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is
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what a party they're giving you
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our free american
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we see
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granddaddy
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ladies and gentlemen the president
of the united states
my countrymen it has been thought
appropriate
upon this centennial occasion
to bring together in philadelphia for
popular inspection specimens of our
attainment
the industrial and fine arts
and in literature science and philosophy
as well as in the great business of
agriculture
and of commerce that we may the more
thoroughly appreciate the excellences
and deficiencies of our achievements
and also give emphatic expressions
for
louder louder
i can't hear please please
please what are you suggesting sir that
i continue pretending to hear when i do
not jesse rogers will you be quiet
there's nothing in the constitution
which prohibits the president from
opening his mouth
good and wide and saying what he has to
say quiet
did daniel webster sneak out penciled
notes when he spoke
please did patrick henry mumble in his
beard as he read his immortal words from
a paper cuff
they did not why if i were making a
speech
dear sir you are making a speech oh
a republican huh
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excuses
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it's after five and dinner isn't half
ready and the phelps are always on time
deborah keep that stove hot it's hotter
than you know what
eat it help julia with the potatoes
edith will you please put away those
fashions after all this dinner is for
your gentleman carla
what mother look i found it i found the
dress the one i've been dreaming about
isn't it darren certainly is twenty
dollars
yeah beat but mother you promised me a
new dress for the centennial you said i
beat you know very well that all the pin
money i've managed to save is thirty
dollars
for you and julia there'll be enough
left over for julia's dressmaker
ten dollars but julia you don't need
anything like this
maybe not but i would like something
like like this
12.50 now there's a sensible girl
why don't you get one like julius maybe
we could get a discount mother i
couldn't possibly wear anything with
this i just couldn't
besides julia you'll never have any
occasion to wear such an expensive dress
oh won't i well you know you won't you
haven't planned on going to any of the
centennial dances
why buy a dress just a dream in it
because i want to
that's the height of selfishness no it
isn't you're going to get
15 each and
where is it where's the pin money i i
had it in this paper job
jesse where's the box i made for my
clock
jesse what did you do with the money
that was in this pepper jar
every time i leave something in this
house it disappears oh it does
well what about that money jesse rogers
now now harriet i use that for bada
with the finishing touches on my clock
but where's the box i've got to send it
off
so that's where the money's gone to into
that thing again
harriet the clock is finished but i
couldn't very well send it to the
president of the railroad without a face
well how am i going to show my face in
last year's dress you just wait unless
the troll sees my clock then i'll
be able to order you julian mother all
the dress
that's all i've heard for the last 15
years the only thing that clock has ever
done for us is eat up all the money that
i've managed to save
and all of your grandfather's insurance
and that bonus money of yours
it was bad enough all through the civil
war when you couldn't buy any springs
and you took them out of our bed and put
it into that thing
but when you take the centennial money
that i've saved for the girls
then jesse rogers i must tell you that i
hate your clock
yes i do that horrible crackpot
invention
look harriet i can't just be another
railroad man i've got ideas i've got to
do something about it i got to get ahead
the man is like a clock he's only good
when he goes forward
well i'm sure it'll run sunday powder
it'll run today
i'll fix it in a jiffy
no the republican party needs is what
the country needs is a new party
and let me tell you folks if the
democratic party doesn't get in office
next year this country is going to wreck
and ruin and it's long
enough a run with so much corruption and
honest man hasn't the chance to take
them out of there
all through the day
but you don't understand grant is
basically a military man then he should
remain one
why to put such a man in the white house
is like giving away your home to the
firemen who put out a fire in it but
jesse phelps has his points
naturally i have my points the whole
country looks up to general grant
he's a great soldier but not a great
president jesse
come everyone's dying to sing something
uh not right now harry the boys and i
are chatting
julia but harriet i was just trying to
explain you can explain to them lately
well at least let me clear up this one
point why you listen to me now you
listen to me phelps
all right now you just made the
statement that grant is a great soldier
well i'll concede that point but as a
president i have my own opinion
regarding
what speaking to work i'm glad to say
i'm happy on the railroad
maybe i like the kind of pals who likes
the job they do
maybe i like to hear them laugh and cuss
and kick and stew
punched them happy on the railroad
the railroad unhappy on the railroad
as soon as my work is true
molly mccann she met a man who worked
around the roundhouse
setting her cap she caught the chat the
way you trap her mouth
that is applied for every night she's
left without a spouse
so he walks around the rounds around the
ball so he
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well maybe i will say yes someday maybe
i thought we were engaged
oh not officially we aren't this have to
be official when two people love each
other
oh ben how can you be a woman's doctor
and know so little about women
what do you mean well we don't like to
be talked into things
we like for things to just happen to us
well it just so happened that i
figured as soon as i opened my office we
get married and tomorrow's the day
yes i know ben but well my friends have
been whispering about that
then are you sure it's the right thing
for you to do why not i'll be the first
obstetrician in philadelphia
it's bound to be an important thing with
philadelphia's birth rate obstetrics
will be
oh ben must you always keep mentioning
that embarrassing word
embarrassing well the very idea is
shocking
oh wait this is 1876 women are becoming
sensible
look he didn't no ben not yet
i don't want to settle down just now i
want to travel and meet interesting
people
i want an exciting life like i've seen
you i can't see you
yes supposing she had married at my age
your mother did
oh this is 1876 ben and women are
becoming sensible
all right they oh no ben you mustn't
no ben you mustn't
good
eat it
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just one please no they're not denied
why not just because
sweet dreams
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my
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well all right but just one
urgent carrier letter
oh
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what was that oh nothing robin oh when
