Jones [soothingly]. Oh, I don’t think there is.
Jerry [offended]. Anybody that’d play a joke like that on a person that has all the responsibility of being President, and then to have somebody play a low, mean joke on him like that!
Jones . I’ll write them a disagreeable letter.
Jerry . All right. But make it sort of careless, as if it didn’t matter to me.
Jones . I can begin the letter “Damn Sirs” instead of “Dear Sirs.”
Jerry . Sure, that’s the idea. And put something like that in the ending, too.
Jones . “Yours insincerely,” or something like that … Now there’s a few people waiting in here to see you, sir. [He takes out a list.] First, there’s somebody that’s been ordered to be hung.
Jerry . What about him?
Jones . I think he wants to arrange it some way so he won’t be hung. The
