What happens
Lum and Abner's friend Mousie Gray is pressured to fight the professional boxer Iron Ike for a $1,000 prize offered by a traveling carnival. Lum enlists Gussie to persuade Mousie, and she is told the money could change their lives. When Mousie hears Gussie's news he reacts with unexpected calm and generosity toward Iron Ike. Meanwhile Squire Skimp, who has been hovering around the boxing scheme, becomes involved in the contract that Mousie signed. The story is told in the Pine Ridge store and surroundings, with Cedric Weehawken, the Squire, and others coming and going around the boxing plans.
Pine Ridge, a small community with a general store and a barbershop, where a carnival is due to arrive within days.
Characters: Lum Edwards, Abner Peabody, Mousie Gray, Gussie Gray, Squire Skimp, Cedric Weehawken, Iron Ike
Listen for: Listen for Mousie's reaction when he reads the contract he signed, and for the manager's sudden realization about who is involved.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.