it was only
oh urgent carrier letter
jesse jesse an urgent carrier well sand
my rails who's it from how should i know
eden who's it from xenia mother it's
from madzenia maybe she's
old maybe she's dead now harriet dead
people don't usually write letters
my angels she's alive she's well
she's looking forward to oh oh
she's coming she's coming to
philadelphia for the centennial
oh and mania mother father what happened
auntie is coming to philadelphia is she
pulling in oh let's see yeah
we'll arrive 2 32 p.m july 5th
why that's less than two months oh just
think
i've almost forgotten myself what she
looks like i wonder if she still is
stunning
all right enough let's not allow this to
disorganize the household completely
prepare now children all of you good
night
there'll be sufficient time to discuss
this before the invasion commences
jesse what a way to speak of darling
xenia
wait till you meet you will simply adore
her that my dear will require a complete
change in my policy regarding foreign
relations
isn't it just too exciting for words yes
for mother especially
goodness junior how can you stand this
stuffy little added room
well if it bothers you that much oh
darling let's not coral tonight it's a
wonderful room
everything's wonderful two short months
and we'll have aunt zenia here
i don't suppose she's ever heard herself
called aunt before golly julia wouldn't
it be thrilling if she decided to take
us back to europe with her
or we might even end up marrying wealthy
dukes or something
the trouble with you is you read too
many cheap novels
there you go again pretending pretending
what
that men don't interest you they don't
not
men someday maybe one of them will the
right one
now who's talking like a cheap novel
well at least i'll know the right one
when i meet him which is more than can
be said for you
meaning ben i suppose you've had any
sense at all you wouldn't keep
someone like him dangling on your string
with the other does
but he loves it that's about the most
callous thing i oh why don't you admit
what's really galling you
nothing no nothing except having to sit
around dreaming up a man for yourself
and why because because the real ones
never give you a second look
that's not true oh isn't it well who
ever has just name one
go ahead i don't care to discuss it with
you
good grin julia don't tell me you still
wear these old-fashioned panties
why they went over the covered get out
of here
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someday i'll find the right
romance not just a gay
and life romance that night the moon
and stars will dance
i often wonder who and where he
is but when my heart says
there he is
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for he will be the poor
i've always had in mind
and nothing will destroy the joy
we find and i will be the girl
and so the right romance
will never
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oh
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she's coming tomorrow but that's
impossible can't you see
this letter was sent from new york it
says july
5th there seven five seventh month's
fifth day but
mother don't you know continentals
always write the day first
seven five means seventh day fifth month
the seventh of may and it's tomorrow
oh dear now harriet decomposed if your
sister is giddy enough to give us only
one day's notice she can't expect it we
do
what do we do we we must think of
something
i've got it we'll just have to give
xenia our bedroom xenia stay in here
in this house with us i'll move in with
susie you can move in with over my
carcass
eat it you can share the attic bedroom
with julian i will not we're not
speaking that's fine then everything
will be nice and quiet
now now let's start moving things
there's not a moment to lose done
run down and wake up deborah quickly
quickly
take everything out of my bureau drawers
yes julia you can take all the curtains
down yes
susie go help eat it my dear woman it
might interest you to know that sister
on
oh sister i'm disney father a doctor
will be up in a minute
sister unknown sister i happen to
slightest in
i haven't the slightest intention of
overcrowding this house
put your pants on jesse and furthermore
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so
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oh there she is mother where where right
there it must be
andrea yes sir is that lady get her
luggage yes casey
yes sir you guys are a handful yes sir
you too slim
famous
yeah oh my god
i could try to make this train go faster
yes why you're much more handsome than i
expected even after haley it's blowing
description of you
i simply must have a kiss for my
witching brother-in-law there i
knew you two would adore each other
my own dear continue to see you at last
i can hardly stand the excitement
by you charming beautiful giants that's
eden
oh and this is julia i'm very happy to
know you excellent and susanna
does it oh hey i'm simply living with
envy over your heavenly family i didn't
think it was in you i expected
well i really don't know what yes
it was wait heavens my loving children
now be composing
i've arranged everything leave it all to
me
put it down what's the matter
you told us to get these bags but he
won't let us down
now see here young man you apparently
made some error monsieur
please do not to interfere i have enough
troubles in this disorganized jungle
disorganized sir i'll have you
understand i'm an official of this
railroad and
then i suggest you miss you to go to
france to learn how railroads should be
operated on
what is it what's happening
darling this is jesse jesse rogers
didn't i write you about philly
my nephew my late husband's brother's
son he's over here for the government
something about the uh
french exhibit for your centennial oh
i'm glad to know you mr rogers it is my
pleasure and i'm sorry that i was no no
no no no
it is i who should apologize pardon me
this is my darling sister i've told you
so much about mr laska
shaunte this is my daughter eden
thank you and how do you like my family
poor babies all alone in that luggage
car without knowing the length
the super wants to see you i'll be right
over here
oh i'm so terribly sorry i forgot you
had them
excuse me mr rogers the latest luggage
is ready sorry
thank you lamb and hire some hackneys
but i've seen you philippe couldn't
possibly find his way around the station
alone of course not darling you better
run along and show it
julia go off your father and see that he
doesn't dilly dally all right
poor jesse no one ever lifts a hand
around here without consulting him
he must be terribly important oh quite
next to the superintendent
the yard master is king around the
station what do you think we're running
here
junkyard sometimes i think i'm not
interested in what you think rogers and
neither is anyone else in this company
i've told you time and time again you
either stick to your job or get out
what i do when i'm off duty is my
business i told you a year ago not to
bring that pile of junk around here
that's not the same clock that was
around here a year ago snodgrass
this model runs it's still junk sending
it to the president of the road
going right over my head what will mr
crowbridge think of me
a crazy inventor in jp smartgrass
department the lucky thing his secretary
opened your little surprise package and
sent it to me well his secretary had no
