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Bessie's Cousin Substitutes for Her

The Great Gildersleeve · February 19, 1947 · 30 min · 4,144 words

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The Craft Foods Company presents The Great Gilder's Leaves. Oh, hehehehe. It's The Great Gilder's Leaves, starring Harold Perry. Brought to you by The Craft Foods Company, makers of a complete line of famous quality food products.

In the home of The Great Gilder's Leaves, it's breakfast time. With his small family grouped around him, a plate of scrambled eggs and toast before him, the great man judiciously weighs the problems of the day and makes his calm decisions.

No, absolutely not. Confound it. No. But Uncle Moore. Bites reunion perfectly well. We don't go to the movies on a school night. But, Anki, this is a very special picture. It won't be there for I...

I don't want to hear another word about it. We have certain rules around this house and by George we're going to keep them. All right, Anki. I only asked. That goes for you too, Leroy.

Who said anything? You want to see that you don't? For corn sake, I'm sitting here eating my breakfast. Who said anything about a movie? That will do, young man. I don't want to hear the movies mentioned in the book.

I want to hear the movies mentioned again. Okay, okay. What's the name of the picture? It's called Until I Met You. It's all about this girl who thinks she's in love with this man. But the night before she's to marry him, she falls madly in love with this other man.

And well, fancy saw it last night. She said it was just simply inspiring. Inspiring. That's the wrong kind of inspiration for girls your age. Oh, Auntie, you don't be so conservative. Conservative? Just because I never dash madly out of the house to see those mushy, monomiller pictures?

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