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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:10,864 --> 00:00:12,765 It was a long time ago... 2 00:00:12,841 --> 00:00:15,098 here in the Wisconsin of my boyhood... 3 00:00:15,211 --> 00:00:17,465 that a new friend came into my life... 4 00:00:17,492 --> 00:00:19,393 and stole my heart away. 5 00:00:19,713 --> 00:00:22,808 I often think of him now, a half a century later... 6 00:00:22,919 --> 00:00:26,914 and I relive in memory the good times we had together. 7 00:00:27,043 --> 00:00:29,740 He was a member of our family almost... 8 00:00:29,779 --> 00:00:31,247 for a while anyway... 9 00:00:31,281 --> 00:00:33,773 and I shall never forget him. 10 00:02:39,576 --> 00:02:43,172 I wonder if I can make it as real for you... 11 00:02:43,213 --> 00:02:45,045 as it is for me still. 12 00:02:45,081 --> 00:02:47,448 I wonder if you can remember the excitement... 13 00:02:47,484 --> 00:02:49,578 of that last day of school... 14 00:02:49,619 --> 00:02:52,350 when everybody could hardly wait to get out... 15 00:02:52,389 --> 00:02:55,359 and enjoy the long, lazy summer ahead. 16 00:02:55,392 --> 00:02:56,860 And also this summer... 17 00:02:56,893 --> 00:02:59,692 my mother's going to teach me how to use the sewing machine... 18 00:02:59,729 --> 00:03:01,220 and to make upside-down cake. 19 00:03:01,264 --> 00:03:04,826 That sounds like a very interesting summer, Sarah. 20 00:03:05,233 --> 00:03:07,133 Now, let me see... 21 00:03:07,620 --> 00:03:10,368 whom have I overlooked? 22 00:03:10,866 --> 00:03:12,976 Of course, Lucy. 23 00:03:15,717 --> 00:03:18,096 For my vacation, we're going to New York City. 24 00:03:18,734 --> 00:03:19,710 Well... 25 00:03:19,857 --> 00:03:21,872 And my Aunt Elizabeth is going to take us to the top... 26 00:03:21,909 --> 00:03:24,276 of the Wool worth Building, sixty stories high! 27 00:03:24,418 --> 00:03:27,372 And then we're going to Central Park and Grant's Tomb... 28 00:03:27,465 --> 00:03:29,058 and the Metropolitan Museum! 29 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:31,831 That's very exciting, Lucy. Now-- 30 00:03:31,870 --> 00:03:34,271 And then we're going to Boston and Bunker Hill... 31 00:03:34,437 --> 00:03:35,706 and Paul Revere's house. 32 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:37,641 Lucy, if you tell us everything now... 33 00:03:37,676 --> 00:03:40,072 there won't be anything left to tell us next fall. 34 00:03:40,312 --> 00:03:42,689 Yes, Miss Whalen. 35 00:03:43,114 --> 00:03:45,583 And how about you, Sterling? 36 00:03:46,380 --> 00:03:49,000 Hey...come to the party. 37 00:03:50,555 --> 00:03:52,615 Sorry, Miss Whalen. 38 00:03:53,090 --> 00:03:54,785 And what kind of excitement... 39 00:03:54,826 --> 00:03:56,437 are you going to stir up this summer, Sterling? 40 00:03:56,752 --> 00:03:59,488 Well, mostly I'm going to be working on my canoe. 41 00:03:59,531 --> 00:04:01,363 Canoe? Is that what this is? 42 00:04:01,399 --> 00:04:04,198 Yes, ma'am. It's a design my Pa worked out. 43 00:04:04,516 --> 00:04:06,466 From the kind the Indians used. 44 00:04:06,504 --> 00:04:07,972 I'm very impressed. 45 00:04:08,803 --> 00:04:11,059 Well, we have only a few moments more... 46 00:04:11,149 --> 00:04:13,243 so I'd like to wish you all a very pleasant summer. 47 00:04:14,713 --> 00:04:16,390 Be sure that you don't have any books with you... 48 00:04:16,414 --> 00:04:17,905 that should be left behind. 49 00:04:17,930 --> 00:04:19,592 Bye! I'll send you a postcard! 50 00:04:23,121 --> 00:04:25,852 Sterling, what else will you be doing this summer... 51 00:04:25,877 --> 00:04:27,311 besides working on your canoe? 52 00:04:27,359 --> 00:04:31,228 Will you be going with your father on one of his trips? 53 00:04:31,262 --> 00:04:32,730 Well, he goes by himself. 54 00:04:32,764 --> 00:04:35,666 You see, he sells real estate all over the place. 55 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:37,411 Well, you don't want a kid hanging around... 56 00:04:37,435 --> 00:04:39,233 when you're doing that. 57 00:04:39,270 --> 00:04:40,898 I see. 58 00:04:40,939 --> 00:04:42,237 Well, you won't be alone. 59 00:04:42,504 --> 00:04:44,742 Your sister Theo has been taking care of things... 60 00:04:44,776 --> 00:04:46,438 since your mother passed away, hasn't she? 61 00:04:46,478 --> 00:04:47,844 Yes, ma'am. 62 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:49,745 But she has to go back to Chicago tomorrow. 63 00:04:58,568 --> 00:05:01,118 Bye, Miss Whalen. Have a nice summer. 64 00:05:01,237 --> 00:05:03,797 Sterling, I'll be working at the library this summer... 65 00:05:04,104 --> 00:05:06,232 and you can stop by. 66 00:05:09,334 --> 00:05:12,168 Wowser, how are you, boy? Huh? Ha ha! 67 00:05:12,203 --> 00:05:14,263 Come on, get in there. 68 00:05:14,305 --> 00:05:16,536 Pa! Hi, Pa! 69 00:05:16,574 --> 00:05:18,202 Sterling! 70 00:05:18,243 --> 00:05:20,269 How are you, boy? Ha ha ha! 71 00:05:20,311 --> 00:05:23,406 Fine. Theo was afraid you wouldn't get home in time. 72 00:05:23,448 --> 00:05:25,159 Well, now, she ought to know better than that. 73 00:05:25,183 --> 00:05:26,947 I always get home, don't it? 74 00:05:26,985 --> 00:05:29,420 - Come on, jump in! - How about my bike? 75 00:05:29,454 --> 00:05:31,685 We'll pick it up later. I've got something to show you. 76 00:05:31,723 --> 00:05:33,988 - Hmm? - Out at Lake Koshkonong. 77 00:05:38,213 --> 00:05:40,273 Well, what do you think it is? 78 00:05:40,402 --> 00:05:41,995 A bobcat? 79 00:05:42,103 --> 00:05:43,601 You're getting warm. 80 00:05:44,897 --> 00:05:47,086 You got a rough idea, haven't you, boy? 81 00:05:47,601 --> 00:05:48,943 A panther? 82 00:05:50,003 --> 00:05:51,680 A lynx. 83 00:05:52,325 --> 00:05:53,816 They live in Canada. 84 00:05:53,841 --> 00:05:56,420 This one lives right here. At the moment, anyway. 85 00:05:56,879 --> 00:05:59,244 Hasn't been four hours since he put those tracks there... 86 00:05:59,287 --> 00:06:01,518 and a good size cat it is from the looks of them. 87 00:06:07,966 --> 00:06:09,366 There he is. 88 00:07:04,311 --> 00:07:07,377 Well, you want to remember that, son. 89 00:07:07,845 --> 00:07:10,707 He's probably the first lynx in these woods in forty years. 90 00:07:11,224 --> 00:07:13,314 What's he doing so far from home? 91 00:07:13,529 --> 00:07:16,486 Oh, he's a rambler, I guess. Like me. 92 00:07:19,182 --> 00:07:20,795 Wowser! 93 00:07:29,783 --> 00:07:31,234 Mmm. 94 00:07:31,889 --> 00:07:33,152 Who made it? 95 00:07:33,177 --> 00:07:35,022 Farmer's wife in Minnesota. 96 00:07:35,628 --> 00:07:38,561 I told her I had a boy who liked apple pie. 97 00:07:38,662 --> 00:07:40,153 Good, isn't it? 98 00:07:40,197 --> 00:07:41,859 Mmm. 99 00:07:45,337 --> 00:07:47,084 Nighthawks. 100 00:07:47,273 --> 00:07:49,799 Mmm. They're awful busy. 101 00:08:04,899 --> 00:08:06,367 Whippoorwill? 102 00:08:06,614 --> 00:08:09,541 Yes. Special kind of bird. 103 00:08:10,218 --> 00:08:11,605 To me, anyway. 104 00:08:11,662 --> 00:08:13,373 Your mother and I used to sit here and listen... 105 00:08:13,397 --> 00:08:16,351 to the whippoorwills a long time ago. 106 00:08:16,990 --> 00:08:20,647 I thought we had all the time in the world then. 107 00:08:21,122 --> 00:08:23,455 If I'd only known how short it would be... 108 00:08:23,540 --> 00:08:25,202 I might have listened to her more. 109 00:08:27,110 --> 00:08:28,874 She always wished I'd settle down... 110 00:08:28,912 --> 00:08:30,642 and stop chasing after farm auctions... 111 00:08:30,681 --> 00:08:32,631 all over the country and... 112 00:08:33,642 --> 00:08:35,941 rent that little office over Pringle's store... 113 00:08:36,459 --> 00:08:38,578 come home for supper every night... 114 00:08:38,622 --> 00:08:40,756 instead of every other week. 115 00:08:41,744 --> 00:08:45,287 I always figured I would... someday. 116 00:08:46,771 --> 00:08:48,611 You know, Sterling... 117 00:08:48,636 --> 00:08:50,629 it's awfully hard for the female of the species... 118 00:08:50,654 --> 00:08:52,350 to understand how some men are. 119 00:08:53,656 --> 00:08:56,060 I'll bet that lynx has a wife... 120 00:08:56,124 --> 00:08:57,956 up in the Canadian woods somewhere... 121 00:08:58,375 --> 00:09:00,469 with supper on the table right now... 122 00:09:00,510 --> 00:09:03,295 wondering why he can't come home every night at 6:00... 123 00:09:03,361 --> 00:09:04,955 like the other lynxes. 124 00:09:08,065 --> 00:09:09,795 Pa? 125 00:09:09,820 --> 00:09:11,136 Yeah? 126 00:09:12,016 --> 00:09:14,008 Don't you ever get lonesome? 127 00:09:14,161 --> 00:09:17,188 No. I got a million things on my mind. 128 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,804 Miles of country to look at, people to talk to. 129 00:09:21,147 --> 00:09:23,912 A little fishing on Sunday afternoon now and then. 130 00:09:23,949 --> 00:09:25,417 The only man who gets lonesome... 131 00:09:25,451 --> 00:09:27,511 is a man who can't live with himself. 132 00:09:28,236 --> 00:09:30,863 It's a big, wonderful world, Sterling. 133 00:09:31,023 --> 00:09:33,256 You only walk through it once. 134 00:09:33,693 --> 00:09:35,746 Wouldn't it be a terrible mistake... 135 00:09:35,784 --> 00:09:37,150 to come to the end of the line... 136 00:09:37,175 --> 00:09:39,274 and realize you haven't stopped along the way... 137 00:09:39,298 --> 00:09:40,922 to smell the flowers? 138 00:09:46,050 --> 00:09:47,916 The lynx! 139 00:10:14,771 --> 00:10:16,433 What's he after? 140 00:10:16,473 --> 00:10:18,374 A woodchuck or something. 141 00:10:22,779 --> 00:10:24,639 Wowser! 