right to open it i addressed it to mr
trowbridge and i marked it personally as
i thought you would
that's why i asked the secretary to be
on the lookout for that clock and you
had no right now see that the president
hears about it
you'll complain well there's never been
one complaint against this department
not in 25 years
and just because i'm trying to help you
help me
trying to keep you out of trouble out of
making yourself ridiculous
and you want to complain
well you uh
just try and complain about this
what's that your new
work card rogers putting you on the
night shift
night shift yard clerk well you can't
demote me
i can't i'll quit first after all the
years i've been with this railroad
here's your blaze why this only pays
half my prison salary i can't afford it
you can't afford it oh that reminds me
uh i got a letter from the uh penn
national bank on sixth street it seems
uh you want a loan and they want a
reference from your immediate supervisor
more money for that invention no
and for what well it just so happens
that my sister-in-law has arrived for
the centennial and
oh it takes a little more to manage at
home huh
a lot more a lot more well
you know how it is yes i know how it is
rogers but
i don't think the bank will
i'll pick up my clock after work see
what you do
oh hello father they sent me to hurry
along
i'm sorry a few trifles had to be
straightened out been waiting long
just got here come
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so
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nobody else ever has to wake me
i'm always early to rise
somebody said it would make me
healthy and wilty
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this morning and i'm as
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is
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this morning i a little and
then promised myself that i'd
never do it again
thank you
i was up with a lot this morning
i love the dawn of the day
roosters pro to
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is
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i feel
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this morning i blinked a little and then
looked at the clock and i
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well first of all i slept an extra half
hour the first time in 15 years
then i had breakfast went out brushed mr
quinn beans but aren't you supposed to
be at work i've arranged to do my work
at night for a while
jesse is there anything wrong wrong why
nonsense i simply refuse to be tied down
during the day while all of you are
having the time of your lives
i want to go to centennial too besides
just only polite to zinnia for the short
time she'll be with us
all right everybody let's get organized
we ought to be getting an early start
early start
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what exactly does she mean by i'm afraid
senior doesn't know the meaning of the
word early
breakfast in bed imagine we probably
won't go to the centennial for hours
we shall see about that what this house
needs is a firm hand on the throttle
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hello he did you ready oh ben
oh ben i forgot i mean
oh i'm awfully sorry ben but i i can't
go with you today
you see aunt denia arrived yesterday and
uh well we're all going to the
centennial
hello there it's a sort of family
reunion you know
hello you do understand don't you miss
rogers
oh hello rogers come on understand
hello that's all right but i guess you
might as well take these with you anyway
oh thank you sweet yes xenia
well i'll drop around when it does all
right ben please dude goodbye
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there's a marvelous
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wow
foreign
there's the french pavilion
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the belfast it even
smells differently here
oh
thank you american or senior
how i wish i had stayed in france what
seems to be the difficulty young man
everything since i arrive in america
everything is the difficulty
our displays are not finished we are not
ready to open until
i do not know how long the bookkeeper
the bookkeeper is the thief
our interpreter thinks only of the
algerian girl next door i am forced to
discharge all of them both
oh what a shame thank you
i cannot understand that this bookkeeper
in france he was always so honest but mr
lascal you are in america now
you must expect the worst julian i do
not expect the worst miss rogers but
that is all i get so far
if i can understand french i'd clout
them one fed dog
mercy what a mess consent is worse than
you know the centennial committee is
distressed the french
government is distressed if only there
were some zinnia do you think mr rogers
could employ his influence
might be happy oh i'm afraid that's not
possible what harry had told me about
their state of affairs is sheer fairy
tale
it's pathetic the front they're trying
to put up i'd like to give them a check
right now and be done with it
i'll have to think of something more
subtle much as subtlety bores me
oh mr lascal you poor chap and you were
so anxious to have everything perfect
for your opening
opening i doubt that there will be an
opening nothing is ready no help
is there anything i can do to help you
oh thank you very much but
i need somebody which is french you see
all the business here is conducted
how bright of you oh it's only high
school french but i'm sure i could get
by his interpreter
and i could help you straighten out for
me it would be most valuable
if it is not too much imposition julia
working oh really
it would be such fun our female
forebears plowed fields and chopped wood
all their lives and came through with
their morals reasonably intact oh
thank you father shouldn't we begin
right away right away it's not soon
enough done
come off we go the rogers express drops
a passenger and race is on all aboard
oh wow goodbye
goodbye children bye this is
very kind of you miss julia what to give
your time so freely it is more generous
but it is but it isn't i didn't want to
mention it in front of the others but
i'll expect a salary for my services
salary at another time i might not have
considered it but
just now oh please say no more it is
stupid of me not to mention it first of
course you shall
receive the full salary the position
calls for oh thank you
it's very generous
to work to work
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here's another rare old example of early
american clock making it's probably one
of eli
terry's oh yes so it is it seems to be
all wood
why of course you know the very first to
make clocks in america what captain does
think
of that now you see that you and your
clocks
haven't you bet four zenia there enough
oh no please go on jesse i'm fascinated
your knowledge of clocks absolutely
amazes me oh it's more or less of a
hobby with me though i have been doing
some serious experimentation with an
original idea i had we've heard of
nothing else around the house for years
what was it like oh nothing
revolutionary just a new wrinkle
being a railroad man i got to thinking
one night about railroad clocks in
general
and i said to myself now look here
rogers
why couldn't there be a clock that
indicated all the separate time zones in
the country
so that one could tell of a single glass
