1 00:01:18,146 --> 00:01:21,415 Growing up with my brothers and sisters on Walton's Mountain 2 00:01:21,482 --> 00:01:23,384 was a joyful experience. 3 00:01:23,451 --> 00:01:25,853 But not always an easy one. 4 00:01:25,919 --> 00:01:28,122 Privacy was hard to come by, 5 00:01:28,189 --> 00:01:30,090 and as a young man trying to write 6 00:01:30,158 --> 00:01:35,496 it was the one thing I needed which I almost never had. 7 00:01:35,563 --> 00:01:38,031 I will always remember that day when I left 8 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:41,769 a young boy anxious to find some time for himself 9 00:01:41,835 --> 00:01:45,973 and returned, a man who had partaken of a miracle. 10 00:01:46,039 --> 00:01:47,508 John-Boy! 11 00:01:47,575 --> 00:01:49,177 What'll I do with this thing? 12 00:01:49,243 --> 00:01:52,246 -Have you seen John-Boy? -He's up in his room. 13 00:01:53,247 --> 00:01:54,815 Jason, can you help me? 14 00:01:54,882 --> 00:01:58,085 Get on the other side of this car. Gotta pull these wheels. 15 00:01:58,152 --> 00:02:01,155 No, you can't help me. John-Boy. 16 00:02:05,058 --> 00:02:06,294 Mary Ellen. 17 00:02:07,561 --> 00:02:10,398 Come here. Let me show you something. 18 00:02:10,464 --> 00:02:12,866 -Made it all myself. -It's pretty, Elizabeth. 19 00:02:12,933 --> 00:02:14,535 What is it? 20 00:02:14,602 --> 00:02:18,206 -Cornhusk doll. Can't you tell? -Sure. I was just joshing. 21 00:02:18,272 --> 00:02:19,873 Listen, is John-Boy up in his room? 22 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:22,876 I don't know. I haven't seen him all day. 23 00:02:22,943 --> 00:02:25,012 John-Boy. 24 00:02:25,078 --> 00:02:26,947 John-Boy. 25 00:02:27,014 --> 00:02:28,482 Mary Ellen. 26 00:02:28,549 --> 00:02:30,318 One would think you were practicing 27 00:02:30,384 --> 00:02:31,885 for a hog-calling contest. 28 00:02:31,952 --> 00:02:35,823 Sorry, if I don't get a pen made for my lamb, she'll run away. 29 00:02:35,889 --> 00:02:38,859 And if I don't get somebody to help in that kitchen, 30 00:02:38,926 --> 00:02:40,494 I just might go with her. 31 00:02:40,561 --> 00:02:42,596 That's okay. You don't have to do that. 32 00:02:42,663 --> 00:02:44,598 Elizabeth and I'll help you. 33 00:02:44,665 --> 00:02:45,666 Thanks. 34 00:02:48,769 --> 00:02:51,539 John-Boy, where have you been? Been looking all over for you. 35 00:02:51,605 --> 00:02:53,040 Haven't been anywhere, just been-- 36 00:02:53,106 --> 00:02:55,809 Daisy got loose again and wandered on to the road. 37 00:02:55,876 --> 00:02:58,045 Someone's got to build a pen for her! 38 00:02:58,111 --> 00:02:59,747 Did you talk to Grandpa or Jason? 39 00:02:59,813 --> 00:03:01,549 Grandpa's helping Jim-Bob with those tomatoes 40 00:03:01,615 --> 00:03:04,017 and Jason's working on that soap-box racer with Ben. 41 00:03:04,084 --> 00:03:06,254 Everyone's busy with something for the school festival 42 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:07,388 except for you. 43 00:03:07,455 --> 00:03:08,822 I'm trying to write a story. 44 00:03:08,889 --> 00:03:11,292 How can you put schoolwork above a baby lamb 45 00:03:11,359 --> 00:03:12,526 that you helped birth? 46 00:03:12,593 --> 00:03:13,961 It isn't school work. 47 00:03:14,027 --> 00:03:17,465 A magazine in Richmond is giving new writers a chance. 48 00:03:17,531 --> 00:03:21,068 A person can write anytime. 49 00:03:21,134 --> 00:03:22,870 Shows how much you know. 50 00:03:22,936 --> 00:03:26,607 How will you feel if that little lamb wanders out on the road 51 00:03:26,674 --> 00:03:27,975 and gets killed? 52 00:03:30,544 --> 00:03:32,813 I suppose I'd feel just terrible. 53 00:03:34,948 --> 00:03:36,817 Come on. 54 00:03:48,929 --> 00:03:50,364 Okay. 55 00:03:50,431 --> 00:03:52,300 Thanks, John-Boy. 56 00:03:58,906 --> 00:04:02,009 Who wants to read a story about a lamb? 57 00:04:09,883 --> 00:04:13,321 -Could you help us with this? -Sorry, I can't. I got to work. 58 00:04:13,387 --> 00:04:14,955 You're not working, just walking. 59 00:04:15,022 --> 00:04:17,725 Writers work when they walk. I'm putting a story together. 60 00:04:17,791 --> 00:04:19,960 Come on, John-Boy, this is important. 61 00:04:20,027 --> 00:04:22,095 We only got a week till the festival. 62 00:04:22,162 --> 00:04:24,832 -Come on. 63 00:04:24,898 --> 00:04:26,266 Okay. 64 00:04:29,102 --> 00:04:30,371 Pretty good? 65 00:04:30,438 --> 00:04:32,506 Ben, this looks like a lobster trap. 66 00:04:33,574 --> 00:04:36,777 Pass the potatoes, pretty please. 67 00:04:36,844 --> 00:04:38,879 Ben, you haven't touched a thing on your plate. 68 00:04:38,946 --> 00:04:42,950 I'm not hungry, Mama. I don't feel good. 69 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:46,487 Up to bed with you, young man. He's burning up. 70 00:04:46,554 --> 00:04:48,689 It can't be the chicken pox. 71 00:04:48,756 --> 00:04:50,724 He's had those. It can't be the measles. 72 00:04:50,791 --> 00:04:54,161 It can't be serious 'cause we're in a race at school next week. 73 00:04:54,227 --> 00:04:57,831 Your concern for your brother can go further than that, Jason. 74 00:04:57,898 --> 00:04:59,933 I heard down at Ike Godsey's store 75 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,002 that there's a considerable fever going around. 76 00:05:02,069 --> 00:05:04,037 Some people get pretty sick from it. 77 00:05:04,104 --> 00:05:06,540 I'm sorry. Guess I just wasn't thinking. 78 00:05:06,607 --> 00:05:08,709 John, his fever is really bad. 79 00:05:08,776 --> 00:05:11,379 I think you ought to get the doctor. 80 00:05:15,716 --> 00:05:18,386 Here's what my brother said to me, he said.... 81 00:05:18,452 --> 00:05:20,854 Oh. Doc, how is he? 82 00:05:20,921 --> 00:05:22,856 We don't know much about this fever. 83 00:05:22,923 --> 00:05:24,592 Seems to act different on everyone. 84 00:05:24,658 --> 00:05:28,228 But from what I've seen, I'd say Ben has a very light case. 85 00:05:28,295 --> 00:05:29,730 He should be alright by tomorrow. 86 00:05:29,797 --> 00:05:32,400 You just keep him in bed and keep him warm. 87 00:05:32,466 --> 00:05:33,467 And keep him isolated. 88 00:05:33,534 --> 00:05:34,568 Thank you, Doctor. 89 00:05:34,635 --> 00:05:36,103 - Goodnight. - Goodnight. 90 00:05:42,242 --> 00:05:43,677 Don't worry, Mama. 91 00:05:43,744 --> 00:05:47,448 Put him in my room. I'll get my things in the boys' room. 92 00:05:50,317 --> 00:05:53,621 Well, glad it's not too bad. 93 00:05:59,393 --> 00:06:01,662 Liv, I'm getting old. 94 00:06:01,729 --> 00:06:04,965 A day like today, I feel old, too. 95 00:06:07,668 --> 00:06:10,237 If you had to do it all over again, Liv, 96 00:06:10,303 --> 00:06:14,074 would you make any changes? 97 00:06:14,141 --> 00:06:17,310 I'd find me a handsome husband with a yacht 98 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,948 and go sailing off to Europe. 99 00:06:21,014 --> 00:06:24,518 Now, would you settle for a rowboat ride 100 00:06:24,585 --> 00:06:25,919 on the Rockfish River? 101 00:06:25,986 --> 00:06:27,955 What if one of the children comes in? 102 00:06:28,021 --> 00:06:30,524 They'd say, "There's Daddy kissing Mama again." 