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00:00Je suppose I had never seen a happier room. And there, in the corner, was the nicest little hearth you could ever hope for.
00:15Christmas is sort of special for everybody. And we have a very special show that I sincerely believe will heighten your Christmas.
00:25Now, as you all know, Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol is one of the most famous pieces in literature.
00:32But very few people know that Dickens wrote another beautiful rendering of Christmas called Cricket on the Hearth.
00:37Matter of fact, I just found out about it myself.
00:40You never heard of the lucky cricket on the hearth?
00:43Well, it all started in merry old England a long time ago.
00:49Here, lend an ear.
01:19Cricket on the hearth, take that horseshoe off your door.
01:27With a cricket on the hearth, you can leave that lucky penny sitting on the floor.
01:34Cricket on the hearth, throw that rabbit's foot away.
01:39With a cricket on the hearth, you can save that sticky wishbone for another day.
01:46Let him abide by the fireside, and luck will come a-knocking on your door.
01:55And the spirit of Christmas will live with you forevermore.
02:06Cricket on the hearth, see that mistletoe above.
02:11With a cricket on the hearth, nut it down, you'll still be lucky.
02:16Step on a crack and spill the soap as the cat turns black.
02:20Nothing can halt your luck when you have a lucky cricket.
02:24Cricket on the hearth!
02:33Deck the halls with boughs of holly.
02:36Fa la la la la, la la la la.
02:38Tis the season to be jolly, la la la la, la la la la.
02:43Oh, that's a chilly one.
02:46Oh, excuse me. I'll be with you in a blink.
02:59Home at last.
03:01Well, Merry Christmas to you.
03:04I suppose you're all wondering what me, a cricket, is doing here on Christmas Eve with a home of me own.
03:11See, I am a part of the family as it were.
03:16Oh, and it's a lucky household what has a cricket on their hearth.
03:19And indeed I am good luck.
03:22For if it hadn't been for Cricket Crockett here, why, there wouldn't be no blinking family.
03:27I'll tell you how it all began.
03:29Long time ago it was.
03:33Springtime, if I remember correctly.
03:38Oh, I was some cracking cricket, I can tell you.
03:41Ready to take on the world I was.
03:44I was looking for a proper family to adopt.
03:48But all of a sudden I spies about the happiest house I'd ever seen.
03:57And a toy shop too.
04:00I'll return in a little while.
04:04Here now, here now, you watch it.
04:06What? It's a cricket.
04:08Here now, just watch it, I am very fragile.
04:11There, there, I mean you no harm.
04:14Why, I've heard that you crickets bring good luck with you.
04:18How about staying with us for a while?
04:20Come on now, let's go inside and make yourself at home.
04:24Uh, if you've a mind to.
04:26Oh, well, uh...
04:27Oh, it's not a very exciting place, just me and my daughter and of course the toys.
04:33Sir, I'd be delighted.
04:36Crockett's the name, Cricket Crockett.
04:39I'm Caleb Plummer.
04:41We'll work out the arrangements later, after I deliver these toys.
04:46Ta-ta.
04:51I suppose I had never seen a happier room.
04:55And there, in the corner, was the nicest little hearth you could ever hope for.
05:05Perfect.
05:10Here now, watch this.
05:13Oh, Edward, I shouldn't...
05:16No, no Bertha, you go right ahead and cry.
05:20But I don't want you to remember me like this.
05:23All... all teary.
05:25Any memory of you would be the most precious a man could carry.
05:30But I promised myself that I'd be brave and smile to the very end.
05:37Why must you go away?
05:39I must serve out my enlistment. I must go to sea tomorrow.
05:43For two years? It's just not fair.
05:46Darling, I'm a commissioned officer in the Royal Navy and...
05:50Oh, I hate that commission. And I hate that uniform.
05:53And I hate the Royal Navy.
05:54Bertha!
05:56No, no, I don't. Really.
06:00I'm sorry.
06:02I'll release you from your promise, if you want.
06:05Oh, no. Oh, Edward.
06:10I couldn't help myself.
06:12See, that's the way it is with us crickets.
06:15We get involved.
06:18My darling, you will be here when I return.
06:22Promise?
06:24Oh, Edward. I love you so.
06:47Don't give your love away
06:54I've kissed your smiles away
06:59I know waiting will be hard for you
07:04And I wish I could do more than say
07:09Don't give your love away
07:16My longest day will be when I remember today
07:25And I wonder if you'll be there
07:30If the years haven't touched our long affair
07:40Still a moment speak for me
07:45Tell her words are much too weak for me
07:50What I feel comes to my lips one way
07:55Don't give your love away
08:10Well, the time passed right quick.
