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There was an old beggar
who returned to Lark Rise,
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the place he was raised,
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every autumn.
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How he lost his leg was
a story he often told.
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Old Peg Leg's tales of the Crimean War
seemed as unreal as any dark fairy tale.
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But this time, the old man's recollections
would cause such a controversy.
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His plight became a cause that aroused conflicts
and opinions that stirred up our little community.
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And revealed secrets that no-one
could have of imagined possible.
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It is all so...sudden.
I saw the press for sale,
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and it gave me the idea.
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The very same day, I saw that
the book shop was up for rent and
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I thought, "I cannot turn
away from such an opportunity."
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It's wonderful. Candleford is
crying out for a local newspaper and
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I won't need to sell a great deal.
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The press will cost me next
to nothing. A retiring newsman
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wanted to be sure the old
thing had another life.
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The rent is affordable.
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And it means I am here. Yes.
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It does. All I need now is a story
to launch The Candleford Chronicle.
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"I once lost a parcel."
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"Alfie grew a prize potato last year."
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That's as much of a story as
you're likely to find around here.
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I will wager that by the end of the week
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I will have unearthed a sensation
that will have every tongue talking
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from here to Sherston.
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I don't know where you
get such confidence from.
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But you like it, don't you?
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SHE LAUGHS
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Laura. Miss Lane is
wondering where you are.
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Well, she knows where you are,
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but she feels you are here
when you should be there.
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Look at that! Give me a day
and I shall have it working.
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And you, Minnie, can pull
the lever to fire her up.
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I ain't never pulled a lever.
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I shall bake a cake! Oh, and
Daniel, you are invited to tea.
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I'll whistle you a tune as
good as any, spare a penny.
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I'll tell you tales of the
war, will make your skin crack.
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I don't know how he survives,
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hobbling from place to
place, sleeping in ditches.
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Ain't you noticed, Alfie,
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how his tales change
each time he comes around?
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More fantastical with
each telling of 'em.
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It wouldn't surprise me
if he weren't in no war.
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Twister! What a thing to say!
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The man gave his leg for his country.
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Give his leg? He didn't
give it. It was took!
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Spare a something for Old Peg Leg.
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You have four pennies in there already.
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That's as much as I can make
in the fields in half a day.
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Peg Leg put two of
them in there hisself.
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Why did you put money
in your own cap, Peg Leg?
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It gives folks the idea.
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You're crying, "Spare
a penny", loud enough.
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I think they gets the point.
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It stirs their conscience, see.
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Makes people think that if other
folks is giving to an old war horse,
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well, they'd better put
their hand in their pockets.
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There's craft in the begging game.
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And cunning. See the day out,
that's all Old Peg Leg ever asks.
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Be your own friend and
reach the day's end.
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A man can call that a life.
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HE LAUGHS
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We are all most impressed, Daniel.
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A young man setting up an exciting
enterprise on our doorstep.
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You are a fine example of what
Samuel Smiles calls "self help".
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I know the book. Any man
can make a success of himself
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with the correct
attitude and application.
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And what a shining example
you are, Mr. Parish. Shining.
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Laura is a lucky girl to have
such an all-conquering man.
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I have been revisiting the book.
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That's a little more than heresy.
Claiming that a man's will is all.
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Have you actually read the book, Thomas?
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To read it would be
to condone it, ma'am.
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A man does not need to peruse
a book to know its contents.
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Is it about helping yourself, mum?
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It is, Minnie. "The crown and
glory of life is character."
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Mr Smiles, I even like his name,
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claims that if we want to better
ourselves then application,
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diligence and cheerful
persistence pays off.
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Persisterance. That is all
very well, ma'am, if I may.
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But what about those who
can't better themselves?
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Like Old Peg Leg.
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Is he back with us? Who is Old Peg Leg?
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A veteran, from the Crimean war.
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He lost an eye and part of a
leg fighting before Sebastopol.
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Now the poor old man lumbers from
town to town begging for pennies.
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One leg? One of his legs is
wood and his other leg is...leg.
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Where is he now? Oh, Daniel,
you are ever the hunter.
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I saw him heading for Lark Rise.
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Alfie says he saw Old
Peg Leg on the lane.
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I will lay out a bed
down here for the night.
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Old Monday was giving out
leftover milk at the farm today.
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I have a rice pudding
the size of this table.
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I seem to have no appetite.
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I think I'll go over
to the Wagon and Horses.
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I ain't going to ask you, if
that's what you are waiting for.
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Daniel Parish has moved to Candleford.
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He's setting up his own newspaper.
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Is that so bad?
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You get to see another side
of Daniel after a while.
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Perhaps moving to Candleford
tells us something about him. He..
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he's is an enterprising young man.
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He likes it here.
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And he is serious about our Laura.
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I see the Stores is still in darkness.
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Miss Pearl is determinedly in
mourning. It's not so much that
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she is missing her sister, though
undoubtedly she will be grieving.
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It is more that she must
be seen to be bereft.
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Which makes me feel for her even more.
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Perhaps a distraction might
help. And I can no longer afford
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to live at the Golden Lion since
I must now foot my own bills.
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Perhaps Miss Pearl
would welcome a lodger?
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Thomas.
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Ain't you gone home?
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I am going home.
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Now.
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I am setting off.
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Hit by a canon ball, Old Peg Leg was.
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And I laid there on that battlefield,
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a day around the clock
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with not so much as a hand on my brow.
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Laid there, in the blood
and the mud and madness.
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Most kindly of you, sir.
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Tell 'em what they did
with your leg, Peg Leg.
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Well, after I'd waited there for a
whole lifetime, the surgeon comes.
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Without more ado, he saws
off the shattered portion.
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And then I lies there some
more, half alive, half cracked.
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And I waits and I waits
till the nurses come.
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And they dips the stump
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in a bucket of boiling tar.
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And didn't I holler!
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Sir. Mr?
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Peg Leg.
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Mr Peg Leg, what was your
occupation before the war?
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He was a very gifted carpenter.
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Made his own leg, he did.
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So you were from hereabouts?
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That's why he keeps coming
back, see. With his tales.
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Mr Peg Leg, did you receive
any kind of a pension
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when you were invalided out of the army?
