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Good morning, Mr. Smith!
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SMITH: I hope it will be a good one.
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Maybe this will cheer you up. I've got the balloon all inflated and...
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SMITH: And we still don't have any flight students. That balloon hasn't been off the ground in weeks.
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But I have an idea how to attract students, sir! We could...
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SMITH: I know what you're going to say, Bruce. You want me to try one of that new fangled nonsense called a .......publicity stump.
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Publicity STUNT.
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Stunt, stump....whatever. Even if we could afford it, I don't believe in that craziness
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But sir, even your beautiful adopted daughter Honora agrees with me. (aside) I love her for that...among other reasons.
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SMITH: I suggest you stay away from her. You've got enought to do keeping our flight equipment in working order.
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Yes sir!
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SMITH: If honora is to get married, it shouldbe to someone like a banker or a doctor.
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Banker? Oh, that reminds me. Swagin DeSatchel came by earlier.
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SMITH: Holy winds aloft! I'm glad I missed him
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He said he'd come back later.
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SMITH: Like a bad rash.
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Looks like it's "later" already.
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SMITH: That's his knock, all right. He's one person I don't want to see.
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Maybe we could sell him a ticket to go ballooning.
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SMITH: It's my ballooning debt to his bank that he's interested in. I'm going to hide in the apartment.
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I'm coming, I'm coming! Come right in.
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SWAGIN: About time!
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Honora! What happened?
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SWAGIN: She fell off her horse.
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That was very nice of you, sir to carry her home. I would never have the nerve to take her in my arms.
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SWAGIN: As dainty as she is, it would still be a relief to set her somewhere.
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Why don't you set her on the settee?
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SWAGIN: Yes, I will deposit her there.
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Deposit. Just like a banker. I'll go call her father.
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HONORA: Whoa, Bessie...
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Is she delirious?
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SWAGIN: Who? Bessie? Horses are never delirious.
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I was talking about Honora.
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Hnora: Woa Bessie, don't jump that fence!
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Do you think she'll make it?
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SWAGIN: Who? Honora?
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No, I mean, will Bessie make the jump?
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SWAGIN: Doesn't look like it.
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Was she badly injured?
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SWAGIN: We may have to shoot her.
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Honora?!
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SWAGIN: No, Bessie. She limped away. That's when I picked up Honora. And not the first time I've picked up a pretty girl.
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Honora, can you hear me?
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HONORA: Where am I?
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You're at the Hicarus Flying School. Don't you remember?
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HONORA: I remember I went flying. And landed very hard.
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Mr. DeSatchel carried you back here.
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SWAGIN: After all, it's filled with money...and the foreclosure papers on your father's business, of course.
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You wouldn't foreclose on him, would you?
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SWAGIN: I wouldn't foreclose that possibility. ON the other hand, Honora, if you will consent to be my bride, I will gladly transfer the contents of this bag to you and your father.
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You beast!
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HONORA: Perhaps you're right. I will fetch my father, and he will talk to you that way.
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Excuse me. I'll see who it is.
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Gummy: Out of my way kid.
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Now see here!
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Swagin: I'm tempted to say, "Without what?" But only an impecile would say that.
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Without what?
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Honora: I must say you were a lot of help.
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Why do you attack me? I didn't do anything.
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That's just it. You did nothing when that vile varmint Mr. DeSatchel spoke in terms of marriage.
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Forgive me, but I didn't know whether your father, who is penniless... and nickelless and dimeless... might have made some arrangement with him. Your hand for the refinancing of the flying school.
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Honora: Just because my father's flying school hasn't been able to get off the ground, that's no reason to impugn his honor or mine.
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I only thought of such a thing because it's the very thing I feared.
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Honora: Is that all you have to say?
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I have much more I could say. And say it I shall My dear Honora, I have loved you ever since I left college and went to work for your father as an unpaid apprentice.
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Honora: Your affection I suspected. But I would never have guessed you were highly educated.
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I attended the South Nevada Aerial Flight University...dear old SNAFU.
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Honora: I can really look up to someone who has a higher education. It means you will someday rise in the world, whereas my father and I are very poor.
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Too poor to pay me a salary... of that I am well aware. But then, I have been paid aplenty by your own dear presence.
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Honora: Though you are as poor as we are, your words are rich. I will treasure them always, no matter if poverty continues to ground us.
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I am compelled to ease your mind, if you will let me tell you a secret.
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Honora: I love hearing secrets, almost as much as I love telling them.
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Promise me you won't tell a soul...not even your father.
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Honora: Tell me, tell me, tell me!
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I come from an immensely wealthy people.
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Honora: You worked for them before coming here?
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I mean my family is immensely wealthy.
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Honora: Your family?! You mean to say you're married?
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Of course I'm not married!
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Honora: Not married with a family! Oh, the scandal of it!
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No, no. I'm telling you my parents are wealthy
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Honora: Now I understand.
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Took her long enough. So you see I am free of financial concerns...or at least I will be when I come into my inheritance
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Honora: No wonder you can afford to work for nothing.
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And accomplish little more. But I have confidence in your father's work.
