As we look in on the little community of Pine Ridge today, we find Abner and Ben Withers in the Jot 'em Down Store and radio station. Abner is talking on the telephone, explaining that Lum is at home 'sick' and so he can't do the advertised weather update. But really, it's the only excuse he could come up with to keep from having to marry the widow Abernathy live on the Mose Moots program today...