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Distracted by showing his family scrap book to anyone who comes into range, Phinus hasn’t been a bother. Today, Lum enters the Jot Em Down store to learn about the trip Cedric and Phinus are to go on. Has the old man caused all the trouble he can in town, and now he’s branching out?
Lum tries to figure it out, but Abner is too busy with making arrangements. They need plenty of coupons for gas and rubber. Lum tries to talk patriotic sense over taking trips that aren’t essential. Thinking he has done an irreversible wrong, Abner thinks he’s on the fast track to the penitentiary.
The discussion is designed to outline how the rationing books and coupons work. They can’t be bought, sold, or transferred. The whole while, Abner fields phone calls to be sure the trip can go through. Is there some way Abner can get extra gas for Cedric to make the trip? Just how important is this message that the trip is for?
