Ted Narracott returns home having impulsively spent the family's rent money on a thoroughbred colt instead of a working plow horse. His wife, Rosie, reacts with horror at their impending financial ruin, while their son Albert begs for the chance to keep and train the animal.
MRS. NARRACOTT: What have you done?
ALBERT: That’s Mooney’s colt!
MRS. NARRACOTT: You were supposed to buy a plow horse.
ALBERT: You bought him?
MRS. NARRACOTT: What’d you pay for him?
MRS. NARRACOTT: How much, Ted Narracott?
DAD: I won’t tell you a lie - though I would love to. Thirty guineas.
MRS.
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