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The mysterious case with the phantom author has been resolved, and today in the Jot Em Down store Lum has a complaint about the wholesaler in the county seat. Lum also has new ideas to make his printing press profitable. Small jobs like greeting cards and flyers are the thing.
A comment about carrying coal to Newcastle confuses Abner. It confuses me too, but it has to do with hauling coal to a place where they already have a lot of it.
Lum tries to explain it with another old Edwards saying about owls to Athens. Abner wonders what they want all them owls for, and I have to agree with him, I don’t get the references either. The frustrations for Lum are enough to send him out to be fitted for a strait jacket.
As Abner phones home to get Lizabeth to get his traveling suit ready, he gets a visit from Cedric and Mousey. He commissions his friends to go out and catch all the owls they can, so he and Lum can start that new business right.
This and its follow-up are two of my all-time favorite programs! I did a comic strip adaptation of these.
And it’s all because that Diogenes feller left them a printing press to play with!
Yep! And that is my favorite continuity of all!