Johnny Dollar. Oh, I beg your pardon. This is Earl Perman's resident. Well, it better be.

Who's that, Earl? Who else? Now, listen, Johnny...

What's the idea sneaking out of the house on me this way, and at the crack of dawn? Where are you, Earl?

Down here at my office? What? Why not? I thought you and I were going fishing this morning.

We are, we are. Now, look, when you got down here to Sarasota,

when was it, a week ago today? That's right, and you promised me this was one trip to Florida

for nothing but fishing. Well, now, Johnny, that's... So what happened? I wasn't here

more than 15 minutes before you had me involved. Well, will you listen to me? The one sunny day you picked the spend there in your office, my pal.

Did I say I've come down here to work?

What else?

Well, I, you remember that item on the Herald Tribune the other day about your being here?

Yes, and the one in the evening paper and the blurb on WSP, and I thank you for the publicity.

All right. What has that got to do with the weather and the fishing?

Would I said, will you listen to me?

Okay.

And it better be good.

Well, it is, and you're going to love it.

Now, all that publicity you just mentioned,

as every fishing guide within miles make an office to take you out on the Gulf, you know, to prove to you once and for all that the fishing down here is

just as good as Todd Swam and his Chamber of Commerce advertised.

So?

So, I came down here to look over these offers and decide which one we take advantage of today,

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