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And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
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Suspense.
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Listen now to yule Tied Miracle, starring Larry Haynes and
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Satos Ortega, and written especially for suspense by John Roberts.
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Go ahead and laugh if you like.
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Only kids and old ladies believe in ghosts. Yeah, sure,
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that's what I thought too, until I met a chubby
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little guy with hair like cotton candy who called himself
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Sir Benjamin.
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But first let me fill in.
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The details about my meeting with Sir Benjamin. I was
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in one of those freeeats missions along the Bowery. I
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ducked in there to escape a parole officer named Brannigan.
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Brannigan was out to hand me a merry set of
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bracelets for Christmas.
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When he cut me. My mission was empty.
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I had to alter myself except a skinny young punk
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had come out of cough but made the benches jump.
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Hey hey kid, you're sick. Yeah yeah, I know you
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need a doctor. I've had a doctor.
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I'm we're an hospital pajamas under this suit.
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Oh yeah yeah.
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I went down the fire escape to the street to
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hear I want to get home for Christmas.
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Finally, I've been years making up my mind to it.
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Uh what what what are those boxes?
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You old Christmas presents for my mother, my sister Linda,
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my kid's sister Linda.
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You like this, oh ladies? Cold watch?
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Yeah, depends on the dress I once stole my mother's
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watching sold it this this squarest Yeah?
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Uh?
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What what's in the other box? Nylon stockings? My sais
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to Linda's always had a yet, Hey, hold yourself.
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Come on, hey, I can't get hold with these presents.
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If you could get them to missus.
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B Simmons for me, tell her that Tommy her son, tummy,
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missus the Simmons.
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Kid, Come on, tell me get hold the coffin stopped.
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And it was right then, that's benjaminly chubby little ghost
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with hair like cotton candy.
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Happened first I know of him. Was magic, as.
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If as if he was announcing himself.
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It was music coming from an upright piano on a
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platform way down the mission hall with Christmas hymn. But look,
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until my eyes popped out of my head, I couldn't
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see anybody. The piano was going, but nobody I could
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see was playing it. I went up to the piano and.
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Reached over the stool to see how the trick was worked,
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and in my hands touched something solid, like somebody sitting
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on the stool. And then I saw fingers, halves skipping
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along the keys, only.
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Halves, as if they had a life of their own.
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I don't know why, but I grabbed them.
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That hurt.
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I bruise easily.
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Hey, I'm saying things, and now I'm hearing voices, my voice, Chris,
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you're hearing me. Where are you, my dear, my boy?
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What?
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Just be patient and I'll rematerialize. It takes a moment
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or two.
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I saw the hands billed, first arms and elbows, shoulders,
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and then a body slowly.
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And then the last day, my head with a little
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puss white hair, and then a face, a chubby face,
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rosy and smile. Ah. Well, here every bit of me
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are dressed.
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Who are you?
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Said Benjamin. I'm sorry if I worried you. He had
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that trick like like you were invisible, but I was invisible.
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I'll come on, nobody can do that.
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I can, and that's only one of my powers. First,
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suppose we get right down to business, Chris.
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We have business. Of course.
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That boy over there on the bench, Tommy Simmons oh oh.
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Oh the kid. Yeah, you know, I almost forgot. He's
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lying there like that. I don't dare go outside, but
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somebody's got to call an ambulance.
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Do something.
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It's too late for Tommy.
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Why now, we don't know that. We're not doctors.
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I know that the problem now is what are you
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going to do about his dang wish?
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Why? Oh oh?
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You mean about delivering those presents to his family? It
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would be fine if you deliver those presents in person.
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Me.
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Hey, now, come off at Lester. It's not my job
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and it's not my business. Besides, I got problems on
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my own.
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Brannigan. Why the parn officer, How did you know about Brannigan?
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I am a very aversatile haven't it?
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Ghosts?
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I also have powers of conjuration. Come again, turn the
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boy's dying wish aside, and I'll conjure up Brannigan. I
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don't think I can.
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I don't think you even exist. How about that? I
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think I'm dreaming you what?
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Very well? I will demonstrate hold on to something, Chris.
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Conjuration is a very characlysmic and strenuous business. You will
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definitely be safe if you hold on to something.
