Fish Hooky

Mickey Daniels: Have you ever heard anything about a reform school?

Dickie: Yeah, I've heard about it. What's it like?

Mickey Daniels: Oh, it's terrible. A great big heavy iron ball around each ankle, and all stoop-shouldered from carrying a great big heavy sledgehammer.

Stymie: What's the sludgehammer for?

Mickey Daniels: They use it on the rockpile. They break great big rocks into little bitsy ones.

Dickie: Well, why don't they run away?

Mickey Daniels: Oh, they can't. Too many guards. And there's a big river runs all the way around it. And it's just chuck full of crocodiles.

[he mimes a crocodile's jaws opening and closing]

Wheezer: How 'bout Sunday?

Mickey Daniels: Well, they give 'em a treat on Sunday. They feed 'em spinach instead of bread and water.

Spanky: How 'bout Christmas?

Mickey Daniels: Oh, they're swell to 'em on Christmas. Everybody gets a brand new sledgehammer.