Cannery Row Page #3

to get the little buggers to react.

Unfortunately, the conclusions to be

drawn from this were slow in coming.

Doc decided

a change of pace might help.

It was Wednesday night, so he knew

where Ellen Sedgewick would be.

Ultimately,

even Ellen failed to inspire him.

But Doc knew he was

on to something...

..even if he couldn't

figure out what it was.

- Hi, Joseph and Mary.

- Hi, Fauna.

Let's see now,

I need some yellow pads,

a box of pencils - no. 2 lead,

and blackberry brandy.

- You still doing that astrology?

- Yeah.

Hazel wants me to do a chart on him.

Since the stars said Jones

would marry Lana Turner,

everybody wants their chart done.

- I'll go and get the brandy.

- Take your time.

- So he's the one.

- The one what?

He leaves the stuff for The Seer.

Doc's been doing that

for nearly 15 years now.

Him and the boys

even built him a house.

And the guy still thinks

it comes from heaven?

He ain't all with it up here.

- Hell of a town you've got here.

- Yeah, it is nice, ain't it?

All set, Fauna.

- Hi, Doc.

- Hi, Fauna.

Hey, J.M. How about a couple

of cold ones back on the ice?

Doc, you know Suzy here?

- How do you do?

- How do you do?

Suzy's just starting

at the Bear Flag.

Oh, really?

I'm in here to buy beer.

Budweiser.

I knew this guy who always wanted to

order a beer milkshake at a drive-in.

He... he never did.

He was chicken.

I've got your beer, Doc.

Suzy... nice to have met you.

- So long, Doc.

- Bye, Fauna.

Nice to have met you.

Come in.

How do you do?

Oh, hello. What's that you got?

Some macaroons.

The cook at the Bear Flag made them.

Fauna told him to.

She sent you some beer, too.

That's nice.

- I wonder what she wants.

- Nothing. I think...

- What have you got them for?

- I sell their venom.

I'd never live with filthy snakes.

Snakes are cleaner than people.

Why call them filthy?

- You want to know why?

- Yeah.

- Because you ran Fauna down.

- No, I didn't.

You said she did it

to get something out of you.

That's why you call snakes filthy.

Fauna is one of my best friends.

Why don't we just have a beer

and make peace, okay?

Sit down.

I guess it's okay.

Here.

What are you doing

with these little dishes?

I'm making slides to show the

development of sea urchin embryos.

Here, take a look.

I fix one culture every half hour

and monitor it on a slide

until I have a series

to show students a sea urchin going

from egg to a complete organism.

- Why do they want to know that?

- That's the way people develop.

I have to do another culture

in two minutes.

Why don't they just study people?

And kill unborn babies

every half hour?

I don't know about all this.

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