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where
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so
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when that april with his showers sweet
the drought of march hath pierced to the
root
and bathed every vein in such liquor
from which virtue
engendered is the flower
when zephyrus seek with his sweeter
breath inspired hath in every holt and
heath the tender crops
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and the young sun hath in the ram is
half
course iran and smaller fowlers
make and melody that sleep and all the
night with open eye
so pricketh them nature in their
courages
then long and folk to go on pilgrimages
and palmers fought to seek in stranger
strands
to distant shriners known in sundry
lands
and especially from every shari's end of
england
to canterbury they went the holy
blissful
martyr for to seek that them hath
helping when that they were weak
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so
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ah
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six hundred years have passed what would
they
see dan chaucer and his goodly company
today
the hills and valleys are the same gone
of the forest since the enclosures came
hedgerows have sprung the land is under
plough and orchards bloom with blossom
on the bow
sussex and kent are like a garden fair
but sheep still graze upon the ridges
there
the pilgrim's way still winds above the
wheel through wood and break and many a
fertile field
but though so little's changed since
chaucer's day
another kind of pilgrim walks the way
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alas when on our pilgrimage we went
we modern pilgrims see no journeys end
gone are the ring of hooves the creek of
wheel
down in the valley runs our road of
steel
no genial host at sinking of the sun
welcomes us in
our journey's just begun
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okay
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hey that's my station sorry folks
thank you
thanks pop i'll sit the next dance out
ah
you'll break someone's neck one of these
days yawn too i shouldn't wonder
don't you know there's a bylaw against
getting out of a moving train penalty 40
shillings why don't you light up the
names of your stations how do you expect
folks to read the signs
i don't nor don't the company i'm here
to call out the name of the station
why wait till the train gets going now
look here
in the first place i call out the name
of the station now precise and clear
while the train was stationary you add
ample time to a light ample
i heard you with my own ears calling out
canterbury
after the train started to move he
called out canterbury next stop see
but i'm going to canterbury darn it
the train's going to canterbury and
you're stopping here a chilling bomb
well son of a gun
what time is the next 8 57 8 57
i am here what do those stripes mean
sergeant well they're the wrong way up
he's a sergeant see cut the quiz
questions pop what kind of a place is
this with no train all night this is the
kind of place where people sleep at
night
are you all right sergeant yeah i have a
chilling born cap okay ticket please
you can keep your own miss
these two gentlemen will come to you to
turn off
why do you think i need an escort no
young lady must go alone at night mr
culpepper's orders
this way please who is mr culpepper
local magistrate justin to the police
hey pop is there a hotel in this place
i said don't tell me this whistle stop
is a town
chilling ball was constituted a
municipal banner in the year 1085
407 years before columbus discovered
america
i didn't mean to hurt your civic pride
pop granted sonny boy
my name's thomas duckett station master
acting
mine's bob johnson sergeant also acting
peter gibbs sergeant
underpaid nice to know your vote now
where's this hotel i'll give your town
hall a miss uh you can't do that
all visitors arrive here must report to
town or mr culpepper's orders
that guy again how do i get to the camp
last pass you'll just catch it if you're
hurry where
marketplace by town or how do we get
there chatting street and follow your
nose where's chatting street through
that gate right let's go
here wait a minute have you all got
torches not me i have
i'll show you a real flashlight
put that light out what's wrong with it
everything
does the job doesn't it'll do your job
if the police catch a flashing it on
you won't catch no 8 57 a.m okay
okay shall we go if you're going to
catch your bus yes that's right
see you in the morning park i'll be
clever if you do i don't come until 12
00.
a.m and keep an eye on young lady check
why do river companies always have kids
like this i'll go ahead and shine my
torch for you too
don't blind us
what are you doing hey what's going on
oh my goodness it's my hair somebody
came out of nowhere
poured something on it hi where are you
what's wrong with your hair it's some
sticky stuff sticky stuff why are your
headphones so this is
england never a dull moment listen
somebody up the street click bob
searchlight
there he goes
hey soldier can you run miss watch me
oh
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there he goes on that building come on
this baby come on bob you take the river
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it's me darling
any luck not a sausage i can wait here
what alone no fear think we missed him
we couldn't have
so since he didn't double back
he's inside nowhere else he could be
let's find the door
here it is is that a bus sounds like it
what's going on out here
is this the town hall it is then that's
my bus you can handle this bob sure
we'll go chanting let me know what
happens good evening
where's my bag and they're out there
beat against my name first
a man is in this building a soldier he
must have gone into one of the windows
just a minute miss and who might you be
my name's allison she's going to work
here yes i'm going to work hard mr cox i
see your identity god identity card
nothing what kind of a cop are you
is anything matter somebody's poured
some sticky stuff on my hair
sergeant the glue man's out again
while you're looking this up in the
doomsday book he's making a getaway and
what about myself just a minute if you
please
one thing at a time are you the incident
miss yes
look my hair's full of it oh it's the
glue man all right
glue man have a look dearie oh we also
see to that all right
what is this an old chilling born custom
he's in the town old sergeant
who is your glue man we chased him down
the street and he's in this building
you're there
what's up ernie it's him the gloom man
where i heard you whistle
up on the church tower i ran all the way
i bumped into a soldier
running across the square he caught the
chardon bus
nuts that was peter gibbs and who may he
be tough he soldier who was with us when
it happened
why don't you search the building you
leave that to us miss we may be slow and
chillin barn compared with london wise
and we ain't no g-men neither but we
know our duty and we have our methods
ernie brooks you get back to your fire
watching if you hear anything blow your
whistle as arranged
all right bertie sergeant bassett went
on duty if you please
constable evander you will accompany me
on a tour of the building
you will colonist a year with a young
lady you sergeant
yeah sergeant johnson say can't i come
too this guy may be dangerous have you
got a gun
this is shillingborn sergeant johnson
not chicago
say what kind of a crack is that i come
from oregon
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i wonder when they're gonna give us our
electric lights
there's a light in the courtroom
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there's someone in there
ready yes come on let's take him by
surprise
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anything wrong bassett sorry mr
culpepper
we didn't know you were still up here i
see
all right can you make my cup of tea i'm
sure you've got a kettle on downstairs
here's my cup yes sir
sir the glue man's out again
how do you know an american soldier and
a girl chased him here sir
what girl what american what the girl
who was the incident sir
isn't that right yes sergeant she's come
to work for you sir
on your farm she's a land girl mistake
you say they chase the glue man here yes
sir they insist he's somewhere inside
this building
well what you're standing talking for a
message get on and search it
yes sir
gee what a job is it coming out
big pardon ma'am maybe better well i've
got considerable on me so there must be
less on you but there's still plenty on
you
here you are miss
