1 00:01:39,601 --> 00:01:41,895 What are these, little miss, hmm? 2 00:01:42,061 --> 00:01:45,732 Ha ha ha! Now the trick is to set your mind 3 00:01:45,899 --> 00:01:47,901 to do two things at once, 4 00:01:48,067 --> 00:01:51,029 like rubbing your tummy in a circle 5 00:01:51,196 --> 00:01:54,449 and patting your head with your other hand. 6 00:01:54,616 --> 00:01:58,077 It takes some learning, but bright girls like you 7 00:01:58,244 --> 00:02:00,622 should be able to do it in no time at all. 8 00:02:00,789 --> 00:02:01,623 We can do it! 9 00:02:01,790 --> 00:02:03,291 Of course you can! 10 00:02:03,458 --> 00:02:08,922 So can Laura. Now, shall we try "aunt rhody" again? 11 00:02:09,088 --> 00:02:09,881 Yes. 12 00:02:10,048 --> 00:02:10,840 Ready? 13 00:02:11,007 --> 00:02:13,468 ♪ Go tell aunt rhody ♪ 14 00:02:13,635 --> 00:02:15,970 ♪ Go tell aunt rhody ♪ 15 00:02:16,137 --> 00:02:18,264 ♪ Go tell aunt rhody ♪ 16 00:02:18,431 --> 00:02:20,558 ♪ Her old gray goose is dead ♪ 17 00:02:20,725 --> 00:02:22,977 Mary: ♪ she died last Friday ♪ 18 00:02:23,144 --> 00:02:26,397 ♪ She died last Friday ♪ 19 00:02:26,564 --> 00:02:28,733 ♪ She died last Friday ♪ 20 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:31,444 ♪ Behind the old barn shed ♪ 21 00:02:31,611 --> 00:02:34,072 ♪ The one she's been a-saving ♪ 22 00:02:34,239 --> 00:02:36,783 ♪ The one she's been a-saving ♪ 23 00:02:36,950 --> 00:02:39,118 ♪ The one she's been a-saving ♪ 24 00:02:39,285 --> 00:02:42,831 ♪ To make her feather bed ♪ 25 00:02:42,997 --> 00:02:44,290 Go on, Laura. 26 00:02:44,457 --> 00:02:46,626 I don't like to sing about dying. 27 00:02:46,793 --> 00:02:47,752 It's sad. 28 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,713 Woman: Nothing's so sad about dying. 29 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:51,923 I think it's sad. 30 00:02:52,090 --> 00:02:55,176 Well, when you get as close to it as I am, 31 00:02:55,343 --> 00:02:56,928 't'ain't sad. 32 00:02:57,095 --> 00:03:00,765 Just like finishing a book or a quilt 33 00:03:00,932 --> 00:03:02,976 or maybe a long trip down the river 34 00:03:03,142 --> 00:03:05,311 and then starting off somewhere else, 35 00:03:05,478 --> 00:03:08,982 maybe It'll be more fun than where you were before. Ha ha! 36 00:03:09,148 --> 00:03:10,984 How about "going to Boston"? 37 00:03:11,150 --> 00:03:12,068 Girls: Yeah. 38 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:13,903 All right now. Ready? 39 00:03:14,070 --> 00:03:16,406 ♪ Good-bye, girls, I'm going to Boston ♪ 40 00:03:16,573 --> 00:03:18,825 ♪ Good-bye, girls, I'm going to Boston ♪ 41 00:03:18,992 --> 00:03:22,328 ♪ Good-bye, girls, I'm going to Boston ♪ 42 00:03:22,495 --> 00:03:24,747 ♪ Early in the morning ♪ 43 00:03:24,914 --> 00:03:27,208 ♪ Won't we look pretty in the ballroom? ♪ 44 00:03:27,375 --> 00:03:29,711 ♪ Won't we look pretty in the ballroom? ♪ 45 00:03:29,878 --> 00:03:32,672 ♪ Won't we look pretty in the ballroom ♪ 46 00:03:32,839 --> 00:03:36,301 ♪ Early in the morning? ♪ 47 00:03:36,467 --> 00:03:39,012 Woman: We're of an age, almost to the day. 48 00:03:39,178 --> 00:03:40,680 You'd think we'd be more alike. 49 00:03:40,847 --> 00:03:43,057 Let loose on this a little bit, Amy. That's it. 50 00:03:43,224 --> 00:03:45,768 Now I can get it. There. 51 00:03:45,935 --> 00:03:47,854 Why would you and miss maddie be alike? 52 00:03:48,021 --> 00:03:51,024 Born 12 days apart under the same sign. 53 00:03:51,190 --> 00:03:52,942 Oh, I don't believe in that nonsense. 54 00:03:53,109 --> 00:03:55,028 "The soul of Patience," both of us, 55 00:03:55,194 --> 00:03:57,113 it says in the horology book. 56 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,698 Patience? You? 57 00:03:58,865 --> 00:04:00,867 How else could I live under the same roof for 8 years 58 00:04:01,034 --> 00:04:03,369 with a Kentucky presbyterian? 59 00:04:03,536 --> 00:04:07,874 Well, just maybe it was miss maddie had the Patience. 60 00:04:08,041 --> 00:04:08,875 You put your finger on it. 61 00:04:09,042 --> 00:04:10,168 If you take your finger off it, 62 00:04:10,335 --> 00:04:12,462 I'll hang it up on the wall. 63 00:04:12,629 --> 00:04:14,213 Patience she has... 64 00:04:14,380 --> 00:04:17,175 And the grace to let us do this for her. 65 00:04:17,342 --> 00:04:18,176 What, she knows? 66 00:04:18,343 --> 00:04:19,218 Of course she does. 67 00:04:19,385 --> 00:04:20,428 She wasn't behind the door 68 00:04:20,595 --> 00:04:23,348 when the good lord parceled out suspicion. 69 00:04:23,514 --> 00:04:25,683 I thought it was a pretty good story we made up: 70 00:04:25,850 --> 00:04:28,728 Laura and Mary wanting to learn to play the autoharp. 71 00:04:28,895 --> 00:04:31,814 Come on now, Charles. 72 00:04:31,981 --> 00:04:33,149 She didn't bat an eye. 73 00:04:33,232 --> 00:04:34,400 Of course she didn't. 74 00:04:34,567 --> 00:04:37,570 The joy of it is letting us surprise her. 75 00:04:37,737 --> 00:04:40,657 Not bad, if I do say it myself. 76 00:04:40,823 --> 00:04:43,076 One more will do it. 77 00:04:43,242 --> 00:04:44,577 Yeah, that old fox. 78 00:04:44,744 --> 00:04:46,704 I must say, she's a fine actress. 79 00:04:46,871 --> 00:04:52,168 The pity of it is, it might be close to her last performance. 80 00:04:52,335 --> 00:04:54,420 I wrote that to Eliza. 81 00:04:54,587 --> 00:04:55,463 Her daughter. 82 00:04:55,630 --> 00:04:57,799 Hmm, all she has left, 83 00:04:57,966 --> 00:05:01,928 with her son-in-law Tom and her 4 grandchildren. 84 00:05:02,095 --> 00:05:04,222 Her boys were killed in the war. 85 00:05:06,599 --> 00:05:08,810 She's a fine woman, Eliza. 86 00:05:08,977 --> 00:05:12,146 But like most children, she thinks upon a parent 87 00:05:12,313 --> 00:05:13,731 as a permanent fixture, 88 00:05:13,898 --> 00:05:15,775 a feature of the landscape that always was 89 00:05:15,942 --> 00:05:18,277 and always will be, time without end... 90 00:05:18,444 --> 00:05:19,988 Like a mountain or a rock. 91 00:05:20,154 --> 00:05:22,615 Pretty girl. 92 00:05:22,782 --> 00:05:26,786 That isn't Eliza. That's me Bridget and her two brothers. 