142 00:10:26,616 --> 00:10:28,799 Wowser! 143 00:10:29,328 --> 00:10:30,819 Wowser, get off him! 144 00:10:32,289 --> 00:10:34,224 Wowser! 145 00:10:34,637 --> 00:10:37,647 Now, I said quit and I mean quit! 146 00:11:01,589 --> 00:11:03,888 Now you know what she was fighting for. 147 00:11:10,894 --> 00:11:12,658 Serves you right, you big bully. 148 00:11:12,940 --> 00:11:15,684 I don't know why he's got such a thing about raccoons. 149 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,746 He gets along with a skunk even... 150 00:11:17,791 --> 00:11:19,913 but there's something about a raccoon. 151 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:21,847 Well, it's time we got on home anyway. 152 00:11:22,104 --> 00:11:23,436 Come on, Wowser. 153 00:11:25,004 --> 00:11:29,151 Wowser, it's all over. There's nothing we can do. 154 00:11:29,813 --> 00:11:32,237 Wowser, what's eating you? 155 00:11:42,362 --> 00:11:46,915 Well... look what got left behind. 156 00:11:57,527 --> 00:11:59,581 Ha ha ha! 157 00:12:02,785 --> 00:12:05,220 Ah! Ha ha! 158 00:12:10,987 --> 00:12:12,580 Why did the mother leave him? 159 00:12:12,622 --> 00:12:14,989 She probably doesn't know she has. 160 00:12:15,025 --> 00:12:18,809 She won't find out till she gets a chance to stop and count. 161 00:12:19,095 --> 00:12:21,564 Well, then this one's sort of lost. 162 00:12:21,812 --> 00:12:24,077 Yeah. Looks like it. 163 00:12:31,107 --> 00:12:33,370 Almost without needing to say it... 164 00:12:33,529 --> 00:12:35,862 Pa and I agreed we couldn't leave the little fellow... 165 00:12:35,899 --> 00:12:38,767 to fend for himself, not at his age... 166 00:12:39,085 --> 00:12:42,159 and not with the lynx in the neighborhood. 167 00:12:42,485 --> 00:12:45,743 Besides, we kind of felt responsible for him. 168 00:12:46,089 --> 00:12:50,108 After all, it was my dog that had chased his mother away. 169 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,077 I guess Wowser didn't realize it... 170 00:12:53,132 --> 00:12:57,502 but from then on he was going to have to share my affections. 171 00:13:00,021 --> 00:13:02,081 So, that's how it happened... 172 00:13:02,172 --> 00:13:04,180 on that special day in June... 173 00:13:04,301 --> 00:13:07,430 a helpless little orphan came into my life. 174 00:13:09,145 --> 00:13:12,138 I didn't know then how much he'd come to mean to me... 175 00:13:12,182 --> 00:13:14,151 or the troubles he'd bring. 176 00:13:16,557 --> 00:13:19,584 As it turned out, I had met a character... 177 00:13:19,656 --> 00:13:23,491 a personality, and a ring-tailed wonder. 178 00:13:23,693 --> 00:13:25,030 I called him... 179 00:13:25,261 --> 00:13:28,614 Rascal. 180 00:13:44,668 --> 00:13:47,114 That day we came home with Rascal... 181 00:13:47,255 --> 00:13:49,520 I remember Walt Dabbett went sailing by... 182 00:13:49,643 --> 00:13:51,563 in his Stanley Steamer. 183 00:13:58,895 --> 00:14:00,796 Pa said he was a bit of a blowhard... 184 00:14:00,830 --> 00:14:02,765 but not a bad fellow at heart. 185 00:14:11,505 --> 00:14:14,456 Cy Jenkins was our neighbor on the back... 186 00:14:14,626 --> 00:14:17,660 and I swear he spent more time in his corn patch... 187 00:14:17,782 --> 00:14:20,081 than in his drugstore downtown. 188 00:14:21,926 --> 00:14:23,224 Anybody home? 189 00:14:23,714 --> 00:14:26,781 This was my sister Theo as she looked then. 190 00:14:27,190 --> 00:14:29,886 She'd come home on her vacation to take care of us... 191 00:14:29,988 --> 00:14:32,457 and for some reason, she seemed to feel... 192 00:14:32,490 --> 00:14:35,119 one of her duties was worrying about me-- 193 00:14:35,532 --> 00:14:38,099 more than I thought necessary. 194 00:14:40,103 --> 00:14:42,513 Our other neighbor, Garth Shadwick... 195 00:14:42,580 --> 00:14:44,071 was a horse lover. 196 00:14:44,096 --> 00:14:47,498 I guess it went with his owning the town's harness shop. 197 00:14:48,187 --> 00:14:50,144 Afternoon, Garth. 198 00:14:50,619 --> 00:14:52,672 Afternoon! 199 00:14:52,715 --> 00:14:54,411 Settle down, blast you! 200 00:14:54,451 --> 00:14:56,352 Come on, boy! Come on! 201 00:14:56,386 --> 00:14:58,812 He had a trotting horse named Donnybrook-- 202 00:14:58,850 --> 00:15:00,902 a nervous, fractious animal. 203 00:15:01,113 --> 00:15:04,447 Pa al ways said it might someday win a race... 204 00:15:04,494 --> 00:15:08,522 if it'd ever put all four feet on the ground at once. 205 00:15:08,565 --> 00:15:10,227 How was the trip, Will? 206 00:15:10,266 --> 00:15:11,894 Oh, never better. 207 00:15:11,935 --> 00:15:13,631 Got a new member of the family. 208 00:15:13,670 --> 00:15:14,947 Sterling, bring him around here... 209 00:15:14,971 --> 00:15:17,202 and introduce him to Mr. Jenkins. 210 00:15:17,227 --> 00:15:19,994 - He's a raccoon. - So I see. 211 00:15:20,643 --> 00:15:23,158 Garth! You best come here! 212 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,892 Go! Ah, you show-off! 213 00:15:26,583 --> 00:15:27,982 Bah. 214 00:15:28,007 --> 00:15:29,716 Is something wrong, Mr. Jenkins? 215 00:15:29,752 --> 00:15:33,031 Raccoons are varmints, son, and varmints are trouble. 216 00:15:33,056 --> 00:15:34,518 I'm gonna educate him. 217 00:15:34,557 --> 00:15:36,048 Train the varmint out of him. 218 00:15:36,092 --> 00:15:37,253 Ooh-hoo. 219 00:15:37,293 --> 00:15:39,159 Good to see you back again, Willard. 220 00:15:39,195 --> 00:15:40,891 What's all the hollerin' about? 221 00:15:40,930 --> 00:15:42,091 Look. 222 00:15:43,833 --> 00:15:45,529 That's a raccoon! 223 00:15:45,814 --> 00:15:47,901 Yes, sir. His name's Rascal. 224 00:15:48,089 --> 00:15:49,906 Well, what about my chickens? 225 00:15:49,939 --> 00:15:51,066 And my corn patch? 226 00:15:51,107 --> 00:15:53,269 I'm gonna train the varmint out of him. 227 00:15:53,309 --> 00:15:55,801 - Oh ho. - Just what I said. 228 00:16:00,006 --> 00:16:02,191 And there's another problem. 229 00:16:02,289 --> 00:16:03,646 Hambone's a coon hound. 230 00:16:03,671 --> 00:16:05,299 I suppose you know that, Sterling. 231 00:16:05,355 --> 00:16:08,291 Yes, sir, but, well, I think he'll be reasonable... 232 00:16:08,324 --> 00:16:10,580 as long as Wowser's around. 233 00:16:10,707 --> 00:16:11,859 Uh, excuse me. 234 00:16:11,936 --> 00:16:13,802 We don't want to be unreasonable, Sterling... 235 00:16:13,837 --> 00:16:15,362 but facts are facts, now. 236 00:16:15,405 --> 00:16:17,499 And the facts are this just isn't going to work out! 237 00:16:17,542 --> 00:16:19,408 Varmints are varmints, Sterling. 238 00:16:19,433 --> 00:16:20,833 You can't train it out of them. 239 00:16:20,907 --> 00:16:22,569 Not in a thousand years! 240 00:16:25,649 --> 00:16:28,209 Hey! Grab him, Sterling! 241 00:16:28,310 --> 00:16:30,302 That horse spooks at a butterfly. 242 00:16:38,635 --> 00:16:40,604 I'm a son of a gun. 243 00:16:57,072 --> 00:17:00,244 Well, he was supposed to be a coon hound. 244 00:17:00,855 --> 00:17:02,016 Heh heh. 245 00:17:07,100 --> 00:17:09,691 Hi. I had a wonderful trip this time out. 246 00:17:10,530 --> 00:17:13,480 Springtime up north is really something. 247 00:17:16,634 --> 00:17:18,159 That smells good. 248 00:17:28,243 --> 00:17:30,072 All right. 249 00:17:30,751 --> 00:17:32,811 You may fire when ready, Gridley. 250 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:40,381 Papa... 251 00:17:41,066 --> 00:17:42,423 my leave is up. 252 00:17:42,628 --> 00:17:44,189 I'm due back at work on Monday. 253 00:17:44,542 --> 00:17:46,593 That means the morning train to Chicago. 254 00:17:47,072 --> 00:17:48,595 Is that a problem? 255 00:17:49,054 --> 00:17:51,363 Papa, what are we going to do about Sterling? 256 00:17:51,792 --> 00:17:53,158 Do about him? 257 00:17:53,243 --> 00:17:55,466 Do about him! What's to happen to him... 258 00:17:55,506 --> 00:17:58,169 with me gone and you off who knows where? 259 00:17:58,439 --> 00:18:01,086 Oh, Sterling can take care of himself. 260 00:18:01,446 --> 00:18:03,398 Papa, he's only a boy. 261 00:18:03,724 --> 00:18:05,920 You can't leave him alone to fend for himself. 262 00:18:06,187 --> 00:18:08,383 Why not? I did. 263 00:18:09,752 --> 00:18:12,996 You'd think after all these years I'd be used to you. 264 00:18:15,592 --> 00:18:18,449 I've written it all down. 265 00:18:19,596 --> 00:18:21,792 The laundry boy'll pick up on Wednesday... 266 00:18:21,832 --> 00:18:23,960 Mr. Pringle will deliver groceries twice a week... 267 00:18:24,001 --> 00:18:25,833 newspaper's paid through the first-- 268 00:18:25,869 --> 00:18:27,609 You should have been born a top sergeant. 269 00:18:27,634 --> 00:18:29,315 Which brings us to the housekeeper. 270 00:18:29,339 --> 00:18:30,807 Housekeeper? What for? 271 00:18:30,929 --> 00:18:35,245 To keep house. I ran an ad. And I got these replies. 272 00:18:35,479 --> 00:18:37,243 I wanted to interview them myself... 273 00:18:37,281 --> 00:18:41,554 but there just isn't time now, so I've got to leave it to you. 274 00:18:42,442 --> 00:18:45,014 That's my first choice. Spoke to her on the telephone. 275 00:18:45,155 --> 00:18:46,487 Mrs. Satterfield. 276 00:18:47,999 --> 00:18:49,542 "Purest gold." 277 00:18:49,660 --> 00:18:51,360 She's a widow, she lives in Brailsford... 278 00:18:51,395 --> 00:18:52,693 knows all the merchants. 279 00:18:52,951 --> 00:18:55,096 She raised a big family in the Dakotas somewhere. 280 00:18:55,529 --> 00:18:57,355 Well, I've got a better idea. 281 00:18:57,532 --> 00:18:59,209 Why don't you give up that job in Chicago... 282 00:18:59,234 --> 00:19:00,862 and come home to stay? 283 00:19:01,422 --> 00:19:03,497 This is where you belong. 