:24:00
No matter. Today I had serious work to do.
:24:03
''What I want for Christmas.''
:24:05
''What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun
with a compass in the stock...
:24:08
''and this thing which tells time.''
:24:10
Wow, that's great.
:24:12
''I think that everybody should have
a Red Ryder BB gun.
:24:15
''They're very good for Christmas.
:24:17
''I don't think that a football's
a very good Christmas present.''
:24:22
Oh, rarely had the words poured
from my penny pencil...
:24:25
with such feverish fluidity.
:24:33
I've won! I've won!
:24:45
The Bumpus hounds.
:24:48
Our hillbilly neighbors, the Bumpuses,
had at least...
:24:51
785 smelly hound dogs.
:24:53
And they ignored every other human being
on earth but my old man.
:25:00
I won!
:25:02
I won!
:25:05
- What?
- A major prize!
:25:07
I won!
:25:09
Hey, look at that. Look at that.
A Western Union telegram.
:25:12
Tonight, he's coming tonight.
Tonight. Hot damn, tonight!
:25:15
What does this mean here?
:25:17
It means it's coming tonight!
:25:19
I called Ernie McClosky
at the freight depot.
:25:21
He said the telegram was late,
the prize was already there...
:25:24
he was going to send it on tonight.
:25:26
Come on. Have a chew, fellas, on me.
It's my gift.
:25:30
You know, maybe it'll be one of those
Spanish adobe houses down in Coral...
:25:39
Serves you right, you smelly buggers.
:25:42
Or it could be a bowling alley.
:25:44
A guy down in Terre Haute
won a bowling alley.
:25:47
How are they going to deliver
a bowling alley here tonight?
:25:50
They could send the deed,
for cripesake. I mean...
:25:54
I didn't expect they were going
to send the whole damn bowling alley.
:25:57
Yeah, well. How about eating?
I'm starving to death.