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Don't ask me.
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Why, But I grabbed hold of a piano. That's a
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good thing I did too, because the joy began to
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rock like an earthquake was hitting a flash.
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There.
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I'm finished. Now, there's quite a job of conjury, But
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says Brannigan, see on the street, peering through the plate
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glass window of the mission watching you.
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Holy smoke, it is Brannigan. Hey, I gotta get out
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of here.
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I gotta find the back way yet, Yeah, through this yard, dog.
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Quickly I dived into the yard where Brannigan's police was
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blowing at me.
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The yard was a dead end, high building.
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Walls all around like a prison yard, no exit except
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the long narrow alley to the street past Brannigan by
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flattened in the shadow as a dead duck. I was
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listening to Brannigan's shout orders that a couple of blue
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coats would come running when the whistled, what's the exit?
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Man?
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While I flush about the angelo, are trapped? Better surrender peacefully?
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The heavy the Agelau trapped was the word like a rat.
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All the pity to bed Chris. What's the penalty of
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a violation?
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A year? Maybe two?
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Oh?
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You were a big help showing me into the yard
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that there I go talking to myself. You're talking to me.
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I could really be a big help.
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Don't make me take it a hard.
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Way fast, Chris, you had to respect tummy Simmons. Dang
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wish you would to go home for Christmas in his place?
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Okay, okay?
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If I was to, then what and Brannigan goes empty handed?
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In order to catch you, he must first see you.
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I sure sure Brannigan is suddenly gonna go stone blind.
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Ah, you know you.
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Are becoming invisible.
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There was a laugh, but the laugh was I was
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invisible at least a Brannigan.
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I was. He came right toward me with a flashlight
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one hand and.
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A gun and the other only he looked right through me,
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as if he didn't see me.
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The agelo, I know you've got to be in this
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yard to.
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Watch them, And then scratch his head and give up now, Chris,
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for you're part of the bargain.
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You a Temmy's presence. Go deliver it and my look,
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I'll leave here and only run into bradd again outside somewhere.
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And now what about that you remain invisible until you've
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arrived to destination. That is, as long as you remain
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faithful to your mission. Go Chris, Okay, I'll wait a minute,
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Wait a minute.
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Where am I going? Where do I find this? Missus
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b Simmons.
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That for just a brief train ride to a neighboring town.
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The town Chris is Beth. There, as Sir Benjamin had promised.
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It was a brief train ride. That funny.
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I felt like I'd come a long, long way.
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There was a deserted train shed with small packed eye.
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The station's side turned silver by the moon, red left.
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For him soul in science. No, no, there was someone
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a girl, a girl in high boots, a snowhead and
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on her cheeks.
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She was coming toward me.
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Hello, Hello, are you Chris?
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Yeah?
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Yeah, my name is Chris.
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I'm Linda, Linda Simmons. I came to drive you home.
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Just like that, just like what well, I mean, no
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no explanations, like you know I was here?
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And how come you know my name? Oh?
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I was told you were coming and told your name too.
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You were told somebody telephoned.
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Oh yeah, he telephoned. He was a kid when he
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said he was a talented ghost. See you you you
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came right at me just now.
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That means you saw me. You can see me?
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Huh see you?
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Yeah? Yeah, face hands body me. I'm a guy. You
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look at me and you see a guy.
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No, I cannot see you.
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That I am invisible.
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No, it's just that I'm blind.
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Let drive home. Let's take it now.
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There was a horse drawn sleigh around the side of
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the ship, silver bells on the reins, and a horse
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whose name had to be Dobbin. Ah, you drove this
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rig all the way here by yourself.
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You don't drive Dobbin. He knows every inch of the
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way to the Bethlehem station.
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You see.
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We've been coming here every night for years.
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Nice, slow and easy. I've been running since I was born.
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And now I was asking myself what for a guy
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can't stay tough in a horse drawn rig in the snow.
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And when Linda put her hand on mine, I opened
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my fist for the first time I could remember. We
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reached home, a framed cottage, nothing fancy, with a candle
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burning brightly in the window.
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Come in, Chris, mother, mother, this is Chris.