284 00:19:05,254 --> 00:19:06,798 Oh, Papa... 285 00:19:07,581 --> 00:19:09,532 you know I can't do that. 286 00:19:10,664 --> 00:19:13,545 You really stuck on that guy Norman up there? 287 00:19:14,808 --> 00:19:16,470 Yes, Papa, I am. 288 00:19:16,778 --> 00:19:17,709 Serious? 289 00:19:18,117 --> 00:19:20,355 About as serious as you can get. 290 00:19:20,724 --> 00:19:23,189 He wants me to go up to Appleton and meet his family. 291 00:19:23,497 --> 00:19:26,788 A nervy kind of a fella, swiping my favorite daughter... 292 00:19:26,830 --> 00:19:29,533 without so much as a by-your-leave. 293 00:19:30,636 --> 00:19:32,628 How are we gonna get along without you? 294 00:19:33,478 --> 00:19:35,999 Papa, I'm trying, in my own clumsy way... 295 00:19:36,039 --> 00:19:37,530 to take care of that. 296 00:19:37,892 --> 00:19:40,976 Now, I want you to talk to these applicants and make a decision. 297 00:19:41,011 --> 00:19:43,037 Right. Don't you think it's about time... 298 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,605 we got a look at him? 299 00:19:44,826 --> 00:19:46,879 Maybe. First thing Monday? 300 00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:48,852 - First thing Monday. - OK. 301 00:19:49,089 --> 00:19:50,216 I tell you what... 302 00:19:50,314 --> 00:19:52,079 why don't you bring him home for Thanksgiving? 303 00:19:52,970 --> 00:19:55,354 I've got the biggest turkey you ever saw in your life... 304 00:19:55,392 --> 00:19:57,785 all staked out down in Illinois. 305 00:19:57,961 --> 00:19:59,589 Guy owes me some money down there. 306 00:19:59,630 --> 00:20:00,893 Fella named McQuade. 307 00:20:00,931 --> 00:20:02,559 Gave me the pick of the flock. 308 00:20:02,599 --> 00:20:05,262 Just said, "Go out and pick your Thanksgiving bird... 309 00:20:05,302 --> 00:20:06,736 "and I'll put your name on it." 310 00:20:07,373 --> 00:20:08,695 How about it? 311 00:20:08,986 --> 00:20:10,382 I don't know. 312 00:20:10,490 --> 00:20:11,735 Don't know what? 313 00:20:12,277 --> 00:20:15,053 Norman comes from a...different world. 314 00:20:15,078 --> 00:20:16,376 He might have a little trouble... 315 00:20:16,413 --> 00:20:18,109 understanding about Mr. McQuade... 316 00:20:18,148 --> 00:20:20,174 and taking out real estate commissions... 317 00:20:20,217 --> 00:20:21,776 in turkeys and apple pies... 318 00:20:21,818 --> 00:20:23,663 and about your other comings and goings. 319 00:20:23,868 --> 00:20:26,716 Now, don't you worry about that, Theodora North. 320 00:20:26,922 --> 00:20:29,653 You just bring that boy home for Thanksgiving. 321 00:20:29,806 --> 00:20:31,182 You sure you'll be here? 322 00:20:31,401 --> 00:20:32,994 You can bet your hat on it. 323 00:20:33,019 --> 00:20:35,194 I haven't missed a Thanksgiving at home since-- 324 00:20:35,327 --> 00:20:37,023 Since last year. 325 00:20:38,767 --> 00:20:41,999 I didn't miss it. I was just a little late is all. 326 00:20:42,316 --> 00:20:43,809 I know. 327 00:20:44,269 --> 00:20:47,832 So we sat down without you, and we had our dinner... 328 00:20:48,272 --> 00:20:51,421 and it was the last ever with Mama, and you weren't there. 329 00:20:51,446 --> 00:20:53,243 I won't miss this one. 330 00:20:54,504 --> 00:20:56,286 How about it? 331 00:20:57,618 --> 00:20:58,898 I'll see. 332 00:21:00,088 --> 00:21:01,989 Now, remember, this one. 333 00:21:02,511 --> 00:21:04,390 Miss Satterly. 334 00:21:04,436 --> 00:21:06,837 Satterfield, and it's "Mrs." 335 00:21:06,862 --> 00:21:08,387 Don't forget now. 336 00:21:08,624 --> 00:21:10,194 OK, Sarge. 337 00:21:24,889 --> 00:21:27,051 You must understand, Mr. North... 338 00:21:27,091 --> 00:21:30,459 your daughter made no mention of a menagerie... 339 00:21:30,494 --> 00:21:32,520 no mention whatsoever. 340 00:21:32,563 --> 00:21:33,895 Well, Mrs. Satterfield... 341 00:21:33,931 --> 00:21:35,442 I'm sure she wasn't trying to conceal-- 342 00:21:35,466 --> 00:21:36,627 Naturally, naturally... 343 00:21:36,667 --> 00:21:39,227 but we must be honest with each other, Mr. North. 344 00:21:39,270 --> 00:21:41,762 Utterly and completely honest. 345 00:21:41,906 --> 00:21:42,966 Of course. 346 00:21:43,007 --> 00:21:44,908 Right from the beginning. 347 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,209 I couldn't agree with you more, but-- 348 00:21:47,234 --> 00:21:48,725 We must face facts. 349 00:21:48,913 --> 00:21:52,687 Some people have a feeling for animals, others do not. 350 00:21:52,883 --> 00:21:54,631 I do not. 351 00:21:54,877 --> 00:21:56,751 Well, that's too bad. 352 00:21:56,787 --> 00:21:59,222 I have managed to live my life without them... 353 00:21:59,266 --> 00:22:00,734 and they without me. 354 00:22:01,186 --> 00:22:04,259 I'm afraid it's too late to change. 355 00:22:04,415 --> 00:22:07,013 Houses are for people... 356 00:22:07,231 --> 00:22:09,257 and the woods are for animals. 357 00:22:09,943 --> 00:22:11,735 But you're an animal, Mrs. Satterfield. 358 00:22:11,769 --> 00:22:12,930 Beg pardon? What? 359 00:22:13,195 --> 00:22:16,236 People are animals. It's a zoological fact. 360 00:22:16,759 --> 00:22:19,494 Animals are not people. 361 00:22:19,677 --> 00:22:20,940 You have me there. 362 00:22:21,457 --> 00:22:23,641 I'm not even sure they want to be. 363 00:22:24,541 --> 00:22:27,149 I'll be happy to report immediately... 364 00:22:27,251 --> 00:22:31,379 but the raccoon--out. 365 00:22:31,947 --> 00:22:37,309 Any other livestock, fur, fins, or feathers--out. 366 00:22:40,356 --> 00:22:42,329 - Out. - Out?! 367 00:22:42,553 --> 00:22:43,561 Out! 368 00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:45,331 But, Pa-- 369 00:22:45,369 --> 00:22:47,804 Sterling, why don't you take Rascal and Wowser... 370 00:22:47,838 --> 00:22:50,171 into the kitchen and give them their supper? 371 00:22:50,207 --> 00:22:51,436 Yes, sir, but-- 372 00:22:51,475 --> 00:22:53,535 Go ahead, son. 373 00:22:54,745 --> 00:22:56,043 Yes, sir. 374 00:22:56,235 --> 00:22:58,041 Good night, Mrs. Satterfield. 375 00:22:58,215 --> 00:22:59,979 Come on, Wowser. 376 00:23:03,721 --> 00:23:08,793 Oh, I'll be happy to take over if those conditions are met. 377 00:23:08,926 --> 00:23:10,588 Thank you, Miss Satterly. 378 00:23:10,795 --> 00:23:14,037 Satterfield, and it's "Mrs." 379 00:23:14,465 --> 00:23:16,331 Ah, yes, "Mrs." 380 00:23:20,134 --> 00:23:24,584 A pleasure, Mr. North. A genuine pleasure. 381 00:23:28,501 --> 00:23:30,600 - Good night. - Good night. 382 00:24:11,587 --> 00:24:14,691 Well, Sarah, I've got a decision to make. 383 00:24:15,112 --> 00:24:16,713 Who will it be? 384 00:24:17,210 --> 00:24:18,803 Mrs. Satterfield? 385 00:24:29,727 --> 00:24:32,055 She'd break your son's heart. 386 00:24:32,492 --> 00:24:34,393 How about Mrs. Delaney? 387 00:24:34,710 --> 00:24:36,679 The sad one? 388 00:24:44,277 --> 00:24:45,836 Or Miss Endicott? 389 00:24:48,402 --> 00:24:51,147 Abigail. Good influence. 390 00:24:53,562 --> 00:24:55,554 Or Mrs. Mc-what's-her-name? 391 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:10,004 Trouble is, you've left footsteps that nobody can fill-- 392 00:25:10,235 --> 00:25:12,406 light and quick and tiny-- 393 00:25:13,341 --> 00:25:15,333 but nobody can fill them. 394 00:25:32,485 --> 00:25:35,319 So we decided to keep house for ourselves. 395 00:25:35,461 --> 00:25:37,930 Not the way Theo would have wanted, maybe... 396 00:25:37,964 --> 00:25:40,746 but the arrangement suited us. 397 00:25:40,941 --> 00:25:43,305 And, for the moment, we agreed that, uh... 398 00:25:43,376 --> 00:25:45,777 what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her. 399 00:25:45,938 --> 00:25:47,236 There's a pot of stew... 400 00:25:47,273 --> 00:25:49,469 cooking on the back of the stove for tonight's supper. 401 00:25:49,509 --> 00:25:52,162 Cy said for you to come over and have Sunday dinner with them. 402 00:25:52,187 --> 00:25:53,519 Yes, sir, I know. 403 00:25:53,646 --> 00:25:56,674 Oh, you're off to a good start on that canoe, son. 404 00:25:56,916 --> 00:25:59,943 I still haven't figured out a way to bend the ribs. 405 00:26:00,268 --> 00:26:02,353 Well, best way would be to soak 'em, I guess. 406 00:26:02,378 --> 00:26:04,018 I've got to get started. 407 00:26:04,069 --> 00:26:06,913 I've got one hundred miles to make before dark. 408 00:26:10,897 --> 00:26:12,191 Garth! 409 00:26:12,665 --> 00:26:14,213 - Pa? - Huh? 410 00:26:14,367 --> 00:26:16,176 What's it like up where you're going? 411 00:26:16,315 --> 00:26:21,219 Lake Superior? Oh, big as an ocean. 412 00:26:22,436 --> 00:26:23,772 Deep blue color... 413 00:26:24,975 --> 00:26:27,338 dark green pines along the shore... 414 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:30,646 gulls hollering overhead... 415 00:26:31,615 --> 00:26:33,744 the Apostle Islands off in the distance. 416 00:26:35,088 --> 00:26:36,989 A pretty wonderful place. 417 00:26:37,494 --> 00:26:40,082 When you grow up, it's a place for you to see. 418 00:26:40,335 --> 00:26:42,270 Yes, sir. When I grow up. 419 00:26:43,138 --> 00:26:45,122 Set the spark, will you, son? 420 00:26:45,375 --> 00:26:46,673 Garth! 421 00:26:50,570 --> 00:26:51,902 You leavin' already, Willard? 422 00:26:51,938 --> 00:26:54,340 Yeah. I got a long way to go. 423 00:26:54,609 --> 00:26:57,405 Remember, Sterling, if anything comes up... 424 00:26:58,010 --> 00:26:59,410 you hustle right over to Garth. 425 00:26:59,459 --> 00:27:00,424 Yes, sir. 426 00:27:00,449 --> 00:27:03,476 Be gone a week, ten days at the most. 427 00:27:03,824 --> 00:27:06,498 - So long, partner. - So long, Pa. 428 00:27:25,479 --> 00:27:27,607 You want to stay over at my place tonight, Sterling? 