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All I was give was eight
pence a week for 18 months.
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And then it stops. But don't you
feel that is a great injustice?
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The world is made of injustices, sir.
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Especially to the likes of
old folks who makes no fuss
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for their own needs.
However great they are.
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Mr Parish, you seem mighty curious
about Peg Leg's circumstances.
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It is my nature to be
curious. And my profession.
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We hear your profession has brought you
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to open a newspaper in Candleford.
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Would you like to visit my premises?
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I would very much like to
show you around, Mr Timmins.
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Perhaps tomorrow?
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Mr Peg Leg, what do you feel
about your current conditions?
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Conditions would be pleasing,
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bettered, sir if you was to spare
a few pennies for an old war horse.
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Perhaps another beer?
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See the day out, that's
all Old Peg Leg ever asks.
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Come on, boys, all together now.
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Fathom the bowl!
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Come on, boys.
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# Oh, fathom the bowl,
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# Give me the punch
lane, oh, fathom the bowl
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# Come on, ye bold heroes,
give here to my song... #
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"The common life, with
its cares and duties,
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"provides the true worker with
abundant scope for self-improvement.
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"They who are most persistent,
and work in the truest spirit,
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"will usually be the most successful."
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SHE SNORES
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HE MUMBLES TO HIMSELF
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We can't just leave him
like this. Who said we would?
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Alfie?
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He's been coming here regular,
and he ain't never slept
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in a Lark Rise ditch as
long as I've known him.
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Be your own friend,
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and see...see the day's end.
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He ain't been eating. I can see it.
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I have some oats for the morning.
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He looks worse than last
time, I'm sure of it.
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Course he does. He looks
worse every time he turns up.
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I could take him in our cottage.
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Put him up for a good while if
needs be, till he's on the mend.
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He won't have it. One
night is all. We've tried.
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I can't bear to see him like this.
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DOOR BELL
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Laura, are you going over
to Lark Rise this morning?
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Do you want to walk with me?
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I want to ask you to do me a favour.
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I am told that Peg Leg will
move on after only one night.
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He never settles. You
must convince him to stay.
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For a while. I heard his story
last night in the Wagon and Horses.
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Laura, the London newspapers
create a public clamour
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by taking up a cause.
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A cause? Peg Leg?
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Miss Lane, let me ask you,
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as a potential buyer of my newspaper,
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what are your feelings about a war
hero cast into such a vagrant life?
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It is a disgrace.
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We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.
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If we cannot provide for
those who serve our country,
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then what kind of nation are we?
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What Kind Of Nation Are We?
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I have my headline.
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We must detain him here so I
can speak with him some more,
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and report on his plight.
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Perhaps Peg Leg might not
wish to be made a sensation.
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Daniel, these London newspapers,
do they help people like Peg Leg?
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Greatly. When the public
conscience and anger are stirred,
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then the people in power soon listen.
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Then I shall be glad to
be part of your efforts.
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What is it that you
seek to achieve, Daniel?
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Justice...for an old man.
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Who could object to that?
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You sure you can spare this,
Emma? You have children to feed.
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My little 'uns have enough
flesh on their bones.
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You look like a man who needs
a meal before he perishes.
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Arthur, won't you stay one more night?
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I'll bank up the fire and heat up
some water, you can have a bath.
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Baths, is it?
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Why would a man want to take off his
clothes when he has them on so cosy?
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THEY CHUCKLE
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DOOR RATTLES
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Peg Leg.
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Mr Arthur.
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I have a friend who wishes
to help you. A journalist.
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He's asked me to persuade
you to remain in Lark Rise
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until he can write a story about you,
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so he can raise up public
opinion on your behalf.
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What a splendid idea!
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It ain't right you live by
the begging bowl, Arthur,
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depending on folks'
kindness for scraps of food.
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Peg Leg has a good life.
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No, I don't want no trouble in my name.
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A full belly and a road to travel,
what more can a man ask for?
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Surely you are owed a bit of
peace and comfort in your old age?
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Folks will want to help, to
put right such an unfairness.
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Arthur, every time you leave,
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I fear I will watch you walk
down that lane for the last time.
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I am left feeling that
I have not done enough.
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Can you not stay?
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A day or two is all. Stay for
me, so I won't feel so bad.
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I've made some pea soup.
You love my pea soup.
242
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There won't be no bath, will there?
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No bath. I promise.
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I'm no mechanic, but I am enjoying getting
my hands dirty with a little oil and ink.
245
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Daniel... You think me
impulsive to do such a thing.
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A newspaper in Candleford.
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Supposing people don't
buy what you have to say?
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I do feel reckless,
but I'm full of faith.
249
00:16:08,392 --> 00:16:11,236
It's as though it doesn't
matter if I succeed.
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All that counts is the
thrill of the challenge.
251
00:16:13,950 --> 00:16:16,525
That's why you are here,
is it? The challenge?
252
00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,120
I ain't so sure that's what
brought Daniel Parish to Candleford.
253
00:16:20,155 --> 00:16:21,805
Mr Timmins, in truth, I...
254
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Gentlemen, if I may
intrude. I have a question.
255
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Purely in the spirit of enlightening
conversation, you understand.
256
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Mr Parish, you are little more than 20
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and already a self-made entrepreneur.
258
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And you, Robert Timmins,
259
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you are a master of your
craft, renowned for it.
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What are the qualities
that lift men like you
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out of the throng of common toilers?
262
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A little daring, perhaps?
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If you love what you do,
you give yourself to it.
264
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That's what I thought.
Courage and determination"
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I will have to fill my newspaper
with local announcements,
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wedding banns, christenings,
poetry competitions.
267
00:17:13,555 --> 00:17:15,600
But I am determined to tell big stories,
268
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things that matter, like Peg Leg.
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I will not stop until he has a place to
live and a pension to properly feed him.
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I don't doubt that will
sell several copies for you.
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Peg Leg doesn't matter to you.
272
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You met the man for one evening.
273
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What matters to you is
the success of your paper.
274
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Peg Leg does not need me to know him.
275
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Nor even to even care much for him.
276
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He needs me to have fire in
my belly for what I write.