what earth am i to do soap's no good hot
water is the only thing
miss grange is boiling a cackle you seem
to be an expert she's the 11th incident
what about this clue-throwing character
captain you don't mean to say you let
him get away from you
you got away if everywhere inside now we
shall be long dearly
nice work put another cat on this green
shirt and make some teeth mr culpep is
fire watching oh
is his cop who's mr culpepper magistrate
wants to see you oh he does okay ma'am
let's give it another whirl with the hot
water i guess mr culpepper can wait a
while
here we know how to handle this
still a bit sticky sir glad to meet you
welcome to chilling ball you're the
first american soldier we've seen
bad luck missing our train sergeant uh
johnson sir
johnson
say what's that that's the old ducking
stool very sensibly used for silencing
talkative women
hi are you there
excuse me is that your vlogs
you're showing your life sir
well sorry brooks
can you tell us something we take our
blackout seriously kent
is your first time in england yes sir
do you like it sure but
i haven't seen much else but salisbury
you've seen something if you've seen
soul spray it's a fine town
yeah it's got some swell movies really
got a great movie girl thousand johnson
you bet
it's a great thing to sit back in an
armchair and watch the world go by in
front of you
the drawback is sergeant johnson that
people may get used to looking at the
world from the sitting position
i don't quite get you then when they
really do pass through it they don't see
anything
we're going to move in canterbury is
there anything good on
this voucher will get you a room in the
hand of glory that's the in one of the
men will take him over there's nothing
to pay
thanks that's swell of you but i can pay
no no you're our guest for tonight
okay thanks a lot that's all right
good day pretty good when you get home
and people ask what you've seen in
england you say
when i saw a movie in salisbury and i
made a pilgrimage to canterbury and saw
another one
you've got me all wrong i know that in
canterbury i have to look out for a
cathedral
do look out for it just behind the movie
theater you can't listen
oh take the sergeant over to mrs foster
yes mr culpepper
and ask the young lady to come in good
luck sergeant
good night sir
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called pepper gold peppa
up here miss thank you
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i'm sorry about the incident miss uh
alice smith
miss smith i've been sent by the war
agricultural committee
step telephone before they send people
you wrote they sent me
i want a farm laborer you have to take
what you can get these days
you've got me i can do the work i'm
sorry miss me
you refuse to employ me because i'm a
girl
miss smith there's a camp near this
village full of soldiers i know
oh you know i'm not interested in
soldiers
perhaps they're interested in you let
them they mean nothing to me
aren't you afraid to stay here why
should i be afraid
after what's happened to
didn't you hear it what somebody moved
there nonsense it's a nonsense
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somebody's there how could that be i've
been here the whole time
why don't you want to open it then
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hey
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here's some more
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uh mrs foster won't be long now miss
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can i help you well i've seen some
topsy-turvy things in this war
and the last but to see guests doing
real work for me
no miss
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yeah do you know mr thomas culpepper
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do i know mr culpepper you were london
on this
well what would you say if i was to ask
you do you know who's the lord mayor of
london
but i don't you don't
no well aren't you ashamed
not a bit i see
that stone interest you miss it comes
from the old road
what some folks call the pilgrims road
yes
from the bend up there on the hill
what do you know about our bend i've
seen it
when three years ago
ah then it went i'll bend you so it went
uncovered then
no but the bend was there all the same
is it excavated now
yeah the old men who gave the money
counsel
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i'm glad they changed their minds they
didn't we changed our magistrate
for mr culpepper for mr culpepper
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here how do you know about our bend
i spent the whole of my holiday here
once
i don't call you to mine we camped
outside the village
in a caravan there ain't been no
caravanners up by all been for the past
uh
eight years that's all you know ah
except uh you ate a
g geologist no
he was my fiance girl you can come up
now your room's ready
coming good night
good night
you know stopping tomorrow night
actually had the elizabeth room free she
slept there
who queen elizabeth there's an american
in now but he's going in the morning
is his name johnson are you the girl
yes we washed it but it's still full of
glue revolting
extraordinary thing to do isn't it silly
i call it you'll have to wash your hair
again
several times i'll send you up a kettle
thank you
this is your room
who is it it's me
is that you bob
gee man i didn't know you were stopping
here too
why didn't you tell me last night well i
didn't know myself i didn't get that job
sorry about the job oh never mind about
that let's see now
since you didn't get the job that means
you're going in with me on the 857.
that's just what i wanted to talk to you
about bob
would you mind very much not catching
the 857 would i
mind i've got to meet a buddy in london
and i want to get to canterbury first i
promised mob
well we can go in on the evening train
together and i've written to peter gibbs
and what's he got to do with it dear
sergeant gibbs
you'll have heard by now that the glue
man got away but he didn't get far huh
you mean they've got him no what kind of
a quiz is this
you met mr culpepper didn't you yes he
got me this room in a swell room it is
what about him there's something about
him i don't like
and he's got a home guard uniform don't
laugh bob
what i want to do is to snoop around in
the village peter can do that at the
camp
and i want you to help me bob
you need about as much help as a flying
fortress
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i take coffee for breakfast you can have
coffee for breakfast sir
that's an early morning chillies can't i
have early morning coffee
oh no sir
oh
what's that what's that that window
there
how's the other side of the street that
street seems kind of narrow the upper
story overhangs
they do say two six foot men could check
ends across the street sir
why would they want to do that
tell me what they say soon
oh come come come to the church in the
wild
come come come to the church in the veil
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morning
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miami mirror
ah
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hello there hello what are you doing
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what's your name leslie what's yours bob
are you a soldier sure can't you see my
uniform
i've never seen a uniform like that what
do i stripes mean
i seem to have heard this one i tell you
they mean sergeant and
you tell me what this one way out
correct
could you use a quarter quarter walk a
quarter of a dollar
that's a shilling catch
thank you very much you're welcome are
you an american soldier
i have that honor mother guess what
this is an american soldier don't point
dear it's rude
yeah come on
see you later
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good morning good morning ma'am
sleep well yes thanks sure is mighty
lonesome lying in the middle of that bed
there are three like it in all english
they say that two
six-foot men couldn't shake hands across
that bed
why would they want to do that ma'am
depends on who's in it young man
you missed the canterbury train i
thought i might take a ride in with miss
allison this evening
you better think again because she's
stopping i woke up this morning saying
to myself susanna foster you mad let a
great stronger like that go when you
need someone yourself on the farm
was that right i guess you ain't off and
wrong ma'am
she's a nice girl she having breakfast
no she's the wheel rights
up north was you yes northumberland yes
cheap farming mostly yes ah they don't
know nothing about farming up there
you'll find things are so different down
here
yes