429 00:27:28,272 --> 00:27:29,955 I'll be OK. 430 00:27:35,082 --> 00:27:38,256 You know, Sterling, one of these days... 431 00:27:38,418 --> 00:27:40,444 he's gonna take you along with him. 432 00:27:41,061 --> 00:27:42,670 Yes, sir. 433 00:27:57,621 --> 00:27:59,295 At suppertime that evening... 434 00:27:59,338 --> 00:28:01,773 I thought about Pa and his Apostle Islands... 435 00:28:01,808 --> 00:28:04,277 and Lake Superior, big as an ocean... 436 00:28:04,594 --> 00:28:08,077 and I wished I was there riding along with him. 437 00:28:17,523 --> 00:28:20,015 Remembering it all now, I realize... 438 00:28:20,059 --> 00:28:23,223 it was the first time I'd ever been left alone. 439 00:28:23,262 --> 00:28:26,232 And I must say, that big, rambling house... 440 00:28:26,265 --> 00:28:28,234 felt kind of empty. 441 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,640 "Sterling, dear... 442 00:28:33,714 --> 00:28:36,149 "I'll bet you're having the time of your life now... 443 00:28:36,242 --> 00:28:38,211 "with summer vacation in full swing... 444 00:28:38,244 --> 00:28:40,042 "and all the things that Brailsford offers... 445 00:28:40,079 --> 00:28:42,275 "a boy your age. 446 00:28:42,553 --> 00:28:44,784 "Papa wrote you've solved the housekeeper problem... 447 00:28:44,887 --> 00:28:46,843 "but he didn't say how. 448 00:28:47,290 --> 00:28:50,140 "I'm assuming it's Mrs. Satterfield. 449 00:28:50,278 --> 00:28:52,338 "I do feel she's right for you. 450 00:28:52,563 --> 00:28:54,659 "Busy as you are, you still need someone around... 451 00:28:54,703 --> 00:28:56,228 "to sit down to meals with... 452 00:28:56,262 --> 00:28:59,555 "someone to talk to and confide in. 453 00:29:00,219 --> 00:29:03,334 "Papa's probably somewhere over the horizon by now... 454 00:29:03,369 --> 00:29:04,980 "and since I don't know where to reach him... 455 00:29:05,004 --> 00:29:06,199 "I'll ask you. 456 00:29:06,239 --> 00:29:09,652 "How's Mrs. Satterfield working out?" 457 00:29:10,009 --> 00:29:12,348 "Dear Theo. Nice to get your letter. 458 00:29:12,445 --> 00:29:14,141 "Pa's off on one of his trips again... 459 00:29:14,170 --> 00:29:16,264 "and Rascal 's growing like a weed. 460 00:29:16,315 --> 00:29:18,580 "Did you know a raccoon could ride a bicycle? 461 00:29:18,695 --> 00:29:20,131 "Well, not really. 462 00:29:20,156 --> 00:29:21,826 "I do the steering and the pumping... 463 00:29:21,854 --> 00:29:23,288 "and all the hard work... 464 00:29:23,322 --> 00:29:25,314 "and Rascal sits up front and gives orders. 465 00:29:26,106 --> 00:29:28,580 "You should see him. He's a real speed demon. 466 00:29:28,618 --> 00:29:31,281 "Keeps telling me to go faster and faster." 467 00:29:37,797 --> 00:29:40,369 "Dear Theo. I suppose you knew... 468 00:29:40,406 --> 00:29:43,070 "that raccoons can swim. It comes kind of natural. 469 00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,241 "I had Rascal down to the creek today... 470 00:29:45,278 --> 00:29:46,918 "and first time in he took to the water... 471 00:29:46,946 --> 00:29:48,380 "as though he had webbed feet. 472 00:29:48,414 --> 00:29:50,849 "I think he could swim rings around even Wowser... 473 00:29:50,883 --> 00:29:52,317 "if he wanted to. 474 00:29:52,351 --> 00:29:54,820 "Wowser sends his regards, so does Rascal... 475 00:29:54,854 --> 00:29:56,152 "and so do I. 476 00:29:56,188 --> 00:29:58,817 "Your loving brother, Sterling North." 477 00:29:59,154 --> 00:30:01,859 "Sterling, dear, do you read my letters? 478 00:30:02,061 --> 00:30:03,927 "If you do, you must realize... 479 00:30:03,963 --> 00:30:05,440 "that you still haven't answered the question... 480 00:30:05,464 --> 00:30:07,318 "I've asked several times now. 481 00:30:07,426 --> 00:30:09,861 "How is Mrs. Satterfield getting along?" 482 00:30:12,246 --> 00:30:13,842 "Dear Theo. 483 00:30:13,952 --> 00:30:16,751 "You should see how clever Rascal is with his hands. 484 00:30:16,791 --> 00:30:18,238 "You wouldn't believe it. 485 00:30:18,277 --> 00:30:20,971 "Sometimes he seems almost human. 486 00:30:21,645 --> 00:30:24,145 "Last Sunday at the fireman's picnic... 487 00:30:24,203 --> 00:30:26,434 "I won the pie-eating contest-- 488 00:30:26,482 --> 00:30:29,281 "at least I thought I had until they disqualified me... 489 00:30:29,306 --> 00:30:31,104 "because Rascal was helping. 490 00:30:31,129 --> 00:30:34,731 "It was his idea, not mine. What a gyp! 491 00:30:35,094 --> 00:30:37,359 "You'd think they'd give us a--a special prize... 492 00:30:37,396 --> 00:30:39,422 "for best raccoon pie eater." 493 00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:42,435 "Hooray for Rascal and the fireman's picnic... 494 00:30:42,468 --> 00:30:44,903 "and your canoe and everything else. 495 00:30:45,307 --> 00:30:47,099 "But what I'm really interested in is... 496 00:30:47,139 --> 00:30:49,335 "how is Mrs. Satterfield?" 497 00:30:49,375 --> 00:30:50,570 "Dear Theo. 498 00:30:50,610 --> 00:30:52,772 "Raccoons are natural-born fishermen... 499 00:30:52,812 --> 00:30:54,542 "and Rascal 's one of the best. 500 00:30:54,580 --> 00:30:56,947 "He sometimes catches four or five crayfish... 501 00:30:56,983 --> 00:30:59,145 "while I'm standing there still waiting for a bite. 502 00:30:59,399 --> 00:31:01,518 "It's a real kick to watch him. 503 00:31:01,805 --> 00:31:04,882 "Whenever I go into town I take him with me... 504 00:31:04,924 --> 00:31:06,392 "riding up front as al ways. 505 00:31:06,425 --> 00:31:08,894 "I sometimes think he could handle my bike alone." 506 00:31:08,928 --> 00:31:12,357 "Sterling North, how is Mrs. Satterfield?!" 507 00:31:12,544 --> 00:31:14,137 Aah! 508 00:31:15,081 --> 00:31:18,002 How are you, Mrs. Satterfield? 509 00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:23,500 Fine. Just fine. 510 00:31:24,974 --> 00:31:26,712 "Mrs. Satterfield's fine. 511 00:31:26,821 --> 00:31:29,086 "Everybody's fine. Pa's fine, too. 512 00:31:29,239 --> 00:31:32,094 "Very finely yours, Sterling." 513 00:31:36,989 --> 00:31:38,218 For some reason... 514 00:31:38,257 --> 00:31:39,897 I couldn't seem to make Theo understand... 515 00:31:39,925 --> 00:31:41,655 that everything was fine at home... 516 00:31:41,694 --> 00:31:43,595 that she needn't worry about us. 517 00:31:45,073 --> 00:31:47,338 Rascal and I had so many adventures... 518 00:31:47,376 --> 00:31:49,368 I hardly had time to miss Pa. 519 00:31:49,877 --> 00:31:52,904 We were al ways together, partners and pals... 520 00:31:52,948 --> 00:31:55,645 exploring the back roads, wandering the woods... 521 00:31:55,684 --> 00:31:58,549 and learning new things every day. 522 00:31:58,821 --> 00:32:02,314 I'll bet we knew every bird nest and fox's den... 523 00:32:02,357 --> 00:32:04,917 and rabbit burrow for miles around. 524 00:32:05,658 --> 00:32:09,523 Looking back now, I realize that people worried about us. 525 00:32:09,565 --> 00:32:12,125 But we didn't worry. We were too busy. 526 00:32:12,670 --> 00:32:14,227 The fact of the matter was... 527 00:32:14,269 --> 00:32:18,206 it was turning into the most wonderful summer of my life. 528 00:32:19,808 --> 00:32:25,395 ♪ Summer sweet was green, green grass there ♪ 529 00:32:25,681 --> 00:32:31,020 ♪ Fields were wet with morning dew ♪ 530 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:38,352 ♪ I'll meet you on the road across there ♪ 531 00:32:38,393 --> 00:32:42,660 ♪ Don't you be late, you rascal, you ♪ 532 00:32:44,099 --> 00:32:49,970 ♪ Every man's a boy at heart there ♪ 533 00:32:50,005 --> 00:32:56,411 ♪ Every boy, a little man ♪ 534 00:32:56,445 --> 00:33:02,646 ♪ Skip a rock across the pond for me ♪ 535 00:33:02,684 --> 00:33:08,646 ♪ Barefoot boy with cheek of tan ♪ 536 00:33:08,690 --> 00:33:14,755 ♪ I'll trade my new suit for your blue jeans ♪ 537 00:33:14,796 --> 00:33:17,027 ♪ I'll take your country road ♪ 538 00:33:17,065 --> 00:33:20,832 ♪ And you can have my city street ♪ 539 00:33:20,869 --> 00:33:23,270 ♪ Just let me taste my youth ♪ 540 00:33:23,305 --> 00:33:27,003 ♪ In sunshine once again ♪ 541 00:33:27,042 --> 00:33:32,208 ♪ And take me back to summer sweet ♪ 542 00:33:46,361 --> 00:33:52,096 ♪ Summer sweet was green, green grass there ♪ 543 00:33:52,134 --> 00:33:58,131 ♪ Fields were wet with morning dew ♪ 544 00:33:58,173 --> 00:34:04,409 ♪ I'll meet you on the road across there ♪ 545 00:34:04,446 --> 00:34:10,750 ♪ Don't you be late, you rascal, you ♪ 546 00:34:54,217 --> 00:34:57,260 Lots of things happened that summer. 547 00:34:57,299 --> 00:34:59,734 I remember one morning Garth gave Rascal and me... 548 00:34:59,768 --> 00:35:01,236 a ride in his sulky. 549 00:35:01,269 --> 00:35:04,068 You should have seen Donnybrook go. 550 00:35:04,106 --> 00:35:07,133 Garth said he was showing off for his little friend. 551 00:35:19,087 --> 00:35:21,056 Suddenly Walt Dabbett came along... 552 00:35:21,089 --> 00:35:22,990 in that noisy contraption of his... 553 00:35:23,025 --> 00:35:25,358 and it threw Donnybrook all off stride. 554 00:35:32,234 --> 00:35:35,936 Whoa! Whoa, boy! Whoa! 555 00:35:36,278 --> 00:35:39,335 Whoa, Donnybrook! Easy, easy, easy! 556 00:35:40,057 --> 00:35:42,293 Dang fool! 557 00:35:42,878 --> 00:35:45,143 And so that summer sped by... 558 00:35:45,467 --> 00:35:48,014 Rascal getting fatter and lazier... 559 00:35:48,050 --> 00:35:50,246 I getting on with my canoe. 560 00:35:50,285 --> 00:35:53,778 I had finally come up with a great idea for the ribs-- 561 00:35:53,822 --> 00:35:57,020 the hoops from Mr. Pringle's cheese boxes. 