just what time it was everywhere
why jesse that's wonderful you hear that
harriet
evidently not all people think of a new
invention as a brain child of a crackpot
but i
haven't anyone seen it anyone important
no but they will xenia
they will i'm simply famished we'd
better hurry if we want to lunch at the
turkish bazaar
i believe it closes at two what time is
it now
thunderation i left my watch at home
perhaps we can ask someone
oh yes
julia julia dear
i thought we weren't speaking oh that
was yesterday we're speaking now aren't
we
want some fudge thank you edith
let's don't quarrel anymore never again
never again julia what's happened to you
what you look so pale oh poor darling
you must be working very hard oh
no i enjoy it he's so much fun to be
with
it's really not like working at all
before i knew it the day had passed and
i had to say goodbye
does he expect you tomorrow oh yes and
the day after
and the day after that but julia
what's everybody in philadelphia going
to say i mean
working with a man the father doesn't
see anything wrong in it
besides it's an emergency if i didn't
know you better
i'd say you were falling in love with it
that's not such a bad guess
oh how wonderful julia oh
just think we've been sisters all these
years
and i didn't know until just now that
our tastes are exactly alike
oh you can't be serious oh but i can
when i want to be this time something
tells me that i'm
very serious but what about ben well
you're engaged to him oh not officially
julia if you'll take some sisterly
advice well i won't
well you get it anyway you better forget
about philly because i want
because you want it better give up right
now well i won't
surely you don't think you can win why
can't i
because love is a game and you don't
know anything about it
you don't know the first thing about
trapping a man i wouldn't want a man if
i had to
trap him poor old-fashioned child
expecting to get a man the way mother
did this is 1876 and love is just one
little trick after another
and you know them all don't you i know
enough
well i don't intend to get feeling not
by using tricks and
playing games all right you do it your
way and i'll do it mine
and we'll see who gets to paris first
all right we'll see
don't forget i speak his language yes
dear but
he understands mine
hello you look so lovely today today
uh today especially well that's better
oh my what's all this this will be
whenever we find it together
the biggest little model of thighs you
like it
like it it'll be perfectly enchanting
incidentally i understand that one of
the nicest things about
paris is the way that young gentlemen
take young ladies to lunch at the
sidewalk cafe
hello hello julia to
eat and drink and talk well i would love
to
but when you simply must unpack the rest
of this model if we ever hope to get it
set up on time
excuse me please of course julia
i must do it right away now uh perhaps
some other day
well business before pleasure i suppose
that's right
uh there must be some other packages in
my office i must get them
really julia it was awfully nice of you
to help him out in the emergency
but haven't you carried it far enough
not quite it isn't very good taste to be
so obvious you know
yes i know but i suppose it's too late
for you to change
oh eat it here you are hello julia
how are you dan hello ben ollie you're
about as slippery as an eel
i've been trying to catch hold of you
for days look i finally got my office
all fixed up and opened for business
when are you coming up to see it well i
really can't save
ben you know we're so terribly busy what
with that zinnia here and
everything what's wrong either it's not
as if your course is too tight
oh must you be so homespun
believe
philippe i wish you'd change your mind
and relax for an hour or so
you shouldn't overwork yourself and
julia too do you ever worked
no i'm quite sure
oh that's ben ben who is he
i've seen him hanging here before why
he's julia's bow
didn't she tell you nor she oh my
i guess i shouldn't have said anything
they've been keeping their engagement a
secret but i thought
oh please believe you must promise not
to let on she'd be furious with me
just think a full-fledged doctor with a
shingle hung out on everything
julia i have decided to have edith to
lunch after all
if anyone should ask for me i will
return in one hour or two
all right felipe oh by the way i don't
believe you've met ben phillips
pleased to meet you the pleasure is
equal
philippe i know the most heavenly place
where we can get the most wonderful
pepper pie
my foot yes so that's it
no since vineyard there must be
something like that the way she's been
acting lately
golly julian what a nurse the matter
with me anyway i'm no shrinking violet i
i can talk do things except when i'm
around either then all of a sudden i
turn into a bumbling idiot
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well i don't want to keep him waiting we
want a nice long leisurely dinner before
the theater
there you are roll along
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good night dude
um she'll be down in just a few minutes
good night man
huh
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see what i mean you don't have to say it
and i don't have to say it i guess
our eyes betray it and yet
what can we do it's
only human for anyone to
want to be in love but who wants to
be in love in vain
at night you hang around the house and
eat your heart out
and cry your eyes out
and wreck your brain
you sit and wonder why
anyone as wonderful as he
should cause you such misery
and pain i
thought that i would be in
heaven but i'm only
up a tree cause it's just
my luck to be in love
in vain
i thought i was the girl
he always had in mind
which only goes to show that love is
blind but he is still a boy
which only goes to show
how love dreams
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good night julia good night ben
ben ben what is julian what's the matter
with us giving up so easily
maybe edith was right after all either
yes
love is a game and we ought to play it a
game certainly
we don't want to hang around the house
eating our hearts out times have changed
since father courted mother
today you must trap the one you love now
don't ask me any more questions ben just
hurry home get on your dress suit
and meet me back here in half an hour
we'll see who gets to paris first
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peppers
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no i cannot believe julia's engaged with
this ben fellow
but she is for over a year but when she
look at me she does not have
an engaged look she has a not engaged as
a frenchman i understand these looks
very well
i do not believe she's in love with
these men what an
idea why they've been in love since they
were children
i'm not speaking of puppies love are
they in love now
of course they are always i've known
when a woman would like me to make love
to her
always always and about julia i cannot
be wrong
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i think you just don't understand
american women
here when a girl looks at her man it
doesn't mean she's flirting she's just
being friendly
that's the way we were brought up the
way julie look at me
it is not friendly but an american look
isn't like a french
when you get to those looks it is the
same everywhere
not for julia i know her she's very
sincere she loves ben and that's all
