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thank you

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all right

time I'd say well he's busy too we know

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dear Alexandra it's hot in the city and

strangely I find my thoughts returning

to the years past on the Divide

see the paintings

do they stir you to remember too

the Larks everywhere the larks

the ducks on yavage pond

and a lonely seagull lost on its way

somewhere

and I think I was but 15 that winter day

in Hanover when amel's kitten got

stranded atop the telephone pole and I

was your hero

for a moment at least

do you remember

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you come down here or I'll spank you

no I won't please come down

you and that kitten I told you to leave

her at home

or how to climb she certainly learned in

a hurry didn't she you asked her to come

down I will spank her

and she's crying Beyond me to reason

little brother huh

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I think I saw the lindstrom's wagon in

town you wait here I'll see if I can

find Carl

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freezing well keep yourself wrapped up

okay stamp your feet they talk to your

kitten keep her company

thank you Carl well Alexandra and how is

your father the same

it always pleases him when people ask

thank you Mrs Larson good day

Carl Amos kittens climbed at the top of

a pole with nowhere to go

haven't we all

hurry Carl it'll freeze

well I have to go to the Depot and get

some climbing spikes there

are you catch me if I fall Emma

we have fun pair

here

you had enough me too

come on

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all right you all tight

go get warm you run out to the store get

warm we'll be leaving shortly run now

take them

I'll be all right take them I'm very

Headstrong

he's coming out tomorrow

he says father can't ever get well

it's only a matter of time and not much

of that

why don't I drive you as far as I rode

animal can sleep in the back

want your folks mind if you don't go

back with him

no they're about ready to go I'll just

tell them to go on

if they're alone they can talk about how

bad things are

if I'm with them they hardly talk at all

not everyone's cut out to be a farmer

I wonder if this place has cut out to be

farmed

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Marie the boys here want you to decide

which of them you want for sweetheart

excuse me ready

here is my sweetheart

Alexandra what do you think of my little

niece eh Marie she's pretty don't you

think oh she is Joe she's from Omaha

isn't she yeah

bohemian girls are pretty eh what do you

have on the list

we have to go Amy say goodbye to your

new little friend

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keep it I've got lots of them thank you

very much Marie Marie tavaski of Omaha

who are you I'm Alexander bergson this

is my youngest brother Emma and we both

think you're very pretty

thank you

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I'm awful sorry about your father

Alexandra

he loves that drawing you made of our

windmill he keeps it pressed in the

front of the Bible

I don't know what we're going to do when

he goes

sometimes I wish we could all just go

with him

and let the grass cover over everything

like that graveyard back there

don't say things like that

do you ever wonder why I learned the

clientele graph pulls

it was just so I could climb up on

something off this doggone ground

I get up there

and I could hear buzz in the wires I

could almost hear the voices go into all

those busy places where things are

happening can't you see yourself ever

leaving here

I don't know

I just don't know

I keep imagining these fields all

turning green one year

big houses and barns all fresh painted

wagon loads of crops in stock going off

to the Rail Yards in Hanover

am I crazy Carl

maybe that's what it takes

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whoa whoa whoa

shall I take you the rest of the way

no you go on

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well

it's loud enough that I'll be able to

see you so you're almost home thank you

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Alexandra you're mittens

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pretty women

come on

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your father wants to talk to you

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feeding the horses should I call them no

come closer

Alexandra

you will have to do the best you can for

your brothers now

everything will come on you

you'll stay the family now

I know you love your brothers

but we both know they'd lose every inch

we've gained inside a year

don't let them get discouraged and go

off I want them to keep the land we will

Papa we will never lose the land

Oscar

I could hear demare

are you keeping her in the big stall I

forgot Papa I'll go move her now do it

later you saw the doctor

I'm sure you know

I won't be in the field with you come

spring

you will have to work all the harder

but it's free and clear now

that should help

someone has to be in charge

Alexandra is the oldest

she knows my wishes

follow her orders

she will manage the best she can

you've heard me say it

work a few more Acres every year

at least a few

always put up more hate than you need

and don't Grudge your mother

the time for plowing her garden

or setting out fruit trees

she has been a good mother to you

but she has always missed the old

country

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you're the only one who knows how to

make this place run Alexander

suppose this country will ever give in

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we must do it for a move

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you know the only reason I wanted Amel

so late

so I could send a part of myself away

from here

will you see that he breaks free of this

place one day

I promise

I will do the best I can

thank you

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do you remember

it was two years after your father died

the day we saw the seagull

come along yes

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should you be running on a Sabbath he's