103 00:06:30,591 --> 00:06:34,394 Is that what you intend to do? 104 00:06:34,462 --> 00:06:37,431 That's what I intend to do. 105 00:06:44,337 --> 00:06:48,275 -Here comes Wiley Post. -Hey! 106 00:06:48,341 --> 00:06:49,810 You know what I think? 107 00:06:49,877 --> 00:06:52,813 We ought to paint that soap-box racer some real snazzy color 108 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,982 like bright orange or yellow or something. 109 00:06:55,048 --> 00:06:59,319 -What do you think, John-Boy? -I think that's fine, Jason. 110 00:06:59,386 --> 00:07:01,154 -Well, which? -Which what? 111 00:07:01,221 --> 00:07:03,891 Which color should we paint the soap-box racer? 112 00:07:03,957 --> 00:07:07,461 -Bright red like my tomatoes. -Bright red? 113 00:07:07,528 --> 00:07:09,096 Grandpa says they'll win first prize. 114 00:07:09,162 --> 00:07:11,131 Maybe it'd be like a good luck color. 115 00:07:11,198 --> 00:07:13,767 Maybe so. Bright red, with big white letters. 116 00:07:13,834 --> 00:07:16,003 Whiz bang! That'd get them, wouldn't it? 117 00:07:16,069 --> 00:07:17,170 I gotta get out of here. 118 00:07:17,237 --> 00:07:19,873 I'm going down to the barn for a while. 119 00:07:23,744 --> 00:07:27,047 * Little baby don't say a word * 120 00:07:27,114 --> 00:07:30,083 * I was gonna buy you a mocking bird * 121 00:07:30,150 --> 00:07:31,151 Hey. 122 00:07:31,218 --> 00:07:33,086 Shh. I'm trying to get her to sleep. 123 00:07:33,153 --> 00:07:36,724 * If that mocking bird don't sing * 124 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:40,393 * I was gonna buy you a.. 125 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:43,831 * Little baby don't you.. 126 00:07:46,166 --> 00:07:48,235 Mary Ellen, do you have to keep singing? 127 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:51,038 You'll get her all upset. She didn't eat her dinner. 128 00:07:51,104 --> 00:07:53,340 Neither did Ben, but you're not singing to him. 129 00:07:53,406 --> 00:07:54,875 He didn't lose his mother. 130 00:07:54,942 --> 00:07:57,611 Can't you write someplace else? Daisy needs to be alone. 131 00:07:57,678 --> 00:08:00,080 So do I, gosh darn it! 132 00:08:04,084 --> 00:08:07,888 I'll tell you what I feel like. A drone bee in a beehive 133 00:08:07,955 --> 00:08:09,823 with, "John-Boy do this, do that." 134 00:08:09,890 --> 00:08:12,926 Everyone swarming around me and not a minute to call my own. 135 00:08:12,993 --> 00:08:14,995 -John-Boy. -I'm just fed up with it, Mama. 136 00:08:15,062 --> 00:08:17,397 -What happened, son? -Nothing's happened, exactly. 137 00:08:17,464 --> 00:08:19,166 But I gotta be alone for a while. 138 00:08:19,232 --> 00:08:21,702 So tomorrow I'm going to the old Montgomery place. 139 00:08:21,769 --> 00:08:24,437 Montgomery place? There's hardly any road up there. 140 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:26,239 I'll walk. I've hiked up there before. 141 00:08:26,306 --> 00:08:29,142 Not alone. It's a long way from everybody up there. 142 00:08:29,209 --> 00:08:33,380 That's exactly why I want to go up there. Just for overnight. 143 00:08:33,446 --> 00:08:36,083 Please, Daddy. 144 00:08:36,149 --> 00:08:38,185 Let him go, John. 145 00:08:38,251 --> 00:08:40,821 That's a strange thing for you to say, Liv. 146 00:08:40,888 --> 00:08:45,058 You always talk about how dangerous those backwoods are. 147 00:08:45,125 --> 00:08:48,328 Every time there's a storm, that bridge washes out up there. 148 00:08:48,395 --> 00:08:49,897 Oh, why not? 149 00:08:49,963 --> 00:08:53,266 You've had your fair share of washed-out bridges in your day. 150 00:08:53,333 --> 00:08:54,835 You've to admit that. 151 00:08:54,902 --> 00:08:58,271 And I've got the gray hair to prove it. 152 00:08:58,338 --> 00:09:00,540 I suppose you're right. 153 00:09:00,608 --> 00:09:04,177 Comes a time in every boy's life, man's, 154 00:09:04,244 --> 00:09:06,614 when he has to meet up with himself again. 155 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,217 Get to know what he feels, what he thinks. 156 00:09:10,283 --> 00:09:13,587 You have to be alone to do that. 157 00:09:20,327 --> 00:09:24,531 Alright, you can go. You can leave in the morning. 158 00:09:24,598 --> 00:09:26,734 Thank you. 159 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,469 One night only. Come back the next day. 160 00:09:29,536 --> 00:09:30,804 I will. I promise. 161 00:09:30,871 --> 00:09:32,940 Don't forget your long underwear. 162 00:09:33,006 --> 00:09:35,242 -I will. I will. -Take a blanket. 163 00:09:35,308 --> 00:09:38,478 I'm going up and pack as much truck as Admiral Byrd 164 00:09:38,545 --> 00:09:39,947 heading for the North Pole. 165 00:09:44,017 --> 00:09:47,020 -See you, Daddy. -Take care now, son. 166 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:48,355 -Take care. -I will. 167 00:09:48,421 --> 00:09:49,923 Bye, John-Boy. 168 00:09:49,990 --> 00:09:52,760 -Okay. I'll see you tomorrow. -Try not to get a chill. 169 00:09:52,826 --> 00:09:55,128 -Bye, John-Boy. -Bye, Mary Ellen. 170 00:09:55,195 --> 00:09:56,396 Bye, John-Boy. 171 00:09:56,463 --> 00:09:59,466 You get back to bed. You're supposed to be sick. 172 00:09:59,532 --> 00:10:01,468 -I'm already all better. -Yeah. 173 00:10:01,534 --> 00:10:03,236 -John-Boy? -Yes, Mama. 174 00:10:04,337 --> 00:10:06,774 -Enjoy yourself now. -I sure will. 175 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,742 -Bye-bye. -Bye-bye. 176 00:10:23,657 --> 00:10:26,193 Come on. You! 177 00:10:26,259 --> 00:10:29,629 Come on out of there. 178 00:10:29,697 --> 00:10:35,335 Move, you fool! You critter. 179 00:10:37,738 --> 00:10:44,277 Come on, get out of there. Get out, I say. 180 00:10:44,344 --> 00:10:47,981 -You.... -Granny, you need a little help? 181 00:10:48,048 --> 00:10:51,719 John-Boy, this critter's took a fancy to my cabbage and sage. 182 00:10:51,785 --> 00:10:53,754 And I can't get him out. 183 00:10:53,821 --> 00:10:56,156 Well, we can't have that, can we? 184 00:10:58,959 --> 00:11:03,296 Say, Blue, what is all this I hear about you? Come on. 185 00:11:03,363 --> 00:11:05,632 You're one beautiful critter but if there's any place 186 00:11:05,699 --> 00:11:08,301 you don't belong, it's Granny Ketchum's sage patch. 187 00:11:08,368 --> 00:11:11,571 How's she gonna heal anybody with you stomping all over them? 188 00:11:11,638 --> 00:11:13,473 Come on. Come.... 189 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,876 I said, "Come on." You hear me? 190 00:11:17,010 --> 00:11:21,348 Come on, now. Come on. That's right. 191 00:11:21,414 --> 00:11:25,252 That's not where you belong. Come on. 192 00:11:27,287 --> 00:11:30,924 Come on. Come on now, you've had enough to eat. 193 00:11:30,991 --> 00:11:34,161 Just come. Not my hat, neither. 194 00:11:35,628 --> 00:11:37,998 Munch, munch and stay here, okay? 195 00:11:38,065 --> 00:11:40,968 You got a real firm way with you, John-Boy. 196 00:11:41,034 --> 00:11:43,703 Animals always know. 197 00:11:47,841 --> 00:11:49,409 -Take some. -Thank you. 198 00:11:49,476 --> 00:11:51,444 -Helps if you get a toothache. -Really? 