Holiday Story
Suspense · December 23, 1948 · 29 min · 4,680 words
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In just a moment, Autolight presents, suspense with Herbert Marshall. It was the night before Christmas, and in Santa Claus' sleigh, the electrical system was plenty okay. The ignition was perfect, worked like a dream, and the sleigh ran so smooth it made Santa be.
What was Santa's secret on him? I heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight, it's no secret at all. It's just Autolight. No, I love him. You see, hap, with all the kids in the world, depending on old St. Nick, Christmas Eve, He plays safe by replacing old or worn out parts in his auto light equipped car, a sleigh, with auto light original factory parts.
Resistors spark plugs, staple batteries, distributors, starting motors, coils, generators, wire and cable. All famous for their auto light ignition engineered dependability. Santa does it? Why don't you? Oh no, let's switch from Santa to suspense.
The Spence, Auto Light, and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. Starring tonight, Mr. Herbert Marshall, in Anton Leader's production of John Collier's Holiday Story. A tale well calculated to keep you in, so Spence.
Jinx all the way, what fun, just right, little uncorseless and she... ...whose jingle bells? We're free! Here's my dear. What's under the U doing down here in Sela? Why, just do we have little digging?
And why, may I ask, have you chosen this day of all days to dig up the Sela floor? Well, I thought as the weather's been so damp, this would be a good time to plant that little devil's garden I told you about.
Devil's garden, what if it nonsense is that? Oh, that was my little joke about it. You see, I've managed to get ahold of the spores of several unclassified wild orchids. In their wild state, they bloom under damp masses of leaf mold.
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