 Hello there. This is the family doctor. Just you keep away from hornets after this. Don't you worry none about that, Doc. I sure will. Just make sure they're honeybees instead of hornets. Thank you, Doc. It's here, Mudd. You slapped on my face and hands. Sure seems to help a heap. I'm going to drop around tomorrow afternoon about 4.30, Hank, and we'll have another look at you. So long, Doc. How much you play? Oh, hello there, Matty. Good morning, Mr. Hazen. Good morning, Dr. Adam. Good morning, Matty. You next, are you? I think I am. I should be. I've been waiting long enough. Well, come on in. Sit down in that big chair. Hank Hazen's had little trouble with his bees. He don't see as good as he used to. Piers to me is how he'd see better if he wants a vein. Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. See, that's what the good books say. It does, eh? Doesn't say nothing about the women, eh? Nothing that passage it don't. Well, vein. How do you figure out that Hank's vein, Matty? Well, he won't wear them spectacles. The gold rind ones that you send away for him first says folks will think he's getting deep crepid. Why, it's getting so he can't even read the course records he read. Eh, eh, you and Hank had another fallen out? What have we had? That's our business, eh? And nobody else's. Yeah, that's right. Absolutely correct. Well, Matty, what's the trouble this time? Oh, Dr. Adams, that misery's come back in my neck and shoulder again. Hey there. Whatcha been eatin'? Just what you told me. Half a lemon and hot water in the mornin'. An apple and some celery at noon and eatin' potatoes just once a day. That's all and nothin' more. Nothin' more? Well, I did go to sociable last Wednesday. Oh, did you eat there? Well, of course I had to enter into the festivities like. Oh, eh, of course. Well, they had some of Mrs. Phillips's lamb and curry. Uh-huh. And some of Mrs. Rankin's splendid watermelon pickle. Uh-huh. And some of Mrs. Mason's fresh homemade strawberry ice cream. Of course, I took one of my angel food cakes with the boiled ice, and you know, Dr. Adams, the kind you like so well. Yeah, I know. But you see, Matty, I don't have any misery in my neck and shoulder. No. Matty Clark, that's the trouble of you and people like you. You get somethin' the matter with you, then you expect the doctor to fix you up all by himself. Gust of Friday. I... He can't do it, Matty. Why, the human system just like that automobile of mine, settin' out there in Maple Street. I've been drivin' that automobile for six years, and it's as good today as it was the day I bought it. Why? Because I don't go out and put a lot of coal oil in ether in the gas tank. Just cause I think it'll be enterin' into the festivities like. No, Doctor. No, sorry, Bob. And you can't do it with the human system, neither. Well, give you some of these pellets, and then you stop into the drugstore on your way home and get feet made to give you some more of that same liniment. And then, Matty Clark, you see that you stay with that diet list I gave you. Well, all right, Doctor Adams, but I... Oh, look. What's the matter? There she comes. Oh. Judge Sam Windsor's girl, Faith. Well, what's the startin' about that? Oh, Doctor Adams, ain't you heard? No. Okay, say the hat. Why, it's all over town. It's swept citizen just like the gales of Galilee. Matty Clark, what are you talkin' about? Well, you know, Faith Windsor's the treasurer of a Sunday school class. The daughter's a Naomi. Yeah, I heard about that. Well, they were all gettin' ready for the class picnic next Saturday up to Miller's Lake. And what do you think? I can't. The monies disappeared. What? Yes. All the class funds has just been swept off the face of the earth, so to speak. And I ain't one to carry tales. Oh, of course not. But just at the same time, Faith Windsor came out with a brand new pink organ. She wore it to the sociable last Wednesday. Well, hasn't Sam Windsor enough money to buy his daughter a new dress if he wants to? No, of course, if he wants to. Ah, stuff Friday, Matty Clark. What are you tryin' to say? Well, I ain't one to... Are you tryin' to say that little Faith Windsor stole that money? Of course, I don't know that she did, but it looks a mighty suspicious to me. She had the money to her house, didn't she? The money disappeared from the face of the earth, didn't it? And then she comes out with a new organ. It isn't really her. Oh, Faith. Well, it's you that started all this terrible talk about me and not one bit of it's true. Do you hear? Not one bit of it. You know I didn't steal that money, but you've got everybody in Cedarton thinking I did, and someday I'm gonna prove I didn't do it. And then put this younger generation to come into talking to their elders like we was dumb animals. I think I'd better be gettin' down to the drugstore. I don't want to delay puttin' on that liniment. Here's your pellets, Matty. Oh, yes, of course. Thank you, Dr. Adams. I'm