Edgar Allan Poe

[PEPPERMINT PATTY]
Please, don't let her call on me today, please!
Mentally I'm begging on my knees, please!
Please and I'll do anything you say!
Only please don't let her call on me today!

[LUCY]
She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe!
I know it, I just know that any moment now!

[SALLY]
She's gonna call on me and ask me something I don't know!

[LUCY/SALLY]
On Edgar Allan-

[LINUS]
Poe!
Edgar Allan, American poet born in 1809!

[CHARLIE BROWN]
He wrote "Cock Robin" and "My Darling Clementine"!

[LINUS]
Published "Tamerlane" in 1827!

[SALLY]
If you're listening, Heaven, Heaven, help me, help me!

[LUCY]
She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe!

[PEPPERMINT PATTY]
Please don't let her call on me today, please!

[LUCY]
I know it, I just know it any moment now!

[SALLY]
She's gonna call on me and ask me something I don't know!

[PEPPERMINT PATTY]
Please, and I'll do anything you say, please!

[LUCY]
Don't let the world find out what I don't know about...

[GIRLS]
Edgar, Allan...

[LINUS]
Poe!
Edgar Allan, stories and essays
Wrote "The History of Marie Roget"!

[CHARLIE BROWN]
"Hiawatha" and "The Road to Mandalay"!

[LINUS]
Joined the army in the spring of '27!

[SALLY]
Are you listening, Heaven?

[CHARLIE BROWN]
Dickens' "Christmas Carol"!

[SALLY]
Help me!

[LUCY]
She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe!

[PEPPERMINT PATTY]
Please, oh please, don't let her catch my eye! Try!

[LUCY]
I know it, I just know that any moment now!

[SALLY]
She's gonna call on me and me something I don't know!

[LUCY]
If she calls on me today, I'll die, die! Don't let the world find out!

[PEPPERMINT PATTY]
I'll blow it! I know I'll blow it!

[LUCY]
What I don't know about!

[PEPPERMINT PATTY]
Please!

[LUCY/SALLY]
Edgar...

[PEPPERMINT PATTY}
Please!

[LUCY/SALLY]
Allan...

{LINUS]
Poe! Edgar Allan got out of the army! Married Ms. Virginia Clemm!

[CHARLIE BROWN]
He wrote "Black Sambo" and "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"!

[LINUS]
Died in 1849!

[SALLY]
Tomorrow, I'll be fine!

[CHARLIE BROWN]
"Sweet Adeline"!

[LUCY]
She's gonna ask us something on Edgar Allan Poe!

[LINUS]
He invented onomatopoeia!

[LUCY]
I know it, I just know that any moment now...

[SALLY]
She's gonna call on me and ask me something that she knows that I don't know!

[CHARLIE BROWN]
Robinson Crusoe, and Maria!

[BOYS]
Edgar Allan, Edgar Allan!

[LUCY/SALLY]
Don't let the world find out, what I don't know about!
Let's leave the world in doubt, what we don't know about!

[ALL]
Edgar...
Allan...

[PEPPERMINT PATTY, spoken]
What? Yes ma'am, the answer's 5!
8?
83?
Oh, can I please just spell Mississippi?

[PEPPERMINT PATTY] (ALL, excluding PEPPERMINT PATTY)
M-I-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-I-P-I (Poe)

[ALL]
Edgar Allan Poe!