Housing Problems

From Hollywood, the CBS radio workshop. I don't care what you say, I say he keeps a canary in that cage. That's my wife, Jacqueline, Jackie for short, a woman of firm opinions. Can I say, leave that cage alone, do you hear?

That's Mr. Hensherd, our border, a man of similar firm convictions. me, my name's Eddie, and I say, I don't care what kind of a bird he keeps in the cage, so long as he pays the rent.

The CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind, presents housing problem, an unlikely story, but the kind of story you're not likely to hear anywhere else except on the workshop. problem, an experiment with your imagination, adapted by Sam Pierce from the short story by Henry Kuttner, for a host and directed by William N. Robeson.

My wife, Jackie and I both work. We have to, to keep up the house payments, and we couldn't make ends meet even then if it weren't for the rent Mr. Hentherd pays us for the back room. So, naturally, we were pretty worried when he announced one night.

I gotta leave town for a while. Oh. You're giving up the room? I'm doing nothing other sort. Oh, that's nice. I'm quite willing to keep paying the rent while I'm gone, providing... Providing what, Mr. Hensher?

Providing I can count on you two to cooperate. Why, of course, Mr. Hensher. Oh, whatever you say. I'll be gone about a week. Some property mine up north needs to tendin' two. I don't like to leave my bird cage behind, but I can't take it with me on a bus.