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Let George Do It: The Christmas Letter (EP0823) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
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to us Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at
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Radio Detectives, and call us two to eight nine nine one four seven eight
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three. While we're going to turn back the clock a little bit on,
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let George do it. We skip past the Christmas episode and we're going to
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go ahead and play that episode from December twenty four, nineteen fifty one,
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and the toddle is Christmas Letter personal notice dangers my stock and trade. If
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the job's too tough for you to handle, You've got a job for me,
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George Valentine, Wait full details, Let George do it. To night's
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story Christmas Letter, A transcribed adventure of George Valentine. Oh you know,
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darling, were much better than we were last year. Yeah, someday we
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may actually become mediocre. Any one of those silver things in jigs. This
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branch was kind of gone, oh wait a minute, yes, here,
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we are good. That's better. Anytime you're ready for the big star,
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let me know. Hey, yeah, those letters you're picked up in the
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office to say. I was just wondering if there could have been anything important.
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We decided not to open any mail until after Christmas, and Star I
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was just wondering, Chris, I did wonder about the one from Japan.
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The return address for his private first class Dan Ferris, and he's number one
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Angel. Surely someone writing give me all away from Japan can't possibly get me
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out of your apartment on Christmas Eve? Well a letter from a soldier.
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All right, purity, I see, dear mister Valentine. I remember reading
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your aunt in the paper when I was still back home, and knowing you're
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an x GI. I think you might want to help me, because I
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sure do have a job that's too tough to handle it. In fact,
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from this distance, it's impossible. So here's something I would like you to
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do for me on Christmas Eve. Oh no, no, don't read any
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pride good enclosed. Find twenty dollars. It's to cover the expenses of taking
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out the most beautiful girl in the world, buying her an egg longer two
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listening to some Christmas carols you get the idea. Anyway, her name is
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Lucy Rand and she lives. Please don't any enclosed address. You'll be doing
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me a big favor if you'll be my foxy this Christmas Eve and write me
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all about it, very truly, Yours, Dan, Red Ferris Well Croxy
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whoa boy who was obviously pretty lonely. We were going to spend Christmas Eve.
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Come on, stop talking so much. Hey, wait a minute,
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not you and me, Redd said I should take out his we're going Christmas
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spirit is fine up to a point, but that does not include a date
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with the most beautiful girl in the world. I mean farmer houses down the
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park. You know, George, about that letter, I have a notion
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our friend Rett is really slightly suspicious about his girlfriend's well boyfriend. Such an
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idea has been known to a curt of guys who are six thousand miles away
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from home. Oh, the girl's probably set to spend this evening with her
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family, and all we'll really do is excuse me, folks. Yeah,
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I'm sorry to boy the well that is we the missus night. I have
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had it pretty tough this year, and she's a wonderful curt Like, right
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hands, what's that? It's a Christmas puddings and this just makes the best.
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Now, Oh, look, I'm afraid we're on a diet. But
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if this will help. Oh no, no, no, this is a
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very fine pudding in for only two dollars. I guess it. Dinner tomorrow
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we could. Yeah, well, I suppose a test a minute. Yeah,
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yeah, he's running the wading and all hey, wait your okay,
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wise guy, hand me back that morning, and it's wonderful Christmas pudding.
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Your wife may give, I said, give you. That's a pudding.
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Yeah, it's a rip. Miss. You're playing on the brick wrappings and
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Christmas peak? Are you crooked? Little? I have no wife, I
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have nothing, and I don't care if you call the cops and put me
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in jail. Please don't get a good meal man. They give turkey and
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chilling was on Christmas. So put me in jail and look at her.
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Oh never mind, never mind, keep the money and keep the puck.
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But you go on with this fancy chufflin you will end up in jail,
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all right, Mary Christian, Yeah, oh Brooksly, let's get going and
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play Cupid so we can get back to that tree. Well, thanks very
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much, mister Valentine. But I already have a date for the evenings.
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So you said this boy read he has no hold on whom you know,
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not at all in this book. Well, the only thing we know,
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Lucy's what he wrote is in that letter. I don't even know why I
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started writing to him, putting those silly things. A friend of a friend
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of a friend of mine is engaged to a boy in Red's outfit, and
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she said, boys me cheering up. So I wrote to him. He's
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nice and sounds like fun. But betto well, Red must have taken some
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things for granted. I guess, well, he'll just have to get over
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it. After all, I didn't make him think I care. I see,
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And as for tonight, I'm perfectly all right. I'm in good hands.
