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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Missing Mouse Matter (EP1447) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, we continue on with our Christmas specials. This time we're going
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to go ahead and return once again to nineteen fifty six, uh for today's
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episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. It's one we skipped over, but now
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we're going to go ahead and take a listen. The original Air at eight
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is December the twenty third of nineteen fifty six, and the title is The
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Missing Mouse Matter from Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Hi,
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Johnny, who that George Reed? Well, Merry Christmas? George? Is
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it a semetic? You have an air of Judiah gillis eccentric on to about
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half of Rhode Island. That's the boy. A couple of weeks ago,
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a special policy on an item he wanted insured, and it's up and disappeared.
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Huh oh just a while. Guess what did he lose? I hope
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you're sitting down, Johnny. Yeah? Why because the insured item is a
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mouse? House mouse? What Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of a Man
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with the Action Packed Expense Account America is fabulous freelance insurance investigators, truly Johnny
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Dollar. Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Floyd's of England,
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the American Branch Office, four forty three North fifteenth Street, Hartford, Connecticut.
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The following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Missing
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mouse matter. Expense account out of one eighty five cents taxi from my apartment
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at George Reid's office. He was on his feet waiting for me. His
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Ivy League suit looked as though it had been slipt in and he needed the
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shade close the door, Johnny, Yeah, sure, Johnny, got a
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level with you. This thing has me going, well, it serves you,
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right. Anybody who'd insure a mouse deserves what he gets. Yeah,
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but it isn't an ordinary mouse, Johnny, No, not. According to
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mister Gillis's original application, particular item to be insured one unusually talented grayish brown
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mouse. Unusually talented like how, I don't know why. I tried to
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find out, but Gillis wouldn't tell me, and still you issued the policy.
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You know, our company, Johnny, we have a reputation for insuring
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almost anything. But we have to draw the line occasionally, and we would
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have here except for one thing. What's that? And believe me, it
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better be good. It is. Gillis carries all of his insurance with us.
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Yeah, but even just one of his several policies is a straight life
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for three hundred and fifty thousand. Wow, Wait, King scize premiums exactly
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so when he called asking us to insure this fellow's mouse for a few weeks,
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Wait a minute, Gillis doesn't own it? No, well, who
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does? It belongs to a friend of his, a man named Glazer.
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He's spending the holidays with Gillis. Gillis didn't want to be responsible if something
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happened to Glazier's mouse while he's there, so he as has to write the
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policy. How much did you ensure it? For? All? The company
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would allow five thousand? Oh, George, you think I'm going to get
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all worked up over allows he five grand laws? What kind of a commission
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can I possibly make? That? Look? Give me a chance to finish,
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all right, but only because it's Christmas, all right. Late last
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night I received a call from Gillis. He wanted to know whom we considered
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the best investigator in this part of the country. When I told him,
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he told me about the mouse and insisted I send you up to help look
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for it now. No, George, I'm sorry, but I'm going to
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pass. I've handled some screwy cases in my time. This is Please wait
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till I finish. I told Gillis you wouldn't be interested. That's when he
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started putting on the squeeze. Squeeze, how do you mean? He said?
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If I didn't get you, he'd cancel his policy. Oh, come
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on, you don't believe that I don't know what to believe. Gillis is
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a screwball of the first water. We've known that for a long time,
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and frankly I'd rather not take a chance. Well you've got to maybe not.
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I received an okay from upstairs on this one. You can write your
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own ticket. Well why didn't you say so on the first play? You
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didn't give me a chance. Look, there's a train for Providence at three
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point thirty. Here's Gillis's address. He wants you to stay with him.
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That'll cost more, Georgie. It figures Merry Christmas, Johnny, same to
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you, Santa Claus. Expense account item two eighty five cents campfare back to
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my apartment. I was intrigued by what Georgia had told me and by what
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his company was going to add to my bank account, so I didn't really
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mind changing my plans for the holidays. Expense account adem three eighteen dollars and
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ninety cents transportation including a round trip ticket Hardford of Providence and Cava to the
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Gillis residence. Palace would be a better word for it. It stood in
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the middle of a large wooded park, must have been half a dozen acres
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all of it surrounded by an old fashioned iron fence. I dismissed the cab
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and had started toward the front door when it opened, and standing against the
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light watching me, was a tall, beautiful girl. Steps. Why steps
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there, I see? Oh, thanks, we've been expecting him. It's
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a dollar. Hi wow, Hi, mister Glazer and father in the library.
