WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:28.320 All aboard for the transcribed premiere production, the crews of the Paul Parrott. 00:28.320 --> 00:32.320 This is a thrilling, exciting story of the sea, the vast, stormy sea, which will be a 00:32.320 --> 00:35.120 place of high adventure until the end of time. 00:35.120 --> 00:39.560 This adventurous story tells of the hardships and perils of whaling, the mystery of hunting 00:39.560 --> 00:43.440 for buried treasure, and the dangers of storms at sea and mutiny. 00:43.440 --> 00:47.120 Well, boys and girls, as you can see, the crews of the Paul Parrott will be packed with 00:47.120 --> 00:49.120 thrills from start to finish. 00:49.120 --> 00:52.880 Now, first of all, we want to introduce the principal characters you'll get to know in 00:52.880 --> 00:55.080 this new and exciting series. 00:55.080 --> 00:59.560 But there's Captain Roy Dalton himself, master of the ship, and he's talking to his friend 00:59.560 --> 01:02.800 and first mate of the Paul Parrott, George Wainwright. 01:02.800 --> 01:06.040 You can see for yourself that there's something to put on this cruise. 01:06.040 --> 01:10.840 George Wainwright, I ask you as my friend, will you sign these first mate's papers? 01:10.840 --> 01:13.080 Aye, it is then, Roy mate. 01:13.080 --> 01:16.520 But if it weren't for you, Roy Dalton, I'd never sign. 01:16.520 --> 01:20.200 Now we'll find just what is behind it all. 01:20.200 --> 01:23.720 And here are the two characters that you boys and girls will like best of all, the little 01:23.720 --> 01:25.600 boy and girl in our story. 01:25.600 --> 01:28.320 And do they have exciting adventures aboard the Paul Parrott? 01:28.320 --> 01:30.480 It's Johnny Robbins and little Sue Grange. 01:30.480 --> 01:33.160 Gosh, Sue, what are we going to do? 01:33.160 --> 01:34.640 That man is going to try to kill the captain. 01:34.640 --> 01:37.240 Well, Johnny, there's only one thing we can do. 01:37.240 --> 01:39.720 We've got to get up to the captain's cabin before he does. 01:39.720 --> 01:41.600 Come on, run. 01:41.600 --> 01:43.200 Doesn't that sound like excitement? 01:43.200 --> 01:47.120 And here is the mysterious Spaniard who causes all the trouble aboard the Paul Parrott. 01:47.120 --> 01:50.480 He's talking to Ezra Grange, the owner of the Paul Parrott, the other man of mystery 01:50.480 --> 01:51.480 on the cruise. 01:51.480 --> 01:54.240 Now, Senor Grange, be sensible. 01:54.240 --> 01:56.680 I know as much about this treasure as you do. 01:56.680 --> 02:00.320 Why not let us be partners instead of enemies? 02:00.320 --> 02:01.320 Listen to me, you blaggard. 02:01.320 --> 02:04.480 I won't be a partner with you in any kind of venture. 02:04.480 --> 02:09.240 One of us is suddenly going to disappear from this ship and it isn't going to be me. 02:09.240 --> 02:11.600 Well, that sounds like more excitement. 02:11.600 --> 02:15.360 And last of all, here is old Dickon, the one legged sailor talking to his pet, the ship's 02:15.360 --> 02:19.440 mascot, after whom the ship has been named, Paul Parrott himself. 02:19.440 --> 02:23.280 I tell you, Paul, there's going to be more trouble on this cruise than the time I lost 02:23.280 --> 02:24.520 this pig leg of mine. 02:24.520 --> 02:26.960 Yes, sir, I just feels it in me bones. 02:26.960 --> 02:27.960 Sailor, beware. 02:27.960 --> 02:28.960 Sailor, take care. 02:28.960 --> 02:29.960 There's dirty work afoot. 