running to sin the Lord wouldn't have

made jackrabbits better tell Emil Carl

the whole crazy efr comes out hell then

after him he better hide in the GoPro

stop now he's not crazy he just has a

different set of feelings about things

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Customs

Nerf guns

okay look at your hands we have no guns

what are the horses you've earned it's a

rough road here yeah

give them a little feed

this mayor's got a cold at home huh

they're just finding a bar I'll be

pretending to find some disease on them

now

you're emo

be tall as me pretty quick

didn't you have something you want to

ask Eva

about ducks I wanted to ask about ducks

it came out the right day

today I know everything about ducks

come along

when they fly like a V why do they keep

changing places all the Hell in the

front is the hardest to cut the VIN so

they trade places to keep going in the

back they can rest fly for hours by

trading off

Eva look a seagull

yeah

came in yesterday

caught between two oceans

she cried all night

came racing toward the house line seeing

the light thought it was a boat Maybe

there she goes

she knows she doesn't belong here too

far away from where she wants to be

to have people like that

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I'll take a look at your hammock CFR but

I came today more because I wanted to

talk to you

back

I need some advice

we have a big bunch of hogs I wouldn't

stand in the spring when everyone said I

should

now everybody's losing their Hogs and

I'm frightened

what can be done

if a hog could whispering right here you

know what you would say

she would say just because I'm ugly does

not mean I like to be filthy

the truth so

you have a talking patch have two boys

fence it off run them in darn to clean

ground give them shade let the boys hold

them clean water and barrels and plenty

yeah give him crane clean feet they'll

stay strong and healthy next thing the

Hogs have whisper they want to sleep

with us look at the laughing stock of

the neighbors and those people around

here are willing to learn a few things

there won't be many neighbors left

they're more moving out every week and I

don't plan to be among them

and I'll take that hammock too either I

came to make a fair trade I've been

saving one for you just for you

he said that the Springs Into The

Valleys which run among the hills they

give drink to every beast of the field

he's crazy

not hardly

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well it's settled

we're really going away

my father was offered his job back at

the cigar Factory in St Louis

I'm going to study with a German

engraver

then maybe to Chicago or New York

I'm not sure

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yes you have to go

you're wasting your life here

but all the same I can't help feeling

scared when I think how I'll miss you

more than you'll ever know

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as long as I live

I want to do something you'll be proud

of

since you've been here I've never really

been lonely

now I shall have no one but amen

but he's my boy

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there you see even Carlos folks know

when to quit Mr Lindstrom never made out

he admits it there's something and

knowing when to quit

Chris arson just traded his half section

for a place down by the river he traded

with Charlie Fuller is that where you

want to go down on the river any place

where things will grow Charlie Fuller

has a head on him he's buying and

trading for every acre of land he can

get his hands on he knows what it will

be worth someday what if you're wrong

Alexandra just once we're the ones in

the fields from dark to dark so your

minds are made up

didn't say that

we only said you should think about it

more than just think about it this

highland wasn't never meant to grow

enough you know I'll not go

if you leave Alaska neighbor to take me

in you can't do that Mama

again then I will

why do we live in a log house

because I wouldn't let us live in a sad

one like like some burrowing animals

you think I preserve fruit like a crazy

woman because I have time on my hands I

do it so we keep a taste for

for being civilized

so we don't fall to eating with our

hands

too late for me to start over

I'll be buried here by father

I don't want to leave him alone on the

Prairie for the cattle to run over

all right

the boys work hard mama

and you barely get your eyes off the

ground all day

it's hard to look ahead

maybe we're too set against making a

change

there's a better chance for us elsewhere

I owe it to all of us to look

how would you like to go traveling for a

few days amen

I think we should take a little trip

down to the river country

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place is all owned by Rich Man Mr worth

in town no way a man like me could ever

hope to have a place like this not in a

hundred years

thank you

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it's a new kind of clover I discovered