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Would you like to meet him now or wait till after you're settled.
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I'm I'm afraid I had better see them right away. Miss killis Marian Johnny
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Well come along? You know for the first time. I'm glad I came
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home for the holidays, home from where New York. Here we are.
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You'll have to come visit me, Johnny. Maybe I'll do something drastic like
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losing a mouse to guarantee it. Mary, I told you to keep that
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door closed. Oh, mister dollars here father, Oh haven't come in?
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See you later, Johnny Well Dollar, glad you finally got here, isn't
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he? Thank you? Certain? This is my friend and associate, Bert
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Glazy. Hi am, mister Glazier, Bertie and his pals, mister Dollar
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beg burdon my dog act. You investigators are supposed to have good memories.
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I hoped you might have caught us at sometime or other Nora. Would you
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like to have drink? Miss Dollar? No, thanks, not supposed I
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got anything you want to drink? I got an egg now hot boded?
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Run? Well? Uh maybe later. Right now, I'd like to hear
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the details of your loss. You mean that insurance agents didn't give you all
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the information? He didn't know at all, mister Gillis. All he didn't
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know is that a so called talented mouse cause disappeared so cold. And he
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hasn't disappeared either, not at all. He's been kidnapped, that's what kidnapped,
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Yes, sir, and we know who and why, we know why,
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and at your job be getting back? Oh wait a minute, and
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I'm not going to pay one red cent for ransom, not one cent,
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not one okay, okay, But what makes you so sure the mouse was
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kidnapped? I'm afraid I can't tell you that without Bert's permission. Wow,
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it was the Glazer. Well, if we tell you, we must have
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your solemn promise you won't repeat it to anybody until Christmas Day. Well,
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I'm not sure I can do that. If you can't, we don't open
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our mouths right, well, okay till Christmas day? Good, good dollar.
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I suppose I told you Galliper was worth at least fifty thousand dollars the
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missing mouse, Oh, you'd be surprised if I said it was worth that
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much. Depends you claim he's talented? Does that have something to do with
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this evaluation you put on him something? It has everything to do with it,
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Yes, sir, Well what does Gulliver do that other mice can't?
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Nothing? But it's how he does it that counts. How it does.
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What sings? What can't you hear? The man who still can't you hear
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him? Galliver sings. He carries a tune, you know, with the
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clarity of a clarion, the fervor of a female opera star, and the
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tone of a tenor. That's how we planned a billin I am, I
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see you well, But he doesn't believe this On a wait, I didn't
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say, is no need? We can come by your face? Can't we
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burt? But a mouse? Mister s It is a scientific fact that mice
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sing. Mice sing. Well known magazines have published articles proving it. Unfortunately,
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most of them sing in a scale too high for human hearing. Ah,
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that not Gulliver. Gall that's right, he's a basso abasso by mousey
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standards, that is, I don't know no bird. He still doesn't believe
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us very well, Jediah, there is only one thing to do, only
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one thing to do. You follow us, Dollar, We'll erase the doubt
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in your mind forever. I took a good look at Birt Blazer and then
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reluctantly followed the two of them out of the library and down a long hall.
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At the moment, this thing had all the ear marks of a good
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old fashioned con game, or better still, a benefit on behalf of Bert
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Blazer, with Judiah Gillis and Floyd's of England as the sole cash contributors.
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We wondered for what seemed like blocks through the old mansion and finally reached a
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large playrom. On top of one of the bellya tables was a small brass
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cage. In it were two small grayish brown mice. Blazer opened the cage
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and let's not, mister Dollar, allow me to present Hecuba and esma Elda.
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Oh how do you do? I mean? I suppose they sing too?
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Oh these but not nearly as Gulliver just don't have the instrument, you
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instrument, the voice, the voice of the voice. Oh yeah, I
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see. But now where did you keep Gulliver in here? But the others?
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Bert didn't want to separate, that's right. I originally started to make
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the three of them into a singing, you know, trio like the Andrews
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sisters. But Gulliver advanced so rapidly I decided he should be a soloist.
