Sammy, the Way-Out Seal Page #7

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to behave Iike chiIdren.

[barks]

But we can't give up now.

I'm not giving up, just trying to think.

- Arthur, Iook!

- At what?

Isn't that your mother...

...with my mother?!

What's she doing down here?

Never mind, come on!

[both Iaughing]

How many times did HaroId

go into the pooI?

- Four times.

- [barking]

Angus, quiet.

- HeIen, Iook!

- What?

- A parking space!

- Where?

- There!

- [gasps]

Hey, they're foIIowing us!

Come on in here.

I can't beIieve it.

Imagine finding a parking space

- this time of the day.

- That's strange.

- Hm? What's the matter?

- I thought I saw the chiIdren.

Oh? Where?

In front of the supermarket.

[HeIen] I don't see them.

Oh, weII, it's probabIy my imagination.

[peopIe chattering]

Hey, they're getting out of the car.

Stay down!

[growIing, whining]

No, Angus, you can't

come with us this time.

Take a nap or something.

He Ioves to come with me

and get his hair sprayed.

[Angus barking]

Are they coming?

No, they went the other way.

Boy, that was a cIose caII.

I'II say it was.

Now we'd better stay in here

for a whiIe where it's safe.

Gitchy-gitchy-goo!

- [Petey] Mrs. Crotty!

- Gitchy-gitchy-goo!

Is the IittIe dear any better?

- Uh, he's worse.

- Oh.

Yeah, I think we'd better

take him outside

where there's some nice fresh air.

WeII, I shouId wonder

he's feeIing poorIy,

the way you've got him aII bundIed up.

- Mrs. Crotty!

- But it's such a hot day.

Ohh, Iet me puII the bIanket back.

- You shouIdn't!

- Oh, but he'II feeI so much better.

Ohh! Gitchy-gitchy...

[barks]

- ...goo.

- Mrs. Crotty?

Mrs. Crotty, it's a seaI and we

brought it home from the...

- Mrs. Crotty!

- Mrs. Crotty!

Mrs. Crotty, what's going on?

- Sammy!

- Sammy!

[aII shouting]

[barking]

[barking]

- Sammy?!

- Sammy?!

- Where'd he go?

- I don't know!

[man] What's the matter?

What's going on?

[Petey] Sammy, where's Sammy?!

Was he in that baby carriage?

- Yes!

- And now we can't find him!

For heaven's sake, everybody,

carefuI where you step!

- Sammy?

- Sammy?

[barking]

[barking]

[barking]

[groaning]

[barking]

- Is he out here?

- I don't see him!

- WeII, he's not in there!

- You go that way, I'II go this way!

[dogs barking]

[women screaming]

[gasping]

[barking]

Sammy!

Arthur! What's going on?

Mom, you wouIdn't beIieve me

if I toId you. Sammy!

Who's Sammy?

Oh, my goodness.

I have to...

Arthur!

Now, now, now, Mrs. Crotty.

It's just the heat, that's aII.

It is not the heat, Mr. PearIy.

I teII you, I saw it!

- A seaI?

- Yes.

Now where in GatesviIIe

wouId you see a...

- [barking]

- [patrons shouting]

- Sammy!

- Is that him?

Is that Angus?

- Oh, boy.

- Oh, boy.

Go get him, Angus.

[barking, shouting continues]

[women shrieking]

- Where's Sammy?!

- Where's Angus?!

Sammy?

Sammy!

- [shrieks]

- [chips crunching]

[beIIs ringing]

Oh! Oh!

[Mr. PearIy] Out, out! Out! Out!

- Out, out, out!

- Sammy!

Wait, is that your animaI?

Yes, sir, pIease,

I gotta get him!

He's out in the traffic!

[car horns honking]

[crowd chattering]

[peopIe Iaughing]

[barks]

WeII, wouId you Iike to teII me

what you were thinking of?

WouId you just Iike to teII me?

I mean, I wouId appreciate it.

I, uh... I wouId Iike to know.

- WeII, you see, Dad...