02:29.960 --> 02:30.960 There you are. 02:30.960 --> 02:31.960 You've met our principal characters. 02:31.960 --> 02:34.960 Now let's start on our yarn. 02:34.960 --> 02:41.720 Our story opens in the spring of 1858 in the New England town of New Bedford, the great 02:41.720 --> 02:43.600 center of the whaling industry. 02:43.600 --> 02:47.840 Roy Dalton, a true seaman and as brave a man as ever sailed the deep, has just received 02:47.840 --> 02:49.360 his master's papers. 02:49.360 --> 02:53.140 He is walking on one of the streets leading to the New Bedford waterfront when he runs 02:53.140 --> 02:54.140 into an old acquaintance. 02:54.140 --> 02:59.320 Oh, it's a long cruise and a hard cruise and a cruise before the ga... 02:59.320 --> 03:01.040 Hold, I think that's... 03:01.040 --> 03:03.240 Ahoy, he too made. 03:03.240 --> 03:05.600 Well, blow me down, Roy Dalton. 03:05.600 --> 03:07.640 Say, I thought you were at sea. 03:07.640 --> 03:10.440 I thought you signed as first mate on the Minnibel out of Boston. 03:10.440 --> 03:12.520 Vast as good to see you again, George. 03:12.520 --> 03:13.920 You're behind schedule a bit. 03:13.920 --> 03:15.840 The Minnibel laid up for repairs a month ago. 03:15.840 --> 03:17.180 Will you be sailing with her again? 03:17.180 --> 03:18.400 I will not, George. 03:18.400 --> 03:20.520 I've got my own future to look forward to. 03:20.520 --> 03:22.080 I've got my master's papers. 03:22.080 --> 03:23.080 What? 03:23.080 --> 03:24.080 A full-fledged skipper? 03:24.080 --> 03:25.080 Great sense, Roy. 03:25.080 --> 03:26.080 You've done well. 03:26.080 --> 03:30.360 And next, you'll be telling me you own a trim little clipper that's set in sail tonight. 03:30.360 --> 03:31.360 Oh, that'll all come. 03:31.360 --> 03:33.000 That'll all come later. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Right now. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.960 But look, this'll tell you what ship I'm sailing on. 03:36.960 --> 03:41.840 See this one-legged sailor coming down the dock with a parrot on his shoulder? 03:41.840 --> 03:44.840 Yes, but what is that to do with... 03:44.840 --> 03:45.840 Hi there, Dickens. 03:45.840 --> 03:47.600 Aye, aye, Captain Dalton. 03:47.600 --> 03:50.880 I'm just taking our blooming mascot for an errand, you might say. 03:50.880 --> 03:51.880 Greet the gentlemen, Paul. 03:51.880 --> 03:52.880 Ah, a vase there. 03:52.880 --> 03:53.880 Stand by the way anchor, you lubbers. 03:53.880 --> 03:54.880 A fine breeze has sprung up. 03:54.880 --> 03:55.880 Ah. 03:55.880 --> 04:03.360 I'm afraid that ain't a very courteous manner of greeting a superior officer, sir. 04:03.360 --> 04:06.000 You know, I never could teach the swab any manners. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.160 That's all right, Dickens. 04:07.160 --> 04:08.160 He's a smart bird at that. 04:08.160 --> 04:09.160 Aye, aye, sir. 04:09.160 --> 04:17.160 But, Roy, that parrot, that's the mascot of the ship, Paul Pallet. 04:17.160 --> 04:18.280 That you are, George. 04:18.280 --> 04:21.920 I'm signing on with Grange and Sons to man the pall parrot for them. 04:21.920 --> 04:22.920 Grange and Sons? 04:22.920 --> 04:25.080 You're a skipper on a whaler? 04:25.080 --> 04:26.080 A vast man. 04:26.080 --> 04:27.720 You sound like that's a crime. 04:27.720 --> 04:29.240 What's wrong with being a skipper on a whaler? 04:29.240 --> 04:32.040 But you've been a clean sailor all your life. 04:32.040 --> 04:34.280 You've never had anything to do with whaling. 