while I was away at school here it's

called Alfalfa nobody around here wants

to try it but I think I'll get half

again a ton of hay per acre

you've got to do that to make out

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thank you

there's nothing down there for us

Seymour too late we could scrape along

but we could never do anything big

look out there Emma isn't that glorious

huh

up here is where the big chance lies up

here in the Highland

I want to hold on harder than ever amor

one day

when you're a man

you'll thank me

you're crying what are you crying Sandra

for the first time

coming back

I feel this is home

not a Strange Land anymore

home

this must be how it happens it must be

the history of every country like this

begins in the heart of a man

or a woman

make your picture not worse than it is

well then you boys should go look for

yourselves the rich men down there on

all the best land and they're buying all

they can get for three times as much as

this sure

what do we do scrape along here to our

old and bend no we buy every acre we can

to we're old and Rich

now I figured it out

we sell most of the cattle and what corn

we have left over we buy the Lindstrom

place then we take out two loans on our

half section and buy Peter Crow's Place

more mortgages

we're lucky the bank trusts us why

wouldn't they they love the watches

break our backs

how do you know this is the right thing

to do

I can't explain it

I just have a feeling about this land

all of a sudden

there's something stirring

when you drive out over the country you

can feel it coming

and signing them pieces of paper

all the time as a boy we had a mortgage

hanging over us

but we're in so deep now

you may as well go deeper

there may be a chance that way

I don't want you boys to always have to

work like this

I don't want you to have to Grub for

every dollar

I want you to be independent

and for Amel to go to school

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this is the right thing to do

maybe it'll come out right

signing papers

signing papers

and I know maybe about that

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he sended the Springs Into The Valleys

which ran among the Hills

and they give drink to every Beast to

the field

is that right Eva

Carl

can you hear me Cara

am I crazy

I'm staying Cara

staying with the land

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15 years

they call me Miss bergson now Carl

my dream has come true

what I felt stirring in the long grass

future

the land has come to life

how I wish you could see it

thank you

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Marie hello

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thank you

so that's not much of a job for a

college athlete

what time did you get over here I've

been to town and back

Alexander lets you sleep late since

you've been home oh she spoils you

why do you turn your eyes away

look at you

just like that one today you can store

with that little kitten and I gave you a

ribbon doesn't do any good to look at

you you're never in one spot long enough

to identify

and whom might I be addressing

suck like that that scares the

stop trying to pair me off with the

girls around here Marie

they're fine for here but

here is not where I plan to be for long

the far away look for a girl

oh I wish I had an athlete to roll my

Orchard

I get wet to my knees when I go down to

pick the fruit

why don't you ask your husband to cut it

well Frank's angry at me

for what

I can't quite remember

I can never remember him

he never forgets

I'll mow it for you

better wait until after it rains

really

now there's a good boy

oh able aren't you excited about Angela

nomady's wedding

I just wish you weren't acting so

foolish about it

getting married is serious business

I don't know if I can get Frank to the

wedding supper and dance he's so cranky

right now there'll be barrels of beer

you mustn't dance with me but once or

twice

you must dance with all the French girls

hurts their feelings if you don't I'll

make everyone happy by not dancing with

anyone

why are you so sour today

I'm sorry

what it

offend you if I offered you a ride home

I think I can manage to be pleasant

about it I'll be finished soon wait for

me

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I brought you a young college athlete

looking for work he's only good for

cutting grass but he is quite beautiful

isn't he what he's also quite hungry

dinner is ready how's Frank all right if

it weren't for the headaches Dreadful

headaches

thanks for the ride

sorry I teased you emel forgive me

always

Frank is so excitable

but he shouldn't regard life as the

enemy well I guess it's mostly my fault

the farm was my idea Frank wasn't cut

out to be a farmer it's like he hates

every day of it it's hard on a man but

he's done so well with the place his

lindstroms would never recognize it

sad isn't it the lindstrom's never got

to see the orchard fully grown

think about that often oh Alexandra I

love the Orchards so

Carl Lindstrom would be pleased to hear

that

Carl lindstone was your young man wasn't

he

he was my best friend

come visit Alexandra please do

I'll call

no not the telephone everybody listens

I want to hear all about Carl Lindstrom

goodbye

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yes Mom

no

the bottoms are a little tough

is a style of filled Barney not nearly

that newfangled Silo of yours will hold

a barn fill and then some in them and

your brother Lou says he wouldn't have

one in his place it says a feed out of

it give the stock bloat

well the only way we can find out is to

try

Lou and I have different Notions but

that's a good thing if all the members

of a family think alike they'll never

get anywhere

my mistakes I can

learn isn't that Fairborn not by half

you make so many more mistakes than you

that you're bound to run a surplus right

boys

and Luke keeps telling me that you play

your hands too much and I tell him my

men have plowed a mile of furrow before

his have gotten the horses out of the

barn

do you hear that voice back to work

come on

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come have a look we'll give you full