93 00:05:26,953 --> 00:05:28,162 Well, I know that. 94 00:05:28,329 --> 00:05:29,998 She's still a pretty girl. Takes after her mother. 95 00:05:30,164 --> 00:05:32,542 Ha ha! Get on with ya. 96 00:05:35,378 --> 00:05:36,462 Come in. 97 00:05:37,964 --> 00:05:39,007 Anybody home? 98 00:05:39,173 --> 00:05:40,675 Amy: Come in, doctor. 99 00:05:40,842 --> 00:05:43,011 Wipe your feet. 100 00:05:43,177 --> 00:05:44,804 Oops. 101 00:05:49,350 --> 00:05:52,895 For maddie. Picked it up at the post office. 102 00:05:53,062 --> 00:05:55,314 Well, it looks like a party brewing. 103 00:05:55,481 --> 00:05:57,650 She'll be 80 years old today. 104 00:05:57,817 --> 00:06:00,486 Wish her a happy birthday for me... 105 00:06:00,653 --> 00:06:03,156 Unless, of course, I'm invited, 106 00:06:03,322 --> 00:06:05,283 in which case I'll do it myself. 107 00:06:05,450 --> 00:06:06,409 You're invited. 108 00:06:06,576 --> 00:06:07,535 I'll be there. 109 00:06:07,702 --> 00:06:09,203 Oh, it's a surprise. 110 00:06:09,370 --> 00:06:12,206 I know. Maddie told me. 111 00:06:13,291 --> 00:06:14,959 Ha ha! 112 00:06:21,382 --> 00:06:25,261 Another letter from Eliza. 113 00:06:25,428 --> 00:06:31,934 "Can't make it... too busy... Sorry." Like always. 114 00:06:35,063 --> 00:06:37,106 Should I take it out to her? 115 00:06:37,273 --> 00:06:40,777 Oh, no. 116 00:06:40,943 --> 00:06:43,154 She'll know about it soon enough. 117 00:06:45,114 --> 00:06:48,159 Hey... leastways, we're having a party. 118 00:06:49,077 --> 00:06:51,287 She won't want it now. 119 00:07:11,682 --> 00:07:14,393 Amy: It's all for the best. 120 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,770 They'll come on thanksgmng, 121 00:07:15,937 --> 00:07:18,564 and you'll be feeling better then. 122 00:07:18,731 --> 00:07:21,109 You'll be your old self for thanksgmng. 123 00:07:21,275 --> 00:07:23,903 You always perk up in the fall. 124 00:07:26,364 --> 00:07:29,033 We'll celebrate our birthdays together. 125 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,120 I'll bake a cake for the two of us. 126 00:07:32,286 --> 00:07:33,913 You're 12 days older than I am, 127 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,083 so you can blow out the candles. 128 00:07:37,250 --> 00:07:38,793 How will that be? 129 00:07:44,841 --> 00:07:48,928 Oh, children do have their own lives to live, you know. 130 00:07:49,095 --> 00:07:50,888 We lose sight of that. 131 00:07:51,055 --> 00:07:54,684 I remember when I was bringing up me own. 132 00:07:54,851 --> 00:07:57,186 Oh, such a time I had! 133 00:07:57,353 --> 00:08:00,648 I never gave a thought to me own mother. 134 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,780 I remember pulling me Sean out of a saloon 135 00:08:07,947 --> 00:08:11,784 when he was... Oh, 22, no less. 136 00:08:11,951 --> 00:08:14,954 And Bridget... gosh! 137 00:08:15,121 --> 00:08:17,498 We had it out, the two of us. 138 00:08:17,665 --> 00:08:21,043 When she was 16, she... She brought home 139 00:08:21,210 --> 00:08:26,465 a young blond bucko from a St. Patrick's day dance. 140 00:08:26,632 --> 00:08:29,468 I didn't approve of the gleam in his eye, 141 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:32,263 and I put an end to it then and there, 142 00:08:32,430 --> 00:08:35,975 and she didn't speak to me for a month. 143 00:08:36,142 --> 00:08:39,896 And Andy... Lord love him. 144 00:08:40,062 --> 00:08:42,064 He was a trial, that one. 145 00:08:42,231 --> 00:08:48,529 Lord knows where you went or what you're up to. 146 00:08:48,696 --> 00:08:52,742 Well, you can't eat your heart out over the young. 147 00:08:52,909 --> 00:08:54,911 The birds are out of the nest and on the wing 148 00:08:55,077 --> 00:08:57,538 and good riddance to them, 149 00:08:57,705 --> 00:09:00,249 and it's time you stopped thinking about Eliza 150 00:09:00,416 --> 00:09:02,335 and Terrance and... 151 00:09:13,596 --> 00:09:15,556 Maddie? 152 00:09:17,850 --> 00:09:21,229 Oh... 153 00:09:21,395 --> 00:09:22,980 Maddie. 154 00:09:26,025 --> 00:09:28,319 Reverend Alden: Lord... 155 00:09:28,486 --> 00:09:31,614 Be with us in this hour of sorrow, 156 00:09:31,781 --> 00:09:33,074 as we gather to mourn the passing 157 00:09:33,241 --> 00:09:36,244 of one who's touched all our lives, 158 00:09:36,410 --> 00:09:40,915 given without stint of her warmth and love and understanding, 159 00:09:41,082 --> 00:09:44,752 and asked nothing but we love her in return. 160 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:47,880 A great and noble lady was maddie elder. 161 00:09:48,047 --> 00:09:50,174 On this occasion... 162 00:09:50,341 --> 00:09:53,135 Don't you want to get closer? 163 00:09:53,302 --> 00:09:56,222 I can mourn better down here. 164 00:09:56,389 --> 00:09:59,141 She can hear me wherever she is. 165 00:09:59,308 --> 00:10:01,060 What are they doing? 166 00:10:01,227 --> 00:10:04,063 They're saying good-bye. 167 00:10:04,230 --> 00:10:07,358 What good does it do when she can't hear them? 168 00:10:07,525 --> 00:10:10,152 Laura: Why didn't they come to her birthday? 169 00:10:10,319 --> 00:10:12,238 You can miss a birthday, 170 00:10:12,405 --> 00:10:14,490 and nobody says much, 171 00:10:14,657 --> 00:10:17,201 but you can't miss a funeral. 172 00:10:17,368 --> 00:10:19,245 Why not? 173 00:10:19,412 --> 00:10:22,415 That's just the way grownups are. 174 00:10:22,581 --> 00:10:27,336 Hmm... ought to be the other way around. 175 00:10:27,503 --> 00:10:29,755 A lot of things in life 176 00:10:29,922 --> 00:10:32,758 ought to be the other way around. 177 00:10:32,925 --> 00:10:35,428 We ought to have our funerals while we're still alive 178 00:10:35,594 --> 00:10:38,347 so's we could say good-bye to everybody. 