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And now let's visit.

Our friend, the Great guilder Sleeve.

Well, my goodness, Bertie, the ashtrays are all empty for once.

What is there some special occasion for me?

It is, mister Gilsleeve, I'd like to have the evening off.

Oh is this your night to leave early?

No, sir, but I've thought i'd like to get in advance on next week's night off.

Oh yeah, any reason why not, Mardreie, I'm not at.

All Go ahead, Bertie.

Thanks, I wouldn't ask.

Only we've got spectacular things.

To night down at our lodge.

Oh that's the mysterious and bewildering orders of the Daughters of Clear Patron.

Yeah, our Bertie's a head sphinx, not no more than roy.

I now the exhausted ruler of the Pyramids.

I've been promoted.

Yeah, I see, does that make you the headman?

No, sir, I's practically a stowaway on the royal barge of the ancient Nile.

And ahead of me comes the major domas of the Outer Chamber.

Of the inner sanctum.

Then the chief searching in the bulrushes for the daughters of pro and above her comes the royal rejector of the nique's daughter.

Well, isn't there a queen, Bertie.

Mister Gills leaving our organization?

Every gal, the queen?

Oh my pardon, oh, what are you.

Holding the night, Bertie?

And initiation?

No, ma'am, it's the Red, White and Blue fish fry in order, you know, to honor a group of our best and soldier boy, the daughters of clear patriots, all one hundred percent Americans.

Well that's a fine thing, Berdie, entertaining your soldier friends.

Yes, we've even hired a military of above band.

The briskin bully wigged bugle boys.

Well, go right ahead, And if you want to take anything from the pantry for the fish fry, help yourself, Bertie.

You may want to broil a couple of cans of sardines, Yes, thank you, Yeah, that's all right.

You know something, Leroy, I wish you wouldn't keep using that expression.

Of course, I know something, but what is it?

Well, so I was reading in the paper where there's going to be about a thousand soldiers in summerfield over Thanksgiving.

Yes, let me see.

Yeah, here it is.

Well, the city will play host to thirty second Regiment Thursday.

USO urges all citizens to invite army men to dinner.

That's what I mean.

Can we have a soldier for a Thanksgiving dinner?

Uncle Moore?

Leroy, you sound like a cannibal.

Lee Roy?

You mean can we invite a soldier to come to dinner?

Yes?

And I think it's a splendid idea.

Oh, then we're gonna have one.

Why of course?

And I think of all those boys, many of them so far away from home.

It takes me back to the lonesome Thanksgiving.

I spent an army hospital back in nineteen eighteen.

She kind of a knew you were wounded.

Well, it's it's something I never talked about.

What happened to you?

Wanc the more I was kicked by a mule.

Where are we a kiss?

Uncle?

In the customary place?

That mule kicked me so high they gave me a pilot's license.

You know, I spent three weeks in bed, flat on my stomach.

In those days, I had a flat stomach.

But remember, kiddies, never mentioned a word of this to anybody.

It's still a painful subject.

Even now.

I twitch when I pass the mule.

Do you where did this happen in France?

No, Leroy, in Missouri.

I was buying mules for the army, sort of talent scout for jackasses.

Yeah, well anyway, I got nine thousand of them before one of them got me.

Say, I never knew you knew anything about mules.

Oh, yes, LeRoi, I had quite a nassa and I in education.

Yeah, but that was a long time ago.

Let's forget a children.

Yes.

Does that paper say how we go about inviting a soldier for dinner?

Inviting?

Let me see?

Oh, yes, here it is.

Patriotic Families who wish to share their Thanksgiving dinner with members of the army are requested to be at Bacon Square opposite the City Hall before noon Thursday to pick up their dinner guests.

The army men will be biv whacked at the square.

What's biv whacked?

Uncle?

Biv whack is a place where barking dogs are cooled off in puff tents.

Yes, I gotta remember that.

Also that word, Well, that's very simple.