562 00:35:57,059 --> 00:35:58,618 That summer, I might add... 563 00:35:58,660 --> 00:36:01,459 I cornered the market on empty cheese boxes... 564 00:36:01,496 --> 00:36:04,364 and the canoe was coming along nicely. 565 00:36:08,274 --> 00:36:09,708 Meanwhile, it seemed... 566 00:36:09,742 --> 00:36:12,075 Rascal had some schemes of his own. 567 00:36:17,416 --> 00:36:19,942 I don't know when it came to his attention... 568 00:36:19,985 --> 00:36:21,578 but somewhere along the line... 569 00:36:21,620 --> 00:36:24,317 he had made a little note for future reference-- 570 00:36:24,356 --> 00:36:27,137 there was corn growing next door. 571 00:36:49,882 --> 00:36:51,077 Hey! 572 00:36:51,116 --> 00:36:53,551 My cornfield! Go on! Get out of there! 573 00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:55,748 Get him, get him, get him, Ham! 574 00:36:55,788 --> 00:36:58,257 Get out of here! Get out of my cornfield! 575 00:36:58,290 --> 00:37:00,589 You miserable varmint! Get him, Ham! 576 00:37:00,626 --> 00:37:02,527 Go on, get him! Get him! Get him! 577 00:37:02,561 --> 00:37:05,827 If I get my hands on you-- gotcha now! 578 00:37:05,864 --> 00:37:08,299 I gotcha, you miserable varmint! 579 00:37:13,272 --> 00:37:14,570 Sorry, Mr. Jenkins. 580 00:37:14,607 --> 00:37:15,939 I don't know what got into him. 581 00:37:16,180 --> 00:37:18,513 My corn! That's what got into him! 582 00:37:22,414 --> 00:37:24,440 - Ohh! - Yes, sir. 583 00:37:24,483 --> 00:37:26,577 Anybody else, they'd shoot him! 584 00:37:26,619 --> 00:37:27,929 And that's just what's gonna happen... 585 00:37:27,953 --> 00:37:29,649 if you don't do something about it! 586 00:37:29,688 --> 00:37:31,054 Shoot him? 587 00:37:31,090 --> 00:37:33,924 Mine ain't the only corn patch in this town. 588 00:37:34,071 --> 00:37:36,690 Now, you better just straighten out that varmint. 589 00:37:36,729 --> 00:37:38,527 Or get rid of him! 590 00:37:38,564 --> 00:37:40,430 I didn't realize it just then... 591 00:37:40,466 --> 00:37:43,026 but my troubles were only beginning. 592 00:37:43,250 --> 00:37:46,470 Making Cy Jenkins mad at me was bad enough... 593 00:37:46,505 --> 00:37:49,839 but that afternoon a new problem arrived in my life. 594 00:37:50,370 --> 00:37:53,971 It was my teacher and the new minister coming to call. 595 00:37:55,681 --> 00:37:57,843 This is the house, is it not, Miss Whalen? 596 00:37:57,883 --> 00:37:59,749 Uh, yes. Yes, it is. 597 00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:09,686 I hope I made myself clear, Miss Whalen. 598 00:38:09,718 --> 00:38:11,050 Of course. 599 00:38:11,096 --> 00:38:13,656 There's a difference between unwarranted interference... 600 00:38:13,699 --> 00:38:15,099 and Christian concern. 601 00:38:15,134 --> 00:38:16,762 Yes, but--the thing is... 602 00:38:16,802 --> 00:38:18,828 the boy's doing fine work in school. 603 00:38:18,871 --> 00:38:20,533 He's healthy and-- 604 00:38:20,572 --> 00:38:23,406 - And happy? - Well, I've always thought so. 605 00:38:23,442 --> 00:38:24,671 Oh, come now, Miss Whalen. 606 00:38:24,710 --> 00:38:27,202 You aren't suggesting this is a suitable existence? 607 00:38:27,246 --> 00:38:29,875 A boy his age living alone without parental guidance? 608 00:38:29,915 --> 00:38:31,508 Well, it does seem unusual, but-- 609 00:38:31,550 --> 00:38:33,746 Indeed it does, Miss Whalen. Indeed it does. 610 00:38:36,655 --> 00:38:38,954 - Miss Whalen. - Good afternoon, Sterling. 611 00:38:38,991 --> 00:38:40,721 Sterling, I'd like you to meet... 612 00:38:40,759 --> 00:38:42,455 our new minister, Reverend Thurman. 613 00:38:42,494 --> 00:38:43,860 How do you do? 614 00:38:43,896 --> 00:38:45,194 Hello, Sterling. 615 00:38:47,499 --> 00:38:49,058 This is Rascal, my raccoon. 616 00:38:49,579 --> 00:38:50,865 Yes. 617 00:38:51,717 --> 00:38:56,884 Uh...we were just passing by, and we thought we would drop in. 618 00:38:57,381 --> 00:38:59,276 Oh, well, I'm glad you did. Come on in. 619 00:38:59,311 --> 00:39:01,141 There's something I'd like to show you. 620 00:39:01,313 --> 00:39:02,838 Well, thank you, Sterling. 621 00:39:03,028 --> 00:39:04,587 We won't stay more than a minute. 622 00:39:07,473 --> 00:39:09,339 Uh-oh. I've gotta clean these. 623 00:39:09,776 --> 00:39:12,644 I've been kind of busy. Come on in the kitchen. 624 00:39:24,231 --> 00:39:25,563 Is that a canoe? 625 00:39:26,572 --> 00:39:28,370 His project for the summer. 626 00:39:30,205 --> 00:39:31,673 Yes. 627 00:39:38,860 --> 00:39:40,852 I'll just be a second. 628 00:39:41,053 --> 00:39:43,318 Now, you see, I've got a problem. 629 00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:46,689 Rascal's been getting in a little bit of trouble lately. 630 00:39:46,725 --> 00:39:49,559 So I've got to, uh, de-raccoonify him. 631 00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:50,858 I beg your pardon? 632 00:39:50,896 --> 00:39:52,728 Well, I've got to get Rascal... 633 00:39:52,765 --> 00:39:54,757 to stop thinking like a raccoon... 634 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,564 and start thinking like a person. 635 00:39:56,602 --> 00:39:58,400 I've been working on him. 636 00:39:58,631 --> 00:39:59,803 Watch. 637 00:40:02,143 --> 00:40:05,438 Rascal...stay. 638 00:40:09,615 --> 00:40:11,948 Rascal, come. 639 00:40:13,018 --> 00:40:14,281 No! 640 00:40:16,588 --> 00:40:18,983 Ah! That's better. 641 00:40:20,838 --> 00:40:22,752 Ah! No! 642 00:40:23,694 --> 00:40:26,220 The flesh is weak, but the spirit's willing. 643 00:40:27,432 --> 00:40:29,094 That's it. 644 00:40:30,062 --> 00:40:32,059 Ah! That's it. 645 00:40:32,938 --> 00:40:34,297 Ah! 646 00:40:34,471 --> 00:40:36,133 That's it! 647 00:40:36,158 --> 00:40:38,218 Good boy. See? 648 00:40:39,545 --> 00:40:42,071 - How very interesting. - A giant step. 649 00:40:42,114 --> 00:40:43,412 When I get through with him... 650 00:40:43,448 --> 00:40:45,212 he's gonna be the world's greatest raccoon. 651 00:40:45,250 --> 00:40:47,742 Aren't you, Rascal? Here, let's get a marshmallow. 652 00:40:47,938 --> 00:40:49,846 Have a marshmallow. There. 653 00:40:50,096 --> 00:40:52,489 - Sterling... - Hmm? 654 00:40:53,129 --> 00:40:55,394 Don't get too fond of him. 655 00:40:55,744 --> 00:40:57,269 What do you mean? 656 00:40:58,230 --> 00:41:01,029 Well, he won't always be young. 657 00:41:01,424 --> 00:41:03,695 There'll come a day when old Mother Nature... 658 00:41:03,735 --> 00:41:07,059 will reach across your shoulder and tap his ear. 659 00:41:07,621 --> 00:41:10,022 And he'll tell you that it's time to go. 660 00:41:10,145 --> 00:41:11,276 Ah, no. 661 00:41:11,776 --> 00:41:12,938 Yes. 662 00:41:13,250 --> 00:41:15,379 That's the way things are, Sterling. 663 00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,974 Rascal wouldn't leave me. 664 00:41:18,348 --> 00:41:20,303 He--he's part of the family. 665 00:41:20,497 --> 00:41:22,577 Yes, which brings us to why-- 666 00:41:25,942 --> 00:41:27,410 It's Pa! 667 00:41:29,545 --> 00:41:31,104 Hi, Pa! 668 00:41:31,147 --> 00:41:33,378 Hello there, son. How'd things go? 669 00:41:33,416 --> 00:41:34,816 Fine. Oh, we got company. 670 00:41:34,851 --> 00:41:37,218 Great. Well, we had a big harvest up north. 671 00:41:37,801 --> 00:41:40,712 Not much money, but the crops were comin' out their ears. 672 00:41:41,128 --> 00:41:43,163 - Who's the company? - Uh, the Reverend. 673 00:41:43,338 --> 00:41:45,428 Oh, great. Reverend who? 674 00:41:45,799 --> 00:41:48,090 Thurman. Gabriel Thurman. 675 00:41:48,553 --> 00:41:51,366 Oh, heh heh. Willard North. 676 00:41:51,473 --> 00:41:53,836 - How do you do, Reverend? - Real pleasure, Mr. Nor-- 677 00:41:55,171 --> 00:41:56,681 Real pleasure, Mr. North. 678 00:41:56,808 --> 00:41:59,169 I'm taking over at the Methodist church... 679 00:41:59,508 --> 00:42:01,681 and I thought I'd look in on Sterling. 680 00:42:01,798 --> 00:42:04,162 Well, you couldn't have come at a better time. 681 00:42:04,328 --> 00:42:07,012 And Miss Whalen! Well, this is a double pleasure. 682 00:42:10,255 --> 00:42:12,916 Yes, sir, you couldn't have come at a better time. 683 00:42:12,955 --> 00:42:14,423 You'll both stay to dinner. 684 00:42:14,545 --> 00:42:16,537 - No, really-- - No, no, we couldn't. 685 00:42:16,629 --> 00:42:18,104 Oh, you have to, Reverend. 686 00:42:18,129 --> 00:42:19,859 We've got so much food here... 687 00:42:19,884 --> 00:42:21,689 it'd be against the Scriptures to waste. 688 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:25,460 You leave me without a defense. 689 00:42:26,669 --> 00:42:28,729 Now, you can see that I'm sort of... 690 00:42:28,771 --> 00:42:30,296 on the barter system these days. 691 00:42:30,339 --> 00:42:32,308 The only way to operate in the farm country. 692 00:42:32,341 --> 00:42:34,207 There's a farmer up north owes me commission. 693 00:42:34,243 --> 00:42:37,680 He had no money, so I'm taking it out in geese and apple pie. 694 00:42:37,713 --> 00:42:39,705 Miss Whalen, would you just put a pot on to boil? 695 00:42:39,865 --> 00:42:42,462 Get us a mess of turnips and potatoes, will you? 696 00:42:42,785 --> 00:42:44,754 How are you at plucking a goose, Reverend? 697 00:42:44,787 --> 00:42:45,948 Well, I don't know. 698 00:42:45,988 --> 00:42:47,650 Well, there's only one way to find out. 699 00:42:47,806 --> 00:42:49,517 There's a clothes basket there on the back porch. 700 00:42:49,591 --> 00:42:50,597 I beg your pardon? 