Peter M. Thompson credited as playing...
Sambo
- Samuel H. Stover, Sr.: John Stover, did you paint Mrs. Cameron's white horse green?
- John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover: I did the horse a favor.
- Samuel H. Stover, Sr.: Why?
- John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover: Well, the flies were bothering him something awful. So, I painted him green. Same color as the grass. So, the flies couldn't see him.
- Sambo: That's the most outrageous thing I ever heard of.
- John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover: No, it isn't. I stayed there an hour after I painted him green. The flies didn't bother him at all.
- Samuel H. Stover, Sr.: Hello, Sambo. What is it and how did the news reach Yale University?
- Mrs. Stover: [Tearfully] -=There was an explosion at the academy and it blew out the sides of a building and it blew It could have killed everybody. They say that John did it.
- Samuel H. Stover, Sr.: I brought him home.
- Sambo: Dad, we'll never have a moment's peace unless you do something drastic about that young heathen right now.
- Samuel H. Stover, Sr.: In the last two years we have lost half our friends and, well,...
- Mrs. Stover: Oh, no, Samuel. Not reform school. Please.
- Sambo: Why not reform school?
- Samuel H. Stover, Sr.: Of course, there is one private school I know of. A school with a fine tradition among its students that manages to take pretty nearly any young heathen into a good Christian.