08:13I suppose it always does when you're busy.
08:15Oh, how busy we was.
08:17Christmas was getting nearer and nearer.
08:20Two tacks, Cricket.
08:21Two tacks, on their way.
08:29More red paint, Crockett, if you please.
08:32Make it smiling red.
08:34Smiling red you want, smiling red you get.
08:40How's that?
08:50How's that, love?
08:51Oh, divine.
08:53The perfect color for a smile.
08:55I suppose I'm being extravagant with the paint.
08:58But no child wants a doll who can't smile.
09:04Now, now, what's this?
09:06Was that a tear that I saw, Bertha?
09:08Now, you shouldn't get yourself all unhappy and teary
09:11over thinking about your young man.
09:14It's been a year and a half since Edward went away
09:17and well, sometimes when I think about him
09:19I smile and cry because I'm happy.
09:23If a tear falls when you're smiling
09:27And you're still gay inside
09:30Then it means that you've found a happiness
09:34Your tears can never hide
09:38Smiles go with tears
09:41Smiles go with tears
09:45Sometimes when you're happiest
09:48Smiles go with tears
09:51When you haven't seen a loved one
09:55And he suddenly appears
09:58Even though you try to control yourself
10:03You'll never hide the tears
10:07Smiles go with tears
10:10Smiles go with tears
10:14Sometimes when you're happiest
10:17Smiles go with tears
10:20Let a happy little tear fall
10:24Let it cry right down your face
10:27Let it say, I love you, I missed you so
10:31No one can take your place
10:35Smiles go with tears
10:38Smiles go with tears
10:42Sometimes when you're happiest
10:46Smiles go with tears
11:02Oh!
11:04What... what can I do for you?
11:07You are a certain Caleb Plummer.
11:10I am?
11:11Call me Jeremiah Bleak.
11:13I am a certain agent of Her Majesty the Queen.
11:17Oh?
11:18You have a certain Bertha Plummer for a daughter
11:21who in turn was engaged to a certain Edward Belton.
11:25You mean is engaged?
11:28I am sorry.
11:29But it is my melancholy duty to inform you
11:32that a certain Edward Belton,
11:34late of Her Majesty's Royal Navy,
11:37is lost at sea.
11:39Lord have mercy.
11:40No!
11:41No!
11:42No!
11:47A small mournful effects will to the girl.
11:52Ah!
11:57Bertha, Bertha, my darling daughter.
12:00It's all a mistake, I'm certain.
12:02It could be a mistake, couldn't it?
12:04Hardly.
12:07Oh, no.
12:09No, no.
12:12My poor baby.
12:14My poor baby.
12:18Blimey!
12:19That's a day I'd soon as not remember.
12:22The beginning of all our troubles, for you see,
12:25the shock of that awful message delivered the way it was
12:30turned poor Bertha blind.
12:34Oh, my baby.
12:37My poor, poor baby.
12:48Oh, grim times was upon us, I'll tell you.
12:52Oh, how quick everything changed.
12:55Poor dear Bertha, living in her world of darkness.
12:59And old Caleb, beside himself with grief.
13:02All he did was nurse his daughter,
13:04didn't touch the unfinished toys,
13:06and Christmas was only a short way off.
13:09And, when the hand of God came,
13:12he wasn't ready.
13:14He didn't sell one toy that year.
13:16Made Narya hate me.
13:18What money he did have, all went to the doctors he brought in.
13:21But they could do no good.
13:23And Caleb, not thinking,
13:25went out and borrowed more and more money,
13:28never having any idea how he was going to pay it back.
13:34And he didn't know what to do.
13:36He didn't know what to do.
13:38He didn't know what to do.
13:41And one sad day,
13:43they could no longer pay the rent,
13:45and they were deep in debt.
13:47Old Caleb had no choice
13:49but to pack up and leave.
13:54Oh, they was hard times, I can tell you.
13:59Long, hungry days,
14:01looking for a bit of work, anything.
14:03Oh, and finally,
14:05one day...
14:08No use.
14:10Can't go one step farther.
14:13We have no other choice.
14:16No choice, father?
14:18Well, what do you mean?
14:22The poor house? Oh, no.
14:24You can't give up.
14:26What else can I do?
14:28Oh, if we ever needed a little bit of luck...
14:33Is that what I think it is?
14:37A toy factory.
14:40Now, I'd wager they could use a fine toy maker like you.
14:44Do you think so?
14:46Well, let's find out, mate. Let's find out.
