 left Italy to start his new life in America he promised his mother that he would write and tell her about his adventure. So now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Vasco in it. Right now everybody in this country is a celebrity and a thanksgiving. This is a holiday right American America and the butcher. From Mama Mia I'm a wish you could be here now to see how everybody is so friendly and nice and happy. When you walk down the street now everybody's got a big smile on the face except there may be a few turkeys. The reason the day is not happy is because thanksgiving is to celebrate the landing of the pilgrims. When the pilgrims is the first to come here there was a looking for something to eat so they shot the wilder turkeys. Of course most housewives wish you the pilgrims would have a shot the pork chops because that's a 30 cents a pound of cheap. But as so far of Mama Mia I got the no plans for my thanksgiving. But I'm a sure of my friend Pasquale. He's going to invite me to the spaghetti palace for private dinner tomorrow night. After all no matter how mean the Pasquale is to act the summertime underneath he's got a heart as big as a daughter. Well I finished this a little later because it's the time I should have gone out to my night to school a class. Mama Mia I'm a wish you could see my beautiful teacher Miss. She's got a blonde hair blue eyes nice. Well so far this year I'm a never come a later to class. I'm not going to start here. Quiet. Please. Please. I'll call the role. Mr. Basko here. Mr. Howard here. Mr. Olsen. Mr. Schultz gobble gobble. Mr. Schultz I presume you're imitating a terrible gobble gobble gobble. All right Mr. Schultz control yourself. Unpossible in this season a turkey has got to lose his head. Well Mr. Schultz since you're so full of the holiday spirit perhaps you can answer some of the history questions I've prepared about Thanksgiving. Me and my big mouth. You may tell us what year did the pilgrims arrive in America. Spoiling that question is so simple I'm ashamed to answer it. Well all right what year did the pilgrims arrive 1776 1776 Mr. Schultz you should be ashamed of yourself that's what I said I'm ashamed answer. All right class now who can give me the correct date 1789 1812 1492 1610. Mr. Schultz Mr. Olsen you had the correct day I didn't hear him say 1492. Mr. Schultz the answer is 1620. Now Columbus came here about 125 years before the pilgrims there's absolutely no connection between those two events. No connection. Mischwolding what are you saying if Columbus hadn't discovered America the pilgrims would have got here in 1620 stepped off the boat and fell right into the ocean. Class does anybody besides Mr. Olsen know the name of the boat that brought the pilgrims here. Oh come now the name of the boat is Mr. Harwin the name of the boat is Mr. Horowitz. I'll give you a hint. It begins with May the May I know I know the maple. No. Mischwolding if you wish I could tell you the name of the boat the day they left how many people was in it and exactly where they land him with a British spy. Are you going to have a nice big Turkey tomorrow night. Yes Mr. Horowitz every Thanksgiving I take a train ride home and enjoy a real Thanksgiving dinner with my family. Mischwolding there's nothing like being home with your loved ones on Thanksgiving. You're by your name and you should see the turkey my wife is making with canberry jelly and candied yams. Oh so Mr. Basko you haven't said anything. Where are you celebrating Thanksgiving. May I well I'm having a dinner with the my continent of Pascuali. He's invited me to eat with him. He's going to be so much food. He's told me he's going to have the biggest Turkey in the town. Yeah Rosa. Forget Pascuali. Come on and eat with me. Estimer and me would be very happy to have you eat with us. Come on Luigi will you ever be honored if you had to see it or Turkey. No stop everybody if Luigi has got to get in the session tonight I got first call. Everybody thanks for inviting me but well what's going to be brought to me here from the old country. He's the watch after me. He's an all my family and I'm a one to very much to eat with him. Mr. Schultz Mr. Basko has his mind made up. Let him eat with Mr. Pascuali. All right Luigi but one thing I got to warn you to look out for what the shoes and when you sit down by the table and push by the office use the appetizer take when he gives you the soup date and the Turkey also you take but when he points to Rosa