.
01:01:24That's what we need, all right.
01:01:27Well, we ain't raised a cent so far and it's might not time for you...
01:01:30No, I don't say that word now.
01:01:32Yeah, that's right, ain't it?
01:01:33How you feeling, Abner?
01:01:36Well, I don't believe I ever felt better in my life.
01:01:39Well, that's just natural.
01:01:42Folks generally do feel good just before...
01:01:49They do, huh?
01:01:51Well, now, will they come after me in one of them golden chariots?
01:01:56I reckon so.
01:01:57Will it have gold wheels on it?
01:01:59I suppose.
01:02:01Well, reckon they can get the tar?
01:02:03Well, you'll find out all them things when they come knocking at your door.
01:02:07Do they knock on your door?
01:02:09Mr. Peabody, Mr. Peabody.
01:02:12I know, he's here early.
01:02:14Mr. Peabody.
01:02:18How do you do, sir?
01:02:19We're sort of expecting somebody else.
01:02:21I'm Professor Albert Frisbee, inventor of the Frisbee rocket ship.
01:02:27Well, proud to meet you, Professor.
01:02:33I thought you said you'd take my shoes off.
01:02:36Why, I did, love.
01:02:40That's a good one on me, ain't it?
01:02:42On you.
01:02:43Which of you is the human daredevil?
01:02:47That's him right there.
01:02:48That is, if he is human.
01:02:50I have an opportunity for you.
01:02:52Yes, my good sir.
01:02:53You can be of inestimable service to the world of science.
01:02:58Posterity will cherish your name.
01:03:01Well, good for me.
01:03:02All you have to do is to ride in my rocket ship and carry a message to Mars.
01:03:08It's as simple as that.
01:03:11To Mars?
01:03:12Yes.
01:03:13And the Frisbee Planetary Research Foundation will pay $10,000 to the intrepid passenger.
01:03:22$10,000, just to ride in a boat?
01:03:25Did you hear that, Abner?
01:03:26Yeah.
01:03:27My dog is a boat trip, might not do me no harm.
01:03:31If I just have time to make it.
01:03:34Uh, whereabouts is this place Mars at?
01:03:36But surely you...
01:03:40If you'll come to the window, I'll be glad to show you.
01:03:44Well...
01:03:44It must not be far if we can see it from here.
01:03:46No, no.
01:03:48Uh, look here.
01:03:51There.
01:03:51In that direction.
01:03:54Well, I don't see nothing up there but a bunch of stars.
01:03:57Quite correct.
01:03:58It's that one.
01:04:01Oh...
01:04:02Uh, Professor, uh...
01:04:04This boat of yours, does it have gold wheels on it?
01:04:08Gold wheels?
01:04:09It's not what you're thinking, Abner.
01:04:11I'm thinking this is one trip I ain't gonna make till my time comes.
01:04:15This is our big opportunity, Abner.
01:04:17$10,000.
01:04:19We can square things with everybody back home.
01:04:21If I was in your position, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
01:04:24Well, how far is this place Mars?
01:04:27Measured in light, yes.
01:04:28Because this year's measurement...
01:04:30Well, a few million miles, more or less, doesn't make much difference in heavenly bodies, does it?
01:04:36Millions?
01:04:37Yeah.
01:04:38Oh, I thought maybe it was just thousands.
01:04:41This trip's made to order for you, Abner.
01:04:43When you get there, you'll be right close to heaven.
01:04:45Ain't that right, Professor?
01:04:46In a manner of speaking, yes.
01:04:49Uh, whereabouts is the rocket ship at now?
01:04:50Out at the airport, adjacent to the cemetery.
01:04:54Uh-oh.
01:04:55Lobb, this is one trip I ain't gonna make, and that's final.
01:04:59And I don't give this time it is final.
01:05:03You ought never to have said symmetry.
01:05:06Ladies and gentlemen, you have all had an opportunity to inspect the Frisbee rocket ship.
01:05:13My assistant, Professor Plunkett, is at the moment superintending the loading of the powerful charge that will send the ship
01:05:23on its long journey into space.
