 Hello there. This is the family doctor. Hey, this is Dr. Adams. Ring my house for me, will you? This is Grant. I was just leaving the office and I wondered if there was anything you wanted me to bring home. Groceries? All right, honey. I'll drop you into the places on my way. What do you want? Pencil? Oh, I can remember it. You don't think I can, huh? Well, just a second. Let me see. Oh, oh, there's a pencil. Go ahead. Letters? Celery? Tomatoes? What? Oh, eggs. Sounds like a picnic. What was that? Ant paste. Still sounds like a picnic. All right, Lou, all right. I'm paying attention. And what's that? Oh, soap. All right. Is that all? Mm-hmm. Oh, about 20 minutes. All right, honey. Oh, all right. I'll tell Donk to tell his mother. All right. Goodbye. Let me see if I can remember. I couldn't find the pencil, but I couldn't let Lou know that. Letters? Celery, tomatoes, eggs, ant paste, and soap. I can remember that easy enough. Yes, Mr. Bliss? Take that order up to Maynard? Well, yes, sir. Did you pay for it? Yes, sir. I put the money in the cash register and rang it up. Come on, man. I'll close up the store. I'm going to ride in company. What did you say, Mr. Bliss? I didn't hear you. Oh, I just dropped this cracker bug. Well, well, I thought the roof had fell in. Hello, Doc Adams. Hello, Donk. Hello, Doctor. Well, I've got to get some things for Mrs. Adams' rip. Haven't closed up yet, have you? Not when I can still sell a bill of goods. Donk, you fill the order. What do you have? Well, let me see. Celery. How many bunches, Doctor? How many bunches? Well, Mrs. Adams didn't say. Oh, about half a dozen, I guess. All right. What else? What else? Oh, ant paste. Ant paste? Well, how many bottles? Well, how many do you usually sell at once? Well, no, and some folks have trouble with the ant paste, and they stock up on ant paste, powder or something. They do, eh? Well, Mrs. Adams must be having trouble if she wouldn't have told me to get ant paste. Well, give me a half a dozen bottles, Donk. All right. What else? Well, you know, I had it all right in my mind, and I left the office. Maybe you should have read it down. Well, maybe I should. But I couldn't find a pencil. Half a dozen pencils, Donk. Okay. Anything else? Well, it seems to me there was something. Oh, yeah, soap. Soap. What kind? Face laundry, chips, liquid or harness. Well, Mrs. Adams didn't say what kind. Oh, I suppose just ordinary soap. Better give me half a dozen cakes of toilet soap and half a dozen cakes of laundry soap, Donk. All right. Well, I hear you're going to run for mayor of Cederton, Rip. Yeah. Well, I did think something about it. Ames Day was up the other evening, and he said he'd support me in the post-Dougal if I'd run against Mayor Troper. He did, eh? Yeah, yeah. Ames Day, back of you. Anything else, Dr. Adams? They got all that stuff. Hmm? Oh, anything else, eh? Well, what have you got there now? Celery, ant paste, soap and pencils. Well, uh... Oh, I see some lettuce over there. That's it. Lettuce and tomatoes. Yeah, Mr. Friday, I'm glad I saw that. Oh, how many of each, Doctor? Oh, half a dozen, I guess. Tomatoes are sold by the pound, Doc, not each piece. Oh, by the pound, eh? Well, eh... Half a dozen pounds, Doctor? Yeah, yeah, I guess that'll be enough. Must be having quite a party after your place, Doc. Party? Oh, I know everything about that, Mrs. Adams didn't say so. Yeah, I think I will file for the job of Mayor, Doc. I've been living in Cederton now about, uh, 20 years. And I reckon I know enough about the town to run it. I ain't done so bad with my own business, you know. Oh, you haven't, Rip. Uh, will you, uh... Will you support me, Doc Adams? Well, uh... I guess it's a little early to decide about that, Rip, and I'm never the kind of man who tells anyone, least of all the candidates, who he's going to vote for. Yeah, uh, of course, I understand. But I will say this, I'm mighty glad you're going to run for Mayor. Your order's all ready, Dr. Adams. Oh, thank you, Doc. I put it in the carton for you. Yeah, that's fine. Well, Rip, I wish you a lot of luck in the coming campaign. Thank you, Doc. I reckon I'll probably need