199 00:11:51,511 --> 00:11:53,080 Mm-hmm. 200 00:11:53,146 --> 00:11:57,250 I got everything you need in the way of doctoring right here. 201 00:11:57,317 --> 00:12:02,055 There's lemon balm, chamomile, periwinkle. 202 00:12:02,122 --> 00:12:07,294 I got a cure for everything there is, except old age. 203 00:12:08,628 --> 00:12:12,299 But, that's as it should be. 204 00:12:12,365 --> 00:12:15,402 You take your turn in leaving, just like in arriving. 205 00:12:15,468 --> 00:12:19,439 Ain't no medicine and no doctor anywhere 206 00:12:19,506 --> 00:12:23,243 can change the natural order of that. 207 00:12:23,310 --> 00:12:26,847 Granny, you've been feeling poorly lately? 208 00:12:26,914 --> 00:12:29,216 Nothing at all. 209 00:12:29,282 --> 00:12:33,253 It's just a knowing you get when you get to be my age. 210 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,889 Eighty-four years of hurrying through the spring 211 00:12:35,956 --> 00:12:37,490 and summer and fall 212 00:12:37,557 --> 00:12:42,329 just to get ready for the winter which is gonna come in any case. 213 00:12:42,395 --> 00:12:43,831 Foolish, ain't it? 214 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:48,401 John-Boy. 215 00:12:50,971 --> 00:12:53,606 Do you hear that rose complaining 216 00:12:53,673 --> 00:12:56,309 when it withers on the vine? 217 00:12:56,376 --> 00:12:59,847 It has to do that to make room for the new blooms, 218 00:12:59,913 --> 00:13:01,614 don't you see? 219 00:13:01,681 --> 00:13:03,316 I guess so. 220 00:13:03,383 --> 00:13:05,652 -Have a good journey, hear? -Thank you, Granny. 221 00:13:05,718 --> 00:13:07,220 I sure appreciate these. 222 00:13:07,287 --> 00:13:10,390 -Have a nice day now. -You too, John-Boy. 223 00:13:11,959 --> 00:13:14,794 You stay out of the cabbage patch, you hear? 224 00:14:57,864 --> 00:14:59,232 Hello? 225 00:15:06,039 --> 00:15:08,175 Is there somebody in here? 226 00:15:17,850 --> 00:15:21,288 Is there someone in here? 227 00:15:21,354 --> 00:15:24,191 Look, if there is somebody in here, you better speak up. 228 00:15:24,257 --> 00:15:26,793 John-Boy, that you? 229 00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:30,530 -I'm so glad to see you. -Who is that? 230 00:15:30,597 --> 00:15:32,932 It's me, Sarah. 231 00:15:35,568 --> 00:15:37,670 Sarah Jane Simmons. 232 00:15:37,737 --> 00:15:40,640 Great day in the morning, girl. What are you doing up here? 233 00:15:40,707 --> 00:15:44,978 I was scared. I didn't know who it was. 234 00:15:45,045 --> 00:15:47,180 But I thought you were working in Richmond. 235 00:15:47,247 --> 00:15:50,283 If you are not in Richmond, why aren't you at home? 236 00:15:50,350 --> 00:15:51,618 What're you doing up here? 237 00:15:51,684 --> 00:15:54,754 I don't want anybody to know where I am. 238 00:15:54,821 --> 00:15:56,523 Why not? 239 00:15:56,589 --> 00:15:59,892 See, the Keneallys, they're my legal guardians now. 240 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:01,561 My mama signed some papers. 241 00:16:01,628 --> 00:16:03,663 Did she put you up for adoption? 242 00:16:03,730 --> 00:16:05,232 Not really. 243 00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:07,567 The Keneallys were supposed to give me room and board 244 00:16:07,634 --> 00:16:10,437 and education in exchange for my work. 245 00:16:10,503 --> 00:16:12,639 But it turned out it was all work. 246 00:16:12,705 --> 00:16:17,377 I don't understand. What are you doing way back here? 247 00:16:17,444 --> 00:16:19,712 A whole lot of things have happened to me 248 00:16:19,779 --> 00:16:21,648 since I last saw you. 249 00:16:28,588 --> 00:16:33,460 Guess I'd better get a fire started before the rain comes. 250 00:16:33,526 --> 00:16:36,763 -There's some wood outside. -I'll get it. 251 00:17:06,326 --> 00:17:08,961 It's raining. Come on, let's go. Hurry up, come on. 252 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:12,499 Ben, get in out of the rain. Don't want you to get sick. 253 00:17:12,565 --> 00:17:14,301 Mary Ellen, help me with the wash. 254 00:17:14,367 --> 00:17:16,803 As soon as I get him in the barn. 255 00:17:16,869 --> 00:17:17,704 Hurry up, Ben. 256 00:17:17,770 --> 00:17:18,905 Will the rain hurt them? 257 00:17:18,971 --> 00:17:21,208 Rain and plants are the best of friends. 258 00:17:21,274 --> 00:17:23,476 I gotta win that Junior Farmer's prize. 259 00:17:23,543 --> 00:17:25,345 We better head for the house. 260 00:17:25,412 --> 00:17:28,681 I told that Jimmy Alexander I was gonna win, and I'm gonna. 261 00:17:28,748 --> 00:17:32,919 We gotta keep trying, Jim-Bob. Careful for the storm now. 262 00:17:32,985 --> 00:17:35,088 Jason, hurry up. 263 00:17:35,155 --> 00:17:36,623 Attaboy. 264 00:17:36,689 --> 00:17:38,625 It's gonna come down, oh, Lord. 265 00:17:38,691 --> 00:17:41,828 I hope John-Boy made it up to the cabin in time. 266 00:17:46,466 --> 00:17:49,969 John-Boy, you know how all my life I was waiting for something 267 00:17:50,036 --> 00:17:51,338 to happen to me? 268 00:17:51,404 --> 00:17:54,774 -Yeah. Sure do. -It did. 269 00:17:54,841 --> 00:17:57,877 A while after I went to work for the Keneallys, 270 00:17:57,944 --> 00:18:00,980 I met this boy. 271 00:18:01,047 --> 00:18:03,250 -Yeah? -Riley O'Connor. 272 00:18:03,316 --> 00:18:07,520 I fell in love with him at first sight, and he with me. 273 00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:10,857 We were two souls meant to be together, John-Boy. 274 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:14,494 Of course, we had to keep it secret from everybody. 275 00:18:14,561 --> 00:18:20,533 And then, well, then I had to run away, you see? 276 00:18:21,301 --> 00:18:23,536 No, I don't, really. 277 00:18:35,615 --> 00:18:38,651 I'll tell you who I am, John-Boy Walton. 278 00:18:38,718 --> 00:18:41,754 I'm Mrs. Riley O'Connor. 279 00:18:41,821 --> 00:18:43,690 Oh, good. 280 00:18:43,756 --> 00:18:45,825 I mean, how about that? 281 00:18:45,892 --> 00:18:50,297 Congratulations on it, really, on everything. Sit down. 282 00:18:52,765 --> 00:18:55,768 -Where's your husband? -He's in Norfolk. 283 00:18:55,835 --> 00:18:57,804 See, he got laid off from his job. 284 00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:01,208 So he went to look for work in the W.P.A. project. 285 00:19:01,274 --> 00:19:03,510 He's sending for me as soon as he's settled, 286 00:19:03,576 --> 00:19:05,512 but you know it takes a while. 287 00:19:05,578 --> 00:19:08,348 In the meantime, the Keneallys found out. 288 00:19:08,415 --> 00:19:10,250 They tried to poison my mind. 289 00:19:10,317 --> 00:19:12,785 They said he wasn't ever coming back. 290 00:19:12,852 --> 00:19:16,623 -Why'd they do that for? -To keep me working for nothing. 291 00:19:16,689 --> 00:19:18,425 They said they were my legal guardians 292 00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:20,026 and they would arrange for my baby. 293 00:19:20,092 --> 00:19:23,596 By giving her out for adoption. They'll have to find me first. 