179 00:11:03,581 --> 00:11:07,752 Oh, thank you, Charles. 180 00:11:13,883 --> 00:11:16,635 It might be kind of lonely around here for a few days. 181 00:11:16,802 --> 00:11:17,887 Why don't you come stay with us? 182 00:11:18,054 --> 00:11:20,139 Oh, now, don't worry about me. 183 00:11:20,306 --> 00:11:22,266 I've got a lot to do. 184 00:11:22,433 --> 00:11:23,309 You sure? 185 00:11:23,476 --> 00:11:24,560 Sure. 186 00:11:24,727 --> 00:11:27,146 At my age, you get used to losing a friend 187 00:11:27,313 --> 00:11:29,190 every now and then. 188 00:11:29,357 --> 00:11:31,525 Thanks for the thought. 189 00:12:59,864 --> 00:13:02,283 Mary: Dear father in heaven, 190 00:13:02,450 --> 00:13:03,909 we thank thee. 191 00:13:04,076 --> 00:13:06,328 Bless this food to our use 192 00:13:06,495 --> 00:13:10,416 and our hearts to thy service. Amen. 193 00:13:10,583 --> 00:13:11,417 Charles: Amen. 194 00:13:11,584 --> 00:13:13,294 Laura: Amen. 195 00:13:13,461 --> 00:13:14,753 I saw Amy Hearn at the mercantile today. 196 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:15,963 How is she? 197 00:13:16,130 --> 00:13:17,965 Well, she insisted on settling up her bill 198 00:13:18,132 --> 00:13:21,427 as if she had some kind of premonition. 199 00:13:21,594 --> 00:13:23,137 She's got to have something to occupy her mind. 200 00:13:23,304 --> 00:13:26,015 It's not good for her being in that house by herself. 201 00:13:26,182 --> 00:13:27,975 I'll so see her. 202 00:13:28,142 --> 00:13:29,059 Me, too. 203 00:13:29,226 --> 00:13:30,519 One of you go tomorrow, 204 00:13:30,686 --> 00:13:31,937 the other go the next day. 205 00:13:32,104 --> 00:13:35,274 That way, she'll have two visits instead one. 206 00:13:35,441 --> 00:13:37,067 That's a good idea. 207 00:13:38,986 --> 00:13:40,821 Caroline: I made some pie crust cookies. 208 00:13:40,988 --> 00:13:42,740 Stop by with them on your way to school. 209 00:13:42,907 --> 00:13:44,116 If she wants to visit a little bit, 210 00:13:44,283 --> 00:13:46,035 don't be worried about being late for school. 211 00:13:46,202 --> 00:13:48,662 Maybe we can have her over for Sunday supper. 212 00:13:48,829 --> 00:13:50,039 Good. 213 00:13:50,206 --> 00:13:53,167 I like her. She talks to us like we're grownups. 214 00:13:53,334 --> 00:13:55,753 Because she hasn't seen you eat. 215 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:29,203 Pa! Pa! 216 00:14:30,329 --> 00:14:31,622 Half-pint, what's the matter? 217 00:14:31,789 --> 00:14:32,998 Miss... 218 00:14:33,165 --> 00:14:36,335 Just take it easy. What is it? 219 00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:39,255 Miss Amy... She's sick. 220 00:14:39,421 --> 00:14:43,217 Run on to school. I'll get doc Baker. 221 00:14:43,384 --> 00:14:45,636 Ahh... 222 00:14:45,803 --> 00:14:47,304 Boy: Ahh. 223 00:14:47,471 --> 00:14:50,766 Mmm. Sore? 224 00:14:50,933 --> 00:14:53,310 Can't talk at all? 225 00:14:53,477 --> 00:14:56,689 Just ahh. 226 00:14:56,855 --> 00:14:58,440 It came on all of a sudden. 227 00:14:58,607 --> 00:14:59,942 When? 228 00:15:00,109 --> 00:15:00,859 Monday. 229 00:15:01,026 --> 00:15:02,695 Hmm. He had it before? 230 00:15:02,861 --> 00:15:04,530 It happens all the time. 231 00:15:04,697 --> 00:15:10,327 Hmm. Well, I think we have a serious case of 5 day Quincy. 232 00:15:10,494 --> 00:15:13,372 It comes on Monday, leaves on Friday. 233 00:15:13,539 --> 00:15:14,999 That's right, doctor. 234 00:15:15,165 --> 00:15:16,417 Oh, that's nasty. 235 00:15:16,584 --> 00:15:18,752 Keeps an eager young fellow like this out of school. 236 00:15:20,045 --> 00:15:21,630 Doc, miss Amy's sick. 237 00:15:21,797 --> 00:15:22,590 Bad? 238 00:15:22,756 --> 00:15:24,049 I don't know. 239 00:15:29,346 --> 00:15:31,974 Give the lad castor oil every 4 hours. 240 00:15:32,141 --> 00:15:34,393 Gotta go, ma. I'll be late for school. 241 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:44,278 Hmm. 242 00:15:46,822 --> 00:15:49,158 You have pain, Amy? 243 00:15:49,325 --> 00:15:50,326 Mmm- 244 00:15:50,492 --> 00:15:52,036 where? 245 00:15:52,202 --> 00:15:54,747 In me arm. 246 00:15:54,913 --> 00:15:56,373 Bad? 247 00:15:59,627 --> 00:16:01,378 Water. 248 00:16:09,470 --> 00:16:13,057 Doggone it, Amy. I can't find anything wrong with you. 249 00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:15,017 Your temperature's normal. 250 00:16:15,184 --> 00:16:17,770 Your pulse isn't great, but it isn't bad either 251 00:16:17,936 --> 00:16:19,813 for a woman your age. 252 00:16:22,358 --> 00:16:26,654 Doc... charles... 253 00:16:30,824 --> 00:16:33,118 Promise me... 254 00:16:33,285 --> 00:16:34,787 Anything, Amy. 255 00:16:34,953 --> 00:16:36,413 Me funeral... 256 00:16:36,580 --> 00:16:40,501 Now, I don't want you to start talking like that, all right? 257 00:16:40,668 --> 00:16:42,795 You'll take care of it... 258 00:16:42,961 --> 00:16:46,131 The wake, the funeral? 259 00:16:46,298 --> 00:16:47,174 There's not going to be 260 00:16:47,341 --> 00:16:48,967 a wake or a funeral 261 00:16:49,134 --> 00:16:52,137 because you're not going to die. 262 00:16:52,304 --> 00:16:56,684 No blarney, doc. Not now. 263 00:16:58,143 --> 00:17:01,480 Promise me you'll wire my children: 264 00:17:01,647 --> 00:17:06,610 Sean, Bridget, Andy. 265 00:17:06,777 --> 00:17:10,656 I don't know if Andy's alive or dead, 266 00:17:10,823 --> 00:17:13,701 but try to find him. 267 00:17:13,867 --> 00:17:15,619 Promise me. 268 00:17:19,206 --> 00:17:21,709 I promise, Amy. 269 00:17:21,875 --> 00:17:24,962 And the wake... 270 00:17:25,129 --> 00:17:30,092 You'll get the priest from mankato... 271 00:17:30,259 --> 00:17:33,137 Charles? 272 00:17:33,303 --> 00:17:35,264 Anything you want. 273 00:17:35,431 --> 00:17:36,890 You promise. 274 00:17:38,183 --> 00:17:40,561 I promise. 