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Oh sure you aren't afraid of mice, mister, No, No, that's
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fine, nice sense it if you are, you know, upset somes some
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if not? Right? Now move over room. That's it now upon your
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haunches. There we are. Now what would you like to hear, mister
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dollar? Oh? Anything at all? Oh? Bert? How about my
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favorite? There over the way? Good? Good, good? You got
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it? Am over the waves? That's it already? Then good, that'll
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be fine? Ready now one, two, three? Oh, that's it
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all beautiful beautiful. Yeah. Well, I won't say I was convinced,
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but I won't say I wasn't, but I will say those mice were singing
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something. We're giving him mighty good imitation of it. We returned to the
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library, and this time I sampled the eggnog liberally? Is that all right?
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Oh? Fine? Thanks? Well you know now why we believe Gulliver
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was kidnapped. Well, I'm not sure to exploit him. What else exactly?
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Do you have any idea? Who did it? Harry McQueen, that's
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who McQueen. Who is McQueen used to be my agent, theatrical agent.
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He's been snooping around here, little Jenny. We figured he's gotten wind of
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our mice. What do you mean by snooping around mister gill? Oh,
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you know he's been out here twice this week wanting to see me. Had
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to kick him out of here today morning. How they get in where my
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daughter answered the door? Yes, she didn't know McQueen from Adam, so
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when he asked for megured he belonged in here rehearsing the show with the rest
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of it. Rehearsing what show, mister gillis? What show? Was the
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show for the children's hospital. Jodiah puts one on for the sick kids every
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Christmas Eve. Of course, you know dollar variety act of Santa Claus.
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This year though we got a radio hook up. They go all over the
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state and Gulliver, well he was going to headline, And that's why I
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sent for you, Dollar. I figured you can get him back by tomorrow
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afternoon if anybody can. How long was McQueen in here before you notice it?
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Long enough to lift Gulliver? This was our dress rehearsal, Dollar.
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We'd asked some of the kids from around the neighborhood in the watch, so
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it was pretty crowded. Or were the mice during the rehearsal, Well,
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that's where I made my mistake. What do you mean we were keeping them
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a secret till the real show? Or were they in their cage over there
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on the mantel and we were using this part of the room for the stage,
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so McQueen could have just reached in and taken Gulliver without us seeing.
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Now, what makes you so sure, McQueen did it? We hold you
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so as who else is wanted? Who else? And it was right after
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I kicked him out of here that I discovered Gulliver, who was Missy.
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Once you do that, I called off the rehearsal and started searching party.
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McQueen big Gulliver and I put it in a telephone call in the Providence House
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where McQueen was takeing did you talk to him. Nope, they said he
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checked out. After questioning them for a while, I finally had a nightcab
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with your Diana. Then went to the phone in the hall and made some
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calls, including one of George Reed. How's it going, Johnny, It's
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not. That's why I'm calling. Look. They think a theatrical agent named
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Harry McQueen stole the mouse. He has offices in Boston and New York.
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I placed a person of person called at both offices, but with tomorrow Christmas
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Eve, he might not get the message. Want to find out his home
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number? Ask him to call me here. Okay, anything else? Hello,
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Johnny, Johnny, you're there. Yeah, and so is a cat?
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What a big yellow what's so unusual about that? Oh? Nothing,
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except he's got a grayish brown mouse between his two front paws. Act two
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of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in just a moment. You can't buy
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happiness by the pond or the yard, but you can have it by the
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hour with no strings attached. Every Monday through Friday evening, and each Saturday
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in the daytime when the Robert Cula Show is on the air, join him
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in his fun loving gang five nights a week. And Saturdays in the daytime
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on most of these same stations. Now act two of yours, truly,
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Johnny Dollar and the Missing Mouse Matter. I was standing in the hall of
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Judia Gillis's home, looking in a big yellow cat that had a mouse between
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its two front paws. As far as I was concerned, a mouse is
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a mouse, and this one could be Gulliver. I cut short my phone
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conversation with Jordan Reed and then started toward the cat. Hikitty, kitty,
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kitty, I s, kitty, kity, kitty, yikity, Where are
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you, kitty kitty. That's a good kitty. Ah, kitty, Let
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me have the little mouse. Oh, this cannibal belonged to you, Marion,
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Yes, I promised father. What do you mean cannibal? Take a
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look? Oh no, oh yes, and he's very very dead. Oh
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you don't think it's Gulliver, do you? Al mister Glazer will have to
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identify him and if he is, well, that's it. Oh no,
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no, Johnny, what do you mean? Oh Johnny, Please, you
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don't have to tell him, do you. Well? Sure, if it's
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Gulliver, there's thing's cleared up. If it's not your rum, I gets
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a reward for being a good mouser. Johnny, Please, that almost had
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a fit when I arrived here with Rum, and he made me promise to
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keep him in my room. That's the only time he's been out. Well,
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No, he was out for a little while yesterday while they were rehearsing.