Uh, just one more for dinner.

Yes, you can drive down in the morning and pick up one of the boys.

Uncle Ky, that's.

Gonna be key.

We better ask Bertie if it's all right with her first though, Oh, Bertie, yes, that woman's wasting her time as a cook.

You get a job as an airplane detector.

See.

I have a a ideas let's have a real celebration.

We'll get a couple of extra turkeys and invite eight or ten more eight or ten?

Won't that be too much trouble?

Marjorie?

You know I'll ask some of my girlfriends to come over.

The girlfriends, oh, by all means that'll be jolly for the soldiers too.

God gee, I'm the whole idea is not a great to your broad in the girls.

So we have to have girls?

Why not, le boy?

What's wrong with them?

Jeepers?

Don't you think those soldiers are doing enough for their country as it is without wasting their.

Day off with a bunch of silly girls.

And in conclusion, fellow citizens of Summerfield, let me urge you once more, on the eve of Thanksgiving, to open your hearts and your homes tomorrow to the soldiers visiting our fair city.

Yep, quit popping your bubblegum Leroy, especially while I'm rehearsing my radio speech.

I'm sorry I'm doing unconscious.

Yes, I'm sure you are, young man.

If you keep playing with your gun that way, someday you're going to have a blowout.

And remember you haven't got a spare face.

Finish your talk, please, Uncle More.

Well, I don't need to rehearse it anymore, Marjorie, I know that speech backward, you don't, let's hear it.

I bet it sounds even better backward.

Ye here, Roy, you keep that up, and you're going to get some applause backwards, you know.

I think it's wonderful of you, Uncle More, to go on the air tonight and urge everyone to entertain the souldier Well.

People have always told me I should be on the radio.

They say, I sound just like that fellow who used to be with Pepper McGee and Molly.

Oh that's probably some of the girls now.

Oh, wonderful.

Lord.

I want you to meet Betty Wilkins and Mildred.

M Yeah, what lovely friends you have, Margie.

You should invite them here, Oftener, much oftener, Thank you, mister g Not at all, my dear, I've always had an eye for redheads.

But uncle morrip.

Last year she was a blonde.

I see she's got a convertible top.

All of that.

Girls think you're simply too tremendous starting he soldier parties.

Oh he's so tremendous.

If that shuit he's worrying.

Well, I like him just the way he is, especially that straight military bearing.

After all, he was an army man, you know he won.

What sent you the service?

Were you in?

You flew, didn't.

You for a short time?

What kind of a plane did you use?

The plane's an old jenny.

And you were wounded too, weren't you, Oh dear?

Whereabouts were you wounded?

Major guilty at the front?

No, I was in a row.

I was just gonna tell him.

I wasn't the middle of Leroy.

But don't you told me yourself?

You were wounded right smack in the middle of Missouri.

Oh, yes, that's right in Jefferson City mall.

But even so, you were lucky to have recovered.

Yes, everybody said I had a horse shoe in my hip pocket.

I didn't get rid of it either.

The lay operated.

What were you doing in the army when you weren't trying?

Major Well, I I was sort of a recruiting officer.

Yes, brought more than nine thousand recruits into the field artillery alone.

I got a kick out of it too.

I imagine that must have been a lot of fun.

Fun.

Well only at the beginning, my dear, I got awfully tired.

In the end.

Hey, uncle, isn't it time for you to go to the radio stations?

I Georgia right by Leroy, you want to come along?

I like too long, but I got a little surprise on my own for tomorrow.

I'm going over the Piggy Bank's house.

Oh say, why are you there?

Le Royce?

The my piggy sister?

Any about coming tomorrow?

If you mean the Piggy Banks has a sister named Benny Banks.

Yes, she was named after aunt Penelope, who lived in Indiana.

Andie is one of me.

Don't tell me, Marjorie, I know one of the banks of the law.

Bash.

Look, Piggy, how's about lending me your abuse?

