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what

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i've only got a minute

how's kate a bit of a bad chest but you

know her she never lets on

you all right how long ever better love

a 10-hour shift at the furnace

cut yourself lucky i don't finish till

nine did mr mulcaster look at your

drawings

oh he's still got him maybe he'll give

you a job as a draftsman ah

maybe we'll give him a sack all right

mary ellen

must go someone loves the kid bye

sorry mr stevenson that's all right lass

why you spend so much time with those

two i'll never know mrs davison

we've been friends since we were little

roddy and hal and me

we grew up together and when i look back

and remember all the things that

happened

i know nothing on earth will ever come

between us

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i can

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want to have a good time celebrating

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rodney

jesus

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wake up get your hands off me where's

sally and what the hell are you doing

here please

hi it's me all right now i won't ask you

again where is sally dead

my poor sister's been dead these past

four months

and i've been looking after your ladder

the goodness of my heart ever since

dead

my son he died it started as a bellyache

turned out to be appendix

just for a doctor but it burst by then

blood poisoning took her in three days

paulus

i did me best passed away in the arms

she did

and roddy where's roddy i'm here dad

for pity sir what's up to you

so you've been looking after my son have

you been taking care of him don't you go

getting at me if you think it's been

easy easy

easy what i think is that you've been

drinking yourself to death at my expense

feeding your love the best while running

here goes without yourself forgive your

hands to yourself

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hey take your breaths with you go on you

can tell the magistrate how well you

looked after my lad since his mother

died

and tell him how you did it now the

goodness of your heart

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buddy

roddy

so

come here

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what are these

put your storms

oh my god you caught the living

lightness

when you dropped the week before she

took poorly

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yeah i never realized

never knew you were so good i've been

doing them for years

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i'm sorry

but i'll make it up here i promise

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so

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voice

what the hell did you do that for dumb

bannermen and pot failure

good bug give it to me and you can ride

away from here

if i don't i'll shoot you and take it

anywhere

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oh jesus

my god you've killed him do you hear me

he's dead

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we've got the money pot that's what we

came for

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miners the shift must have finished

there'll be more passing any minute

what are we gonna do now nobody comes

here

so dangerous we're very intonate when

everyone's at the barn dance

come on over here

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so

sally

my sally buried in a porpoise griff and

bella said there was no money for

anything else

and bella can go to hell soon as i can

i'll have a move to langley churchill

langley where you group

it's the only one i know lad

and when my time comes i want you to see

a lie next to her

roddy you know i have to make a living

yesterday and so just miniature i cannot

do it on the land

i'll have to go back to see but my trips

will be shorter

if i stick to the norwegian run i'll

find something around the docks when the

ice comes in november but what will

happen to me while you're away

well the house is worth 150 pounds of a

penny

cleaned up and fetch good rent well i

might even sell it

either way well we'll lift uh if you

sell a house i'm coming to that

if you give it a chance

roddy i'm sorry i didn't i just want to

be with you dad i know that son

and i want to be with you but

look when i'm back on shore i come and

see you at langley every weekend you

said you couldn't get out of langley

fast enough oh that was a

that was a long time ago and the village

itself is all right if you ignore the

mine and the smelt mill but i don't know

anybody there

i want to stay in the docks if you stay

here you'll end up in the house of

corrections and who'd look after

us when i stay oh well that's the best

bit

you'll stay with the witch a witch don't

fret

she's a white one there's none of this

black magic with kate make peace

and she brews the best ginger ale in all

northumberland i won't die

i won't go live with a witch

is your background pure magic kate well

it's more than magic love

it's got some john's wort

oil of roses and a few pounded bucky

leaves

you'll learn quickly love but if you

blab one of my secrets to anyone else

i'll turn you into a frog

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were you ever in service kate yes yes i

was

that's what brought me up from yorkshire

i worked at highfield manor for years

that was before i got caught up with all

my pills and the potions

why'd you ask me mom says i'm going into

service this summer

probably with the davidsons at lean head

farm

oh jesse davison's all right she'll want

a money's worth

you don't want to work for other people

do you no i don't

and i don't want to be spending my

evenings black and greats when i could

be dancing

you and your dancing

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please mother please said no martha it's

