Oh. Where else could you have dropped them? Was there anything on the floor of a garbage can or something?
8 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Oyster Shucker (Ep. 1) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:12:52 in the radio play.
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- We go through the sawdust in the pantry a spoonful at a time, but we draw a blank. No pearls.
- I figure them pearls must be hot as a tin roof in August.
- Rocky, what happens if we don't find them? They might kill you.
- Yeah. I was thinking that was a possibility too.
- That little barrel that Mr. Abenaki's oysters came in. It was right by this stool.
- Maybe the pearls dropped in it.
- Of course. They pick it up at night and take it back to the oyster boat.
- Can you find out which boat?
- I know. I sign the receipt every day. It's the Polly B at Pier 22.
- Rocky, do you think the pearls could still be in the barrel?
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