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Come in.

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Good morning, Mr. Counselor.

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Mrs. Davis said you wanted
to see me before first class, sir.

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Yes?

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I'm sorry, I couldn't come to the phone
when you called, but I was in the shower.

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Or rather, I was just getting
out of the shower and...

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I didn't summon you for a
blow-by-blow of your ablution.

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Please sit down, Miss Brooks.

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Thank you, sir.

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I arrived at school this
morning, 15 minutes

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ahead of everyone
else, as is my wont.

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It certainly is.

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And as I was walking.

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It certainly is what?

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Your wont.

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Getting here 15 minutes ahead of
anybody else is an old won't of yours.

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Yes, that's one won't
that goes way back.

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I guess working for you as
long as I have, Mr. Conklin,

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I know your won'ts more
than any other teacher.

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Oh, hi.

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Sorry, sir.

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As I passed through the hall, I noticed
one of the classroom doors was open.

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It was your classroom,
Miss Brooks, and when I

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reached in to close the
door, I saw your blackboards.

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They hadn't been stolen.

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No.

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And they hadn't
been erased either.

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As you very well know, it has
long been a strict rule in this

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institution that nothing shall
remain on the blackboards overnight.

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I know, sir, but probably my
pupils made some notes after I left.

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We've just taken up the
Shakespearean tragedies and

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the class is taking to it
with great enthusiasm.

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I'm quite certain the immortal Bard did not
write the words I saw on your blackboard.

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What were they, Mr. Conklin?

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One line read, and I quote,
Old Man Conklin is a birdbrain.

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Oh, that's impossible, sir.

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You must have
misread the blackboard.

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What you probably saw was
Old King Lear is a birdbrain.

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Old King Lear is a birdbrain?

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Who would want to
write a thing like that?

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His daughters.

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They hated his gut.

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They were very mean.

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I hold you responsible for the condition
of your blackboards, and remember it is

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from such petty beginnings that more
dangerous subversive activities can stem.

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Well, I think most of the
crew are loyal, Mr. Conklin.

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And I think we could have
less levity, Miss Brooks.

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As penalty for your
infraction, you will remain after

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school today, checking the
blackboards in every classroom.

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But Mr. Conklin, don't you
think you're being unduly

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severe for such a relatively
minor transgression?

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Well, severe, perhaps, but I
challenge your use of the word unduly.

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Remember, Miss Brooks,
I am the man to whom

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this entire school
must turn for leadership.

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As your leader, I must
be firm and decisive,

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wielding my power
with justice but authority.

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Yes, sire, sir.

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I know you're a great stickler for discipline,
Mr. Conklin, and all of us on the faculty

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try to cooperate, sir, but your manner is so
forbidding sometimes it makes it difficult.

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I guess what I'm trying to
say is that you can catch

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more flies with honey
than you can with vinegar.

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I don't want flies,
I want teachers.

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More specifically, teachers
with a wholesome respect

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for the inspiring mottos
on which I was raised.

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Bear the rod and
spoil the child.

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Busy hands are happy hands.

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And some of these others.

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Read that one on
the wall, Miss Brooks.

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Yes, sir.

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Respect through power.

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Uh-huh.

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Now, that one.

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Oh, idleness is the
devil's playmate.

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Oh, how true that is.

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There seems to be a
motto missing, Mr. Conklin.

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Oh, which one?

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Speak softly and
carry a big stick.

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Oh, well, the janitor tore that
while he was cleaning up one day.

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Oh, which brings me to your
second assignment for this morning.

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I want you to see that this
office is thoroughly cleaned out.

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Yes, sir.

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I have asked my daughter
Harriet to send over one of the boys

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to do the heavy work, so you
won't have... Oh, good heavens.

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She'll probably send over
that imbecilic swain of hers.

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Walter Denton.

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Oh, Walter isn't
so bad, Mr. Conklin.

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If only he wouldn't speak.

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Oh, that voice of his drives
me to the edge of panic.

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Well, it's just his age, sir.

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I imagine his voice is changing.

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Well, I wish it would hurry.

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He sounds like a canary chewing
on a batch of rancid bird seed.

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Well, I do agree that
he's... Oh, come in.

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Salutations on
top of the morning!

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Swallow it, Walter.

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Gentlemen, now that you
are here, I'll be leaving shortly,

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so pay attention and I'll tell
you exactly what I want done.