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I didn't know he was gone till after lunch. Then the corpse could
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be gullipers. Oh, Johnny, if it is, there's nothing we can
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do about it now. And if you tell my father, besides making him
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angry, it'll break his heart. All right. I won't say anything until
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tomorrow night. Thanks Johnny. Nice good. Nine Christmas Eve morning came cold,
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crispin clear. The Gillis grounds were covered with new fall and snow.
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The trees were heavy with icicles, giving the whole place the look of a
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winter wonderland. I dressed and went down to join Gillis and bird Blazer at
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breakfast. I was on my third strawberry when the phone started the ring.
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You're expecting a cold well, yeah, matter of fact, I am,
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and you'd better answer. If it's somebody at the broadcast station from me,
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tell them I'll be at the children's hospital at noon. Call me the right.
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Hello Johnny Dollar speaking. Look, I don't know what's going on down
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there or why are you're going to pess to me about it? Who is
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this Harry McQueen, Who did you think? Well? I wasn't sure.
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Your friend Reed got me out of bed this morning. Dollar. He told
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me you wanted to ask me some questions about a mouse that's missing from Judiah
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Gillis's place. And that's right. What do you know about it? Well,
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I've done a lot of pilfering in my time. I've taken towels from
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hotels from Maine to Miami, in Seattle to Bridgeport. But I never had
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to stoop so low as to steal a mouse from any hotel, garbage dump,
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trap or field. Do I make myself clear perfectly? Except for one
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thing? Yeah, this particular mouse was a performer. It was trained.
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It tricks. Still doesn't interest me? Well, then why were you trying
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to see mister Gillis get some of my people on this Christmas show? Anything
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wrong with that? It don't be a lot of publicity about it would have
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done him a lot of good. And you're sure you weren't interested in the
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mouse? Look, Dollar, when I went into this business eighteen years years
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ago. I swore then I'd never handled kids, belly dances or animal acts.
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But you handled bird. Glacier's dog act is what dog act? Bertie
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and his pal? So somebody's feeding you align Dollar. That act was Bill
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Bertie and his pal, and the pal is a dummy. Glazer is a
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top notch ventriloquist. He's a master. You hear me, Dollar, Yeah,
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Harry, I hear you. Fine. I had to do some thinking,
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so I put on my coat went outside for a walk around that wooded
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park. What I had just learned about Glazier confirmed what my instinct, my
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common sense, had been telling me all along, except for one thing,
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the performance given by Hecuba and Esmerala the night before. If Glaser had been
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doing the singing for those two mice, he was a master ventriloquist, which
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was exactly what Harry McQueen said he was. I'd started back toward the house,
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wondering if I should get Jadiah's side now and tell him or wait until
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after the show, and something soft and cold hit me on the back of
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the head. Hey, sorry, Tony, I couldn't make it such a
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serious target. Anything new. Uh, Well, if you mean, have
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I found Gulliver the Singing Mouse? No. Dad told me to tell you.
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If Gulliver does turn up before one fifteen, rush him off to the
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hospital. Yeah sure, but I think that's extremely unlikely. You think Rama
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got him, don't you. If he did, he got a very ordinary
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mouse. He didn't get one that sings. I'm afraid I lost you,
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don't. No. I wonder what he wants. That boy on the porch.
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Oh well, if this was Hardford, i'd say he was the paper
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boy coming around to collect. Well it's not Hartford, and he's not a
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paper boy because Dad doesn't subscribe to anything but Portune. Oh well, and
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he's selling something. What he is, he's not going to give us a
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chance to buy any Johnny looks looks like we're scared him on. That's funny.
