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Ma Perkins shushed Willy and Shuffle, who insisted on carrying on their discussion of space ships at the top of their lungs while she was trying to make out what Evey was saying. "Willy, Evey's on the telephone," Ma said sharply, "Be quiet! She's trying to tell me something about Dr. Stevens." Willy gave Shuffle a look to make certain Shuffle didn't "think this was Wiljy giving in and subsided into sulky silence. . . . "Ma, it's a baby," Evey was saying breathlessly into the telephone. "Whose baby?" asked Ma in bewilderment. "Mine!" came Evey's voice, reaching almost a hysterical pitch. "Evey, calm down — what are you trying to tell me?" Ma said in her most soothing tones. Evey was scatterbrained, but certainly not so scatterbrained that she thought she had any other child than Junior, age fifteen — who couldn't possibly be misconstrued to be a "baby," Ma thought a little desperately. "Me, mine," Evey said stoutly. "Dr. Stevens says I'm going to have a baby." Ma's voice almost broke as the knowledge of what Evey was saying came ■ through to her. "Oh, Evey, how wonderful," Ma said delightedly. "You go over to the house straight from the doctor's, and I'll bring Shuffle and Willy and we'll — well — we'll celebrate, dear. . . ." The two men looked at Ma with their mouths hanging open. The monumental news just couldn't be true. Suddenly, Shuffle broke into a laugh, but Willy just sat there, stunned, speechless, overwhelmed. Willy, a father again after all these years? Willy, the taken, mistaken, worried, loyal, brave, broke but always long-, enduring worker in Ma's lumber yard, is suddenly in the limelight — while Evey, sweet, changeable, rattled-brained, can hardly believe what's happening to her. Ma, with her big heart and fine, sensible mind, is going to do everything she can to help Evey and Willy . . . but can these two lovable, emotional people ever see themselves through this new crisis? Only time — and Ma Perkins — will tell.
Ma Perkins, on CBS Radio, M-F, at 1 : 15 P.M. EST, for Oxydol.
Willy and Ma beam as they word the announcements.
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