 Hello there, this is the family doctor hanging me on the back of that big hand of yours You want it all better to do me like that? Gosh the Friday, what if I had a weak heart or something? Oh, you ain't got a weak heart doc No, sir yours is the strongest biggest and warmest heart in Cedarton. Huh me? Yes, what are you talking about? Tell you listen Bill just because you're chief of police here Don't you think you can go around slapping people on the back and scaring them half to death besides insulting their physical condition Yeah, I get you doc Well going in the doctrine business must be kind of slow right now. What do you mean? Well, you were standing out here in front of Rankins's hardware just to stare it into the front window What you looking at our doc? Well, I was just looking at that spade there thinking it was about time to dig up the old bulbs and separate them for next season Got it. I think you're right doc. Yeah, yeah won't be long now Yeah, how the time do fidget as the man says talk man. Oh, they Well, how do I know what man? Hey, that that is a powerful good-looking spade and it looks like it could stand a heap of wear and tear Yep, and I don't have to be seeing just about one of them pretty soon Well, doc Here's things as slow on your line as they is mine. Why we ain't had a particle exciting for nine hundred a month now Well, I speak pretty well for the folks of Cederton. Yeah, but do it sure do Been keeping busy doc say now you listen to me chief Benson You've been standing here for five minutes trying to pump me about my practice. What's the idea? Just being a good copper to keep your eyes ears and nose open doc, you know never can tell when you'll pick up a clue Yeah, but Stop yawning or talking or something. Yeah, I just said I ain't seen the light of burning in your office plate No, ain't there ain't been so active of recent, huh? All right. All right. I'll tell you no I haven't been busy. I haven't had the patient for three days I don't have any outstanding accounts payable and I don't expect to have a patient for a long time maybe ten years Say look doc. What do you see that young fellow over there across the street? Yeah, well, what about him? He looks a heap suspicious to me. What? Benson you're talking through your head. I don't know now I've been watching him for a couple of days He don't do nothing except walk around the streets all day long and I ain't been able to find him at night It's a tall bus to major mad. Yeah, no, no, no, no, it didn't do nothing the kind I'm just a looking out to the safety of the citizens of the city I aim to keep the pieces in it and one sure way to do it is to keep my own all suspicious Characters, well now I can't say that I see anything particularly suspicious about a young man walking around the streets Even if he is a stranger to town. Yeah, I'm going to find out anyhow. Hey, you don't want to do that It's quite dark. I'll handle this. There you go young fella Yeah, you come on over here. Yes, sir. I'll find out about him soon enough Did did it did you call me sir? Yes, I did Yes, sir, where are you from young fella from back east where back east? Oh mostly New York State What's your name chick chick Harper chick what do you mean chick? Well, my my real name is Charles, but they've always called me chick. They who are they I don't know everybody all my friend Bill What are you trying to do? Wait a minute doctor? I'm going to get to the bottom of this bottom of what have I done anything? I shouldn't I don't know young fella. That's what I'm going to find out. What are you doing in Cedarton? Well, I I'm going to get a job job What do you expect you'll find a job in Cedarton all the jobs are taken a friend of mine is going to get me one friend What friend Johnny Kemp? Oh, I see Johnny Kemp ain't he the young fella that was a quitter to bank robbery a while back? Yeah, oh your horses doc. Oh your horses Well young fellow chick Harper to call yourself. There's let me tell you this We're peace-loving folks here in Cedarton, and we don't stand no monkey business. That's why I'm chief of police Yes, sir anybody that wants to come here and make his home is perfectly welcome. Yes, sir But let the fellow that wants trouble come to our town Well, he'll get it. Well, you got ways of taking care of you understand that yes, sir All right, that's all young fella. You can go your way. Thank you, sir Well doc I'd say he chief of police Benson that is a committee of one. You've certainly made that boy welcome to Cedarton That's all right now. We won't have any misapprehensions about there. What's expected of him if he expects to live here No, I guess you won't Let me see you. What were we at talking about talking? I don't know