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Welcome home. Chris. Oh yeah, thanks, Uh, it's a nice
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place you got here, missus Simson, Oh, I'm so glad
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you like it.
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Yeah, I.
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Don't exactly know how to say this, Missus Simmons. You see,
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I'm just a mug. I quit school a minute I
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learned how to tell the teacher off. So if I
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ain't got the right words, you.
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Don't have to have the right words, Chris. You don't
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even have to get it said.
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You see, I know you know about Tommy. Yes, it's
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all about Tommy.
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Well well how.
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Oh oh, yes, somebody somebody talk to you on the
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phone too.
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Yes, somebody telephone.
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Well, the last thing the kid thought about was you
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and Linda and coming home for Christmas. And he asked
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me to give you these go watch for you, Missus Simmons.
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These for you, Linda Nylon Stokers.
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Thank you.
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It's nothing big, I guess. But Tommy didn't have much
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to give the way it was with him.
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You're wrong, Chris. Tommy had a great deal to give,
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and in his way he gave it. I don't follow
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a boy come home. Temmy couldn't come home himself, so
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he sent you to us.
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Chris.
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You can say about me that I was born in
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nineteen thirty five, and I stopped crying in nineteen thirty six,
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at the right bold age of one. And you can
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say about me that I let a tear go. I
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never knew I had Christmas nineteen sixty one.
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Linda, Yes, Chris, don't get me wrong. You know there's
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no crying being poor.
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Say well, well it's like this, it's Christmas.
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But I don't see any tree.
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And I've been slipping close enough to the kitchen and
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oh there's nothing roasting in that oven.
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You're disappointed?
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Oh no, no, no, no, is it all right? I
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five borrowed dobbin outside?
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All right, of course it's all right, Chris.
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Put me donnad a guy who never knows when they
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shut up a tree and a turkey. Sure, lady, nothing
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through it. Presto a fisto. I'm a magician. Here's your tree, lady,
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and here's your birth.
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What quite a remarkable feat of metic Chris, preston Fista.
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There's a bench of money.
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I was wondering when you'd show up the kibbittz you
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you are.
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Here's a Benjamin, Yes, but immaterially, and please don't ask
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me to re materialize, Chris. I darn't show my face
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in bed.
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Then why not?
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I lived here once before my present situation. I wasn't
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very popular with my townspeople. I'm afraid o what they
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have against you. Bills, I didoing, the butcher, the baker,
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and even the undertaker. Oh let's get back to your problem.
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Yeah, a tree and a turkey, and it's your problem.
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I'm tumpling it right into your laugh. You got me
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into this in the first place.
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I see, had you any.
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Money, not a plug nickel, and even if I had,
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the time is shut tight. But you're a talented cost
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A tree in a turkey ought to be a sitch.
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You got any ideas on it, Sir Benjamin?
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Only one my customary way of acquiring necessary things when
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I was alive, Your customary way credit Chris. And I
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hope never to be a burrower again. But I suppose
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it can't.
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Be himped And just where do we borrow this tree
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in Turkey?
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Uncle Kayle's poultry farms, just past the merchant's bank a
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short drive.
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Well, i'm a stranger here, move over.
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I'll take the reins to get there.
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There aren't any ghosts.
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And call me crazy, but Sir Benjamin drove a regular
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smart clip to a farm stacked.
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With freshly cut trees.
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Take your pick of tree and carry it to the
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ring and Chris, yeah, what no, what unnecessary disturbance? I
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owe Uncle Kayla a formidable bill.
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Already right, threw the tree on the reg and went back.
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Sir Benjamin was coming out of a poultry house carrying
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a great, big fat turkey.
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There's a job Sweden, miss though, here take the leason
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and be on your way.
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Well, wait a minute, where you going to leave.
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A receipt for Uncle kle for one tree and one turkey?
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I'd should like to be there when he reads.
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It, so I, Chris, So would I?
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I hurried back to the rig, right into the arms
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of trouble Brannigan. Hello, the Angelau? What run and you
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won't get ten yards?
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Okay? Okay? What did you do? Look into a crystal
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ball to find out where I was? I didn't have to.
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I just took the same train you til a belong me.
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You had to see me to be able to do that.