275 00:17:40,728 --> 00:17:42,104 It's settled, then. 276 00:17:42,271 --> 00:17:47,359 The wake will be on Wednesday, on me birthday. 277 00:17:47,526 --> 00:17:51,155 That should be a fine day for the wake, don't you think? 278 00:17:52,364 --> 00:17:54,366 Amy, I never put a woman, 279 00:17:54,533 --> 00:17:56,910 much less an 80-year-old woman, over my knee, 280 00:17:57,077 --> 00:17:59,455 but you're coming close to being the first. 281 00:17:59,621 --> 00:18:01,039 Oh, come on, Dr. Baker. 282 00:18:01,206 --> 00:18:02,291 Surely you understand why... 283 00:18:02,458 --> 00:18:04,126 I surely don't understand. 284 00:18:04,293 --> 00:18:06,670 I don't understand either. I don't think it's funny, Amy. 285 00:18:06,837 --> 00:18:08,505 It wasn't meant to be funny. 286 00:18:08,672 --> 00:18:10,716 It was meant purely and simply 287 00:18:10,883 --> 00:18:12,718 to bring me children and me grandchildren to me 288 00:18:12,885 --> 00:18:17,055 for the first time in more years than I'd like to count. 289 00:18:17,222 --> 00:18:20,976 I saw the light when poor maddie passed over. 290 00:18:21,143 --> 00:18:22,728 Rest her soul. 291 00:18:22,895 --> 00:18:25,773 Amy Hearn, you're going to have to take 292 00:18:25,939 --> 00:18:27,816 your business elsewhere. 293 00:18:27,983 --> 00:18:31,028 I'm not going to be a part of this kind of... 294 00:18:31,195 --> 00:18:32,738 Deception! 295 00:18:32,905 --> 00:18:33,739 Charles? 296 00:18:33,906 --> 00:18:35,574 Amy, you can't be serious. 297 00:18:35,741 --> 00:18:40,496 I want to see me children and my grandchildren before I pass over... 298 00:18:40,662 --> 00:18:43,499 An altogether serious matter, Charles Ingalls, 299 00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:45,834 even if you don't think so. 300 00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:49,254 It's an idiotic convention of the grownup world 301 00:18:49,421 --> 00:18:52,925 that your loved ones only come to see you when you're dead 302 00:18:53,091 --> 00:18:56,428 instead of when you can... Oh, hold them 303 00:18:56,595 --> 00:18:59,097 and love them and talk to them. 304 00:18:59,264 --> 00:19:03,268 And I'm going to change that idiotic custom. 305 00:19:03,435 --> 00:19:05,521 Amy, you're not going to talk me into... 306 00:19:05,687 --> 00:19:07,064 Why not, pray tell? 307 00:19:07,231 --> 00:19:10,025 You're asking me to wire your children you're dead! 308 00:19:10,192 --> 00:19:12,694 But you'd wire them if I was dead, wouldn't you? 309 00:19:12,861 --> 00:19:14,321 Of course I would. 310 00:19:14,488 --> 00:19:17,866 Then why? Why would you please me ghost 311 00:19:18,033 --> 00:19:19,868 instead of me flesh and blood? 312 00:19:20,035 --> 00:19:22,120 Amy, it isn't that. 313 00:19:22,287 --> 00:19:24,581 In the name of heaven, what is it? 314 00:19:24,748 --> 00:19:26,250 You're like me children... 315 00:19:26,416 --> 00:19:29,545 A dutiful letter once or twice a year: 316 00:19:29,711 --> 00:19:32,965 "Do you have money, mother? Do you lack for anything? 317 00:19:33,131 --> 00:19:34,967 Is there anything you want?" 318 00:19:35,133 --> 00:19:39,471 And I write them back, "all I lack is you. 319 00:19:39,638 --> 00:19:43,267 When can you come and visit me?" 320 00:19:43,433 --> 00:19:47,646 And Andy marched off to war when he was 19, 321 00:19:47,813 --> 00:19:50,482 with a smile and a whistle 322 00:19:50,649 --> 00:19:53,151 and a last hug and a kiss. 323 00:19:53,318 --> 00:19:57,030 And in 15 years, I've not had a word from him. 324 00:20:00,033 --> 00:20:05,038 They'll come to me funeral because it's a sin not to. 325 00:20:05,205 --> 00:20:08,959 And they'll weep and say all the things 326 00:20:09,126 --> 00:20:11,128 I'll not be there to hear. 327 00:20:13,463 --> 00:20:16,466 And you, both of you, 328 00:20:16,633 --> 00:20:19,386 you're the same. 329 00:20:19,553 --> 00:20:23,473 You'd do for me corpse but not for me. 330 00:20:25,851 --> 00:20:28,896 Amy, I-.I.. 331 00:20:31,398 --> 00:20:32,733 Charles? 332 00:20:37,529 --> 00:20:38,864 Doc? 333 00:20:41,867 --> 00:20:43,368 It's settled, then. 334 00:20:43,535 --> 00:20:46,246 Notify the children and the priest at mankato, 335 00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:48,624 and, Charles, you take charge of the preparations. 336 00:20:48,790 --> 00:20:51,376 Now, come on, come on, come on, come on. 337 00:20:56,048 --> 00:20:58,008 Amy: There's plenty of money in the till, 338 00:20:58,175 --> 00:21:00,218 and I'll be here to advise you. 339 00:21:00,385 --> 00:21:02,054 There'll be BlackBerry wine, 340 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:05,390 chicken and ham and potato salad, 341 00:21:05,557 --> 00:21:07,768 and a birthday cake with a candle on it. 342 00:21:07,935 --> 00:21:11,396 Now, you'd do well to get the wires off right away. 343 00:21:11,563 --> 00:21:13,899 The priest at mankato is new, I understand, 344 00:21:14,066 --> 00:21:16,860 but the parish will have the records of me children. 345 00:21:17,027 --> 00:21:18,987 Now, off with you. 346 00:21:23,075 --> 00:21:26,870 Remember, Charles, don't spare the expense: 347 00:21:27,037 --> 00:21:29,748 A first-class wake. 348 00:21:29,915 --> 00:21:32,334 Yes, ma'am. 349 00:21:32,501 --> 00:21:34,169 What do I say you died of? 350 00:21:34,336 --> 00:21:37,297 I'm 80 years old on Wednesday. 351 00:21:37,464 --> 00:21:40,175 Surely you can think of something. 352 00:21:41,259 --> 00:21:42,427 You what?! 353 00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:49,351 I told you, Caroline. Miss Amy's going to die on Monday, 354 00:21:49,518 --> 00:21:51,645 and I have to handle the wake. 355 00:21:51,812 --> 00:21:53,855 Charles, you're not serious. 356 00:21:54,022 --> 00:21:55,941 I know it's unusual. 357 00:21:56,108 --> 00:21:59,027 Unusual? Unusual's not the word. 358 00:21:59,194 --> 00:22:02,072 Why, it's... It's... 359 00:22:03,991 --> 00:22:05,450 Charles, will you stop that, please? 