credit for the cycle you know just in

case it doesn't work right I can't fool

a college man now can I

what is a dealer

mistress

there's been talk about me lately

what kind of talk about blue

sending me to the asylum

nobody has come to me with such talk you

know I would never consent to such a

thing they say you cannot prevent it if

the folk complain of me if your brothers

complain to the authorities

I'm still running my own house

so long as I'm suited with you there's

nothing to be said

you know that

my spells come from God

I would not harm any living creature

let people go on talking as they like

we will go on living as we think best

they want everyone to fit in now they

don't like anyone to be different

home in the old country

there were many like me

who'd been touched by God

who'd seen things in the graveyard at

night and for a different doctorward

here

for mine is different

they put him in the asylum

people are afraid of what they don't

understand

why likely is not Del Taco sending me to

the Asylum for building a silo

and then I'll take you with me

because I couldn't do without you

you've been my right hand for 12 years

you are

Lou and Oscar are coming for dinner on

Sunday I'll speak to them and put an end

to this foolishness

and they say going Barefoot and the

vendor makes me crazy I say it's a way

of doing Penance what do you say

never mind about your video why we can

remember when half our neighbors went

barefoot in summer

oh you know what I got over lose us a

great white tub to wash themselves

Lou's old mother and now only pretends

to use it then vendors leave she washes

in a little wooden tub she keeps under

the bed

we'll start an asylum for old time

people

then we'll all go

this is always the way mistress I come

to you sorrow and you you send me away

with a light heart

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school today what's this I hear about

Eva

who got the information

what information when I was on

convention in Hastings I talked to the

superintendent of the asylum

he's a doctor and he said he of ours

type is one of the most dangerous kind

and is a wonder he hasn't done something

violent before this nonsense Lou

doctors would have us all crazy if they

could

give us odd certainly

but he's got more sense than half the

hands are higher oh I guess the doctor

knows his business Alexandra he says efr

is likely to set fire to the barn any

night or to take after you and the girls

with an ax

we all know EFI is perfectly harmless

why the girls would have soon expect me

to come after them with an ax all the

same the neighbors will have a say

before long it's only necessary for one

property owner to make complaint and

you've already taken up by force you'd

better send him yourself and not have

any hard feelings

if any of my good neighbors try anything

I will have myself appointed yabbar's

guardian and take the case to court

that's all

but I'll see to it that he stays at home

so you needn't trouble yourselves

anymore about him

Lou

I wanted to ask about your new bathtub

how does it work oh it works something

Grand I can't keep him out of it he

washes himself all over three times a

week now you really ought to have one

Alexandra yes I'm thinking of it

perhaps I'll put one in the barn for Eva

that might ease people's minds

come on girls you can pick some flowers

that ever planted

Millie

pick some of those beautiful blue

flowers

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don't you know me Alexandra

I would have known you anywhere

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well it is Millie run tell your father

and Uncle Oscar our old friend Carl

Lindstrom is here pick

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can't believe this

I couldn't go through this country

without stopping off to see you

how little you've changed oh I was sure

it would be like that

how fine you are oh

but you Carl with that beard how could

I've known you you went away a boy

sorry I don't know how to behave I only

have women come visit me

where's your trunk I left it in Hanover

I'm on my way to the coast

I can only stay for a few days

a few days after all this time you won't

get away so easily

you owe me a long visit for Old Times

Sake

but why must you go to the coast I'm on

my way to Alaska Alaska

or to paint the Indians paint no I'm not

a painter I'm an engraver oh but on my

wall I have all your paper oh watercolor

sketches I sent them to remind you of me

anyway I have a friend who has a claim

up there he's asked me to go in with him

maybe I can make my fortune

boys look who's here

our old Carl

hello Carl Oscar Carl boo

and she went for surprises I'm glad to

see you Annie

girls are yours I can tell

why

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he's on his way to Alaska

got business there

yes I'm going to get rich engraving's a

very interesting profession but a man

never makes much money at it

so I'm going to try the gold Fields I

told Yvonne to bring the carriage around

take the girls and get your things

together your boys put the cherries in

the carrot get along now

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their motor isn't going anywhere right

