Look at this.

Will you show me how it works?

Make yourself at home.

Oh, not at all, my boy.

A sympathetic look at Ebenezer Scrooge.

Yeah, well, you see, there just ain't enough work on the place.

Almost as big as Jethro was at that age.

Well, why couldn't he spend the day over at my place?

And you'll be giving Ellie a job at the same time.

is hooked up to this block and tackle at either end.

The couple of times he did put them to work, they were back home the same day.

At least I'll be able to show my Uncle Jed I've done something right.

Well, uh, he said he'd take anything at all, long as it's a, uh, executive job.

I hate to interrupt your fun, but don't you think you should pick up Milby at the Clampetts?

And then one day he was shooting at some food, and up through the ground come a bubbling crude.

At the age of six, when other little kiddies were playing hide-and-seek, Milby had started his first business.