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- Hi, Mom.

- Hello, dear.

- Boy, what 'til you hear about Chris.

- What about Chris, Dennis?

- His just had parakeets.

- How marvelous.

- And week, his pup had puppies. - Well--

- And week before, his guppy had guppies.

- Well, I bet Chris is very busy handing out cigars.

- Handing out cigars?

Why?

- Well, it's like having a baby.

The father always hands out cigars because he's very proud.

You know, Chris, when he gets a little older,

will probably meet someone he loves very much.

And then after a while, they'll get married.

- And then what?

- Well, after they've been married a while,

do you know what Chris and his wife will have?

- Yeah, a pet shop.

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- Sure got a lot of cracks in this foundation.

- Is that bad?

- Well it ain't good.

Course the cracks can be filled in,

but I noticed a lot of dampness there.

The soil around here's soggy.

- Well I don't care about the soggy soil.

It's these cracks that worry me.

I tell you Bierschmidt, it always happens.

I've got a fist full of bills and now this.

- Well I've been figuring the square footage on that.

It won't be hard to figure out an estimate for you.

- Well take it easy.

Money doesn't grow on trees, you know.

- Well, there it is, rough.

- Rough is right.

Why that's a fortune!

- Well the price of labor's way up.

- You think it really needs fixing?

- First good rain, and your basement

would be like a bathtub.

- Well, I'll let you know when to start, if I start.

- Well I happen to have some men working over on Sage Street.

Now, if you can let me know within the hour,

I can have 'em right over here before the rains come.

- I'll let you know.

- OK, you're the boss.

It sure looks like rain to me.

- Martha, listen to this.

It came in the morning mail.

Dear Mr. Wilson, as attorney for the estate

your late aunt, Selma Adelaide Wilson Moss,

it is my pleasure to inform you of the fact

that you, George Wilson, have been named sole heir

and beneficiary of the estate.

- You don't have to shout dear, I'm right here.

- Oh, but Martha, we're rich, we're rich.

- I think I'm going to need some of your nerve medicine.

- Listen to the rest of this.

The entire Selma Adelaide Wilson Moss art collection

and the monies accruing from the Selma Adelaide Wilson Moss

oil interests have been willed to you as test dated.

- How much money is it dear? - Well, I don't know, dear.

You see it doesn't say.

It hasn't been settled yet.

But it says the van with the art collection is en route to you

domicile effective this date.

Martha, think of it.

All my aunt's oil money and that art collection

alone is worth a fortune.

How does it feel to be hugged by a millionaire?

- But George, don't let's be premature.

Let's go slowly.

- Oh now Martha, I've gone slowly all my life.

Now do you know what we're going to do?

We're going downtown.

I'm going to buy myself a fast new car

and have a dozen or so zippy new suits made.

- If we've come into so much money,

shouldn't we give some of it to charity?

Start up a foundation to help needy people?

- Well, now, Martha.

Maybe after we've gotten ourselves

filled with fun and things, well maybe then

I'll think about starting a foundation of some kind.

- Hi, Mr. Wilson.

- Well, if it isn't my dear little friend, Dennis Mitchell.

How are you?

- My baseball cards came in the mail Mr. Wilson.

I got doubles on Sandy Koufax.

I thought maybe if you got any doubles, you'd want to trade.

- Why Dennis, not only do I have doubles, I have triples.

At this very moment, my ship is on Route 66.

- Isn't it better to have a ship on water?

- That's just the expression, Dennis.

You see I've come into a lot of money.

I'm in heir.

Eh, Dennis, here's a dollar.

Just go buy anything you want with it.

- A whole dollar?

- George is that wise?

- Oh, Martha.

What's a dollar to me?

- The same as it to the Rockefellers.

A hundred pennies.

Geez, thanks Mr. Wilson.

You sure are lucky.

Having your ship on Route 66 and getting the air and all that.

- And Mr. Guth, I wish you'd appraise

the entire collection for me.

See the truck will be here first thing tomorrow morning.

Oh you can be here.

Oh, that's a wonderful Mr. Guth, thank you so much.

Goodbye.

- Isn't it great?

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are millionaires and our neighbors.

- Your aunt must have been a wonderful woman, Mr. Wilson.

- Oh indeed she was, Mitchell.

She was a connoisseur.

- Really?

- Oh a true connoisseur.

For years, she loaned money to artists.

In return, they would give her paintings.

- You know, George and I have been

thinking about starting a new foundation.

- You see, Mitchell, in my income tax bracket,

it's better to have a foundation than having

to do a little here and a little there.