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Walter Denning is a perfect gentleman. Walter turning. You make it sound
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like a naughty word. You know him, George slightly. He's in the
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neighborhood, tall, handsome boy, sharp with a buck. He's not wolf
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by avocation and vocation and inclinations all time impresario. How's his big girlak coming
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along? Denning's delectables, isn't it playing at the Blue Grotto? He's doing
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very well, thank you. I've had a very busy day selling in a
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department store on the day before Christmas is wonderful for a girl's feet. So
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if you don't mind me, this record here under the trowler. It's nothing.
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The label set made it the YMCA Tokyo Japan. Something Red sent you.
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Yes, it came today, a Christmas card sort of. You can
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hear it if you want. There's nothing too personal in it. I'll do
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it. Hello, Lucy. I don't really know what to saying to this
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thing. I guess pretty soon it's going to be Christmas, but here it
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isn't very much, so it fully gets to do a lot of thinking and
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hoping and remembering. When I do that, I keep thinking, mostly of
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the things you wrote me in your letters. I really don't even know what
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you look like, but I can imagine why. I imagine is well,
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when you listen to some Christmas music or see a guy in a funny red
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suit ringing a little bell in the street, I hope you'll think of me.
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Well, I'm running out of time, and so I guess he overran
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time. Yeah, Well, come on, Asa, let's see I didn't
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mean to shoot my mom. I'll this donny guy. I know that's what
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people may think of him, but he's in love with me. He's sincerely
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in love with me. Are you sure, Lucy? Wait a minute here,
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take a look at this. Walter gave it to me a week ago.
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I notice you're not wearing it. Well, I told him I wasn't
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quite sure of how I felt. He wanted me to take the ring and
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wait, so I'm giving my answer tonight. And well he's waiting for a
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divorce though he isn't free to marry me yet, but he will be in
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a month or so. He's taking his troop on a road tour the day
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after tomorrow, and he wants to give me a job and let me go
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along. He says he can make a dancer out of me and then we
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can be together in the meantime. Yeah, it's a beautiful diamond, yes,
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isn't it. Walter really has been speak to me honest with me,
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do you understand? Sure? Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to come
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here on Christmas Eve, But really I am quite all right and there's nothing
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to be done about red good as Thanks goodbye. Oh hi there, Denny,
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what I watched this? Never would pass up a free drink? Say
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how about having a drink with us Melantine, isn't it Yeah, that's right.
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Oh, and this is miss Brooks, my assistant, Miss Brooks,
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well charming, want you to join us at the bar, only if you'll
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be my guests. I never knew Valantine had such a beautiful associate. Well,
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thank you. Yes, So perhaps some day I might give you a
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call and we could have a talk. Well, that would be nice.
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Yeah, Say, how are you doing with the horses lately, Walter?
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Oh, I haven't been playing the horses. Gave him up. I see
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a beautiful girl like you, Miss Brooks, should be able to wield a
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great power over the life of any man. I should any man who isn't
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absolutely blind. Your line is still pretty smooth as Brandon Lion. Oh no,
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it's just that I guess I'm setimental. I'd like to play Cupid.
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Yes, you see, I'm in love, practically engaged to a lovely girl.
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Ah really, yes, you don't know her, but she's Oh she's
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wonderful. Lucy. Isn't that a lovely name? Yes? Indeed, so
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I want everyone to be in love and happy. Now tell me, miss
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Brooks, doesn't this guy Valentine ever notice you? All right? Now,
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what'll we have to drink. Well, I think we'll skip it a day,
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if you don't mind, Miss Brooks. I thought some of the time,
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all right. A matter of fact, I was leaving to see Lucy.
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Did you want to speak to me about anything? No? I guess
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not so long, goodbye and very Christmas. So you ought to read the
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proof for yourself. While the Danning is still not Oh well, guys like
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that don't change, not even when they fall in love. It's donn even
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so he wants to buy us a drink. I'm hard to convince the dambols.