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Your kindness in taking
him in, feeding him,
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has that made a real
difference to his plight?
279
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No. No, it hasn't.
280
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I could change his life...
281
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if I do my job properly.
282
00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,360
I will tell people for miles
around of this man's predicament.
283
00:17:56,395 --> 00:17:59,245
I will shake them out
of their indifference.
284
00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:02,480
Isn't that better than a bed for
the night and a little friendship?
285
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It is.
286
00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,280
And if I can help you in any way...
287
00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:11,600
Can you recommend a sign-maker?
288
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I can do better than that.
289
00:18:13,972 --> 00:18:16,240
HE PLAYS THE PENNY WHISTLE
290
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I've put some thyme in the bread
for us to have with the pea soup.
291
00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:48,220
Ma? Why are you fond of Old
Peg Leg like your own pa?
292
00:18:48,255 --> 00:18:52,880
Well, when I was a girl, Peg
Leg would come up the lane,
293
00:18:52,915 --> 00:18:55,965
and the other children
would shout after him,
294
00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:02,240
"Dot and carry one," because
of the sound he made walking.
295
00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:04,525
I couldn't bear the cruelty of it.
296
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:09,680
So, when I was old
enough, had my own home,
297
00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:11,165
I took him in.
298
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"Dot and carry one"?
299
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,320
There's something suspicious
about a man who won't stay still.
300
00:19:25,355 --> 00:19:28,857
It's like he don't
want no-one to know him.
301
00:19:28,892 --> 00:19:32,360
Twister, you do have
a sour mind sometimes.
302
00:19:32,395 --> 00:19:36,000
Has anyone ever seen under that patch?
303
00:19:36,035 --> 00:19:37,680
He might have more eyes than I do.
304
00:19:37,715 --> 00:19:39,245
Twister Turrell,
305
00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,820
I do believe that you are no more
than jealous of an old war hero.
306
00:19:43,855 --> 00:19:48,360
All these years you've known
me, and you can say such a thing?
307
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Believe such a thing?
308
00:19:50,875 --> 00:19:52,920
Well...
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Perhaps I'll show you.
310
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Show you all.
311
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,200
Oh, Minnie, I can't find my
book anywhere. Have you moved it?
312
00:20:10,235 --> 00:20:13,437
No, mum, I ain't seen no book
nowhere, so I ain't moved it.
313
00:20:13,472 --> 00:20:16,640
And anyway, what book was
it? Self-Help, Samuel Smiles.
314
00:20:16,675 --> 00:20:19,040
Oh, I seen that one. It
was lying right there.
315
00:20:19,075 --> 00:20:21,525
Thomas, have you moved my book?
316
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,720
Oh, is that the bell.
Did I hear the bell?
317
00:20:24,755 --> 00:20:26,680
A man must be conscientious, ma'am.
318
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Spare a coin for Old Peg Leg.
319
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,400
Will whistle you a tune
good as any, spare a penny.
320
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:49,760
Spare a few coins for an old
man ruined with rheumatism.
321
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,960
HE PICKS OUT A TUNE: "Camptown Races"
322
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PEG LEG PLAYS A DIFFERENT TUNE
323
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A man don't need a comely tune when
he has the sympathy of being legless.
324
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HE CONTINUES TO STRUM
325
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,285
Now I remember.
326
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,360
They didn't call you Peg
Leg back then, did they?
327
00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,800
Are you sure you can afford
this, Daniel? It's an occasion.
328
00:21:56,835 --> 00:21:59,205
A double occasion.
329
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,520
I have always felt it important
to mark significant moments.
330
00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:04,805
I am the proprietor of my own newspaper.
331
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,640
If I cannot celebrate, then
what kind of a man am I?
332
00:22:07,675 --> 00:22:12,200
You're right. It's such
a lovely thing to do.
333
00:22:12,235 --> 00:22:15,120
You said it was a double occasion?
334
00:22:15,155 --> 00:22:17,197
Yes.
335
00:22:17,232 --> 00:22:19,240
Us.
336
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,485
What are you doing?
337
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,760
To mark the occasion of me
coming to live in Candleford.
338
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,565
A brooch.
339
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:35,160
It's beautiful. It was my grandmother's.
340
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,725
Daniel, I can't accept it. Why?
341
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:44,520
I'm sorry, Daniel. Perhaps I should go.
342
00:22:44,555 --> 00:22:47,405
Why would you say such a thing?
343
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,080
I am only hurting you, sitting
here, refusing your gift. I'm sorry.
344
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,680
Thomas, has Miss Lane been
chiding you? She has not, Minnie.
345
00:23:08,715 --> 00:23:10,757
I give Miss Lane no cause to chide.
346
00:23:10,792 --> 00:23:12,765
But you are here again in the evening
347
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,880
and you are working like the
most working man there ever was.
348
00:23:16,915 --> 00:23:20,880
Minnie, would you say
that I was diligent?
349
00:23:20,915 --> 00:23:22,885
Yes.
350
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,285
Industrious? Attentive?
351
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:30,160
Yes. Persistent? Do I
work in a true spirit?
352
00:23:30,195 --> 00:23:31,525
Yes.
353
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DOOR OPENS
354
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,600
Thomas, what is "persisterance"?
355
00:23:40,635 --> 00:23:43,560
And "indus..."
356
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,160
"Attentive"?
357
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,760
CHILDREN: Dot and carry
one! Dot and carry one!
358
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,480
You think I can't catch you?
359
00:23:59,515 --> 00:24:01,477
Well... Oh...
360
00:24:01,512 --> 00:24:03,440
I'll get you...
361
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:10,880
He'll grab you when you least
expect it. Old Peg Leg never forgets.
362
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:48,320
How's a man like you come to have
such a fine bottle of brandy, Arthur?
363
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,200
Found it on the lane.
364
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,480
I'll have a word with those children.
365
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,360
We was all children.
366
00:25:03,395 --> 00:25:05,245
Once.
367
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,960
In another life.
368
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,280
KNOCK ON DOOR
369
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,525
It's no use burying your
head in the pillow, Laura.
370
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,680
I can tell when you come home distressed
from the way you close the back door.