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I had to see you. But were you invisible? Or
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I'm sure sure I was invisible?
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The Angela?
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You killed me invisible?
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Eah?
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All right?
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What about me?
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Yacht?
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Behind the mission? You walked right past, you played your
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flash right on me, But you couldn't see me. How
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about the I'll answer that one.
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Maybe I didn't see you because I didn't want to
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see you. Now that's the truth, the Angelo, I didn't
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want to catch you. I had to make noises like
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wanting to because I'm a cop, but I didn't want
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to make the arrest, not on Christmas, d Angelo.
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Yeah, why you're making me arrest? Now? Maybe I'm not.
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Why don't you tell me all the way here to
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see what you were up.
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To, to see if you really had a heart.
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H so.
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Here bringing the Simmons, a tree and the turkey. Well,
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how do you know about the Simmons. I knew Temmy Simmons.
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I saw him passion those presents in the mission before
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he died. I phoned Missus Simmons and Linda that you
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were coming.
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If it was you who telephoned me?
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Sure? Who do you think? What's it? I thought? So
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you thought? Who? The Angelo? Never mind? Skip it.
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I'll ask one question and then maybe i'll leave. Think
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carefully before you answer. Go ahead, go ahead? Ask if
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I arrange for you to keep in touch with the
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parole officer by mail, providing those letters were postmarked Beth
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for him.
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But ye would you like it that way, would I Branigan?
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Where else does a guy want to write letters from
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but home?
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That's almost all there is to the story of Sir Benjamin,
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me Brannigan, Missus Simmons and Linda. We had to take
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the door down and get the tree into the house,
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and we had to find an extra stomach apiece to
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accommodate the turkey, and then later with a fire going
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and the lights down low. When then I sat dreaming on.
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My sofa, I had my.
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Fist opened the keeps and her hand was right in
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mind like a belong.
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It's been a perfectly wonderful Christmas.
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Chris, Yeah, yeah, wonderful.
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So thanks to you we had a tree and a turkey.
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Well, well thanks to me, now, a tree in the
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turkey wasn't my trick.
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The tree and the turkey were, Chris, what are you saying?
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No?
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Really, the thanks goes to another guy, a chubby little
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guy who sure has a talent forget what he wants.
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His name is Sir Benjamin.
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Sir Benjamin.
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Yeah, well, the coincidence of names. I used to call
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my father Sir Benjamin in play Oh we play Lord
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and Lady. My father and I he'd call me Princess Linda,
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and I'd call him Sir Benjamin.
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The coincidence of names, you said, Uh, and I suppose suppose.
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It isn't a coincidence.
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But my father died years ago.
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Yeah, so did my Sir Benjamin. Yeah. Now the guy
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I'm talking about is a ghost.
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A yeah, a ghost like I met in a mission
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when your brother Tommy died. All of a sudden, a
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piano started going piano music, but nobody I could see
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was playing piano.
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He's playing.
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Yeah, yes, so it is. You want to bet it's
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a Benjamin?
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How can you prove it?
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I toss a turkey wing at the piano store.
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I bet your sir Benjamin lets out of yell and
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complains about how easily bruises do we bet?
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What will we bet? Christ a kiss.
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Waiting? Nobody loses suspense.
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You were listening to You Time Miracles, starring Larry Haynes
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and Santos Ortega and written especially for suspense.
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By John Roberts.
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Next week instead of another tale, well calculated to keep
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you in suspense, a gala song fest Well calculated to
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put you in a bright holiday mood. The seventh Annual
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Christmas Sing with Bing will come your way over the
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CBS Radio Network next Sunday evening Christmas Eve, singing along
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with Bing Katherine Crosby, the Normal Loubov Choir, and those
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two Fugitives from the Met Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer's Nerd.
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Suspense is produced and.
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Directed by Bruno Zerato, junior music supervision by Ethel Huper.
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Featured in Tonight's Story where Rosemary Rice is Linda, Joe
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DeSantis is Brannigan, Katherine rot is Missus Simmons, and Bill
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Lifton as Tommy. Two weeks from today, You'll return with
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the Old Man, written by Bob Cochran, another tale well
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calculated to keep you in
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Suspense,
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And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
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Suspense.
