The Egg and I (I) (1947)

Marjorie Main: Ma Kettle

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• Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : When I was first married, I was as neat as the next woman. Tried to keep my house and kids clean, but Pa's an awful old lazy so-and-so. It was fight, fight, fight all the time. So finally give it up. I says, I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever since.

• Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Take another one of them cookies, why don't ya? Plenty where they come from. I'll get you some to take home.

  Betty MacDonald : They're wonderful. How do you make them?

  Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Just a drop of this and a drop of that, mix it together and shove it in the oven.

• Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Last money I saved up, Pa put it in a couple of minks he was goin' to breed to make us a fortune. They up and died before they got around to breedin'.

• Frank 'Pa' Kettle : Got the water tank up. Will have running water any minute now.

  Betty MacDonald : Oh, thanks. Isn't that a relief?

  Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Never seen the sense of running water in my house m'self. 'Drather get mine straight out of the ground where the good lord put it.