371
00:25:25,715 --> 00:25:29,897
Ma'am, please... I don't want to talk.
372
00:25:29,932 --> 00:25:34,080
Then something really is the matter.
373
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,480
You always share your burdens, Laura.
374
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,045
Ma'am...
375
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,480
I was so thrilled that
Daniel had come to Candleford.
376
00:25:52,515 --> 00:25:55,080
So proud of what he is doing.
377
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,240
I was so looking forward to...
378
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,320
Daniel was so kind to me.
379
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,605
He gave me the most lovely gift,
380
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,960
a beautiful brooch in a beautiful box.
381
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,320
I refused it.
382
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:19,680
Why would you do such a thing?
383
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,600
I don't know why.
384
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,440
Perhaps tomorrow you could accept it?
385
00:26:27,475 --> 00:26:30,440
It is never too late
to put things right.
386
00:26:30,475 --> 00:26:33,920
No, ma'am. I don't want his gift.
387
00:26:33,955 --> 00:26:36,080
Laura... Please.
388
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:42,360
Ma'am, I cannot talk about this
any more. I've such a headache.
389
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,200
Margaret, I lack...
390
00:26:55,235 --> 00:26:56,805
Lack?
391
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,380
I lack success.
392
00:26:59,415 --> 00:27:01,920
I lack thrust!
393
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,360
Miss Lane has the post
office, and the Forge.
394
00:27:07,395 --> 00:27:09,445
Both of which she inherited.
395
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,800
Daniel Parish is little more than
a boy, he has his own business.
396
00:27:12,835 --> 00:27:15,360
It can not yet be called a success.
397
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,200
Misses Pratt have the Stores.
398
00:27:19,235 --> 00:27:21,885
Even Robert Timmins
399
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,485
is his own master and an artist.
400
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:30,480
Has a reputation and widespread respect.
401
00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:33,080
What do I have?
402
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,000
Postal bag, female employer
and a rod upon my back.
403
00:27:39,035 --> 00:27:41,205
Hardly a rod, Thomas.
404
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,080
It's a metaphorical rod, Margaret.
405
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,200
Thomas, what has brought
such thoughts upon you?
406
00:27:48,235 --> 00:27:51,800
I look at my "achievements",
407
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,720
and what is the sum of
a lifetime's efforts?
408
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,560
This!
409
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,540
But Thomas,
410
00:28:05,575 --> 00:28:07,327
we have us.
411
00:28:07,362 --> 00:28:09,080
Don't we?
412
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,780
Ohh.
413
00:28:14,815 --> 00:28:16,880
Oh...
414
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:25,285
Mum, why did Daniel give Laura
something that was his grandma's?
415
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,320
Because, I suppose, it was a sign
to her of how much she means to him.
416
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:35,400
Mum, if people help themselves,
like the book says we have to,
417
00:28:35,435 --> 00:28:37,725
do all our dreams come true?
418
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,245
Something like that, yes,
according to Mr Smiles.
419
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,580
Mum, do you suppose Laura will
take the brooch from Daniel?
420
00:28:46,615 --> 00:28:50,987
Perhaps, yes, when she is
ready. Because she loves him?
421
00:28:51,022 --> 00:28:55,211
Because she loves him. Mum,
if someone wants something,
422
00:28:55,246 --> 00:28:59,400
then it is up to you to
have persisterance, isn't it?
423
00:28:59,435 --> 00:29:02,285
Yes, persistence.
424
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,440
Do you have your eyes on the
post office, Minnie? Oh no, mum.
425
00:29:05,475 --> 00:29:08,920
I am too young. Yet. Perhaps later.
426
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,960
Mum, love is beautiful, isn't it?
427
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,600
I think it is meant to be, yes.
428
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,525
We are introducing a
new offer today, ladies.
429
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:29,040
Buy ten penny stamps for nine pence.
Do tell your friends and neighbours.
430
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,800
..And when you returned to England
and were released from the hospital,
431
00:29:42,835 --> 00:29:45,080
no possibility of work?
432
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:53,520
Well, they did say I might
learn blacksmith work,
433
00:29:53,555 --> 00:29:56,997
since that's mostly arm labour.
434
00:29:57,032 --> 00:30:00,440
That is, if I could stand at all.
435
00:30:00,475 --> 00:30:02,525
THEY LAUGH
436
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,680
'The British Government
has behaved disgracefully
437
00:30:05,715 --> 00:30:08,765
'when it comes to the care
of our brave war veterans.
438
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,360
'Men like Mr Arthur Myhill, who
lost a leg fighting in Sebastopol,
439
00:30:12,395 --> 00:30:13,925
'who had his eye blown out
440
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,885
'in the service of this
great country of ours.
441
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,725
'Why does this lion-hearted man
trudge the lanes of Oxfordshire
442
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,320
'begging for his next meal, never
knowing where he may lay his head?
443
00:30:24,355 --> 00:30:27,880
'Because he is not entitled to a
pension for his services to us all.
444
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:35,320
'His courage has been spurned,
ignored, mocked by indifference.
445
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,760
'Who is responsible for this scandal?
446
00:30:41,795 --> 00:30:43,817
'You are.
447
00:30:43,852 --> 00:30:45,805
'We all are.'
448
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,685
"If we do not care
enough to raise our voices
449
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,405
"in anger and rejection
of this terrible injustice,
450
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,400
"if we do not demand rightful
provision for men like Arthur Myhill,
451
00:30:56,435 --> 00:30:59,125
"then we can all hang
our heads in shame."
452
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,525
"The Candleford Chronicle
shall start the call.
453
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,760
"Let every fair-hearted man
in this fair-hearted country
454
00:31:06,795 --> 00:31:09,965
"demand justice for Old Peg Leg.
455
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,680
"Write to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, care of the Chronicle.
456
00:31:13,715 --> 00:31:15,365
"Write today.
457
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,760
"Demand hope for Old Peg Leg!"
458
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,885
That's fine writing, well enough.
459
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,005
But I never asked to be in no papers.
460
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,640
Arthur, if this can bring
in a few shillings regular,
461
00:31:28,675 --> 00:31:30,245
a place for you to live...
462
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,100
I never asked for no place to live.