360 00:22:05,617 --> 00:22:07,035 This is out of the question. 361 00:22:07,202 --> 00:22:10,831 I want you to go over, and I want you to explain it to her. 362 00:22:10,998 --> 00:22:11,832 Caroline, I am not going to go over 363 00:22:11,999 --> 00:22:13,208 and tell an 80-year-old woman 364 00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:14,751 that I'm going back on my promise to her. 365 00:22:14,918 --> 00:22:16,586 I can't do that. 366 00:22:16,753 --> 00:22:19,381 All right, then, if you can't face her... 367 00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:23,176 Charles! 368 00:22:23,343 --> 00:22:26,513 I'll go and talk to her. 369 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,765 Well, somebody has to. 370 00:22:28,932 --> 00:22:31,935 We simply can't let her go through with this... 371 00:22:32,102 --> 00:22:34,354 This... plan. 372 00:22:35,814 --> 00:22:38,650 Well, by now, she's probably thought better 373 00:22:38,817 --> 00:22:42,029 of the whole idea anyway. Ha ha! 374 00:22:53,582 --> 00:22:54,875 Mary? 375 00:22:58,003 --> 00:23:00,005 Mary. 376 00:23:00,172 --> 00:23:03,008 What? 377 00:23:03,175 --> 00:23:05,093 How long do you want to live to be? 378 00:23:05,260 --> 00:23:08,722 Oh, I don't know. Let me sleep. 379 00:23:08,889 --> 00:23:10,474 I want to live forever. 380 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,601 Well, you can't. 381 00:23:12,768 --> 00:23:14,352 Who said? 382 00:23:14,519 --> 00:23:16,730 God. 383 00:23:16,897 --> 00:23:18,982 God never told you that. 384 00:23:19,149 --> 00:23:21,735 Will you go to sleep? 385 00:23:25,363 --> 00:23:28,116 That's what it's like. 386 00:23:28,283 --> 00:23:31,119 That's what what's like? 387 00:23:31,286 --> 00:23:32,662 Going to sleep. 388 00:23:32,829 --> 00:23:38,001 When you go to sleep, it's like you're dead. 389 00:23:38,168 --> 00:23:39,878 Good night. 390 00:24:52,951 --> 00:24:54,953 Was she very disappointed? 391 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:57,164 No. 392 00:24:57,330 --> 00:24:59,624 How did you manage to do it? 393 00:25:01,334 --> 00:25:03,003 I'm baking the cake. 394 00:25:37,078 --> 00:25:38,205 Mark my words. 395 00:25:38,371 --> 00:25:41,333 Uh-huh. You know what free silver means. 396 00:25:41,499 --> 00:25:42,834 Inflation! 397 00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:46,379 All I know is, I'd rather have a silver dollar 398 00:25:46,546 --> 00:25:47,714 than a piece of paper. 399 00:25:47,881 --> 00:25:49,925 Get those big clodhoppers off of there. 400 00:25:50,091 --> 00:25:51,551 You know what the difference is? 401 00:25:51,718 --> 00:25:54,054 You got 100 silver dollars in your pocket, 402 00:25:54,221 --> 00:25:57,182 and you fall into a river, you drown. 403 00:25:57,349 --> 00:25:59,017 That is the only difference. 404 00:25:59,184 --> 00:26:00,602 Huh. 405 00:26:00,769 --> 00:26:02,145 Laura: Doc Baker? 406 00:26:02,312 --> 00:26:04,356 Oh, afternoon, Laura, Mary. 407 00:26:04,522 --> 00:26:07,025 How's miss Amy getting along? 408 00:26:07,192 --> 00:26:09,236 She ailing? 409 00:26:09,402 --> 00:26:11,738 Sort of. 410 00:26:11,905 --> 00:26:14,699 But she's going to get all better, isn't she, doctor? 411 00:26:14,866 --> 00:26:19,079 We... I mean, I surely hope so. 412 00:26:20,372 --> 00:26:21,539 Bye! Bye! 413 00:26:21,706 --> 00:26:23,041 Bye. 414 00:26:27,754 --> 00:26:29,589 That's a fine old lady. 415 00:26:29,756 --> 00:26:33,551 You know, I had a feeling that there was something wrong when... 416 00:26:33,718 --> 00:26:36,429 Excuse me, oleson. Got to be going. 417 00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:40,433 Hmm. 418 00:26:45,397 --> 00:26:48,233 Amy, just throw in a couple of extra... 419 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,235 You know, whatchamacallits. 420 00:26:50,402 --> 00:26:52,779 You won't be staying long. 421 00:26:54,656 --> 00:26:56,449 It's all clear. 422 00:27:39,451 --> 00:27:42,620 I wonder how come we don't have wakes at our church. 423 00:27:42,787 --> 00:27:45,040 'Cause it's fun, and if it's fun, it's sinful. 424 00:27:45,206 --> 00:27:46,082 Who says? 425 00:27:46,249 --> 00:27:48,293 You just get a feeling about it. 426 00:27:59,637 --> 00:28:00,847 Afternoon. 427 00:28:01,014 --> 00:28:02,015 Both: Afternoon. 428 00:28:02,182 --> 00:28:02,974 Lovely day. 429 00:28:03,141 --> 00:28:04,434 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 430 00:28:04,601 --> 00:28:06,644 I'm father gorman from mankato. 431 00:28:06,811 --> 00:28:09,230 I wonder if you could direct me to the Ingalls' place? 432 00:28:09,397 --> 00:28:13,485 Uh, if you please excuse me, I have to go. 433 00:28:18,907 --> 00:28:22,702 That's my sister Laura. She's shy. 434 00:28:34,214 --> 00:28:37,092 That's the girl. 435 00:28:37,258 --> 00:28:39,427 Amy: He was a caution, I'll tell you. 436 00:28:39,594 --> 00:28:40,678 That was Andy. 437 00:28:40,845 --> 00:28:43,973 The most exasperating, infuriating, 438 00:28:44,140 --> 00:28:46,518 excruciating child the lord ever made, 439 00:28:46,684 --> 00:28:48,853 and yet, he'd look at you 440 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:50,230 with the devil in his eyes, 441 00:28:50,397 --> 00:28:53,650 and he'd have you in the palm of his hand. 442 00:28:53,817 --> 00:28:57,112 He could talk a serpent out of a tree, that one. 443 00:28:57,278 --> 00:28:58,696 Ha ha ha! 444 00:28:58,863 --> 00:29:01,616 And now, it's time for your nap. 445 00:29:03,701 --> 00:29:05,203 Sleepy-bye. 446 00:29:05,370 --> 00:29:06,704 Sleepy-bye. 447 00:29:06,871 --> 00:29:08,123 Sleepy-bye. 448 00:29:10,375 --> 00:29:12,001 Pa! 449 00:29:17,841 --> 00:29:21,136 Pa! Pa! The priest is here! 450 00:29:27,892 --> 00:29:29,352 Father gorman! 