Lum: For goodness sakes, Cedric, hush up and get to sleep!

Cedric: Well, I'll try. Don't know how to do it, though, hardly.

Abner: Well, try countin' sheep jumpin' over a fence. That's the best way.

Cedric: But if I go to sleep how will I know how many I've counted?

Abner: It don't matter how many you count, just so you get to sleep.

Cedric: Well, I just thought it would be nice to keep track of 'em long as I go to all that bother to count 'em.

Abner: Well, just try it, Cedric!

Cedric: Don't really get no wheres with this, do you?

Lum: Will you get to sleep?! Please! That's the most important place a fella can get at this moment, is asleep. Go on, start countin' the sheep.

Cedric: Yes, mum. Close my eyes and start 'maginin'. Uh-oh! There's a horse there! What's he doin' in there?

Abner: I don't know, Cedric.

Cedric: Does it have to be sheep, Mr. Abner?

Abner: I reckon it does. I never heared of anybody countin' nothin' else.

Cedric: All right. I'll try again. Sheep. Conceltrate on sheep. Now I can see some. They look like horses, but I know they're sheep. I know better, now. One. Two. Three. Four. Five.

Abner: Cedric, you ain't supposed to count 'em out loud like that. Count 'em to yourself. Me and Lum wanna get to sleep.

Cedric: I'll just count 'em to me then. Good-night, Mr. Abner.

Abner: Good-night.

Cedric: Good-night, Mr. Lum.

Lum: Good-night, Cedric.

Cedric: Uh-oh! Uh-oh!

Abner: Sakes alive! What's the matter now, Cedric?

Cedric: Number Six never made the fence. Got little short, chubby legs. You orta see him. Or, no, you can't.

Abner: Such a boy. Such a boy.

Cedric: Do the other sheep have to wait for him to get over the fence or can they go on ahead? What's the rules on that?

Abner: They ain't no rules. Just keep 'em jumpin' and don't bother us no more.

Cedric: That's a good slogan for me. Keep 'em jumpin'. Good-night, Mr. Abner.

Abner: Good-night.

Cedric: Well, what do you know about that. Say, Mr. Abner.

Abner: Huh? Huh? What's the matter?

Cedric: Somethin's wrong. I got six extra sheep.

Abner: Six extra? Aw, that's silly. You couldn't have.

Cedric: Well, I done her, though. Counted up to number 'leven, and the last three jumped back again.

Abner: Jumped back again?

Cedric: Yes, mum. I don't know why they done it. They just done it, is all I know. Anyway, them last three was 'leven, ten, and nine. So that put nine back on the first side and eight on the other side, and eight and nine is seventeen, and all I counted was eleven. So they's six extra sheep got in there some way.

Abner: Uh, doggies, that's right. Let's see. Uh. How 'bout that, Lum?

Lum: Uh. Started out with 'leven, huh? And worked back to nine. Huh! Well, it's nothin' to worry 'bout.

Abner: Just don't worry about it, Cedric. Just keep on countin' 'em till you get sleepy.

Cedric: Yes, mum. I better keep them extra six out, hadn't I?

Abner: Yeah. Keep 'em out. No tellin' where they come from.

Cedric: Good-night, Mr. Abner.

Abner: Good-night, Cedric.

Cedric: Good-night, Mr. Lum.

Lum: Good-night.

Cedric: 'leven. Twelve. Yawn. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. Yawn. Sixteen. Seventeen...

Abner: Hey, Lum.

Lum: Cedric's asleep, Abner.

Abner: I know he is, but I'm worried. How in the world did them extra six sheep get in there?

Lum: Grannies, I can't figure that out neither.

Abner: There's somethin' wrong there, some'eres.

Lum: Yeah. I just been studyin' about it. Abner, you got a pencil and paper in your satchel?

Abner: Yeah. I b'lieve I have.

Lum: I'll get up and figure this thing out. I can't get to sleep. No use for me to try to sleep with somethin' like this on my mind.