host for Gotham. Well, good day, Dr. Adams. Good day, Matty. I hope your misery's better. The one in your neck and shoulders, I mean. Thank you kindly. Good day. Not one to carry tales. Gosh, to Friday. Drugstore? Yep, I have to give Pete May some instructions about a prescription. Welcome in with me. I'll buy you root beer. All right. Don't mind if I do. Tis my tot. Go ahead. I'm right with you. Hi, Doc. Morning, Judge. Hello, Pete. Well, what'll it be, gents? Well, I've decided to go hog-wild and spend a nickel on Doc Adams. Two root beers, Pete. Two root beers. Right. You haven't seen your daughter lately in the last hour or so, have you, Sam? Pete? No. Why? Well, she... she was coming over for her penny roll, I think. She and the daughters of Naomi was to have a picnic next Saturday, I understand, and said something about the mosquitoes being pretty bad right now at Miller's Lake. Oh? Well, no, I haven't seen her. There you are, gents. Ice cold and a nickel of glass. Thanks, Pete. Well, Doc, here's how. Oh, yeah, thanks. You want anything else? Judge, my telephone's ringing. Oh, that's all for now, Pete. Here's your diamond. Thanks. The girls ought to have a fine time on their shindig. Beautiful place, Miller's Lake. Beautiful. Been thinking about buying some property up there. Think it'll double in value in the next five years. Oh, judge, it's for you. Mrs. Winsor. Oh, thanks, Pete. Be right back, Doc. It's my wife. Probably forgot to tell me to bring home a watermelon. You've been busy lately, Doc? No, no, no. People in Zeduton, they're all pretty healthy. Too healthy for you and me, eh, Doc? Of course, I didn't mean that. Don't bring it right with me. Doc, Doc, you've got to come up to the house with me right away. Oh, I don't want some of that. Faith, she's very sick all of a sudden. Come on, Doc. We're going in my car. It's right around the corner. Oh, good morning, Judge Miller. Morning. Come on, Doc. Please, hurry. Morning, Pete. What's the trouble of the winters? Well, now, that's too bad. What is it, Pete? What is it? Oh, my Mrs. Windsor just phoned the judge and told him, Faith's awful sick. Got sick all of a sudden, she said. Get sick? Well, all of a sudden? Well, I wonder what could be the trouble. Now, that musted in water and that fight of aid did the trick. Now, you'll be all right, Faith. Pete, honey, your mother found it. What? Your mother found the money. Ah, there now, Faith. Now, you're going to be all right. Sure she is. That's right. And she's going to have the best time on that picnic that any girls ever had anywhere. You don't mind telling where Mrs. Windsor found the money, do you, Sam? No. I don't mind. Young Sam Junior took it. Sammy? Why? He was just playing a prank on you, Faith. Oh. Just like a younger brother, he and some of the other boys decided it would be fun to hide those funds. Well, Faith and the girls couldn't go to that picnic. Oh, I see. And then, when they found out what people around town were saying about Faith, they were scared to give it back. But just as soon as I can get around to it, I've got a prank I'm going to play on him, with a hairbrush. Yes, sir. Well, Faith, I'll drop around again this evening just to see how you're getting along. You fix you up so that you can eat anything you want to on that picnic, Saturday. Thank you, Dr. Adams. I'll find a way out by yourself, Doc. Yes. After 18 years of coming around here, I should. Goodbye now. See you later. Well, we meet again, Dr. Adams. Oh, yes, Maddie. We meet again. Small world. Dr. Adams, I heard that Faith was alien. Yeah, yeah. She was. We all right now. Anything serious? Nothing serious. What have you been? She ate some rat poison. Rat poison? Yep. She felt so bad about the gossip that was going on around town, you know, about the money. Oh, yes, the money. They found it, though. They did? But where was it? Young Sammy had it hid, just as a joke. Oh, well, I'm so glad they found it. I'm glad, too, that Faith is feeling better. Yeah. If you don't mind my saying so, Maddie, I think you should be glad. Dr. Adams, I was just trying to do my duty as I saw it. Duty? After all, the scripture says thou shalt not steal. Oh, I see. Yes, that's the Eighth Commandment, if I remember rightly. Yes, the Eighth Commandment. Let me see. Do you recollect the Ninth Commandment, Maddie? I just don't seem to recall it for the minute. The Ninth? What? Oh, yes, I remember it. It says thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Yes, that's right. False witness. Oh, Dr. Adams, I'm so sorry. Are you, Maddie? That's good. Dr, I ain't never going to talk about anybody and see it again. Never. I'm pretty sure you won't, Maddie. And say, you'd best get on home now and put some of that liniment on your misery. Yes, sir. There's the one in your neck and shoulder, I mean. I guess the other one will disappear of its own accord. This is the family doctor. I'll be in to see you again right soon. Goodbye.