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Oh, yes, sir.

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Harriet told me you were getting ready for
the clean-up, fix-up, paint-up campaign.

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But that doesn't start
for quite a while, sir.

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It will start when I
decree that it should.

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I'm a great boy for getting
the jump on the other fellow.

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Therefore, Denton, you will clean out
the old files you will find in my closet.

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I haven't touched
them since I took over

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this office from my
predecessor, Mr. Darwell.

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Oh, I remember Mr. Darwell, sir.

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Sometimes we thought
he was rather a tyrant.

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Oh, you did.

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Dear little old Mr. Darwell.

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The files contain nothing but
a batch of antiquated reports

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and old correspondence
that Mr. Darwell kept for years.

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You, Denton, will take it
all outside and destroy it.

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Oh, yes, sir.

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Burn it up.

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To a cinder, sir.

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Yes.

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Now then, I'm going on a
tour of classroom inspection.

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I haven't cracked the whip around here
in, oh, let's see, how long has it been?

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Since yesterday, sir.

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Yesterday!

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Oh, that's a high one, sir.

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Miss Brooks, I received an exceptionally
large batch of mail this morning.

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Now, while I'm gone, I want you to open
each and every letter, digest its contents,

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and if it is not of sufficient importance
to demand my personal attention, tear it up!

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I'll rip it to shreds, sir.

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Ruffle it!

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Destroy it!

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I'll be merciless.

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Yes, turn it in the basket!

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I'll bash it with my fist.

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Now,

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Remember, let's get on
the ball and stay there.

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Oh, hi, Miss Brooks.

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Oh, there you are, Stretch.

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How are you doing?

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Oh, all right, I guess.

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But I really don't know what I'm
supposed to do here, Miss Brooks.

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Well, didn't
Mr. Conklin tell you?

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No, ma'am, not exactly.

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When I got to school this morning,
Harriet just handed me a memo from him.

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A note?

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You know, a note.

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And all it said was, go to the
supply room and take inventory.

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I'm on the spot, Miss Brooks.

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Why?

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I can't find no
inventory no place.

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On top of that, Mr. Conklin just stopped
by and bawled me out something awful.

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Bawled you out?

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What were you doing?

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I wasn't doing nothing.

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I was just standing
here like a stick.

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What did he say to you?

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He said, what's the idea
of standing like a stick?

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And I said, why are you
standing here like no stick?

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And he says, who's your
English teacher, boy?

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And right away I said, Miss Brooks
is my English teacher, that's whose.

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Thank thee.

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If he wasn't in such a
bad mood, I'd have told

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him what a boot I get
at taking English off you.

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Gosh, Miss Brooks, sometimes I think
I'd like to stay in your class forever.

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Sometimes I think
you've got a good chance.

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If you're not too busy, Stretch,
would you mind running down

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to Mr. Conklin's office and
helping Walter with some old files?

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I'd be glad to help Walter, Miss Brooks, but
Mr. Conklin says that when I get through here, I should

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go to the biology lab and tell Mr. Boynton to
wash all the cages for Peppa Torrey to paint them.

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Pepperdine?

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Yeah, it seems there's some
kind of campaign starting.

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Oh yes, I'm familiar
with that stretch.

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But if you don't mind
helping Walter, I'd be glad

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to deliver your message
to Mr. Boyden in the lab.

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Of course, before I go, I've got
to start a campaign of my own.

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You know, clean
up, fix up, paint up.

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You mean your
classroom, Miss Brooks?

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Classroom?

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Nothing.

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Me.

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Hey, Scrooge,
listen to this letter.

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I'll read.

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It was sent to Mr. Darwell
when he was principal here.

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It says, dear sir, it has come to the
attention of the board that you have been

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flagrantly dictatorial in your dealings with
the faculty as well as the student body.

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As you know, I approve of discipline, but
your conduct lately has been overboard.

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Therefore, please be advised that if you do not
reverse your tyrannical methods at once, I will be

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forced to consider your immediate replacement as
principal of Madison High, assigned sincerely, Edgar T.

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Chairman of the board.

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Stretch, do you realize
what this letter means?

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Yeah.

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Mr. Darwell better
watch his step.

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Mr. Darwell hasn't
been here for years, and

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Mr. Conklin could never
have seen this letter.

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It was buried under
a whole pile of junk.