14:54Cricket, is father seeing Mr. Tackleton now?
14:57Uh-huh, uh-huh.
15:00But I'm a very good worker, sir,
15:02and I have my own tools,
15:04and I'm very good, sir.
15:08He's very good, Uriah.
15:13My friend, Uriah Core, thinks that's very funny.
15:18I'm sorry.
15:20I'm sorry, Uriah.
15:22I'm sorry, Uriah.
15:24I'm sorry, Uriah.
15:26I'm sorry, Uriah.
15:28I'm sorry.
15:30I really best be going.
15:33Oh, wait. Caleb Plummer, eh?
15:36I've heard of your skills.
15:38Well, you won't be paid anything,
15:40but you can live on the premises,
15:42and there'll be leftover food for you.
15:44Whatever you say, sir.
15:46Where are the other toy makers?
15:50Did you hear that, Uriah Core?
15:52He wants to know where the other toy makers are.
15:56There are no other toy makers.
16:04Is this our new home, father?
16:06What's it like?
16:08Well...
16:10Splendid. Splendid.
16:14Quite palatial.
16:16And Mr. Tackleton, what's he like, father?
16:19Oh, he's fine.
16:21And he's made me headman of his entire factory.
16:24Oh, father!
16:26How I wish I could see it all.
16:30I'll see everything for you, my dear.
16:33And everything I see shall be beautiful.
16:37I promise you.
16:55Through my eyes
17:03Always gay
17:07Pretty colors
17:09Covering the gray
17:16Through my eyes
17:20Let me drive your foolish tears
17:25Now and forever
17:30Take my love and
17:33Throw away the word
17:36Cold never
17:40Let my heart teach you how to feel
17:46My love help you to reveal
17:51The secret word
17:56A new world through my eyes
18:06Through my eyes
18:11You will see the world
18:14As it should be
18:19Through my eyes
18:26And one day
18:30You'll be happy that you found the way
18:37That you saw the world
18:44Through my eyes
18:54Through my eyes
19:06Through my eyes
19:37Oh, of all the blinkety, blooming hearts
19:42In all the blinkety, blooming world
19:45This heart is the blinkiest and the bloominest.
19:52What's the use?
19:54Make do, Cricket Crocket, make do.
19:57Blimey!
20:00Evening, matey.
20:03We got no place for bugs around here.
20:07Hello, hello, who are you calling a bug?
20:10I am an insect, I am.
20:12I will thank you to address me by my proper rank.
20:17I loves to mangle insects.
20:33Ah!
20:36Uriah! Uriah!
20:40What are you doing out here?
20:42Naughty, naughty birdie.
20:44Come to beddy-bye now.
20:46Into your cage, Uriah Core, it's late.
20:49Ah! Ah!
20:53Oh, phew!
20:56Nighty-night, little friend.
21:03Well, it was obvious one of us had to go.
21:07Oh, yes, but I'm getting ahead of my story.
21:10It was about a week before Christmas
21:12and poor old Caleb Plummer was working night and day
21:15to keep up with the demands of the season, as it were.
21:18Plummer, you're using entirely too much paint on the dolls' faces.
21:22Just trying to give them nice smiles.
21:24Who the blazes cares about smiles?
21:26A dot and a half is enough for any doll.
21:29Paint costs money.
21:31Yes, sir.
21:32Oh, but Tackleton Toys was mean and grubby things.
21:36Oh, all he cared about was the shillings and pennies they'd bring.
21:40But Caleb, oh, he couldn't see them go out into the world like that.
21:45So every night, me and him would sneak in and fix them up proper.
21:52Then pop them back in their boxes by morning so Tackleton wouldn't find out.
21:58It was just two days before Christmas when we met up with him.
22:02Oh, excuse me, sir.
22:04I had so much on my arms that I couldn't see.
22:06No, no, it was my fault, I assure you.
22:10Here, allow me to help you pick those up.
22:17What is it, sir?
22:18My bones ache so terribly.
22:21I've no money for a room.
22:24Been sleeping out of doors.
22:26Why, that's terrible.
22:28In this weather.
22:29Oh, you must come home with me.
22:31I haven't much to offer, but you're quite welcome to share it with me.
22:36Bless you, son. Bless you.
22:39He was a funny, quiet sort of fella.
22:42Wouldn't hardly say boo.
22:44Just sat there looking at Bertha with them sad old eyes.
22:47We're so glad you could stay with us.
22:49Oh, oh, it is my pleasure indeed.
22:55Bertha.
22:57What is it?
23:00The way you said my name just now.
23:04I'm sorry.
23:07Indeed, I am.
