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A librarian tries to deliver a message to Carmelita Spats using the code.

The Librarian Code is a code used by V.F.D., to signal a volunteer that a message ought to be delivered to them.

Uses[]

This code should be used when a volunteer is approached by an old man with neatly trimmed gray hair and a mustache that turns up at the ends, who is wearing a flowered shirt, striped tie, tweed coat, plaid slacks with a sharp crease, and shined shoes. The dapper man will ask the volunteer, "Well, young lady, have you been good to your mother?" meaning, "I have a message for you." If the volunteer replies, "The question is, has she been good to me?", the librarian will deliver the message.

The librarian will always refer to the receiver as "young lady", even if the volunteer is neither female nor young.[1]

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