and says Luigi take some stuffing that's the time to go on a diet. Ready for me. Oh shut up. Oh listen to me. I'm popping like the last donkey on the mule train. Listen Luigi I didn't want to say nothing in class but you didn't fool me. I could tell the way from you was talking that Pascuali didn't invite you for Thanksgiving. I'm sure he's just forgot. I'm sure he's going to invite me when I'm Christmas. No no why don't you come and eat with me on my happy little family. Oh what fun we got around the table. We got me my wife my three children my brother Ludwig my cousin Hugo my uncle Chuck his six kids my three nephews my grandfather Wolfgang his girlfriend and the rest of the family. No thank you shows. Besides there's too many people for one attack. Oh stop this year we got a turkey twice as big as last year. How big is it? Six pounds. But it shows how is it possible for so many people to eat the one a smaller thank you. Who eats. All night long we got at the wishbone party. We all sit around and wish for a bone. Oh smile Ludwig I'm just making fun. You're such a good friend don't worry about me but I'm sorry I'm going to say no. But Pascuali didn't invite you yet. She'll say I'm a no Pascuali. He's purposely no invite me because he wants I should ask him before he's asking me. So when he's an invite to me it's going to sound like I was a begginer him or what all the time I'm gonna stop you're getting me all for shimmers. I gotta go now. But if Pascuali don't invite you don't be ashamed come to me. Smile. A smile is just like glasswork. You wipe it on you wipe it off. You'll be like me always love it. Oh my. Well I'm sure Pascuali's are going to invite me. But maybe not. Maybe yes. Could be no. I'm a better stop. I'm getting myself all for shimmers. Hello Pascuali. Hello. Hello. How's it with you. I like this is the holiday spirit of Pascuali holiday. Oh yes. Well if you excuse me Luigi I'm going to go back and see how my techies are coming along. But what do you want Luigi. Well. Happy to thank you for giving up a squali. Same to you goodbye. But what what. Thanks for bringing me to America. Don't thank me thank the boat. But what. Is a big Turkey. You shouldn't see it. That's a reminder me Luigi. I wasn't thinking to ask you something about it tonight. But your answer is yes. Good. We send out the wedding invitation. I'm going to witness. I was asking you to marry my daughter Rosa. But please don't talk about it now. Let's let's talk a Turkey. Luigi when I'm a talker to you about a Rosa I'm a talker to Turkey. But enough. Oh Luigi you should see how it was a waddle around yesterday on those two big fat legs. No the Turkey. Look Luigi she's a crazy for you. Why you don't sneak up behind her. Put your hands around and they could give you a nice big case. The Turkey. No Rosa. But please I was a company who started talking about it thanks to give it. All right. All right. I'm going to give you something to be thankful about. You marry my Rosa. I'm going to give you a cash reward. Cash reward. Yes. Is it what they call an America diary. I'm going to give you a thousand dollars. Rosa's away two hundred and fifty pounds. That means you're getting a four dollars a pound. Four dollars a pound of Luigi. Think of it. That's twice as much as England is a pay for the power. Well what do you say Luigi. Say yes you've got a thousand dollars on the barrel ahead. Well. Pascuali keep your barrel ahead. Oh Luigi you are sorry specimens of a human being. After all it went out of me. You wouldn't have been America. But Pascuali I'm a great fellow to you for that. You wouldn't be able to enjoy the far freedoms of freedom from a poverty ignorance of fear freedom from a one. What more could you ask for. That's the freedom of freedom from Russia. All right. You smart. Well tomorrow night you also could enjoy a sixth of freedom. What's it that freedom from a Mike Turkey. Good night. And now for the second act of Luigi Basco's adventures in Chicago we turn to page two of his letter to his mother in a family. And so my mother is not thanks to give an evening. Everybody is just suddenly acting so nice and friendly is the wonderful. But I'm a feel a little lonely. Mama me you see Pascuali is annoying right to me. Oh excuse me Mama me maybe is a Pascuali coming in and out coming. How much the best go here's even in paper. Oh thanks to Danny. Hey you sell a lot of papers tonight. That's so good Mr. Basko everybody's rushing around they got no time to read the