Look at how many people are responding.
463
00:31:35,135 --> 00:31:40,047
So many decent people can see what the
moral obligation of our Government is.
464
00:31:40,082 --> 00:31:44,960
And this is just the start of it. They
threw away your life like an old rag.
465
00:31:44,995 --> 00:31:47,400
And how many more like
you didn't make it home?
466
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,760
What is this war for? For you?
467
00:31:51,795 --> 00:31:53,285
For my children?
468
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,560
For any man in here? Do we
share their grand designs?
469
00:31:57,595 --> 00:32:01,737
Will Sebastopol feed
my family? Your family?
470
00:32:01,772 --> 00:32:05,880
Your life, Arthur, before
you left. A carpenter,
471
00:32:05,915 --> 00:32:07,805
making homes for folks to live in.
472
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:12,680
And what a fine hand you had.
Known for the twinkle in your eyes.
473
00:32:12,715 --> 00:32:17,137
There wasn't a girl
around here who was safe.
474
00:32:17,172 --> 00:32:21,266
Eileen Middleton. You
would have married her.
475
00:32:21,301 --> 00:32:25,360
Brought your own
children into this world.
476
00:32:25,395 --> 00:32:27,325
Same as we have, all of us.
477
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,800
What took that away from you?
Some cannonball did this to you?
478
00:32:30,835 --> 00:32:32,365
No.
479
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,045
Men in suits did this to you.
480
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:40,360
Men who sit in panelled
rooms and decide our lives.
481
00:32:40,395 --> 00:32:43,605
Rich men, and sons of rich men.
482
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,760
Powerful men. Ask them,
do their sons go to war?
483
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:55,160
Your name, Arthur, your plight,
could point a finger at these men.
484
00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:59,360
Now, isn't that a cause worth
putting your shoulder behind?
485
00:32:59,395 --> 00:33:01,085
Isn't that what you want, Arthur?
486
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,800
Finally, you're asking me what I want.
487
00:33:04,835 --> 00:33:07,525
Well, I'll tell you.
488
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:12,205
A few pennies so's I can be on my way.
489
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:17,840
A beer, and another beer
to make the evening shine.
490
00:33:17,875 --> 00:33:21,880
Be your own friend and
reach the day's end.
491
00:33:21,915 --> 00:33:24,960
Well, come on, boys. Come on!
492
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:31,480
HE PLAYS A TUNE ON HIS
WHISTLE, SOME SING RELUCTANTLY
493
00:33:31,515 --> 00:33:34,960
Sing, boys, come on!
494
00:33:34,995 --> 00:33:37,320
THEY SING
495
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:05,080
Daniel, Peg Leg might rail against
the offer of a settled life,
496
00:34:05,115 --> 00:34:08,840
but there was no joy in that music.
497
00:34:08,875 --> 00:34:11,125
The man is tormented.
498
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:12,965
He needs hope, that is all.
499
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:18,520
True hope. Daniel, there
is a bigger cause here.
500
00:34:18,555 --> 00:34:21,725
More than homes for men like Arthur.
501
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,240
If you were to name the reason
why this kind of thing happens.
502
00:34:26,275 --> 00:34:29,165
And hear me out.
503
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:31,445
Imagine the stir that that would cause
504
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,520
if you were able to do that
in The London Illustrated News.
505
00:34:35,555 --> 00:34:37,040
They print pictures.
506
00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:38,560
Photographs.
507
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:44,285
Imagine it. Peg Leg
- he is the nugget that shows it all.
508
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,320
It is the sight of him that
makes visible the injustice of it.
509
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,000
I could send them a telegram.
510
00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:05,960
Who would have thought Old Peg
Leg would become a political cause?
511
00:35:05,995 --> 00:35:10,680
You'll be needing to dust down
your expanding plank, our Robert.
512
00:35:10,715 --> 00:35:12,685
It matters, Em.
513
00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:16,000
That man, his story,
could make a difference.
514
00:35:16,035 --> 00:35:17,885
I know it matters.
515
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,000
And it cheers my heart
to see you so fired up.
516
00:35:22,035 --> 00:35:24,280
OLD PEG GIVES OUT A RASPING COUGH
517
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:40,360
HE COUGHS AND MUMBLES
518
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:35,845
You have found my book
for me, Thomas. Thank you.
519
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:41,560
It was about, so I decided to glance
through a few pages of it, ma'am.
520
00:36:41,595 --> 00:36:44,085
And what did you make of it?
521
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,360
There is only one book a
man can live by, Miss Lane.
522
00:36:48,395 --> 00:36:50,880
Though this does have
some merits, in places.
523
00:36:50,915 --> 00:36:53,605
It is well meant, I suppose.
524
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,445
People suppose the
book is about success.
525
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,320
But my favourite chapter
is the one on character.
526
00:37:01,355 --> 00:37:03,285
"That which dignifies a country
527
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:08,880
"is not an aristocracy of blood,
it is an aristocracy of character."
528
00:37:08,915 --> 00:37:12,720
But there is an impressive
list of illustrious commoners,
529
00:37:12,755 --> 00:37:15,680
raised themselves from
humble to elevated position
530
00:37:15,715 --> 00:37:18,920
by the power of
application and industry.
531
00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:26,240
A lowly postman might be
encouraged by such a thought.
532
00:37:26,275 --> 00:37:29,400
Thomas, I had a rather strange encounter
533
00:37:29,435 --> 00:37:31,125
in the post office this morning.
534
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,520
Several of our customers
were asking for discounts.
535
00:37:34,555 --> 00:37:35,925
Ah.
536
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,480
They said that you had informed
them that such a thing was possible.
537
00:37:39,515 --> 00:37:43,845
I was merely showing
initiative, Miss Lane.
538
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:47,920
An ambitious man must live on his
toes. Initiative with my income, Thomas.
539
00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:52,760
Ah... Ah. Well, perhaps
I overstepped myself.
540
00:37:52,795 --> 00:37:54,965
You did indeed.
541
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,240
I trust it will not happen again.
542
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,045
Mmm!
543
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,725
There's porridge.
544
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,285
There's flavoursome porridge
545
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,805
and then there's Emma Timmins' porridge.
