Abbott: Well Costello, I'm going to the rendezvous with you. You know General John Jacob Astor, the Missouri Fur Company's owner, he gave me a job as a fur trapper and one of their company's managers.
Costello: Look Abbott, if you're a fur trapper manager, you must know all the buyers for our company.
Abbott: I certainly do.
Costello: Well you know I've never met the guys. So you'll have to tell me their names, and then I'll know who's buying my furs.
Abbott: Oh, I'll tell you their names, but you know it seems to me they give these fur trappers now-a-days very peculiar names.
Costello: You mean funny names?
Abbott: Strange names, pet names... like Iron Belly...
Costello: His brother Pot.
Abbott: Pot Belly...
Costello: And their French cousin.
Abbott: French?
Costello: Jaune. (yellow)
Abbott: Jaune Belly. Well, let's see, we have on the supply wagons, Hugh on the first, Watt's on the second, Isaac Don Nough is on the third...
Costello: That's what I want to find out.
Abbott: I say Hugh on the first wagon, Watts on the second wagon, Isaac Don Nough's on the third wagon.
Costello: Are you the fur manager?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: You gonna be a trapper too?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: And you don't know the fellows' names?
Abbott: Well I should.
Costello: Well then who's on the first supply wagon?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the fellow's name.
Abbott: Hugh.
Costello: The guy on the first supply wagon.
Abbott: Hugh.
Costello: The first supply wagon driver.
Abbott: Hugh.
Costello: The guy driving...
Abbott: Hugh is on the first supply wagon!
Costello: I'm asking you who's on the first supply wagon.
Abbott: That's the man's name.
Costello: That's whos name?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: Well go ahead and tell me.
Abbott: That's it.
Costello: That's who?
Abbott: Yes.
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Costello: Look, you gotta first supply wagon driver?
Abbott: Certainly.
Costello: Who's driving the first supply wagon?
Abbott: That's right.
Costello: When you pay off the first supply wagon driver at the end of the rendezvous, who gets the money?
Abbott: Every dollar of it.
Costello: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name driving the first supply wagon.
Abbott: Hugh.
Costello: The guy that gets...
Abbott: That's it.
Costello: Who gets the money...
Abbott: He does, every dollar. Sometimes his partner comes down and collects it.
Costello: Who's partner?
Abbott: Yes.
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Abbott: What's wrong with that?
Costello: Look, all I wanna know is when you sign up the first supply wagon driver, how does he sign his name?
Abbott: Hugh.
Costello: The guy.
Abbott: Hugh.
Costello: How does he sign...
Abbott: That's how he signs it.
Costello: Who?
Abbott: Yes.
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Costello: All I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name that drives the first supply wagon.
Abbott: No. Watts is on the second supply wagon.
Costello: I'm not asking you who's on the second wagon.
Abbott: Hugh's on the first supply wagon.
Costello: One wagon at a time!
Abbott: Well, don't change the drivers around.
Costello: I'm not changing nobody!
Abbott: Take it easy, Belly.
Costello: I'm only asking you, who's the guy driving the first supply wagon?
Abbott: That's right.
Costello: Ok.
Abbott: All right.
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Costello: What's the guy's name driving the first supply wagon?
Abbott: No. Watts is driving the second wagon.
Costello: I'm not asking you who's driving the second supply wagon.
Abbott: Hugh's on the first supply waggon.
Costello: I don't know.
Abbott: He's on the third supply wagon, we're not talking about him.
Costello: Now how did I get on the third supply wagon?
Abbott: Why you mentioned his name.
Costello: If I mentioned the third supply wagon driver's name, who did I say is driving the third supply wagon?
Abbott: No. Hugh's driving the first supply wagon.
Costello: What's on the first supply wagon?
Abbott: Watts on the second supply wagon.
Costello: I don't know.
Abbott: He's on the third supply wagon.
Costello: There I go, back on the third wagon supply again!
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Costello: Would you just stay on the third supply wagon and don't go off it.
Abbott: All right, what do you want to know?
Costello: Now who's driving the third supply wagon?
Abbott: Why do you insist on putting Hugh on third supply wagon?
Costello: What am I putting on the third supply wagon?
Abbott: No. Watts is on second supply wagon.
Costello: You don't want who on the second supply wagon?
Abbott: Hugh is on the first supply wagon.
Costello: I don't know.
Abbott & Costello Together: Third supply wagon!