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Fire Bells Are Ringing

The Great Gildersleeve · October 21, 1953 · 30 min · 3,965 words

The transcript of “Fire Bells Are Ringing”, an episode of The Great Gildersleeve first broadcast October 21, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Great Gildersleeve plays The Great Gildersleeve free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Craft Foods Company, makers of Craft Oil, presents Willard Waterman as the Great Gilder's Leave. The Great Gilder's Leave is brought to you transcribed by the Craft Foods Company. Time's getting short. You have only a few more days to enter Craft Oil's contest.

The sensational Name the Cake contest that awards the winner a new Ford Victoria every year for five years. entry blank that your groceries tomorrow. It's easy to enter and you may win a new Ford every year for five years or one of eighteen hundred and fifty valuable doormire electric appliances. More details in a few minutes.

Well you never know what to expect when a boy at D.Z. Parker. Sometimes it's pieces of string, marbles, tin foil, keys that won't fit anything and some things you can't even identified. But this afternoon when the great fieldist lives nephew Leroy emptied his, there was a roll of electric wire, a dry cell battery, and a cast-off light switch.

And for the last couple of hours he's been pretty busy. Now attach this other wire to the switch and snip it off. Let you do it. Leroy! Yeah, Bernie! What have you up to in your open bin?

What makes you think of up to something? Card is so quiet in here. And I know you ain't doing your homework, or you usually have the radio going full blast. You up to something. Verde, I got the whole house wired.

All I have to do is flip this switch. You gonna blow it up? No. I'm gonna have some fun with us when it comes home. Come again? Why don't you ask the door, Verde? My land.

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