546
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,920
Are you sure you can spare
it, Emma? I'd hate to think
547
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:14,000
that I was taking out of the
mouths of the little 'uns.
548
00:38:14,035 --> 00:38:16,560
You eat up, Arthur. We
have battles to fight.
549
00:38:16,595 --> 00:38:18,165
I'll go on down the lane,
550
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,840
see if there's a few extra
pennies to get me on my way.
551
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,160
Perhaps, before I go, I might come back,
552
00:38:28,195 --> 00:38:30,085
have a bowl of your pea soup?
553
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,040
We will always share whatever
we have with those who need it.
554
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,405
Thomas? Margaret.
555
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,205
James Dowland built Villas.
556
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,805
Daniel Parish opened a newspaper.
557
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:56,080
I am sitting here contemplating
what Thomas Brown might do.
558
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,440
Thomas...
559
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,320
I am an empty vessel, Margaret.
560
00:39:25,355 --> 00:39:28,005
Inspiration was there none.
561
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:33,120
It seems that I am doomed to
be no more than a common toiler.
562
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,320
The Illustrated London News
have picked up on my story.
563
00:39:43,355 --> 00:39:45,765
They are sending a
photographer from Oxford
564
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,440
to take a picture of Peg
for tomorrow's edition.
565
00:39:49,475 --> 00:39:51,977
I am to have him ready
by midday. Well...
566
00:39:52,012 --> 00:39:54,445
You come to our little
spot in the wilderness
567
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,400
and before you know it, you
are conquering the world.
568
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,405
Money? Notes.
569
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:13,085
Lots of them. How?
570
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,205
He is Poor Old Peg Leg.
571
00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:19,245
How did he lay his hands on so much?
572
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,720
Every family in the hamlet
would work to the bone
573
00:40:22,755 --> 00:40:24,285
for half that amount.
574
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,320
But why does he live as he does if...?
575
00:40:26,355 --> 00:40:27,765
He isn't the man we thought.
576
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:32,200
He comes to our home, eats our porridge,
577
00:40:32,235 --> 00:40:34,205
plays the pauper.
578
00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:38,100
What will you do, Ma?
It is enough to break me.
579
00:40:38,135 --> 00:40:41,960
Are we such fools to let
him take our kindness?
580
00:40:41,995 --> 00:40:44,365
Not fools.
581
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,680
Then why does it make me
feel so? Why does it hurt so?
582
00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:52,960
He has betrayed you time and time again.
583
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:57,240
I don't know what I will do.
584
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,280
Peg Leg. How are you today?
585
00:41:13,315 --> 00:41:15,440
Thomas?
586
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,240
Thomas?
587
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,845
A photograph fella, coming all the way
588
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,120
from one of them London newspapers,
taking a picture of Peg Leg.
589
00:41:42,155 --> 00:41:44,120
For the paper. A picture. Is that so?
590
00:41:44,155 --> 00:41:46,077
A picture of a poor man.
591
00:41:46,112 --> 00:41:48,000
A beggar and a war hero.
592
00:41:48,035 --> 00:41:49,565
Is that so?
593
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,925
They didn't call him Peg
Leg when he was a boy.
594
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,640
I used to put my hat on the
ground outside the ale house,
595
00:41:55,675 --> 00:41:58,177
sing a few songs, have a few drinks
596
00:41:58,212 --> 00:42:00,645
and there'd be coins gone from my hat.
597
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,480
Penny Pincher, that's
what they used to call him.
598
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,800
If you don't talk to him,
tell him what you know,
599
00:42:34,835 --> 00:42:37,800
he'll go off down the
lane, he'll be back again.
600
00:42:37,835 --> 00:42:39,840
What then, Emma?
601
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:48,280
Look at him there. The Wood Leg Hero.
602
00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:50,977
See their eyes, Alfie.
603
00:42:51,012 --> 00:42:53,640
See how they admire him.
604
00:42:53,675 --> 00:42:56,245
He ain't no pauper.
605
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,800
He has more money than you
or I could ever hope for.
606
00:42:59,835 --> 00:43:02,600
Twister, how can you say such a thing?
607
00:43:02,635 --> 00:43:05,560
Ask Emma Timmins.
608
00:43:05,595 --> 00:43:07,397
She knows.
609
00:43:07,432 --> 00:43:09,165
Knows what?
610
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,200
This will undermine everything. The
Chronicle will be ruined by this.
611
00:43:13,235 --> 00:43:14,640
Can't you stop them?
612
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,600
He owes me nothing.
613
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,640
I gave to him freely. It's none
of my business if he has money.
614
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,880
Oh... I have to talk to Daniel.
615
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:46,125
Wh... What's to be done?
I must do something.
616
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,680
Daniel, I am sorry. It was
me pushed you into this.
617
00:43:50,715 --> 00:43:53,405
What are we to do,
Pa? We have no choice.
618
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,920
No-one wants to do it, but we
must expose the lie of the man.
619
00:43:56,955 --> 00:43:59,205
Perhaps, but...
620
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:02,640
surely what truly matters
here is the greater cause.
621
00:44:02,675 --> 00:44:05,645
That is still worthwhile.
622
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,925
War veterans without
a home or a pension.
623
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,880
If the story in the London papers
can still achieve some good,
624
00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:15,720
it seems to me that the only thing to do
625
00:44:15,755 --> 00:44:17,937
is to do nothing.
626
00:44:17,972 --> 00:44:20,085
You're right.
627
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,445
But to keep such a secret...
628
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,685
I don't like how it makes me feel.
629
00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:28,360
Daniel Parish, disturbed
by a moral quandary?
630
00:44:28,395 --> 00:44:31,645
You sound to me like a man of character.
631
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:36,880
I can't believe it. It's
true. Look at him there.
632
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:39,965
It ain't right.
633
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,400
Alfie, I have a gift for you.
634
00:44:42,435 --> 00:44:44,765
Go on, open it. Open it now.
635
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,960
Minnie, I am grateful but I
need you to wait just one moment.
636
00:44:47,995 --> 00:44:49,920
Folks should know what he's made of.
637
00:44:49,955 --> 00:44:53,280
It's a hairpin. Do you like it?
