Give Me a Sailor Page #2

to make if you called it your picnic!

That's for you. The

phone's been hot all morning.

Miss Larkin?

I got a message for you.

Little Boy Blue

has blown his horn.

I can't hear.

Speak louder.

Has blown his horn.

Moo. Horn! Like on a cow.

And will ask

Miss Muffet to-

To sit on his tuffet.

Get outta here!

Must be for you.

Hello.

Good-bye.

Hello?

Yeah.

We've got to boil

the cabbage fast.

- Uh-huh.

- Signed-

Prince Charming.

Prince charming. Isn't that sweet?

Oh, Meryl! Leave my

sandwiches alone.

Okay.

Oh, shame on you.

Well, I gotta eat.

Why aren't you down at the store?

Mmm. Been fired.

That's swell.

Four jobs in three months!

Huh-uh. Five, counting that

time I run over that speed cop.

Hey, how's about loaning your

cousin a couple of smackeroos?

Oh, beat it, Meryl. You got

five the last time. Okay.

Hello, Ethel May.

Hello.

Hey, Meryl. You think you

could take a picture of me?

Sure.

For a couple of bucks.

All right. But could you?

Sure. it's a cinch.

Is there enough light in here? Sure.

Walter says it's a special lens.

Put it down here.

Hey, how do you

work this gadget?

You focus through here, and then

you push this little button.

Just get it from the waist up, and

be sure and get the cake in. Okay.

No, no. Further back. Yeah.

Wait a minute.

I'm gonna count.

One. Two. Three.

- I got it. - Oh. Look, look!

The thing-

Don't worry. I'll get it.

Look out now!

Scat!

Hey!

The camera! Oh.

Get the-

Take him out of here!

Oh! Look what you've

done now!

Anyway, we got the picture.

I hope so.

But what we got ain't nothing to what we're

gonna get when Walter sees his camera.

Hey, Letty.

What was that crash?

Meryl just took my picture...

for the cooking contest.

I'm entering the recipe for my

yum yum special. Oh!

Well, I guess the film's all right.

Take it down to the drugstore and wait.

Then send it off, 'cause

it's the last day. Okay.

Wait a minute. Here's the whole

works:
address and everything.

Here. Now go on.

Now, hurry. Hurry, Meryl!

You goin' fishin' again,

Dad?

Yeah. Got a new rod. Well,

what are you lookin' for?

I lost my worms. Wor- Oh, I left

them on the hall table in a tin.

Fresh?

I dug them this morning.

The last ones had no wiggle.

I like them fresh.

I forgot something else too.

Lunch.

Yeah. How about a nice

long, cool beer with it?

Well. Well. You go put your

feet up, and I'll get a tray.

Letty, dear, you're a solace

to my graying hairs.

Both of them.

Oh!

Oh, oh.

Little Boy Blue means Walter.

She said to hurry. I gotta mail it.

Yours is comin' up.

Just about... now.

I'll just put

this one in.

Yeah, I'm right.

Here it comes.

Well! it looks like

a good one. I-

Hey! I thought you said this

was a picture of Letty!

She's hopin' to win

a prize.

It's really a picture

of her yum yums.

I'll say it is. Oh, my.

Dear mask, please make me

beautiful for Walter's sake.

Amen.

Hi, luscious!

Hello,Jim.

Well,your number-one man has returned.

Really? Bring him in!

All right. Hey, wait a minute. I am in!

How about a welcome?

Boy, right on the nose. Do I

need practice! Now, look.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Go away!

Well, where's Walter?

Hey, that's gratitude.

Me at sea for months.

Not sleeping, thinking of you, breaking

my neck to get here. For what?

Where's Walter? That's for what.

Come here.

Now, listen. I've gotta talk fast because what

I have to say is important to both of us.

Walter's coming here, and he's

going to ask you to marry him.

And you're gonna tell him no.

I'll tell him no such thing.

Oh, yes, you will! Three months

with Walter, and you'd blow up.

I won't listen to another word.

Oh, now, don't get me wrong.

Walter's a great guy, has ambition.

Be an admiral someday.

Ha-ha. But if you marry

him, instead of a kiss,

he'll want a salute. Fine

brotherly talk, I must say.

Disloyal?

Yes, very.

Oh, I guess you're right.

After all, he is my brother.

I shouldn't say anything

about his bad temper.

I ought to even keep quiet about the

time he tried to use an ice pick on me.

Ice pick? Why? I knocked his

teeth out of a glass of water.

Are you quite finished?

You see what I mean?

Wait a minute!

Think Letty'd like to have

Walter take her to the picnic?

Now you're talkin'. If Walter took

Letty, then you and I could-

What do you mean, Walter take Letty?

You crazy or something?

He will if I ask him.

Yeah, if.

Well, I'm going to.

Will you, Nancy?

Say, that'll be wonderful!

Then you-

Now, don't forget what I told you.

Give him plenty of ice.

Hi! What do you mean

by taking all the gas-

Sh, sh, sh.

She's waiting.

Well, here I am.

Oh, Walter!

'Ello? 'Ello?

'Is is 'etty 'Arkin.

'Etty 'Arkin.

Lady, uh, let's start over.

And this time, slowly.

An' I 'ant 'et it off.

Lady, you're drunk.

- Uh, you'd better go and sleep it off.

- Aw, 'uts!

Ethel 'ay! it's 'etty!

It's only 'e! It's 'e!

Letty. I was-

Oh! GO 'ayl

GO 'ay!.

Hey, Letty!

There are no such

things as ghosts.

Come here!

Letty! Come on, let me in. I

want to tell you something.

Come on, snap into it. Walter's gonna

take you to the picnic. Wha'!

You picked a fine time to celebrate

Halloween! Get that mud pie off your face.

I 'ant 'et it off. I 'ant 'et it off.

What? That's cooperation for you.

For ten years I've been working

my brain to the bone,

scheming how to fix you up with

Walter, and what have you done?

Your big moment, and here you

are, looking like a bad job of embalming.

How did you ever get into that facial

straitjacket anyway?

What?

And there you are, huh? You got a hammer?

A chisel? Uh-uh.

I got an idea.

Don't worry.

Nothing serious.

Nothing drastic. You won't feel a thing.

All 'ight.

You'll never know what hi-

just stand still. All 'ight.

One, two, three!

That didn't hurt, did it?

You feel all right?

Here, let me help you.

Now you're all right.

Now you're okay. There.

Wait. Here.

Here, hold that.

I'll just give it a little

tap, right there. No!

The next time you use one

of those, put a zipper on it.

There. Now hurry

up and get dressed.

And in the name of a beautiful

romance, try and look like something!

I'll be outside, waiting.

Oh, Walter. Don't be a stuffed shirt. I made

the date before I had any idea you'd be home.

What's his name?

Weatherwax. Rodney Weatherwax.

Navy?

No. Fertilizer.

And very important socially.

Mr. Weatherwax, I mean.

I still don't like it.

Aw, let's not quarrel,

darling.

Look at me.

That's better.

Now smile.

Let's be grown up, huh?

Just because I have social obligations, it

doesn't mean that I don't love you, does it?

Mmm. Well. Look, sweet. I'll tell

you what we'll do. You take Letty.

Letty?

Now, wait.

And the minute you get there, you can

ditch her, and I'!I ditch Rodney.

And it'll be just

as if we'd gone together.

I a sailor's bride would be

yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

Oh, I a sailor's bride

would be;

A yo-ho-ho

and a bottle of rum

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