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Leroy's Million Dollar Laundry

The Great Gildersleeve · August 20, 1952 · 29 min · 3,573 words

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The Kraft Foods Company presents Willard Waterman as the Great Gilders' Leave. The Great Gilders' Leave is brought to you transcribed by the Kraft Foods Company. Kraft, makers of the one and only Miracle Whip salad dressing.

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More miracle whip is sold than the next 20 leading brands of salad dressing combined. Try it. Make your salads better tasting with the one and only miracle whip. Last night, as the quiet hours rolled by, the great gilder sleeve and his little family slept peacefully in their beds.

Well, all except his little nephew Leroy. He lay awake, and the wheels of his mind were turning around and around. In a little while they begin to turn faster. And faster. And then he got an idea.

Now it's morning. Bertie the housekeeper is in the kitchen cooking breakfast. And here comes Leroy. Hi Bertie. Good morning. Leroy, you up already? Yep, I was the first one. What happened? You bed fold down?

No, I got a busy day. I'm flying. You better tuck in your shirt, Tia. You're not only flying. You flapping. Okay. What you got there Leroy, is that your piggy bank? Yeah, I got a neat idea, I'm gonna make a pile of money.

Don't you go bust and open that pig? No, I got a better idea than that. I'm gonna sell guesses. guesses? Sure, you know how stores have people guess how many beans in a jar? Well, I'm gonna have them guess how much there is in my piggy bank.

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