do you mean to cut the tire off know
what the tire is
yes then you had to sew it down know
what sewing down means
no ah well souling down means uh
souling down see
jim goes out the ends of the spokes then
he had to look at them philly joints
you know what philly joints is no ah
you ought to know that you had to open
them philly joints three-eighths of an
inch you better remember that just in
case suzanna foster asked you what was
wrong with the wheel
thank you mr horton what was your job
before the war
mine i've been a blacksmith for 37 years
my father was a blacksmith and he's
before him i was selling things in a
department store before the war
i wonder how you would look behind the
counter mr horton
behind the counter
this is a sergeant bob johnson of the
american
army morning folks morning
morning good morning nice place you've
got here
so you didn't catch the 857 no ma'am
you look as though you belong around
here already
do i sure do i thought i'd stick around
today myself
thought i might have a chat with mr
culpepper
i hear he knows a lot about the old
pilgrims road ah
so you're interested in that old road
are you
well the wheel's finished what are you
standing around for put her on the cart
yes sir i'm crazy about that old road
and
those old canterbury pilgrims ah then
was the days for a wheel right
my next truck boy have you got the
lynchpin net
yep george yeah
did you hear the news last night mr
horton there wasn't nothing on the
wireless
you know i didn't mean that sort of news
i mean what happened here last night
we get all our local news at six o'clock
miss
you got a local newspaper no that's when
the pub
opens
what happened your glue man was on the
warpath last night
who is he after this time me oh you
i suppose that'll learn you not to run
around at night on the contrary
i shall go out every night until i catch
him
aren't likely come on then get her down
can i give you a hand there ma'am thanks
ow yeah and chestnut
do you get much sweating in your own
planks oh average
at home we built two at a time for
steadiness side by side
was so to us to tie them longer strips
together
sewn last winter is that how you do it
in america
it's how we do it in my part of america
but we take off the strips when we put
the planks away
in stock for so do us how long do you
allow for seasoning timber
a year for every inch of thickness same
here
you can't are you an element no but some
folks try to all the same
yeah can't stand to see their money lie
idle apiece when the war fly the war
folks go mad they cut oak at midsummer
no i'm telling you yes oak should be cut
in winter of course or the spring
right and beach in the fall and plank it
out
at christmas yeah that's how my dad
taught me
he was well brought up in the timber
business was you
lumber my granddad had the first mill in
our parts
dad he was a cabinet maker i cut my
teeth on wood shavings
dad he made my cradle out of cedar of
lebanon
he said what was good enough for solomon
was good enough for a johnson of johnson
county
gee i can smell that cedar now
can i bomb a ride off you ma'am jump in
looks like a good way to see the sights
just a minute missy
we have our dinner at midday i'd like to
have you join us sergeant that is if you
ain't got nothing better to do
thanks a lot i'd be glad to ah that'd be
funny
get up
hey mother yesterday
one extra for dinner i was thinking of a
college fine team
ah well think i'm a good bacon
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nice piece of weather boarding that
water mill
i must ask the old gentleman who built
it i'll bet it was a horton
how do you guys to get dry mr horton in
that way i believe you are a detective
you speak the same language i'm english
and i don't speak their language
he knows about wood see and so do i
that's it
oh look at that house
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what a perfect place i wonder whose it
is
what it's like at the back
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whoa
what wouldn't i give to grow old in a
place like that
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breakfast
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it beats me last night i couldn't
believe
anything
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yeah it don't add up
whoa but you know allison things don't
add up in life
look bob are you positively off tonight
positively
but i'll see you before i go and tell
you what i find out from old jim horton
what i'll find to do the rest of the
afternoon i don't know
there's a movie it's saturday they have
a batony what
go to a single feature not me write some
postcards i'll have to do that to the
folks from canterbury
write your girl i don't write my girl
anymore
how'd you expect her to write to you if
you don't write to her you've got that
in reverse
english she doesn't write to me anymore
so i don't write to her
that's the way it is that's the way it
is
perhaps she has written i haven't had a
letter in seven
weeks sometimes the male's lost by enemy
action
a ship might have gone down yes a ship
might have gone down
the address might have been wrong there
are a hell of a lot of johnson's in the
army
maybe she was ill maybe her mother was
ill
i've had all the babies
i cabled her i haven't heard a thing
she was a swell girl allison we used to
talk
she liked the woods she learned some of
the bird calls i taught her real well
for a girl
she caught her first rainbow with my rod
two and a half pounds
she broiled it herself
we've been walking in the woods often
following the trail
and haven't said a word for two hours
and then both said the same thing
together
what do you figure it means when that
happens
it means love it means no letter in
seven weeks
i don't believe this enemy action stuff
all the other fellows get letters from
their girls
if a ship goes down it can't just be
that particular part of the ship where
my letters are dumped it goes down
can it
well so long allison
i hope you don't mind my calling you by
your first name
i shall miss being called ma'am time
marches on
which way does your road go ma'am
he knows i hope up that hill
why that hill that's where the pilgrim's
road runs
along that hill yes
from the bend at the eastern edge of the
hill
pilgrims saw canterbury for the first
time you've seen it
yes with a friend of mine
boy or a girl boy i hope he writes to
you
no he doesn't maybe the mail was lost by
enemy action
no bob as it happens
he was lost by enemy action he was a
pilot
shot down yes
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sorry
i hope you all remember
whoa
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hi prudence hollywood my sister
telephoned you were coming glad to see
you we're short-handed here
smiley brought you along all right i
hope yes ms hollywood
not afraid of work are you no thai
sheaves
yes carp muck yes little potatoes yes
leader harrow
not very straight how can i you spot
wheat yes
red lime if i have to you'll have to
know anything about hops
not a thing most of the hands are down
on the fields today you better stay here
this morning you can put your bag in
that shed
see you later
sue tells me you had a frightening
experience last night wasn't frightening
just unpleasant and annoying i thought
so
it's happened to other girls none of
them died my sister likes to dramatize
things you know the type
do i know them oh do you are don't you
i worked in a london store before the
war selling things
yes garden furniture picnic baskets all
that sort of thing did you like the job
not much it was better than selling
ordinary furniture
i used to imagine my dick chairs in
beautiful gardens
and my picnic baskets opened in the
woods and fields so you like gardens in
the country
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hope you won't miss your london store
here hi sean
you get up at sunrise you don't have to
queue for the bus
it's hot and sweaty this time of the
year you should see the stores in august
the flies that are very devil so were
the customers
that's your room over there the only one
you won't get much of a view i'm afraid
you should have seen the view from my
room in london
but it's a long street with every house
a different sort of sadness in it
there's a long row of back gardens and
the tall
sad houses were all the same dark in
winter airless in summer
seem to know them the only man who ever
asked me to marry and wanted me to live
in a house like that
i'm still a maid
it's hollywood gorman prue you might as
well i don't like prudence
name or quality pro and sue we've always
been
she likes susanna we spoke of other
girls who had the same experience as i
had last night
do you know any of them yes i have one
