Finally, one of the men stepped forward... Blath, the foreman.
5 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:04:24 in the radio play.
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- But I knew my own powers. I was sure of myself.
- I knew that intelligence, directed aright, always makes man the master of his fate.
- That night, I called my Indian workers together in front of the plantation house.
- I said nothing more to them.
- Finally, one of the men stepped forward... Blath, the foreman.
- But, patron, we have worked hard here for these three years. All of us.
- We have built the finest plantation in this district. We all share in it.
- It has been a home for all of us and our families. Now, the ants come.
- So?
- Those ditches we dug last year, the pipe we put in the ground... that was for the ants?
- If we moved our families across the river, the ants could not reach them?
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