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my feet

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starring tommy reddig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

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they're going into town to get some

mimeograph supplies i told him hank

fuller might extend them some credit you

know he won't

that's the reason i'm calling him

so jenny

george miller

all fair the middle and thanks

say get me a hank fuller at the

chronicle office will you like good girl

how much are the supplies oh wait ten

dollars

uh hello hank george miller oh it

couldn't be better say hank my grandson

jeff and matt brockwood's boy are on the

way down there to pick up some

mimeograph supplies they haven't got any

money but

you can give them credit but make them

understand what it means will they

okay thanks hank

tell me one thing dear heart

why are you fair to medline to jenny and

couldn't be better to thank fuller well

if i told jenny it couldn't be better

she blatted all over the county that i

struck an oil well every time dick and

harry be up here trying to borrow money

from me

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let's see now three reams of paper

one box of stencils

one can of ink

comes to

seven dollars and forty cents

a lot of money isn't it oh no mr fuller

not for what we're getting it isn't

all this

calling

okay i sure checked

huh

do you want to pay for it by cash or

check

well

uh we thought maybe we could have uh

uh a line of credit yeah oh i see

well um

have you any assets

i guess so sure we have plenty of them

what are they

can you give us kind of a hint about

what assets are

oh they're anything you own that might

be valuable that i could hold as

security for giving you credit

oh

oh this here's a pretty good old

jackknife except only one blade opens

here's a rope in my chain here's a

mighty fine yo-yo oh here's an arrow

marble a nut and screw and a peach nut

and this here's mabel she's a mighty

fine toad

she knows her name too

well sometimes

this is your collateral

no sir that's my toad mabel i just told

you

i i mean the these are your assets

yeah i guess so

well i'm awfully sorry boys but business

is business and i'm afraid this won't be

enough to cover your account

gee

what about lassie

what about her why she's an asset

she is a girl

wait wait a minute wait a minute get her

down i can look at her from here get

down lassie get down

plus here do some tricks no no thank you

i can see she's a smart dog all right

i'll hold her as security for your

account

who lassie here

oh no

oh well all right i guess we can figure

out another way i'll take a lean against

her will it hurt you're awful heavy to

lean against her no i don't mean that

kind of a lien

it's a business term l-i-e-n like a

mortgage

i'll fix up a note and you boys can sign

it and then when you pay your bill why

lassie will be free and clear again well

okay oh boy now we're all set to start

printing our paper yep you are if you

can borrow a typewriter a typewriter we

need a typewriter sure to type up your

stencils

you and your machines we can print stuff

on it so it turns out we need this and

this now lassie's got a mortgage on her

and we still need a typewriter well if

you're gonna holler at me i'm going home

you and your machines

what else will we need that's all

you're in business if you can get the

loan of a typewriter we're using the two

that we have here but do you know judge

porter yes sir well i'm sure he's got an

old machine that you might borrow oh

we'll ask him thanks mr fuller all right

boys now you two come back this

afternoon and i'll have the note and the

lino lassie all fixed up ready for you

to sign okay

and jeff yes sir don't forget mabel oh

come on mabel

thanks again mr poor

all right boys goodbye

goodbye goodbye

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so you're mad brockways boy huh yes you

judge him

now let me understand this you're going

into the publication of a newspaper

and you need a typewriter is that it yes

sir

that's very laudable

you may borrow mine

you'll find it in the hall closet out

there thank you sir

now

was there anything else well if you

could give us a news item for the first

edition of our paper it'll be super well

my main interest right now is the town

war memorial

yeah i know mom's on the committee

do i detect a note of disappointment in

your voice

oh we'll have a story on the war

memorial all right but i thought maybe

you could give us something more

exciting yeah like sending somebody to

prison for grafton

i'm afraid those days are over my boy

but in my time i was an expert on graphs

and corruption

now if you can make anything between

that and the tom war memorial you're

pretty good newspaper man

oh well one of you boys answer the door

please my housekeeper is out shopping

i'll go

chip off the old block that boy

it's two million good morning judge well

this is most fortunate

boys i want you to meet my uh associates

in the war memorial project mr trevors

and mercedes

hello yeah

these two young men are gentlemen of the

press they're about to start a local

newspaper and intend giving our project

a good deal of publicity oh well that's

fine

she won't hurt you no i despise dogs i

cannot stand them

philippe is a sculptor an artist he's

very temperamental oh

we'd better go there don't forget your

typewriter thank you george you're very

welcome i'm glad to have met both of you

thank you so long same goodbye

well george let's get down to business

of course

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jeff uh chief stop the press stay lassie

