The guy who just slugged me gave me 12 hours to cough up the pearls or else. A particularly nasty else.
8 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Oyster Shucker (Ep. 1) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:11:57 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Yes.
- Where?
- You found 12 pearls in one oyster?
- No, no. One each in a dozen.
- But now I can't find them. I got a hole in my pocket. I must have dropped them.
- You don't know the half of it.
- Oh. Oh, then we've gotta start looking for them. Right now.
- Right now I've gotta look for some shoes. A guy can get half of each foot this way.
- We head back into the 50 Fathoms Clam House and try to find the pearls.
- I'm cutting my bare feet to ribbons on broken clam shells.
- We go through the sawdust in the pantry a spoonful at a time, but we draw a blank. No pearls.
[...]