night. All right then I buy extra paper. All right you don't have to. That's all right. I'm going to wash you the floor tomorrow. Hey Danny. Hey it's a six o'clock and you haven't enough time to give him dinner tonight. Well you know I ain't got no folks and my uncle's written a late shift tonight. It's too bad that you haven't no thanks given dinner. Well happy thanks given Mr. Basko and a happy thanks given a Danny. Hey Danny why are you rushing sit down maybe we talk a little bit. Well I'd like to but I've got to sell these papers there's a way to do it if they're already late it doesn't matter if they're going to be a little later. Hey what's the matter Mr. Basko you look a little beat. Beat. Yeah on the ropes. On the ropes. You know poop. On the ropes beat the poops. And sometimes I would think that they teach a different English in a night to school and a day school. That means tired. Oh so that's the poops. Well Danny maybe that's how I'm a feel. And also maybe maybe a little bit to lunch. Boy I know that feel of. How's about you eat a supper with me tonight. He'll be my guest. You got a turkey. No but I'm a kind of I want all the ready to eat. OK you got a deal. I said you got a deal. Danny you're too young to play cards. Okay I'll eat turkey with. Well that's good boy this is going to be fun. Yeah Danny is like a magic to lonely people are pressed off one little party. Wait a minute I can't sell these papers first. Hey Danny I'm not going to not idea you help me to the turkey I'm happy to sell the paper that's Jake with me. Oh you've got your friend Jake over here. No that just means OK good. Well you give me half your papers. But now what I must suppose to do anything as long as you get on the by paper. It's easy. I mean it at the morning paper how could it be the morning paper if it's still a night tonight. Are you kidding I always get my morning paper the night before you may know before something is happening already leaving about it. Never mind let's have a paper to help me at times to give it to you. You're doing fine Danny I'm only got to one the paper left on he got one to hurry up. Oh my God. You want a paper. Did you say the president declared war. Sure here's the paper. OK here. Hey where does it say the president declared war. Well I'd like to hear it. The president to declare the war on a price. I'm a soldier at the paper. Mr. Basto. Solder Danny all the soldiers come on Danny now we go to the store to buy the turkey. Can I do something for you. I'm I'm interested to buy that to roast the turkey again in the winter. How much is it. Eighteen dollars. Wow. Maybe you got a little smaller one. Well how much did you want to spend two dollars. Are you kidding. No self-respecting turkey would take his feathers off for less than 10. But I'm I'm never taught the turkeys across the so much. Look Mr. You're not buying just a raw bird that eighteen dollar turkey in the winter would cost so much because we clean it and dress it you clean it and address it. Yeah looks beautiful don't I. Look at my stomach still I got a two dollars. Give me a turkey that ain't going to a party. You're joking. I'm not. You want my dog. Not Johnny not Danny here. Please Mr. We like it to celebrate the thanks together. What do we can buy here for two dollars. Well come on over here we'll see what. Smells good Danny. Such a beautiful hot the dogs. We got everything under the table. Yeah baked beans bread a potato sauce but not some milk. What the beast. Happy thanks to give it a Danny happy thanks give it Mr. Basko well I'm a beginner to carver now. Mr. Basko how can you carve a hot dog. It's not a turkey. Hey Danny you know what's the inner side of hot the dog. No anybody else you know what's in a side of hot the dog. No well I'm a no is a turkey. Now what you probably want to do any white to me thought of the black to me. Well you're the host Mr. Basko. Yeah you take first pick. No no Danny you my guest please all right I'll take the dark me good that's the only kind of we got. Danny here you take a one a drama stick I'm going to take you the other drama stick OK. This is good and passion mustard you mean at the cram a very sauce. Oh yeah. Oh wait to tell you here's your champion. Oh the mill. Look look at that. Sparkling a gun in the 1929. What is it to you. How are you. What's so funny. The father's is a tickle of my nose. It is a wonderful thanks to give it a Danny. Is there anything else you could want. Well yeah what's that I wish we had