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Hey, hey, come back. He sure tore out of here when
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he saw us. I wonder what he wanted. Do you suppose he was
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one of the kids they invited in to see the dress rehearsal. What if
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he was, what would he be doing back here today? Oh no,
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let's take a look around. We found it in the playroom near where Gullabrou's
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cage had been. It was a roundish metal clam, the kind of boy
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wraps around his trouser leg when he's riding a bike. I was about to
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call the hospital and ask Judiah for a list of all the kids they'd invited
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to the rehearsal. On the front doorbell rang, Johnny, it's that boy
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again, but let me get in. Hi, Hi, huh. I
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was older to see the show the other day. Oh yeah, can you
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see it? No, I wasn't here. There she sure is calling.
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Yeah, Oh why don't you come in and get warm? Oh no,
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it's okay, No, come on, come on, nobody's here. Okay,
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yeah, I don't want to bother. Nobody knows. Just riding by,
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and I thought i'd stop him. To old man Gillous, what a
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swell show they put on? Huh? All except for that Santa Claus.
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What was wrong with him? Nothing? Just well, who believes in all
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that smashy kids stuff? Mm hmmm, kids? I guess, how do
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you? Bobby, Bobby almost eleven? Well, being that old, I
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can understand why you weren't impressed with the Santa Claus. All that other stuff
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too, you know, like given presents and singing those hymns and junk like
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that. You gotta cut it out when you when you start growing up,
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you sure do, boy. Yeah, you know you and my mom get
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along just flying. Oh yeah, she feels about Christmas. She feels about
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Christmas just like you and me do. All right, boy, This long
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fire sure makes your eyes smart? Yeah, sure does. Where do you
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live, Bobby Cross? Tom SCULLYA? Well, how'd you happen to be
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over here the other day? Why? I was riding my bike I saw
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this dog was anyhow, and when I tried to catch he ran from me.
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I followed the silly muck cler over here. You ever catch him?
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I was about to win. This man holler and ask me if I wanted
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to see a free show. So I came in. Well then you must
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like dogs a lot. Huh, sure you got one? Used to have
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one. My pop was with us. We can't have no pets where we're
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living now. Oh that's rough. Yeah, you know that poem which one
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you know about all through the house? Not a creature was stirring that?
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Not even a mouse? Yeah, well that fits our place especially now.
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How do you mean what? I didn't think he'd miss it? You know,
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man with a house as big as this one. And also when I
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saw this cute little fell up in that cake what, I didn't really mean
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to take him on hold of me, But when he got under my sweat
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and was real quiet, like he liked me, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, boy, I know when I got to thinking, decided to
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bring him back. So would you give me the old man to mister Jellis
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for me? Please? No, I think you'd better do that yourself.
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No, no, please, he might be awful mad at me by now.
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No, Bobby, in fact, you're going to get a reward.
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Yeah, word of honor. Now what do you say we get down where
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mister Gillis is putting on that Christmas show and see it? Okay, sure,
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Bobby? Yeah? Did you notice anything unusual about this mouse? Yeah?
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I sure did. What was it? He got some white on his
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right hind foot. Expense account had him four one dollar and sixty cents.
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Cam Fair from the Gillis residence to the Children's hospital for Mary and Bobby and
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myself. Inside we followed the sound of children laughing and reached the auditorium.
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Marian found a seat among the nurses, and I took Bobby backstage. When
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Judaiah saw Gulliber, his face lit up like well, like one of the
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trees he'd had delivered to the war a Cliver. Bye, Gully, I
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knew if anybody could do it, you could Dollar. I didn't do a
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thing, mister Gillis. All the credit goes to Bobby. Oh to Bobby
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Ware last week. You have to show you man, yes, sir Bert,
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Bert, Look, look he's back, Delliver. All I do declare,
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I haven't never been so glad to see a person before. He's getting
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to go on in just a minute, he will, he will. I'll
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go check on the microphone and everything be just so. Don't go away now
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he wants, Bobby, Why don't you sit over there? Wait, you
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see the stake? Yes, Bert, you think Galliver will sing today?