04:34.280 --> 04:36.240 You know what a dirty trade it is. 04:36.240 --> 04:40.240 Why most of the men in the crew are drawn from the worst that can be dragged up and 04:40.240 --> 04:43.400 cheated or shanghaied into shipping on a whaler. 04:43.400 --> 04:47.600 No man in his right mind ever sailed on a whaling ship yet if he knew plainly what he 04:47.600 --> 04:48.600 was in for. 04:48.600 --> 04:51.080 I'll grant you it is hard work to man a whaler. 04:51.080 --> 04:54.280 Yet the whales must be caught to keep all New England busy with the selling of their 04:54.280 --> 04:58.000 oil and I as captain have to have the choosing of my own crew. 04:58.000 --> 04:59.640 What difference do you find in that? 04:59.640 --> 05:02.560 I'll pick up no dock rats and scum of the waterfront. 05:02.560 --> 05:05.320 I'll pick real seamen, every one a true man. 05:05.320 --> 05:08.120 On the salaries that whalers pay? 05:08.120 --> 05:09.600 Don't make me laugh, Roy. 05:09.600 --> 05:11.400 But I'm paying them a fair salary. 05:11.400 --> 05:15.420 I'm to give my men two hundred dollars in advance and an equal share in the profits 05:15.420 --> 05:17.680 after the owners and the chief officers get theirs. 05:17.680 --> 05:18.960 Two hundred in advance? 05:18.960 --> 05:23.520 How much are you deducting from that for agents fees and expenses? 05:23.520 --> 05:27.860 By the time that's all done the poor wretches will be owing you ten dollars apiece. 05:27.860 --> 05:30.860 That two hundred is named after those fees have been deducted. 05:30.860 --> 05:34.120 And are your hands getting two hundred in advance in truth? 05:34.120 --> 05:38.280 The truth it is and there's a nice bunk open for you as first mate. 05:38.280 --> 05:43.320 The day that sees me a mate on a whale ship will also see me go down to Davy Jones. 05:43.320 --> 05:45.960 I wouldn't go whaling for a king's ransom. 05:45.960 --> 05:48.340 George Wainwright you're making a great mistake. 05:48.340 --> 05:50.660 This isn't another dirty whaling cruise. 05:50.660 --> 05:55.160 As captain I'll treat my men fair and the good salaries will attract true seamen 05:55.160 --> 05:58.240 and not the trash most whalers ship. 05:58.240 --> 06:01.560 This doesn't sound to me like a whaling cruise at all. 06:01.560 --> 06:06.200 Yet this grange outfit is an agency that goes in entirely for whale oil I know. 06:06.200 --> 06:08.360 You're a mighty fine company George. 06:08.360 --> 06:11.000 One of the younger sons Ezra is even shipping with me. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.080 So he can learn the game from the inside as he says. 06:14.080 --> 06:17.600 Oh one of the owners is shipping along. 06:17.600 --> 06:21.420 Mark my words Roy this is no ordinary cruise. 06:21.420 --> 06:23.240 And the ship is the Pall Parrot eh? 06:23.240 --> 06:27.760 The Pall Parrot it is and a mighty trim and sea worthy three master she is. 06:27.760 --> 06:30.200 Aye aye it's a very trim craft. 06:30.200 --> 06:31.880 Has she been all fitted for the voyage? 06:31.880 --> 06:35.680 She sails in three days and George the mate's bunk is still empty. 06:35.680 --> 06:37.240 It can stay empty. 06:37.240 --> 06:40.200 But I doubt if whaling is all there is to this cruise. 06:40.200 --> 06:42.720 I think there's something back of it. 06:42.720 --> 06:43.720 Because think mate. 06:43.720 --> 06:46.080 I beg your pardon senoris. 06:46.080 --> 06:48.480 I did not see you when I bumped into you. 06:48.480 --> 06:51.360 I beg your pardon. 