Curly Top Page #3

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- Yours?

- Yes.

Oh, yes. I see.

- This eyesight of mine is bad, you know.

- I was only playing.

There, Mrs Higgins.

That's what comes of letting them play.

- Ridiculing their benefactors.

- I'm sorry.

It seems to me that this child

is absolutely incorrigible.

Every time I see her,

she's making a disturbance.

- She is rather a problem.

- Problem?

She's the sort of problem that might be

better solved at a public institution.

- We couldn't send her away.

- I say you shall send her away!

I say she'll have to go to a public institution.

She'll have to do nothing of the kind.

If she's sent away,

I shan't contribute another cent.

- Now, Mr Morgan, you can't...

- Oh, yes, I can.

Mrs Higgins, I'd like to talk to you

and to this little girl privately.

- Your office would be the best place.

- Why, of course, Mr Morgan.

Young lady, I've got a great idea.

Would you like me to tell it to you?

- Yes.

- Elizabeth.

Excuse me. Yes, sir.

That's better.

Now look here. Here's the secret.

How would you like it if you and I

got to be very, very good friends?

- I don't think I would like it, sir.

- Why, Elizabeth!

I would like to talk to Elizabeth alone.

Do you mind?

- Of course not.

- Thank you.

Tell me. Why wouldn't you like to be

friends with me?

- Oh, just because.

- Just because?

You've got to give me

a much better reason than that.

Well, it's just because

when grown-ups come to visit us

we have to say "Yes, ma'am"

and "No, sir" and smile all the time.

- Can you keep a secret?

- A secret?

Mm-hm.

- I won't tell anybody.

- Shake.

Now, here's the secret:

You don't have to say

any of those things to me.

You see, all this business

out here is new to me.

- My regular business is being a lawyer.

- What's a lawyer?

If you ever get into trouble, a lawyer

is a person who gets you out of trouble.

Oh, my, I could use one almost every day.

- Tell me, what's your name, sweet?

- Elizabeth Blair.

Elizabeth Blair. I've got

a much better name for you than that.

If I had my way, I'd call you Curly Top.

That's what my daddy used to call me,

and my mommy too.

They did? I'll bet you're

just as wise as wise can be.

- Well, I can recite.

- Recite? Recite what?

- Oh, poems.

- What kind of poems?

"Before I was a little girl,

I was a little bird.

"I could not laugh, I could not dance,

I could not speak a word.

"But all about the woods I went

and up into the sky.

"And isn't it a pity I've forgotten how to fly?"

I think that's the loveliest poem I ever heard.

- I know more.

- Go right ahead.

"I wake in the morning early,

and always the very first thing,

"I poke out my head, and I sit up in bed,

and I sing and I sing and I sing."

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