451 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:31,104 Come back here. 452 00:29:31,271 --> 00:29:32,939 He's not due here till tomorrow. 453 00:29:33,106 --> 00:29:34,566 Well, he's here today. 454 00:29:34,732 --> 00:29:36,609 Stay back there with miss Amy. 455 00:30:02,260 --> 00:30:04,762 This is father gorman from mankato. 456 00:30:04,929 --> 00:30:06,097 Father, I'm Charles Ingalls. 457 00:30:06,264 --> 00:30:07,182 This is my wife Caroline. 458 00:30:07,348 --> 00:30:08,183 Hi. How are you? 459 00:30:08,349 --> 00:30:09,142 How do you do? 460 00:30:09,309 --> 00:30:10,310 Of course, you met Mary. 461 00:30:10,477 --> 00:30:11,895 My, all the good smells. 462 00:30:12,061 --> 00:30:13,646 We haven't had much experience giving a wake, 463 00:30:13,813 --> 00:30:15,356 but we're doing our best. 464 00:30:15,523 --> 00:30:18,067 Father, won't you make yourself more comfortable? 465 00:30:18,234 --> 00:30:20,820 I won't be staying long, Mrs. Ingalls. 466 00:30:25,783 --> 00:30:27,410 Just want to assure you that I am here 467 00:30:27,577 --> 00:30:30,538 and will do whatever's required of me. 468 00:30:30,705 --> 00:30:33,708 I haven't had much experience with wakes either. 469 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:36,628 I'm very new at this, just recently out of the seminary. 470 00:30:36,794 --> 00:30:38,171 Hmm. 471 00:30:48,973 --> 00:30:50,767 I didn't know Mrs. Hearn, but... 472 00:30:50,934 --> 00:30:52,435 Rest her soul... 473 00:30:52,602 --> 00:30:53,895 But my predecessor, father Kelly, 474 00:30:54,062 --> 00:30:55,688 knew her very well. 475 00:30:58,107 --> 00:31:00,902 I understand she's a glorious woman. 476 00:31:01,069 --> 00:31:03,363 Oh, she... she was. 477 00:31:05,156 --> 00:31:09,035 I thought perhaps you might fill me in a little on Mrs. Hearn... 478 00:31:09,202 --> 00:31:12,121 Her life and friends here in walnut grove. 479 00:31:12,288 --> 00:31:14,165 It'll help me quite a bit with my eulogy. 480 00:31:14,332 --> 00:31:19,170 Uh, father, I... 481 00:31:19,337 --> 00:31:21,714 I really don't think I can. 482 00:31:23,675 --> 00:31:25,885 I think I can probably help you, father. 483 00:31:27,262 --> 00:31:30,014 Well, she came here a long time ago, I understand. 484 00:31:30,181 --> 00:31:32,350 Yes, a very long time ago. 485 00:31:32,517 --> 00:31:36,020 Really, a much longer time ago than we came here. 486 00:31:36,187 --> 00:31:39,899 And she and Mrs. Elder... Both of them widows? 487 00:31:40,066 --> 00:31:42,860 Yes, they both... They were both widows. 488 00:31:43,027 --> 00:31:46,531 Charles, I really don't think we can. 489 00:31:46,698 --> 00:31:48,700 Father... 490 00:31:48,866 --> 00:31:49,826 Oh, how are you? 491 00:31:49,993 --> 00:31:53,288 I'd like a word with you... 492 00:31:53,454 --> 00:31:56,249 Outside, where we can be private. 493 00:31:56,416 --> 00:31:59,043 Oh, certainly. 494 00:31:59,210 --> 00:32:01,004 Excuse me. 495 00:32:09,178 --> 00:32:12,265 Thank goodness she's finally come to her senses. 496 00:32:39,626 --> 00:32:41,419 I hope he won't be too angry 497 00:32:41,586 --> 00:32:43,796 coming all that way for nothing. 498 00:32:58,770 --> 00:33:01,147 Guess we won't need that. 499 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,991 You might as well have the icing. 500 00:33:22,669 --> 00:33:24,837 They're coming back. 501 00:33:42,397 --> 00:33:44,065 Thank you. 502 00:33:44,232 --> 00:33:46,776 Thank you so much for telling me about her. 503 00:33:46,943 --> 00:33:50,488 It'll be an honor to attend a wake for such a magnificent woman. 504 00:33:53,574 --> 00:33:56,369 Oh, my thanks to you, too. 505 00:33:56,536 --> 00:33:58,496 You've been a great help. 506 00:34:00,498 --> 00:34:04,335 Well... see you at the wake. 507 00:34:08,464 --> 00:34:10,842 God love you, miss O'Hara. 508 00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:23,020 Charles: Miss o'ha... Miss O'Hara? 509 00:34:24,230 --> 00:34:26,065 Me maiden name. 510 00:34:26,232 --> 00:34:30,862 After all, it would be a sin to deceive a priest. 511 00:34:33,156 --> 00:34:35,450 Now, let's get on with it. 512 00:34:35,616 --> 00:34:39,829 The very least I could do is lend a hand with the wake. 513 00:34:41,414 --> 00:34:45,126 After all, I'm the deceased. 514 00:35:03,269 --> 00:35:04,604 Oh, my. 515 00:35:04,771 --> 00:35:07,982 Woman: Look at her. She's got her thumb in it. Ha ha! 516 00:35:08,149 --> 00:35:09,692 Well... 517 00:35:10,777 --> 00:35:12,028 Any sign of them? 518 00:35:12,195 --> 00:35:13,237 They're still at Dr. Baker's, 519 00:35:13,404 --> 00:35:14,405 changing their clothes. 520 00:35:14,572 --> 00:35:15,907 Pa says they'll be here any minute. 521 00:35:16,073 --> 00:35:17,575 All right. Now, let me know the minute they get here. 522 00:35:17,742 --> 00:35:18,493 Ok. 523 00:35:18,659 --> 00:35:19,577 I'll go watch out for them. 524 00:35:19,744 --> 00:35:21,537 Caroline: Good. 525 00:35:21,704 --> 00:35:22,872 Laura-. 526 00:35:29,462 --> 00:35:34,926 Well, ooh... Is that what I think it is? 527 00:35:35,092 --> 00:35:38,888 She's 80 today... Or she would have been. 528 00:35:39,055 --> 00:35:40,431 Well... 529 00:35:40,598 --> 00:35:42,809 Glorious woman, Mrs. Hearn. 530 00:35:42,975 --> 00:35:44,560 I wish I'd known her. 531 00:35:44,727 --> 00:35:48,940 But a, um, birthday cake at this kind of a... 532 00:35:49,106 --> 00:35:50,358 Her friend explained it. 533 00:35:50,525 --> 00:35:52,360 This is the way Mrs. Hearn would have wanted it: 534 00:35:52,527 --> 00:35:54,362 To think of this as not a wake, 535 00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:56,239 but as a birthday party. 536 00:35:56,405 --> 00:36:01,911 Well, still, I don't know if I understand. 537 00:36:02,078 --> 00:36:05,164 I can almost feel her presence in this room. 538 00:36:07,458 --> 00:36:10,461 I know what you mean, father. 539 00:36:10,628 --> 00:36:11,879 Excuse me a minute, please. 