that I I recollect now We was discussing the general health of the town folk Oh, yeah, so we were and I said that I ain't seen you've been none too busy late Yeah, and you said that the folks in Cedarton are all perfectly healthy and I'm glad of it So you watch doc so you watch but that ain't it at all Huh, what do you mean? I mean it that you're just too good a saw bones. That's all it's you will keep some healthy Fiddler nothing's true. Why listen, do you know what you should ought to do? You should ought to go around and give them all a dose of something or other to make them sick once in a while Just to keep busy Well, I won't have to worry about you coming around to see me pretty soon What do you mean? What are you talking about? How much do you weigh well me? Oh, I don't know about a hundred and ninety-five a reckon Yeah, all of that and a good heap more what why if you don't weigh at least 225 pounds, I'll be a cast-off coin cop. Well, whatever do whatever way three hundred and twenty-five pounds What about it? Doc What are you trying to tell me? I know you're when you laugh like that. You got something on your mind. Well, I'll tell you I Don't want to scare you go ahead doc. Did you ever hear of fatty heart fatty heart? Good gosh doc. No Don't laugh. It's very serious. Oh serious, huh? Fatty heart well What's the mean doc? It means that men of your age and your weight are often afflicted with the disease of the heart Which comes from the sub cardiac region being surrounded with portions of fat? Which eventually induce a slowing down of the heart action and finally? well death yeah Often happens Hey, Bill you haven't noticed yourself breathing heavily lately. Have you well? Yes, I have And have you noticed yourself finding it more difficult to get up from the dinner table? Well, yes, I have to tell the truth What is it dr. Adams? Am I a sick man? I'm afraid you might be if you aren't now bill you might be soon Just watch those symptoms and if you know any aggravation of them well You'd better give me a call there. Yeah, better. Give me a call. Yeah. Well doc I think I'd best be get back to the station house, sir. Maybe I'll go on home Don't look as though they'd be and nothing doing in town today. No, it doesn't know but well So long doc so long bill and don't forget if you notice any of those symptoms Don't forget to call me Well, I'd best get down to the office early tomorrow morning. I'll probably be needed at the Benson residence Well, Bill I got your message. Mrs. Adams said you were feeling pretty low dr. Adams. I'm a dying man Oh, I don't think so too. Let me feel your pulse Am I a dying man doc? No, not exactly. In fact, I'd say you were almost a perfect physical specimen. Yes, I What do you mean why you aren't sick will not shake well listen yesterday you Yes, yes, I know I filled your mind with a lot of crazy ideas about breathe and heavily in the light Well, I made you think that all the little things you might notice about your own life or symptoms of a very dangerous Dangerous disease of the heart. I made you think you were sick bill. You aren't sick at all. Not sick Well, listen doc, you oughtn't have done a thing like that to me. I might have died right in your hands Oh, no, you won't die yet bill and not have a fatty heart You might have trouble with something else though. Oh my golly. What do you mean now doc? I mean you might have trouble very soon with a fatty brain fatty brain Fatty brain it might interest you to know chief of police Benson that a certain suspicious character around Cederton is actually landed a job You mean chick Carper chick Carper that young fellow you questioned yesterday in front of Rankin's hardware. Yes, ran to the job Where his friend Johnny temp found it for him. He's taken over Johnny's job at May's drugstore. Oh Oh, I see Well Well, you laugh at it. I get it doc. I get it. You get what fatty brain fat head Yep, that's me. All right, and I deserve it right enough. Yes, sir Okay, you taught me my lesson I won't take nobody for a crook now until I know they're crook from now on a man is innocent till he's too gilly That's what it says. What says the the dexterity the Constitution and it's right. Yes, sir Fatty brain Well, all the symptoms of your high trouble seems to have left you all of a sudden Doc, I see it all now. I just thought I had him just like I thought that young fellow chick Quartz is me might be a crook All I got to say though doc is that I was right, right? And when I said is how you've got the strongest biggest warmest heart in Cederton. Yes, sir Well, I still say you'd be a whole heap better if you'd take off a little way Yeah This is the family doctor. I'll be in to see you again, right? Sure. Goodbye