- That's a wonderful thing to do, Mr. Wilson.

- George, didn't you tell the concrete man

that you'd let him know about the house?

- Oh Bierschmidt, yes.

But he's way over on Sage Street.

If I have to go clear over there,

we'll miss our appointment downtown.

It's very important.

The salesman is waiting.

- That's alright Mr. Wilson.

I'll go for you.

I know where it is.

Tommy and me watched him after school yesterday.

- Well now Dennis, that's very nice of you.

You tell Bierschmidt to get his men over here right away

and get started.

- Right.

I'll go real fast Mr. Wilson. - Good for you.

- Hey, Mr. Bierschmidt

- Oh hi, son.

- Mr. Wilson told me to tell you to start right away.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

He's going to start a new foundation.

- Well, I'll be doggone.

Huh.

He complained a lot about a patch-up job.

Now he wants a whole foundation.

- You see, his aunt who's a common sewer

gave him a lot of money.

He doesn't want his foundation to be

a little here and a little there.

- That's great by my.

Well, I'm glad he wants the job done right.

OK, son.

I'll have my men over there in nothing flat.

- Right.

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- Let's go, Joe.

We'll be right back here Monday morning 8 o'clock.

- Hi, Mom.

Mr. Wilson's having a new foundation put in.

- Almost ran me down.

A sports care at his age.

I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes.

- That's some car.

- Oh boy, is it.

- Well, I guess the old fossil did come into a windfall

after all.

- What's an old fossil, Mrs. Elkins?

- No fool like an old fool.

- Hey, Mr. Wilson.

Jeepers, what a swell car. - Oh well, thank you, Dennis.

I'm glad you like it.

- Did you buy it for some well little kid

in the neighborhood for his birthday or something?

- It's ours, Dennis.

- It's just darling.

- I, I couldn't resist it.

It's so much me.

What's going on here anyway?

- Well, they've been working here almost ever since you left,

Mr. Wilson.

- Well I know, but what is all this?

Bierschmidt?

- Hello Mr. Wilson.

- What's all this?

- Well, I got started as fast as I could.

We got the OK, and boom.

We went right to work for you.

You know it made sense to put in a new foundation.

- A new foundation?

- Well, Dennis said that's what you wanted.

- Dennis!

Now you list to me, Bierschmidt.

- Did you call me, Mr. Wilson?

- No, I didn't call you-- oh, yes I did.

Dennis, now look what you've done.

- What did I do?

- You gave Bierschmidt the wrong message.

- But you said you were going to start a new foundation.

And that's what I told him.

- That isn't the kind of foundation I meant, Dennis.

Now look here, Bierschmidt We never even considered

new foundation.

- Well now, Dennis told me you came into a lot of dough.

Now what are you worried about?

- I don't need a new foundation.

And I'm not going to waste money,

no matter how much I have.

Now you get your men to fill in all these trenches--

- Look, it's Saturday.

My men only work a half a day today.

We can't fill in those trenches today.

- Well, I can't have my house all surrounded the holes

and trenches until Monday.

Now listen here, Bierschmidt.

You get those men of yours over here

tomorrow and get those holes filled in,

or by golly I'll sue you.

- We'll they'll get double time.

- Well, that's your problem, Bierschmidt

And another thing, Bierschmidt.

It is, I, oh-- fiddle.

- Mr. Wilson, I really think you ought

to let me help you clean up the yard.

That's the least I can do.

- Oh no, it's all right, Mitchell.

Accidents can happen, and so can misunderstandings.

- After all, Dennis was partly responsible.

- Oh, it's all right.

What's done is done.

I didn't mean that kind of foundation, Dennis.

The kind I mean is one that helps people.

- You mean you're going to build a place to help the man?

- Well no, Dennis.

You see, foundations are not only for houses.

Now I'm going to look around the community.

And those who need my help, if they are needy or have

a worthwhile project, will get my support.

- See you later dad.

- Hi, Henry.

- Oh hi, Ms. Wilson.

- George, do come in and have some hot tea.

I don't want you to overdue polishing the car.

- Well, all right Martha.

I'm just about finished here anyway.

I am kind of tired. How about you Mitchell?

- Thanks a lot.

Alice and I had a late lunch.

I'll see you later.

- All right.

You know, Martha, that was a mighty nice thing for Mitchell

to come over here and offer to clean up this yard for me.

Say maybe that's a good sign.

- A good sign, what do you mean?

- Well a sign that, that you were right.

Oh, I have been pretty selfish just thinking of myself.

I mean buying this new car and all those new suits.

You are right, Martha.

We'll get started with our foundation right away.