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Think I know he will? Oh ready, But that boy had Gulliver all
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day and all night, and he didn't sing once. Did the boy ask
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him to maybe Dan get your man, boys and girls? Or the first
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time anywhere one of the wonders of the world, Gulliver that mouth you want,
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mister d Can I ask that is what we're going to find out?
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Bobby? Exciting, isn't it? Dallas. All right, thank you,
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folks, thank you, thank you now for Gulliver's first number. He liked
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to sing with what that Gulliver? Oh, I see he's going to sing
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jingle bells, but he wants me to get off stage so everybody will know
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it's really him doing it and not me. Thank you? Is he all
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right? Per fine? Kind does feeding out? Why doesn't he start?
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He's going to listen? Well? Don now I have seen everything. Berg
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Blazer had a logical answer for having lied about his old Vaudebelle act. He
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knew I wouldn't believe the mice could really sing if I had known he was
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a ventriloquist. And you know well after all, Yet sometimes ah expense account
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total including camp Fair Hartford station in my apartment thirty eight dollars and twenty cents
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as for my separate and additional fee as a greeting pond before I took this
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matter. Well, there's a boy named Bobby Neves who lives on Skelly Avenue
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over in Providence. See that he gets it? Huh, yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar, our star will tell you about next week's store in just a
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moment. Meantime, I'll make a deal with you. Oh, let me
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have the mic for a second. Then you can tell them about next week's
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story. By all means, be my guess. I just don't want to
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pass up a chance to do two things. First, Well, Pam and
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Eric and friend mister and Missus Froley, Helen, Will, Scottie, oh
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all the rest of you nice people who've written in to tell us how much
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you like the program. Thanks. I really appreciate hearing from you, and
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believe me, I'll answer your letters just as quickly as I can. Second,
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well, I'm sure you know what this is and I want you to
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know what it comes to the heart. Merry Christmas to you, God bless
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you now next week. Next week the case of a prize fighter who could
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win only by losing because his life depended on it. Right, John Us,
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won't you yours truly? Johnny Dolly, yours truly? Johnny dollar Is
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starring Bob Bailey. Originates in Hollywood. It is written by Charles B.
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Smith and produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our cast were Mary
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Jane Croft, Howard mcneer, Parley Bear, G. Stanley Jones, Bill
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James, Lawrence Dubkin and Richard Bials. Musical supervision is by Amerigo Marino.
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Be sure to join us next week, same time and station for another exciting
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story of yours truly Johnny Dollar. Dan Coberly speaking, welcome back. Well,
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what a cute and fun story. It just strocks such a great note
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for Christmas season. Just an enjoyable change of pace for Johnny Dollar. All
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right, Well, now we're going to turn to listener comments and feedback,
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and we have some feedback regarding episode fourteen thirty seven, The Killers Brand Matter.
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Bobby Lee sas not my favorite episode, but john is like pizza.
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Even when it's still bad, it's still good. Richard said, Yes,
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there's no such thing as a bad Johnny Dollar episode. Well, thanks so
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much, y'all. Also have a comment from Daniel if you didn't know,
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Adam, this is actually based on an episode of The Whistler called The Telltale
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Brand. I found it interesting that the scriptwriters made the effort to change the
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plot to tell the story from Johnny's perspective rather than the original scripts protagonists.
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Perhaps the original episode could be played as a bonus so that great Detective listeners
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can listen and compare the two. Well, Richard I will consider doing that
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as an app extra, maybe for the month of January. It's always interesting
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to see when these comparisons are and I don't always know they when they occur.
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And Johnny Dollar does do a lot of scripts that are adapted from other
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programs, but usually their detective shows. Many of the five parters taken from
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episodes not only of Johnny Dollar that were just one parters, but also Jeff
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Reagan, Richard Diamond, Sam Spade, not Beat, among others. I
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have heard a few where they've adapted something a bit different from Johnny Dollars,
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such as an episode from the Edmin O'Brien era that was based on an episode
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of the Voyages of the Scarlet Queen. At any rate, we'll see about
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getting that as a January app extra. Thanks so much for the request,
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and I will be sure and take a listen to that because I don't have
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quite an encyclopedic knowledge of the Whistler. Well, that will do it for
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today. Our Christmas specials continue tomorrow with Dragnet and join us back here next
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Friday for another episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. In the meantime, Senor
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Grahamson and all