540 00:36:12,046 --> 00:36:13,840 Oh, um, uh... 541 00:36:36,112 --> 00:36:37,905 They'll be here any minute. 542 00:36:38,072 --> 00:36:39,657 Are the guests having a good time? 543 00:36:39,824 --> 00:36:42,451 They were all very fond of you. 544 00:36:42,618 --> 00:36:49,333 Oh. Well, it's time I joined me party. 545 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,847 A strange look in her eye the last time I saw her. 546 00:37:03,014 --> 00:37:07,018 Insisted upon paying her bill before the first of the month. 547 00:37:08,644 --> 00:37:11,856 Hmm. Now, who could that be? 548 00:37:13,232 --> 00:37:15,526 Father gorman: Oh, an old friend, 549 00:37:15,693 --> 00:37:18,613 been close to Amy Hearn for a long time. 550 00:37:49,810 --> 00:37:51,479 They're here. 551 00:37:51,646 --> 00:37:53,397 Hanson: They're here! 552 00:37:53,564 --> 00:37:54,857 Woman: You mean Amy... 553 00:37:55,024 --> 00:37:56,609 Bridget! 554 00:37:56,776 --> 00:37:59,403 Bridget! 555 00:37:59,570 --> 00:38:03,574 Hanson, it's so good to see you. 556 00:38:03,741 --> 00:38:06,035 Oh, Ruth. Oh, my goodness. 557 00:38:06,202 --> 00:38:08,329 Amy would be so happy you could get here. 558 00:38:08,496 --> 00:38:09,330 Excuse us just a minute. 559 00:38:09,497 --> 00:38:10,498 Father gorman's over here. 560 00:38:10,665 --> 00:38:12,416 Thank you so much. Come, children. 561 00:38:12,583 --> 00:38:15,002 Oh, yes, how are you? 562 00:38:15,169 --> 00:38:17,088 This is Amy's daughter Bridget. Father gorman. 563 00:38:17,254 --> 00:38:18,756 I'm so happy. 564 00:38:18,923 --> 00:38:21,258 I'm so glad you could be here. 565 00:38:29,141 --> 00:38:31,769 I can see why you're proud of your grandchildren. 566 00:38:31,936 --> 00:38:34,522 That's Dennis, the big one, 567 00:38:34,689 --> 00:38:37,274 and Maureen, same as your daughter she'd be, 568 00:38:37,441 --> 00:38:40,903 and the little one's Freddy. 569 00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:41,821 Sean! 570 00:38:41,988 --> 00:38:43,239 Mr. Hearn, Mr. Hanson. 571 00:38:43,406 --> 00:38:46,492 Sean I know him since he was a little boy. 572 00:38:46,659 --> 00:38:47,743 He used to work for me. 573 00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:49,120 That's been a long time now, though. 574 00:38:49,286 --> 00:38:51,330 You want to come and work again tomorrow? 575 00:38:51,497 --> 00:38:52,873 If things keep going the way they are, 576 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:54,125 I'll be back next week. 577 00:38:54,291 --> 00:38:55,126 Charles: Sean. 578 00:38:55,292 --> 00:38:56,335 I'll look for you. 579 00:38:56,502 --> 00:38:57,628 Sean, I'd like you to meet the father. 580 00:38:57,795 --> 00:38:58,796 Excuse me. 581 00:38:58,963 --> 00:39:02,508 Ja. I know him since he was little. 582 00:39:02,675 --> 00:39:07,054 Hanson: Doctor? You are all right? 583 00:39:07,221 --> 00:39:09,640 Yes. It's just a little warm. 584 00:39:09,807 --> 00:39:12,518 Charles: Father, I'd like you to meet Sean. 585 00:39:12,685 --> 00:39:13,978 That's father gorman. 586 00:39:14,145 --> 00:39:15,438 How are you? 587 00:39:45,718 --> 00:39:47,595 You have wakes in mankato? 588 00:39:47,762 --> 00:39:49,096 Not like this. 589 00:39:49,263 --> 00:39:50,723 Neither do we. 590 00:39:50,890 --> 00:39:51,932 Do you got a grandma? 591 00:39:52,099 --> 00:39:53,601 Back east in Wisconsin. 592 00:39:53,768 --> 00:39:54,727 Ever see her? 593 00:39:54,894 --> 00:39:56,562 Not for a long time. 594 00:39:58,856 --> 00:40:01,942 How long is this going to go on? 595 00:40:02,109 --> 00:40:04,070 It's up to her. 596 00:40:08,908 --> 00:40:12,745 Oh... mmm... hi. Nice evening. 597 00:40:34,016 --> 00:40:37,311 Sean: Flanagan... Flanagan's window. 598 00:40:37,478 --> 00:40:38,395 Across the street. 599 00:40:38,562 --> 00:40:40,231 No, no, no. That was Flynn. 600 00:40:40,397 --> 00:40:42,733 Flanagan was 3 doors down. 601 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:44,401 Ah, yes. Ha! 602 00:40:44,568 --> 00:40:47,363 35 cents to have it fixed. 603 00:40:47,530 --> 00:40:51,075 She thought it was Andy threw that baseball. 604 00:40:51,242 --> 00:40:52,493 He told her he did it. 605 00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:53,994 He took the blame. 606 00:40:54,161 --> 00:40:55,996 Knowing he wouldn't be punished. 607 00:40:56,163 --> 00:40:58,249 Ah, he had a way with her. 608 00:40:58,415 --> 00:41:00,876 And with me. He did it for me. 609 00:41:01,043 --> 00:41:05,256 He knew I didn't have that 35 cents. 610 00:41:05,422 --> 00:41:07,842 You weren't fooling me, Sean. 611 00:41:08,008 --> 00:41:10,344 I saw it all. 612 00:41:10,511 --> 00:41:11,929 Why is it, I wonder, 613 00:41:12,096 --> 00:41:15,933 that you never know what they mean to you 614 00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:18,936 until after they're gone? 615 00:41:19,103 --> 00:41:22,606 It's hard to believe we'll never see her again. 616 00:41:22,773 --> 00:41:25,609 Ha ha! "Wipe your feet, Sean." 617 00:41:25,776 --> 00:41:30,406 Ha! If there's one thing I'll remember about her, it's that. 618 00:41:30,573 --> 00:41:33,117 "Wipe your feet." 619 00:41:33,284 --> 00:41:35,995 She was telling me that till I was 30. 620 00:41:36,162 --> 00:41:39,623 I was nose-to-nose with her more than I like to remember. 621 00:41:39,790 --> 00:41:41,500 Ha ha! You were. 622 00:41:41,667 --> 00:41:45,379 The blond boy you brought home from the dance. 623 00:41:45,546 --> 00:41:47,548 Oh, I was ready to leave home! 624 00:41:47,715 --> 00:41:50,259 I thought the world had ended. Ha ha ha! 625 00:41:50,426 --> 00:41:51,886 When she got that set to her jaw, 626 00:41:52,052 --> 00:41:55,472 she was like Phil Sheridan leading a charge. 627 00:41:55,639 --> 00:41:58,559 Oh, for years I'd never admit it to her. 628 00:41:58,726 --> 00:42:00,144 The blond boy? 629 00:42:00,311 --> 00:42:06,025 She was right, so everlastingly right. 