working in the hop yards
the baker i'd like to talk to her well
you'll see her when you take that dinner
down
that way
what's for dinner scotch eggs and apple
dumplings good
you're fee baker aren't you and you're
allison smith
yes are you working for proof yes
where are you from london boy got an
uncle in london
he's a policeman his father was a
policeman too very good dancer
the uncle not the father are you fond of
dancing
am i there aren't many boys around here
until their own feet from their partners
lots of soldiers no good dancers among
them i wouldn't go out with a soldier
for a hundred pounds
why a blue man's a soldier everybody
knows that
he wears a soldier's uniform and what
makes a civilian a soldier
a uniform besides there weren't any old
glue man here before the soldiers came
suppose he isn't a soldier what are you
driving at
suppose he's a civilian someone in the
village
in uniform supposing he wore uniform
to make the girls afraid to go out with
soldiers that might be any one of a
dozen
might be a blue woman why
don't be soft take ernie's family
who's ernie another uncle no my earnings
with the eighth army
do you think his family like me going
out with strange soldiers
but a girl must live i'm sure i'm right
well suppose you are where does it get
you why worry you weren't the first
do you know the other girls of course
dorothy bird she's the post girl susan
cummings polyfin hold on a tick
if nobody else cares i'm going to find
out what can be done about this flu
business
i can tell you that you can hot water
plenty of hot
water
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what's the idea of brightening my horse
i suppose you weren't scared
why don't you keep your beastly carriers
off the pilgrims road i know that voice
hey ellison this is peter gibbs i
thought you didn't get that job
who'd you steal this car from i'm
working for mrs foster
and if you don't take your carriers out
of the road at once i'll tell her what
happened and she'll report you to your
ceo
seo's idea with a nose in the cart i
didn't even know it was a girl
you're just an objective i don't believe
a word
and i'm in a hurry we're not you're our
prisoner but we'll exchange you
some information what have you been up
to you got a plan what's bob doing to
earn his keep
archie this is miss alison smith i told
you about
archie here i had an agnes a gladys why
not you tell the tale
well that's all of us do it loves young
dream
gloom what next well there wasn't any
neck she went home like a scolded cat
and that was after dark conditions were
perfect until the blue man came
what was the girl's name gladys you
spelled it with a w class
that is what how should i know it wasn't
a lasting friendship anyway it happened
to her
when what date after mo arch is my
witness i'll get all the dope
okay archie i'm talking of dope
what's that culpepper institute
chilling admission free each saturday at
7 30 pm
a lecture illustrated by lantern slides
will be given by thomas culpepper
jp for members of hm forces only after
the lecture and open discussion will be
held smoking permitted
attend the whole series and bring your
friends mission free
let's talk up all over the camp that's
the force in the series well well how
about it we must fall
says members of hm forces only well
aren't you in the army women's land army
isn't that hm forces too yes it is but
for the lectures tonight what was wrong
with tonight i've got a job i'm working
here you are good it's my first day well
what's wrong with it
i think you can do that yes i suppose i
can if i finish in time can you finish
in time
yes if it's important important to
detective work every clue is important
what clue did i say two you did i meant
jew
don't be late
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not heaven itself upon the past has
power but what has been
has been and i have had my hour
are you from the states yes
i got a brother there that's all
but city what city
but city montana oh yes of course
name of isaac wells maybe you know him
tile fellow shortened fat
can't please him pretty
good evening evening coming to the
lecture
yes in a minute sir i come from three
sisters falls oregon
i come from the seven sisters road
london put it down
pleased to meet you you sure are a whole
mess of sisters ahead of me
i'm glad this is a big house the last
time i was to speak it's july the 11th i
think
an audience he was reading his even
paper i waited for a bit and i
asked him um till i start he said start
what i said didn't you come to hear me
lecture
i said no i'm waiting for the pub strip
well we made it to 5 30 then we
adjourned the lecture and both went to
the pub
with some of your mind your blackout
please and i hope they're going to be
plenty of questions
will somebody start the ball rolling up
yes sir
mouse why you want electrics at all sir
what do you see it's a form of human
weakness it's only human nature when you
hear something interesting you want to
pass it down to somebody else
well i know a lot of interesting things
about this part of the country
i feel the urge to pass some of them on
to you
good evening you'll find a place at the
back yeah i think
oh good evening salsa johnson would you
like to join your two friends
yes good evening smith
good evening mr carl pepper say won't
you come back and join us
well uh i wouldn't like to i presume
look sure come on we'd like it
straight sure oh sure
friend of mine greeting all your name
big news
i know a lot of interesting brother you
can take my sh i was born here my father
was born here
you're here because of the war you'd
rather be in your own part of the
country you're telling us
that's why none of you like being here
very much but
suppose there was peace again and
holidays again
but you'd like to spend your holidays in
the beautiful and interesting part of
the country
and if you were to ask any man in new
england well where shall i go to
ten to one he'd say go to kent but
you're incredible
yes where's the wife and kid only
passing through i know
let me remind you that as much as 600
years ago doctors and lawyers
and clerks and merchants were passing
through here on the old road
which we call the pilgrim's way hang
cooks
yes and cooks do slimey cook's tour
these ancient pilgrims came to
canterbury to ask for a blessing or to
do penance
you i hope are on your way to secure
blessings for the future
any questions i was thinking sir yes
what have we got to do with this old
road and the people who traveled along
with 600 years ago
yeah yeah isn't the house you were born
in the most interesting house in the
world for you
don't you want to know how your father
lived and his father that's all right
but how do you know it really happened
well there are more ways than one of
getting close to your ancestors
follow the old road and as you walk
think of them and of the old england
they climbed chilling born hill just as
you did
they sweated and paused for breath just
as you did today
when you see the bluebells in the spring
and the wild time and
the broom and the heather you're only
seeing about their eyes so
you fall the same rivers same birds are
singing
when you lie flat on your back and rest
and watch the clouds sailing as i often
do
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you are so close to those other pilgrims
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which couldn't hear the thrumming of the
hoofs of their horses
and the sound of the wheels on the road
and their laughter and talk
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and the music of the instruments they
carried
and when i turned the bend of the road
where they too
saw the towers of canterbury i feel i've
only to turn my head
to see them on the road behind me
make it
how about you
it makes a nice change now i'd like to
show you some drawings and photographs
of things we found in recent excavations
hey bob movies i don't like free shows
something always goes wrong
first i show you the bend on the
pilgrim's row see
sorry i always do that somebody mind on
doing the black huh
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oh thanks perhaps our friend will be
able to fix it
he only looks after three brain carriers
pity i should only be able to show half
the slides
by the way if any of you are really
interested drop it at my house at any
time and have a chat
thank you are you interested in smith
why shouldn't you be i'm interested too
otherwise we wouldn't be here right
right
what an issue especially well
what you were saying of course we know
we don't know anything about that sort
of thing oh yes we do
do we we know all about the old road
we know that the pilgrims weren't the