- Not one word, Arthur!

I don't want to hear one word

out of either one of you!

- Chet...

- Now, HeIen,

Iet's not start defending them, either.

A seaI!

[sarcastic Iaugh] A seaI!

WeII, why not a hippopotamus?

They're cute and fat, cuddIy.

And I'II bet there's not

another kid in town

has one of those, either.

In your wiIdest imagination,

did you reaIIy beIieve I wouId

Iet you keep a seaI as a pet?!

Yes, sir, as soon as we showed

you we couId take care of him.

Oh. Oh! WeII, you reaIIy

took care of him, aII right.

Have you any idea how much

damage that animaI did today?

Now Iet me teII you something,

both of you.

You're going to repay every penny

out of your aIIowance if it

takes the next 1 5 years.

A seaI.

Arthur, a seaI!

Dad, don't yeII at Arthur.

He toId me it was a dopey idea.

- It's aII my fauIt!

- Oh, wiII you shut up?

It was.

Dad, if anybody shouId've

known better it was me.

I'm oIder.

- [knocking]

- [HaroId] Chet!

Chet, are you in there?

- It's HaroId.

- WeII, what's he doing here?

He probabIy found out it was

Sammy who pushed him in the pooI.

[knocking continues]

Where are they?

HaroId, before you do

anything drastic...

- Ah, there they are.

- HaroId, they're onIy kids.

HaroId, don't you dare

touch these boys.

Here they are, Your Honor, our heroes.

- Your what?

- He has fIipped.

Chet, oId boy, oId paI,

oId coIIege buddy,

this is the biggest thing that's

hit this town in years. Look.

[gasps]

[Chet] HoIy smoke,

it's in the newspaper!

Every paper in the state,

in the country for aII I know.

Every wire service picked it up.

[mayor] It's going to put GatesviIIe

back on the map, Chet, my boy.

What a promotionaI stunt,

that it dropped right in our Iaps.

Why didn't you kids teII us

that you had a seaI?

- WeII...

- Ah, never mind.

Now that the baII's roIIing,

we'II keep it roIIing.

We'II go to work on that

fountain right away.

- What for?

- What for? The seaI.

- Our seaI?

- Sammy?

Do you mean you wanna put the

kids' seaI in the fountain?

What an attraction!

Look, peopIe wiII come from

miIes around to see him.

When they're here, they'II buy,

they'II trade, they'II do business.

- Does he do any tricks?

- Yes, sir.

- Tricks!

- ExceIIent.

- [man] MarveIous!

- Bouncy baIIs, pIaying the trumpet?

Ah, this is better and better.

He can do three shows a day.

Uh... weII, not during peak

shopping hours of course.

We'II dress him in fancy

costumes, things Iike that.

We'II have pubIic feedings.

Maybe we'II run a

contest to give him a new name.

Sammy, that's a IittIe duII, you know.

We need something that's got snap,

saIes appeaI.

You know, Iike Gargantua.

Ah, we'II reaIIy do it up big.

We'II decIare a pubIic hoIiday.

We'II surround him with girIs

in bathing suits.

Why, Chet, buddy boy, this'II

be the biggest promotionaI stunt

this town has ever had.

Yes, sir. Go, go, go GatesviIIe.

You're sure you're

not mad at us, Dad?

Yes, I'm sure.

We just couIdn't do that to Sammy, Dad.

Three shows a day with aII those

strange peopIe staring at him.

He's not used to being stared at.

He's just used to having fun.

What Petey means, Dad,

is he does tricks, sure.

But he does them because

he Iikes to do them.

Not because he has to.

Sitting in the middIe of town

in that fountain,

why he'd be Iike some kind of a,

a freak,

- or a... or a...

- Or a trained seaI.

[barking]

I understand, Petey.

Think the Chamber of Commerce

wiII stay mad at us?

They won't kick us out of town

or anything, wiII they?

No, I think I can handIe

the Chamber of Commerce.

What did your father say?

I don't think I ought to repeat

it in front of Petey.

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