Cure that Habit!
Our Miss Brooks · January 15, 1950 · 29 min · 4,535 words
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Colgate Dental Cream to clean your breath while you clean your teeth and help stomp tooth decay and bluster cream shampoo for soft glamorous, caressible hair bring you our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden. Time once again for another comedy episode of All Miss Brooks written by Al Lewis.
Well, last Friday fell on the 13th of the month, a day of caution for the superstitious. But to our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School, it didn't mean a thing. No indeed. Even when my landlady told me at breakfast that our cat Minerva came home with two black kittens, I just laughed and said, Mrs. Davis, no!
Oh yes, they've just had all the shrub of milk. But Minerva and I were always so friendly. She didn't say a word to me about this. All the kittens aren't Minerva's. I don't know where they belong.
All I know is that we can't afford to keep them. It would mean two more mouths to feed. You're right, Mrs. Davis. We've got enough trouble feeding the mouths we've got. See, I've got an idea.
We could leave them in the snob grass pet shop until we located the owners. Spetches' father has all sorts of things in his place. That's true. He even has stretch. It's good old stretch. That boy certainly is a fine athlete.
Yes, he is. Now if there was only some way we could find to exercise his brain. Don't worry about the kittens Mrs. Davis, I'll have Walter Dentham drop them off at the pet shop on our way to school this morning.
Good. And one more thing, Connie, would you deliver this jar to Mr. Conklin when you get to school? Certainly, Mrs. Davis. What have you cooked up for our beloved principal? It's a secret concoction, Connie. My own recipe. It never fails.
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