first to use it right right
and sorry it was used by the romans here
in kent it certainly goes back to the
odd age i thought this was the iron age
right now it's very interesting
a geologist found some belgian coins
that far from here some time ago
last time i was in london i inquired at
the british museum about them but i'm
afraid they have no record
i have them you have them yes
they were left to me by the man who
found them i'd be very grateful if one
day you'd let me see the coins
anytime after my luggage gets here i
wouldn't keep them very long
i'm going to give them to this museum
not for you thank you
very much mouse will black out again
please
here we go the bend on the pilgrims road
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okay okay i pick on me
gee i forgot what the proof
i've got it tell us about it not here
topography plays an important part in my
expose hi
buddy have a cigar hmm
is this cherry street uh
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that's right leading into marketplace
that's right that building there is the
town hall are they
uh that's right now mr culpepper's
office is the second story window
that's right thanks are you by any
chance the village idiot
that's right
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anyway he is right i checked it this
afternoon
so where does it get us you'll see now
we came down this street
we didn't see a light in the town hall
you're killing me when we were in the
town hall the police found mr culpepper
in his office
later i saw him there and so did you
that's right
oh when i was with him in his office
the janitor or somebody tapped on the
window and said we were showing a light
outside
i saw him pull the curtain myself that's
very interesting
we hadn't seen the light so it followed
he wasn't in his office right he was in
such a hurry to draw the curtain when he
got back that he never noticed that
that's right that's the first real clue
we've had alison
yes i still can't believe that he's the
glue man
oh what motive could he pop is that a
bus sounds like
it well come on we must run see you
tomorrow
always going and never coming
cigarette thank you
that was clever to work that out
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yes wasn't it mickey swallow letter home
bob johnson sal's village mystery
i forgot i i don't write at home anymore
we should leave the watchman's evidence
you didn't even hear what i said i'm
sorry allison but
i just can't forget that girl
fella goes to war and all kinds of
dangers and
what you find so dangerous just now
i don't mean just now
but i mean you you go and fight in a
foreign country and
i bought her some writing paper i write
her every time we stop
and not one line from that blind i guess
ma was right
she says blondes are no good
what color is your hair allison blonde
no kidding come on i'll take you home
and tomorrow i'm going to organize the
local gorillas
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hello there can i speak to you for a
minute excuse me
do you like not shouting you bet what's
cooking
combined operation backpack
i get it say colonel general general
holmes
this is commander todd in charge of our
landing crawl
do you mind if i come aboard what to do
at your office of course
here i come
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we have a talk now
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i'll put my scouter shot
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okay onto the bike would you mind taking
a pedal
sure
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so
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hey
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oh my gosh
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you are outnumbered
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sure why didn't you pick sides because
my men must have berries and i've only
got six handkerchiefs
well that's different now the battle's
over
would your two armies least lend you two
generals for a while
what's lisa never ask that question
again son
if the isolationists were to hear you
back home they'd be mighty sore
who are the isolationists short-sighted
folks why don't they buy spectacles
from what i hear that's just what they
are doing
now here's two quarters he means two
shillings
one for each army the smaller army will
get a bigger share but that's right too
catch thank you very much thank you
is there someplace around here we could
have a powwow
on the hill
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looks like this isn't the first time
this place has seen a battle
no and i see here
you've heard about the glue man haven't
you don't be scared
i'm not scared no am i good because i'm
on his trail
the glue man yes you want to catch him
that's the idea now if this was the
states
every kid in the village would lend a
hand to get him who
i'll tell you i want you to help me
check
some things are you a game yes
first i want to know how many drug
stores there are in chillingboard
what stores drugstores where you buy
soap and
razor blades and ice cream you mean the
grossest
call it what you like now if you wanted
to stick something together and
needed the stuff to stick it with where
would you buy it at the grossest
is there only one only one next
i want to find out who's been buying
sticky stuff at the groceries
is he a friendly sort of guy mr holmes
if that's his name is he
human he's his father
holy smoke is it that time already i've
got a date for church
show me the shortest way from here and
on the way we'll map out a plan of
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campaign
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oh
excuse me can you tell me anything
they'll tell you
oh no it isn't bus information i want
it's about about the blue man what about
him who you you are polyphene
yes what if i am
yes have you got a minute five if you
want them can i come up there
maybe you are i'll come now you can't
come in the box you know it's against
regulations
well what is it i only want to ask you
one or two questions oh
well far away
good morning morning are you dorothy
bird
that's me i got your name from fee baker
i'm the new len girl working at fosters
august 27th
there baker susan cummings dorothy bird
polly finn
glady swinton and me each time the thing
happened after half past 11
but never later than midnight did it
ever happen after midnight to anybody
as far as i can check no i've checked
that mayan they all say it never
happened after midnight
that's important why
facts are always important what about
dates
the baker june the 8th susan cummings
june the 24th
gladys swinton oh not sure and me
august 27th of course
bertha rogers on the 11th of august well
wait a minute
no false alarm well i can fill in some
dates now gladys swinton was
july 10th two other girls anonymous
july second and august third
well let's see
that gives us two on tuesday
one on wednesday one on thursday
two on friday one on saturday blank on
sunday and monday
what you make of that i don't know
well anyway our dates are still
incomplete there were 11 cases in all
so what
you know i'm beginning to think the
whole village is cracked
just look at that boy 90 degrees in the
shade and he's wearing a winter overcoat
hello leslie terry come on
out ask for me
they'll never get past old albert i'll
fix that
kids and almanacs this won't get us
anywhere you got a better idea
yes i'm gonna call on mr culpepper this
afternoon
and i want you to come with me you can't
crash in without being asked
he has asked me last night anyone rarely
interested he said
well i'm interested yes that's clever
but will you come
i'm not very keen take bob no he's got a
date meet general terry
general leslie also commander todd
he's the delicate one you all like
lemonade
yes you too commander yes
you can take this coat off now commander
you're through the enemy's lines
meet the account book of mr holmes the
general's father and chilling born drug
store keeper
you mean the grosser big pardon
abc thomas
flour soap sugar bacon
week's rations here you look at it you
know the names
any sticky stuff
do some of the richer people here like
the rectan mr culpepper buy everything
in chillingborn
now if i'd get lots of things from
outside how'd you know
we collect savage from the houses
salvage good afternoon you want my son
yes as a matter of fact i was at his
lecture last night and you want to talk
to him about it
of course come in thanks
you'll be here in a moment thanks
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foreign
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good afternoon sergeant no how to do sir