a barn dance not lord redmond's ball

but my red dress is so old and the rest

is nothing but rags

your father bought that dress for you

not two months since and you've got more

good clothes than i have

mother for the last

time the answer is no

no what's this it's not my fault

mother says i have to wear my red dress

to the dance tonight

and you know how much i hate it it makes

me look like a

cow man's daughter it does no such thing

you'll wear it or stay home

cowan's daughter indeed with no daughter

of mine is gun dancing looking like

she's come straight from the buyer

daniel

what mr barnum

touch the trap the mrs and martha are

going shopping and hexham

remind you hold your nerve and stay out

of the air houses

what's that stink it's the smelt mill

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thanks

mind you there's a place to work it's no

worse than the mine

i started work at that mill when i was

16.

lived in allendale then just reminding

me

four miles each worth six days a week

what the fumes and the heat

talk about the frying pan into the fire

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tom royston should have been back from

newcastle with a clear world by now

you'll be taking the hexam road

take my horse see if you can find them i

see

then you'll a georgia stand come on

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how far is it the old woman's house now

this is make peace to you

you can see that place from the top of

the quarry but how

far is it oh it's miles

rushing to the top what stay away from

the edge right

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getting old no one's ever beat me before

oh never must be word honest

oh this is a quarry it's just a big hall

hi a big crumbling hall where many of

the time i ripped my back side sliding

down it

you never eyes a lot without a sunday

game

you see there where the land's falling

away well that's kurt's place

and sixpen says i'm knocking on the door

for you

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oh thank you lad that'll keep me going

for a while

and this will keep you going until your

dog gets home

ginger beer and nice metal sweeties

thank you mrs may peace but i'll save

him if you don't mind

my dad said he'd be back on time to take

us to the bonding side

you did anybody home by the name of

kate make peace peter greenbank

oh

oh hello it's good to see you lad

this your boy hi roddy to his friends

11 years old of the day and almost a man

hello roddy

please to meet you mrs maypiece kate

call me kate

and who's this young whippersnapper then

power icing too

oh gabriel royston's lad i say i mean

your dog go back a long way

sell hello informed me will you he's

away in newcastle but i will honestly

him

thank you mrs make peace i best be

getting back

i'll fetch you another bag of firewood

on sunday

thank you you must be hungry

bye yeah we could eat a horse well i'll

see if i can find your horse i can't

guarantee it

duh is that you da

da where are you dad

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where's my dad

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where are you dad

and she's lying in a pauper's grave in

newcastle

but before i find another ship i mean to

move at a langley churchyard where

come the day i'll join her another ship

so you're not thinking of coming back

here then

in the pit or the mill no

there's one thing you get to see if not

else kid and that's fresh air

at least when you're topping light and

you want me to look after the lad

you know they always said you could read

a man's mind it was a ladder never

believed it but

maybe they were right well

if that's what you had in mind you'd

better change it i'm past looking after

burns

you'd better think of something else led

i was told you say i don't know where he

is

his horse came home without him and i

run straight in the mountain toward mr

mulcaster

your mother she died last year didn't

she

what's that got to do with gabriel

disappearance shelf well did she or

didn't she

yes sir so you'll be missing your

darling

yes sir i am this business with his

horse

it's just a trick isn't it no when's he

going to send for you

how's he going to let you know where to

find him he isn't

i wish he would mr mulcaster you know me

da

something must have happened what's

happened is your dars stolen mr

mulcaster's payroll

that's a lie no it's the truth boy

and unless you help me to find him he'll

go to prison for a very long time

that's enough sheriff there's no point

in frightening the lad prison is a

frightening place mr mulcaster

and so is the workhouse the workhouse

well we can't leave him here on his own

can we

no i'm not going to the workhouse your

dad will be back on time to take us to

the barn dance tonight

you are lad thanks kids

bill and jane lee now they lost their

lad to the cholera two years since

they've got a girl called marielle and

she's got a ton of clip

clouds about the same age as you i don't

like

girls well you'll get on them when you

uh you reckon they'll take them on

yes i don't see why not seeing as you

and me were such friends

but you still keep an eye on him

wouldn't you kid yes of course i would

there's a dance in langley tonight

everyone's gonna be there including the

leaves so you can talk to them yourself

and you can ask mary ellen for a dance

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oh you look a picture-less don't forget