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All we've got to do is
reseal the envelope.

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You see, it was just addressed
to Principal Madison High School.

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I can type in Mr. Conklin's
name above that.

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What do you want
to do that for, Walter?

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Oh, it's very simple, Stretch.

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This way, Mr. Consonant will think
he's going to get the old heme home.

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And maybe he'll start acting
like a human being around here.

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Oh, this is going to
be the rib of all time.

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Hand me that glue,
will you please?

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Here, Walter.

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Thank you.

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There.

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All set.

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Gee, Walter, you've got
a mind like Matt Clovelly.

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Yeah.

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I wasn't aware I assigned
two of you to this detail.

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What have you got there, Denny?

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Well, this?

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Oh, it's just a
letter, Mr. Conklin.

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Miss Brooks gave it to me.

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She didn't have time to open
any of your mail yesterday.

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Stop babbling and give it to me.

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Yes, sir.

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Oh, I've got to be
running along now.

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One moment.

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I may have some more
chores for you, boy.

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First, I would like to see what
the Board of Education has to say.

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There it is.

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First, I'd like to come to the
attention of the Board that you've been

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flagrantly dictatorial in your view of
the fact that... I don't know what it is.

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Just a minute.

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Let's see if we find it.

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A tyrannical method at once.

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Oh... Is it bad
news, Mr. Conklin?

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What?

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Oh, perhaps you
two had better go now.

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Yes, sir.

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Come on, Walter.

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See you later, Mr. Conklin.

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Yes.

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Maybe.

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Come in.

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I got a student to take
over my study period,

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Mr. Conklin, so I can
get right to your mail.

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Oh, please, Miss Brooks,
won't you sit down?

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Oh, thank you, sir.

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Oh, no, no, not that chair.

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No, please, please.

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Well, everybody... Pardon me.

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I'm sure you'll find that
chair more comfortable.

243
00:12:18,780 --> 00:12:19,364
Huh?

244
00:12:19,489 --> 00:12:22,450
It has long been my warmest
desire to make the burdens

245
00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:25,328
of my teachers as light
as possible, Miss Brooks.

246
00:12:25,453 --> 00:12:28,706
If you have any suggestions
which would help me achieve this

247
00:12:28,831 --> 00:12:32,919
desire, you have but to mention
them and I'm your willing slave.

248
00:12:33,044 --> 00:12:35,797
Your wish is my command.

249
00:12:35,922 --> 00:12:39,801
Funny, I can't remember rubbing
any lamps around here lately.

250
00:12:39,926 --> 00:12:44,931
Now, I want you to forget all about
that nasty old correspondence of mine.

251
00:12:45,056 --> 00:12:49,477
I was only teasing when I said
you had to go through all my mail.

252
00:12:49,602 --> 00:12:50,895
Now, I'll tell you what.

253
00:12:51,020 --> 00:12:55,650
Why don't you toddle out onto the
ground and get some sun for a little while?

254
00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:58,736
And then when lunchtime
comes around, meet Mr. Boynton.

255
00:12:58,861 --> 00:13:00,321
I know you're very fond of him.

256
00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:02,949
And have a nice,
leisurely luncheon together.

257
00:13:03,074 --> 00:13:05,994
So, run along now.

258
00:13:06,119 --> 00:13:07,829
Thank you, sir.

259
00:13:09,664 --> 00:13:11,582
I have the strongest feeling.

260
00:13:11,708 --> 00:13:12,959
What kind of feeling?

261
00:13:13,084 --> 00:13:20,091
That Mrs. Davis is going
to wake me up any minute.

262
00:13:21,592 --> 00:13:23,761
Miss Brooks, I have news
that's going to enhance

263
00:13:23,886 --> 00:13:25,888
the enjoyment of your
lunch a thousand fold.

264
00:13:26,014 --> 00:13:27,140
But it's a deep secret.

265
00:13:27,265 --> 00:13:29,726
First, you've got to promise not
to breathe a word of it to a soul.

266
00:13:29,851 --> 00:13:30,476
I promise.

267
00:13:30,601 --> 00:13:31,728
What's the secret, Walter?

268
00:13:31,853 --> 00:13:33,229
Do you promise, Miss Brooks?

269
00:13:33,354 --> 00:13:33,980
Here's a fork.

270
00:13:34,105 --> 00:13:35,898
Take some blood.