that matters
she could not give me this look and be
in love with you
i do not believe
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it is yes
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[Applause]
i think i believe it now
hold me closer
closer and
look at me ben not like dad
look at me like this cause if you were
in love with me
oh julia don't
[Music]
why i didn't know you were here didn't
you darling
hello eden mr peps won't you join us
please come sit down a chair
[Music]
and winter a champagne how dare you wear
my dress
love is one little trick after another
you know
champagne how wonderful i think we
should all drink to our own
dr phelps today should be the beginning
of a great career
you know ben opened up his new office
today and he's already had a patient
oh congratulations dr phelps
to dr phipps thank you everybody
and if you give me your office address i
should be very happy to recommend you to
my friends oh thanks
or if i need you myself but sleep
whatever for
well it's possible but you're not even
married
what difference does it make to the
doctor if his patients are made or not
made
or medically no difference but i think
mrs rascal you'd better recommend me
only to married women
married women ben's an obstetrician
he's so wonderful he was the only one in
his class who wasn't afraid to
specialize in something new
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ladies and gentlemen may i have your
kind detention please
by exclusive arrangement with the
centennial exposition
we are about to present one of the
latest most magnificent
unparalleled miracles of the modern age
what will
next what new magic to equal this
ladies and gentlemen on with the magic
[Music]
i sit alone in the golden daylight
[Music]
but all i see is a silver sky
for in my fancy i sweep away
and keep my
[Music]
you image
[Music]
all through the day i
dream about the night i
dream about the might here with
you
[Applause]
all through the day i
wish
the time when i'm here
i run to meet you
the evening mist melts away
dawn smalls the moon
and soon your lips recall
the kiss i dream of
all through the day
[Music]
everybody
[Music]
oh
[Music]
i run to him
[Music]
oh
[Music]
[Applause]
why don't we all dance yes why don't we
oh edith i have an idea let's change
partners wonderful may i
[Music]
[Applause]
you know this is the first time i've
ever danced in public how is that
possible we never had a place like this
before the centennial
that way you could dine and dance openly
isn't it exciting
yes exciting of course not for you
you've been so many places and danced
with so many girls this can't mean much
never before have i done to anyone so
graceful not even in
paris not even anywhere no one's so
charming so enchanted
i don't believe you feeling oh but julia
it's true you are remarkable
every day at work you are so efficient
so busyness like
here you are the young lady perfect for
vice
perfect just as well for london i
believe i'm so
happy yes i know
what do you mean bringing julia here of
all places why not
how dare you go out with her we're
supposed to be engaged are we
and why'd you go out with the french
because i wanted to well i wanted to go
out with you
oh you did yes at least she looks at me
once in a while
she's very sweet intelligent anything
else
good anything else very builder
why don't you go after her maybe i
should
cut it right now if you dare well maybe
i will
uh
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it is time to go to the theater you two
are going with us of course huh
no i'm afraid i can't go oh darling i'm
so
sorry it would have been so pleasant to
have you alone
but ben can go to the theater with you
all the knowledge
nonsense it's ben's day to celebrate i
wouldn't
think of spoiling his evening but julia
what you have to do really is it's so
important
yes it's very important i really must go
then ben will go with us of course oh
thank you billy
oh julia i wouldn't dream of having you
go home alone oh please don't worry
about me
i've gone home alone before good night
now
please take good care of them
julia maybe i'd better no no no doctor
it would be our pleasure
but but but there are no birds my
carriage is in the outside
and i can easily exchange my tickets for
three so we will stick side to side
you must spend the whole evening with us
my dear doctor every single minute
is it all right with you indeed of
course it's all right
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hello father julian what in blazes you
doing here this time of night
please don't be cross i just couldn't
sleep and well i thought you might like
some hot coffee
here hold this a minute
i wish there were more dependable
railroad men
the one who did this simple job made so
many errors i'm forced to spend a few
nights disentangling
i had a feeling you knew how about some
hot coffee
your mother used to bring me things this
way when we were first married
it's been a long time father let's tell
her about your job
no no but every penny comes i said no
maybe soon when i sell my clock idea you
honestly think you can
certainly and i'm zenia think so too and
she's a woman of remarkable intelligence
and foresight
merely a question of getting an
interview with the president of the
railroad
you know a good thing when he sees it
but you've been trying for over a year
well he's an unusually busy man of
course
maybe this will help a little just to
tide us over
where did you get it i didn't tell you i
thought you might consider it
undignified but i'm getting paid for the
work i'm doing
working for money philippe i mean
insisted
i'm afraid you got a very wrong
impression of him at first he's really
so
well rather nice i see
oh no you're wrong i'm sure he doesn't
think of me as anything more than an
employee
and a friend yeah i think you better
return this to phillip
it doesn't seem quite proper that he
consider you an employee at all
or continue helping him if you want to
but don't accept the salary
that way it'll be well much more
friendly
but we really need it i know and don't
think i'm not proud of you for trying
but don't worry child your father's
quite capable of pulling us out of this
temporary predicament
there's plenty of steam in the old
engine yet
now you run along home get your sleep
girls are much prettier when they're
well rested you know good night
good luck
oh father
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good night thanks for the most
delightful evening tomorrow
well i'm afraid not the after opera race
well let's sleep on it shall we is that
you xenian
oh darling
did i awaken you no i wasn't asleep
god it was really awfully sweet on you
to wait up for me
we've hardly had a chance to be alone
since you came remember all the happy
hours we used to spend together
sitting up half a night rambling on
about men it looks as though you've done
plenty of rambling since then
oh well some people collect stamps i'm
about me there will you
senior there's something in particular i
wanted to talk about
what jesse oh now there's a man if you
want an expert's opinion he simply
fascinates me he's so different so so
lusty so
so impressionable impressionable
have i really impressed him in some way
well you've certainly gotten him into a
that old clock business messing up the
whole house with his tinkering
running all over town when he should be
catching up on his sleep
we're all becoming nervous wrecks and
