The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

Crime-Free Mayberry (1961)

Elisabeth Talbot-Martin: Margaret Williamson

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• Margaret Williamson : [a reporter, not realizing she's walked into a fishing story rather than a police story]  Well, you were just sayin', "Mr. Carp, you have met your match."

  Andy Taylor : Oh, yes. Well, old carp, he didn't think so.

  Margaret Williamson : No?

  Andy Taylor : No, no. The closer I come to pullin' him in, well, the scrappier he got. Well, finally I just reached down and picked up a axe and *wham*! Right between the eyes.

  Margaret Williamson : [incredulously]  You struck him with an axe?

  Andy Taylor : The blunt side, to stun him.

  Floyd Lawson : Oh, they're tough, those carps! Hoo-hoo! Oh, I tell you!

  Margaret Williamson : What'd you do then?

  Andy Taylor : I strung him up and had my picture took with him.

  Margaret Williamson : You strung him up right then and there?

  Andy Taylor : Well, yes, ma'am. There was a big oak tree with a... with a good stout limb, oh, I reckon seven, eight feet off the ground. And I throwed a rope acrossed it and - and pulled him up and Barney, that's my deputy, he took my picture standing beside of him grinnin' from ear to ear. It took me about all the strength I had to pull that carp up where he cleared the ground.

  Floyd Lawson : Yeah. Oh, they're big, those carps.

  Andy Taylor : Yeah.

  Margaret Williamson : I can't believe it!

  Andy Taylor : Well, I got a picture here.

  Margaret Williamson : Oh, no! No! Please! You killed him?

  Andy Taylor : Well, yes, ma'am. 'Round these parts we figure we're doin' folks a favor when we kill a carp. They're a awful nuisance.