- I thought you'd agree dear.

- And do you know something else?

I think we ought to give most of our art collection

to our own county museum.

- Well, that's very generous of you, George.

- The George Wilson Wing, County Museum.

Aw, won't that be nice, Martha?

Let's go have that tea.

- He wants a foundation for [inaudible] something people.

People who are needy.

- We must be needy.

- Honest?

- Yeah.

Dad says that with taxes and my mom's clothes,

it's a wonder we're not in the poor house.

- I just got to find out who Mr. Wilson can help.

Let's see.

We can talk to our teacher.

- And Editor Crinky at the newspaper.

- And maybe even the mayor.

- And Mr. Singerman.

- Hey, there's Mrs. Elkins.

- Hi, Mrs. Elkins.

- Children.

- Mrs. Elkins, do you know any worthwhile things

Mr. Wilson could help with his foundation?

- What?

- He's going to start a foundation

for worthwhile things.

Me and Tommy are going to help him find something worthwhile.

- Dennis, Tommy, this is a job for a grown up.

You know, finding worthwhile causes?

You let me look into it for Mr. Wilson.

- Gee, that's swell, Mrs. Elkins.

I bet Mr. Wilson won't ever think

you're a sour pickle again.

- Well, goodbye boys.

- Bye.

- I'll get it dear.

- Hello, there.

I was just putting up my latest batch of pickled watermelon

rind, and I thought of you.

I thought you and Mrs. Wilson would like some.

- Oh, well, thanks.

- And I thought we could talk about a worthy project that's

been a pet of mine for years.

- Hello, Mrs. Elkins.

Won't you come in?

- I'd love to.

Oh I see your home is just as charming as ever.

- Well, we're going to redo it.

- Do sit down.

- Then it's true.

Oh, I'm so pleased.

No one deserves better fortune than both of you.

- Thank you.

- You know, um, I'm head of the committee that's

raising funds for the new hospital.

- Hospitals are important, George.

- With a good grant from a public-minded citizen,

we might be able to land a homeopathic physician

from Chicago.

- Oh, what's this?

- I knew you'd see the importance of our being

able to land someone of Dr. Jostlin's reputation.

You know, he's an expert in catarrhal fever.

- Catarrhal fever?

- Yes.

Along with distemper and liver disease,

it's something cats suffer from terribly.

- Cats?

Are you talking about a cat hospital?

- George.

- Don't now George me now, Martha.

I'm not interested in cats, Mrs. Elkins.

- You're not interested at all?

- Not in the. east.

Now, I'm a very busy man, Mrs. Elkins.

If you don't mind, I'll have to ask you to leave.

- Well, I will certainly see that you are blasted in Cat Circle.

- Well good. - And in cat periodicals too.

Chicago's Orange and Cream Society

will hear of this, and so will the Pacific Cat Club.

- Fine and dandy.

- Only a churlish boor wouldn't want

to help start at cat hospital.

- Oh I don't object to cat hospitals.

I just object to cats.

- Now how in the dickens did she find out?

- Hey, Mr. Wilson.

Mr. Wilson!

Mr. Wilson, all these kids are worthwhile.

They all need something.

- That's the third spoonful of nerve medicine I've had.

- It'll help you calm down.

- Oh, Martha, yesterday was the happiest day of my life.

And then Dennis, bringing all those children here

screaming at me.

I feel as though I haven't slept at all.

- Thank you.

- It's a telegram.

- A telegram?

Oh dear.

A telegram.

It's from Aunt Selma's lawyer.

Regret to inform you records show

no money left in your aunt's account.

Fortune given to artist, not loan.

Oh, no.

- Is that all it says?

- My bill and detailed letter follows.

- Take another sip dear.

- Sip, I ought to take the whole bottle.

- Things can't be this bad dear.

After all, that van is coming with the art collection.

- Oh, the art collection.

Why of course, Martha.

How could I have forgotten the art collection.

There's the van now, Martha.

I'll bet it's the van.

Oh, it's Stanley Guth from the county museum, Martha.

- Hey, kids.

Hey, which is the George Wilson house?

- Mr. Wilson lives right here.

- Hey, that's a coinky dinky.

- You got a package for Mr. Wilson?

- Package?

Kiddo, I got a whole truckload for him.

- Yippee!

Mr. Wilson?

- What is it, Dennis?

- Your ship just parked.

- Oh, Mr. Guth?

Martha?

Thank you, Dennis.

- Are you George Wilson?

- I most certainly am.

- Oh, I'm so excited.

- May I help you in any way?

- No, I just hope I don't the combination

of this lock like I did once.