638
00:44:53,315 --> 00:44:55,445
Someone should tell them!
639
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,040
Twister, listen to me... It was my
grandma's. It's all I have of hers.
640
00:44:59,075 --> 00:45:01,800
Minnie, I'm grateful, but...
641
00:45:01,835 --> 00:45:03,205
Twister, hold hard!
642
00:45:03,240 --> 00:45:05,445
The man ain't nothing but a chiseller.
643
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,765
Twister, let him have
his money and his secrets.
644
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,720
Would you swap places with him?
Would you want to carry his burden?
645
00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:15,857
Look at him.
646
00:45:15,892 --> 00:45:17,925
He's tormented.
647
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,280
He ain't getting away with nothing.
648
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,405
I never thought I'd see the day
649
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,725
when they was taking
pictures of Old Peg Leg.
650
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,880
Arthur, I came downstairs in
the night to fix your blankets.
651
00:45:40,915 --> 00:45:42,320
I saw the money.
652
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,040
Your money.
653
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:52,040
It's not for me to know how you
came upon that kind of money.
654
00:45:52,075 --> 00:45:55,000
Peg Leg ain't no thief.
655
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,860
Is that what you think of me? You beg.
656
00:45:59,895 --> 00:46:03,440
It pains you to travel a few yards.
657
00:46:03,475 --> 00:46:05,365
You beg, and yet...
658
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,400
I don't stand here to be
judged by no man and no woman.
659
00:46:10,435 --> 00:46:12,917
I am my own judge.
660
00:46:12,952 --> 00:46:15,365
I paid, do you hear?
661
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,840
I have paid with the blood
and the mud and the madness.
662
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:25,760
I always knew the day would
come when you would turn me away.
663
00:46:25,795 --> 00:46:29,037
I ain't turning you
away. I'm asking you.
664
00:46:29,072 --> 00:46:32,280
A bowl of soup and a bed for the night
665
00:46:32,315 --> 00:46:35,120
don't give you no rights over me.
666
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:42,200
I've learned one thing in
this world, and it's this.
667
00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:47,600
Be your own friend and
reach the day's end.
668
00:46:47,635 --> 00:46:50,480
Arthur, come back.
669
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,840
Arthur...
670
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,180
He won't come back here now.
671
00:47:10,215 --> 00:47:12,685
He will never come back.
672
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,900
It was still the right thing to do.
673
00:47:14,935 --> 00:47:17,080
You had more courage than I did.
674
00:47:19,240 --> 00:47:22,000
I saw him out the back there.
675
00:47:22,035 --> 00:47:24,760
He had brandy. Fine brandy.
676
00:47:24,795 --> 00:47:26,925
Hiding it.
677
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,885
I knew something wasn't
right, but I pushed it aside.
678
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:35,840
I've been asking myself why I did
that. I could have challenged him.
679
00:47:35,875 --> 00:47:38,965
But he wasn't Peg Leg to me any more.
680
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,605
It wasn't a thought in my
head, it was deeper than that.
681
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,600
I couldn't bear the idea that Peg
Leg wasn't what he appeared to be
682
00:47:46,635 --> 00:47:50,800
because I would have lost
my precious just cause.
683
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,920
Thomas, you will be late for work.
684
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,805
Thomas, you DO have diligence.
685
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,400
You show it in your efforts
to master the cornet.
686
00:48:10,435 --> 00:48:13,480
Your application to
your duties is sterling.
687
00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:16,377
What rewards does that bring?
688
00:48:16,412 --> 00:48:19,205
You are a success, Thomas.
689
00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:22,880
If you have a failing, it is
that you do not see it. Hm!
690
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,845
"Mind without heart,
cleverness without goodness.
691
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:34,120
"We may be amused by them,
but they are not substance."
692
00:48:34,155 --> 00:48:38,480
Those words...are from that book.
693
00:48:38,515 --> 00:48:40,925
I confess it.
694
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:44,400
I happened to come upon it
in the sorting office and...
695
00:48:44,435 --> 00:48:47,565
peeked beneath its covers.
696
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:52,200
Please, Thomas, tell me what
is at the bottom of this?
697
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,805
Is it not self-evident?
698
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,965
A rector's daughter
might hope to find a man
699
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,280
who is a shining example
of position and attainment.
700
00:49:04,315 --> 00:49:06,885
She might be daily disappointed
701
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,800
to find herself saddled
with a common toiler.
702
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,420
Oh, Thomas.
703
00:49:14,455 --> 00:49:16,405
My Thomas.
704
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:22,800
You have "thrust" in abundance,
if only you could see it.
705
00:49:22,835 --> 00:49:27,737
"Men of character are the
conscience of society."
706
00:49:27,772 --> 00:49:32,640
I find your conscience most
attractive, Thomas Brown.
707
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,900
"Though he possesses
little of the world's goods,
708
00:49:40,935 --> 00:49:44,480
"he might look down without
the slightest of envy
709
00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:47,880
"upon the man of money bags and acres."
710
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,685
"Some men leave no memorial
711
00:49:56,720 --> 00:50:00,800
"but a world made
better by their lives."
712
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,200
Minnie.
713
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:24,160
You are a fine girl with a heart
worth any that I have ever known.
714
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:29,920
Minnie, it is such a
treasure from your family.
715
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,165
You must keep it.
716
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:39,640
Truly. It is yours to hold
dear for the rest of your days.
717
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,080
You and me, we're friends,
aren't we? Yes, Alfie.
718
00:50:46,115 --> 00:50:47,600
Only friends.
719
00:50:47,635 --> 00:50:49,845
Yes.
720
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:54,760
I wouldn't want you to get hurt
because I care for you, as a friend.
721
00:50:54,795 --> 00:50:56,040
You understand that?
722
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,120
Yes.
723
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:03,200
That's good.
724
00:51:03,235 --> 00:51:04,805
Alfie.
725
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:08,120
I am decided to be persisterance.
726
00:51:08,155 --> 00:51:10,605
Persisterance?
727
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:17,080
It means trying and waiting
and never giving up, I think.
728
00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:31,320
How are things with you today, Minnie?