now

going to be staying with us sometime a

few days if Alexandra can keep me

a few fellas back in New York must be

attained lot now Luke you have all the

power and money back there but you're

gonna hear from the West one of these

days if you've got a few of us back

there we'd marched down to Wall Street

and we'd blow it up

wasting powder Lou

same business would just go on on

another Street

a few fellows out here shouldn't worry

Morgan himself couldn't touch you only

have to drive through this country today

to see your all riches Barons uh we have

a good deal more to say than when we

were poor those are right off should see

it now eh

come along girls now be careful Stella

that's too heavy for you to carry

Andy let me help you with those

thank you very much you haven't met my

daughters have you now listening what do

you suppose he wants to pay us a visit

I've been begging him to come for years

it's funny how he waited until you were

well fixed and needed nothing before he

showed his face again he's mining for

gold all right

and I don't think it's in Alaska

he never was much account

boys

bfr

you don't remember me the young man who

wanted to know about the seagulls who

visited my pond

I've often felt like that seagullivar

never really sure where home is

bad you'll know

you know

friend of healing strikes that you've

been there before

he first wonders with this land

Alexandra oh he hadn't any of us much to

do with it Carl

land did it

it just pretended to be poor because

nobody knew how to work it and then all

at once it worked itself

woke up from asleep and stretched itself

and suddenly we found we were rich just

from sitting still

then I went ahead and built the house I

built it for Amos I want you to see him

he's so different from the rest of us

how different

oh you'll see

I'm sure it was to have sons like emo

that father left the old country

because you're gonna Farm here with you

he can do what he wants to do

he's going to have a chance a whole

chance that's what I've worked for

he's away tonight at his friend namade's

wedding

email is best man

I want him

to be free to do as he pleases

like you

I sometimes think about mother and

father and

all those who are gone

we can remember when this graveyard was

Wild Prairie

and now the old stories begun to write

itself over

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I've often thought there are really only

two or three human stories

they just go on repeating themselves as

fiercely as if they'd never happen

before each generation so certain

they're the very first

like the Larks out here

they all sing the same five notes that

Larks have been singing for thousands of

years

I'll listen to him he sure he's the

first

our old place

I forgot who you sold it to oh Marie

tabeski from Omaha and her husband Frank

oh yes the little doll in the red dress

she ran away from the convent when she

was 18 got married foolish child she

came out here with her husband who had

nothing

her father wanted to buy them a place

and set them up I sold them your farm

I'll take you over there

I suppose I should see the old place but

I dreaded

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took a lot of courage to come at all

Alexandra

I wouldn't have if I hadn't wanted to

see you very very much

why are you so dissatisfied with

yourself

how direct you always are

well you see measured by your standards

here I'm a failure

I've enjoyed many things but I've got

nothing to show for it all

oh but you show for it yourself Carl

I would rather have had your freedom

than my land

and I would rather have Emo grow up like

that

and like his brothers

I felt that as soon as you came

you know

being here with you

I feel almost as if I'd never left

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thank you

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oh

oh

oh ammo why did you

well I like that you asked me to come

yourself Marie I know I I didn't think

they were having such a good time and

now we've spoiled it all for them

I'm not going hunting with you anymore

you're as bad as you are don't be

Crossing

he advised right about

Wild Things

much too happy to kill

we won't do that anymore

all right I'm sorry I made you feel bad

I wish I knew sometimes what it takes to

please you Marie

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you were up and out early this morning I

wanted to walk up to the pasture Corners

where we used to meet when we went to

the cows

how you hated cows

are you at all disappointed in our

coming together again is it the way

you'd hoped it would be

sometimes when I've thought of it I've

been a little afraid

to live where things move so fast

everything is so slow here people's

lowest of all

oh that's strange I find it easy to be

frank with you about everything except

yourself

you're afraid of pretty much feelings

perhaps no

I'm giving you a shock

if I were to tell you how you seem to me

it might startle you

but you must know that you astonish me

I felt you were pleased with me

oh did you

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oh look there's Marie Marie

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I was just thinking about you I'm so

glad you came by you'll never guess so

I'll tell you so what it's Mr Lindstrom

well don't tell me I'm wrong I can't be

Carl and his father planted this Orchard

remember I told you yes

I have to apologize the grass is so

overgrown

Frank never has time but animal said he

would come by and mow it for me

how can you possibly remember me

birds and flowers for me on

about birds

and flowers

wrapping paper

Frank I want you to meet Carl Lindstrom

his family owned this Farm yeah well if

he can't read back you come on a good

day Mrs Hilly's hogs in My Feet Again

I'm gonna take that woman to court

that's where I am Mrs Hillary only has a

lame son to help her she does the best

she can although she's taking sights

against me are the neighbors night they

all take advantage all of them please

Frank don't let it bother you so

I'll go see what I can do hogs you say

I'll lend your hand I think I still

remember the language

it's the natural Order of Things Frank

Hogs always want what's on the other

side of a fence

you'd rather not be around me anyway you

can see

oh you can't believe that

here are by our dreaming not about me

you come back

Maria's always had a fanciful mind

it's what makes her such a delight

people count you a very lucky man Frank

you're laughing at me behind my back

they know I don't belong here

what you're getting on so well now why

even Carl said how nice the farm looks

every day is a struggle

it'll get easier Frank you'll see

a young thing

too young for me that's for sure

she brought me to this place

and now she turns against me

she loved me once

she hides from me

she hides what's here in her heart

we are

like strangers living here

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I'll walk with you to the house