06:51.360 --> 06:52.720 Who is that man? 06:52.720 --> 06:54.840 I've seen him before. 06:54.840 --> 06:56.200 And what made him run into me like that? 06:56.200 --> 06:58.680 Why look he's got a paper in his hand. 06:58.680 --> 06:59.680 Wait I think. 06:59.680 --> 07:00.680 Heave to there. 07:00.680 --> 07:02.680 Stop or I'll fire. 07:02.680 --> 07:06.360 Pardon senor but what is the cause of this senor? 07:06.360 --> 07:07.360 Give me that paper. 07:07.360 --> 07:08.360 But senor. 07:08.360 --> 07:10.680 Give me that paper. 07:10.680 --> 07:12.320 Si senor if I must. 07:12.320 --> 07:13.320 Hand it over. 07:13.320 --> 07:15.840 Aha just as I thought. 07:15.840 --> 07:17.480 My master's papers. 07:17.480 --> 07:19.480 He picked my pocket when he rammed into me broadside. 07:19.480 --> 07:20.800 Stop him Roy stop him. 07:20.800 --> 07:21.800 Fire after him. 07:21.800 --> 07:22.800 He's running off. 07:22.800 --> 07:23.800 I have no gun. 07:23.800 --> 07:25.200 I said I'd fire just to frighten him. 07:25.200 --> 07:27.840 Now why did he take those papers of yours? 07:27.840 --> 07:30.760 I told you there was something behind this whaling cruise. 07:30.760 --> 07:34.600 George you're getting to be an old woman with that I told you so of yours. 07:34.600 --> 07:38.440 But listen you were always a good hand at a dangerous venture. 07:38.440 --> 07:42.360 Why not ship as my first mate and see if there's anything behind this cruise. 07:42.360 --> 07:45.600 Roy I would if your ship weren't a whaler. 07:45.600 --> 07:48.080 But that runs my plans aground right there. 07:48.080 --> 07:50.040 Oh I say there Captain Dalton. 07:50.040 --> 07:51.960 Well blow me down it's Mr. Ezra Grange. 07:51.960 --> 07:52.960 Good morning sir. 07:52.960 --> 07:54.680 Captain have you hired all the hands? 07:54.680 --> 07:56.200 Not quite sir there's a few to be put on. 07:56.200 --> 07:58.920 Well you're doing your utmost to get the best now. 07:58.920 --> 08:01.840 Remember spare no expense to get the best seamen and whalers you can. 08:01.840 --> 08:04.360 I think you'll be highly satisfied with the crew sir. 08:04.360 --> 08:06.800 The ones I have signed on are able hands all. 08:06.800 --> 08:07.800 Good good. 08:07.800 --> 08:11.120 Well Captain the ship's just about fitted and we sail in three days sharp. 08:11.120 --> 08:14.040 Aye Mr. Grange everything will be ready and ship shaped. 08:14.040 --> 08:15.040 Very good very good. 08:15.040 --> 08:18.700 My father will be pleased. 08:18.700 --> 08:23.240 So that's the owner son who's shipping on your voyage to see the inside of the game. 08:23.240 --> 08:24.880 Aye mate that's the man. 08:24.880 --> 08:29.840 I know the Granges and they're all as close fisted as any New England ship owner could 08:29.840 --> 08:30.840 be. 08:30.840 --> 08:31.840 This young'un is no exception. 08:31.840 --> 08:37.560 They are too anxious to spend money on this trip to make it look like an ordinary one. 08:37.560 --> 08:40.040 Mate there's mystery in the wind. 08:40.040 --> 08:43.480 You were always one to have a weather eye for mystery when there wasn't any. 08:43.480 --> 08:45.480 But remember that job of mate is still. 08:45.480 --> 08:46.480 What was that? 08:46.480 --> 08:49.160 I've asked someone shot at me the bullet whizzed by my ear. 08:49.160 --> 08:50.860 Where did young Ezra Grange go to? 08:50.860 --> 08:53.560 He's disappeared just like the dark Spaniard who rammed me. 08:53.560 --> 08:56.160 Look there's somebody lurking behind that whale all cask over there. 