I don't know me for what you want with it?

I need it for Thanksgiving tomorrow.

You got the wrong instrument on Thanksgiving?

You play with drumsticks?

Now beat it, Ah, for Corn's sake, what pig the reason I wanted is because we're gonna have a lot of soldiers for dinner.

So what we're having our cousin Rockwell, he's a city alderman.

Oh what a measly old alderman.

My uncle used to be a big shot in the army, a major in the Missouri Mules.

What you mean, Oh, that's what they called his outis?

Say he recruited the tvist meaner's frightness outfit that ever.

Come out of Missouri?

What kind of outfit?

Was it?

A feel lot?

Hillary?

You know the cannoneers with hairy ears?

Did they really have hairy ears?

Oh?

Brother, I still can't see that.

This guy ahould do?

Bar my bugle to your dumb I'm gonna make these soldiers feel at home so they can enjoy the turkey dinner.

I'm gonna blow mess call on your bugle.

Oh I get you.

That's a keen idea me for now?

Are you learning to me?

Sure?

Well?

Now there's only one thing I gotta do.

What's that?

I gotta learn how to play a bugle?

Why those turkeys sure look good?

Bertie.

You don't happen to have a spare leg, do you not?

But I sure could use one.

With all the running around, I've got to do.

No Bertie, I mean a spare turkey leg nothing.

I ain't gonna subdivide none of them birds before the zero I ugh.

And when I served them, they're gonna be intact a thing of beauty and a joint for about two minutes.

How about some stuff in there?

Nobody's gonna do no stuff and know how I till everybody does.

And that includes stuffing yourself with stuffed dollars too.

Oh yeah, it's talking to me, Yes, suh.

I've hardly got enough olives now to spell out welcome thirty second regimen in the mashed potatoes.

Uh.

You know people have been coming to the door all morning asking for soldiers for dinner, just because you went on the radio last night.

Yeah, but I told them to go down to Bacon Square jumping jeeps.

What's that?

Oh?

It sounded like it came from the living room.

Well, it can't be anything serious.

Then again, maybe it can.

I'll find out right away, Lee Roy, you what are you doing?

Mess call?

Was that mess call?

Sounded more like a moose call?

Why won't those soldiers be surprised when they hear me blown the bugle.

Yeah, and won't you too?

Oh gee, give me a little time.

All I need is practice.

I heard in school that Grace Moore practices six hours a day.

A lot of good it does her.

I bet you still can't play the bugle.

Well, it's a sweet thought, leroy, even if your music is sour.

Oh there's a doorbell, I'll.

Get it for.

Yeah, excuse me, please?

Is this the gentleman who was speaking last night by the radio from soldiers for Thanksgiving?

Yes, madam, they'll permit me to introduce myself, Missus Shapiro, glad to meet you.

How do you do, Missus shapiroh glad to meet you?

What can I do for you?

Well?

I got right now the oven, a nice young koshit hiki, and I am vaunting a soldier who is LifeWise.

I'm sorry, Missus Shapiro, but I haven't anything to do with these soldiers officially.

You'll find them down at Bacon Square.

Please.

If the soldier boy I'm looking for is that Bacon Square, then he's not the soldier boy I'm looking for.

Goodbye, you started downtown.

You gotta get going at almost all right, as soon as I get my coat and hat and Leroy, Leroy, come on if you're going downtown with me?

Okay, here, I come.

Stop that for a little young man.

What are you doing swimming around in my old army uniform.

That's part of the Spies.

How do I look?

You and the mothballs look fine?

Girls come in and say, Lero, uniform all ms out the bridges, almost preaching the floor, made you gil, why don't you put it on?

I'm sorry, girls, but I couldn't get into that uniform if it were three times as big as it is now and I was twice as small as I am, which would still be half again as large as the suit would be if it were double the size of what it is now, which it is in thank goodness, because if it was, I'd have to wear it, and I can't because it doesn't fit.

He Roy.

