The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit Page #10

get over that thing alive.

- Relax, Daddy.

- Relax, relax.

Look who's talkin',

the program twister.

Stay.

Good luck,

Senorita Suzie.

Good luck, Lieutenant Mario.

[Announcer] In this secondjump-off,

ladies and gentlemen...

time taken to complete the course

will be the deciding factor...

ifboth horses have

equal faults or clean rounds.

First to go will be Rascala...

- ridden by Lieutenant Mario Lorendo.

- Whoa.

[Crowd Gasps]

Ladies and gentlemen, Rascala

and Lieutenant Mario Lorendo...

four faults.

Time:
3 7.6 seconds.

Now, our second contender...

Aspercel, ridden

by Miss Suzie Clemens.

[Applause]

[Crowd Gasps]

- Is she out?

- Four faults.

- [Bolton] Now it's against the clock.

- And she still has the wall.

Beautiful!

Clock?

Ladies and gentlemen, Aspercel,

owned by Miss Helen Bolton...

and ridden by

Miss Suzie Clemens...

four faults!

Time:
37 point...

- Point what?

- Point two seconds!

Point two seconds!

Look, honey, we won!

Aspie! Aspie!

- Congratulations, senorita.

- Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the first prize and trophy...

for the grand champion

open jumper goes to Aspercel.

[Applause Continues]

You know, you could do a lot worse

than making Fred Bolton a partner.

- Hmm?

- Never mind. I'll tell ya later.

Come on.

Come on, honey.

Come on, come on.

Let's go.

Excuse me.

Here, let me have that, will ya, honey?

Nice goin' there.

- [Charlie] Come on, Alex.

- Come on, Daddy!

[Chattering, Laughing]

Come on, Alex.

Get one.

[Dugan]

Yes, thank you. Thank you.

Yes, we did rather well

out there.

[Charlie] All right, folks, can we get

a little room here, please?

I want to get a picture

of the little lady with...

Get it, Alex. Right here.

Sorry, Mr. Dugan. Good. All

right, now where's the fellow

with the silver soup bowl?

- Harry, Harry, you got the silver thing?

- Right over here.

Yeah. Come on, honey.

Come on, sweetheart.

I'll take that, sir. Here.

Take it right... Hey, congratulations!

- My boy, I told you we'd make it.

- Congratulations, Freddie.

That's it. Very nice.

Oh, General, good...

- Lieutenant.

- Lieutenant General.

- No, just Lieutenant.

- Yeah, all right.

All right, come on.

Let's get you over here.

- [Charlie] By the man, that's it.

- [Dugan] Ah, yes.

Okay, that's a good one.

Go.

Now, I want a picture of me

personally with the little girl

that jumped the big wall!

Right over here!

Congratulations, Mr. Bolton.

This must be a very big night for you.

- Well, it's, uh... It is. It is.

- Good night, sir.

Shall I take him

to his stall, Mr. Bolton?

Uh, no, I'll take him.

I'll take him.

[Chattering]

[Charlie] Come on. Let's get a little

closer there, folks, for a picture.

Come on, Aspie. Let's, uh, open up

some oats and celebrate.

[Charlie] Okay, now, this way,

everybody! Good, good. One more.

One more. Don't move.

Don't move. One more.

Well, Aspie, you did it.

Won the big event.

Well, saved my job,

the Allied Drug account.

So how come

I feel so miserable?

Feel like we won the battle

and lost the war.

So there you are.

- Well, hello there and congratulations.

- And where were you?

Oh, uh, here, there.

I was, uh...

standing among your admirers,

waiting to congratulate you.

- That's enough.

- Oh, you were, were you?

Yes, yes, I was there,

but you were, uh, tied up.

I'm sorry, Freddie. Everything happened

so fast. I was looking for you.

It was no wonder you couldn't see me

with your Mr. Madison...

smothering you with

those victory kisses.

Oh, Freddie!

You really are an ever-faithful,

true-blue, cornball type.

- Cornball?

- I'm so happy I could cry.

That was just my way

of thanking Archer.

Without him, we wouldn't

have won or anything.

- Yeah?

- That's all. I promise.

Now, wasn't there something

terribly important...

that you wanted

to tell me...

but never got

the chance to?

Yes, there was.

Yes, there is.

Come here.

Come here. Suzie.

- Suzie?

- Mm-hmm.

- I'm gonna talk fast. Suzie, l...

- Suzie! Daddy!

We've been looking

all over for you!

- L... I'll come back later.

- No, no, honey. Honey, come back now.

And you started the whole thing,

so don't give me that fake surprise bit.

- He finally got around to it.

- Finally.

Oh! Suzie,

I'm so happy for you.

Daddy!

When's the wedding?

- The wedding?

- The wedding?

- Oh, Daddy.

- Well, you made it

a pretty short courtship.

Does save a lot of dialogue

though, doesn't it?

Hey, Freddie, come on! Dugan

wants pictures of everybody

with the soup bowl here.

Get the trophy. Suzie, you hold it.

Let's get you right close to the horse.

That's it. In closer.

Beautiful. Stay like that.

Come on. Everybody close

together. Alex, you set now?

Look this way like

a big happy family.

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