the server dance for me

the first and last father

shovel some pickaxe and don't be late

welcome

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are you sure you won't change your mind

kid no i can't laugh if i leave this

it'll turn sour

you two go and enjoy yourselves you can

have a talk with bill

and you can give mary ellen a dance i

hate dancing oh in that case you can

stay here and help me

oh we're da we're gonna be late

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oh henry what's all this i hear about

gabriel royston stealing your payroll

we'll have to wait and see

my god jim they've already had the child

i'm fine i'm guilty i need a drink

make sure you stay sober enough to walk

off well well it might not be a straight

line mine

do you believe it mom do i believe what

mary ellen

mr oyster do you think he took mr

mulcaster 300 sufferings well everybody

else seems to

ah

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why don't you look where you're going

why don't you learn to dance and then i

wouldn't have

i don't know where you get it from me

neither mom

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why this is it i've stepped back 15

years

now either i'm seeing things so that's

peter greenback

peter yeah

gin oh

hey and you're looking pretty than ever

why you've not changed a bit

and let me guess mary ellen lee the best

dancer in langley

who told you that why you all can't make

peace

and she said you teach already here in

extra no time

no i don't want to cause you to stand

there

not quite his father's son no i'm more

like his mother

but that's another story now i hear that

against all my advice

you still married to that scoundrel bill

he does so where is he

where'd you think

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you disappear 15 years ago with half the

lashes in the district after your blood

and you expect to pick it up as if

nothing had happened keep your voice

down bill the lad might hear you

jen harden still flies off the hand of

the mention of your name

hi well i'm not like that anymore bill

all i want now

is to see roddy's all right before i

find another ship well our mary allen

seems to take the shine and that's for

sure

well so does that mean you'd take them

on for the money i offered

oh i couldn't care less about the money

peter

it'd be good to have a ladder boat to

place again but

jane will have the last word same as

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always

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all right we'll take him gently i could

kiss you uh you better bloody not

take a load of salty peter i've always

had a soft spot for you despite your bad

habits

so just make sure he keeps up with his

drone will you and who knows

it might keep him out the mill oh i

jumps for fortnight and draw thing on

the ground around here you know

you've no romance in your soul billy

my mother warned me but i wouldn't

listen

oh well the lad looks dead on his feet

i'll see you tomorrow

maybe it was no bad thing you know him

going off to sea like you did

well mary ellen you're looking forward

to having another man about the house

don't oh mom hadn't really thought about

it

well considering you don't like girls

and you can't stand dancing

you seem to have spent most of the night

on your pins with mary ellen she didn't

give him much choice did she

da you will come home every weekend

won't you when winter sets in and you're

working on the docks

of course i will what's that duh

what i thought i saw something

in the trees there

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as i said boy

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that's deep enough take his legs

oh jesus

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and you've done for gabriel royston god

bless his soul

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what are you gonna do with the child

knife

do it no

do it i won't kill a child

now let's give his daughters to the same

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where are they

what they left before we did didn't they

about 10 o'clock

roger was worn out but mr greenbank was

in high good spirits

so they should have been back with you

by 11 at the latest

well i'm not seeing hiding a hair of

them and neither is anyone else

you know peter i do know peter and if

he's sleeping it off under the hedge he

shouldn't be

not with a bear roger's not a pancake

these days everyone under 30 is a ban to

me lass

i think i'll try by the quarry

although i doubt if even peter would be

daft enough to come home that way at

night

bye kids tell peter we'll expect him and

ready for supper

mary ellen if you've got something to

say no mom it's only

mr greenbank had drunken awful lot beer

hadn't he

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oh my god now

roddy rody

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help me somebody help me

help

keep them coming

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one

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oh my god oh my god

is he attached no but he's barely

breathing

getting round to my place lads

john hi down a langley and get your

broom in will ya

doctor i is gonna need your skills and

more

what about his da you look after roddy

leave peter to us go on kid

go unless

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godzilla

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peter

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i'm sorry kid he's a mess of