630 00:42:10,988 --> 00:42:13,490 I wasn't so sure myself. 631 00:42:20,998 --> 00:42:24,251 Well, I understand you were her doctor. 632 00:42:25,502 --> 00:42:26,503 Hmm? 633 00:42:26,670 --> 00:42:30,591 Um, you were her doctor, I understand? 634 00:42:30,758 --> 00:42:32,051 Oh, yes, father. 635 00:42:32,218 --> 00:42:34,136 Ah. 636 00:42:34,303 --> 00:42:38,849 Well, I trust she came to a peaceful end. 637 00:42:39,016 --> 00:42:42,394 Nothing about Amy Hearn was peaceful. 638 00:42:43,729 --> 00:42:45,773 Aw, Sean, it would be wonderful. 639 00:42:45,940 --> 00:42:47,524 I'd like it. You know, I'd put him to work, 640 00:42:47,691 --> 00:42:49,235 I'll tell you. I... 641 00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:54,531 Saints be praised. 642 00:42:54,698 --> 00:42:56,867 He's come home. 643 00:42:59,536 --> 00:43:00,704 Oh! 644 00:43:00,871 --> 00:43:02,039 Bridget? 645 00:43:02,206 --> 00:43:05,709 Andy! Oh! 646 00:43:05,876 --> 00:43:07,378 Oh! 647 00:43:07,544 --> 00:43:09,046 Oh, Andy. 648 00:43:09,213 --> 00:43:12,716 Andy! How long has it been? 649 00:43:12,883 --> 00:43:15,302 Too long. Too long! 650 00:43:15,469 --> 00:43:17,096 Oh, you... Ha ha! 651 00:43:17,263 --> 00:43:18,597 Here, let me look at you. 652 00:43:18,764 --> 00:43:21,058 Oh, you look so handsome! 653 00:43:21,225 --> 00:43:25,271 And you... what a fine figure of a woman you are. 654 00:43:27,064 --> 00:43:29,733 What a pity it is it took something like this 655 00:43:29,900 --> 00:43:31,610 to bring us together again. 656 00:43:33,654 --> 00:43:36,115 Amen to that! 657 00:43:42,746 --> 00:43:43,998 Miss O'Hara. 658 00:43:44,164 --> 00:43:47,001 Miss O'Hara, an old friend of Amy Hearn. 659 00:43:53,674 --> 00:43:55,259 Mother. 660 00:43:56,427 --> 00:43:58,053 Did he call her mother? 661 00:43:58,220 --> 00:44:01,140 What in the name of common sense? 662 00:44:01,307 --> 00:44:03,559 I'll get to you later. 663 00:44:03,726 --> 00:44:06,895 Let me deal with this one first. 664 00:44:07,062 --> 00:44:10,983 You miserable, ungrateful spalpeen, you! 665 00:44:11,150 --> 00:44:13,235 All these years I'm thinking you're dead, 666 00:44:13,402 --> 00:44:18,490 killed in the Indian wars or stone river or Shiloh. 667 00:44:18,657 --> 00:44:21,285 How could you do this to me, Andy? 668 00:44:21,452 --> 00:44:23,704 How could you forget your own mother? 669 00:44:23,871 --> 00:44:26,206 15 years of hurt and worry, 670 00:44:26,373 --> 00:44:28,959 waiting for a letter from the war department, 671 00:44:29,126 --> 00:44:31,295 and not a move do you make 672 00:44:31,462 --> 00:44:35,966 until you think I'm dead and gone. 673 00:44:36,133 --> 00:44:37,301 And you, Sean. 674 00:44:37,468 --> 00:44:40,179 I'm supposed to forgive you, too, I suppose. 675 00:44:40,346 --> 00:44:42,306 Now, just a minute, Amy Hearn. 676 00:44:42,473 --> 00:44:44,808 You've got some explaining to do. 677 00:44:44,975 --> 00:44:46,727 How could you do it? 678 00:44:46,894 --> 00:44:48,979 How could you let them tell us you were dead? 679 00:44:49,146 --> 00:44:50,856 You had no right, mother! 680 00:44:51,023 --> 00:44:53,984 Rights? You talking about rights? 681 00:44:54,151 --> 00:44:55,569 Whose rights? 682 00:44:55,736 --> 00:44:59,323 I've got a right to see me own children and grandchildren. 683 00:44:59,490 --> 00:45:02,201 It comes before anything else, 684 00:45:02,368 --> 00:45:05,245 and you ask how I could do it. 685 00:45:05,412 --> 00:45:10,334 Well, it isn't hard when you've tried everything else, 686 00:45:10,501 --> 00:45:13,796 when you're so hungry for the sight and feel of your family 687 00:45:13,962 --> 00:45:17,341 you can't sleep at nights thinking of them. 688 00:45:17,508 --> 00:45:19,426 And when it comes to you, 689 00:45:19,593 --> 00:45:22,930 the one thing that'll bring them to you 690 00:45:23,097 --> 00:45:26,475 is your own wake... 691 00:45:26,642 --> 00:45:31,563 Well, it isn't hard to do at all, at all. 692 00:45:35,067 --> 00:45:38,654 Sean, I heard you say it. 693 00:45:38,821 --> 00:45:40,280 "Why is it," you said, 694 00:45:40,447 --> 00:45:42,866 "you have to wait until they're gone 695 00:45:43,033 --> 00:45:46,245 before you know what they mean to you?" 696 00:45:48,705 --> 00:45:54,461 Well, you mean everything to me, you 3. 697 00:46:02,094 --> 00:46:05,556 I'm 80 years old, 698 00:46:05,722 --> 00:46:09,685 and I don't have many birthdays left. 699 00:46:09,852 --> 00:46:13,856 Maybe... maybe not even one, 700 00:46:14,022 --> 00:46:16,650 and when you think of that, 701 00:46:16,817 --> 00:46:20,821 you're apt... 702 00:46:20,988 --> 00:46:23,532 You're apt to be foolish. 703 00:46:28,954 --> 00:46:30,581 Ma? 704 00:46:30,747 --> 00:46:32,624 Oh, Andy! 705 00:46:32,791 --> 00:46:33,709 Oh, ma! 706 00:46:33,876 --> 00:46:36,462 Oh, Andy, my dear boy. 707 00:46:36,628 --> 00:46:37,671 And Sean. 708 00:46:37,838 --> 00:46:39,798 Oh, mother, I'm so sorry. 709 00:46:39,965 --> 00:46:41,925 And Bridget! 710 00:46:42,092 --> 00:46:44,219 Oh, ma. Oh, ma! 711 00:46:46,638 --> 00:46:51,685 I heard what you said about the blond boy. 712 00:46:51,852 --> 00:46:55,063 Aye, it was a great relief to me. 713 00:46:55,230 --> 00:46:57,441 I wasn't at all sure. 714 00:46:57,608 --> 00:47:00,444 Oh! Oh, mother! 715 00:47:12,164 --> 00:47:13,957 Well, come on! You heard what everybody said. 716 00:47:14,124 --> 00:47:16,835 This is not a wake. It's a birthday party. 717 00:47:45,822 --> 00:47:48,158 I hope you find it in your heart, father, 718 00:47:48,325 --> 00:47:50,494 to forgive me for fooling you so. 719 00:47:50,661 --> 00:47:52,120 Well, it's a little irregular, 720 00:47:52,287 --> 00:47:55,332 but I think the bishop will understand. 721 00:47:55,499 --> 00:47:58,043 If you feel you must tell him. 722 00:48:07,511 --> 00:48:10,138 Doc, you got permission to dance with my wife.