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If they don't want to pay money, then it's called junk. So far, I'm into the junk business. My countryman Pasquale, who's brought me to America and has set me up into my business, he don't like antiques. The only thing that he likes that's old is all the cash. But to me, Mama B, I'm in love with my old shopper who, when I'm coming back from some auction with a spinning wheel or a feather that was a user to write to within the 17 and 90, I feel like I'm on the part of America. But Pasquale, he don't understand this. He says, if I want to own a part of America, I should have married his daughter, Ross. But to Mama Mia, she's away 250 pounds and that's too much a real estate for a wonder man. Mama Mia, how I can explain it to Pasquale, the beauty which I'm seeing in my antiques. Like taking this old, old top of desk which I bought a few days ago from a junkyard. Junker man, I don't know what it is. He's selling me this desk for $80, but I'm sure it's an antique from a Civil War days. He's got a lot of scratches and a dense and a bumps. I guess the owner must have been under the losing side. But anyway, I'm sitting here in my antique shop and thinking how lucky I am to be in this business when suddenly my daughter's open up and a big wind doesn't come in sight. Luigi, my friend! Luigi, hello, hello. Hello, Pasquale. Hello. Well, little man, what's new? In a this antique shop, nothing. Well, Luigi, we had our little laugh. Good. Now I got a news for you. In a few days, I'm a tearing down an antique shop. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. Now listen to me with both of your eyes. I'm sick and tired of seeing you waste your time in this old-age home of a tired furniture. Pasquale, what are you going to do? I'm no more going to be like a chicken heart and almost a father-in-law to you. From now on, I'm going to be me in a hard, cruel, ambitious. I'm going to act like a landlord. Luigi! Yes, Pasquale? Next week, instead of Luigi Bosco's antique shop is going to be a bigger new sign outside. Pasquale's a supermarket. Oh, no, no, Pasquale, you can't do this. All right, maybe you're going to make more money with a supermarket. But how are you going to compare this to antiques? It's the business of love. Pasquale, money isn't out to everything. Please, I'm no want to talk about a money to a man who's never had it. Luigi, if I'm a total you once, I'm a total you twice. Your best friend is a dollar bill. Oh, no, that's the way you're wrong, Pasquale. You're going to have a better friend than a dollar bill. That's right, the five dollar bill. Luigi, there's no use to argue with me. I say supermarket is a supermarket. When my head is settled on something it's like a solid block. You're so right, Pasquale. You rail the solid block ahead. That's a funny thing. When I'm saying it, it's a come out of different. Look, am I fine a business of man? The next week is there going to be a supermarket here. Now I'm going to need a strong fellow to lift things around the shop. So if you want to apply for a job as a shoplifter, let me know. Pasquale, don't say I'm not the good a business of man. Look, I'm about to sell a desk here for eight dollars. If it's a turnout to be antique, I'm going to make a lot of money on it. It's a piece of junk. I want a cake. It's a fall of pieces. Look. Mamma Mia, look at the top. It's a roll down. Look, I give another cake. Pasquale, stop. Hey, look. Look, an envelope is a fall out of the desk. What do you expect? It's going to fall out. The Paul of Revere is a horse. Hey, let me see that a letter. Signer A Lincoln. That's a nothing. Let me throw it away. Lincoln. Look, what's the matter? You're fooling. Couldn't it be signed by Abraham Lincoln? Do you know what that would be worth it? Lincoln isn't gone a long time ago, so this is what the post office calls a dead letter. Ain't it worth the same? Let me see. White the house, 1850-40. A Lincoln. Pasquale. A letter from Abraham Lincoln. A right in this desk. Do you know what this means? Sure. Lincoln was too lazy to run down to the mailbox. Luigi, enough of foolishness. Am I a supermarket? Just a think. Me. Luigi Basko. Plain immigrant. And I'm going to let it that it was written by Abraham Lincoln and it was signed by Lincoln himself. So what? A letter from the head of the Mars is worth it twice as much? Twice. It's too good to be true. Hey, Luigi, come back. Where are you going? I'm going to my night in the school at class. It might teach you my spelling. And she's going to tell me if it's a real letter or not. Goodbye, Pasquale. Goodbye. Luigi. A little pop of squeak. If he was to look at my daughter Rosa like he looked on that Lincoln letter, she would have gained a 20 pounds. I'll call the roll. Mr. Basko? Mr. Basko? Well, that's his first absence this year. Mr. Harwitz? Yeah. Mr. Olson? Yeah. Mr. Schultz? You got to ask. Oh, thank you, fellow poobers. I am more fun than a little poopy dog. All right, Mr. Schultz. And try to pronounce that word pupils. Oh, certainly. Thank you, fellow poobers. Good. I am more fun than a little poopy dog. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. I'm a spoiling. And it ends with me. I've just got a telegram from Napoleon. Mr. Basko, that's a very silly excuse. But I'm a spoiling. Is it true? Here, here's the letter. You see for yourself. Goodness. Apparently, this letter was written by Lincoln. Luigi, where did you get it? Well, if that's a genuine Lincoln letter, there must be bought a lot of money. Money? That's borsifortune. Afforture, I sure see. For sure that's priceless. Lincoln represents the kind of man never see again. What's the matter, Schultz? A Republican president. I'm trying to make you laugh. Mr. Schultz, stop confusing Mr. Basko. Now, where did you get this Lincoln letter, Mr. Basko? Well, in my antique shop, Miss Spaulding. You see, I was aboard another Civil War desk. Pasquale was a make-of-funny. He's a kick at the desk and the top is a fall-down. He's a kick at my gun, and this is a Lincoln, and that is a fall-out. Himmel, one more kick, and he starts the Civil War over again. Louis, gee, you should have that letter replaced by an expert. It might be very valuable. Oh, sure. My Uncle Hugo once had a girlfriend. She got five hundred dollars for one old letter she found. Who has a Lincoln letter? No, it was Uncle Hugo's letter. He sent it to her in a moment of weakness. Seriously, Mr. Basko, this letter should be worth something. That is, if it's a real Lincoln letter. If it's a real? Oh, no. Miss Spaulding, how you gonna tell if it's a real a Lincoln letter? How can you tell? It's the same way you tell with a Lincoln penny. You bite it. If it bites back, it must be Lincoln. Mr. Schultz, you are only confusing, Mr. Basko. I'm sorry, Luigi. I didn't mean to get you for shimmel. Miss Spaulding, how could Luigi make sure that Lincoln letter is genuine? Well, I'm not really qualified to judge, Mr. Basko, but I could send you to an expert on this subject. His name is Maxwell Hunley. He's an authority on Lincoln, and he's a dealer in rare books. All right, Miss Spaulding. I'm gonna go see him right away. What's the matter, Luigi? You suddenly got pale. Your heart, don't you feel good? Well, it's just, well, Abraham Lincoln is the biggest American I'm worried about all of my life for when I was in Italy. All the way, America was to make great the place. A place where a Lincoln lived. And since I'm on this letter, well, I feel like I'm a touch in the hand of a desigrate the man. And now, now for this letter, ain't the real... Well, now, though, don't feel so bad, Luigi. You go down to this expert fellow, Mr. Hunley, and the chances are you have a real Lincoln letter. That's right, Luigi. Lincoln wasn't the type to send fake letters. That's true, Luigi. I bet you're even going to get your name in the papers for this. Yes, you'll be famous, Mr. Basker. Who knows? They might even put your name in the history books. Yes. Ah, stop it, stop it. You're not sure? 4092 Columbus discovered America. 1950, Luigi discovered Lincoln. We've returned to life with Luigi. I'd just like to mention the enjoyment you can get by chewing delicious wriggly spearmint gum. Slip a stick of wriggly spearmint into your mouth any time. You'll find the lively, full-bodied, real mint flavor really refreshing. And you'll enjoy the smooth, pleasant chewing. Now let's turn to page two of Luigi Basko's letter to his mother in Italy. And so, Mamma Mia, I'm going to downtown now to see this expert to Mr. Hunley. And he's going to tell me if this Lincoln letter I'm found in the old desk is real. Mamma Mia, it's a look real to me, but now I'm a little worried. I was a notice, and the bottom of the letter is not to sign the Abraham. Just to A. Well, well it could be that Lincoln was running short of ink. But just imagine, Mamma Mia, it was a real letter. What a proud the day this is for me. Like a Schultz is a say, 1492, Columbus is a discovery. Well, a little banana nose. I see the bigger business, the man. Hello, Pascuali. Hey, how come you ain't starting to move this antique junk out of here? Conflicts are coming to murder the mothers of shells for the supermarket. No, Pascuali, please, I'm too busy. I'm going to go downtown and see a man about this Lincoln letter. He's going to examine it and tell me if Lincoln really wrote it. It can tell this when he examines the letter? Sure. Luigi, stop wasting the time. You want this letter to have the best examination possible, huh? Yeah. Send it to the Mayo Clinic. And now, Pascuali, you're just making fun of me. That's all you deserve, you stupid boob. You'll really believe you're going to come across a real Lincoln letter and a broken down antique shop in Chicago. If you want to dig up the things that belonged to Lincoln, you've got to go where he left them, on the Lincoln Highway. All right, Pascuali, you're making me feel better now. But maybe if this expert, Mr. Hunley, he says in my Lincoln letter is real, maybe you're going to change your mind about my antique business. Sure, sure. If this letter is real, Luigi, I've got to forget all about it at the supermarket. Oh, thank you, Pascuali. Come on, Luigi, I go with you to this big expert. Oh, I want to see you face it when he says, sorry, Mr. Basko, this letter wasn't a written by Honest Abe. It was a written by Crook of the Joe. Here's a distort, Pascuali. Maxwell, Hunley, rarer books. Rarer books, eh? This fellow and me, we got a lot in