what will it all add up to
nothing he'll only be disappointed the
way he was last time
if i have it i simply wouldn't have
believed it of you
believe what why don't you admit what's
really bothering you
you're not worried about that clock
you're just a trifle jealous aren't you
darling
nina have you lost your mind oh it's
very flattering of course
but i assure you angel you have the
slightest cause for anxiety
friendly senior how can you say such a
thing maybe i'm somewhat to blame myself
you know i often flirt without meaning
without even knowing it but if it'll
make you feel any better i have a talk
with jesse in the morning
than if he's got any wrong notions jesse
notions
why don't you think it's possible you
don't know jesse
you after 20 years especially after 20
years
you know darling you've always been
awfully naive about men
oh i've never known men just jesse and
i'm quite quite sure that he could never
be smitten with anyone else particularly
you
particularly me oh nothing personal it's
just that
men like jesse usually like meat and
potatoes
they don't care for crepe suzette they
do the way i make
oh you mustn't misunderstand xenia i
don't deny for a moment that you have
your charms
and you've learned to use them very
artfully thank you
i can see how they'd work on your dukes
and cows
and dip them
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well i mean you've never known anyone as
simple and
straightforward as jesse the circles
you've always moved in have been
so
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
yesterday what were you saying go on
good morning philly good morning
julia what has happened to you i almost
want to recognize
you oh heavens can a girl put on a
different dress now and then
no no it is not the dress it is more you
look as if you are
what you must be very happy
i hope you always will be any more
answers to the invitations
oh i know mr so-and-so regrets he cannot
attend the opening of the french exhibit
because of
so-and-so and so and so perhaps you
should forego our plan for a formal
opening altogether
the president has left philadelphia no
one seems very interested
philly phillip i wanted to talk to you
it's about the salary i've been getting
i thought so hmm
you put this building in the wrong place
oh but the map sure the map is wrong it
belongs right here on the rudolphe i do
not need maps
i know fires by my heart every street
every building
every stone i like people who can fall
in love with places
look this is where i live in paris they
should be here in front of chestnut
street
what is not important the triple triple
trifle it next door is the most charming
little restaurant lerrons
they serve only cheese and wine but such
cheese such a wine
while you eat madame the wrong argues
with you about politics
a merciless opera on his flute
here by the river leaves a man who
creates magic with paint
have you heard of him over here when
well august runway
i believe i've heard the name at night
you find me here on the cafe on the
sean's elysee
or maybe at the comedy franchise
watching sarah bana
or maybe at the variety community in the
gallery
or watching the girls do they can come
phillip
philly look around does this place
remind you of france
yes the franks you were just talking
about well no no of course not
stodgy and cold and effective has about
as much charm as a tourist guidebook
it's such a wrong picture
as wrong as your idea of america when
you first came
yes yes this could be an exhibit of the
spirit of france
rather than its anatomy the music and
dance people laughing the cheese and the
wine you see the rose flute it would be
wonderful
i have another idea for opening we will
make a costume vlog oh
yes with everyone coming as his favorite
french character perfect who could stay
away the place we shall redecorate it to
make it look exactly like oh but will
there be time enough there will be if we
start right now today
we must do it philly yes yes we will
find a way oh
julia this could not be done without you
here
i am very grateful to you you have gone
far beyond the mere salary you have been
to me
a fine friend i meant to tell you i'm
not going to accept a salary anymore
julia will not listen to such a thing
and i'm afraid i'll have to leave
julia you must not i
you are remarkable come let's get to
work
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to work
[Music]
is there anything else we can do to help
you mr stop
no no thank you just everything done go
home and go in bed
yes sir good night you sir good luck
thank you good night good night thank
you
good night good night well we've done
pretty well for only a week
don't you think so philippe pretty well
it is miraculous
pretty well you americans you are so
cold
are we just this last one
and we are through
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awaken of julia you are home
what is it nothing just my dream
a funny one you want to know you were in
it
really i feel so guiltful about how you
have overwhelmed you've done too much
made yourself too tired
not at all it was fun and exciting i
loved every minute of it
i can hardly believe it it seemed
impossible
but tomorrow night actually we are ready
to be opened
isn't it wonderful all those people who
sent their regrets clamoring now for
invitation
well i will see you tomorrow night eh of
course
i do not know how to thank you for
everything
don't you no funny i know how to thank
you
good night wait philippe i don't
understand
for a frenchman you're the premise
person i've ever seen i am no one of the
kind
but everywhere yes in france even it is
not considered quiet to toy with
someone's feelings when you are in love
with someone else
thank you for being so blunt i promise i
won't step out of place again
julian is that you what's the matter
julia
jr
[Music]
[Applause]
what's the matter
[Music]
i wore one of your dresses once now you
can wear one of mine here you can be the
hostess at the french ball
but aren't you going he'd rather have
you he told me as much you won
please please come leave me alone
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senator and this is george mcgowan
the governor and mrs hart commissioner
and mrs
john sutherland bone swa governor
hodgson
and mrs hartman welcome good evening
allow me to introduce myself my name is
franz
we haven't met before but i do hope we
get to know each other very well before
the evening is over thank you
this way if you please okay she's very
chopped
yes she is
[Music]
ladies and gentlemen may i ask for your
very kind attention for a little french
dance
maydam's amazing curry
[Music]
oh
[Music]
oh
[Music]
i declare the way he's stirring that
flaming brew
with that fanatical look in his eye he
looks like one of the witches from
macbeth
come now xenia what is this mysterious
concoction wait and see
it's something fit for a king i assure
you your majestic
[Music]
fine king i'd make really jesse i've
never seen anyone
more regal why you'll make the president
of your railroad look like a track
walker
how do you know what he looks like i was
only out for dinner with him the other
evening
[Music]
one little taste won't hurt you
[Music]
so
[Music]
delicious
[Music]
here you are and have a delightful
evening this way
i believe has she arrived yet oh julia
no i don't think so what could be
keeping her
oh probably ben he hates parties you
know and
