:08:09
Mr. Cobb here
is an ex-newspaperman.
:08:11
Associated with your uncle
for many years, as a sort of buffer.
:08:14
Buffer?
:08:16
Yeah.
A glorified doormat.
:08:19
Rich people need someone to keep the
crowds away. The world's full of pests.
:08:22
Then there's the newspapers.
:08:24
One must know when to seek publicity
and when to avoid it.
:08:28
Cedar, Cedar, Cedar and Budington.
:08:31
l can't think
of a rhyme for "Budington."
:08:33
Why should you?
:08:35
Whenever l run across a funny name,
l like to poke around for a rhyme.
:08:38
- Don't you?
- No.
:08:42
- I've got one for Cobb.
- Yeah?
:08:45
There once was a man named Cobb
who kept Semple away from the mob.
:08:49
Came the turn of the tide
and Semple, he died.
:08:52
Now poor Cobb's out of a job.
:08:56
- Sounds like two weeks' notice to me.
- Huh?
:08:59
I've gotten the sackeroo in many ways,
but never in rhyme.
:09:03
I don't mean that.
I'll need your help.
:09:05
That's different,
if it's just poetry.
:09:07
Are you married?
:09:09
Who, me? No.
:09:10
He's too fussy for that.
That's what's the matter with him.
:09:13
There's lots of nice girls
right here in Mandrake Falls--
:09:16
Don't pay any attention to her.
:09:18
He's got a lot of foolish notions
about saving a lady in distress.
:09:23
Now, you keep out of this.
:09:25
Saving a lady in distress, eh? We all
have dreams like that when we're young.
:09:30
Incidentally, we'd better get started.
You'll have to pack.
:09:34
- What for?
- You're going to New York with us.
:09:36
- When?
- This afternoon, 4:00.
:09:39
l don't think
we've got any suitcases.
:09:41
Well, we could borrow a couple
from Mrs. Simpson.
:09:44
She went to Niagara Falls
last year.
:09:48
I'm kinda nervous. I've never been
away from Mandrake Falls in my life.
:09:51
- Like to see Grant's tomb, though.
- I can understand that.
:09:54
We'll meet you at the train
at 4:00.
:09:57
Congratulations, Mr. Deeds. You're one
of the richest men in the country.