Stan Laurel credited as playing...
Stan Sr. • Stanley Jr.
- Ollie Sr.: What's all this racket about?
- Ollie Jr.: [in a plaintive whiny "poor me" tone of voice] He hit me!
- Stan Jr.: I did not! He hit m-
- [taking his hand out of the covers to try to point to Ollie Jr., then realizing with extreme chagrin that he still has the boxing glove on. He hastily slips his hand out of the glove and then half-heartedly points a bare finger at Ollie Jr., knowing that his complaint/accusation won't hold much water now that the fathers have seen the boxing glove and thus will suspect that Stan had been doing some hitting himself]
- Stan Jr.: - He...
- Stan Sr.: [reaching out to stop Ollie from using his pool cue] My break!
- Ollie Sr.: It's MY break!
- Stan Sr.: [indignantly] It's MY break!
- [points irritably]
- Stan Sr.: You went in the pocket there -...
- Ollie Sr.: [bonks Stan over the head with his pool cue to shut him up, then leans over the pool table with the cuestick to hit the cueball again. Stan quickly reaches out and picks up the cueball to keep Ollie from hitting it, but Ollie doesn't see Stan's action in time, and thrusts the cuestick forward where the ball had been, skinning off a strip of the pool table's green felt playing surface]
- [first lines]
- Ollie Sr.: Will you brats keep quiet? How do you expect me to **concentrate**?
- Stan Jr.: Well, Oliver won't let me play with my blocks.
- Ollie Sr.: [to Ollie Jr] Will you leave Stanley alone - and play quietly.
- Stan Sr.: [speaking in a calmer and more conciliatory tone] Certainly, if you must make a noise, make it **quietly**!
- Ollie Sr.: [in a deeply derisive tone] Make a noise **quietly**...! Hmph!