271
00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:39,777
It's about that letter
Mr. Kotler got from the Board of

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Education, saying he'd be
replaced if he didn't stop acting so...

273
00:13:43,239 --> 00:13:46,868
So... The flagrantly
dictatorial in his methods.

274
00:13:46,993 --> 00:13:47,702
Yeah, that.

275
00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,912
To both faculty and students.

276
00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:50,621
What?

277
00:13:50,747 --> 00:13:53,833
Well, no wonder he's been
so nice to all of us this morning.

278
00:13:53,958 --> 00:13:56,919
But suppose Mr. Conklin
finds out the letter's a phony.

279
00:13:57,045 --> 00:13:57,628
A phony?

280
00:13:57,754 --> 00:13:58,171
A phony?

281
00:13:58,296 --> 00:13:59,672
Not so loud!

282
00:14:01,424 --> 00:14:03,843
The letter's not a phony,
it's perfectly legitimate.

283
00:14:03,968 --> 00:14:06,929
Except that it was sent
to Mr. Darwell years ago.

284
00:14:07,055 --> 00:14:08,473
Mr. Darwell?

285
00:14:08,598 --> 00:14:12,643
Yeah, Mr. Conklin's predecessor.

286
00:14:12,769 --> 00:14:15,772
Would that do something?

287
00:14:15,897 --> 00:14:19,275
Yeah, I just typed Mr. Conklin's
name on the old envelope, glued it up,

288
00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,404
he came in and read it, and presto,
a human being instead of a ramrod.

289
00:14:23,529 --> 00:14:28,493
Well, don't look now, but the
ex-ramrod is bearing down on us.

290
00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:29,786
Oh, I'd better be leaving.

291
00:14:29,911 --> 00:14:30,703
You stay right here.

292
00:14:30,828 --> 00:14:32,288
We're in this thing together.

293
00:14:32,413 --> 00:14:33,956
But I've got to
paint those cages.

294
00:14:34,082 --> 00:14:37,710
If you act suspicious now, we'll all
be painting cages from the inside.

295
00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:41,130
You just drew an X.
Treat him like an equal.

296
00:14:41,255 --> 00:14:42,632
There's nothing
he can do about it.

297
00:14:42,757 --> 00:14:45,635
Ah, what a happy sight this is.

298
00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,889
Teachers and pupils
breaking bread together.

299
00:14:50,014 --> 00:14:56,938
Would you care to rip a hunk
of toast with us, Mr. Counselor?

300
00:14:57,063 --> 00:14:57,688
Thank you.

301
00:14:57,814 --> 00:15:01,567
I would like to chat with you for a
moment, if I'm not disturbing anything.

302
00:15:01,692 --> 00:15:02,652
Oh, nothing at all, sir.

303
00:15:02,777 --> 00:15:03,903
Please sit down.

304
00:15:04,028 --> 00:15:07,573
Yeah, park it.

305
00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:10,243
Flop right here, Mr. Conklin.

306
00:15:10,368 --> 00:15:11,494
I gotta go get some more milk.

307
00:15:11,619 --> 00:15:13,871
Oh, thank you so much.

308
00:15:13,996 --> 00:15:17,041
Miss Brooks, as you
well know, I am a firm

309
00:15:17,166 --> 00:15:20,628
believer in the power of
meekness and humility.

310
00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:26,134
And so, before your friends, I come
to you, hat in hand, to seek a favor.

311
00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:28,928
How the mighty have fallen!

312
00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:30,346
Why fallen?

313
00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:32,014
What is it you want,
Miss Conference?

314
00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:36,894
Miss Brooks, you have much influence with
the student body as well as the faculty.

315
00:15:37,019 --> 00:15:40,815
I wonder if you could get them to
see me in the same light that you do.

316
00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:43,985
Aren't you in enough
trouble already?

317
00:15:44,110 --> 00:15:47,446
I know what you
mean, and you're right.

318
00:15:47,572 --> 00:15:52,368
Yes, it's those confounded mottos
that hang in my office, Miss Brooks.

319
00:15:52,493 --> 00:15:55,163
Spare the rod
and spoil the child.

320
00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:57,957
Respect through power.

321
00:15:58,082 --> 00:15:59,834
Oh, they goad one, Miss Brooks.

322
00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:03,212
Whip one into a frenzy
of ambition until the

323
00:16:03,337 --> 00:16:06,966
real me is submerged,
snowed under, suffocated.

