And then he burns the cats at midnight in his furnace. You can smell the smoke.

4 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:49:41.437 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- She's nice, but wait til you see what we do to Mr. Braukoff.

- That'll be a caution, won't it, Tootie?

- We'll fix him fine. It'll serve him right for poisoning cats.

- Does he poison cats?

- He buys meat, and then he buys poison, and then he puts them all together.

- And then he burns the cats at midnight in his furnace. You can smell the smoke.

- That's horrible. Are you sure?

- Johnny Tevis smelled smoke and peeked in the window and there was a box of dead cats.

- And Mr. Braukoff was beating his wife with a red-hot poker.

- I never would have believed it. He looks like such a quiet man.

- And you know something else?

- Don't tell! You crossed your heart you wouldn't tell.

- I crossed it with my left hand.

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