Turkey. Danny I'm going to know how you feel but let me tell you something that's the things in a life it depends on how you look at them how you feel about them like they say it's a it's a what's in your mind in your mind sure everything it depends on the way you think you want to be big you are a big you want to be king you can't be a king. Of course that's not so good you never know how long you're going to last. But Danny look at a chair over there. Ain't that the most beautiful a sofa or most expensive material that you ever saw. Huh. Look hard and the thing. Yeah and I look kind of does the walls we're in a forest Danny. Beautiful trees blue sky most wonderful spot that you ever saw. Yeah and I look on a table Danny look. Ain't that the most beautiful a feast. Anybody could ever have no matter how much money they would spend it. Yes Danny. Can I have the wish bone. What a meal that way. I'm so full I'm going to watch that. Hey you know I'm glad to possibly been invited me to dinner. Why didn't Mr. Basko. Well we just have a difference of opinion. How much of a difference. Two hundred and fifty pounds. One of them is a later now you better go home and go to sleep. OK Mr. Basko and thanks for everything. You know last year some society people through a Thanksgiving party for the news boys or I hated it. Nothing but a bunch of stuffed shirts stuff the shirts. Yeah that's a stranger country. Thanks to given a besides the stuff on the turkeys they also stuff the shirts. Well good night Mr. Basko I had a wonderful thanks to give me to Danny. I'm so full of a thanks to give me not to go to touch a bite to the Christmas. You should be a shame of yourself how do it should stole me Pascal I didn't invite you. So here my wife has to send you a turkey leg with all the premium for how do it not talk you look starved you got to how do it easy. I'm a feel like my stomach is a wet ton the hot dogs down in the heart of which the turkey. Oh no we just as I thought you are all alone. I'm all alone but to believe me is not the like you think shows told me Pascal I didn't invite you so I brought you some turkey in this bag. Please stop begging I'll have the food ready here in a second. Come on now eat this. Oh I'm a feel is so full of how am I going to stand up. I'm going to think I'm a better luck up on my dog. Luigi my fellow. Happy Thanksgiving. All that depends. Sure so what's in it at the big bag. Turkey. Out of your mind from hunger. You poor little hermit you are sitting here praying your friend Schultz would walk in with a turkey. From now on anybody who's walking is a look like a turkey. Please don't tell me I can see starvation is already bloating up your stomach. Come on I feed you my health. Come on I feed you my health. Come on open up the mouth. Why? I'd see the three turkeys. The hot the dogs. I'm not going to move. I'm not going to take off my clothes I think I'm going to sleep right under the table. Luigi! Oh Luigi look laying on the floor weaker from hunger. Crazy hiccup from an empty stomach. Luigi I was a mean a man but I'm going to make up for you. Please don't make up for me. Luigi you saying that because you angry with me and I'm at the blame. No no I'm not angry I'm a sick. You're sick only one thing at the cure that the fool. Luigi I apologize for the way I'm a tree to you but I brought you something to cheer you up. Turkey. No Rosa. That's the first time in my life I'm glad to see Rosa. Good then I'm going to call her in. Rosa. Pumpkin of pie. Rosa we was a mean to Luigi but we're going to make up for right now anyway. Don't tell me. Yes Luigi we brought you something to eat. Come on I don't think I'm going to hold anymore. Then Rosa be quick. Luigi thanks given everybody to talk about a turkey. You must be sick about hearing about turkey. How you know. So we didn't bring you any. Oh that's funny. You're wonderful. Instead of we got a surprise. Rosa open up for the part of the show. Luigi. And so my mom is a harder for me to tell you exactly how I'm going to celebrate the Thanksgiving was a good and a bad happy and a sad but one thing I'm sure and sure I'm a finally celebrate the Thanksgiving like a really very kind of holding on my stomach. Do you love in the sun. Luigi Vasco the little immigrant. Music is under the direction of Lord Boskin. Bob Stephenson speaking. Be sure to listen next Tuesday at the same time when Luigi has as a special guest Metro Golden Mayors new singing sensation the star of that Midnight Kiss Maria Lance.