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And he's a wolf, and no pretty girl is safe with him,
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so he wants to play chupid for another mon al right, okay, okay,
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okay, I heard him, Vagina. It's tough on read, and
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maybe you don't like the idea, but I think we just have to get
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all this. Yeah, I guess. Now let's go back to my place
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and finished decorating the tree. Huh wow, lights are all set. Wait
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a minute, I'll turn them up. Oh it's so beautiful. Yeah,
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all wrong, it's so peaceful, darling Christmas Eve. Frankly, I'm glad
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all the excitements, God so am I can I speak too soon. Look,
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just you quiet and go away. We've got to do something about this.
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Oh yes, obviously Valentine. Your name George Valentine. Yeah, that's
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right. Once you come in there. I hate to do this on Christmas
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Eve. So he looks real pretty in there too. There's a warrant out
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for your arrestments to Valentine. Arrest you must be some mistake. I take
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it easy. How should I know what for? There's a warrant all right,
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sworn out by somebody named Lucy Rand. Sorry is that all you're gonna
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keep on saying? We'll see. I don't feel terrible about less of variation
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at least. So why on earth would I steal your engagement work? Don't
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you see? I did know who you were. Not really, I'm not
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cutting here with a letter from Red was just a trick. And I did
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show you the ring and then it would gone. Look now that the police
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told me you're all now, Lucy, I realized that the ring must be
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an expensive one, and you were upset. But I still know. It's
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not that I'm supposed to give my answer to Walter to night and I well,
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I don't want to be influenced because I don't have his ring. You
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mean you have some doubt about what you should say to Walter. I didn't
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say that, now, George, stop it. Wally Dinning seems to be
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a perfectly termed man. He is. I know he is varying from red
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record he sent you. That didn't make you doubt your decision a little to
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him, I can't say Walter and tell him his ringing has been stolen.
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Na, dear mister Valentine. We will do whatever you can, but after
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all, it's nothing that can be accomplished in a minute. You're sure it
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isn't just miss laid Lucy. No, no, it isn't. After I
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showed you the ring, I put it down a minute and then the phone
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rang. It's out in the hall, you know I want to answer it.
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Oh. The ironic part of it is it was a wrong number.
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And then when I came back, the ring was gone. Where you were
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at the phone, you couldn't see who went into your room, so it
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might have been anyone here in the apartment. Huh. Yes, But well
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then my neighbor's good, respectable people, and it's Christmas. Why, Okay,
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okay, I'll see what I can do. Take it easy. Oh
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dear, this is probably Walter. Well, there's nothing you can do but
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let him in. Well, our friend, mister Denning is surprise to those
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is not really sure of a feelings are that guy? Maybe if he finds
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out about the ring and acts the way I thank you joy saying Hubert bread
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is one thing, but ranks think that some friends of mine, this Brook
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Valentine, Why hello again? Yeah, I didn't realize you knew each other.
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See let's all of us get dressed up and out and celebrate Christmas in
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real style. A good idea. Oh yeah, well that just sounds fine,
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But I'm afraid I won't be able to join after all of time to
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look for that ring of yours. Lucy R what's he talking about? I'm
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sorry, Lucy, but I don't think you can keep that a secret from
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water anyway. After all of them take days, weeks if the ring will
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ever be fine? Well, I'm so terribly sorry, Walter ring that beautiful
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ring you gave me. It must have been stolen. I don't know what
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to say. Don't say anything, darling, but the rain. I know
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how much it must have cost you a lot. Do you think it's really
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important? Either. I don't want anything in the world to make you unhappy
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for one minute. You're more important to me than all the rings in the
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world. So come on, snap out of it, honey, I mean,
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don't you. Of course I do. Go home and get up,
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darling, and pick me up later. We're going right up and celebrate our
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engagement with all without the ring. Why, Darling, I still wish you
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folks would join the party. Oh nice, come on, brou Sitney coming
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the jokes. The way he acted was so sweet. Not a peep out
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of him. Any girl would melt such a sign of devotion. Yeah,
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I thought he'd yelled like a stuck peggy. Let's get out of here,
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go back to my apartment and finish decorating the tree. No, that's beginning
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to sound like a chorus of a song. Let's go back and decorate the
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tree. Now, I suppose that's always can't What is it? Look in
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that corner, the neatly wrapped Christmas pudding. Somebody in this house must have
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bought it and threw it away. Could be let's still unwrapped, So maybe
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our little salesman came here to sell it threw it away himself when he got
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something that would bring him more money than a thousand puddings. He must have
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thrown Lucy's ring. Huh, he was headed for jail. If he isn't
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in jail already, maybe we can get the ring back in a hurry,
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and maybe if we do, it might still keep Lucy from being too grateful
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for Walter's understanding. Your age isn't in jail? Are you sure? Angel?