324
00:16:08,176 --> 00:16:09,135
Yeah!

325
00:16:10,178 --> 00:16:12,597
Why don't you get rid of some
of those signs, Mr. Conklin?

326
00:16:12,722 --> 00:16:14,599
A splendid idea, Mr. Boynton.

327
00:16:14,724 --> 00:16:19,061
Maybe I could exchange them for
more humane and genteel parables.

328
00:16:19,187 --> 00:16:22,565
I'm open to suggestions
on that score as well.

329
00:16:22,690 --> 00:16:28,070
How about, I have been a
marble-headed monster?

330
00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:32,116
Walter, that's very rude.

331
00:16:32,241 --> 00:16:35,453
On the contrary, it
has quite a ring to it.

332
00:16:35,578 --> 00:16:38,414
In fact, it might come
in handy as a reminder.

333
00:16:38,539 --> 00:16:41,083
Oh, but Mr. Conklin,
I... Please, Miss Brooks.

334
00:16:41,209 --> 00:16:45,213
Well, if you insist,
marble-head.

335
00:16:45,338 --> 00:16:47,840
Music to my ears.

336
00:16:47,965 --> 00:16:51,594
I have always been ready to
criticize the shortcomings in others,

337
00:16:51,719 --> 00:16:54,430
Perhaps if I had a list
of my own to refer to

338
00:16:54,555 --> 00:16:57,516
each morning, it might
help me be more tolerant.

339
00:16:57,642 --> 00:17:00,561
Do you think you
could compile one?

340
00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:04,815
It might take months.

341
00:17:04,941 --> 00:17:08,402
Oh, you... Walter, you...
I don't believe I've ever

342
00:17:08,527 --> 00:17:11,948
mentioned this before,
Miss Brooks, but I... I...

343
00:17:17,370 --> 00:17:18,746
Love this boy.

344
00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:22,333
I know you do, Mr. Carlton.

345
00:17:22,458 --> 00:17:26,963
I can tell by the way the veins
stand out in your neck when you say it.

346
00:17:27,088 --> 00:17:29,840
I'm serious about the
list of my shortcomings.

347
00:17:29,966 --> 00:17:32,426
I'll be deeply grateful to
you if you bring all your

348
00:17:32,551 --> 00:17:35,054
complaints over to my
office as quickly as possible.

349
00:17:35,179 --> 00:17:38,432
And Miss Brooks, don't
try to spare my feelings.

350
00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:41,102
Give it to me with both barrels.

351
00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:46,232
Believe me, Mr. Conklin, I can't think of
anything I'd rather do with both barrels.

352
00:17:46,357 --> 00:17:47,358
Go!

353
00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:52,154
I cleaned out those
old files for you, Daddy.

354
00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,072
Thank you, Harriet.

355
00:17:53,197 --> 00:17:56,826
You're a dear, sweet child.

356
00:17:56,951 --> 00:17:59,287
Do you feel all right, Daddy?

357
00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:00,788
As well as could be expected.

358
00:18:00,913 --> 00:18:06,294
Oh, let me clean off some of
this junk for you off your desk here.

359
00:18:06,419 --> 00:18:09,005
Now, you don't need this old
letter anymore, do you, Daddy?

360
00:18:09,130 --> 00:18:09,797
Old letter?

361
00:18:09,922 --> 00:18:11,215
What old letter?

362
00:18:11,340 --> 00:18:13,467
This one from the
Board of Education.

363
00:18:13,592 --> 00:18:15,136
The envelope is postmarked 1944.

364
00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:21,058
1944?

365
00:18:22,476 --> 00:18:24,770
Let me see that letter.

366
00:18:24,895 --> 00:18:25,938
Aha!

367
00:18:26,063 --> 00:18:28,899
They must have gotten
this from Mr. Darwell's

368
00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:31,569
files and typed my
name on the envelope.

369
00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:33,321
Well, what are you
talking about, Daddy?

370
00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:39,452
Harriet, your daddy has been
the victim of a monumental hoax.

371
00:18:39,577 --> 00:18:43,122
But now the shoe
is on the other foot.

372
00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:46,959
And believe me, this is the
foot that knows how to use it.

373
00:18:47,084 --> 00:18:49,420
Why, I... Oh.

374
00:19:02,516 --> 00:19:03,517
That must be the committee now.