the common. He likes his books like I like my meat, too rare. Now, now, Pascuali, please, don't make it funny. Come on, come on, are we going inside? Oh, good evening, gentlemen. Oh, good evening. Are you Mr. Hunley? Yes, something I can do for you? Yes, I'm a Pascuali from a Pascuali's spaghetti palace. This fellow here is a Luigi. He's got a letter for Abraham Lincoln. What time do you expect him to come in? What? Stop, Pascuali, please. Mr. Hunley, I'm an antique dealer, and I'm happy to find the Lincoln letter. Here, please tell me, is it real or not? I'd be glad to. It's not very often that a Lincoln letter turns up. Mostly fake, sir. I'm going to take a look under my magnifying glass. There. Ah, something good as the White House emblem. So what? Is the White House a hamburger joint? It's all over the country. The paper looks right. Just a proper shade of faded brown. And writing looks authentic. I can tell by those curlicues. Can't be right. The Lincoln had a straight there. Pascuali, please. Mr. Hunley, you think this letter is real? Well, we'll soon know. Now, let me see. That's not signed Abraham Lincoln, but simply A Lincoln. Ah, now I know it's a fake. And those days, they didn't a no shorthand. Now, you're wrong, Mr. Pascuali. It so happens that's a good sign. Good sign? Yes. Most of Lincoln's letters, just like this, will be signed A Lincoln. Letters with the full name Abraham are quite rare, and consequently, forgeries are practically never attempted. Mr. Baskov. Yes? You're a very fortunate man. You stumbled across a real honest-to-goodness Lincoln letter. Well, for me, so what? How much money is it worth? Well, it's difficult to place a definite valuation on the letter, but very often the figure may run into astronomical proportions. Look, Mr. Talk English, huh? My friend, Luigi, he don't understand. Well, this letter might be worth $500. My friend, Pascuali, he's just understood. Pascuali, is there something wrong? $500. Luigi, how long would it take it to change my spaghetti palace into an antique shop? Would that a stale of food that you've got now? Five minutes. I know just how you feel, Mr. Baskov. I imagine the people at the Newbury Library would feel the same way if they could get that letter. Library? You mean the public library? They want this letter that I'm a got there? Yes, they have a very fine collection of Lincolnianna, which is on exhibition to the public all the time. I'm sure they'd be willing to pay you a very fine sum for that letter. Oh, then I'm going to go there right now. I'm going to go right to this in Newbury Library. Mr. Baskov, would you mind if I phoned this item into the newspapers? You know, Maxwell Hunley announces that a Lincoln letter was discovered by Mr. Luigi Baskov, antique dealer of... 21, not the Holy City Street. How do you spell that? Just to put it two and a one, is it 21? Well, I'm going to go to the library. I'm going to go to the library. Goodbye, Mr. Hunley, and a thank you. Goodbye, Baskovalee. Have a safe morning. Why, he's excited. I don't know why. He's making big deals like this all the time. Really? Sure. That Luigi Baskov is the best business man you've ever met. Here comes Luigi. Put away that pen and that ink and that fade of the brown paper. Go on. Hi, good morning, Luigi. Good morning, Baskovalee. Hey, Luigi, before you tell me how much money you got from the library, I've got some very exciting news. Who are the Baskovalee? After you left me last night, I went home and began looking around in my spaghetti palace for all the Lincoln letters. Guess what? Who are they? I found a 15. 15, the Lincoln letters. Sure, go ahead, Luigi. Here's one. Read it for yourself. Are you an expert? All right, I read that. Huh. From Abraham Lincoln to who is it going to concern? This is to certify that all the people that were born equal, that they created equal, and you can fool all the people I have for the time. Signed a Lincoln. Huh? Now, Luigi, you know that letter ain't a fake. That's a sign of a Lincoln. Wait, I'll read another letter. Dear General Ligrante, you're doing a finer job with this award. Keep up with the good work, and I'm going to let you handle all of my wars. P.S., don't use the atom of bomb unless you got it. Pascuali, that's impossible. In those days, there wasn't no atom of bomb. That shows what you know. So happens, that's been a top of military secret for a hundred years. And if it wasn't for Walter Winschiller, they still wouldn't have known about it. I'm going to read some more. From a Lincoln to a G Washington. Pascuali, the whole thing is a crazy. These letters are written by Abraham Lincoln, and that was a written by Abraham Pascuali. You found out, huh? Luigi, you were a real expert. How you did it? Well, Pascuali was a lot of things. But one thing I'm sure of, Lincoln has never spelled his name L-I-N-K-E-N. And besides, there's two L's in a Lincoln. That's right, Luigi. I just remembered. It's a L-L-I-N-K-E-N. Well, Luigi, I guess I was just trying to get a Richard too fast. After all, you got all that money from the library. Hey, how much money they gave you? Good evening, assassin. I'll have a table. We serve the finest of food here. I'm not interested in eating. Who's Luigi Basko? That's a, that's a, I