Today has been set as the deadline for Lum and Abner to raise the $5000 necessary to bail out the mining experts who were caught attempting to make tests in the gold mine. This is also the day that the baby is to be sent to the lawyer's office for purposes of establishing his identity as the heir of the mine. As we look in on the little community today, it's late evening and all of them are waiting for Squire Skimp.