sorry to bother you on a sunday i don't
mention it i think your weak days have
been fully occupied
yes they are you sit down what are you
doing
leo wisconsin no nothing for me i do
have something
oh hi there feast
emma cider
well how's the army going you seem to be
busy from morning till night
it's a bit like your job mine
you put a great deal in to get very
little out
are you a farmer in civil life me no
ask what part of the country you come
from london
not much material there for your
lectures more than anywhere
what about the british museum
yeah i suppose it is pretty good yeah
it's pretty good
nearly a day's walk from chillingboard
about 50 miles
some walk how do you like walking do you
like walking
not if i can help it why walk if there's
a train oh mother i'll go on with you
talking i can manage
i see sir you're interested in
mountaineering yes i do a bit of it
i suppose you'd recommend me to wait to
the bottom until somebody builds a
funicular railway
i'd say why climb to the top at all
what's wrong with the valley
the answer's in yourself you're dead
right
and the trouble with this country is
that every second man thinks he's born
to be a missionary
and every third man has a bee in his
body thank you
look at you who don't mind of course no
you're a gentleman farmer with a fine
house i'm sure you've got a first-class
farm and run it well
yet the first chance you'll get you're
off climbing mountains
or digging up stuff which 600 years ago
was thrown out as junk
no be in your bonnet no
i've got my job 30 pounds a week
i've got my flat i meet my friends and i
want to meet them
that's good enough for me would you want
a bigger flat better job
40 pounds a week i've got the best job a
man in my business can have
i ask what is your job i'm an organist
instant paul's cathedral no in a cinema
west end i'm a cinema organist
a good one i'm sure you are
have you always wanted to be a cinema
organist
not when i was a kid
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i wanted to be a church organist i
studied for nine years
then luckily for me i met a chap who
tell me about a job
a new theater brand new organ
you see i never really had the chance to
play on any
big organ except the one at the academy
you never played a church album not a
big one
seems to me sergeant there are two kinds
of men
learns to play bach and handle only to
play
kishore to hand madame and the man who
learns to walk
step by step so that one day he might
climb mount everest
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perhaps another convert to the study of
ancient kent i've heard i have gone
rather off the rails
never mind it's plenty of time not much
doing chilling born how do you find it
i haven't seen much of it oh how's that
i only arrived on friday night
as i remember seeing with my lecture
with miss smith and our american ally
sergeant johnson
are you walking together from the
station yes
i was with them when the attack took
place
this fellow must be a tough sort of
customer about your height
the matter of fact i had some excitement
myself that night if there's such a town
hall i was on fire guard
do you have to do fire watching oh yes
as well as home guard
twice a week home guard and fire
watching every eighth day
tom yes mother the salvage boys are here
again
and they were here last week well they
say it's a paper drive
but maybe it's my homemade toffee there
are six boys in avondon's donkey
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we've got a lot of sex huh did you go
down to the old school we lost that
no sir you better go down by the back
way emma will show you
round the back boy how's your father's
land baker jenny
awful sir not too bad
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since i'm enjoying our talk let's have
another mug
hello coming man four
and five and six and seven
two shillings and seven pence that okay
man
now what press button a okay
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looks like i hit the jackpot what's that
man
i pressed button b check
reinsert coins and press button a
check again
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a buttons b buttons
mirrors tea drinking left-hand driving
stripes upside down yes ma'am it sure is
difficult
and hot here i come button a
made it well
sergeant michael rozinski please r
o c z that's correct u.s army
he said what now see here ma'am i don't
care what mickey rozinski told you
he's a buddy of mine we come from the
same company
wake him up it's four o'clock he can't
sleep out his whole leave in london
you can't you won't see
you give good service in your hotel
well tell him bob johnson rang
bob b-o-b bob
call it what you like tell him i can't
get to london
he's to meet me in canterbury i'm not in
canterbury now but i'll be in canterbury
tomorrow
where will he meet me holy cats i don't
know where i've never even seen the
place
where can he meet me in canterbury
cathedral
that's right tell him to meet me in
canterbury cathedral at 11 o'clock
thanks
these london teams have plenty on the
ball now look forget sex for a little
while will you
i've either solved the whole thing or
wasted a perfectly good sunday what
about me and my whole furlough
see that without difficulty now where's
that list you made today are the dates
of the crimes
right here but well now i'll tell you
when the crimes become easy why tell me
i have them here
yes but i haven't now check
the last one was friday august the 27th
considering we were both there
before that thursday the 19th unproven
i'll take it for me it's right
shandy no next before that wednesday the
11th
tuesday 3rd of august say that's right
july the 26th of monday
july the 18th is sunday 10th of july is
saturday
2nd of july of friday all correct 24th
of june or thursday
then one on wednesday the 16th of june
and tuesday the 8th of june
all together 11. say what have you got
there
this my fine feathered friend is the far
guard rotor from mr culpepper's house
and the dates that i've quoted to you
are the nights that he was on duty
every eighth day gee
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then ernie brooks clinches it what does
he say same as me
he saw the light in mr culpepper's
office around midnight but not
before
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oh
hello hello how are you doing general
okay four up to now
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that is something name of a firm
ryman's limited who are they a london
firm not a branches
they sell office accessories paper ink
and gum
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well that's that the rest is just
routine
yes we got him code let's see now
it was a new football we agreed on
wasn't it
you sure that's enough you've earned it
thank you very much the pleasure general
is entirely mine
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hey cat
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glorious isn't it
is anybody there
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it's a real voice you heard you're not
dreaming no
just now i heard
sounds what sounds did you hear horses
hooves
voices and a lute
or an instrument like a lute did you
hear anything
those sounds come from inside not
outside they don't know when you're
concentrating when you believe strongly
in something
just now i was concentrating on who's
coming up the hill to disturb me disturb
you at what
being there smelling the earth
watching the clouds
why don't you sit down
you know i was very mistaken about you
i'm sorry
i was mistaken about you too
we have to dig to find out about people
as well as roads
do you know why i wanted to stay so much
i wanted to be here again you've been
here before
do you see that clump of trees i spent
13 perfect days there in the caravan
you're okay then
belongs to me now
there's such a thing as a sew
he must be here somewhere
he loved this hill so much i love it too
may i ask are you engaged
three years long time
his father was the trouble did you ever
meet each other
oh yes we didn't dislike each other
they were a very good family he thought
his son should marry someone better than
a shop girl
good family shop girl
rather dilapidated phrases for water
not for jeffrey's father it would have
taken an earthquake
we're having one
too late for me
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there are a lot of funny things in the
world what for instance
for instance why should people who love
the country
have to live in big cities something's
wrong
miracles still happen you know do you
believe in miracles
when i was your age i didn't believe in
anything now i believe in miracles