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I asked Johnson to help, and he checked. It looks more and
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more like shorty. Huh. Look for the neighborhood paunchhot Now they're closed,
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but by attended tells me there's one on VC Street that's not only open all
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the time, but they're careful of what it buys. See you later.
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One nineteen sound that should be right down. Oh h and I sell a
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Christmas pudding in that paunch shot friendly, remember me, shorty? Excuse me,
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I'm in You wouldn't want to be impolite and leave me? What's your
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busted? You want to turn something gonna my friend, something that you don't
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want to weigh on your conscience. I don't know what I said. Wait,
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let's get into this store. No, come on, well, my
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goods and going all Right's all right, madam? My friend here had an
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eggknocked your annyway. I don't have anything now on this. Please let me
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go all still while I make sure for myself. Give me that no doubt
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Santa Claus gave you this ring because you've been a good boy or you?
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What are you gonna do with me? We're gonna take a walk together.
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No, no, come on, do you have it back now? And
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just let me go. You wanted to go to jail and you're gonna get
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your wish, but you'll throw the book at and you with this. I
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just saw the door open and the ring was on the table. I'm no
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criminal, mystery mister. It's a holiday, so I say people still a
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mind Christmas cheeses and you can be nice to sorry, hey you shuck?
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Oh he would run in there, all those trees not jumping in the shelf
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a tin on I no bussy, nice mac. I got some of the
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nicest due you later. Hey, look you're not got a tree? This
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is great? Great, try and find him in here. It's a regular
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forest. Maybe you're here, maybe so there you no, no, no,
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no, well try oh then most what's that? Hey? Hey,
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mister mister preach, please, can't, can't, can't let me turn that
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thing on. Oh gosh, Mac, I thought you'd never come out of
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it. Oh yeah, that fell. I must have been hiding in the
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trees, and he's stolen my ranch. Yeah. I was fixing my truck
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when all is started. I had a wrench land on the top of the
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cab on ye wait, huh, yes, I didn't really expect to find
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it. What are you talking about? Charmed circle, a lover's bow,
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a maiden stream. Hey, you ought to find yourself a doc right away.
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Oh thanks. I gotta give the police a description of a pudding salesman.
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But mister Valentine, what makes you think that the police will catch up
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with him tonight. Oh of course, I'm not sure they will, but
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I gave him a pretty good description. Well, I'm sure the police don't
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need our help, Valentine. Besides, Lucy and I have a table waiting
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for us at the club. Anyway, it doesn't matter now, just when
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we get the ring that now that I'm sure. I am sure, Daline,
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and you said that before. I'll get the tickets tomorrow, Lucy.
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It will be a wonderful tour and you'll be wonderful in the show, Darling.
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Yeah, yeah, everything, I'll be wonderful you. You won't forget
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to write the red English. No, no, I won't forget. And
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he'll understand. I know he will. Oh, George, mister hell I
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said he'd be here in a little while. Mister Helen, that's a friend.
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Now sit down, all of you. We're gonna wait for this fever
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Christmas. Officer. And I didn't fluck that guy. Surely, Well it
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seems to me we're in luck. Wow. Well, well look who's here.
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This is wonderful. Come on, get in there, sheeper. He
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says his name, Chef gilt Nah, welcome home, Chep. I didn't
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hit you, a Valentine. I just kept on running. Now, I
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haven't got that room. You search the opficer room and didn't you. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, the ring wasn't not a mister Valentine. You had
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plenty of time to staway somewhere. That's would probably happened. He will talk
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with him down the station house and we'll let you know, Amous Ryan in
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just a minute, Officer, I'd like to talk to you and mister Denning
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a moment if I could out in the hall. Sure, Oh well,
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we'll leave the door open. The ladies will be all right, was shorty?
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What's on your mind? BELLA? A few things? Yeah, things
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like what like, would ship who's small and kind of puny, really be
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the one who slugged me? Oh, it doesn't take much to swing a
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heavy ranch. Naw, But it was lying on top of the cab of
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that truck. Sheper'd be too short even to see it up there. I
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don't understand. And another thing, shep knew he was facing a long prison
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term. Now would he take a chance on knocking me down to get that
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ring again? It's it's kind of giving yourself mighty short odds. What are
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you driving there? The fact that I felt there was something very fishy when
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you didn't act human, Water human? Yeah exactly. I mean when I
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told you about the ring being stolen, No matter how much in love a
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guy is, he'd still react normally be shocked. You're angry anything except the
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perfect gentleman with a noble speech, unless it's a reason. You mean,
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Yeah, you followed me ever since I left Lucy, didn't you? Water?
