From January 22, 1946. Listen to this episode here.




Cedric: Mister Abner! Mister Abner!

Squire Skimp: Be with ya in a minute, Cedric.

Cedric: Oh. Thought you was Mister Abner.

Squire: What in the world have you got there, Cedric?

Cedric: Two glasses of root beer!

Squire: Root beer?!

Cedric: Huh! Huh! Yes, mahm! Ice cold. Made it myself. Mama helped me. Where's Mister Lum and Mister Abner at?

Squire: Well, Abner isn't back from making his deliveries yet, Cedric. And Lum's in the feed room lying down. He's not feeling very well.

Cedric: Reckon he'd like some root beer? Home made?

Squire: No, I don't b'lieve so, Cedric. It's best not to bother him.

Cedric: Dog-gone it. I brung this over for him and Mister Abner to sample. See, I'm goin' in business for myself.

Squire: Business?!

Cedric: Yes, mahm. I set up a little root beer stand out in front of our house. Ice cold root beer. Home made.

Squire: In this kind of weather?! Why, Cedric, it's almost down to freezing!

Cedric: I know it. That's why it's ice cold.

Squire: Why, you won't do a nickel's worth of business, Cedric. Nobody puts up a cold-drink stand in the dead of winter.

Cedric: Well, that's why I done it. No compey-tition.

Squire: Ha! Ha! Ha! I see!

Cedric: I figgered that out all by myself. And Papa's proud of me for doin' it.

Squire: I'm not surprised.

Cedric: He said I was gettin' to be more of a dunderhead ever' day. Mister Squire, what is a dunderhead?

Squire: Why... well, it's... uh... whatever you think it is, Cedric, my boy.

Cedric: That's what I thought! Boy!!