:40:13
Have you been waiting long?
:40:14
Awhile.
:40:16
Billy, do you have to smoke?
:40:18
Wendell can smell
if someone's been smoking.
:40:27
What's all this?
:40:29
Wendell put some fresh enamel
on that break in the tub.
:40:32
-l can't have a shower?
-No. Should be dry by now.
:40:40
When's he getting back?
:40:41
After the game, l guess.
:40:43
Oh, the game.
:40:55
''The Pied Piper of Hamelin.''
:40:59
''Hamelin town's in Brunswick,
by famous Hanover city.
:41:02
''The river Weser
deep and wide...
:41:05
''washes its wall
on the southern side.
:41:08
''A pleasanter spot
you never spied,
:41:09
''but when begins my ditty--''
:41:11
-What's a ditty again?
-lt's like a song.
:41:16
''Almost 500 years ago,
:41:18
''to see the townsfolk suffer so
from vermin was a pity.''
:41:21
-What's vermin again?
-Rats.
:41:25
''They fought the dogs
and killed the cats...
:41:27
''and bit the babies
in the cradles...
:41:29
''and ate the cheeses
out of the vats...
:41:31
''and licked the soup
from the cooks' own ladles.
:41:34
''Split open the kegs
of salted sprats,
:41:37
''made nests inside
men's Sunday hats,
:41:39
''and even spoiled
the women's chats...
:41:42
''by drowning their speaking
with shrieking and squeaking...
:41:45
''in 50 different
sharps and flats.''
:41:49
Can l sit beside you
on the bus tomorrow?
:41:51
You sit at the back
to wave at your dad.
:41:53
l want to sit beside you.