Margaret now just wait a minute. Dont get your hopes up too high. How do you know youll be one of the winners . Kathy oh, i have to be. Shes my very, very most favorite. Im going to work on my essay day and night every evening. Margaret well, i still say dont build your hopes up too high. Kathy did you ever hear of belle boyd . Margaret who . Kathy belle boyd. She was a beautiful civil war spy, and thats who greer garson plays in the movie, and thats what the essay has to be about. Margaret about the spy . Kathy i think so, or the civil war, margaret well, hadnt you better find out . Kathy havent got time. I have all i can do just writing the essay. Margaret well, now, kathy. Kathy please, mommy, dont bother me now. Kathy oh, hi, daddy. Say, will you type something for me . All i do is make mistakes. Kathy supposed to be. Jim the civil war, by Kathy Anderson. The civil war was where they fought between the north and the south. Abraham lincolns gettysburg address is from it. One famous
An ambulance if you dont pipe down audience laughing [jim] how about you writing out the rough draft after all youre the one who is going to school, not me daddy, watch how far i can go without missing. Mother, mother. kathy keeps singing the rhyme over bud [bud] kathy dont you know its impolite to interrupt people when they are discussing . [margaret] kathy i told you, no ropejumping in the house. Yes, in comes the doctor. [margaret] kathy, did you hear me kathy and margaret drown each other out kathy, kathy your mother was talking to you, now take your rope outside. Ok, but i was hurting the house any. Fellow might as well be in jail audience laughing what has come over that child lately . She doesnt seem to hear anything we say to her no, and i can tell you why. Ive been meaning to discuss this with you, youre not raising that kid right. Oh . audience laughing well youve let her get away with murder. Now you just lost your grip on her. audience laughing i see. You have to be firm wi
What im getting so you can fix up the garage. Hell have to sleep in the garage, you know. Well, whos he . A pony. Itll be here tomorrow morning, probably. A pony is a pretty big order. I wouldnt count too much on it. Well, it doesnt hurt to wish, does it . No, but you mustnt be disappointed. Oh, i wont be. I already have a name picked out for him. Im going to call him cookie. Cookie anderson. When he comes here in the morning, dont anybody feed him. I want to feed him myself. Okay . Okay. Good night. Good night, angel. Good night. Good night, cookie. Ill see you in the morning. Kathy . Is anything wrong . What are you doing out of bed . Well, i what do you want, angel . Well, i was just wondering. Do ponies have blue eyes or brown eyes . Oh. Well talk about it in the morning. Blue eyes or brown eyes . Wish on a confounded horseshoe ought to be well, who would have thought that so it was you youre the culprit. I didnt know she was going to make a spectacular thing out of it. Yesterday a
Can sit up in his chair. Pretend like youre reading a magazine, and mommy. Margaret im home. Now listen, im telling him. What a creep. Hi honey. Oh hello dear. Anything new and startling around here . Oh no no nothing at all. Hi bud. Hi dad. Wait daddy, wouldnt you like to sit down in your chair and relax . Oh ill take em, you just sit down. laughter whatve you got in this chair, thumbtacks, glue . Listen daddy, mr. James anderson, you are cordially invited to be the special guest of your daughter kathy at the pta meeting honoring our own father. Pta meeting what are you doing in a Parent Teacher affair . Im gonna read your biography. My biography . Which i wrote. Its a school assignment. And brother wait til you read it. And youll be my guest sitting right up there on the stage. But this biography is this anything i want read in a room full of parents and teachers . Well you wont be alone, youll have two fellow sufferers. Therell be two other fathers whose biographies are going to be
The name is. Bud anderson. The address is. 607. South. Maple the proverb. The proverb he has written. Well, the young man has not stated it correctly. He has written. Never burn your bridges behind you before you cross them. [ laughter ] i think what the young man had in mind was. Dont cross your bridges before you come to them. Miss florine, did i read the note correctly . You are completely and exactly correct [ sighs ] man, what a mind. Boy, what i wouldnt give to be able to do that. Oh, he cant actually read minds. Its just a trick. What trick . You saw him read every word that i wrote down, and you know im not working for him. No. But that assistant is. Did you hear her give him one single hint . He explained how he did it just makes his mind a complete blank and then gets the thought waves from somebody else. Ill bet i could do it if i practiced. Oh, cut it out. No, i bet i could. Look, lets try it. And ill see if i cant get it. Go ahead, think of something. I dont want. [ snaps