701 00:42:50,622 --> 00:42:52,822 For the feathers. Sterling, get it, will you? 702 00:42:52,862 --> 00:42:53,888 Sure, Pa. 703 00:42:53,913 --> 00:42:55,825 Rascal, I better get you out of the way. 704 00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:59,233 We were just a little concerned over Sterling being alone... 705 00:42:59,268 --> 00:43:01,601 for prolonged periods while you're off-- 706 00:43:01,637 --> 00:43:03,367 The little old lady who makes that cider... 707 00:43:03,406 --> 00:43:05,637 has an apple orchard up out of Duluth. 708 00:43:05,675 --> 00:43:07,268 McGreevy Marvels. 709 00:43:07,310 --> 00:43:08,717 While you're off on your business trips-- 710 00:43:08,742 --> 00:43:11,070 Nothing else, just McGreevy Marvels. 711 00:43:11,114 --> 00:43:12,582 I always make it a practice... 712 00:43:12,615 --> 00:43:14,277 to sort of stop by and help her out. 713 00:43:14,317 --> 00:43:15,478 It occurred to me... 714 00:43:15,518 --> 00:43:17,096 that the church might be of some assistance to-- 715 00:43:17,326 --> 00:43:18,351 McWho? 716 00:43:18,419 --> 00:43:20,322 McGreevy. McGreevy Marvels. 717 00:43:20,685 --> 00:43:21,984 100%. 718 00:43:22,071 --> 00:43:23,732 Well, the point that I'm trying to make is-- 719 00:43:23,757 --> 00:43:25,257 Thank you--the point I'm trying to make-- 720 00:43:25,294 --> 00:43:27,287 I'll take your bag upstairs, Pa. 721 00:43:27,346 --> 00:43:28,609 Thank you, Sterling. 722 00:43:28,634 --> 00:43:30,300 The point is we have this committee-- 723 00:43:30,333 --> 00:43:32,632 You don't run into cider like that every day. 724 00:43:32,668 --> 00:43:34,534 Whose duty it is is to act-- 725 00:43:34,570 --> 00:43:36,334 Look at that color. 726 00:43:36,372 --> 00:43:39,399 You put the right kind of squeeze on a McGreevy Marvel... 727 00:43:39,630 --> 00:43:42,503 bottle it with loving care, set it in a stone cellar... 728 00:43:42,545 --> 00:43:45,310 for just the right number of weeks... 729 00:43:45,464 --> 00:43:46,877 there you are. 730 00:43:49,452 --> 00:43:50,681 You sure this isn't... 731 00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,154 Sneaky? 732 00:43:52,521 --> 00:43:55,647 Oh, Parson, if you only knew the dear old soul who makes it. 733 00:43:55,691 --> 00:43:57,523 To the dear old soul. 734 00:43:57,980 --> 00:43:59,767 Hear, hear. 735 00:44:09,939 --> 00:44:11,703 Mmm. 736 00:44:21,694 --> 00:44:25,222 The finest canoe water in the whole world out there. 737 00:44:25,264 --> 00:44:26,926 Unbelievable. 738 00:44:27,211 --> 00:44:31,211 A man can travel a hundred miles without a portage. 739 00:44:31,615 --> 00:44:33,402 Sterling, how you coming with that pie? 740 00:44:33,441 --> 00:44:35,130 OK, Pa. 741 00:44:35,623 --> 00:44:37,182 Rascal, that's not for you. 742 00:44:39,134 --> 00:44:40,534 How about some more cider? 743 00:44:40,579 --> 00:44:42,865 - I couldn't. - Oh, please. 744 00:44:43,215 --> 00:44:44,513 A little bit. 745 00:44:44,848 --> 00:44:45,950 Whoo. 746 00:44:46,137 --> 00:44:47,247 Ha ha ha! 747 00:44:47,514 --> 00:44:49,380 Remarkable. Remarkable. 748 00:44:49,421 --> 00:44:51,908 Isn't it? Ahh. 749 00:44:52,926 --> 00:44:55,639 Garvey Meevals. Oh! 750 00:44:59,516 --> 00:45:02,860 What would there be about this particular breed of apple... 751 00:45:02,901 --> 00:45:05,463 that makes its juice so... 752 00:45:06,287 --> 00:45:09,154 - Crisp? - Very good. Crisp it is. 753 00:45:09,441 --> 00:45:11,967 Very crisp. Very, very crisp. 754 00:45:12,973 --> 00:45:14,525 You know, it was a seedling. 755 00:45:14,594 --> 00:45:17,099 It came up in the orchard of a man named McGreevy. 756 00:45:17,149 --> 00:45:19,243 The tree's still there, still bearing fruit... 757 00:45:19,268 --> 00:45:21,567 seventy, eighty years later. 758 00:45:22,299 --> 00:45:23,424 Eighty years. 759 00:45:23,460 --> 00:45:25,486 And still going strong. 760 00:45:25,668 --> 00:45:30,854 To the very first McGreevy Marvel. 761 00:45:32,077 --> 00:45:33,412 Hear, hear. 762 00:45:33,537 --> 00:45:35,096 Very crisp. 763 00:45:35,138 --> 00:45:37,004 Now, I want you to pay particular attention... 764 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,303 to this pie. 765 00:45:38,342 --> 00:45:40,619 Sterling, there's a wedge of sharp cheddar in the icebox. 766 00:45:40,644 --> 00:45:41,873 Get it, will you, son? 767 00:45:43,531 --> 00:45:47,289 Wisconsin cheddar makes apple pie something else. 768 00:45:48,684 --> 00:45:51,086 There we are, Miss Whalen. 769 00:45:51,976 --> 00:45:54,339 This is very special apple pie... 770 00:45:54,414 --> 00:45:56,246 Very special, indeed. 771 00:45:56,460 --> 00:45:58,881 Farmer's wife in northern Minnesota makes it. 772 00:45:58,973 --> 00:46:01,602 It's like nothing you ever tasted before. 773 00:46:01,732 --> 00:46:03,998 There we are, Sterling. 774 00:46:04,385 --> 00:46:07,355 Bite yourself off a piece of that cheese, Reverend. 775 00:46:19,702 --> 00:46:23,639 You're 100% right about that pie, Mr. North. 776 00:46:25,434 --> 00:46:27,553 Make it Willard, Pars. 777 00:46:28,211 --> 00:46:31,195 Willard. Perfectly marvelous! 778 00:46:31,528 --> 00:46:34,281 You missed quite a demonstration tonight. 779 00:46:34,385 --> 00:46:36,445 - Oh? - Sterling and his raccoon. 780 00:46:36,567 --> 00:46:37,899 Oh, you should see him, Pa! 781 00:46:37,935 --> 00:46:40,131 I've got him so he won't even look at an ear of corn. 782 00:46:40,170 --> 00:46:42,270 Well, I certainly hope so, son. 783 00:46:42,338 --> 00:46:45,536 It's true. He's 100% de-raccoonified. 784 00:46:46,078 --> 00:46:47,729 De-raccoonified? 785 00:46:48,139 --> 00:46:51,361 I must say, there's a word I'm not familiar with either. 786 00:46:51,682 --> 00:46:54,675 Perhaps it should be un-varmint-ized. 787 00:46:55,043 --> 00:46:56,653 Well, it's all new to me. 788 00:46:56,908 --> 00:46:59,282 They don't use the term down in Indianapolis. 789 00:46:59,506 --> 00:47:03,256 Well, it opens up a fruitful field of speculation. 790 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:04,823 You are right. 791 00:47:05,326 --> 00:47:09,691 Who among us are to be marked for un-varmint-ization? 792 00:47:10,140 --> 00:47:12,436 Raccoons are varmints to people... 793 00:47:12,768 --> 00:47:16,434 but people are varmints to raccoons. 794 00:47:17,358 --> 00:47:20,604 If raccoons were running things, would they go running around... 795 00:47:20,644 --> 00:47:22,510 hollering people out of their corn patches? 796 00:47:22,546 --> 00:47:24,399 And wear people-skin caps? 797 00:47:24,557 --> 00:47:25,694 You're right. 798 00:47:26,212 --> 00:47:28,909 Where, in short, does justice lie? 799 00:47:34,458 --> 00:47:36,017 Wowser, cut it out! 800 00:47:36,059 --> 00:47:38,221 - What's going on? - I don't know! 801 00:48:08,386 --> 00:48:11,049 Things seemed to be going from bad to worse. 802 00:48:11,184 --> 00:48:13,371 First corn, now eggs. 803 00:48:13,498 --> 00:48:16,696 Where would Rascal 's appetite stop? 804 00:48:17,229 --> 00:48:19,821 The young minister had meant well, I'm sure. 805 00:48:19,864 --> 00:48:22,231 I suppose he had hoped he could reform Pa... 806 00:48:22,266 --> 00:48:23,859 and maybe me, too... 807 00:48:24,036 --> 00:48:26,883 but I don't think he knew what kind of a sinner... 808 00:48:27,005 --> 00:48:29,338 he was up against in Rascal. 809 00:48:38,683 --> 00:48:39,981 Night after night... 810 00:48:40,018 --> 00:48:42,487 that sneak went out on his expeditions... 811 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:46,321 picking locks, outguessing us every step of the way. 812 00:48:48,559 --> 00:48:50,926 There was a night Mrs. Folger caught a burglar... 813 00:48:50,962 --> 00:48:52,624 in her jam cupboard-- 814 00:48:52,664 --> 00:48:55,190 a burglar in a little black mask. 815 00:48:57,121 --> 00:49:01,102 Next day I made sure that exit was permanently closed. 816 00:49:01,174 --> 00:49:04,132 He wouldn't go out that way again--and he didn't. 817 00:49:04,534 --> 00:49:08,791 He went out the attic-- the super second-story worker. 818 00:49:08,999 --> 00:49:11,340 His next job was the molasses caper... 819 00:49:11,516 --> 00:49:13,684 in Mrs. Krause's kitchen. 820 00:49:13,918 --> 00:49:16,444 The only clue she had were fingerprints-- 821 00:49:16,487 --> 00:49:19,082 raccoon fingerprints leading away... 822 00:49:19,123 --> 00:49:21,213 from the scene of the crime. 823 00:49:21,643 --> 00:49:25,705 It was like locking the barn after the horse was gone. 824 00:49:26,642 --> 00:49:29,708 Rascal simply found another escape hatch. 825 00:49:30,588 --> 00:49:32,359 And another... 826 00:49:33,157 --> 00:49:34,904 and still another... 827 00:49:36,321 --> 00:49:39,193 and yet another. There was no holding him. 828 00:49:42,628 --> 00:49:45,223 And so it really came as no surprise... 829 00:49:45,405 --> 00:49:48,645 when the long arm of the law reached for me. 830 00:49:48,939 --> 00:49:50,100 Sterling. 831 00:49:50,430 --> 00:49:51,848 Hi, Mr. Stacey. 832 00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:53,358 I've been lookin' for you. 833 00:49:53,418 --> 00:49:56,047 I'm afraid you and I are gonna have to have a little talk. 834 00:49:56,559 --> 00:49:57,862 Yes, sir? 835 00:49:58,059 --> 00:50:00,420 Now, I've had complaints. 836 00:50:01,614 --> 00:50:03,503 I don't know if you're aware of it... 837 00:50:03,545 --> 00:50:06,174 but what we're facing here is a misdemeanor. 838 00:50:06,214 --> 00:50:07,341 A misde-what? 839 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:08,873 Meanor. A misdemeanor. 840 00:50:08,917 --> 00:50:12,115 That's a violation, Sterling. A violation of the law. 841 00:50:12,980 --> 00:50:14,884 Has that animal got a license? 