Beaver and Wally have been visiting their Aunt Martha but it's time to go home and Aunt Martha is putting them on the train but the boys want to buy their own tickets. The train is late and Wally and the Beaver are slowly but surely spending their money.
Back at the Cleaver house June has just learned her babies have been abandoned at the railway station by Aunt Martha and she is in full panic mode.
When Wally goes to buy tickets, he discovers he only has enough money to get to Bellport. He buys those as at least they will be closer to home. This time it has been Beaver who had shown greater maturity. Beaver wanted to have Wally buy the tickets immediately; and when they came up short, Beaver suggested Wally call home or Aunt Martha.
The moment of truth has come for now the conductor is collecting tickets and Beaver is trying to explain why they didn't have enough money in his very imaginative way. Finally, the truth comes out. The conductor pays for the tickets and makes the boys promise to send him the money.
Back home the boys are reticent about talking about their trip, and are trying to figure out if they have the money themselves to pay the conductor. They might have gotten away with it if George Haskell hadn't been on the train. George tells Ward all about the stories Beaver told on the train.
The boys have the money and are going to mail it to the conductor in the morning. They are pleased they won't have to tell their parents. When Ward and June come in to tuck the boys in, Ward asks if they will be able to settle that little affair with the conductor. They can. Then, Ward continues, it's good to know they had a nice time with an Aunt in the poorhouse, and they should be happy to know he has recovered after falling out of a plane. Good night.
Both boys are stunned that Ward knows everything. Beaver figures it must be like Santa Claus, he knows everything.
June wants to know what's going on. Ward says she should talk to George Haskell.
Definitely a nicer more civil time. I'm pretty sure that any number of adults on the train would have offered to pay the fares for the boys. Certainly, if George was the friend he thinks he is, he would have paid and had the boys pay him back and keep their secret. I remember well taking the train from my home to Pittsburgh along with my friends. Today I doubt any parent would let their child do such a trip alone, even if the train was still making that trip. It isn't.
Back at the Cleaver house June has just learned her babies have been abandoned at the railway station by Aunt Martha and she is in full panic mode.
When Wally goes to buy tickets, he discovers he only has enough money to get to Bellport. He buys those as at least they will be closer to home. This time it has been Beaver who had shown greater maturity. Beaver wanted to have Wally buy the tickets immediately; and when they came up short, Beaver suggested Wally call home or Aunt Martha.
The moment of truth has come for now the conductor is collecting tickets and Beaver is trying to explain why they didn't have enough money in his very imaginative way. Finally, the truth comes out. The conductor pays for the tickets and makes the boys promise to send him the money.
Back home the boys are reticent about talking about their trip, and are trying to figure out if they have the money themselves to pay the conductor. They might have gotten away with it if George Haskell hadn't been on the train. George tells Ward all about the stories Beaver told on the train.
The boys have the money and are going to mail it to the conductor in the morning. They are pleased they won't have to tell their parents. When Ward and June come in to tuck the boys in, Ward asks if they will be able to settle that little affair with the conductor. They can. Then, Ward continues, it's good to know they had a nice time with an Aunt in the poorhouse, and they should be happy to know he has recovered after falling out of a plane. Good night.
Both boys are stunned that Ward knows everything. Beaver figures it must be like Santa Claus, he knows everything.
June wants to know what's going on. Ward says she should talk to George Haskell.
Definitely a nicer more civil time. I'm pretty sure that any number of adults on the train would have offered to pay the fares for the boys. Certainly, if George was the friend he thinks he is, he would have paid and had the boys pay him back and keep their secret. I remember well taking the train from my home to Pittsburgh along with my friends. Today I doubt any parent would let their child do such a trip alone, even if the train was still making that trip. It isn't.