mean, that's me. Is, is something wrong? My name is Bosworth. I read in today's paper that you came across an old Lincoln letter. That's right. I'm a found in an old ochre desk that I'm a bought from a junk dealer. Well, that desk belonged to me, and that letter is mine. He ought to see it. Yes, and I can prove it. I have the companion letter, which Lincoln wrote the very same day. Now give me back my letter. No, no, please, please, Mr. Donner, get excited. I won't get excited if I get that letter right now. Just a minute, Mr. Possession is a nine-tenths of a law. Would it be ten-tenths for the government to take a one-tenth for withholding a man? She has a found that letter rightfully, so it's a belonging to him. Besides, that letter is now at the Newberry Library. Luigi was there last night. Oh, sold it. What right had you to sell that letter? That letter belonged to me. I'll sue you for every penny. I'll have you thrown out of business. Why, you foreigners come here, and you think that you can take over the country. What appreciation do you have of a Lincoln letter? Why don't you go back where you came from? I'm a thinker. You should have read that a Lincoln letter you sent for. Maybe you have a precious in it for your country. Now, please, get out of here. Don't you tell me to get out of here. I beg your pardon. I'm looking for Luigi Bascow. His antique shop seems to be closed. I'm a Luigi Bascow. I'm very glad to meet you, Mr. Bascow. I'm Professor Eisner from the Newberry Library. Oh. Mr. Bascow, we're so thrilled over at the library about acquiring that new Lincoln letter that we would like to hold a special ceremony on Lincoln's birthday and have you make a formal presentation of the letter to us. Just a minute. That letter belongs to me. I can prove it, because I have the companion letter which Lincoln wrote that same day. This man has no real regard for that letter, and he had no right to sell it to you. Sir, Mr. Bascow didn't sell it to the library. He donated it. Donated it. Sure, I'm a donated it. Donated it. And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to introduce the antique dealer who is going to read the Lincoln letter which he so generously donated to a library. July 1854. Dear sir, to answer your argument, I would like to say this. If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may enslave B, why may not B take the same argument and prove equally that he may enslave A? You mean that you are intellectually the superiors of others and therefore have the right to enslave them? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet with a mind superior to your own. But, you say, it is the question of interest. And if you make it to your interest, you have the right to enslave another. Very well. And if he can make it to his interest, he has the right to enslave you. Yours are very sincerely and, respectively, A Lincoln. Luigi, I'm a proud of you. Well, thank you, Pasquale. You know, when you was reading that letter, you almost looked like a Lincoln. Now, every time I go to look at a five dollar bill, I think I'm looking at Luigi Pasquale. Hey, Luigi, come out out in the hall. Is there somebody else here who's a very proud of you? I call her now. Rosa! Rosa! Cabin, are you proud of Luigi? Didn't he sound that he looked like a Lincoln himself? Rosa, how would you like it to kiss a Lincoln? That's a matter, Luigi. Tonight you should be happy. Ah, you're still thinking about what that man said, huh? About foreigners are not appreciating a Lincoln? Ah, Luigi, don't let that spoil your enjoyment. There's people like that all over. What could you do about it? Mr. Basco, we've been looking for you. The program is not over yet. Will you please come with me? I assure you, Professor. And now, ladies and gentlemen, to close our program, we have a special announcement which we would like Mr. Basco to read. Just read this, Mr. Basco. All right, then. The trustees of the Nobody Library have just received the great to good fortune. You have just heard a newly discovered Lincoln letter. Now we are proud to announce the acquisition of the companion, a Lincoln letter written on the same day. It has been donated to us, but the donor wishes to remain anonymous. That's wonderful. However, he has made one request, and we are happy to comply. Hereafter, both the letters will be exhibited side by side, and under each one, there will be a card reading donated by Luigi Basco, Antica Dealer. And so, Mamma Mia, I'm going to enjoy one of the best experience of my life. Also, my antique shop is not going to be turned into supermarket. And besides, I made a good business deal yesterday. I'm sold all the broken down the desk at the somebody. Pasquale. The last few days, I'm going to spend a much time in my antique shop because I'm in the library most of the time. Well, not exactly all the day. Library is only opening from a nine to six. But I'm a walk up and a back and a front of those letters with a big smile on my face. And the people they stop and they look and they smile a back enemy. I guess that this is because I'm wearing the biggest sign that's to say, I'm Luigi Basco. If you're lovin' to sign a Luigi Basco, the little immigrant. 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