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With the courtroom action over, plans to buy the Dillard farm are begun. Today, Abner tries to take orders over the party line, while grandpap distracts him with details of the town gossip. Topics of the case against BJ Webster, buying clothes pins, and the recent split in dividing the store end when Lum enters in high spirits.
The gents discuss Abner’s sales specials, and marketing failure with customers. They share more details in the sound defeat of BJ Webster. Is he back in jail? With the fine paid, Lum tries to lay out the rest of his plan with the Dillard farm.
Abner still doesn’t get it about Lum’s reason for wanting the old homestead. Phinus Peabody, Abner’s papa, enters with the documents that deed the Dillard place to grandpap. I’ll be a polka dotted possum! The act of charity is enough to make Abner feel like a tromped on toad frog. Just drop kick him to the street for ever thinking Lum had any hard feelings against grandpap.
