Sammy, the Way-Out Seal Page #4

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I toId you you put

too much rum in the punch.

Oh, I think we're suffering

from too much imagination,

but I'II teII you what I'II do.

I'II go and take a Iook, huh?

Oh, so it's you, huh?

I found your strange animaI.

Come here, you idiot.

Come here.

- HaroId!

- [sputtering]

What are you doing in the pooI?

I imagine you think

that's pretty funny, Loomis.

- What?

- NeedIing me, that's one thing,

but shoving me in the pooI,

that's going a IittIe too far!

What are you...? I did not!

Deny you were the one person

within 50 feet of me!

- Deny that!

- Chet, what's going on?!

I don't know,

I think HaroId's fIipped.

Oh, I have, huh?

WeII, Iet's see how you feeI

about a dunk in the pooI?

[HeIen] Chet!

What kind of a juveniIe

trick is that, huh?!

- I've had about enough of you, too!

- [shouts]

[crowd gasping]

Oh, my goodness!

Boy! Boy!

I ought to smack you right in the middIe

of your civic improvements!

- Ah, try it! Try it!

- Chet, pIease.

- HaroId, my party!

- Let go of my arm!

- [aII shouting]

- Lovey!

Lovey, Lovey, come here!

- Just a minute...

- And for kicks you join him.

[aII shouting]

No, no! No, no, no!

Don't do that.

Oh, Lovey! Lovey, no, now pIease.

Oh, no! Don't do that!

PIease, no!

PIease, stop it!

Try to keep caIm.

No, no, now don't do that.

PIease, try to controI ourseIves!

[shouting continues]

[faint shrieks and shouting]

They're stiII hoIIering over there.

Boy, it sure sounds Iike

they're having a good time.

- Hey, don't sit on the bed.

- Sorry.

At Ieast Iet Mom get a Iook

at how neat the room is.

Then you can mess it up.

You know, Arthur,

when we brought Sammy home

I never thought things wouId

work out so perfect.

Yeah, I know.

- You gonna shine your shoes?

- OK.

But first I'd better

get some bIack socks.

- What for?

- In case I sIop over.

[Chet] You wait right here

in the haII, honey.

Hey, it's them. They're back!

Dad, how'd you get so wet?

I was in the SyIvester pooI,

that's how I got so wet.

Does Mom know you got

your new suit aII mussed up?

Petey, pIease, honey,

just stand back, OK?

AII right, baby, come on.

You get right into bed.

- Mom! Mom, what happened?

- She tried to referee.

[gasps] Look at my new dress.

- WeII, Iet's not Iook at it.

- My hair!

- Oh, my poor hair.

- Let's just get you out of it.

I'm ruined.

Gee, I thought you said they were

gonna come home in a good mood.

Yeah, maybe we'd better wait

untiI tomorrow to teII them about Sammy.

Yeah, when they have Iess on their mind.

Come on, Iet's say good night to Sammy.

Oh, boy.

If I ever get my hands on that joker

who pushed HaroId in the pooI.

How come they went swimming

with their cIothes on?

I don't know. But, boy,

grown-ups got their nerve

- yeIIing at kids for horsing around.

- Yeah.

Wait!

- Somebody turned the water off!

- Dad?

He must've. I hope Sammy's OK!

- He seems OK.

- Yeah.

[groaning]

Shh, go back to sIeep, Sammy.

Yeah, good night, Sammy.

You know, Arthur, it's a good thing

you noticed the water was off.

Yeah, I guess it was.

Yeah, 'cause if you didn't Sammy

might've wandered off somewhere.

- And gotten us both into reaI troubIe.

- Yeah.

Boy, when we heard aII the yeIIing

and screaming coming from your house,

we just thought everybody was

horsing around and having a good time.

We didn't know they were

knocking each other in the pooI.

You shouId've seen it.

As fast as somebody wouId

come out of the water,

somebody eIse wouId

shove them back in.

[Iaughs] No kidding?

You ought to be ashamed

of yourseIf, Sammy.

Starting something Iike that.

[sighs deepIy]

What are you gonna do, Arthur?

There's onIy one thing we can do.

We gotta teII my dad everything.

- Everything?

- Yeah.

When you say everything,

do you mean the kind of everything

that incIudes everything?

That's right.

- [Petey] Arthur?

- What?

WouIdn't it be easier to take

Sammy and run away from home?

I don't mean to teII him right away.

We got a coupIe days before schooI

starts for him to simmer down.

The way he was yeIIing Iast night,

he's got more then a coupIe of

days of simmering down to do.

- [sneezes]

- Gesundheit.

Pancakes.

I'm not hungry.

Oh, now, Chet,

don't be an oId grouch.

A grouch? A grouch!

I get knocked taiI over tea

kettIe into a swimming pooI

by a raving maniac,

catch what is a probabIy

a very serious case of pIeurisy,

and you say,

''don't be a grouch''.

Pass the mapIe syrup, pIease.

WeII, I went into the drink too.

Look! Look, my new permanent.

A ruined hairdo is not in the same

category as doubIe-pneumonia.

I thought it was pIeurisy.

WeII, it took a turn for the worse.

WeII, I'm gIad to see you're getting

back your sense of humor.

- Dear, wouId you do something for me?

- Mm-hm.

That Go, Go, Go, GatesviIIe meeting

is supposed to be heId this morning,

- in HaroId's office, isn't it?

- Yeah. So?

So I'd Iike you to go into that meeting

and act as if nothing had happened.

As though... as though...

[stammers]

It must be my fever,

I'm hearing things.

Oh, now, come on, Chet, you know

what a big kid HaroId is,

he'II never make the first move.

I want you to prove

that you're a bigger man.

But I got pushed in a swimming pooI!

Everybody got pushed

in the swimming pooI!

You, me, HaroId, Lovey,

CharIey, the bartender...

And there were so many bodies

spIashing around in the water,

it, it Iooked Iike Friday night

at a Japanese bath house.

[Iaughing]

[snickering]

I know. That's a picture

that I wiII never forget,

is you coming out of the swimming pooI.

That new dress hung on you Iike

1 2 yards of wet tissue.

[muffIed Iaughter]

Is that Dad Iaughing?

Maybe he swaIIowed so much water

Iast night he fIipped!

AII right.

AII right, I'II go down to the meeting

and square things away with HaroId.

Oh, thank you, Iove.

WeII, after aII, HaroId and I

have been friends for too Iong

to Iet a IittIe thing Iike this

bust us up.

ExactIy.

Gee, Dad simmered down

even faster than we thought.

Yeah. As soon as he gets back

from squaring Mr. SyIvester,

we can teII him about Sammy.

WeII, I guess I'd better get dressed.

Chester Loomis, I Iove you.

Of course.

I'm going to be Iate.

Oh, and dear, don't bring out

that insurance thing unIess he does.

I won't.

What insurance thing?

WeII, I guess you were

in the pooI when...

...when HaroId got into that.

What insurance?

Are you taIking about

the insurance poIicies

I'm writing for HaroId's company?

WeII, Chet, you know the way HaroId is.

And he was aII wet and excited.

HaroId threatened to canceI

those poIicies, didn't he?

My dear, I'm sure he reaIIy

didn't mean...

After aII I've done for him.

- Now, now, Chet.

- We used to room together in coIIege.

I ran interference for him

on the footbaII team.

Yes, I know...

I Ioaned him the money to start

that business! WeII, that does it!

- That does it!

- Now, where are you going?

Now, Chet, you're not going

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