With all those girls coming over to our house this afternoon, I'm going to have to ask for about twelve soldiers instead of eight.

That'll be super hunks.

Say look at all those tents, he were.

All sold They must be inside.

Say you don't think they've all been invited out already?

To Leroy, you get the most fantastic ideas.

Hello, where is everybody?

If?

How do you knock on a pup tent?

There's nobody in hero, Oh my goodness, nobody home, and Leroy, get away from that cannon before it goes off and takes you with it.

Why did we wait so long?

If all these pup tents were empty, I'm certainly going to be in the doghouse.

Hand come more and hit them.

The soldiers.

Shall we invite here?

Yes?

Of course, Oh a soldier.

How would you like to come over to my house for dinner?

Now?

Oh?

I don't know.

We're gonna have over a minute.

You leave us, Boilon, he's coming home to dinner with me?

Is so?

Don't you try to wrestle my recruit.

I saw him for Oh no, ye I saw him for you did not.

I saw him at least twenty seconds before you did, mister turn.

I saw this boy twenty years before you dead.

He's my son.

You come on, boy.

Mom's waiting, Yeah, mom's waiting.

Oh my goodness, Leroy.

If I don't bring back a bevy of boys for that gang of girls, my goose will be cooked instead of my turkeys.

Tell us live in this big tent.

Maybe somebody's here.

Oh oh well, mister hello, this is the mess, tant Leroy, Hello, sergeant Leroy, this is the mess, sergeant.

Where can I find some of your borders?

Sergeants?

They's desoided me and after I've been working the fingers to the bone over a hot stove all morning, m give me the wan invited to homes already everybody, including my dishwasher.

Leroy, we're sunk, you're sun What about me?

Fifty gallons the finest turkey Ala King, made from a special recipe created by Prudence Penny, twenty dozen dainty Parker House rolls that couldn't be topped by Parker House himself, and thirty two mince pies made out of a ten of his part of the mint.

Eh.

Well, I can sympathize with you, sergeant, but maybe you can help us.

How well, it just so happens that we've gotten ourselves in something of a mess.

Sergeant.

We have three turkeys and almost a dozen beautiful girls at our house, just waiting to entertain some soldiers.

Yeah, you should see the cookies that are waiting for the rookies.

You'd have a wonderful time at our house, Sergeant.

How about taking off that apron and coming with it.

I'm sorry, sir, but I'm on duty, like the captain of a ship.

Everybody else can leave, but I gotta get down with needs pipes.

Kid, that's too bad, go on up before you go.

I got just one slight request i'd like to make.

Would you please take a taste of my takey Ala king?

Well, I don't think, Oh, come on this one a sea weed sea little taste.

Just so I didn't labor all morning in vain.

Here it conscientious, is me?

Leroy?

Well?

Thank you?

You have some sign Thank you?

One of those one of my appetite for dinner.

And I've been saving this appetite for a week.

How do you like it?

Miss Jane?

Well, I think I'll have a little more.

No, no, no, some more.

Come on, we got to dig up some soldier.

You're right, Leroy?

Are you sure you won't come with a sarge?

No, buddy.

Duty is duty, And besides, the colonel would be sure to catch me if I sneak down.

The colonel, I'll bet he's got a few soldiers up his sleep.

Where can I find him?

Way over there at the other end of the square, sitting in his tent.

Well, come on, leroy, we'll lay our troubles in his lap.

Yes, yes, I'm colonel l very What can I do for you?

Colonel?

My name is Guilous Sleep.

Oh yeah, very unusual name.

What can I do for you?

Colonel?

Colonel?

I have a lovely big home, a wonderful cook, and a dozen of the sweetest girls in summer fields.

No boys, you know that's the trouble.

No boys, We get all prepared to entertain ten or twelve soldiers at dinner today, and when I come down to pick them up, what do I find?

No soldiers got a single solitary rear rank third A systems but private.

