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Leroy's Laundry Business

The Great Gildersleeve · December 6, 1950 · 29 min · 4,235 words

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The Craft Foods Company presents Willard Waterman as the Great Gilder Sleeve. The Great Gilder Sleeve is brought to you each week by the Craft Foods Company. Craft, a name that for years has meant fine cheese, is the maker of the new craft deluxe slices of wonderful pasteurized processed cheese.

These slices are perfect, no dried edges, no broken pieces, because they are wrapped right in the spick and span craft plant. You'll find craft is delicious processed cheese and slices. You need half-found packages in your grocer's dairy case. Eight big slices in every package. Tomorrow take home some of these convenient packages and get acquainted with craft

deluxe slices. The most delicious processed cheese you've ever tasted. Night as the quiet hours rolled by, the great guilty sleeve and his little family slept peacefully in their beds. Well, I'll accept his little nephew Leroy.

He lay wide awake. The wheels of his mind were turning around and around. In a little while they began to turn faster. And faster. And then he got an idea. Now it's morning. Birdie the housekeeper is in the kitchen cooking breakfast.

And here comes Leroy. Good morning. Leroy, you up off first down. What happened? You bed barbed out? No, I got a busy day, I'm flying. Well, you better tuck your shirt tail in, you're not only flying, you flapping.

What you got there, Leroy? Is that your piggy bank? Yeah, I got a neat idea. I'm gonna make a pile of money for Christmas. Don't you go bust an open at me? No, I got a better idea than that.

I'm gonna sell guesses. guesses? Sure. You know how stories have people guess how many beans on a jar? Well, I'm gonna have them guess how much the reason my piggy bank. Ten cents a guess.

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