Once Again, to the Hospital
Mister Ed was jolted awake by another large crash as the storm continued to rage outside.
"One o'clock" yawned Mister Ed peering through the darkness. "What can that be?"
Misted Ed tried to turn on the light, only to discover that there wasn't any power.
Reluctantly, he pushed open his stall door, and was greeted for his trouble by some piling rain.
"Ugh" he said, as he peered outside. "Uh-oh."
In spite of the storm, Mister Ed galloped outside.
Next door Wilbur had finally returned from Beverley Hills . . . just as a tree limb had fallen onto the driveway, and right onto his Studebaker.
Wilbur was alright, so was the tree for that matter. However, the Studebaker's windshield was throughly smashed.
Wilbur, in fact, had just left the car, and was standing with his hand still on the car door, momentarily shocked.
Kay, who had stayed up late, ran out the Addison front door, throughly bundled up and with a suitcase in hand.
"Wilbur!" she shouted into the storm. "It's about time!"
"How's Carol? Where's Roger?"
"They left for the hospital hours ago!"
"The hosp . . . hospital? But what about you?"
"I stayed to call you . . . and Addison stayed at the hospital to wait until you arrived," Kay explained somewhat impatiently. "And here you are."
"Well . . . I'll call a taxi and get to the hospital!"
"A cab?"
Wilbur stepped aside, showing Kay the limb and smashed car.
"Addison and his precious trees! We need to get to the hospital right away!
"We?" asked Wilbur.
"We" said Kay. "You arrived just in time. I was going to run to one of the neighbours!"
"What about the . . . the telephone?" asked Wilbur nervously.
"Out . . . just like the electricity."
"I'll go and get one of the neighbours" Wilbur offered.
"I'll go with you," offered Kay. "It won't be easy to wake them up in this rain."
Indeed it wouldn't be. The houses in their rural neighbourhood were spaced far apart, the time of night and the noise of the storm would make it very hard to get anybody's attention or have anyone let them in.
Suddenly, they were greeted by the clattering of a horses's hooves along the driveway. Mister Ed had someone managed to hitch himself to the carriage.
"We can take the buggy!" said Wilbur.
"How on earth . . . ." started Kay.
"I'll take your suitcase," offered Wilbur.
He took the suitcase, not without some fumbling, and placed it in the buggy. He then helped the reluctant Kay into the conveyance.
Wilbur managed to close the sides, so Kay at least, was sheltered from the rain.
"Well, it's better than nothing" Kay said resignedly. "But Addison's not going to like it!"
Meanwhile, Wilbur at the reigns told Mister Ed "Like the wind Ed, and as smooth as possible!"
Mister Ed nodded, and sped away into the night.