842 00:50:14,923 --> 00:50:18,127 No, sir, but I've got him tied. He's on a leash. 843 00:50:18,214 --> 00:50:20,945 I don't write the laws, son. I just enforce them. 844 00:50:21,044 --> 00:50:24,173 - But, Mr. Stacey-- - As they are set down. 845 00:50:26,370 --> 00:50:27,633 Now, here. 846 00:50:28,049 --> 00:50:30,267 Municipal code, section fourteen. 847 00:50:30,308 --> 00:50:32,571 "Public nuisance." 848 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,342 Paragraph five-- "Keeping of animals." 849 00:50:36,632 --> 00:50:38,557 "Keeping of animals other than farm stock... 850 00:50:38,622 --> 00:50:41,023 "and household pets shall be forbidden... 851 00:50:41,185 --> 00:50:43,154 "unless strictly confined." 852 00:50:43,332 --> 00:50:45,588 That means kept in a cage. 853 00:50:45,934 --> 00:50:48,460 "Violation shall be punishable by--" 854 00:51:05,943 --> 00:51:08,435 Hey! Look out! 855 00:51:12,516 --> 00:51:15,486 Walt Dabbett, you're a four-alarm lunatic! 856 00:51:15,519 --> 00:51:17,886 - Take it easy, Cy. - What do you mean, take it easy? 857 00:51:17,922 --> 00:51:19,481 Why take it easy? I nearly got killed! 858 00:51:19,523 --> 00:51:21,253 What seems to be the trouble here? 859 00:51:21,292 --> 00:51:23,056 Seems to be? Well, you seen it! 860 00:51:23,094 --> 00:51:25,063 Practically run me down with that steam kettle! 861 00:51:25,096 --> 00:51:27,190 Minor navigational error. 862 00:51:27,231 --> 00:51:29,723 Law-abiding citizen ain't safe in this town... 863 00:51:29,767 --> 00:51:30,928 with nuts like you! 864 00:51:30,968 --> 00:51:32,368 What's going on? 865 00:51:32,991 --> 00:51:37,740 My hitchin' posts! Look at my hitchin' posts! 866 00:51:38,782 --> 00:51:41,143 Hand-carved, both of 'em! 867 00:51:41,178 --> 00:51:42,356 If they hadn't been standing there... 868 00:51:42,380 --> 00:51:43,557 I wouldn't have knocked them over. 869 00:51:43,581 --> 00:51:45,015 They don't even belong there. 870 00:51:45,049 --> 00:51:46,745 They belong in some old-fogey museum. 871 00:51:46,784 --> 00:51:47,911 What do you mean museum? 872 00:51:47,952 --> 00:51:49,263 Are you afraid of the truth? 873 00:51:49,287 --> 00:51:52,219 Why don't you face it? The age of the horse is over. 874 00:51:52,323 --> 00:51:54,758 - Over?! - Finished. 875 00:51:54,809 --> 00:51:56,869 - Is that so? - That is most certainly so. 876 00:51:56,894 --> 00:51:58,438 Listen, I got a horse that can outrun... 877 00:51:58,462 --> 00:52:00,727 that puffin' billy of yours sorefoot... 878 00:52:00,765 --> 00:52:02,825 and pulling a flatbed wagon with square wheels. 879 00:52:02,867 --> 00:52:04,244 Are you trying to tell me you got a horse... 880 00:52:04,268 --> 00:52:06,828 can stand up to a steam car? You're not that crazy. 881 00:52:06,871 --> 00:52:10,103 I'll stand up to you any day in the week, Barney Oldfield! 882 00:52:10,141 --> 00:52:11,473 Now, hold back. 883 00:52:11,509 --> 00:52:14,001 A race might be violatin' the municipal code. 884 00:52:14,045 --> 00:52:15,673 A race? Garth! 885 00:52:15,713 --> 00:52:18,080 Put up or shut up, unless you ain't got the spunk! 886 00:52:18,115 --> 00:52:19,359 I got the spunk all right... 887 00:52:19,383 --> 00:52:21,045 and I got the money to back it up with. 888 00:52:21,085 --> 00:52:23,111 Name it! Ten? Twenty? 889 00:52:23,264 --> 00:52:25,020 Five...hundred. 890 00:52:25,056 --> 00:52:26,957 Five hundred? 891 00:52:27,030 --> 00:52:30,262 And I'll even give you two to one to spark your convictions. 892 00:52:31,330 --> 00:52:33,410 - We'll take it! - Garth! 893 00:52:33,450 --> 00:52:36,823 Tomorrow, 2:00, Miller's picnic grove. 894 00:52:36,867 --> 00:52:38,460 Afternoon, Mr. Pringle. 895 00:52:38,502 --> 00:52:40,494 Afternoon, Mrs. Beck. Be with you in a minute. 896 00:52:40,538 --> 00:52:42,871 - No hurry. - Anything else, Mrs. Folger? 897 00:52:42,907 --> 00:52:44,718 No. That's everything on the list. 898 00:52:44,742 --> 00:52:46,074 Afternoon, Mrs. Beck. 899 00:52:46,110 --> 00:52:47,669 Lovely day. 900 00:52:47,730 --> 00:52:49,255 You're sure that's all, Mrs. Folger? 901 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,909 - Oh, yes. - That'll be $ 1. 65. 902 00:52:56,387 --> 00:53:00,154 Oh, we're having a special on kitchen tinware, Mrs. Beck. 903 00:53:00,191 --> 00:53:02,524 No, thank you. I've got plenty. 904 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,257 Well, I wouldn't want to sell you anything... 905 00:53:05,296 --> 00:53:07,561 you don't really want, but I think you ought... 906 00:53:07,598 --> 00:53:08,798 to take advantage of this sale. 907 00:53:08,833 --> 00:53:10,665 Prices are going up, sure as shootin'. 908 00:53:14,684 --> 00:53:18,156 Thank you, Mrs. Folger. Now, Mrs. Beck? 909 00:53:18,209 --> 00:53:20,610 Did the yard goods I ordered come in, Mr. Pringle? 910 00:53:20,644 --> 00:53:22,522 Indeed it did, and so did the patterns. 911 00:53:22,546 --> 00:53:23,741 Good. 912 00:53:23,781 --> 00:53:25,192 Mrs. Folger, I think you ought to look... 913 00:53:25,216 --> 00:53:27,082 at that kitchenware. Every item's on sale. 914 00:53:27,118 --> 00:53:28,313 Here we are, Mrs. Beck. 915 00:53:28,352 --> 00:53:29,843 - Bye-bye. - Bye. 916 00:53:29,887 --> 00:53:32,152 That'll be $ 1.46. 917 00:53:35,359 --> 00:53:37,037 Mrs. Folger, I think you ought to look at that kitchenware. 918 00:53:37,061 --> 00:53:39,087 Mr. Pringle, are those cabbages fresh? 919 00:53:39,130 --> 00:53:40,741 Came in this morning, Mrs. Folger. 920 00:53:40,765 --> 00:53:42,242 And the cauliflower, Mr. Pringle... 921 00:53:42,266 --> 00:53:44,064 is that fresh, too? 922 00:53:44,101 --> 00:53:45,746 Came in with the cabbages, Mrs. Folger. 923 00:53:45,770 --> 00:53:47,432 And the yams? 924 00:53:47,471 --> 00:53:50,441 Fresh, Mrs. Folger. Everything's fresh. 925 00:53:50,474 --> 00:53:53,034 That's al ways been our policy, you know. 926 00:54:01,285 --> 00:54:04,255 Aah! Aah! Aah! Mr. Pringle! 927 00:54:04,288 --> 00:54:06,223 Aah! 928 00:54:09,226 --> 00:54:12,287 Aah! Aah! 929 00:54:16,100 --> 00:54:17,625 Oh! Oh! 930 00:54:35,352 --> 00:54:37,116 Rascal! 931 00:54:38,222 --> 00:54:40,248 Rascal, come back! 932 00:54:40,291 --> 00:54:42,089 Mr. Pringle! 933 00:54:47,898 --> 00:54:49,764 Catch that thing! 934 00:55:30,415 --> 00:55:33,385 Well, that's not bad for a hurry-up job, huh? 935 00:55:36,054 --> 00:55:38,785 Tomorrow we'll move in a few of the comforts of home. 936 00:55:49,874 --> 00:55:53,684 Well, I think we ought to be moving along to bed, Sterling. 937 00:56:01,107 --> 00:56:02,571 Son? 938 00:56:04,192 --> 00:56:05,717 Yes, sir. 939 00:56:21,828 --> 00:56:23,828 He'll be just fine, son. 940 00:56:23,971 --> 00:56:25,837 Come along to bed. 941 00:57:13,064 --> 00:57:15,659 - You ready to go, Pa? - Yep. 942 00:57:18,402 --> 00:57:19,836 Aren't you gonna take him over... 943 00:57:19,861 --> 00:57:22,353 to say good-bye to Cy and Garth and Donnybrook? 944 00:57:22,378 --> 00:57:24,870 They already left for the race. 945 00:57:24,895 --> 00:57:26,722 Oh, that's right, the race. 946 00:57:26,764 --> 00:57:29,131 Say, why don't we stop by Miller's Grove... 947 00:57:29,167 --> 00:57:30,726 and turn him loose afterward? 948 00:57:30,995 --> 00:57:32,293 No, Pa. 949 00:57:35,210 --> 00:57:38,339 Son, are you sure you want to do this? 950 00:57:38,648 --> 00:57:40,879 He's not really full-grown. 951 00:57:41,404 --> 00:57:43,842 There's an awful lot about taking care of himself... 952 00:57:43,875 --> 00:57:46,106 in the woods that he doesn't know yet. 953 00:57:46,407 --> 00:57:48,239 He'll learn. 954 00:57:52,328 --> 00:57:54,387 Tell you what... 955 00:57:54,585 --> 00:57:56,781 since we're going right by Miller's Grove... 956 00:57:56,821 --> 00:57:59,916 why don't we just stop by for a minute? 957 00:57:59,923 --> 00:58:01,016 All right! 958 00:58:01,057 --> 00:58:02,650 Step right up, gentlemen! Who else? 959 00:58:02,692 --> 00:58:05,628 Who else has got the courage to back poor Garth Shadwick... 960 00:58:05,662 --> 00:58:08,131 and his one-horse shay with some hard cash? 961 00:58:08,164 --> 00:58:09,632 Two to one. 962 00:58:09,666 --> 00:58:11,498 How about you, Mr. Pringle? 963 00:58:11,534 --> 00:58:14,993 Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 964 00:58:15,038 --> 00:58:17,132 Whoa, whoa. 965 00:58:17,173 --> 00:58:18,368 What's ailing him? 966 00:58:18,408 --> 00:58:20,900 Don't he know he has half the loose money in town... 967 00:58:20,944 --> 00:58:22,435 bet on his nose? 968 00:58:22,479 --> 00:58:24,209 It's that darn varmint. 969 00:58:24,247 --> 00:58:25,408 Whoa! Whoa! 970 00:58:27,417 --> 00:58:31,582 Calm down! Where's Willard and that boy anyway? 971 00:58:32,922 --> 00:58:35,153 All right, gentlemen, it's time to start the race. 972 00:58:35,191 --> 00:58:38,093 Official starting time--2:00. 973 00:58:38,128 --> 00:58:40,495 Last chance to bet. Any more sucker money? 974 00:58:40,821 --> 00:58:42,847 Both of you know the course. 975 00:58:42,981 --> 00:58:47,401 You go down to the crossroads, swing past Miller's farm... 976 00:58:47,551 --> 00:58:52,609 turn right, across the creek, past Otto Wagner's feed pens... 977 00:58:52,642 --> 00:58:55,635 and come back down the county road... 978 00:58:56,047 --> 00:58:58,080 across the covered bridge... 979 00:58:58,313 --> 00:59:00,276 and back to the starting line! 980 00:59:00,317 --> 00:59:01,615 OK, let's go. 981 00:59:01,907 --> 00:59:05,281 Steamer, four laps. Donnybrook, two laps. 982 00:59:05,322 --> 00:59:07,120 Yeah, yeah. Let's go. 983 00:59:07,157 --> 00:59:10,321 Donnybrook, if you ever ran, you'd better do it today. 