I got back just in time oh Topsy knew it

was coming she ran like the wind

did you ride over to see the newlyweds

yes

Angelique seemed to be busy getting on

my day's supper so I didn't bother them

we walked over to Marie's

she said you promised to mow the orchard

for her after this rain would be a good

time she has a husband in MOA Orchard

Bank

you know how that goes yes I know how

that goes

he seems to be at Loose Ends these days

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he

strikes out on his own soon

you'll miss it

well yes I will

but it'll be exciting to see him

spread his wings

stake out a piece of the world for

himself

don't you think

there that's the look

how can you be forever 19.

there you are when I heard it raining

last night I thought you might be here

today I said I'd come

thanks gone to town for fencing

the wind awakened me

didn't it Blow dreadfully in the night

yes

smell the Wild Roses

so you have to cut them too

if I cut the grass I will

oh look you've already cut off so many

I can never seem to please you can I

stop that of course you do you please me

more than anyone

aren't the tree is beautiful

you know the Bohemians used to worship

trees and some still believe that they

bring good or bad luck

I feel as if this one

knows all of my thoughts when I sit

under it

and it's one of the lucky ones

I think

I could worship trees if I didn't have

the church

I guess so nice enough

Alexander's in love with him you know

are you crazy

Alexander's never been in love

she wouldn't know how to go about it

you'd be surprised

it would serve you all right if she

walked away with him

that's how much you know about love

dare you see that don't you hurt him how

can you keep rattling on like we're

still children we're not children

anymore

and I think you know and then you

pretend you don't and you treat me like

a little boy again

I can show you I'm not a little boy any

longer Marie ain't no don't

I understand that all about

a good time anyway there's nothing to

understand that won't last

it will all go away and things will be

just as they used to they won't we've

played all the games over and over and

over

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there's only one thing left for us

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I knew this day was coming

but I kept

making up things to say to hold it back

here it is

why did this have to happen

don't you see what you've done to us

all right

all of our Good Times Are Over

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I know your boy is well enough when you

don't say anything it means you want

something

if this is a body of all you can save

your breath

I don't want to curse on sad

it's about Carl Lindstrom

he's been here near a month people have

started to talk everybody knows Carl is

just after your money your property I

see

it's not my good name that concerns you

it's my money and my property we always

listen to you now you better listen to

us

all you got came from the Old Homestead

that Lou and I worked so hard at as if I

didn't

it was all divided equally when you left

to marry what we each have senses of our

own making well we don't see it that way

everything you've made has come out of

the original land that us boys worked

for hasn't it the farms and all that

comes out of them belongs to us as a

family you're talking nonsense Lou

go to the county clerk

ask him who owns my land and whether my

titles are good the property of a family

belongs to the men of the family

they do the work

you know I shouldn't think you'd want to

remind us how hard you were on us

Alexandra

hard on you

while Lou I can remember when you and

Oscar wanted to sell the homestead and

all improvements to all pre-tray

Erickson for two thousand dollars

you would have gone down to the river

and scraped Along on poor farms for the

rest of your lives

you fought me about planting Alfalfa

because I had heard about it from a

young man who had been to the university

Alfalfa has been the salvation of this

country

I had to raise three big wheat crops

before my neighbors quit putting all

their land into corn

why Lou you cried when we planted the

first wheat you said everybody was

laughing at us

just a woman of it if she tells you to

put in the crop she thinks she's put it

in makes women conceited to meddle in

business

everybody's laughing to see you get

taken in and it's your age too you

aren't fooling anyone everyone knows

Carl's almost five years younger than

you

what a laugh why you are near 40 years

old Alexandra

you wouldn't know what to do with a man

that concerns only Carl and me not you

not anyone else

you ask your lawyers what your rights

are the only Authority you will ever

exert over me anymore will be just what

the law allows

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I think I would have rather not lived to

find out what I have today

get up

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all right

everybody

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I mean these sweets are too cold-blooded