he must have brushed his head when he

fell take him inside

put him on the table shall i send for

gin no to help with the laying out lake

no no i'll attend to him myself and the

lad hi i'm the lad

i'll miss you peter

but i'll put your money to good use i

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promise

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i know our life's not fair huh but the

thing is you're going to make the best

of it believe you me you'll be better

off than evil hamilton in the workhouse

don't just stand there lad you're here

to work

no not a house you sleep in there

missed him peace peter

how's roddy

well the doctor says nothing's broken he

just won't wake up

can i see him mary ellen yes love go

upstairs

whatever happens i'm gonna look after

the lad myself

alrighty you are such a bunny dancer

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he's awake

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make peace remember case can't make

peace

well do you remember what happened at

the quarry when you fell

fell i don't know who are you

i don't know you where am i i don't know

what is it fella i was open langley

they were all talking what about

the boy he's not dead

welcome

we'll call it amnesia

it's a kind of forgetfulness caused in

his case by the knock on the head when

he fell

yes i know what it is and what caused it

what i want to know is how you're going

to cure it

i'm afraid i'm not there's no

treatment mrs maypiece his memory could

come back tomorrow

or not at all

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well there he's finished

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you look like a new man you should have

done it years ago

this is insane whiskers are not he's

gonna recognize you

so what will you do kill him and the old

woman on the spot

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mother of god

this was your dar's favorite you drew it

a few months ago

she was a fine looking lady wasn't she

oh she was lad

but you don't remember her

oh don't fret

time will heal the hurt and your memory

will come back dr brunton said it might

not

what then kate well

we'll start from scratch

we'll start out on a new road

who's that we'll start on a new road and

just go

anywhere you might have to become an

artist

or even a shipwright

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dan bannerman

i hardly recognized you

good family respects to people

why you weren't exactly the best of

friends

oh we had a moment that's all in the

basket

what's that right here

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what are you going to do with the child

do

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they won't kill a child

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no you can't the vicar's taking him to

lion the church because of the lad

oh the lord yeah how was he badly hurt i

hear

well you heard wrong he's all right

kid

yes lad i heard voices

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ready

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you all right lad of course it down

i'm done bannerman old friend of your

dars

you remember me land i don't know

i can't remember i can't remember

anything

how old are you roddy he's 11

why'd you ask i need a lad

to help with me woodsman so if you need

a start when you're feeling better here

i'll call it the church on my way home

he'll not work for you i'd rather put

him in the mine

or the smelt mill you know what's true

to say about you kit

you really are an old witch

well that i think it's time you went

back to bed i do remember kate

what what do you remember something

i remember something but i don't know

what it is

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i'd like to stay away from it

so

are you well harrison

i've lost my dad too

i'll be back in time for two the hours

you've been spending at kids these past

two months

you know it'll have to stop when you

start at the davisons i'm late

mary ellen it is just kid you want to

see isn't it

nothing to do with roddy

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sorry i'm late he's not here love

outwardly shadow us pause well abel

hamilton is working how

so hard he's barely got time to breathe

let alone run after roddy where is he

then

over the quarry

what about the nettles i've been cutting

nettles for more than 50 years less

i think i can manage it now

oh come on if you go

i bet you could draw this quarry with

your eyes shut

i keep thinking i'll make something

happen in my head mary ellen

but it doesn't i just want to know what

happened to my dad

you know roddy if i could i'd give you a

piece of me own memory

get office leave the lawn sounds like

house in trouble

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thanks we caught me by surprise

you know mary ellen alright

come on

don't worry fella one of them thinks his

father's in america

and the other one cannot even remember

his own name never mind who killed his

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dad

there's a scholarship scheme scholarship

i can't believe it

you go to art school oh this is

wonderful news

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i must go

my goddess caught her well dan

bannerman's daughter martha

it seems you have an eye for portraits

as well mr greenbank

and for a pretty girl

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roddy's got his eye on someone else

no all you've ever wanted is to possess

roddy

mind body and soul will he gone the

wrong way about it i hate you han ryson

do you hear me i've always hated you and

always shall

get it into your head marion i'm fond of

you but not in that way

leave gold my army take your hands off

my daughter

you don't frighten me you hear me

wow

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you