(Now everybody turns and looks at Polly, incredulous.)
DEPUTY: Your father?!
SALLY: You said your father passed away!
MISS POLLY: No I didn't!
MRS. SNEEF: You said he went to "a better place!"
MISS POLLY: He did. He retired to Florida. You ever been to Dodge
City? Trust me, Florida's a better place!
JANE: But y'also said that he "wanted to be here, but God had
other plans!"
MISS POLLY: Well, he said he was gonna try and make the first train,
but he wasn't on it, so I decided he wasn't gonna come.
Turned out he just missed the train! Came two weeks
later and surprised me!
ELVIN: So the mysterious man with the hat at the train
station …
MISS POLLY: Is my father, Parson Whitfield, who passed the manger
down to me.
SHERIFF: Elvin, why don't y'all take that blanket off Parson
Whitfield?
(The Blacksmith pulls the blanket off of Parson Whitfield,
and the Parson looks around, deadpan.)
PARSON: Pleasure to meet y'all.
MISS POLLY: Daddy just wanted to see your faces when you first saw
the manger.
SHERIFF: Well, I bet this would be the perfect time to start the
na-tivity pageant!
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