you need a French girl to warm your

blood huh take your paper come on amade

cut it out Monique Monique give you fine

sons and great pastries how about that

you won't freeze in winter with hell

around us and stop it

is that all you think about me no you've

made your choice

so leave me alone to make mine

saw you huh I was only kidding don't be

a boss I was just choking him he'll come

back they mean they mean

come back

I was just joking

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I don't understand

so I've decided I'm going to Mexico City

just as soon as I can get ready

Donald Barnes one of the fellows from

the university has an electrical plant

down there it's a little job but it'll

pay my way while I look around

what's the matter

I thought you wanted me to strike out on

my own

oh I do Amo

it's just I seem to be

losing my whole family in the same day

I had a terrible argument with your

brother so Carl

and now you're leaving for Carl

they're afraid I'm going to marry him

what nonsense

it's just like

why nonsense emo

well you've never thought of such a

thing have you

you wouldn't take things for granted

I've had a pretty lonely life

beside Marie

Carl is the only friend I've ever had

well you should do just as you wish

I think Carl's a fine fellow

the boys are suspicious of him because

he's intelligent

calls a sensible fellow he won't mind

them

Marie said it would serve us all right

if you walked off with him

did she

bless her heart

well that's what she said ask her

I think you should do just as you please

stop

you've seen Lou and Oscar haven't you

yes

and now you're going away

it's not because of them

honestly

I can't stay

if I don't do this one important thing

on my own

I'd never make a good husband

I'd always be just around

like a permanent guest never knowing

where to sit at the table with the Hired

Hands

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I have a feeling

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if you go away

you won't come back

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something will happen to one of us

people have to snatch at happiness when

they can in this world Carl

I don't need money but I needed you for

a long time

what I have is yours if you care enough

about me to

take what you'd give me I'd either have

to be a very large man or a very small

one and I'm only in the middle class

this is a great gamble for me Alexandra

can't you see if I don't give you up now

try to make something of myself I could

never hope to keep you one day

forever

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is going away

all at once in a single day I seem to

lose everything and I don't know why

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the sights to behold in Mexico City are

almost too much for the eye to take in

there are flower markets in fountains

everywhere

Street bands and dancing seem to greet

you at every turn

carriages rattle up and down through the

crowded streets and yesterday

I stood for an hour

watching a little blind bootblack in

front of the cathedral who can play any

tune you ask for by dropping the lids of

blacking boxes on the stone steps

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can you imagine that yes

I can imagine it all

enable getting Brown is a native

Mr Lindstrom could paint pictures of it

all if he were down there couldn't he

oh yes I suppose he could

strong Alexander

you're not teased by romantic Notions

running around in your head

a handsome stranger you saw only for a

second Maybe

Daydreams of chance encounters that

could change the rest of your life oh

you'd be surprised Marie

tell me

no

please please tell me oh Alexander

you're my closest friend I'll be hurt if

you don't tell me please

please

this is just a fancy

that's visited me since girlhood

most often on Sunday mornings the one

day I had the luxury of staying late in

bed

I'd listen to The Morning Sounds the

windmill singing in the breeze and

emo whistling as he blacked his boots by

the kitchen door

he closed my eyes

and I would get this

feeling of being lifted up badly

carried lightly

someone very strong

a man certainly but

like no one I know

strong and Swift he carried me

as easily as if I were a Sheaf of wheat

what did it look like

I never saw him

what was my eyes closed I could feel

that he was

yellow like the sunlight and

had the smell of ripe Corner Fields

about him

he would come near me and

bend over me and lift me up

and I could feel myself being whisked

out across the fields

disabled save he might be home to visit

yes in June

so long

well he'll be in time for the church

fair

maybe he'll bring that Mexican costume

with him

all the girls in booths will be wearing

costumes

I

I bet he'll even know how to play that

guitar by then

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thank you

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so much

for YouTube

all right

ah I see a long voyage across the sea

great importance oh that's wonderful

anything else

you will be seasick for seven days and

seven

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we just got home and you're a thousand

miles away what's the matter my friend

you're right I'm leaving for the

University to study law that's wonderful

my best friend to be a famous lawyer I

leave for Ann Arbor Friday you can not

until after Sunday

there's a big confirmation service this

Sunday over a hundred this year we will

all ride out to meet the bishop I wanted

you to ride with me in the cowboy case

I'm sorry if I wait I'll miss the

enlightenment I I what's the matter I'm

a day thank you you all right

you all right

too much rich food

yeah

better it's better you should see a

doctor uh doctors offer babies and old

people I am the strongest horse on my

phone yeah but if you don't feel well

you should

look

when father dushane comes out of Maui's

tent I'm going to sneak up to the

vestibule of the church and turn off the

current to the electric light leave me

out of this oh come on give everybody a

chance to kiss his sweetheart before

it's time to leave don't be such a bad

spot in me

what am I supposed to do the only

trouble is the candle in Mary's temp you

go in have your fortune tone

when the lights go out you brought the

candle no I can't do that I will watch

for you to go into the tent now get on

with you send your a meme

all right come on

do you think you could tell my fortune

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man's entitled to a certain measure of

self-protection

don't I deserve even some

scrap of friendship

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On My Honor say you love me just say it