23:09I was too forward.
23:11Miss Plummer, I meant to say.
23:14Hear now, hear now.
23:16No serious formalities.
23:18For we're all one family and it's almost Christmas.
23:21And we're going to have a splendid Christmas this time.
23:24Aren't we, father?
23:25With mistletoe and a big tree and decorations and everything.
23:31Oh, promise me, father.
23:34Oh, promise me.
23:37Even though I cannot see them, you will have those things.
23:44But of course.
23:46Of course.
23:49Now, Caleb had been stretching the truth
23:53for a long time now to keep Bertha happy.
23:56But when it came to fibbing about Christmas,
24:00well, he just wasn't quite up to it.
24:03Would it be Christmas without the mistletoe?
24:10Would it be Christmas without the winter snow?
24:16No fireplace, no Christmas tree,
24:21no decorations, just you and me.
24:25Would it be Christmas then?
24:32On the first Christmas,
24:37there was no mistletoe.
24:41On the first Christmas,
24:45there was no winter snow.
24:49No fireplace, no Christmas tree,
24:53no decorations, just the wise men three.
24:58And it was Christmas then.
25:05The holiday season has changed,
25:12but the reason we celebrate remains.
25:20It can be Christmas without the mistletoe.
25:28It can be Christmas without the winter snow.
25:36No fireplace, no Christmas tree,
25:40no decorations, just you and me.
25:44It can be Christmas then.
25:51For Christmas lives
25:57in the hearts of men.
26:27Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
26:31Well, the following day, it was Christmas Eve.
26:34And we were really busy.
26:40Rest period. Do take a rest.
26:44I've decided to give you a Christmas bonus.
26:47Four whole shillings.
26:50Here, a shilling for you, girl.
26:53I hope it doesn't bankrupt the old skinflint.
26:56Actually, I must confess to an ulterior motive.
27:03This is a lonely old place for me.
27:06And I finally decided that what I need is a wife.
27:11A wife, sir? You?
27:14And why not? I've got a splendid figure.
27:18Paul!
27:20You say something?
27:22No, sir.
27:24Well, to get to the point, I'm happy to inform you
27:27that I've decided that the girl I would most like to so honor
27:30is none other than your own dear Lucky Bertha.
27:36What?
27:38We could be wed tomorrow. It's Christmas, a holiday.
27:41That way we wouldn't lose a day's work.
27:44Oh, sir.
27:46No, you don't have to make up your mind right away.
27:48Take your time. Think it over.
27:50I'll give you an hour and 15 minutes.
27:53Meanwhile, back to work.
27:56Oh, Father, I'm so very honored.
28:00But, my dear, you're just a child.
28:04Father, I haven't been a child for a long time.
28:08You've just got to accept the fact
28:10that I am a big, grown-up girl now.
28:15Lullabies and fairy tales
28:20Pinafores, piano scales
28:24Satin bows and cheeks of rose
28:29That was yesterday
28:33Little girl upon your knee
28:37That was what I used to be
28:41Funny nose but heaven knows
28:45That was yesterday
28:48So look up, your little girl, the lady
28:53With the weighty problem
28:56Daddy is her problem
29:00He thinks she's still a child
29:04Carousels and wishing wells
29:08Golden shoes with silver pills
29:12Starry eyes and cherry flowers
29:15That was yesterday
29:34Carousels and wishing wells
29:38Golden shoes with silver pills
29:42Starry eyes and cherry flowers
29:46That was yesterday
29:50Yesterday
30:13That was yesterday
30:17Little girl upon your knee
30:21That was what I used to be
30:25Funny nose but heaven knows
30:29That was what I used to be
30:33Funny nose but heaven knows
30:37That was yesterday
30:42That was yesterday
30:46That was yesterday
30:50That was yesterday
30:54That was yesterday
30:58That was yesterday
31:02That was yesterday
31:06That was yesterday
31:10That was yesterday
31:14That was yesterday
31:18That was yesterday
31:22That was yesterday
31:26That was yesterday
31:30That was yesterday
31:34That was yesterday
31:38That was yesterday
31:42That was yesterday
31:46That was yesterday
31:50That was yesterday
31:54That was yesterday
31:58That was yesterday
32:02That was yesterday
32:07That was yesterday
32:11That was yesterday
32:15That was yesterday
32:19That was yesterday
32:23That was yesterday
32:27That was yesterday
32:31And this time, no slip-ups.
32:33Get professional help so you won't bungle the job.
32:36I want that cricket eliminated
32:43AAAAAH
32:54Quit !
32:55Morne's gonna sing !