294 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:25,198 Then they'll have to kill me 295 00:19:25,265 --> 00:19:27,834 because no one's laying a hand on Riley O'Connor's baby! 296 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,538 Nobody will hurt your baby. Sit down, don't get so riled up. 297 00:19:31,604 --> 00:19:33,340 They're trying to take her away from me. 298 00:19:33,406 --> 00:19:34,874 But I won't let them. 299 00:19:34,941 --> 00:19:37,777 This baby belongs to me and my legally-wed husband. 300 00:19:37,844 --> 00:19:40,480 Of course. Why don't you try to find him? 301 00:19:40,547 --> 00:19:41,781 I have. 302 00:19:41,848 --> 00:19:43,950 There are fellas like Riley all over this country 303 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:45,318 looking for work. 304 00:19:45,385 --> 00:19:47,420 -Hasn't he written you? -Of course he has. 305 00:19:47,487 --> 00:19:49,722 But the Keneallys won't let me see the mail. 306 00:19:49,789 --> 00:19:51,824 -They keep his letters hidden. -No. 307 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:54,126 I don't know too much about the law 308 00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:56,529 but I don't think they can do that. 309 00:19:56,596 --> 00:19:59,632 I'll get my daddy to get you a lawyer or something. 310 00:20:04,103 --> 00:20:06,406 Look. 311 00:20:06,473 --> 00:20:08,040 It's a long way down the trail. 312 00:20:08,107 --> 00:20:11,578 Why don't we eat something and wait for the rain to let up. 313 00:20:11,644 --> 00:20:13,946 When it does, I'll get you back to your mama. 314 00:20:14,013 --> 00:20:17,584 You need to be with your mama right now. 315 00:20:17,650 --> 00:20:21,321 No, John-Boy. Mama won't understand. She never did. 316 00:20:21,388 --> 00:20:22,889 She'll believe the Keneallys. 317 00:20:22,955 --> 00:20:25,958 I'm gonna talk to her. She'll understand. You gotta get home. 318 00:20:26,025 --> 00:20:29,729 I won't leave, John-Boy. Riley will come here to find me. 319 00:20:29,796 --> 00:20:31,764 I already told him how to get here.... 320 00:20:31,831 --> 00:20:33,800 You can't sit here in the woods-- 321 00:20:33,866 --> 00:20:36,503 I told him how I used to hide here before. 322 00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:39,038 -There's fever going-- -I won't leave. 323 00:20:39,105 --> 00:20:42,675 Riley is coming back for me. I'll be here, waiting for him. 324 00:20:42,742 --> 00:20:46,979 Just like the preacher said, John-Boy. 325 00:20:47,046 --> 00:20:49,081 Girl, you're just burning up. 326 00:20:49,148 --> 00:20:51,418 I don't feel very good. 327 00:20:53,486 --> 00:20:55,488 You better lie down. Here. 328 00:20:55,555 --> 00:20:59,326 I'll put the bed in front of the fire. 329 00:21:02,061 --> 00:21:06,933 Here you go. This ought to do it. Y'all come back. 330 00:21:06,999 --> 00:21:09,336 -Good afternoon, Mrs. Simmons. -Mr. Godsey. 331 00:21:09,402 --> 00:21:11,738 I got a nice surprise for you today. 332 00:21:11,804 --> 00:21:14,507 -A letter from Sarah? -Not exactly. 333 00:21:14,574 --> 00:21:18,077 But it's a letter from the folks she is staying with. 334 00:21:18,144 --> 00:21:19,746 Let's see. 335 00:21:20,713 --> 00:21:22,482 Thank you. 336 00:21:28,655 --> 00:21:32,925 Good afternoon, Ike. Hello, Marjorie. 337 00:21:32,992 --> 00:21:36,262 She got a letter from the folks that Sarah's staying with. 338 00:21:36,329 --> 00:21:39,666 Lord, I knew it. I just knew it. 339 00:21:42,134 --> 00:21:44,871 Marjorie, what's wrong? 340 00:21:44,937 --> 00:21:48,174 Sarah's run away. 341 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,443 Oh, I'm sorry. 342 00:21:50,510 --> 00:21:53,279 But I'm sure if she wasn't happy where she was, 343 00:21:53,346 --> 00:21:54,313 she'll come right home. 344 00:21:54,381 --> 00:21:57,384 No, she won't. 345 00:21:57,450 --> 00:21:59,852 I thought I was doing the right thing. 346 00:21:59,919 --> 00:22:02,889 The Keneallys are so fine and proper. 347 00:22:02,955 --> 00:22:05,725 They promised to give Sarah an education. 348 00:22:05,792 --> 00:22:07,860 I can't do that. 349 00:22:07,927 --> 00:22:10,363 I thought I was doing right by her. 350 00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:12,699 Of course you did. 351 00:22:14,567 --> 00:22:17,003 Sarah don't care how things are with me. 352 00:22:17,069 --> 00:22:20,306 Always looking for an excuse to go against my will. 353 00:22:20,373 --> 00:22:24,944 She took it like I was punishing her or something. And I wasn't. 354 00:22:25,011 --> 00:22:28,681 I just wanted her to have a chance to be somebody. 355 00:22:28,748 --> 00:22:30,282 Marjorie, why don't we finish our shopping 356 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:34,454 and you come home with me and have a nice hot cup of tea. 357 00:22:36,723 --> 00:22:41,227 He's real happy about the baby, you know. 358 00:22:41,293 --> 00:22:44,597 Wanted a girl. 359 00:22:44,664 --> 00:22:48,034 Most men want the first-born to be a boy. 360 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:49,836 But not Riley. 361 00:22:52,004 --> 00:22:54,441 I'm gonna take this from you for a minute 362 00:22:54,507 --> 00:22:57,243 and go out and get some water, okay? 363 00:22:57,309 --> 00:22:59,779 I'll be right back. 364 00:22:59,846 --> 00:23:02,482 You should have seen his face when I told him. 365 00:23:02,549 --> 00:23:05,151 He really wanted a girl. 366 00:23:07,353 --> 00:23:09,722 Most men want their first-born.... 367 00:23:12,091 --> 00:23:14,461 Just a minute. 368 00:23:28,708 --> 00:23:32,178 Riley wanted a little girl just like me. 369 00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:36,248 We even picked out her name. 370 00:23:36,315 --> 00:23:38,317 We'll call her Mariah. 371 00:23:38,384 --> 00:23:40,953 There, there, now. 372 00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:42,955 Just take it easy. 373 00:23:50,329 --> 00:23:55,902 Riley picked that name out of a book by Mr. John Steinbeck. 374 00:23:56,903 --> 00:24:00,006 He loved to read, that Riley. 375 00:24:00,072 --> 00:24:03,309 He's like you in some ways, John-Boy. 376 00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:04,811 Shh. 377 00:24:06,145 --> 00:24:09,315 Oh. Lord, I'm on fire. 378 00:24:09,381 --> 00:24:11,083 My whole head is on fire. 379 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:14,086 Sarah Jane, I'll have to leave you for a little while. 380 00:24:14,153 --> 00:24:16,889 Granny Ketchum's place is just a little ways down the trail. 381 00:24:16,956 --> 00:24:18,691 I'm gonna go there and see her. 382 00:24:18,758 --> 00:24:21,761 She'll know just what to do for you. Okay? 383 00:24:21,828 --> 00:24:24,997 He's real happy about the baby. 384 00:24:25,064 --> 00:24:28,267 He wanted a girl. Did I tell you? 385 00:24:28,334 --> 00:24:29,869 Mm-hmm. 386 00:24:29,936 --> 00:24:32,271 You just take it easy right there. 387 00:24:32,338 --> 00:24:34,240 I'll be back as soon as I can. 388 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:53,125 All the trials of Job visited on my head, I don't know why 389 00:24:53,192 --> 00:24:55,394 what I ever did that was so wrong. 