:05:00
We'd like to find out something
about him. What does he do for a living?
:05:03
He and Jim Mason own the tailor works,
but that's not how he makes his money.
:05:07
- He makes most of it from his poetry.
- He writes poetry?
:05:11
Oh, my goodness, yes.
Longfellow's famous.
:05:14
He writes all those things
on postcards.
:05:16
You know, for Christmas
and Easter and birthdays.
:05:20
Sit down, please.
:05:21
Here's one.
He got 25 dollars for this one.
:05:25
"When you've nowhere to turn
and you're filled with doubt...
:05:28
don't stand in midstream hesitating...
:05:31
for you know that your mother's heart
cries out--
:05:34
'I'm waiting, my boy, I'm waiting."'
:05:38
Isn't that beautiful?
Isn't it a lovely sentiment?
:05:41
Yeah.
:05:44
Here he is now.
:05:50
l suggest you break it to him gently.
He's liable to keel over from the shock.
:05:53
They've been waiting a long while.
:05:56
- Who are they?
- I don't know.
:06:02
- Mr. Longfellow Deeds?
- Yes.
:06:05
How do you do?
:06:07
I'm John Cedar, of the New York firm
of Cedar, Cedar, Cedar and Budington.
:06:16
Budington must feel
like an awful stranger.
:06:20
- Mr. Cornelius Cobb. Mr. Anderson.
- How do you do?
:06:24
You gentlemen
make yourselves comfortable.
:06:26
Thank you.
:06:29
Thanks.
:06:31
New mouthpiece.
Been waitin' two weeks for this.
:06:35
Kids keep swiping them all the time.
They use 'em for bean shooters.
:06:41
- What can l do for you gentlemen?
- You gentlemen going to stay to lunch?
:06:44
- I'd like to ask you a few questions.
- All right.
:06:47
- Are you Joseph and Mary Deeds' son?
- Yes.
:06:50
- Your parents living?
- Why, no.
:06:52
Well, Mr. Deeds, does the name of
Martin W. Semple mean anything to you?
:06:56
Not much.
He's an uncle of mine, l think.
:06:58
l never saw him.
My mother's name was Semple.