of course she won't go anywhere without
him
i see come on jesse let's dance jesse
doesn't dance
yes i've never yet seen a male who could
dance without looking like a palpitating
company what utter nonsense you're going
right out on that floor now
and dance and i'm going to teach you
xenia
[Music]
put your arm around me like this put it
right there that's it
now this arm out this way and off we go
one
two three one two two keep your head up
[Music]
hope i don't let's have some fresh air
you're a wonderful dancer
oh well that's using it oh be careful
you better not let harriet hear that
she's awfully jealous you know
well maybe we better go inside ah
there's mr program
we've been waiting for you man you're
looking very lovely this evening thank
you
i'd like you to know mr jesse rogers mr
rogers he's the inventor of that
marvelous clock i was telling you about
indeed well this is a pleasure mr rogers
i've been hearing a very great deal
about you
thank you oh may i present mr graham how
do you do won't you join us at our table
mr rogers
well we'd be delighted in just a few
moments we look forward to it
did he say to join him yes well i can't
do that he's the president of the
railroad and you're jesse rogers the
brilliant inventor
now remember darling you're doing him a
favor to let him hear about your clock
and don't forget all the other offers
you have
what offers millions of offers oh
or you must make mr crowbridge realize
that he was better than all and he
probably
will delight you mean he's here to buy
my clock
among other things suppose he finds out
i'm working for him
act as though he should be working for
you walk over to the table casually
in a minute or two i'll have him all
prepared for you
xenia you're wonderful doing all this
for me why i could kiss you
really and that's
just a figure speech tell me jesse
haven't you ever kissed another woman
since you've been married oh no
not in 20 years no
it never came to my mind but it's on
your mind now
oh we mustn't keep mr tropics waiting
[Music]
i'll go get harriet harriet on a matter
of business
my dear jesse men of affairs never bring
their wives
[Music]
harriet whom do you think i just met mr
trowbridge well you've been gone long
enough mr president of the road he's
invited me over to his table
just think he wants to hear all about my
clock xenia arranged it
is my crowbar straight it's more
important for your thinking to be
straight than your cravat
jesse it's not honest it's not like you
puffing yourself out like a powder
pigeon
that's just what i've been up to now a
pigeon but from now on people are going
to know who jesse rogers
is well i hope so do you
[Music]
no my dear you better wait here for me
wait here
alone my dear harriet men of affairs
never bring their wives
who told you that xenia jesse i'm not
going to sit by and let xenia turn our
lives upside down and make a fool of you
i won't stand for it i'm going home and
you can go
dizzy
[Applause]
yo my friends as impressive as the
centennial may be it still does not
solve our fundamental economic problem
then what's to be done rogers
well trowbridge you're a railroad
executive you find yourself stalled just
at a time when you want to move forward
to greater expansion greater
[Music]
you better get me started on that
subject i can go on all night
oh jesse has some perfectly entrancing
ideas and
inventions too rogers i'd certainly
appreciate it if you could find time to
drop over for a chat someday
i think it could be a range i like your
approach to the matter
i wish a few of my thick-headed
assistants had the same sort of have
pardoned me mr trovers
oh hello there snodgrass just talking
about you among others oh thank you sir
i'm sorry to bother you here sir but
it's a matter concerning the emperor of
brazil's private train if i might have a
moment
oh very well oh by the way i'd like you
to meet someone mr jesse rogers
this is not grass my local
superintendent mr rogers
i i believe we've met there rogers is a
prominent inventor
seems to have some very interesting
ideas concerning railroads
inventor i beg your pardon sir
but this man is working for you working
for me
he's one of our yard trucks on the night
shift there must be some mistake
no there's no mistake
thank you xenia for trying good night mr
trowbridge
i'm due at work in an hour the trains
will not wait for me
well i don't understand i must ask you
for an explanation
shall we guys my dear
yes of course
[Music]
oh here you are philippe what do you
mean by running away and leaving
everybody
oh i'm so sorry i i only wished for some
night air
is that all no i also wished for julia
oh forget about
julia the ball is a huge success and
well here we are but the one person
responsible of it all
is not here why did she not come or at
least send words
i do not understand you do not
understand anything about american women
you're always talking about some other
girl when you're with me would you do
that in france
right france i was in love with every
girl
but here i'm in love with only one girl
ever since i put eyes on julia i cannot
look at anyone else how dare you say
that to me
it is only the truth oh it is i suppose
you haven't seen what a fool i've made
myself over you throwing myself at you
when ben really loves me
ben if i were a man i'd blacken your eye
maybe i'll get ben to do it
ben is also in love with you too ben is
in love with only me
but he's engaged he's engaged to me
edith i love you
harriet harriet open up please
i want to talk to you go away
leave me alone but i've got so much to
explain
i want to tell you what happened oh
please with me and i can't say these
things with a door between us
harriet
what's the matter father go back to
sleep son
[Music]
just
[Music]
is
and i still say
[Music]
i wish them every joy
[Music]
is
[Music]
oh
oh you mr rogers i must see julia i must
talk with her i have a good mind up
blacken your eye
you also what is wrong talk to her
indeed now that she's gone you want to
talk to her
will it be right double
mr you again remove yourself from my son
i want to have a word with you
the only word i can give you sir is not
fit for the delicate atmosphere of a
saloon
what have i done so wrong you left
france
wannabe rye triper
what triple mr rogers go away go away
[Music]
um
[Music]
[Applause]
if my attitude is new and my mood
is chipper i'm the lucky fella who
on the crystal slipper one is full of
melody
magic things are happening never thought
that i
would be eating royalty
talk of sugar please talk of
[Music]
if i can convince
cinderella soon
[Music]
[Applause]
oh
[Music]
and enchanted town right before your eye
shacks they tumble down alice as they
rise
got to be a prince happy ending too
if i can convince
cinderella
[Music]
[Applause]
soon
[Applause]
but mr rogers questions you ready to do
now
i can't understand a word you're saying
you must be drunk
what should i to do
i can only repeat sir go back where you
came from and take zinnia with you
i do not want senior all right
i want julia
julia who julie your daughter
how do you know she wants you
it's true she could not want me now
i have been such a s stupid ace
super ass
you're the only one now that i've found
her
i've lost her
i guess i was all wrong about you
philippe my voice
i guess you're just a man like all other
stupid asses
thank you don't mention i will mention
it if you will mention it
mention what anything else
no what time is it it's after 11.