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This may be taking another long shot, but you don't mind if we
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look through your pockets. Do you're handsome? I certainly do it. I'd
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like to see you all. This is just my night for not taking care
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of Wait a minute, i'll run you in for assault. You'll keep out
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of this water, Okay? Can we play some more? Stop? Stop
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it right? Yeah, something going on out here. I'm afraid you ladies
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are in time just for the finish? Ira Are you leaving us? Water?
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What? Or do you want to stick around? You don't mind if
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I keep the ring? Do you just as a souvenir? Well, yes,
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yes, of course. Somebody tell me what this is all about.
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That's what I want to know. Please, where are you going? I'm
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I'm sorry, Lucy, goodbye, goodbye everybody the water. Okay, Lucy.
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Now look, mister Heller is a jeweler, a friend of mine,
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an expert. I was hoping we'd have this ring to show him. Why
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would Walter do all that just to get his ring? That I would just
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so embarrassed? Why would he oh get the idea? Oh that's what it
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is listening Rain, talk of engaging. Walter just got caught with his real
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intention, showing that's all only done only proposal tony character. I would say
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fool. Now you'll be all that everything, he'll be all right, Yeah,
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you gotta call it the squall Christmas breadst be What about me? What
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am I going to do with the love repster? And oh my ship,
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I'm surprised at you. If this ring is worth a few dollars. You
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didn't commit very much of a crime, now, did you. Oh yeah,
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sure you might even get just what you wanted from the judge. There's
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long enough in jail to see you through the holidays. Pree turkey. Remember
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maybe it's not such a bad Christmas all around. I I never made one
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of those records before. Oh, it's very sceptable here. You just go
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in one of those foods. Then you draw the curtains, and you're along
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with the one who's gonna hear what you have to say. No, I
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want you went in this book to hear the well, I really do,
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okay, and you can't. We want to stay here, rand, I
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don't really know what to say in it. Sing. Well, maybe this
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kind of a sudden idea. It's almost midnight, Christmas is almost here anyway.
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What I mean is I've always thought the nighty Claws with a pretty old
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fellow with white whiskers and a big stomach. He isn't at all. He's
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a much younger man and he has no beard. Tomorrow rest, I'm going
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to send you a long letter right now. Yeah, there's so much I
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want to say too, And can we go again? That's deferent the tree
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Hey, you know back in that tree line, I've picked up the one
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thing. I mean. Let's don't go white, chill. Merry Christmas,
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everybody. This is John Heaston, and right now i'd like to introduce a
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friend of yours, George Valentine, but by his real name, Bob Dailey.
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Well, this is our fifth Christmas together with you, and once again
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this year, speaking for myself and for everyone in our past, we'd like
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to wish you the nicest, happiest Christmas ever. Yes, friends, and
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to that, i'd like to add this message. Would this be a very
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merry Christmas for you and yours, and that the true spirit of Christmas,
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peace on earth will come to pass for all men all over the world.
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This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Welcome back.
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What a great story. Plus we get to hear Bob I barely sing.
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Uh. It can be tough to do a really good uh Christmas uh story
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on a mystery show. Now, a couple of ways you can do at
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One I think is the big little Jesus approach from Dragnet, and there are
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also some that either are unmistery like or on the other side just seem a
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little too out of staff with the feeling of the season, and you kind
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of wish afterwards that they had just made it a generic episode instead. I
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think they really struck a good balance with this episode. Clearly there was a
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mystery to sault, but also kind of a heart warming plot, particularly as
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there were many soldiers deployed at that time, and just I thought overall a
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very classy episode, one of the better Christmas ones we've heard. Of course,
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next year at Christmas time we'll be listening to a five part Johnny doll
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Or Christmas episode with Bob Bailey, so we've got that to look forward to.
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Well that I'll do it for today, Join us tomorrow for the Blue
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Carbuncle on Sherlock Holmes, and we'll be back here on Wednesday with another episode.
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Let George do it in the meantime. Sandraw comments to Box thirteen at
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