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And threw in $20 extra, not to mention

You wouIdn't have had that without me.

I didn't have to take you, but I took you.

I think that's fair enough.

We're both a IittIe better off.

You get to St Jo. I get myseIf

a IittIe better car. Fair is fair.

Now, drink your Nehi

and eat your Coney IsIand.

I want my $200.

I don't have your $200 no more

and you know it.

If you don't give me my $200, I'm going

to teII a poIiceman how you got it

and he'II make you give it to me,

'cause it's mine.

But I don't have it!

Then get it.

How we doing, angeI pie? Going to have

dessert when we finish our hot dog?

I don't know.

Daddy, why don't we get Precious

a dessert if she eats her dog?

Her name ain't Precious.

I want my money back on this ticket

and send this teIegram, ''Trip deIayed,

''but I'm coming reaI soon!''

Lie quiet.

FoIks don't take to chiIdren

when they're doing business.

(KNOCKING )

- Yes?

- Ma'am, is Mr Morgan at home?

Mr Morgan?

My name is Moses Pray,

Kansas BibIe Company. He'II know.

I'm sorry. Mr Morgan has passed on.

Oh, ma'am, I just...

I don't know what to say.

- What were you seeing him about?

- He ordered this here BibIe...

- RudoIph ordered a BibIe?

- The de Iuxe with the Iady's name on it.

- Lady's name?

- I expect a speciaI gift to a famiIy friend.

Under the circumstances, I'II give you

back his doIIar deposit with no obIigation.

Ma'am, I don't know how

to put into words the sorrow I feeI.

What name is on it?

I don't reaIIy know what name Mr Morgan

had put on it, ma'am. Let's see.

It's here somewhere. I've got it.

Here it is...

- PearI.

- ...PearI.

- I'm PearI.

- He must have got this for you, ma'am.

Yes, he bought it for me.

- Of course. You're not obIiged to take it.

- Of course I'II take it.

There's one thing. I toId him

I couId seII him a cheaper BibIe,

but he wanted the best, being the de Iuxe

with the Iady's name printed in goId...

- Oh, he wouId.

- ...bringing a baIance due of $8.

$8?

WeII, that's $8, minus the doIIar deposit,

- making it $7.

- I'II go get my purse.

- You're not obIiged to take it.

- Of course I am. He ordered the de Iuxe!

(RADlO ) Cold or not,

it's good to be back in Manhattan,

Jack, you've been here since Thursday,

What have you done?

l've had a lot of fun, Don,

l saw some shows, went to nightclubs,

Last night, l was invited

to Fred Allen's apartment for dinner,

- Fred Allen?

- We're good friends,

l'm glad to hear it,

Has Fred got a nice apartment?

How could l tell, Don, with all that

laundry hanging in the living room?

- Ain't you going to go to sIeep?

- Don't you want to hear Jack Benny?

No!

l don't want to sound catty,,,

You're too young to smoke! You're going

to set this whoIe pIace on fire.

I now owe you $1 03.72.

# l always knew some day

l'd accompany you

# Along Flirtation Walk

# A dream foretold

A story that you'd unfold

# That lives forever

and never grows old

# l always felt

that your little heart would melt

# Along Flirtation Walk,,, #

RooseveIt said we're aII feeIing better.

- He did?

- Made me feeI good saying that.

- Better than I've feIt in a Iong time.

- Bet oId Frank wishes you was 21 .

You don't Iike me, do you?

No, I don't Iike you!

- Yes?

- Ma'am, is Mr Bates at home?

Mr Bates is dead. He died a week ago.

Passed over? I was just taIking to him

not Iess than a month ago.

- What was it you wanted?

- My name is Pray, Kansas BibIe Co.

I have this BibIe Mr Bates ordered.

- BibIe?

- Who is it? What's the troubIe?

- It's about Benjamin buying a BibIe.

- BibIe? What kind of BibIe?

Says he taIked to Benjamin a month ago.

I'm not sure of the dates.

Benjamin didn't go near that shop

for more than a month before he died.

I may be mixed up on the dates.

What company are you from?

Kansas BibIe Company, out of Wichita.

- I ain't never heard of it.

- Daddy?

Can't we go? I want to get

to church and pray for Mama.

Yeah, sure we can, honey.

Daddy was just fixing to Ieave.

This is my IittIe girI. It's just the two of us.

- My mama's gone to the Lord.

- So has poor Mr Bates.

Here's his deposit. Let us know

if there's anything we can do.

HoId on there! Wait one damn minute.

- He actuaIIy ordered a BibIe?

- He did. Here it is.

- In goId, for somebody named Marie.

- That's her. She's Marie.

She meant a Iot to him.

He wanted the de Iuxe edition.

- How much?

- That's...

- It's the $1 2 one, Daddy!

- $1 2?

Honey, we have to have a IittIe goodness

in our hearts in the circumstances.

If it'II make that woman happy,

I'II take it.

(MUSlC:
TRAD JAZZ)

You owe me $85.7 4.

(RADlO ) l mean, we're going

to Washington on the Q T,

Molly, she says we can't go on the Q T,

we got to take ''The Pennsylvania'',

l'd better go! Where's my suitcase?

- l don't know, McGee, You had it last,

- l know, lt's in the hall,

He's going to open the cIoset.

( CLATTERlNG AND LAUGHTER)

He'II say he's got to straighten it out.

Got to straighten out that closet

one of these days,

- WouId you Iike to do business with me?

- Instead of paying me back?

I'II pay you back. WhiIe we head east,

how about we do business together?

(MUSIC ON RADIO)

You're Iooking at me

Iike I'm out to cheat you. It's business.

Take it or Ieave it. Turn off that radio.

You'II drive us aII deaf with it.

,,,in an average way, of course,

l can,,,

OK. Remember one thing,

I decide on the price.

Maybe you don't know French,

but there's finesse!

I never soId no BibIe for $1 2.

That man was a Iaw officer!

- We got it, didn't we?

- I don't care if we got it!

Don't you go making the decisions!

You just got to Iook Iike a pretty IittIe girI.

You ain't got a ribbon in that cigar box?

I got my mom's kimono in my suitcase,

Chinaman with umbreIIas.

That ain't what I had in mind.

You Iook reaI nice in that ribbon. First off,

I didn't know was she a boy or a girI.

- I'm a girI!

- WeII, it makes aII the difference.

- Ain't she got a sweet face? Somehow.

- We'II take a ribbon in each coIour.

- How much is that going to cost me?

- That'II be 1 5 cents.

Bought my grandchiIdren ribbons

just Iike this, Iast hoIiday.

GrandchiIdren? I don't beIieve it.

Break a five?

You can beIieve it aII right.

I'm just as oId as I Iook.

Now, here you be.

That's one, two, three, four, five.

This waIIet's about to bust inside. I give

you five ones, you give me that $5 biII.

- How many grandchiIdren you got?

- I got two granddaughters, nine and ten,

two grandsons near 1 6

and I got a grandson 35 years oId!

Come on! Why don't you

just give me a $1 0 biII?

Here's the five. The ones are there.

It won't be so quick to break.

- Six chiIdren!

- I got a daughter 51 !

I don't mean to be handing you no Iine,

but that's pretty hard to beIieve.

- You can beIieve it aII right!

- I'd have to see it. Much obIiged.

- See you again!

- Y'aII come back!

(ENGINE STARTS UP)

It just don't seem quite right.

Somehow.

- Yes?

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