Well I'm sorry, sorry, he goggles, Hi, George, this is a pretty pickle for our army to get itself caught over a barrel in two Yeah, and.

I've arrived in practice and mess calls all day too.

Yes, the poor little follow almost blew his brains out.

Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, mister.

Eh So I think I know you from some place.

Yes, yes, I can't place your face, but your manners are off me familiar.

Well, never mind, as soon as some of our men return out send them out to you a house.

That's just the old brush off.

I'm just stubbering enough to stay right, and I've got it.

That's where I know you from.

You were stuck again, guild as leave.

The officer who bought more bad mules in the hole artillery could shake a stick.

Why don't pay the attention to the way, he jokes, Leroy, great Knnersy's army man.

Well, colonel, now that you recognize me, I hope you'll trot out some suitable recruits for us to take home.

Kill the leave.

I've got just the right detachment.

For you, wonderful friends with your whole corral full of mules.

I just love to be your guest.

My laugh that donna wish.

He's invited me to go on to dinner today.

Ileroy, you better run along home now and tell the girls.

I'll bring back some soldiers if I have to call out the marines, where are you going now?

I'm gonna try to us headquarters, and if you see any soldiers on the way home, grab them, even if they're wearing Civil War uniforms.

I'll do my best.

Uncle Moore, see you when you get home.

Yeah, alright, Leroy, Look who's standing on the corner.

Well, hello, Judge Hooker, Hello yilders Leeve.

What's wrong?

You look as though you've lost your last friend.

Of course I know that happened years ago.

Yelder Sleeve.

I'll thank you to keep your nose out of my business.

I'll be only too glad to if what are you doing hanging around street corners?

I'm well, it's a long story.

I happened to turn on the radio at home last night, and there was a fellow urging everyone to invite a soldier to dinner.

Oh oh, oh he did.

Ah, that's speaker, there's a man.

The way he told every citizen to do his duty by our new army was stirring and inspirational.

It was.

Yes, why the first thing I did this morning was pulling the best restaurant in town and ordered the most expensive turkey dinner out of my house.

I was going to invite a soldier to share it.

That's the effect that speakerhead on.

Well where is your soldier?

Well, that's where the trouble comes in.

Uh.

People at the USO headquarters tell me that there would have been plenty of them to go around.

If this radio speaker hadn't wrecked all their plans by urging everybody in town to come down after a soldier.

Oh my goodness, that was it.

All the numb's cold notions.

Not a word against that man Gilder's sleeve.

He made a wonderful impression on me.

Clean cut, vibrant personality.

It's one of nature's noblemen.

I should, judge, wish I could meet him someday.

Would you really want to?

Yes?

Well, then shake hands.

Oh you'd like to meet him too, But gracious, no, I am him?

What you?

Why are you shipocritical hippopotamus watching?

No, No, that's wrong with me.

I've misjudged you, Guildersleeve.

Well, I guess I've misjudged you too, Judge Hooker.

I never thought you had a heart under that old thick height of yours.

No, no, I just thought your blood circulated because you brought it to a boil so often.

What are you doing roaming the streets on Thanksgiving afternoon, gil Day.

Ye, same thing as you are, Hooker, looking for some military men to fight their way through a couple of twenty pound turkeys.

I suppose we do our hunting together.

Give the old pal, Why not old chub.

After all, this is Thanksgiving Day and we should treat each other like human beings for change.

Blendid.

That goes for me too, at least for today.

If well, come on, come on, come on, you work this side of this street and I'll thank the other side.

Oh boy, wait a moment.

What is it?

Looks it comes to the young fellow in uniform now and I saw him first.

Yes, that's so hey, hey, son, come here, stop that th double crossing little block fly?

Young man, how do you lack a delicious turkey dinner?

Huh for me?

Yes?

He want you to come up to my house.

I don't either.

I'm in my house.

I've got a great big turkey, just for two of them.

We got four turkeys at our house, and we'll give you a whole one for yourself.

