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Oh, I'll never get this bone-headed contraption to work!
 

Yes, you will! And you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow.
 

Well... we'd better get cracking then! Now let me see, where did I put that dog-legged clencher?
 

(holds out a funny-looking tool)
Papa...

 

 

Oh... thank you, dear!
(takes the tool and starts tinkering)
So... did you have a good time in town today?

 

 

 

 

I got a new book.

 

 

 

 

You do love those books.
(MAURICE ducks behind the invention.)

 

 

 

 

Papa... do you think I'm... odd?

 

 

 

 

My daughter! Odd?
(re-appears with silly-looking goggles)
Now where would you get an idea like that?

 

 

 

 

I don't know. It's just... I'm not sure I fit in here. There's no one I can really talk to.

 

 

 

 

What about Gaston? He's a handsome fellow.

 

 

 

 

He's handsome all right... and rude and conceited and oh Papa, he's not for me!

 

 

 

 

Well, don't you worry, 'cause this invention's going to be the start of a new life for us.

(MAURICE pulls a lever. The invention chugs to life.)

 

 

 

 

It works!

 

 

 

 

It does? It does!

 

 

 

 

Papa, you did it! You really did it!
(puts a scarf around MAURICE's neck)
Here, I made you a scarf for good luck at the fair.

 

 

 

 

Now I know I'll win. And then, we'll get out of this town and travel to all those places you've read about in your books!

 

 

 

 

Goodbye, Papa.

 

 

 

 

Bye bye, Belle.