for shop girls for everybody you know i
think a shop girl has a bigger chance of
a miracle than a millionaire
i can see you've never been a shop girl
nor a millionaire
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see those clouds for me be a warm day
tomorrow
tomorrow i've got to go into canterbury
to the agricultural committee
i shall visit my property your property
in canterbury
my caravan it's jacked up there in a
garage
i pay half a crown a week for it quite a
lot to reject up caravan
not for my caravan
shall you bring it here i hope so
pilgrims to canterbury often receive
blessings
do you think even a visit to the
agricultural committee could be the
instrument of a blessing
who knows if not i might have a word
yes sir i was born with an open mind
and buzz and mouth as you remarked
but it sure is a surprise to me to find
how much i like everything over here
must they see i may add but one thing
what's that not if you keep low
why do you from sunrise to sunset and at
odd hours throughout the night
have to drink tea i shouldn't be too
noisy about it if i were you but i hate
this stuff well after pearl harbor you
americans joined the honorable company
of tea drinkers
don't forget that the nazis and japs
have knocked down every country they
tried to accept the tea drinkers
china russia and england so long live
drinking tea
drinking tea doesn't appear to be much
good for the wind if anybody made me
walk three miles before the war
and then climb a hill i'd say you could
bury me at the top
i thought organists as a race were
climbers up what
church towers i use a lift
boy cast your eye around that noble
prospect
wasn't it worth the climb yeah
of course i freely admit it's nothing to
compare with the view from three sisters
mountains
i don't start to tell me that you've got
higher hills and broader rivers i don't
see any river
there that's the river star that
because canterbury going to canterbury
is no proof it's a river
i'm going to canterbury and i ain't no
river i'll admit it's no mississippi
and i'll admit i've never seen the
mississippi and be happy to tell you
folks you've seen the river star
and english black plays i am happy
ours are bigger than these i feel
fine the whole time ever since we sailed
something's been wrong with me
maybe it was my girl maybe i was
homesick
now for the first time i feel
swell maybe it was because my mind was
preoccupied
in the army they think mostly about
keeping your body occupied
they've not much time to worry about
your mind now
yeah here's as good as hyde park hyde
park that's in london
very much in london what would you be
doing this afternoon
in london if there wasn't any war sunday
afternoon
reading playing cards to boys waiting
for the pubs to open
occupying the mind letting the body take
care of itself you don't fancy the
countryside much do you
did it truth i'd hardly realize there
was a countryside before them all
funny that how the war can open your
eyes to a lot of things
that sounds like the glue man's lecture
take me for instance
i was no g-man before the war imagine me
bob johnson of johnson county oregon
coming over here and solving the glue
man mystery
while you're throwing bookies yourself
don't forget me and alison
the nutty thing about it is i like him
oh blue pepper he's a bit cracked i like
him too
come on pete i'll race you down
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knows he didn't deny did he didn't say a
word no he wouldn't are you going to
tell the police
certainly he's called at you now he's
got to pay the piper
hey what the hold up george mr
culpepper's a bit late
to get there well how do you know he's
going to canterbury it's mandy his day
on the bench
on the bench hello pop hello sonny boy
adventure of magistrates the district
norcot good morning mr duckett morning
miss i warned you to keep an eye on her
friday night
oh here he comes
here mr culpepper thanks
thank goodness he didn't come in here
good morning you don't mind my sitting
with you it's only 10 minutes to count
me
there's plenty of room you bet
i'm glad to meet you all together you i
suppose are on your way to rejoin your
unit sergeant johnson
yes sir and you're off to the
agricultural committee
and you're going to sit on the bench are
you sergeant gibbs
i'm going to the police station i see
an excellent police force that can
constabulary they solve every crime
sooner or later
do you think the glue man knew that he
knew it all right
but he didn't think that what he did was
a crime what else can you call it
upsetting the whole village giving the
soldiers a bad name with everyone
some children hate going to school their
parents have to force them to go
is that a crime pouring glue on girls
here is it's awful to get out
i'm not going to defend pouring glue on
people certainly not
i'm going to defend potting knowledge
into people's heads by force if
necessary
what knowledge knowledge of our country
the love of his beauty
beauty of the countryside who cares
about these things in wartime who cares
about when peacetime
i tried it before this wall why should
it be any better after it
i've written articles that didn't get
further into county papers
i rented a hall in london to speak from
but never came to listen
i even held a meeting in hyde park
that's no subject for hyde park
i found that out and the war came
just as i was thinking like you but all
the things i've been preaching about i'd
have to wait until peace time
a miracle happened that's the trouble
you believe in miracles
yes i do the miracles of the army
decided to build a camp just outside our
village
young men flowed in from every part of
the country
i felt as a mission must feel that one
day he finds
there's no need to travel into the
jungle to find converts
because the savages are coming to him
thanks for the compliment
there's no cinema being a savage but a
missionary who doesn't try to do his
duties a bad missionary
well well here was a chance for them and
for me i planned a series of lectures no
one came
i tried to get it again nobody turned up
i went to see that see how he
sympathized
said when the men had finished their
work we had dates with the girls in the
village or they went to the movies to
see glamour girls on the screen or they
got up dances
they were always with girls that have to
go well what's wrong with that
yeah it's natural to feel lonesome in a
strange place
you have a gun at home haven't you
yes i have would you like to go out with
strangers when you're 3 000 miles away
5 000 miles most of our girls have their
many of the services
the older people didn't like the idea of
them going out with every soldier that
came along
i suppose they couldn't do anything
about it it's difficult
nobody wants to stop the soldiers having
a good time so you stop the girls from
having one
exactly
did i ever tell you about old dad butler
who killed the fly on his baby's head
with a sledgehammer
mr culpepper didn't it ever occur to you
to ask the girls to your lectures no
pity well the fly's dead the baby's
alive and kicking no harm's been done
oh hasn't it what beats me is that a man
in your position
a magistrate somebody whose job it is to
judge other people
i wonder what sort of sentence you'd
pass if the blue man was brought before
you and your friends on the bench
it would depend upon the findings of the
court
i would try to find out the truth i
never passed sentence without doing that
i should try to discover the motives of
the accused
i should question every witness
but you know that every witness would be
against him are you against him
fee baker said that a lot of people in
the village are not against him
are you against him
he meant well would you believe a
burglar who said he meant well
if it was his first offense you could
prove that he broke into the house
in order to save the baby from burning
to death what baby
oh dead butlers baby
the only case sergeant gibbs if harm has
been done
i shall have to pay for it and in order
to make you pay somebody must denounce
you
i want to make that quite clear there
are higher courts in the local bunch of
majesties
pilgrims for canterbury all out and get
your blessings
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ramen sort of pilgrimage for you the
pilgrimage can be
either to receive a blessing or to do
penance
i don't need either perhaps you're an
instrument
do i get a flaming sword nothing would
surprise me
i believe that when i see a halo around
my head
taking a pilgrim's view sergeant johnson
yes sir
but if ever her son who comes to england
how's hoping he comes in mufti not like
his father
and his grandfather and his grandfather
make him promise to become a pilgrim too