Son, Gee whiz, I couldn't eat that much.

And besides, I'm supposed to report the USO headquarters.

They're closed for the day.

Corporal, come on out to my house.

But I'm not a corporal, of.

Course, not sergeant.

Now, my car's right over here, so if you'll excuse us, joh.

I'll come this way with me.

Lukenensick you wouldn't like it at his place.

Captain.

Oh no, gentlemen, please please let's call him.

Hey, you're tearing my uniform, and call the major's uniform.

Yeah, let's trod along.

Let's trod along.

Okay, if you want to get indogestion.

Now, my turkey is This turkey is as old as he is and just as tough.

Hey, I wish somebody would tell me what this is all about.

Don't let him confuse your son.

I'll take it to a movie after dinner.

The movie we're gonna have dancing at our house.

You'll have twelve beautiful hostesters dance.

Well, who wants to dance on a pole stomach?

You do, don't, your son?

Oh?

Gee, I don't know.

I never learned no time like right after dinner.

Come on, that's my car right over there.

Of all the load down back fighting, double died unscrupula louses, I've had enough.

Come back here, young man.

Yes you, I'm gonna start off entertaining you this afternoon by making this fat worm puled up like a roadmap.

Here.

Hold, Michael, I'll be very glad to No, I won't now see here?

O?

Can you point a pinky at me and I'll beat the daylights out of you and then back in again.

Aren't you too, fellas a little too old for this sort of thing?

If you keep out of this, who invited you?

To say?

I invited you?

Come on, let's go home now, you don't jealous.

Leave, I'm gonna knock you colder than an Eskimo mother and lost kiss.

You old.

Oh what's the use of quarreling like this if you've got your heart set on taking this young man home?

Judge, I won't stand.

In your way, But haven't I anything to say?

No, yellous?

Leave?

Do you mean this?

Yes, dude, go on and get your car.

Hurry up now, all right, change my mind?

All right, you just wait right here, soldier.

I'll be back in a jiffy and then we'll have.

A wonderful dinner.

Yeah, cappy, Thanksgiving killed day?

Gee, whiz master, you got me all confused?

Do I have to have dinner with that other gentleman with that old gold?

Of course?

Not.

Wait he turns the corner.

All right, come on, I'll run like anything, but the judge went back.

Well, I know that my car is this way.

Hurry up, boy, Oh, come on.

Girl, let's go to the Come on ready, get bring jerdy me boy.

There you're kill.

Well, well, here we are at last, step right in sun and meet everybody.

Gee, thanks girls.

This is Jerry Arnold.

Private.

Jerry Arnold is the United States Army.

Oh no, sir, Oh you're not a private.

Oh no, sir, I'm not even in the Army.

What you're not know, sir?

I'm a boy scout.

Greig Gilder slave will be with us again in a few minutes.

But right now, what do you celebrate Thanksgiving next Thursday of the week after.

There's one thing that's the same everywhere.

Yes, that turkey is going to taste mighty good with all its trimmings and fixings.

And we all want to remember that we Americans still have plenty to be thankful for.

And another thing that's certain.

If you make your Thanksgiving cakes and pastries and cookies with Park margarine, you're going to get plenty of compliments on their downright good taste.

You see, the delicious flavor that makes Park margarine so popular for table use makes it wonderful for baking too.

Yes, as sure as Park is a delicious spread, it's a genuine flavor shortening too, not a bland, tasteless fat.

Park adds flavor to pan fried food too, and a dozen spatterers stick to the pan.

So serve Park marginin at the table.

Use it for baking and pan frying too.

Remember you can use all you want because Park margarine is economical and good for your family.

Yes, Park margarine is a wholesome, nourishing energy food and a reliable source of vitamin A.

So right now, add Park marginin to your shopping list.

Remember it's Park pa r Kay.

Sorry, our time's up.

Happy Thanksgiving ladies and gentlemen.

Good night.

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