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Listen now to yule Tied Miracle, starring Larry Haynes and
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Satos Ortega, and written especially for suspense by John Roberts.
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Go ahead and laugh if you like.
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Only kids and old ladies believe in ghosts. Yeah, sure,
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that's what I thought too, until I met a chubby
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little guy with hair like cotton candy who called himself
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Sir Benjamin.
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But first let me fill in.
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The details about my meeting with Sir Benjamin. I was
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in one of those freeeats missions along the Bowery. I
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ducked in there to escape a parole officer named Brannigan.
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Brannigan was out to hand me a merry set of
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bracelets for Christmas.
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When he cut me. My mission was empty.
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I had to alter myself except a skinny young punk
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had come out of cough but made the benches jump.
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Hey hey kid, you're sick. Yeah yeah, I know you
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need a doctor. I've had a doctor.
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I'm we're an hospital pajamas under this suit.
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Oh yeah yeah.
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I went down the fire escape to the street to
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hear I want to get home for Christmas.
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Finally, I've been years making up my mind to it.
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Uh what what what are those boxes?
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You old Christmas presents for my mother, my sister Linda,
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my kid's sister Linda.
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You like this, oh ladies? Cold watch?
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Yeah, depends on the dress I once stole my mother's
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watching sold it this this squarest Yeah?
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Uh?
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What what's in the other box? Nylon stockings? My sais
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to Linda's always had a yet, Hey, hold yourself.
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Come on, hey, I can't get hold with these presents.
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If you could get them to missus.
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B Simmons for me, tell her that Tommy her son, tummy,
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missus the Simmons.
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Kid, Come on, tell me get hold the coffin stopped.
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And it was right then, that's benjaminly chubby little ghost
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with hair like cotton candy.
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Happened first I know of him. Was magic, as.
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If as if he was announcing himself.
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It was music coming from an upright piano on a
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platform way down the mission hall with Christmas hymn. But look,
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until my eyes popped out of my head, I couldn't
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see anybody. The piano was going, but nobody I could
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see was playing it. I went up to the piano and.
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Reached over the stool to see how the trick was worked,
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and in my hands touched something solid, like somebody sitting
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on the stool. And then I saw fingers, halves skipping
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along the keys, only.
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Halves, as if they had a life of their own.
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I don't know why, but I grabbed them.
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That hurt.
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I bruise easily.
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Hey, I'm saying things, and now I'm hearing voices, my voice, Chris,
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you're hearing me. Where are you, my dear, my boy?
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What?
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Just be patient and I'll rematerialize. It takes a moment
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or two.
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I saw the hands billed, first arms and elbows, shoulders,
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and then a body slowly.
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And then the last day, my head with a little
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puss white hair, and then a face, a chubby face,
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rosy and smile. Ah. Well, here every bit of me
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are dressed.
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Who are you?
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Said Benjamin. I'm sorry if I worried you. He had
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that trick like like you were invisible, but I was invisible.
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I'll come on, nobody can do that.
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I can, and that's only one of my powers. First,
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suppose we get right down to business, Chris.
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We have business. Of course.
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That boy over there on the bench, Tommy Simmons oh oh.
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Oh the kid. Yeah, you know, I almost forgot. He's
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lying there like that. I don't dare go outside, but
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somebody's got to call an ambulance.
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Do something.
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It's too late for Tommy.
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Why now, we don't know that. We're not doctors.
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I know that the problem now is what are you
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going to do about his dang wish?
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Why? Oh oh?
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You mean about delivering those presents to his family? It
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would be fine if you deliver those presents in person.
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Me.
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Hey, now, come off at Lester. It's not my job
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and it's not my business. Besides, I got problems on
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my own.
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Brannigan. Why the parn officer, How did you know about Brannigan?
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I am a very aversatile haven't it?
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Ghosts?
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I also have powers of conjuration. Come again, turn the
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boy's dying wish aside, and I'll conjure up Brannigan. I
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don't think I can.
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I don't think you even exist. How about that? I
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think I'm dreaming you what?
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Very well? I will demonstrate hold on to something, Chris.
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Conjuration is a very characlysmic and strenuous business. You will
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definitely be safe if you hold on to something.