390 00:24:55,461 --> 00:24:58,765 Oh. For heaven's sake, Marjorie, it isn't as bad as all that. 391 00:24:58,831 --> 00:25:02,101 Now Sarah just didn't like where she was and ran away. 392 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:04,604 -She'll be home. -Of course she will. 393 00:25:04,671 --> 00:25:08,775 Sarah's a good girl. 394 00:25:08,841 --> 00:25:12,612 I didn't tell you all that was in the letter, Olivia. 395 00:25:12,679 --> 00:25:15,815 Sarah, she.... 396 00:25:16,783 --> 00:25:18,918 She can't come back here now. 397 00:25:22,889 --> 00:25:25,658 She went and got herself into trouble. 398 00:25:41,941 --> 00:25:46,312 Granny Ketchum, it's me, John-Boy Walton. 399 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:48,547 Come in. 400 00:25:49,616 --> 00:25:51,217 I'm sorry to disturb you again, Granny. 401 00:25:51,283 --> 00:25:54,654 But I need your help real bad. Think you could come with me? 402 00:25:54,721 --> 00:25:56,155 I'm afraid not now, John-Boy. 403 00:25:56,222 --> 00:25:58,925 There's somebody real sick up at the old Montgomery place. 404 00:25:58,991 --> 00:26:01,260 She's real sick. Just burning up from the fever. 405 00:26:01,327 --> 00:26:06,165 Yeah, fever's going all round the valley. 406 00:26:06,232 --> 00:26:08,768 I remember another time 407 00:26:08,835 --> 00:26:13,172 about 30, no, 40 years ago 408 00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:18,077 had a fever just like that. 409 00:26:18,144 --> 00:26:20,179 Took my husband 410 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,650 my little girl, too. 411 00:26:28,254 --> 00:26:33,492 Old Indian woman come along, showed me what to use, 412 00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:35,662 but she come too late. 413 00:26:36,863 --> 00:26:38,430 Granny, I don't mean to.... 414 00:26:38,497 --> 00:26:42,601 I don't mean to cut you short. There isn't too much time. 415 00:26:42,669 --> 00:26:47,306 There's always time, John-Boy. 416 00:26:47,373 --> 00:26:49,108 That's part of the secret. 417 00:26:49,175 --> 00:26:51,911 Think you could give me something I could get to her? 418 00:26:51,978 --> 00:26:54,714 Like some kind of medicine or something? 419 00:26:54,781 --> 00:26:57,016 What you need 420 00:26:58,317 --> 00:27:00,787 is in that jar on the second shelf. 421 00:27:03,155 --> 00:27:05,992 -Which one? This one right here? -No, the next one. 422 00:27:06,058 --> 00:27:10,129 -This one? -That's right. 423 00:27:10,196 --> 00:27:14,233 Take it. And brew a tea from this bark. 424 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:15,601 The fever will pass. 425 00:27:15,668 --> 00:27:19,438 Thank you very much. I sure appreciate this. 426 00:27:19,505 --> 00:27:21,107 -John-Boy? -Yes, ma'am? 427 00:27:21,173 --> 00:27:23,710 Take that white mule with you. 428 00:27:23,776 --> 00:27:25,244 Thank you, that's a great idea. 429 00:27:25,311 --> 00:27:27,179 I'll bring him back tomorrow morning. 430 00:27:27,246 --> 00:27:30,750 No. You keep him as long as you want to. 431 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:33,986 Thank you. 432 00:27:38,725 --> 00:27:40,126 Goodnight. 433 00:27:55,307 --> 00:27:57,744 I would like to thank you for your kindness. 434 00:27:57,810 --> 00:27:59,211 That's what neighbors are for. 435 00:27:59,278 --> 00:28:02,815 If you don't mind my saying so, insisting on going home 436 00:28:02,882 --> 00:28:05,117 on a night like this is a mite stubborn. 437 00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:08,554 -Be mighty happy to put you up. -Thank you, Mr. Walton. 438 00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:10,456 I'd rather be home. 439 00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:11,958 You're stuck here, Marjorie. 440 00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:14,493 The truck won't start, and those roads are mess. 441 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,729 -It's too muddy. -Zeb. 442 00:28:38,751 --> 00:28:40,787 Sarah Jane? 443 00:28:41,754 --> 00:28:43,923 I'm back, I got your medicine. 444 00:28:47,026 --> 00:28:49,328 Sarah Jane, you asleep? 445 00:28:49,395 --> 00:28:51,463 You'll have to wake up now, honey. 446 00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:10,082 Oh, Lord. 447 00:29:26,132 --> 00:29:28,835 Don't you go to sleep on me now. 448 00:29:39,111 --> 00:29:44,016 Honey, wake up. Wake up, please. 449 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:48,888 Sarah. 450 00:30:06,105 --> 00:30:08,540 You'll make it. Come on. 451 00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:21,921 Come awake now. 452 00:30:29,328 --> 00:30:34,033 I'm sorry. I got to get you awake. 453 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:37,336 Thank goodness. Sarah? Sarah? 454 00:30:39,438 --> 00:30:43,209 Here, have some of this. Just take a sip of this. 455 00:30:43,275 --> 00:30:47,346 It's good for you. Good girl. I know that tastes bad. 456 00:30:47,413 --> 00:30:49,815 Granny Ketchum says it'll fix you up real good. 457 00:30:49,882 --> 00:30:52,451 Here, take some more. 458 00:30:52,518 --> 00:30:54,553 Good girl. 459 00:30:54,620 --> 00:30:59,025 You don't want Riley to come up here and find you sick, do you? 460 00:30:59,091 --> 00:31:02,461 Little more. Up. That's good. 461 00:31:05,898 --> 00:31:10,602 And bless Mama and Daddy and Grandma and Grandpa. Amen. 462 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,707 Don't worry, Mama. 463 00:31:15,774 --> 00:31:18,911 John-Boy will be alright. I'll say a prayer for him, too. 464 00:31:18,978 --> 00:31:20,947 And keep John-Boy safe. 465 00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:28,654 Sweetheart. 466 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,124 -Sleep tight. -I will. 467 00:31:32,191 --> 00:31:34,060 -Goodnight, girls. -Goodnight, Mama. 468 00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:47,273 What? Where? 469 00:31:47,339 --> 00:31:49,908 It's alright, I'm right here. 470 00:31:52,011 --> 00:31:54,680 John-Boy, did I sleep? 471 00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:58,550 You sure did. How do you feel? 472 00:31:58,617 --> 00:32:02,254 A little weak and groggy. 473 00:32:02,321 --> 00:32:04,323 The fever's broke, thank the Lord. 474 00:32:04,390 --> 00:32:08,227 You managed to finish off Granny Ketchum's medicine. 475 00:32:09,161 --> 00:32:11,730 -You hungry? -Starving. 476 00:32:11,797 --> 00:32:13,632 That's a good sign. 477 00:32:13,699 --> 00:32:16,535 You okay? Here, I'll cut you some of this. 478 00:32:16,602 --> 00:32:18,804 This is not exactly the blue plate special, 479 00:32:18,870 --> 00:32:22,674 but it'll keep your strength up. 480 00:32:22,741 --> 00:32:26,645 Here. Do you want an egg? I'll peel it for you. 481 00:32:26,712 --> 00:32:28,847 I forgot I didn't eat all day yesterday. 482 00:32:28,914 --> 00:32:30,616 You'd better take it slow at first. 483 00:32:30,682 --> 00:32:34,186 John-Boy, you're gonna make some woman a wonderful husband. 484 00:32:35,721 --> 00:32:39,225 Sarah Jane, soon as I declare. To you, the entire universe 485 00:32:39,291 --> 00:32:42,494 is divided up into two categories: mister and missus. 