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After being dropped off at the Johnson place by the mail hack driver, Abner and Lizabeth are stranded. A measles outbreak have them quarantined, so to keep busy, Abner makes phone calls to pretend that he actually made it to Texas.
Grandpap enters the Jot Em Down store, a little mystified to hear from Abner in Texas, while his relative has told grandpap that Abner hasn’t arrived yet. Lum sets him straight, and hhow Abner is supposed to know how to play the trombone.
The gents get amused over the idea of Abner practicing a slide trombone in the house full of quarantined patients. Even Phinus comes in to marvel that his son, Abner, has phoned him from Texas. What kind of made up news is he spreading around now? What kind of parade is Abner getting himself into? Just more troubles at the Johnson farm?
