The Fortune
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:12:00
"Run down and get me
a box of little mouse beds, honey bug."

:12:05
"Mouse beds"?
:12:07
Yeah, in the funny strips, you know.
You've seen it.

:12:10
The little mouse in his red coveralls,
and his little hole in the wall...

:12:14
with a lot of little mousy furniture.
:12:16
And even a little bitty radio set...
:12:19
the size of your fingernail, you see.
:12:22
And a mousy little bed that he sleeps in.
You've seen it.

:12:26
And she pointed this out to me:
:12:28
"Lookie there, Oscar...
:12:31
"at the cute little creep mousy
in his mousy, mousy bed.

:12:36
"Go down to Fatool's and get your mud...
:12:38
"a big box for the little mousy
to lay his head."

:12:45
You didn't wonder what the hell
she was doing with all these mice beds?

:12:49
No.
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Because women are afraid of mice.
You know that, don't you?

:12:55
No, I didn't wonder.
:13:00
I'd have been curious.
:13:04
Mouse beds.
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I got to tell Freddie that one.
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Momsie.
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He was absolutely hideous to me.
I could cry.

:13:54
Oh, now, now.
:13:56
He cursed me.
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Oh, God, that's awful.
:13:58
He said I was a profound disappointment...

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