486 00:32:42,561 --> 00:32:43,795 Well, isn't it? 487 00:32:43,862 --> 00:32:48,334 -You haven't changed one bit. -Yes, I have. 488 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,070 I learned a whole lot of things this year. 489 00:32:51,137 --> 00:32:54,273 Like how foolish and romantic I was. 490 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:57,443 I really thought I was Claudette Colbert 491 00:32:57,509 --> 00:33:00,079 and every boy I met was Clark Gable. 492 00:33:02,781 --> 00:33:04,416 You remember our first date? 493 00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,853 Remember it? How could I forget it? 494 00:33:07,919 --> 00:33:09,955 -You proposed to me. -I did not. 495 00:33:10,022 --> 00:33:12,091 You did, too. I remember it very well. 496 00:33:12,158 --> 00:33:14,693 We were sitting in the back of my daddy's truck. 497 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:18,530 -I was much younger then. -That was just a year ago. 498 00:33:18,597 --> 00:33:22,501 You were trying to run off with Theodore Albert Claypool, Jr. 499 00:33:22,568 --> 00:33:26,138 Now look at you. Run off and got married. 500 00:33:30,076 --> 00:33:32,078 I'm feeling a little weak, John-Boy. 501 00:33:32,144 --> 00:33:33,945 I think I better lay down again. 502 00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:35,447 Okay. 503 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:42,321 Just get some rest. Tomorrow we'll get you home. 504 00:33:48,427 --> 00:33:50,162 Home. 505 00:33:50,229 --> 00:33:53,765 Life isn't like the movies, John-Boy. 506 00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:55,701 Nothing at all like them. 507 00:34:32,871 --> 00:34:35,274 They're all squashed. 508 00:34:35,341 --> 00:34:37,643 Yeah, this old black locust limb fell all over them. 509 00:34:37,709 --> 00:34:40,279 I should have picked them yesterday. 510 00:34:40,346 --> 00:34:42,381 Now I don't have anything to enter. 511 00:34:42,448 --> 00:34:44,616 If you're gonna learn to be a farmer 512 00:34:44,683 --> 00:34:46,785 you might as well learn to live with loss. 513 00:34:46,852 --> 00:34:48,320 I'll tell you what. 514 00:34:48,387 --> 00:34:51,657 You go get yourself a basket and pick up these ripe tomatoes. 515 00:34:51,723 --> 00:34:53,959 There's nothing we can do with them, Grandpa. 516 00:34:54,025 --> 00:34:55,394 Yes, we can. 517 00:34:55,461 --> 00:34:57,496 You take these squashed tomatoes in the kitchen... 518 00:34:57,563 --> 00:35:00,098 and get your grandma's tomato preserve recipe. 519 00:35:00,166 --> 00:35:03,135 -And do what? -Start cooking. 520 00:35:06,505 --> 00:35:09,341 John-Boy, something's happening. 521 00:35:09,408 --> 00:35:14,580 What's happening? 522 00:35:14,646 --> 00:35:19,851 -The baby. It's coming. -Right now? 523 00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:21,420 Okay, look, hold on. 524 00:35:21,487 --> 00:35:24,290 I'll go to Granny Ketchum's and back here in an hour. 525 00:35:24,356 --> 00:35:26,858 -She's a good midwife. -I'm scared. 526 00:35:26,925 --> 00:35:29,928 Nothing to be scared about. Granny will take care of you. 527 00:35:29,995 --> 00:35:32,398 She's delivered half the babies around here. 528 00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:35,701 Okay, I'm going right now, I'll be right back. 529 00:35:35,767 --> 00:35:38,670 -I think it's coming now. -Look, it can't come now. 530 00:35:38,737 --> 00:35:43,209 -The first pain is a warning. -I know. I've been having them. 531 00:35:43,275 --> 00:35:45,377 -For how long? -A couple of hours. 532 00:35:45,444 --> 00:35:46,712 Why didn't you tell me that? 533 00:35:46,778 --> 00:35:48,747 I didn't know what they were at first. 534 00:35:48,814 --> 00:35:51,717 -I never had a baby before. -Well, neither did I. 535 00:35:51,783 --> 00:35:53,185 Look, don't fret, honey. 536 00:35:53,252 --> 00:35:55,421 What we gotta do now is stay calm. 537 00:35:55,487 --> 00:35:59,057 You got plenty of time to get on the mule and go to-- 538 00:35:59,124 --> 00:36:01,627 No, I can't. It's coming now. 539 00:36:01,693 --> 00:36:05,564 -I'm scared, John-Boy. -So am I. 540 00:36:05,631 --> 00:36:08,400 Okay, look. 541 00:36:08,467 --> 00:36:11,403 Sarah, if it's coming now, then instead of being scared... 542 00:36:11,470 --> 00:36:13,905 we figure out what we're gonna be doing here. 543 00:36:13,972 --> 00:36:15,841 Do you know what to do? 544 00:36:15,907 --> 00:36:18,444 Well, shoot, we're a couple of farm children, aren't we? 545 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:20,446 We've seen enough birthings, I reckon. 546 00:36:20,512 --> 00:36:23,515 Birthed a lamb a couple of months ago. 547 00:36:23,582 --> 00:36:27,185 First thing we gotta do is get everything clean. 548 00:36:31,156 --> 00:36:33,359 -Don't do that! -What? 549 00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:35,794 You're doing it wrong. Don't scream like that. 550 00:36:35,861 --> 00:36:38,564 -You'll make yourself all tense. -What should I do? 551 00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:41,400 The mama lamb, she just lies there, nice and easy... 552 00:36:41,467 --> 00:36:43,134 and she just concentrates on the work. 553 00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:47,306 Look, it's a very natural thing that's happening right now. 554 00:36:47,373 --> 00:36:51,477 So don't fight it. Just think about that, it's very natural. 555 00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,512 Okay, now relax. It's alright. 556 00:36:53,579 --> 00:36:55,180 -I'm trying. -I know. 557 00:36:55,247 --> 00:36:59,351 Just relax. Relax. 558 00:36:59,418 --> 00:37:01,753 Work with it, just relax. 559 00:37:06,458 --> 00:37:07,926 -Right. -What? 560 00:37:07,993 --> 00:37:09,795 -That is easier. -Really? 561 00:37:09,861 --> 00:37:11,096 Really. 562 00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:14,833 I told you I was an old hand at this sort of thing. 563 00:37:19,538 --> 00:37:22,908 Y'all, it's turning into a handsome day out there. 564 00:37:22,974 --> 00:37:25,143 John will drive you home, Marjorie. 565 00:37:25,210 --> 00:37:26,678 Soon as the carburetor dries out. 566 00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:28,079 Thank you, John. 567 00:37:28,146 --> 00:37:30,582 -Is John-Boy coming home today? -I think so, honey. 568 00:37:30,649 --> 00:37:32,217 If he didn't get struck by lightning. 569 00:37:32,284 --> 00:37:36,087 If that old Montgomery place didn't wash away in the rain. 570 00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:38,657 You young ones ought to be ashamed of yourselves. 571 00:37:38,724 --> 00:37:40,492 John-Boy has more sense than to run around 572 00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:41,793 in thunder and lightning. 573 00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:44,296 Did you say the old Montgomery place? 574 00:37:44,363 --> 00:37:46,665 Sarah used to run up there all the time. 575 00:37:46,732 --> 00:37:48,567 John, would you drive me up there? 