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- Four?
- Betty and Billy and you...
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Four people and no dollars. You've just
got to learn to face the facts of life.
:15:09
I suppose you do?
:15:12
You're as blind to the facts of life
as you say I am.
:15:16
For one thing, you're campaigning
for first selectman again, aren't you?
:15:19
- Well, of course.
- And you know and I know that Cape Anne...
:15:23
automatically elects Aaron Caldwell
every year.
:15:25
He's been first selectman
as long as I can remember...
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and he will probably always be
first selectman, but you keep trying.
:15:31
- Now why do you do this, George?
- Why do I...
:15:34
Because Aaron Caldwell is still living
in the 18th century.
:15:38
He thinks a town must show a profit
at the end of the year...
:15:41
as if it were a business or something.
:15:42
Primarily, because the people of this town
are not getting...
:15:45
the kind of government that they deserve.
:15:47
Our schools are on half-day sessions.
That's a terrible thing.
:15:50
That skinflint won't even spend $1
to get a fire engine for this town...
:15:54
or what about a snowplough?
:15:55
I know his answer to that one.
"The month of May...
:15:57
"is cheapest snowplough on the market."
Unless the people of this town...
:16:06
Do you want to know something?
I could absolutely shake you.
:16:08
Why didn't you talk like that
at the rally last week?
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Nobody came.
:16:12
If you had something to say,
they would come.
:16:14
Except the Cub Scouts.
Where's my cup of coffee?
:16:18
You better take the bit between your teeth.
Do you remember how Hank...
:16:24
Janey, Hank Osgood could talk the birds
out of the trees and you know it.
:16:29
He had that wonderful quality
like some people and the ability to...
:16:34
So do you, George.
:16:37
I don't know.
:16:39
Do you remember when we were kids?
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The time that we sold the smoked glass
to watch the eclipse.
:16:45
You remember?
:16:46
I pinched the storm window from Uncle Otis.
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And I spent my week's allowance
buying the glass cutter.
:16:53
I smoked the glass. I built the fire.
:16:56
And I sat in front of the bank and sold them.
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Yeah, and Hank got all the money.