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Honora: Perhaps you could invest in his business!
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As soon as I can see it's really taking off, I may consider that very thing...though my inheritance has yet to come into my possession.
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Honora: I must go and find my father and assure him there is still hope
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But you won't tell him my secret.
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Honora: Oh, no, I certainly wouldn't do that. But he's a very good guesser.
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Honora wait!
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Smith: Hard to say. I was never good at higher math.
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Good news! My immensely wealthy father has given me an advance on my inheritance! Enough to pay off the mortgage! Why are you both so unresponsive to this literal change of fortune?
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Smith: As you know, Bruce, we smiths are people of our word. Less than an hour ago Honora and I gave our word to Banker DeSatchel that he could have Honora's hand in holy wedlock
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But that would be most unholy!
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Honora: Oh, Father, couldn't we unlock the wedlock?
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Surely there must be a way! I love your daughter and I hope with all my heart she feels the same about me!
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Honora: I do, I do! If only I could say those words at our wedding. Mine and Bruce's not DeSatchel's
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Would you stand in the way of our happiness?
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Smith: I'm sorry, young man. Now I must ask you to leave the premises.
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But I work here! Though I don't get paid here.
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Smith: It's no use my boy.
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What about the publicity stunt I've been working on? It could turn the business around!
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SMith: You must turn yourself around and leave.
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But!
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Smith: NOt another word. You must go.
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Must I go??
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Honora: We have to obey my Father's wishes...for you to go, and for me to remain and be sacrificed to that...that..
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Varmint.
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Honora: I must tell you goodbye, Bruce, though it hurts me so to say it.
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Not as much as it hurts me to hear it.
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SMith: Yes, yes, I should never have treated him as I did. he is a fine young man of irreproachable character.
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Hello!
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Honora: That's what I was going to say
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Allow me to introduce Nelly Muckraker, a classmate of mine from college.
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Nelly: Dear old SNAFU
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We studied aerodynamics together
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Nelly: I flunked both the aero and the dynamics, so I transferred to journalism school, where I studied reporting, advertising, and publicity.reporting, advertising, and
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Nelly is a whiz at publicity, though she has no natural proclivity for flying.
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Smith: Please excuse me, but I have to go pay a visit to Doc Hawthorne...which is the only thing I can pay him. I leave things in your hands, Honora.
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Goodbye, sir.
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Honora: Why have you brought this young woman here?
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Nelly just happened to look me up recently, and I told her what I had been doing.
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Honora: Who are they?
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They're going to participate in the publicity stunt!
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Prissy: I wanna get wet!
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Honora, it's the only chance we have to save the flying school. And your father's not going to fly the balloon, so it's up to me.
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Honora: We do have to save the school. But if anyone flies this balloon, it's going to be me
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You? You can't fly.
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Honora: You can teach me.
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There isn't time!
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Honora: yes, I ca see now Mr. Truesdale's true nature is not so true. I will pilot the balloon whether you teach me or not.
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You're untrianed. If you fly the balloon, you'll kill yourself and your passengers.
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Nelly: A manual, eh? yes, that should do the job. Go ahead and get ready.
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I'm not sure about this
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Prissy: We're gonna be in the lake!
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I have to go find her father. He's the only one who can stop her.
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Nelly: Why not let her fly?
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It's foolhardy. At least with this manual, she has a chance. Without it, the flight will be suicide! Hold this for me.
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Honora: That was very...unique. Okay! Is everyone ready now?
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Stop!
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SMith: Fine, thanks to Doc Hawthorne
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We have news to report!
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Honora: Oh, really. Shouldn't you leave the reporting to your good friend Nelly?
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She was my friend once, but no more.
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Smith: ...And Gummy said, oh, it wasn't his...it belonged to the bank!
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Embezzlement! Don't you see?
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Smith: We can have him arrested! And Gummy as his accomplice
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And one thing more, concerning Nelly.
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Honora: What about her?
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I called Nelly's newspaper to inquire if the nature of her story might warrant space on the front page. The editor told me a bank scandal was always big news. But I hadn't said anything to him about the bank.
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Sissy: Are you following this?
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It turns out Nelly had gotten a tip from the bank examiner about suspected improprieties. She came here to investigate DeSatchel.
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Smith: And somehow he convinced her to join him in his scheme against me, using her past friendship with Bruce as the lure.
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Well, I wouldn't phrase it quite that way. When I told her I was considering a publicity stunt, she came up with this idea, and I fell for it. But not for her. DeSatchel must have bribed her to drop the bank story.
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Prissy: So are we gonna get wet or what?
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Publicity, sir. It really does work.
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Smith: Oh, very well.
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I'll fly the balloon!
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Missy: What happened?
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Well....I think mnaybe the bottom must've rotted a bit through all these weeks sitting idle, and then of course there were six of us, which is quite a load, and-
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Smith: Young man, it was yoru job to check the balloon!
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I did check the balloon, sir! I just didn't check the basket.
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Girls: Singing blah blah
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Can you forgive me Mr. Smith?
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Smith: I can't very well stay mad at my future son-in-law.
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I think your father just proposed for me.
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