01:05:26I feel like I'm committing murder.
01:05:28This guy must be wacky.
01:05:32Oh, Plunkett, oh, Plunkett, aren't we ready yet?
01:05:36Say, Professor.
01:05:37Yes?
01:05:37If this guy does get to Mars, how does he get back?
01:05:43I'm glad you brought that up.
01:05:45Oh, Plunkett, oh, Plunkett.
01:05:47Make a note of that.
01:05:48That should be my next experiment.
01:05:50Hey, Sonny, you know, if it wasn't for me, Abner wouldn't be making this trip.
01:05:56My name's Lum Edwards.
01:05:58Oh.
01:06:02Fellow scientists, distinguished colleagues, members of the press.
01:06:07Today, September the 17th, marks the, um, give me a word, man.
01:06:14Realization.
01:06:14No, the realization of man's greatest dream.
01:06:18This occasion will go down in the annals of science as a red-letter day.
01:06:25September the 17th.
01:06:28September the 17th?
01:06:30Oh, my goodness.
01:06:31We have with us today a man whose name will be linked with that of, uh, uh, Galileo and...
01:06:42Hey, you!
01:06:42Get away from that!
01:06:44That's the punter that sets off the rocket ship.
01:06:47Good night!
01:06:49Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr. Abner Peabody.
01:06:56Oh!
01:06:57Abner!
01:06:58What about you at, Abner?
01:06:59No, but where is he?
01:07:01Where is that man?
01:07:02This can't happen to me!
01:07:04Wait a minute, uh, what day is this?
01:07:05The 17th?
01:07:06Yes, yes, but what has that to do with it?
01:07:09I'll bound you on where he's at.
01:07:11Uh, uh, you keep the rocket ship loaded and, and this crowd of people here, and you come
01:07:14with me.
01:07:15Oh, dear.
01:07:17Uh, did Mr. Peabody come...
01:07:22Oh.
01:07:23Did Mr. Peabody come...
01:07:26That's a nasty cold you have, Mr. Edwards.
01:07:28Doing anything for it?
01:07:29Yeah, just made it worse.
01:07:31Please, has Mr. Peabody come in here?
01:07:33Yes, he went up to his room a short time ago.
01:07:35Oh, much obliged.
01:07:37Come, we must hire...
01:07:38Mr. Edwards, uh, have you seen a doctor?
01:07:40Oh, I ain't got time for that.
01:07:42To Abner from Abner.
01:07:44The finest man I ever know.
01:07:46Yeah, I sent me all these.
01:07:48Here lies the honest bones of a man named Abner Peabody.
01:07:52Bones, bones, bones.
01:07:54Say, would you consider changing your name to Jones?
01:07:57Ah.
01:07:59Abner, you weren't gonna run away like that.
01:08:02Get up from there.
01:08:03We've got to go through with this or we're sunk.
01:08:05I'm gonna lay right here and sink in comfort.
01:08:09You can't do this to me.
01:08:11The whole scientific world is waiting.
01:08:14My reputation is at stake.
01:08:17And what about Grandma Masters and all them others?
01:08:20If I was in your position, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
01:08:24Come in.
01:08:26I'm Dr. Leach.
01:08:27The desk clerk suggested that I...
01:08:29Good grief.
01:08:35What is this man, paranoid?
01:08:37Couldn't say.
01:08:38I never heard.
01:08:38I didn't.
01:08:42Now, sir, tell me all about your aches and pains.
01:08:45Whatever's wrong with you.
01:08:46Well, there ain't nothing wrong with me.
01:08:48Lomb's the one that's ailing.
01:08:49I'm just dying.
01:08:51Dying?
01:08:51Oh, yes, of course.
01:08:53Uh-huh.
01:08:57Uh-huh.
01:08:59Ah, don't do that, Doc.
01:09:00That tickle.
01:09:01Nonsense.
01:09:02You're as sound as a dollar.
01:09:03Get up out of that bed.
01:09:04Huh?
01:09:05Come on, get up like a man.
01:09:06You're in excellent condition.
01:09:08You mean I ain't gonna die?