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Don't ask me.
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Why, But I grabbed hold of a piano. That's a
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good thing I did too, because the joy began to
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rock like an earthquake was hitting a flash.
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There.
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I'm finished. Now, there's quite a job of conjury, But
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says Brannigan, see on the street, peering through the plate
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glass window of the mission watching you.
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Holy smoke, it is Brannigan. Hey, I gotta get out
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of here.
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I gotta find the back way yet, Yeah, through this yard, dog.
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Quickly I dived into the yard where Brannigan's police was
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blowing at me.
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The yard was a dead end, high building.
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Walls all around like a prison yard, no exit except
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the long narrow alley to the street past Brannigan by
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flattened in the shadow as a dead duck. I was
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listening to Brannigan's shout orders that a couple of blue
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coats would come running when the whistled, what's the exit?
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Man?
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While I flush about the angelo, are trapped? Better surrender peacefully?
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The heavy the Agelau trapped was the word like a rat.
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All the pity to bed Chris. What's the penalty of
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a violation?
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A year? Maybe two?
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Oh?
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You were a big help showing me into the yard
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that there I go talking to myself. You're talking to me.
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I could really be a big help.
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Don't make me take it a hard.
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Way fast, Chris, you had to respect tummy Simmons. Dang
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wish you would to go home for Christmas in his place?
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Okay, okay?
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If I was to, then what and Brannigan goes empty handed?
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In order to catch you, he must first see you.
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I sure sure Brannigan is suddenly gonna go stone blind.
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Ah, you know you.
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Are becoming invisible.
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There was a laugh, but the laugh was I was
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invisible at least a Brannigan.
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I was. He came right toward me with a flashlight
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one hand and.
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A gun and the other only he looked right through me,
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as if he didn't see me.
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The agelo, I know you've got to be in this
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yard to.
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Watch them, And then scratch his head and give up now, Chris,
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for you're part of the bargain.
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You a Temmy's presence. Go deliver it and my look,
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I'll leave here and only run into bradd again outside somewhere.
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And now what about that you remain invisible until you've
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arrived to destination. That is, as long as you remain
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faithful to your mission. Go Chris, Okay, I'll wait a minute,
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Wait a minute.
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Where am I going? Where do I find this? Missus
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b Simmons.
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That for just a brief train ride to a neighboring town.
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The town Chris is Beth. There, as Sir Benjamin had promised.
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It was a brief train ride. That funny.
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I felt like I'd come a long, long way.
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There was a deserted train shed with small packed eye.
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The station's side turned silver by the moon, red left.
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For him soul in science. No, no, there was someone
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a girl, a girl in high boots, a snowhead and
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on her cheeks.
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She was coming toward me.
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Hello, Hello, are you Chris?
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Yeah?
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Yeah, my name is Chris.
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I'm Linda, Linda Simmons. I came to drive you home.
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Just like that, just like what well, I mean, no
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no explanations, like you know I was here?
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And how come you know my name? Oh?
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I was told you were coming and told your name too.
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You were told somebody telephoned.
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Oh yeah, he telephoned. He was a kid when he
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said he was a talented ghost. See you you you
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came right at me just now.
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That means you saw me. You can see me?
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Huh see you?
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Yeah? Yeah, face hands body me. I'm a guy. You
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look at me and you see a guy.
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No, I cannot see you.
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That I am invisible.
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No, it's just that I'm blind.
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Let drive home. Let's take it now.
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There was a horse drawn sleigh around the side of
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the ship, silver bells on the reins, and a horse
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whose name had to be Dobbin. Ah, you drove this
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rig all the way here by yourself.
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You don't drive Dobbin. He knows every inch of the
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way to the Bethlehem station.
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You see.
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We've been coming here every night for years.
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Nice, slow and easy. I've been running since I was born.
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And now I was asking myself what for a guy
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can't stay tough in a horse drawn rig in the snow.
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And when Linda put her hand on mine, I opened
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my fist for the first time I could remember. We
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reached home, a framed cottage, nothing fancy, with a candle
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burning brightly in the window.
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Come in, Chris, mother, mother, this is Chris.
