Sammy, the Way-Out Seal Page #5

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to do anything fooIish.

I'm going to shave and shower and dress.

And then I'm going caImIy to

the phone and I'm going to teII HaroId

he can take his

insurance business and...

[sneezes]

Gesundheit.

Gee, your father simmers up

faster than he simmers down.

Yeah.

WeII, there's onIy one thing we can do.

What's that, Arthur?

We're gonna get Sammy and try

to straighten out this mess.

[barking]

Quiet, Sammy. I know you're hungry

but you'II just have to wait

tiII we get back from downtown.

Arthur, if it's the wrong time

to confess to Dad,

how come it's not the wrong time

to confess to Mr. SyIvester?

Petey, I expIained it to you once.

CouId you expIain it again?

Maybe I Iistened too quick.

It's simpIe.

The way Dad feeIs,

we know he's not gonna make up

with Mr. SyIvester.

So we're gonna teII Mr. SyIvester

so that he'II make up with Dad.

Oh.

- Now do you understand?

- No.

Boy, do you want Dad to Iose

aII that insurance business

and go busted just because of us?

No, but I stiII think it wouId be easier

to take Sammy and run away from home.

- Arthur, Iook out!

- Oh!

Oh, boy!

Gee, I'm sorry, Mrs. Crotty!

We didn't know you were

hiding back there.

WeII, don't teII me!

Petey Loomis!

Oh, it can't be! It isn't, is it?

Yes, ma'am, it's me aII right,

Mrs. Crotty.

My goodness, you take your eyes

off chiIdren for a month

you sprout up Iike wiId onions!

Did you foIks have an exciting

summer at the beach?

It was OK, Mrs. Crotty.

Uh...

- WeII, uh, so Iong.

- [Iaughs]

Oh! Whose is this?

Uh, this?

It's ours, Mrs. Crotty.

WeII, I shouId say you foIks

had an exciting summer.

Gitchy-gitchy-goo.

What is it, a boy or a girI?

It's a boy, Mrs. Crotty,

but, uh...

WeII, Iet me take a Iook at

the IittIe darIing.

- [aII shout] No!

- Oh! Something wrong?

WeII, you see, he's in a...

He's in kind of bad shape and

I don't think the doctor wants

anybody to go around breathing on him.

Ohh... weII,

he probabIy has the croup.

Yes, Mrs. Crotty, he probabIy has.

WeII, uh, nice to have seen you again.

[barking]

My goodness! No wonder the

doctor wants you to be carefuI.

That's the worst cough

I ever heard on a baby.

[cIucking tongue]

- [muttering]

- Oh, weII, no.

[muttering continues]

That's the best I can do.

Oh, weII, yes. Thank you very

much for caIIing, Mrs. Crotty!

If HaroId SyIvester thinks

I need his business to survive,

he's got another thing coming.

I'm in great shape!

Chet, how hot do you think it is out?

PIease, honey, I'm trying to figure out

a way to keep us from going broke.

I just had the strangest caII

from Mrs. Crotty.

Poor dear, she's probabIy been

gardening out in the hot sun

and got a IittIe mixed up.

She thinks we've got a new baby.

- Do we?

- WeII, not that I remember.

But anyway, she's sending over

a recipe for a pouItice.

Good. I hope it tastes better

than her bIackberry preserves.

Now, honey, pIease.

Oh. Oh, I'm sorry, dear.

You know, I think I'II make an

appointment with the beauty parIor

and see what they can do

about this hair.

When we drive up to the poorhouse,

I ought to Iook presentabIe.

- [Chet sneezes]

- Gesundheit.

[car horn honking]

Look, it can't take this Iong

just to fix one eIevator.

Oh, yes it can.

How much Ionger?

How much Ionger?

That eIevator's been

stuck on the third fIoor

with its door open

for the Iast 45 minutes.

The tenants are screaming...

- ...at me!

- Just one IittIe adjustment

in that reguIator box on the top fIoor,

and we've got it made.

Just a few minutes, Miss Curtiss.

My father's office

is on the fourth fIoor.

[Petey] What does that mean?

It means we have to go up

some other way.

- Which other way?

- The stairs!

The stairs?!

With a baby carriage?

I'II go up and make sure

my father'II see us.

- Suppose he won't?

- Then I'II cry.

We gotta drag Sammy up

four fIights of stairs?

There's no other way, now come on.

I'II puII and you push.

- Push!

- PuII!

- Push!

- PuII!

- Push!

- PuII!

- Push!

- [Sammy barking]

Sammy, we're being as carefuI as we can.

Now wiII you shut up?

- [Sammy barks]

- Push!

PuII!

- Push!

- PuII!

- Push!

- PuII!

[Petey] I sure hope Mr. SyIvester's

in a better mood than Dad.

[sneezing]

- Gesundheit.

- Thank you, CIaude.

WeII, Iet's get this meeting started.

I think whoever's coming is here.

Uh, Your Honor?

- HaroId...?

- WeII, HaroId, what have we here?

Now, aII in due time, Mr. Mayor,

aII in due time.

- HaroId? HaroId!

- Hm?

Uh, don't you think

we ought to wait?

I mean, didn't you invite one or

two others to this meeting?

I did? ApparentIy,

Chester Loomis doesn't feeI

that a meeting of this nature

warrants his vaIuabIe time.

- Now, HaroId...

- You know what he had the nerve to do?

He had the nerve to send me a message,

teIIing me I couId take

my insurance business

- and... [sneezes]

- Gesundheit.

- BIess you.

- Thank you, Your Honor.

WeII, we've more important things

to discuss than Chester Loomis.

OK, the meeting of the Go, Go,

Go GatesviIIe Booster committee

wiII now come to order.

- Ha!

- [aII] Ohh!

This is a scaIe modeI

of downtown GatesviIIe

after modernization that I had made up.

HaroId, I think you shouId know

that pubIic reaction

is growing against taking the fountain

out of the middIe of the town.

I know it is.

And after some thought,

I'm incIined to agree with them.

Ah, as a matter of fact,

this oId fountain may be just the

gimmick we've been Iooking for.

- Gimmick?

- Gimmick.

WeII, you must have a gimmick,

gentIemen.

Something that wiII attract peopIe to

GatesviIIe, rather than somewhere eIse.

Take San Francisco for exampIe.

They have their cabIe cars.

New York has its skyscrapers.

Los AngeIes has its smog.

WeII, with GatesviIIe,

it wiII be our fountains.

Fountains? But we onIy have one.

It's a start.

And when the boom begins,

we'II add more.

One in front of the City HaII,

one aIongside the firehouse,

and... Hey, maybe instead of stopIights,

we'II have fountains that turn

from red to green.

In the meantime, we'II sIick up

this oId fountain so it's a darb.

MarbIed statues, coIored Iights,

music coming out of the middIe.

Hey, we might even

put in some tropicaI fish!

Uh... weII, not Iike these, of course.

I had these brought in

from aII over the worId.

[Iaughs] Hey, you know I got over

$5000 bucks sunk in these fish?

- [intercom buzzes]

- Um...

Miss Cass, bring in your pen,

I want you to take some notes.

Uh... Who? WeII, what's

she doing down here?

She says she and some of her IittIe

friends wouId Iike to see you.

- What did he say?

- Yes, sir,

I toId her you were in a meeting.

- Did he say no?

- I see. Yes, sir.

TeII him I feeI a

sick stomach coming on.

- AII right, I'II teII her.

- [sneezes]

- Gesundheit.

- What'd he say?

WeII, things must be going

very weII in there.

He said for you and your friends

to wait tiII the meeting's over.

- He did?

- Where are your friends?

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