01:09:09Not for a long, long time.
01:09:12Barring accident.
01:09:13Hi, dog.
01:09:13Did you hear that laugh?
01:09:15Congratulations, chum and salutations.
01:09:17You've just been suffering hallucinations.
01:09:19Please, Mr. Peabody, if it's more money that you want...
01:09:23Fault, slow, respiration ragged.
01:09:27I'm in bad shape, old fellow.
01:09:28Oh, where'd you get that idea?
01:09:30If I were prescribing for you, I'd give you about two weeks...
01:09:33Two weeks?
01:09:34Did you hear that, Abner?
01:09:35I'm done for in two weeks.
01:09:37You are done for.
01:09:38What about me?
01:09:39What about my rocket ship?
01:09:41Well, since I was a boy, back in 1891...
01:09:45All right, all right, Professor.
01:09:47All right.
01:09:48Come on, let's get out of here, Lon.
01:09:49You mean you'll do it?
01:09:50Let's get out of here, fool.
01:09:51He starts another one of them long-winded speeches of his.
01:09:55Now, that Granny's Abner, I know you weren't no coward.
01:10:00So long, fellas.
01:10:01Have a good trip.
01:10:02Happy landings and the rocket ship.
01:10:07Well, come on, Robert.
01:10:09Let's go back to washing windows.
01:10:11You know, it's a shame those nice old fellas have to risk their lives to save the money of their
01:10:17friends.
01:10:23Hello?
01:10:24Hello.
01:10:24Is Abner Peabody or Lemaitre there?
01:10:26No, they just left for the airport.
01:10:28What?
01:10:29The airport.
01:10:30They're going to take a rocket ship to Mars.
01:10:33Look, I have got to get in touch with them.
01:10:34I've sold their right-of-ways to another railroad for $20,000.
01:10:38Well, for heaven's sake, catch them and stop them there.
01:10:40If they can raise that much money, they don't have to risk their lives in that crazy invention.
01:10:45All right.
01:10:45Thank you very much.
01:10:46Goodbye.
01:10:47Boy, get me a cab, quick.
01:10:48Yes.
01:10:49Did you hear that?
01:10:50Rover.
01:10:51Rover.
01:10:54Rover.
01:10:55Rover.
01:10:55Rover.
01:10:579,000.
01:11:009,500.
01:11:0310,000.
01:11:07Abner.
01:11:08Abner.
01:11:08Get me out of this thing.
01:11:10All right, doggies.
01:11:11Wait a minute.
01:11:11I've changed my mind.
01:11:12I ain't going to do it.
01:11:14Please, Mr. Peabody.
01:11:16Oh, sir.
01:11:17I can't afford to have Lem take that kind of a risk.
01:11:20Hey, Abner.
01:11:21Don't take that money.
01:11:22This is too dangerous.
01:11:24Abner.
01:11:25Abner.
01:11:25Mr. Peabody, I've devoted my whole life to the perfection of this machine.
01:11:31And now, when I'm on the very threshold of my triumph, you've spoiled everything.
01:11:38Well, Professor, I don't want to fall.
01:11:46Come on.
01:11:50Mom.
01:11:51Mom.
01:11:51Mom.
01:11:51Come back here.
01:11:52I told him not to do this.
01:12:02Mr. Peabody, oh, am I glad to see you.
01:12:05I've just had an offer for your right-of-way.
01:12:07Huh?
01:12:08Yes.
01:12:08$20,000 minus legal fees and taxes.
01:12:11Oh, oh.
01:12:11How much do I owe you this time?
01:12:13You don't owe me a cent.
01:12:14That's $17,500 net to you.
01:12:18$17,500 net to me?
01:12:20That's right.
01:12:21Why, with that much money, I can pay off them stockholders down home and show them a profit
01:12:26on the end there.
01:12:27That's why I advise you to accept it, Mr. Peabody.
01:12:30Always I wish you'd have been here five minutes sooner.
01:12:34Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:12:37oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:12:37oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:12:37oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:12:39oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
01:12:48oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
01:13:07THE END
01:13:39THE END
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