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Welcome home. Chris. Oh yeah, thanks, Uh, it's a nice
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place you got here, missus Simson, Oh, I'm so glad
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you like it.
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Yeah, I.
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Don't exactly know how to say this, Missus Simmons. You see,
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I'm just a mug. I quit school a minute I
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learned how to tell the teacher off. So if I
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ain't got the right words, you.
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Don't have to have the right words, Chris. You don't
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even have to get it said.
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You see, I know you know about Tommy. Yes, it's
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all about Tommy.
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Well well how.
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Oh oh, yes, somebody somebody talk to you on the
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phone too.
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Yes, somebody telephone.
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Well, the last thing the kid thought about was you
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and Linda and coming home for Christmas. And he asked
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me to give you these go watch for you, Missus Simmons.
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These for you, Linda Nylon Stokers.
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Thank you.
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It's nothing big, I guess. But Tommy didn't have much
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to give the way it was with him.
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You're wrong, Chris. Tommy had a great deal to give,
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and in his way he gave it. I don't follow
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a boy come home. Temmy couldn't come home himself, so
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he sent you to us.
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Chris.
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You can say about me that I was born in
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nineteen thirty five, and I stopped crying in nineteen thirty six,
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at the right bold age of one. And you can
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say about me that I let a tear go. I
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never knew I had Christmas nineteen sixty one.
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Linda, Yes, Chris, don't get me wrong. You know there's
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no crying being poor.
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Say well, well it's like this, it's Christmas.
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But I don't see any tree.
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And I've been slipping close enough to the kitchen and
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oh there's nothing roasting in that oven.
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You're disappointed?
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Oh no, no, no, no, is it all right? I
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five borrowed dobbin outside?
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All right, of course it's all right, Chris.
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Put me donnad a guy who never knows when they
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shut up a tree and a turkey. Sure, lady, nothing
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through it. Presto a fisto. I'm a magician. Here's your tree, lady,
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and here's your birth.
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What quite a remarkable feat of metic Chris, preston Fista.
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There's a bench of money.
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I was wondering when you'd show up the kibbittz you
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you are.
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Here's a Benjamin, Yes, but immaterially, and please don't ask
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me to re materialize, Chris. I darn't show my face
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in bed.
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Then why not?
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I lived here once before my present situation. I wasn't
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very popular with my townspeople. I'm afraid o what they
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have against you. Bills, I didoing, the butcher, the baker,
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and even the undertaker. Oh let's get back to your problem.
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Yeah, a tree and a turkey, and it's your problem.
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I'm tumpling it right into your laugh. You got me
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into this in the first place.
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I see, had you any.
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Money, not a plug nickel, and even if I had,
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the time is shut tight. But you're a talented cost
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A tree in a turkey ought to be a sitch.
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You got any ideas on it, Sir Benjamin?
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Only one my customary way of acquiring necessary things when
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I was alive, Your customary way credit Chris. And I
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hope never to be a burrower again. But I suppose
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it can't.
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Be himped And just where do we borrow this tree
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in Turkey?
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Uncle Kayle's poultry farms, just past the merchant's bank a
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short drive.
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Well, i'm a stranger here, move over.
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I'll take the reins to get there.
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There aren't any ghosts.
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And call me crazy, but Sir Benjamin drove a regular
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smart clip to a farm stacked.
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With freshly cut trees.
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Take your pick of tree and carry it to the
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ring and Chris, yeah, what no, what unnecessary disturbance? I
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owe Uncle Kayla a formidable bill.
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Already right, threw the tree on the reg and went back.
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Sir Benjamin was coming out of a poultry house carrying
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a great, big fat turkey.
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There's a job Sweden, miss though, here take the leason
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and be on your way.
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Well, wait a minute, where you going to leave.
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A receipt for Uncle kle for one tree and one turkey?
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I'd should like to be there when he reads.
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It, so I, Chris, So would I?
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I hurried back to the rig, right into the arms
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of trouble Brannigan. Hello, the Angelau? What run and you
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won't get ten yards?
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Okay? Okay? What did you do? Look into a crystal
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ball to find out where I was? I didn't have to.
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I just took the same train you til a belong me.
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You had to see me to be able to do that.