I'll go away forever I will just once

say you love me

it'll last me all my life

how could I help it

didn't you know

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he's had an attack

appendicitis

they took him to Saint Agnes

but it was too late

Amadeus dead

should have known at the church fairy

was hurting

why didn't I see evil you cannot blame

yourself

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and you still cartwheels trying to make

me laugh

and I was always the one who had to be

pleased

oh yeah but what was to see me enjoying

life like him

couldn't even trouble myself to be a

friend

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yeah what time will the bishop arrive at

the crossroads at 12. we must leave soon

somebody's cousin asked me to take Ahmed

his place fine

let's go

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God bless you all

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everybody

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what's up

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I was dreaming this just now

don't take my dream away

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blessings

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oh

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thank you Heavenly Father

graciously keeping me tonight

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person

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it has fallen

sin and death for the young ones

God have mercy upon us whatever

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ever since emo died

I've suffered so when it rained

but now that I've been out in it with

you

I won't dread it I think

cold clears through

not you

sweet

it seems to bring back feelings you had

when you were a baby

carries you back

back into the dark before you were born

you can't see things but they come to

you how

and you know

like emo

being in there

you mustn't visit this place again

where am I

they have two calves to do tonight

doesn't seem to matter anymore

one the little newborn cows coming into

the world for the first time their eyes

looking at you and their first friends

oh fine I never get up with a feeling of

an attack

I think Mr Lindstrom will come soon

I don't think so

I wrote him three months ago

it's better this way

I'm sure it's meant that I finished my

life alone now

what's left is really unimportant

shame on you here

here I will not ride with the dead not

not

oh come on now efr you're being silly

silly

who's the driver on here I ask you oh

and who's walking barefoot in the dirt

with his handkerchief about to fall out

I don't see that

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I think I should go to the prison in

Lincoln and visit Frank shabata

I think somebody should

he's not got a friend in 10 years he's

gonna spend her

I don't think he knew what he did

maybe I'm as much to blame

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how many times did I go out of my way to

put Ava memory together

blame keeps wounds open Miss Alexander

only forgiveness heals

you'll wake me tonight if the cats come

take as long as you like Miss bergson

just call the guard when you're ready

your platypus a fine boy Miss perkerson

I never meant to harm him

I wish I could see him standing here

alive right now I would gladly die to

see that I hope you believe it

I didn't come here to blame you

I think they were more to blame than you

and I too

I should have seen it

was right there

since they were children

but never in my life carried the gun

can ask you about

he said it's much Frank

I would look foolish but I got

but I put my hand on it

she was such a pretty little thing

I should have known the first day I

spied her

she was 16.

and when she's going away

for my picture to take

it was a trap

but

you can't trap a three little bird like

that can you

I'm married

but here

it's not that woman

under the tree

Frank listen to me

I'm going to try to get you pardoned

I'll never give the governor any peace

until I can get you out of this place

I don't trouble this country no more

I go back the old country

see my mother

so

why

you do this

I can't help

anymore now

so I'm going to do what I can to help

you

I came here

on purpose to tell you this

hi Sandra

I always liked that boy

I don't mean to have him

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horrible

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you got my letter

what letter

I ran onto the news in an old San

Francisco paper

I've been on the run to you ever since

I'm so glad

I'm sorry oh so am I so am I

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with you next spring

I haven't been on the water since we

crossed the ocean when I was a little

girl

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I would never

ask me to go away for good would you

come of course not

I think I know how you feel about this

country as well as you do yourself

yes I still feel that way

though Amon is gone

when I was on the train this morning

when we got near Hanover

I felt just like that time I drove back

with Amy from the river

I was glad to come back to it

there's a great piece here Carl

and freedom

you belong to the land

now more than ever

Oscar and Lewis are so worried I won't

will this land to their children

might as well try and wield in the

sunset

we come and go but the land

is always here

and the people who love it and

understand it are the people who own it

for a little while

do you think you can feel at home here

now

when I saw you coming up the road this

morning I rediscovered something I knew

when I was 15.

I think we should be very happy

I haven't any fears

I think when friends marry

safe

we don't suffer like those young ones

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I'm tired I've been very lonely Carl

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