Disorder in the Court

Court clerk: [as Curly come up to him] Take off your hat.

[Curly does with his right hand]

Court clerk: Now, raise your right hand.

[Curly put his hat back on and does]

Court clerk: [points to the Bible] Now put your left hand here.

[Curly goes to do so but can't because his cane is in that hand, so he switches it to his right hand then does so]

Judge: [to Curley] Take off your hat.

[Curly does again with his right hand]

Court clerk: Raise your right hand.

[Curly put his hat back on again and does so]

Court clerk: [Points to the Bible again] Now put your left hand here.

[Again, Curly switches hands with his cane to do so]

Judge: Please take off your hat.

[Curly does again with his right hand and the same charade happens]

Court clerk: [Getting increasingly impatient] Raise your right hand! Now put your left hand here.

Judge: [Getting annoyed] Will you please take off your hat!

[Again, the same charade happens]

Court clerk: [Through clenched teeth] Raise your right hand!

[Curly shows annoyance as well as he does so this time]

Court clerk: Now put your left hand here!

Judge: [Yells] Take off your hat!

[Curly does so this time with his left hand and sticks it on top of his cane]

Court clerk: Raise your right hand!

[Curly does holding the cane and hat, the clerk grabs the hat and shoves it back at Curly]

Court clerk: Will you get rid of that hat?

Curly: [Hangs his cane on the pocket of the clerk, then puts his hat on the clerk] Raise *your* right hand.

Court clerk: [He does, then realizes what he's doing, takes off the hat and places it under the Bible, then to Curly] Raise your right hand.

[Curly finally does]