you got a new splash

why do y'all stop the press because i

got my apron cotton machine

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boy are you clumsy yeah

okay let's go to press

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you know lassie's learning newspaper

talk faster than you are

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hello hank

oh come here sam come in how are you

i thought you might want to see your

competition oh the boys got out their

first edition huh

the calverton times news clarion

three big papers in one

jeff miller editor porky brockway

printer

great scott what's this

item about the judge

judge porter said if we could find some

connection between graft and corruption

and the town war memorial

we would be good newspaper men we have

not found anything yet but we are still

looking

if we find something we will tell you

well a thing like this could ruin us

judge don't take it so seriously trevors

it's just a boyish misunderstanding

misunderstanding why they're practically

accusing us of being crooks

but no no clara it was just a

misunderstanding

misunderstanding and all

misunderstanding you ain't printing no

more newspaper in this barn now get that

thing out of here

all right

bring the wagon porky okay chief

in our paper we can't make any money and

that means we won't be able to pay you

what we owe you

well i can always take lassie that's the

trouble

ah let's see now in the newspaper

business when a man makes a boner the

best thing to do is publish a retraction

what's that oh that's something that

says you didn't quite mean exactly what

you printed but we can't print anything

graham said

wait a minute porky i didn't do nothing

graham said we couldn't print the paper

in our barn didn't he yeah but he didn't

say that we couldn't print the paper

anyplace else did he no

hey

go underground underground

underground the cave we can print in the

cave yeah thanks mr fuller come on porky

yeah thanks

goodbye boys

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okay

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what's this

second issue of the boys newspaper

i thought i told them not to print it

anymore jeff explained that to me you

said not to print anymore in our barn

they've gone underground

underground where oh that's a deep dark

secret

read the retraction

i think it's hilarious

i can't read it i haven't got my glasses

here i'll read it

retraction spelled with a k

we're sorry we got judge porter into

trouble we didn't mean he was grafting

or anything we don't know about the

other two guys

one doesn't talk english so good so

maybe he's a foreign spy

we'll find out and if they are grafting

we'll tell you about it in the next

issue

we're sorry we got judge porter into

trouble

we didn't mean he was grafting or

anything

we don't know about the other two guys

one doesn't talk english so good so

maybe he's a foreign spy

blue

we'll find out and if they are grafting

we'll tell you in the next issue

those bratty kids know something how

could they know

never mind how but i've got a feeling

we're in for trouble you better grab

what we can and lamb out

how much has the judge collected

three thousand it'll take him another

couple of weeks to raise the rest and by

then those kids will have us doing time

if you ask my opinion i would say that

you are making out of mountain small

hills never mind when i'm making you've

been lucky so far let's keep it that way

three thousand is better than five years

in the pen i'm gonna go see the judge

you better start packing

it may be just kid stuff judge

but i've run across things like this

before you know people are funny

they don't like to donate to a cause or

a charity if they think something's

wrong well i'm sure that no one in

calverton puts any credence in the

trevor's well that may be judge but you

todd and i like this town and we like

the people we want to see that war

memorial erected in the town square it

will be you're right judge i talked it

over with due time and we're ready to

start work on it right now even though

you haven't collected the full five

thousand dollars we'll put it up and if

you don't collect the balance well

that'll be our gift to calverton

well this is very generous on your part

but to say no more judge now if you just

issue a check for the funds on hand why

we'll start tomorrow

are you sure that you want to do this

i've never been more sure of anything in

my life judge

all right it's a very generous gesture

on your part oh we certainly appreciate

it i'll write the check

mom it was a retraction wasn't it

yes but it wasn't a very nice retraction

to begin with you shouldn't ever

criticize anyone simply because he

speaks with an accent

mr guitar is french

if you were in france speaking french

you'd have an american accent

he doesn't like dogs