at the moment sir i'm having a little
trouble with my future son's mother but
your advice is sound i ever heard you
say last night that you liked me in
spite of yourself
that's true enough and i like you too
you're not the only stuff you should try
to make out
you know the way yes thanks i'm taking
bob to the cathedral
he's got a date there with his buddy
then it's goodbye
good luck thank you
why good luck to you especially yes why
you
military secret what's cooking tell a
fellow
we're off today no where to
but don't worry i'll be seeing you it's
a date
and the more of us the media
i'm looking for the police station
thank you
okay sergeant yes sir watch out for
combos very good sir christ church
in 10 minutes carry on very good sir
inspector yes superintendent hall wants
to see me he's not in
when will he be well it's hard to say
he's got a job on special service in the
cathedral
and they're marching through the city i
think i'm one of them well you ought to
know
suit yourself but he won't be back till
the soldiers are gone trouble is when
the soldiers are gone i'll be gone too
where am i finding my cathedral come on
sergeant
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good morning dr kelsey
early as usual excuse me sir
have you seen superintendent hall
anywhere silver
this is canterbury cathedral not the
police station
i'm sorry i was told he might be here he
wants to see me urgently
uh gently
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gosh
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oh
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my
my god
excuse me i think you dropped this
too much urgency
do you mind looking at the organ from
everton oh go ahead
are you the organization do i look like
the child woman
this is some organ what do you know
about it
i'm an organist or at least i was before
the war
oh well once an organist always an
organist
unless of course you only play the mouth
organ
where did you study wrong academy of
music and who
pera do you know him sir oh we've cut
each other for 27 years
but he's a fine teacher none better yes
we thought so
are you playing this morning later
there's a special service for the
battalion of soldiers
that's my battalion you going to
yes sir where did you play last
you're there i played in a cinema
cinema when i was a young man your age
after i got my degree i played in a
circus
the harmonium piano wasn't loud enough
especially for the elephants how much do
they pay you in a cinema
30 a week they only paid me 22.
ah but 22 shlings then was more than 30
today
perhaps 22 shillings then could buy as
much as 30 pounds today
huh oh no no no i don't think so
well do you want to play
i'd like to not afraid of it
no i don't think i'm afraid then have a
go
if you're one of them it's only right
that you should play
now show what you can do
play something anything only don't swing
it
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now
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and my dad's paw built the first baptist
church in johnson county
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oregon red cedar cedar shingles
1887.
well that was a good job too
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excuse me would you mind telling me is
this old canterbury lane
no this is rose lane canterbury lane is
further up
i haven't been here since 1940. the rose
hotel used to be here
just where we're standing this is the
parade and that is in georgia street
oh yes i see thank you it is an awful
mess i don't blame you for not knowing
where you are
you get a very good view of the
cathedral now
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so
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excuse me
is this rose lane garage yeah
you don't want to take her out mr you no
i
i just want to look at her
she's a good friend of mine
caravan yes
spruce we ain't tattoo since the blitz
what happened to the tires requisition
you know the regulations mr portal
couldn't let you know because he had no
address for you
he got the receipt he'd be glad you're
here i go and tell him
what a shame
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uh
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me
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um
i know i should find you here
i know how you're feeling you don't
everybody has disappointments in life
life is full of disappointments
i'm also eating everything
i don't hurt your feelings but there's
something
impermanent about a caravan everything
on wheels must be on the move sooner or
later
oh hello mr portal how are you how'd you
do miss allison
how do you do it do you know mr
culpepper oh yes i know mr culpepper i
knew his father
how do you do mr tom how are you mr
portal miss alison
why didn't you leave us your address two
weeks ago mr jeffrey's father came here
he came here all the way from oxford he
didn't want the caravan
he can't have it it was mr jeffrey's
wish that i should have it
well you were a witness you were there
when he said no no it's quite all right
miss allison he doesn't want the caravan
he wants to get in touch with you
i told him that we'd received a letter
from you and that you were coming here
he's waited for you he's staying at the
false staff
for over two weeks now he's waited for
you here in canterbury
why because he has news ms allison
official news
about mr jeffrey he's in gibraltar
missouri
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i must open the windows
the caravan's full of boss
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they're ruining everything
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i haven't seen so many moths in all my
life mr culpepper
where's mr culpepper he's gone miss
allison
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hey
why are you homesick sad sac gi hey what
in canterbury you've been doing with
your three days leave
learning sergeant learning since when
did you ever learn anything except from
the indians
hey can i shoot inside we'll ask the
verger the walk the verger he's the
number one man around here
oh hey you know what you missed in
london nightclubs like new york you've
never been in new york oh and girls and
telephone numbers wait i got a million
of them
you know about the old rose that's a new
one on me
where is it piccadilly piccadilly it's a
road a real one
okay what about it it's the pilgrims
road
gee even you know about the canterbury
pilgrims
yeah you know i seem to remember
flunking them where does it go to this
old road you're standing on it it goes
right here to canterbury cathedral
come on in you're a pilgrim yourself but
you don't know it
hey let's have some tea first huh that
stuff sure it's a hobbit like marijuana
i'll take
marijuana you'll drink tea and like it
i'll drink it but i won't like it they
are your canterbury pilgrims you can sit
right there and watch the world go by
like in the movies
hey babe what's cooking
i think you'll call me you know what do
you got to eat in the kitchen scones and
rock band
all right bring us an order of each and
some tea and look when you're spooning
out the tea don't forget one for him
one for me one for the pot one for the
pot
looks like she made the original
pilgrimage now look let me get this
straight
you came here by road not by train i
came by train but the pilgrims used the
old road
uh-huh why for blessings you character
for blessings
okay where's yours uh-uh it don't work
nowadays that was 600 years ago
you see it's just like i've been saying
here you are 600 years too late
you passed up 72 sleepless hours in
london and you ain't even got a blessing
yes sir you're completely and positively
it don't work nowadays huh hey do i look
like a heavenly messenger to you you
look like mickey rozzinski to me oh yeah
well ah mickey rosinski have a blessing
for you oh no i've been carrying these
around for two days give me those
letters the whole lot came in the mail
the afternoon you left from your girl
hey what stamps are these australian
australian yeah she certainly gets
around
these were mailed in sydney australia
she's joined the wax
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wow
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so
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it's your superintendent hall want him
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so
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him 293
293
our christian soldiers marching
ball
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when
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of jesus
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