08:56.160 --> 08:57.160 Hurt a port. 08:57.160 --> 08:58.160 I think the lubber's gonna shoot again. 08:58.160 --> 09:00.160 Did he get you mate? 09:00.160 --> 09:02.440 Quick tuck behind these blueman casings. 09:02.440 --> 09:04.840 He just dicked my forearm George. 09:04.840 --> 09:05.960 Nothing serious. 09:05.960 --> 09:06.960 Scarcely do blood. 09:06.960 --> 09:09.440 And neither of us with a gun blow the luck. 09:09.440 --> 09:11.480 Let's creep around these cases. 09:11.480 --> 09:12.960 Maybe we can surprise him from behind. 09:12.960 --> 09:14.960 Aye aye matey you lead. 09:14.960 --> 09:17.240 Softly softly now. 09:17.240 --> 09:18.440 Come on follow. 09:18.440 --> 09:20.240 I'm right on your heels. 09:20.240 --> 09:22.800 Now behind that stack of sails. 09:22.800 --> 09:26.200 Come for it. 09:26.200 --> 09:27.880 I don't think he saw us. 09:27.880 --> 09:30.320 Now to those whale oil casks. 09:30.320 --> 09:31.320 Come on George. 09:31.320 --> 09:32.320 Made it. 09:32.320 --> 09:35.320 Now he's right around that one. 09:35.320 --> 09:38.320 Ah you dirty rat we've got you now. 09:38.320 --> 09:39.800 We'll let us through that balean pin. 09:39.800 --> 09:41.680 I'll teach him a thing or two. 09:41.680 --> 09:42.680 Store that shoot and you'll swap. 09:42.680 --> 09:43.680 Avast come here. 09:43.680 --> 09:48.880 Why you stop or I'll throw this balean pin. 09:48.880 --> 09:49.880 Missed him he got away. 09:49.880 --> 09:51.560 Blast it all. 09:51.560 --> 09:53.280 He's a strong monkey. 09:53.280 --> 09:56.480 It's the same Spanish looking fellow that tried to steal my papers a while ago. 09:56.480 --> 09:59.760 Roy you're not going to stay healthy if this sort of thing keeps up. 09:59.760 --> 10:01.680 We've got to get to the bottom of it. 10:01.680 --> 10:04.420 What you need is somebody to work with you. 10:04.420 --> 10:08.240 You can see for yourself there's something afoot in this cruise George Wainwright. 10:08.240 --> 10:12.400 I ask you as my friend will you sign these first mates papers. 10:12.400 --> 10:15.240 Well aye it is then Roy mate. 10:15.240 --> 10:19.600 But if it weren't for you I'd never sign to be a mate on a smelly whaler. 10:19.600 --> 10:20.980 Yes I know I know. 10:20.980 --> 10:23.200 If it weren't for me you wouldn't do this. 10:23.200 --> 10:25.800 If it weren't for the mystery on this cruise you mean. 10:25.800 --> 10:40.200 But hurry on and sign up you blasted landlubber before somebody shoots off an ear of mine. 10:40.200 --> 10:42.440 Boys and girls this certainly does look exciting. 10:42.440 --> 10:46.280 A whaling cruise is always one of the most adventuresome and exciting things in the world 10:46.280 --> 10:47.320 anyway. 10:47.320 --> 10:51.220 And with unexpected shots coming any moment or attempted stealings of valuable papers 10:51.220 --> 10:54.960 by suspicious looking men it ought to be more than exciting. 10:54.960 --> 10:58.680 In the next of this thrilling series of adventures in the cruise of the Paul Parrot we'll find 10:58.680 --> 11:01.560 out just who this dark complexion stranger is. 11:01.560 --> 11:05.280 And we'll also meet one of the characters you'll like best of all little Sue Grange 11:05.280 --> 11:08.480 who is really going to get mixed up in this thrilling story. 11:08.480 --> 11:13.520 Be sure not to miss even one of these exciting adventures on the cruise of the Paul Parrot. 11:13.520 --> 11:18.680 Our Paul Parrot announcer is Dave Ward.