729
00:51:31,355 --> 00:51:33,680
Industrialous.
730
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:48,440
Candleford Chronicle...
Candleford Chronicle.
731
00:51:48,475 --> 00:51:50,165
Candleford Chronicle.
732
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:52,525
There are so many of them.
733
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,080
Mr Parish seems to have stirred
half the county into action.
734
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,960
Not a sound, boy, or I'll
tear your tongue right out.
735
00:52:15,995 --> 00:52:19,920
Food. Poor Old Peg Leg
needs food, understand?
736
00:52:19,955 --> 00:52:23,685
Eh, are you afraid of me, boy?
737
00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:27,000
You ought to be. Look
at me... Look at me.
738
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,045
Now,
739
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,245
food, you bring food
and you tell no-one
740
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:39,000
or I'll haunt you in your
sleep, in the darkness at night.
741
00:52:39,035 --> 00:52:43,680
I will be there to haunt
your every thought. Now go!
742
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,920
I realise this must feel like
a double-edged triumph, Daniel.
743
00:53:06,955 --> 00:53:09,205
I haven't slept.
744
00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:12,000
Surely, Miss Lane, if we
are to lay this to rest,
745
00:53:12,035 --> 00:53:14,760
we must know where Peg
Leg acquired so much money.
746
00:53:14,795 --> 00:53:16,800
Emma said he is on his way.
747
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,005
Sydney?
748
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,880
Sydney, what are you doing?
749
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:42,880
Laura, I have been trying
my best not to intrude.
750
00:53:42,915 --> 00:53:46,120
But I feel it is time I spoke out.
751
00:53:46,155 --> 00:53:48,645
The brooch.
752
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,220
I think you do know why you refused it,
753
00:53:51,255 --> 00:53:53,760
and I think you have to admit that,
754
00:53:53,795 --> 00:53:56,405
at least to yourself.
755
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,480
It was his grandmother's brooch.
756
00:53:58,515 --> 00:54:00,485
It means something.
757
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,280
I was not expecting any of this.
758
00:54:02,315 --> 00:54:04,165
Laura...
759
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,805
You thought it was a ring, didn't you?
760
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,320
And it scared the living
daylights out of you.
761
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:16,205
Oh.
762
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:18,440
But it wasn't a ring, Laura.
763
00:54:18,475 --> 00:54:20,445
There is time.
764
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:24,560
There is no need for you
to feel such pressure.
765
00:54:24,595 --> 00:54:26,045
You are young.
766
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:31,240
Be young. Tell Daniel it
is young love you want.
767
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:36,240
I don't think you even need to tell him.
768
00:54:36,275 --> 00:54:38,440
I suspect he wants the same thing.
769
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:46,560
Arthur... Oh, Arthur.
Why did you hide away?
770
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,445
I need that money, see.
771
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,800
I need it in case things
should ever go bad.
772
00:54:54,835 --> 00:54:56,760
Let's get you up.
773
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:04,320
I kept it in case the day should
ever come when I might need it.
774
00:55:04,355 --> 00:55:06,925
But you need it now.
775
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,085
You needed it ten years ago.
776
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:14,520
You could give yourself
some peace and rest.
777
00:55:14,555 --> 00:55:16,005
Oh!
778
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,840
Why won't you consider settling?
779
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,920
I laid there on that field...
780
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,160
..listening to men die.
781
00:55:28,195 --> 00:55:31,845
Listening to their cries
782
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,520
in the mud and the
blood and the madness.
783
00:55:34,555 --> 00:55:36,880
I couldn't move.
784
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,685
I couldn't escape.
785
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:45,240
I cried out to a God I don't believe in
786
00:55:45,275 --> 00:55:46,840
till I had no voice left.
787
00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:52,920
No answer came.
788
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,520
Just the screams of the dying men
789
00:55:57,555 --> 00:56:01,217
and all I wanted...
790
00:56:01,252 --> 00:56:04,880
was to be gone...away.
791
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,125
Anywhere but here.
792
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,000
If I stop still, I'll die.
793
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,120
And I lived, see.
794
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:24,720
I was carried from that field and
I come back to some sort of life.
795
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:29,760
I still feel it.
796
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,200
Move, or die.
797
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,400
Be gone.
798
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:44,925
But there has been such an outcry.
799
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,360
I know that if we press the authorities,
800
00:56:47,395 --> 00:56:49,760
we could establish a
rest-home for veterans.
801
00:56:49,795 --> 00:56:52,600
Perhaps for some of the other men.
802
00:56:52,635 --> 00:56:54,200
Not for Arthur.
803
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:00,000
He's just not the settling kind.
804
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:07,960
'Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
805
00:57:07,995 --> 00:57:09,920
'bears all its sons away.'
806
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,605
'Poor Old Peg Leg never returned.
807
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,160
'Though he never escaped our memories.
808
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,320
'But his life was changed by
his last visit to Lark Rise.
809
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,880
'It may have been the
smallest of things.
810
00:57:26,915 --> 00:57:29,565
'But my mother always said
811
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,480
'it was the closest Peg
Leg ever came to settling.
812
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,240
'There are those who
must go on wandering,
813
00:57:38,275 --> 00:57:41,040
'and those who find
their place in the world.
814
00:57:41,075 --> 00:57:43,285
'Miss Lane used to say
815
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,880
'that the crown and
glory of life is character
816
00:57:45,915 --> 00:57:49,040
'and that cheerful
persistence pays off.'
817
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,640
Timothy loved his patch. Then
why did he have to leave us?
818
00:58:03,675 --> 00:58:06,137
Timothy married and his
wife preferred London.
819
00:58:06,172 --> 00:58:08,565
Well, he married the
wrong wife, didn't he?
820
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:12,360
Letter? Isn't that the
reason you're here? The play?
821
00:58:12,395 --> 00:58:14,845
There is no doctor
and there is no dragon.
822
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,600
I do wonder how we can put on
something pleasing for our squire.
823
00:58:18,635 --> 00:58:21,040
MINNIE: Mr Timmins...
824
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,285
Do you miss Sir Timothy? I do.
825
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:29,960
Did he ask you? Did Timothy
want you to marry him?
826
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:41,920
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