:04:00
- Hey, Martha.
- Hello, Tom.
:04:02
Listen, they're all comin',
so you just have those benches ready.
:04:04
Yes, they're ready.
:04:06
Oh, but Tom, I repeat,
if you need to use my organ
:04:09
I got to get special permission
from the regional director, Tom.
:04:12
Martha, and I repeat,
we don't need the organ.
:04:15
We can be spiritual without singing
or reading from the Bible.
:04:19
It's almost seven.
Don't forget your bell now.
:04:23
I imagine that'll do Ma Ginger.
:04:26
I don't think it's good for the soil
with all the raking and hoeing.
:04:30
It's the soil that gave life to us all.
:04:33
Don't give me any of your lip,
Thomas Edison Jr.
:04:37
I'll hoe as I darn well please!
:04:39
Yeah, and spoil the whole thing!
I agree with Tom.
:04:43
Yeah, well he likes eating my pies,
don't you?
:04:46
Well they're tasty.
No doubt about it.
:04:48
Yeah. So when it comes to hoeing,
who's right, Tom, you or me?
:04:51
I'm not so sure it's that simple.
:04:53
He's got you there Ginger.
:04:55
You can not resist,
can you, Gloria?
:04:59
Hey, Ben, I'll get the doors!
:05:00
I'll be fine, Tom.
:05:02
Any news from the freight industry?
:05:04
Is everything going to hell there too?
:05:06
Don't poke fun at the freight industry.
:05:14
[Narrator] It was seven o'clock precisely,
as Martha chimed the hour,
:05:18
and Tom was due to play checkers
with his childhood friend Bill Henson.
:05:23
Bill was dumb and knew it.
:05:26
Far too dumb to qualify as an engineer,
he was certainly sure of that.
:05:32
After listening for a while to the piledriver
down the valley that Ben insisted was working
on the foundation of a new penitentiary,
:05:39
Tom headed for the Henson home
in order to inflict upon Bill
:05:43
yet another humiliating defeat at checkers.
:05:48
Some folks might say the opportunity
to meet Bill's older sister, Liz, was more of a draw
than the checkerboard,
:05:55
and they might be right.
:05:57
It was a fact that in the Henson home
lay another horizon.