Zenobia Page #5

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- How do you do, Mrs. Webster.

- Hello.

There are lots of nice people at this party...

but not many.

#...by the moonlight.#

- May I have this dance?

- Certainly, Norris.

May I have the honor of

the first dance, Pumpkin?

Thank you, Doc.

Oh, what a shame, the dance has already started.

Well, we might as well enjoy what's left of it.

Wait right here, Pumpkins, will ya?

May I cut in, Jeff?

Excuse me, Virginia.

You don't mind, do you, Virginia...thank you.

- Hello, Mary.

- Hello, Jeff.

- Having a good time, Honey?

- I am now.

Pardon me, may I cut in?

- May I cut in, Bessie?

- Oh, Darlin'.

- Do you mind?

- No, not at all.

Thank ya.

Right after this is over?

Zenobia! You listen to me. Get over here.

Hey! Hey! That's bad luck! Come back!

Zenobia! Come... Oh...

Zenobia, Baby, listen!

And now I have a little surprise for you.

There's someone here with a lovely voice.

I'm gonna ask her to sing a little refrain.

Our guest of honor, Mary Tibbett.

- Doc, I can't.

- Even if you can't, Pumpkins, do it anyway.

#In the evening by the moonlight,#

#you can hear those darkies singing.#

#In the evening by the moonlight,#

#you can hear those banjos ringing.#

#How the old folks would enjoy it,#

#They would sit all night and listen.#

#And we sang in the evening,#

#by the moonlight.#

- Mary, Darling! You were wonderful!

- Thank you, Jeffrey.

Virginia, my smellin' salts!

- What's a matter with everybody?

- I don't know.

- Why, Henry, I didn't know this was a masquerade.

- Masquerade?

- Look.

- Why, it's no ma...

Bessie, I think we better be

going home...you're getting tired.

- Why, Darling, I'm not tired.

- Come on, Bessie.

Good night, everyone.

It's been a lovely time.

Put me down, I tell you! Put me down!

Put me...

Somebody do somethin' for poor Henry!

Elephant! You put my Henry down!

Ah-HA! So there you are...the both of you!

- Listen here, you can't steal my elephant!

- But she was a patient!

- I treated her!

- I'll have you arrested!

I'll take this matter right into court!

- Yes, it's about time somebody did something.

- Yeah!

- I'll sue you!

- Yes!

- Yes!

- No!

No! Yeah! Here we are!

I'll go tell the sheriff.

- Oh, hurry, Darling!

- I certainly will!

Darlin', don't worry, everything's

gonna turn out all right.

I hope so, Mother.

I'm sure nothin' else could POSSIBLY happen.

Henry, Look!

Henry, how could ya?

You've disgraced your daughter,

and your home and your wife and...

well, off-hand I can't

think of anything else.

Bessie, I can explain everything.

Let's go inside.

No, Henry! You should

have more consideration!

You can't just drag

anybody into your home!

Bessie!

- But you don't understand.

- Oh, yes I do.

I may be wrong, but I'm not far from it.

Good night, Dear.

Good night.

Shoo! Scat!

Scat!

Go get it!

If you insist Mrs. Carter.

But in all the years that I've

represented you and your family,

I've never been involved in

quite this sort of procedure.

- We have our reasons, Colonel Culpepper.

- All I'm askin' is ya to do is win this case.

Oh, I'm sure that'll not be difficult.

You remember how I told you to start?

- Oh...uh...in the first place...

- Zenobia and I...

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I get it, I get it.

Well, in the first place, Zenobia and I...

Have you drawn up the complaint, Colonel?

Oh, yes, here! I have it right here in my hand.

- Well, he ain't home.

- What! He's not at home!

- No!

- Listen, Sheriff, you've gotta find him.

My whole future depends on that elephant.

And if I...if I...

Look!

What are you waiting here for?

- I guess we better get a new doctor, Ma.

- Looks like it, Pa.

That's the biggest elephant I ever saw.

Steaks! I can get you a nice set

of sirloin steaks today.

I haven't got time for

that now, where's your back door?

Right in the back! Whatsa matter? Whatsa matter?

- Now, don't get excited!

- Excited! Who's excited?!?

- Just keep yourself cool!

- Who isn't cool? I'm always cool!

Stop, Zenobia!

Dr. Tibbett.

Dr. Tibbett!

Well, in the first place, Zenobia and I...

we had...

- Not yet, please.

- Oh, not yet.

- Do you know where the Doctor is?

- I don't know. I'm so worried.

Last time I saw him he hadn't come back yet.

He doesn't seem to

be here, Your Honor.

Well, if he doesn't show up in five minutes

or I'll have to hold him in contempt of court.

- Where's his attorney?

- He's declined counsel, Your Honor.

Jeff, I'm worried.

- Because he's not here?

- No, because of this.

YOUR CONDUCT HIGHLY

UNETHICAL. UNLESS ACQUITTED

YOU WILL BE DROPPED

FROM MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Why! They couldn't do this to him,

it isn't HIS fault.

They will anyway. Look at the way the people

in the town are acting toward him already.

Your Honor, may we proceed?

Clerk, call the defendant once more.

Dr. Tibbett.

Did someone call me?

We'll have no levity in this courtroom!

Dr. Tibbett...

I'm surprised at your lack

of consideration for this Court.

- You will please come in here at once!

- But, Your Honor, I can't.

Dr. Tibbett, you will do as you're ordered!

All right...if you insist.

- Well, in the first place, Zenobia and I...

- Whoa! I'll tell you when to start.

It hardly seems necessary for me to request

you...to take that..that thing out of here.

All right! But I'll have to

take out myself with it.

I can't conduct the

case without the defendant.

What about going outside and

looking through the window?

Very unusual, but I suppose

under the circumstances...

Thank you, Your Honor.

You may proceed with your witness.

- Ready?

- Ready!

Well, in the first place, Zenobia and I...

Here I am, Your Honor.

- What are you waiting for?

- Proceed.

Well, in the first place,

Zenobia and I have been together

ever since she was a teeny,

weenie little baby, 35 or 40 years old.

Why! Huh! We were like this together,

until that scoundrel came between us.

You can't say that about Henry Tibbett!

Why, he's the dearest, most unscoundrely...

Well, he is anyway.

Take that elephant out of this

courtroom and go back where you belong!

But, Your Honor, my reputation is at

stake, and that man is maligning me.

Instruct your client to be

more careful in his language.

Thank you.

- You may continue.

- Oh.

- Well, in the first place, Zenobia and....

- Wait a minute, start where you left off.

Oh! Yes.

Well, it all began when Zenobia got a kink...

- A kink!?!

- Well...ah...it had an unfortunate entanglement.

Anyway, the poor thing was ill,

and I had to do something.

So I summoned that

small minion over there,

I sent him on an errand of mercy,

little knowing what lay in store for me.

Little knowing I was

about to lose the elephant

that worked side by side

with me all these years.

The elephant who had helped me sell the

priceless product of my life's efforts.

A remedy that I brought at the risk of life

and limb from the teaming jungles of Borneo,

and the burning Sands of the Sahara...

- Step up, approach me, Ladies and gentlemen.

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