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To Build a Brick Wall

Father Knows Best · March 12, 1953 · 29 min · 4,450 words

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Mother, why did Daddy switch to post him? Your father says there's no caffeine in post him, nothing to spoil your sleep. And your father knows best. Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribe and Hollywood starring Robert Young is father.

A half hour visit with your neighbors the Amazon. Brought to you by Instant Postam. The good tasting drink that's entirely caffeine free. And by post 40% brand flakes. America's largest selling brand flake. Realize the job well done, there are four requisites.

First, there must be a desire to do the job. Second, the know-how or ability to do the job. Third, the materials with which to work, and fourth, the tools themselves. Over on Maple Street at the White Frame House this Saturday morning, the desire, know-how, and material seem to be in order.

But as far as the tools are concerned, there appears to be a bottleneck. The master of the house, Mr. Jim Anderson, is attempting to diagnose the bottleneck by the process of elimination. Like this. Margaret, have you any idea where my long handled shovel is?

No, I haven't. But? No. Betty? No. Dathy? No. Well, that's just about par for the course. Why is it that nobody ever knows where anything is around here? No, dear. Seems that lately I can never find anything out there in the garage.

Last week it was my pipe wrench. Before that, my axe and tape measure. What about that sign you were going to put up in the garage? A place for everything and everything in its place.

I put it up, but now that's missing too. Well, a shovel must be around here someplace. Dad, why don't you do like I do when something is missing? You have a system? Sure. If I lost a shovel, I'd say to myself, where would I go if I was a shovel?

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