375
00:19:03,642 --> 00:19:04,810
I want to talk to them alone.

376
00:19:04,935 --> 00:19:06,270
You leave by the other door.

377
00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:08,564
Oh, I'd rather stay, Daddy,
and see what it's all about.

378
00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:10,149
I don't care what you'd rather.

379
00:19:10,274 --> 00:19:11,609
I'm at the helm of this ship.

380
00:19:11,734 --> 00:19:12,485
Now go!

381
00:19:12,610 --> 00:19:16,530
Yes, Daddy.

382
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,032
Do come in.

383
00:19:22,286 --> 00:19:25,373
We dropped a little reminder
for your desk, Mr. Conklin.

384
00:19:25,498 --> 00:19:26,248
Oh, thank you.

385
00:19:26,374 --> 00:19:26,999
Thank you.

386
00:19:27,124 --> 00:19:29,627
If you'd be kind enough
to read your bill of

387
00:19:29,752 --> 00:19:32,254
particulars concerning
my various infamies.

388
00:19:32,380 --> 00:19:34,965
We're all going to read
some of it, Mr. Conklin.

389
00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:36,175
Will you begin, Miss Brooks?

390
00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:37,468
Thank you, Mr. Boynton.

391
00:19:37,593 --> 00:19:40,763
Whereas I, Oggood Conklin, principal
of Madison High, desiring to improve

392
00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:44,600
relations between myself, the faculty,
and the student body... Your turn, Walter.

393
00:19:47,228 --> 00:19:50,564
Do promise to keep the
following ever before me as a

394
00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:54,235
reminder of past sins of
which I am heartily ashamed.

395
00:19:57,488 --> 00:20:00,491
And which I am never
going to repeat no more.

396
00:20:00,616 --> 00:20:02,159
Oh, thank you.

397
00:20:02,284 --> 00:20:03,244
Please continue.

398
00:20:03,369 --> 00:20:04,870
Oh, wait till you hear this.

399
00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:08,541
I readily admit that on
many occasions I have acted

400
00:20:08,666 --> 00:20:12,294
like a pompous, puffed
up, adulpated blowhard.

401
00:20:12,420 --> 00:20:16,715
Forgive me, but it seems to
me you've omitted maladjusted.

402
00:20:16,841 --> 00:20:18,384
Please don't
interrupt, Mr. Conklin.

403
00:20:18,509 --> 00:20:21,762
That's in the next paragraph.

404
00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:22,847
Now, where was I?

405
00:20:22,972 --> 00:20:24,390
Adulpated blowhard.

406
00:20:24,515 --> 00:20:24,974
Oh, yes.

407
00:20:25,099 --> 00:20:26,725
Adulpated blowhard.

408
00:20:26,851 --> 00:20:31,063
And on other occasions I
have bellowed like a bull.

409
00:20:31,188 --> 00:20:33,732
Screamed like an elephant.

410
00:20:33,858 --> 00:20:34,984
Hissed like a viper.

411
00:20:35,109 --> 00:20:38,654
Snorted like a buffalo.

412
00:20:39,989 --> 00:20:45,327
And otherwise exhibited the
behavior of a maladjusted nincompoop.

413
00:20:45,453 --> 00:20:47,204
There it is.

414
00:20:48,539 --> 00:20:52,751
Now, before you go any further, I'd
like you all to sign this document for me.

415
00:20:52,877 --> 00:20:54,670
Oh, we already
have, Mr. Conklin.

416
00:20:54,795 --> 00:20:55,880
Oh, good, good.

417
00:20:56,005 --> 00:20:59,425
Then perhaps you'd be good
enough to autograph this other

418
00:20:59,550 --> 00:21:03,095
manuscript sent from the
Board of Education, postmarked

419
00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:06,682
1944 and intended for my unfortunate predecessor
who no doubt had to contend with just

420
00:21:06,807 --> 00:21:10,227
such perfidious malcontents as you who
stand trembling before me this very moment!

421
00:21:22,156 --> 00:21:26,494
Well, Mr. Cartland, to quote one
of your favorite mottos, sir... Yes?

422
00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:30,164
He who fights and runs
away lives to fight another day.

423
00:21:30,289 --> 00:21:32,875
Bye now!

424
00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:48,474
♪♪

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00:21:49,305 --> 00:22:49,425
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