576 00:37:48,634 --> 00:37:50,869 Truck won't go any further than Granny Ketchum's. 577 00:37:50,936 --> 00:37:53,972 I'm sure if she's up there, John-Boy will bring her home. 578 00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:58,610 She belongs in Richmond. I took her there for her own good. 579 00:37:58,677 --> 00:38:01,680 Soon as she's back up there, the better off she'll be. 580 00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:05,250 You don't want to see your own girl? 581 00:38:05,317 --> 00:38:07,786 Not the way she is now. 582 00:38:07,853 --> 00:38:09,488 She's not a criminal, Marjorie. 583 00:38:09,555 --> 00:38:11,523 You're just making her feel that way. 584 00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:13,959 "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." 585 00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:16,962 "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." 586 00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:19,030 She's your only child, Marjorie. 587 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,037 Okay, honey, push down, now. Push down. 588 00:38:26,104 --> 00:38:27,473 Push down. 589 00:38:27,539 --> 00:38:29,775 -I feel it. -There he is. I see him. 590 00:38:29,841 --> 00:38:31,343 There's his head. He's coming. 591 00:38:31,410 --> 00:38:32,911 -I can see him. -Push down. 592 00:38:32,978 --> 00:38:34,780 -Harder, come on. -I can see him. 593 00:38:34,846 --> 00:38:37,949 He's almost with us. He's almost with us. 594 00:38:38,016 --> 00:38:41,620 He's home, Sarah. He's almost there. 595 00:38:44,122 --> 00:38:45,691 -We did it. -My baby. 596 00:38:45,757 --> 00:38:48,394 He's a girl. He's a girl. He's a girl. 597 00:38:52,063 --> 00:38:54,900 It's a real baby. 598 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:06,077 Quiet, honey. Quiet now. 599 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,937 She sure is gonna be a sassy one, isn't she? 600 00:39:32,003 --> 00:39:34,473 Don't cry, baby. 601 00:39:34,540 --> 00:39:36,475 Be quiet. 602 00:39:36,542 --> 00:39:38,309 What a pretty girl. 603 00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:40,946 Just like you wanted. 604 00:39:55,260 --> 00:39:57,228 Look here, John-Boy. 605 00:39:57,295 --> 00:40:02,033 Doesn't she have the most perfect little fingers? 606 00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:04,836 She has a dimple in her chin, too. Did you notice? 607 00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:07,205 And hair just like corn silk. Isn't she just beautiful? 608 00:40:07,272 --> 00:40:11,477 'Course she is. That's the only kind of baby I deliver. 609 00:40:11,543 --> 00:40:13,512 Next to Riley, I love you the most 610 00:40:13,579 --> 00:40:14,946 of anyone in the whole world. 611 00:40:15,013 --> 00:40:16,948 Come on. We'd better get you home. 612 00:40:17,015 --> 00:40:18,984 But if Riley comes and I'm not here.... 613 00:40:19,050 --> 00:40:22,153 I guess he'll come to your mama's house to find you. 614 00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:24,089 You trusted me when you had to. 615 00:40:24,155 --> 00:40:26,157 Why don't you trust your mama now? 616 00:40:26,224 --> 00:40:27,959 John-Boy, she sent me away. 617 00:40:28,026 --> 00:40:30,729 It's not the same thing. When she sent you away 618 00:40:30,796 --> 00:40:32,964 she thought you were going to get an education. 619 00:40:33,031 --> 00:40:35,100 Besides, I want to come visit my goddaughter 620 00:40:35,166 --> 00:40:38,637 and I won't traipse all the way up here to do it. 621 00:40:38,704 --> 00:40:41,139 Looks like we don't have much of a choice. 622 00:40:43,742 --> 00:40:46,444 Take 10 pounds of sugar. 623 00:40:46,512 --> 00:40:51,449 Jim-Bob, that recipe is for the preserves for the whole year. 624 00:40:51,517 --> 00:40:53,184 -We gotta reduce it. -What's reduce? 625 00:40:53,251 --> 00:40:55,954 That means to cut down. We'll use just one pound. 626 00:40:56,021 --> 00:40:58,256 Now will you stop stalling and get up here 627 00:40:58,323 --> 00:40:59,725 and start peeling these? 628 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:02,260 If you want something in that contest 629 00:41:02,327 --> 00:41:05,964 you got to work to make it good. 630 00:41:06,031 --> 00:41:08,066 Jim-Bob, that is no way to hold a knife 631 00:41:08,133 --> 00:41:11,469 unless you only want four fingers on your left hand. 632 00:41:11,537 --> 00:41:14,640 Now you get up underneath like that. 633 00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:15,874 I'll get the vanilla. 634 00:41:20,812 --> 00:41:22,480 Look who's playing house! 635 00:41:22,548 --> 00:41:23,715 Would you mend my socks 636 00:41:23,782 --> 00:41:25,383 when you're through making supper? 637 00:41:25,450 --> 00:41:29,087 I'm making it for the contest, and I bet I win more than you. 638 00:41:29,154 --> 00:41:31,089 Wait till everyone finds you're a sissy. 639 00:41:31,156 --> 00:41:32,190 Jason, come on in here. 640 00:41:32,257 --> 00:41:34,726 Jim-Bob's trying to be one of the Walton girls. 641 00:41:34,793 --> 00:41:36,494 Oh, my, look at you. 642 00:41:36,562 --> 00:41:39,497 Jim-Bob is a mama's boy. 643 00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,134 You hush up 644 00:41:43,201 --> 00:41:45,904 unless you want this on the seat of your britches. 645 00:41:45,971 --> 00:41:47,673 Now we oughtta call him Jane-Bob. 646 00:41:47,739 --> 00:41:49,507 We don't wear this kind of thing. 647 00:41:49,575 --> 00:41:50,976 None of that sassing in this house. 648 00:41:51,042 --> 00:41:54,112 Get out of here before I knock your head off. 649 00:41:54,179 --> 00:41:56,582 Jim-Bob, come on here. 650 00:41:56,648 --> 00:41:59,751 Stop that. Stop it. 651 00:41:59,818 --> 00:42:02,954 Now, you can laugh if you want to. But it's a fact. 652 00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:05,223 I read it in The Saturday Evening Post 653 00:42:05,290 --> 00:42:08,526 the most famous, stop it, the most famous cook 654 00:42:08,594 --> 00:42:12,030 he's called a chef, in the world, is a man. 655 00:42:12,097 --> 00:42:16,935 And he's very, very rich and he has dinner with royalty. 656 00:42:17,002 --> 00:42:20,105 Get out of here and about your business. 657 00:42:20,171 --> 00:42:22,908 I think when I grow up, I'll be a chief. 658 00:42:22,974 --> 00:42:24,910 A chef. And if that's the case 659 00:42:24,976 --> 00:42:27,012 then you'll need a lot of practice. 660 00:42:27,078 --> 00:42:29,280 Just keep going. 661 00:42:33,284 --> 00:42:36,154 Sure is a fine white mule you got here, John-Boy. 662 00:42:36,221 --> 00:42:40,225 I've been thinking about changing his name. 663 00:42:40,291 --> 00:42:44,763 Something befitting a noble steed, like something.... 664 00:42:44,830 --> 00:42:48,266 How's Charlemagne sound like to you? 665 00:42:48,333 --> 00:42:50,301 Sounds fancy. 666 00:42:52,103 --> 00:42:53,371 Grandpa. 667 00:42:53,438 --> 00:42:55,674 Slow down, before you fall and break your neck. 668 00:42:55,741 --> 00:42:58,476 -I want you to try something. -What's all the ruckus about? 