what does that have to do with it well i

don't like people who don't like dogs me

neither let's not get into that

both mr trevor and sir dutard are

working very hard to get the town war

memorial built

they're experts they built memorials all

over the country

i think you owe them an apology

they're staying at the hotel in town and

i want you to to ride down there and

apologize to them

well

okay

here it is number 12.

i'll get this stuff in the car and meet

me in front of the bank i'll go catch

the check

i'd sure like to see the expression on

the judge's face when he finds out we

blew town i would like to fix those two

little monsters with a dog oh forget it

come on we better go tell a judge

and make a snappy philippe

honest judge we heard him say it didn't

we porky yeah i crossed my heart and

hoped to die i really think you boys

have caused enough misunderstanding

without going any further

uh please don't interrupt listen to me

for just a moment i was a boy once

myself

though it was quite some time ago i

admit

but i still remember what boys

imaginations are like i'm not blaming

you i'm not condemning you but the war

memorial project is very important and

you mustn't treat it like a joke

especially you jeffrey since your mother

is a member of the committee she's

worked very hard don't get aways don't

interrupt now as i was saying the war

memorial project has

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take it easy

they won't wake up to what happened

until tomorrow

three thousand smackers

that now we're crooks

what were we before missionaries

putting up phony plaster memorials for

five grand and getting out of town

before the first rain cracked and wide

open at least it was art mark my foot

you take the yard i'll take the cold

cash

hello

yes yes i'm waiting

what was that

he carried some bags out of his car

all right never mind

jenny get me the bank quickly

oh forehead and say don't ask me

questions ring the bank

good helen

hello it's the doorbell answer it

hello henry amos porter still fine fine

but never mind that i just issued a

check on the war memorial fund for

what

i've been looking for you

are you sure about that

all right

amos i came down to apologize to these

never mind that never mind to george

they packed their bags cash they checked

and headed for crested come on gramps we

got a cat come on

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can't this thing going faster george

well it ain't a racing car if you had a

brain in your head and listen to my

grandson you wouldn't be chasing a

couple of confidence men like this

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do you see anything

no

boy if we don't catch him this judge is

gonna go to jail man

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which way

left

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work up ahead which way right to

question how do you know henry said they

were heading for dressing well how'd he

know for heaven said don't ask so many

questions

where's my exam

turn left

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you see anything no we should have

stayed on that crescent road

you're in this pickle because you

wouldn't listen to chap now you better

listen this time

keep down so they don't see you

what's coming behind us

an old pickup truck let him pass that he

wants to it's not the police police all

that town's got is a constable he don't

ride around in an old jalopy pickup

truck

i'm gonna

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now

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they're getting

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they're all cold

get her open

we'll time up before they come too

where's the money

here it is

well next time a miller says something

maybe you'll listen eh

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well here it is

right on the front page

local boys and dog heroes expose grafton

corruption in war memorial project and

capture thieves and

jeffrey miller son of ellen miller and

grandson of george miller and sylvester

brockway son of mr matthew brockway

aided by young jeff colley dog latin

yesterday almost without assistance

captured a pair of confidence men

attempting to flee with three thousand

dollars in cash collected for the town

war memorial oh isn't it wonderful

excuse me

look girl we're famous

gramps can i bring the mimeograph

machine back to the bar and start

publishing the paper again well don't

know why not there must be more graft

and corruption to uncover where

everywhere oh boy

hello jenny this is jeff would you ring

porky broccoli please

porky grant says we can bring the

memeograph machine back to our barn and

i got a news story too he says there's

plenty more graft and corruption to

uncover even here in calverton

goodness

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