it. Oh, oh, Dr. Yes, Doc? Are you going in my direction? If you are, can I run along with you? You're through with me, aren't you, Mr. Bliss? Oh, yeah, you run right along if Doc Adams can take you. Why, sure. Come along, Doc. Good night, Mayor Bliss. Oh, quit getting me, Doc. I'll carry the box for you. Oh, thanks, Doc. Just put it in the back seat, then. Well, Doc, you've got a fine man for a boss. I know, Doc. I've got you to thank for it. Hmm? Oh. Well, yes, I have. If you hadn't knocked some sense into my dumb head when I started stealing your car that night, I'd have probably been back in the reformatory right now. How do you like your job, Doc? Fine. Only, well, someday, I'm going to try to go to college so as I can fit myself for something better. Well, that's the spirit. Say, Doctor, uh... Yes? Did you think I lived this way? Well, yes. Don't you? Gee, no. Come on, I've moved. Since Dad died, we don't need such a big house. So we moved out about two miles on the Dunlap Road. Well, I didn't know that. But gee, if it's going to take you out of your way, well, not at all, Doc. It's perfectly all right. What do you think you're going to want to take up in college? Well, you may think this to be funny, but, well, I want to be a doctor. Is that so? Well, Dr. Duncan Webb. That's great. Just great. Yeah. If being a doctor makes people be like you, then that's what I want to be. Expecting somebody else? Grant Adams, do you know what time it is? Why? You've got a clock there in the kitchen. I know what time it is, but do you know? Oh, why? Well, honey, here are your groceries. What do you think I'm going to do with them at 7.30 at night? 7.30? That's what time it is right now. Oh, wow. I didn't know it was so late. Well, there they are anyway, honey. Don't you think I'm entitled to know where you've been, Grant? Well, certainly, Lou. Do you think it makes any difference? I drove Dunk Webb down to his home, and while I was there, I thought I might as well give Mrs. Webb your message myself. I guess we've got to talking a little bit. Grant Adams, do you realize dinner's been waiting for an hour and a half? That at 5.30, two hours ago, you told me over the phone that you'd be home in 20 minutes? Well, yes. I know, Lou, but I... I had a chance to talk to Duncan, his mother, a little bit about the boy's future. Oh, well, anyway, you're home now. I'll get dinner on right away. I guess we'll have to do without a salad tonight. Goodness gracious. What's the matter? Look at these tomatoes. What's the matter with them? They look all right to me. How many did you get, Grant? How many? Well, the place said they didn't sell them by the tomato, but by the pound. Well, how many pounds did you get? Six. Six pounds of tomatoes. And the celery. Six bunches. An ant-paste. Six bottles of ant-paste. What's the world of you thinking of, Grant Adams? And six heads of lettuce. Oh. Oh, gosh, I'm sorry, Lou. Did I get too much of everything? Grant, where are the eggs? Eggs. Oh, gosh, to Friday, I knew I'd forget something. Well, didn't you write down what I asked you to get? Well, you see, honey, I didn't have a pencil at the office, but I was pretty sure I could remember what you wanted. Well, after this, I'll know better. Six pounds of tomato and six heads of lettuce. Six bunches of celery. Lou. Yes, Grant? I've got a tonselectomy scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10. I wonder if you'd like to come over and do it for me. What? I say, would you like to come over and perform an operation instead of me tomorrow morning? Now, what in the world are you talking about? Well, you expect me to be able to run the house and know all about ordering groceries and things like that. Didn't you know how to perform a surgical operation? Oh, Grant Adams, you will duffer you. Well, now let's kiss and make up. No, Grant, no, no, not now. I've got my hands full of the tune. No, not Grant. No, not stop it, you will duffer you. All right, honey. All right. We've had a good laugh. And now that our digestive apparatus is in good working order again, let's have dinner. This is the family doctor. I'll be in to see you again right soon. Goodbye.