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I had to see you. But were you invisible? Or
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I'm sure sure I was invisible?
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The Angela?
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You killed me invisible?
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Eah?
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All right?
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What about me?
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Yacht?
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Behind the mission? You walked right past, you played your
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flash right on me, But you couldn't see me. How
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about the I'll answer that one.
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Maybe I didn't see you because I didn't want to
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see you. Now that's the truth, the Angelo, I didn't
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want to catch you. I had to make noises like
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wanting to because I'm a cop, but I didn't want
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to make the arrest, not on Christmas, d Angelo.
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Yeah, why you're making me arrest? Now? Maybe I'm not.
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Why don't you tell me all the way here to
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see what you were up.
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To, to see if you really had a heart.
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H so.
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Here bringing the Simmons, a tree and the turkey. Well,
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how do you know about the Simmons. I knew Temmy Simmons.
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I saw him passion those presents in the mission before
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he died. I phoned Missus Simmons and Linda that you
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were coming.
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If it was you who telephoned me?
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Sure? Who do you think? What's it? I thought? So
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you thought? Who? The Angelo? Never mind? Skip it.
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I'll ask one question and then maybe i'll leave. Think
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carefully before you answer. Go ahead, go ahead? Ask if
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I arrange for you to keep in touch with the
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parole officer by mail, providing those letters were postmarked Beth
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for him.
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But ye would you like it that way, would I Branigan?
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Where else does a guy want to write letters from
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but home?
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That's almost all there is to the story of Sir Benjamin,
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me Brannigan, Missus Simmons and Linda. We had to take
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the door down and get the tree into the house,
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and we had to find an extra stomach apiece to
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accommodate the turkey, and then later with a fire going
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and the lights down low. When then I sat dreaming on.
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My sofa, I had my.
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Fist opened the keeps and her hand was right in
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mind like a belong.
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It's been a perfectly wonderful Christmas.
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Chris, Yeah, yeah, wonderful.
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So thanks to you we had a tree and a turkey.
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Well, well thanks to me, now, a tree in the
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turkey wasn't my trick.
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The tree and the turkey were, Chris, what are you saying?
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No?
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Really, the thanks goes to another guy, a chubby little
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guy who sure has a talent forget what he wants.
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His name is Sir Benjamin.
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Sir Benjamin.
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Yeah, well, the coincidence of names. I used to call
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my father Sir Benjamin in play Oh we play Lord
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and Lady. My father and I he'd call me Princess Linda,
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and I'd call him Sir Benjamin.
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The coincidence of names, you said, Uh, and I suppose suppose.
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It isn't a coincidence.
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But my father died years ago.
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Yeah, so did my Sir Benjamin. Yeah. Now the guy
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I'm talking about is a ghost.
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A yeah, a ghost like I met in a mission
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when your brother Tommy died. All of a sudden, a
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piano started going piano music, but nobody I could see
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was playing piano.
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He's playing.
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Yeah, yes, so it is. You want to bet it's
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a Benjamin?
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How can you prove it?
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I toss a turkey wing at the piano store.
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I bet your sir Benjamin lets out of yell and
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complains about how easily bruises do we bet?
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What will we bet? Christ a kiss.
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Waiting? Nobody loses suspense.
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You were listening to You Time Miracles, starring Larry Haynes
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and Santos Ortega and written especially for suspense.
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By John Roberts.
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Next week instead of another tale, well calculated to keep
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you in suspense, a gala song fest Well calculated to
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put you in a bright holiday mood. The seventh Annual
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Christmas Sing with Bing will come your way over the
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CBS Radio Network next Sunday evening Christmas Eve, singing along
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with Bing Katherine Crosby, the Normal Loubov Choir, and those
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two Fugitives from the Met Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer's Nerd.
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Suspense is produced and.
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Directed by Bruno Zerato, junior music supervision by Ethel Huper.
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Featured in Tonight's Story where Rosemary Rice is Linda, Joe
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DeSantis is Brannigan, Katherine rot is Missus Simmons, and Bill
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Lifton as Tommy. Two weeks from today, You'll return with
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the Old Man, written by Bob Cochran, another tale well
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calculated to keep you in
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Suspense,
