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Sets His Own Bail

Lum and Abner · January 26, 1942 · 11 min · 2,179 words

The transcript of “Sets His Own Bail”, an episode of Lum and Abner first broadcast January 26, 1942. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lum and Abner plays Lum and Abner free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Then he's in, I believe that's our ring. Hi, Dogy's, lama. I'll believe you're right. No, see. Hello, Johnum Downstor. This is Ramen Abner. Let's see what's going on down in Pine Ridge. Well, one of the storm clouds hovering over Lum finally turned out to have a silver lining.

Uncle Henry Lunsford, the town marshal, still insists that Lum must stand trial for entering the Johnum Downstor at midnight, even though Abner doesn't want to bring any charges against his partner. However, Lum has stopped worrying about this since it was discovered that as he is justice of the peace, he must try his own case.

As we're looking on the little community today, we find that it's visiting hour at the jail. And Wagner has just arrived. Listen. Oh, howdy, Long. Oh, hello, Wagner. Uncle Henry said I could come in and see you for 15 minutes.

But I can't see nothing till you hear the vistas bell ring on. for goodness sakes. I wish he'd break that compound effect. Well, that is way ahead and talk now. Well, what I come in to tell you, lama, all right, Doggies, what you doing?

Thole them weeds in your cell. Oh, it's another one on Conhenries, Idies. And he sent Cedric down to the river to get a truckload of reeds and now I'm supposed to weave baskets out of them.

Basket? Well, he won't basket for. I don't know. And he says this to keep me from thinking about murders and bank robberies and and bezlin and all such a... Of course not. But he says according to that penitentiary book he's got, that's what I think about all the time.

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