late for work
goodbye how do you huh
goodbye as you
goodbye
[Music]
goodbye
where are we going i came this way so
they won't know i'm late
but i leave it to me feel it my boy it's
about time i took the horns by
[Music]
himself i want you to take philip for a
ride up aways
he's a friend of mine let him off at
hamilton junction
and when you get there ask for jeb the
station master
he tell you where to find judah oh
thank you very much
she's staying with her grandmother
[Music]
i love grandmothers
[Music]
all right
[Music]
what have you got to say for yourself
so you old humbug to top off everything
else you're drunk on duty
drunk now see here
who for that really just say rogers
you're fired
foreign
[Music]
the idea acting as if i had done him or
wrong should have been over an hour ago
well if he thinks he's going to frighten
me into forgiving him he's
[Music]
eating throwing
now what's the matter with her what's
the matter with everything
[Music]
i was up with this morning but now
i'm up in the sky
here you are with me on a star with me
high
above with my beloved
why you mention it put
oh but i'm glad that you found me
are you sure
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
they've been gone
good morning deborah good morning
deborah don't good morning me young lady
staying out all night and with this this
frenchman
really debra i just want to have you
saying such things about my fiance
fiance my own little
darling a few years ago i was putting
diapers on you and now here you are
coming home with your intended
oh no no no am i a reason for tears it
just breaks my heart
you two sweethearts having to bring your
happiness into such an unhappy house
what happened
[Music]
how do you do
my name is edith rogers i'd like to see
dr phelps of course will you sit down
please
no thank you edith rogers your address
pardon me but is all this necessary i
haven't much time oh really you should
have come sooner
if you'll just give dr phelps my name
i'm quite sure you'll see me
very well mrs rogers miss rogers
miss rogers thanks please
eden
come in come in
well then i i guess you're sort of
surprised to see me here
surprises rather a mild word well it
wasn't very easy to swallow my pride you
know
well i can imagine i'm certainly glad
you came right straight to me
oh thank you ben oh that dog i'd like to
take a horse with oh ben please don't
take it that way
it was actually my fault what's the
difference now
it's all over he won't marry you
i wouldn't even if he asked me but you
must
why must i if i don't love him well
those are pretty advanced ideas aren't
they well
then whatever's gotten into you i've
never heard you sound so straight blazed
look i i didn't come here to force
myself on you if that's what you're
thinking
give me dear i don't want to make you
feel uncomfortable but
well it's pretty hard for me to be
entirely clinical in your case
i should think it would be it's just a
well i mean
have you ever faced the possibility that
he may insist on marrying you oh i'm
quite sure he won't
and anyway he couldn't if you'd marry me
first huh
all right i guess i had no right to
suggest that to you banner
i know i've treated you very shabbily
but somehow i thought that
well maybe i'm sorry
wait edith
it is we'll go away someplace away from
all the prying eyes and the wagging
tongues and
then we'll be able to forget this ever
happened do you actually think that
that i'm going to i promise you darling
it'll never matter to me believe me
oh oh hey there darling
everything will be all right nobody will
ever be the wiser
oh no nobody except you someday
good day good day
julia you should have told me before you
should have oh i know it mother but
he made me promise nothing jesse how he
must have been hurt and humiliated by
being demoted
and there was i blindly spending money
as if we were rolling in it
and badgering him about all sorts of
nonsense
last night i wouldn't even talk to him
doug mr kelly says he hasn't seen him
since last night
he says he was worried because pop
looked like he didn't feel very well
oh please mother darling philippe may
find out something
you want me to run down to the police
station maybe he's in jail
be quiet i don't know what could have
happened to him
susie
philippe i could not find him anywhere i
thought maybe he had gone back to the
saloon
the idea jesse's never set foot in the
saloon oh yes of course
any word yes what have you done with my
jesse
don't be ridiculous you know perfectly
well i've done nothing with jesse
except try to help him heaven help
anyone that gets your help
oh i know everything didn't turn out
exactly the way i'd hoped
i wonder harriet how can you still i
rather suspected you take it like this
that's the reason i've arranged to leave
this afternoon that is if jesse gets
back all right
oh must you well i have stayed longer
than i planned
no i mean must you wait for jesse
i'll be on the 430 train train
of course where is it that's where he
was asking at the railroad station
i'll hitch up mr quimby and run down
there i'll get to the bottom of this
thing if i have to tear the place apart
board by board
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what's a wife for if you can't share the
bad things with her as well as the good
well if i had known you being demoted oh
it's worse than that harriet
i may as well tell you now that i've got
no job at all
i've been fired well jesse i'd say that
was the railroad's loss
men like you don't come by the bush
right now they'll find that out soon
enough
it doesn't matter you're not worried
in a way i'm glad there's that picnic
we've been promising the children all
summer
the garden's been needing your hand and
as a matter of fact
i think you'd better plan on taking at
least a week off before you think of
accepting any new jobs
oh harry i've been such a now
now none of that people who never make
mistakes finally sprout wings and fly
away
and i want you here don't worry
i'll never sprout wings neither will i
you see i made a mistake too
i should remember to tell you that i
what
that i think you're what
goodbye goodbye my darlings i'm off at
last that's the way it's been all my
life i come i go
well goodbye zinnia oh well
xenia i would like to say or rather we
would like to say
that we recognize i know you don't want
me to be too unhappy over all that's
happened
but don't worry i'm a cat and no matter
how their throne cats always manage to
land on their feet
believe me i've got a lot more out of
this little visit than you think so have
we dear
so have we roger rogers my friend may i
talk to you that is if
i'm not interrupting huh i'm afraid i
acted much too hastily last night
the company is buying your clock that
we're going to pay you to perfect it put
you in charge of all improvements
let me be the first to congratulate you
what are you getting at snodgrass
darling i told you men like you don't
come by the bushel
they found out soon enough how much they
need you yes in a way
experience you can see i'm busy at the
moment
we can discuss this matter later
certainly anytime
now isn't that simply amazing i always
thought that men needed a little pull to
get ahead
i told you you don't know men like jesse
oh boy
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and life
you