669 00:42:58,543 --> 00:43:01,847 Grandma said you'd be a good one to try my tomato preserves. 670 00:43:01,913 --> 00:43:03,715 He made it from scratch. All by himself. 671 00:43:03,782 --> 00:43:05,283 -I did? -If you followed 672 00:43:05,350 --> 00:43:08,720 your grandma's recipe, you couldn't possibly go wrong. 673 00:43:13,692 --> 00:43:15,927 Well, Zeb? 674 00:43:16,795 --> 00:43:21,032 This is a prime tomato preserve. 675 00:43:21,099 --> 00:43:24,102 Won't the kids laugh at me for entering it in the fair? 676 00:43:24,169 --> 00:43:26,204 They might. But they'll laugh out the other side 677 00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:28,306 of their faces if you win first prize. 678 00:43:28,373 --> 00:43:29,841 Here comes John-Boy. 679 00:43:29,908 --> 00:43:32,844 He's got a white mule. And someone with him. Come on. 680 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,409 Mama, look, Sarah has a baby. 681 00:44:08,914 --> 00:44:11,182 John-Boy, did you.... 682 00:44:13,551 --> 00:44:16,254 Great day in the morning! 683 00:44:17,588 --> 00:44:20,992 Hello, Mama. 684 00:44:21,059 --> 00:44:24,429 Marjorie, you turn away now, you'll never forgive yourself. 685 00:44:29,434 --> 00:44:34,039 Poor little thing, born out in the woods somewhere. 686 00:44:34,105 --> 00:44:38,176 Wasn't in the woods, Mama. It was in a nice, warm cabin. 687 00:44:39,477 --> 00:44:40,846 Isn't she beautiful? 688 00:44:40,912 --> 00:44:44,249 Isn't she the most beautiful baby you ever saw? 689 00:44:44,883 --> 00:44:47,285 Sarah, my baby. 690 00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:05,703 I'm married, Mama. 691 00:45:05,771 --> 00:45:07,272 Married? 692 00:45:07,338 --> 00:45:11,442 To a fine, fine man. You'll really like him. 693 00:45:14,012 --> 00:45:15,981 Come on, Sarah. Let's get you inside. 694 00:45:16,047 --> 00:45:19,785 And that baby into some decent swaddling clothes. 695 00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,621 His name is Riley O'Connor. 696 00:45:23,688 --> 00:45:24,956 He went off to find work 697 00:45:25,023 --> 00:45:29,127 in a W.P.A. project in Washington, D.C. 698 00:45:29,194 --> 00:45:31,496 He'll be sending for us any day now. 699 00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:34,065 You'll really like him, Mama. 700 00:45:41,406 --> 00:45:45,143 You had yourself quite an experience, son. 701 00:45:45,210 --> 00:45:48,479 I don't reckon there'll be too many to match it. 702 00:45:48,546 --> 00:45:50,782 Didn't Sarah just say her husband went off 703 00:45:50,849 --> 00:45:53,318 to find work in Washington, D.C.? 704 00:45:56,087 --> 00:45:59,958 -Funny. She told me Norfolk. -Make any difference? 705 00:46:01,827 --> 00:46:04,095 Not a bit. 706 00:46:06,497 --> 00:46:09,000 That's quite a mule you got there, son. 707 00:46:10,501 --> 00:46:15,106 Granny Ketchum wrote a note, said you could keep that mule. 708 00:46:15,173 --> 00:46:18,743 -Granny Ketchum? -Uh-huh. 709 00:46:18,810 --> 00:46:21,847 She died this morning, just about dawn. 710 00:46:26,751 --> 00:46:28,186 "Thus the Seer, With vision clear 711 00:46:28,253 --> 00:46:30,488 "Sees forms appear and disappear 712 00:46:30,555 --> 00:46:33,491 "In the perpetual round of strange, mysterious change 713 00:46:33,558 --> 00:46:36,194 "From birth to death, from death to birth 714 00:46:36,261 --> 00:46:40,265 "From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth 715 00:46:40,331 --> 00:46:43,268 "Till glimpses more sublime Of things, unseen before 716 00:46:43,334 --> 00:46:46,437 "Unto his wondering eyes reveal The Universe 717 00:46:46,504 --> 00:46:47,873 as an immeasurable wheel 718 00:46:47,939 --> 00:46:49,274 "Turning forevermore 719 00:46:49,340 --> 00:46:51,977 "In the rapid and rushing river of Time" 720 00:46:54,512 --> 00:46:57,582 That's a beautiful bunch of words, just beautiful. 721 00:46:57,648 --> 00:47:01,452 -What's it about? -Sarah and Granny Ketchum. 722 00:47:02,553 --> 00:47:04,222 I think I hear my children. 723 00:47:05,423 --> 00:47:08,359 Mama, I did it. Daisy won first prize. 724 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:12,397 I got a red ribbon. Some of the kids laughed. 725 00:47:12,463 --> 00:47:15,766 But the judge said it was okay if I grew my own tomatoes. 726 00:47:15,833 --> 00:47:17,068 -Where's Grandpa? -I'm right here. 727 00:47:17,135 --> 00:47:19,004 Grandpa, you were right. I got third prize. 728 00:47:19,070 --> 00:47:20,338 A boy's will. 729 00:47:20,405 --> 00:47:22,974 I got a special prize. They called it.... 730 00:47:23,041 --> 00:47:27,812 Honorable mention. My embroidery won second prize. 731 00:47:27,879 --> 00:47:30,448 I'm just as proud of you all as I can be. 732 00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:33,318 Thanks, Mama. John-Boy, Daisy's pen has a hole in it. 733 00:47:33,384 --> 00:47:36,354 -Can you fix it? -I reckon I can. 734 00:47:36,421 --> 00:47:38,789 John-Boy, you promised to make me a wood frame 735 00:47:38,856 --> 00:47:40,558 for my needlework today. 736 00:47:40,625 --> 00:47:43,895 -I'd better get to it, then. -Thanks. 737 00:47:46,097 --> 00:47:48,133 You two look like you've been eating sour pickles. 738 00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:49,567 We didn't win anything. 739 00:47:49,634 --> 00:47:52,570 Darned wheel came off right in the middle of the race. 740 00:47:52,637 --> 00:47:54,872 There will another race at Hickory Creek this Sunday. 741 00:47:54,940 --> 00:47:57,475 I know it. I bet we could win it, too 742 00:47:57,542 --> 00:47:59,777 if we could get that wheel on right. 743 00:47:59,844 --> 00:48:02,513 -That was your fault. -I know. 744 00:48:02,580 --> 00:48:06,284 John-Boy, do you think that you could help us out with this? 745 00:48:06,351 --> 00:48:08,219 Sure. 746 00:48:08,286 --> 00:48:09,287 Thanks. 747 00:48:09,354 --> 00:48:12,823 -Thanks a lot, we'll be outside. -I'm coming. 748 00:48:12,890 --> 00:48:16,727 What about that story you're supposed to be writing? 749 00:48:16,794 --> 00:48:20,465 I reckon I'd better mull it over in my mind a little longer. 750 00:48:20,531 --> 00:48:22,333 I've been pretty busy. 751 00:48:28,706 --> 00:48:31,676 We were early risers and thus, in my grandfather's words... 752 00:48:31,742 --> 00:48:33,478 we went to bed with the chickens. 753 00:48:33,544 --> 00:48:35,981 All the lights in the house would go out 754 00:48:36,047 --> 00:48:37,582 except for the one in my room. 755 00:48:37,648 --> 00:48:40,585 There I would at last find the solitude... 756 00:48:40,651 --> 00:48:43,621 to record in my journal the events of the day. 757 00:48:43,688 --> 00:48:46,524 The wind would flow gently down from the mountain... 758 00:48:46,591 --> 00:48:48,659 the night birds would fall still... 759 00:48:48,726 --> 00:48:53,498 the rest of the family would slip quietly toward sleep. 760 00:48:53,564 --> 00:48:55,566 -Mama? -Yes, Elizabeth. 761 00:48:55,633 --> 00:48:59,537 -How do babies get born? -With love, darling. 762 00:48:59,604 --> 00:49:02,007 -Goodnight, Mama. -Goodnight. 763 00:49:02,057 --> 00:49:06,607 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0