- Oh good heavens, I do too.

- Hey, look at these.

- Oh, I got it.

- Oh, oh, well thank goodness.

- Just look at that.

- Here, I'll hand you the stuff.

- Oh, that's marvelous.

- You do know how badly our museum needs paintings,

don't you, Mrs. Wilson? - Yes, I know.

- I hope Mr. Wilson knows so too.

- We both know.

- Here you are.

- Oh, oh this one's called self portrait.

- What is that?

- It's called Self Portrait.

Interesting, isn't it?

- Well I'm glad that artist didn't come along.

- Well Martha, just put that over there, will you dear?

Carefully now.

- What is this one?

- Charming thing, isn't it?

So much feeling.

Oh yes, it's called Essence of Meaning.

- I wish it had some.

- Oh, well just put it over there with that other one, Martha.

- Oh, look at that one.

It's called Man and Wife Hanging On a Wall.

Wonderful.

- Well, I have seen a lot the paintings

in my day, Mr. Wilson.

But--

- Well, there are a lot more to come, Mr. Guth.

- Well, Mr. Guth?

- I've gone over everything, Mr. Wilson.

And I would say that with luck, you'll get $300 for the line.

- $300?

Well the frames alone are worth--

- For the frames.

- Why that won't even pay for the trucking.

- Just about, Mr. Wilson.

It's a $280.

- Can I have it, pal?

I have to get going.

- I'll get you a check.

- Oh, hey Mr. Wilson?

Have you changed your mind?

- No I haven't, Bierschmidt Now I've got problems of my own.

Now you get these holes filled in.

And don't leave a mess.

- You want me to cart away this mess too?

- Oh, great Scott.

- I'm sorry, Mrs. Wilson.

But you see, it's mostly folk stuff,

done by folk with very little talent.

- Then I guess George's aunt just couldn't say no to anyone.

- Boy, will these ever make swell boomerangs.

- Try one, Tommy.

- Didn't work.

- Now I'm try it.

Hey, look out!

- Oh.

- Mrs. Wilson, I didn't mean to hit him with--

- Where did get these?

From the truck?

- No.

- I think we finally hit on something, Mrs. Wilson.

- What?

- Looks like tiger teeth.

A Sabre toothed tiger.

- A what?

- Teeth from the Sabre tiger.

A prehistoric animal.

These are the largest I've ever seen or heard of.

- Me and Tommy found them in that hole over there.

- What?

You found them here?

Where? Where?

Quick show me.

- Right over here.

Come on.

- There's lots of them down here.

- Oh, I knew I smelled an old lake bed around here.

Oh, Mr. Wilson?

You have fossils.

- Oh on top of everything else.

- Oh, Martha, pay the truck driver, will you dear?

- Kids, come on, out, out.

I need a man to help me.

Mr. Wilson, down here please, please.

Mr. Wilson?

Any museum would pay hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars

for what you found here.

- What, what's that you say, Mr. Guth?

- Thousands of dollars for these, Mr. Wilson.

- For, for these?

- Yes.

Teeth from the Sabre tiger.

- Wait, Mr. Bierschmidt.

Don't fill up those holes.

- Now you stay out of this, son.

The last time you opened your mouth, you started all this.

- Bierschmidt!

Will you stop filling in these trenches?

- But you just told me.

- Well never mind what I told you.

Oh Bierschmidt, get out of my life.

- Boy what money will do to some people.

- Oh, oh, oh, look Mr. Guth.

Two more.

- We a-- we are most grateful to George Wilson.

For donating the Sabre tiger teeth

fossils to our county museum.

They are the largest specimen ever found anywhere,

and they will make a drawing card

for our town for many years to come.

We are, indeed, indebted to George Wilson

for his great discovery and his unselfish giving.

,

- Well thank you, Mr. Guth.

That makes me very pleased.

- George, don't you think Dennis should have some of the credit?

After all, he found the tiger teeth.

- Jeepers, I didn't find them, Mrs. Wilson.

They were just there.

- Of course, you deserve credit, Dennis.

Now you can help me cut the ribbon, which

opens to the public this area. Come along.

Just hold the ribbon for me. - Like this?

- Oh that's fine.

- The George Wilson fossil shelf.

- A fossil shelf.

And he was going to have a whole wing.

- Congratulations, Mr. Wilson.

- I think it's wonderful, Ms. Wilson.

- It says the George Wilson Fossil Shelf.

- That's right, Dennis.

- Shouldn't it say old?

- Why, Dennis?

- Because Mrs. Elkins always says you're an old fossil.

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