984 00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,762 Stand back. Don't want nobody getting hurt. 985 00:59:14,685 --> 00:59:16,517 Ready, gents? 986 00:59:17,932 --> 00:59:19,651 Ready... 987 00:59:20,437 --> 00:59:23,202 get set...go! 988 00:59:26,976 --> 00:59:29,605 I said "Go," didn't I? Well, go! 989 00:59:40,357 --> 00:59:43,759 Come on, Donnybrook! Go! Go! 990 00:59:46,196 --> 00:59:49,394 Donnybrook, go, boy! 991 00:59:56,172 --> 00:59:57,504 Ha ha ha! 992 01:00:55,465 --> 01:00:57,922 Easy, boy. Easy. 993 01:00:58,752 --> 01:01:00,636 Stop blowing that whistle! 994 01:01:00,670 --> 01:01:02,161 Ha ha ha! 995 01:01:03,706 --> 01:01:05,504 Now, easy, boy, easy! 996 01:01:14,751 --> 01:01:16,379 Careful! 997 01:01:16,604 --> 01:01:19,438 Down, Donnybrook! Down, boy, down! 998 01:01:25,484 --> 01:01:27,578 Any more Donnybrook money at two to one? 999 01:01:27,603 --> 01:01:29,094 Three to one? Five to one? 1000 01:01:29,119 --> 01:01:30,815 The race ain't over yet, Walt Dabbett! 1001 01:01:30,913 --> 01:01:32,347 Aw, the heck it ain't! Ha ha! 1002 01:01:36,105 --> 01:01:37,573 Hey, look! 1003 01:01:42,145 --> 01:01:43,345 Hey, what's going on? 1004 01:01:43,379 --> 01:01:45,610 Never mind what's going on! Where you been? Come on! 1005 01:01:45,648 --> 01:01:46,946 What are we gonna do? 1006 01:01:46,983 --> 01:01:49,885 Try to make a race out of it, that's what we're gonna do! 1007 01:01:51,087 --> 01:01:53,784 Garth! Garth, stop! Stop! 1008 01:01:53,823 --> 01:01:56,088 Stop! Garth-- 1009 01:01:56,125 --> 01:01:57,269 I'm pulling him out of the race. 1010 01:01:57,293 --> 01:01:58,727 But, Garth, he showed up! 1011 01:01:59,024 --> 01:02:02,324 Oh--Sterling, bring him here! 1012 01:02:03,340 --> 01:02:05,206 There we go! All right! 1013 01:02:05,456 --> 01:02:06,617 Let's go! 1014 01:02:23,686 --> 01:02:26,281 - What's going on? - Looks like you're in trouble. 1015 01:02:26,322 --> 01:02:28,791 Yeah. Donnybrook's on his last lap. 1016 01:02:50,046 --> 01:02:51,480 Donnybrook, let's go! 1017 01:02:55,618 --> 01:02:57,450 Come on, Donnybrook, you can do it! 1018 01:03:48,538 --> 01:03:51,508 - Congratulations, Garth! - Rascal, you did it! 1019 01:03:51,541 --> 01:03:53,032 You're my fuzzy darling! 1020 01:03:53,076 --> 01:03:55,409 You can have anything your darn heart desires! 1021 01:03:55,445 --> 01:03:56,936 Corn till it comes out your ears! 1022 01:03:56,980 --> 01:03:59,381 Eggs anytime, day or night! 1023 01:03:59,562 --> 01:04:02,122 The lid'll never be on the marshmallow jar. 1024 01:04:02,837 --> 01:04:07,321 And as for municipal code, section fourteen... 1025 01:04:15,398 --> 01:04:18,129 And so Rascal was the hero of the hour... 1026 01:04:18,167 --> 01:04:20,466 and back in everybody's good graces. 1027 01:04:20,503 --> 01:04:23,029 Everyone's but Walt Dabbett's maybe. 1028 01:04:23,072 --> 01:04:25,837 That most wonderful summer of my life... 1029 01:04:25,945 --> 01:04:28,200 was about to come to a close. 1030 01:04:28,411 --> 01:04:31,108 And before we knew it, it was Thanksgiving... 1031 01:04:31,273 --> 01:04:33,866 and time for Theo's homecoming. 1032 01:04:36,694 --> 01:04:39,535 Um, Norman, about Papa... 1033 01:04:39,832 --> 01:04:41,620 I want you to be forewarned. 1034 01:04:42,293 --> 01:04:45,463 Honey, don't be nervous. You've explained all about him. 1035 01:04:45,499 --> 01:04:46,990 I couldn't have. 1036 01:04:47,034 --> 01:04:50,300 Nobody can explain my father, you've got to meet him. 1037 01:04:50,337 --> 01:04:51,703 Well, I'm looking forward to it. 1038 01:04:53,968 --> 01:04:57,837 Thing is, I--I want you to like him. 1039 01:04:57,977 --> 01:05:00,538 All right, I'll do that. I'm glad you told me. 1040 01:05:00,581 --> 01:05:03,380 I mean, I want him to like you. 1041 01:05:04,305 --> 01:05:06,546 Ah, now that may be harder. 1042 01:05:07,528 --> 01:05:09,887 Norman, you are hopeless. 1043 01:05:09,924 --> 01:05:12,257 Just remember, I warned you. 1044 01:05:12,771 --> 01:05:16,649 OK, I'm warned. Now relax. 1045 01:05:20,234 --> 01:05:23,398 Oh, I've got to drop those figures off back to my office. 1046 01:05:23,437 --> 01:05:25,015 Do you suppose there's a place in town... 1047 01:05:25,039 --> 01:05:26,405 I could send a telegram? 1048 01:05:44,714 --> 01:05:46,849 - Be right back. - OK. 1049 01:05:49,905 --> 01:05:51,884 Mrs. Satterfield! 1050 01:05:52,347 --> 01:05:54,140 Hello. 1051 01:05:54,401 --> 01:05:56,597 I'm Theo North. We talked last spring. 1052 01:05:56,637 --> 01:05:58,299 Oh, to be sure. 1053 01:05:58,339 --> 01:06:01,036 You caught me at a disadvantage. 1054 01:06:01,075 --> 01:06:02,168 How are things going? 1055 01:06:02,209 --> 01:06:04,144 I'm been meaning to write to you... 1056 01:06:04,178 --> 01:06:06,613 but Sterling's been filling me in, so... 1057 01:06:06,647 --> 01:06:08,673 Very satisfactorily, I would say. 1058 01:06:08,716 --> 01:06:10,548 A touch of arthritis. 1059 01:06:10,584 --> 01:06:13,577 Oh, well, I meant with Sterling and Papa. 1060 01:06:13,621 --> 01:06:15,214 Seems to be fine. 1061 01:06:15,256 --> 01:06:17,623 Of course, they march to a different drum... 1062 01:06:17,658 --> 01:06:19,820 as the saying goes. 1063 01:06:19,860 --> 01:06:22,329 Well, I really must be going. A lot to do today. 1064 01:06:22,363 --> 01:06:23,888 Thanksgiving and all, you know. 1065 01:06:23,931 --> 01:06:26,196 Wait a minute, we can take you home. 1066 01:06:26,233 --> 01:06:28,759 It's only a two-seater, but I'm sure we can manage somehow. 1067 01:06:28,803 --> 01:06:29,964 Here, let me help. 1068 01:06:30,004 --> 01:06:32,303 I wouldn't want to take you so far out of your way. 1069 01:06:32,339 --> 01:06:35,400 Nonsense--out of our way? 1070 01:06:35,442 --> 01:06:37,843 I'm clear over on the other side of town... 1071 01:06:37,878 --> 01:06:39,369 on Menomene Avenue. 1072 01:06:41,116 --> 01:06:43,282 Mrs. Satterfield... 1073 01:06:43,922 --> 01:06:46,255 who is minding the store? 1074 01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:48,665 Store? 1075 01:06:48,870 --> 01:06:52,668 Yes. Who's keeping house for my father and Sterling? 1076 01:06:53,216 --> 01:06:55,453 So far as I know, nobody. 1077 01:06:55,524 --> 01:06:58,537 As I said, they march to a different drum. 1078 01:06:59,306 --> 01:07:01,707 A tom-tom, if you want to be honest about it. 1079 01:07:01,751 --> 01:07:04,186 Well, happy Thanksgiving. 1080 01:07:11,345 --> 01:07:13,075 Well, Theo! 1081 01:07:13,113 --> 01:07:16,242 Nice to have you home. Where's your young man? 1082 01:07:16,283 --> 01:07:18,548 Later, Mr. Jenkins. 1083 01:07:19,174 --> 01:07:21,317 Theo! Theo, where are you going? 1084 01:07:23,836 --> 01:07:24,997 Theo! 1085 01:07:25,037 --> 01:07:28,496 Ahh, you must be Theo's young man. 1086 01:07:28,869 --> 01:07:30,497 Well, I thought I was. 1087 01:07:33,502 --> 01:07:34,800 Holy cow. 1088 01:07:38,475 --> 01:07:41,015 Holy cow. She wasn't supposed to be here until-- 1089 01:08:11,098 --> 01:08:13,260 Papa! 1090 01:08:14,061 --> 01:08:15,775 Sterl-- 1091 01:08:38,028 --> 01:08:42,350 Oh, hi, Theo. You're early. You remember Rascal, don't you? 1092 01:08:42,640 --> 01:08:45,633 Bet you're surprised to see how much he's grown. 1093 01:08:45,887 --> 01:08:47,873 Sterling North, how could you do it? 1094 01:08:47,912 --> 01:08:51,110 Do what? Oh, you mean my canoe. 1095 01:08:51,149 --> 01:08:52,617 Well, it's all finished now... 1096 01:08:52,650 --> 01:08:55,106 and me and Pa were going to haul it out to the garage. 1097 01:08:55,190 --> 01:08:57,735 I'm not talking about your canoe! 1098 01:08:58,568 --> 01:09:03,300 How could you hoodwink me like this about Mrs. Satterfield? 1099 01:09:03,769 --> 01:09:06,056 It wasn't a lie, exactly. 1100 01:09:06,390 --> 01:09:08,123 Not a black one anyway. 1101 01:09:08,543 --> 01:09:11,087 Gray. Dark gray, Pa says. 1102 01:09:11,269 --> 01:09:12,430 Where is he? 1103 01:09:12,470 --> 01:09:14,632 At the butcher's getting the turkey for tomorrow. 1104 01:09:14,672 --> 01:09:16,402 Oh, Theo, you've got to see it. 1105 01:09:16,441 --> 01:09:18,433 Thirty pounds! The biggest turkey in the whole-- 1106 01:09:18,476 --> 01:09:19,687 Sterling, stop trying to change the subject. 1107 01:09:19,711 --> 01:09:21,577 A fellow owed Pa some money, see? 1108 01:09:21,613 --> 01:09:23,878 Sterling North, answer me! 1109 01:09:23,932 --> 01:09:25,670 ...McQuade. 1110 01:09:27,232 --> 01:09:29,018 It was my fault. 1111 01:09:29,625 --> 01:09:31,734 I should have told you. 1112 01:09:32,789 --> 01:09:34,635 We just couldn't do it. 1113 01:09:36,012 --> 01:09:37,604 Why not? 1114 01:09:38,257 --> 01:09:42,100 What is so difficult about hiring a housekeeper? 1115 01:09:43,136 --> 01:09:46,424 Sterling, I'm talking to you. 1116 01:09:47,309 --> 01:09:49,874 What's so awful about Mrs. Satterfield? 1117 01:09:49,958 --> 01:09:53,292 She's a perfectly nice, clean, respectable lady. 1118 01:09:53,511 --> 01:09:56,504 What is so wrong with having your meals on time? 1119 01:09:56,548 --> 01:09:58,039 And your socks darned. 1120 01:09:58,082 --> 01:10:00,152 Maybe the furniture polished once in awhile. 1121 01:10:00,222 --> 01:10:03,920 - Tell me! - OK. OK, I'll tell you. 1122 01:10:04,034 --> 01:10:06,265 Because she wouldn't be anything like Mom. 1123 01:10:06,293 --> 01:10:09,354 Or you, even. That's what's wrong. 1124 01:10:10,949 --> 01:10:15,934 Well, Sterling, Mama's gone, and I've got a job. 1125 01:10:16,354 --> 01:10:18,629 OK, so you've got a job. 1126 01:10:19,024 --> 01:10:21,391 It's easy for you to sit in Chicago... 1127 01:10:21,426 --> 01:10:23,088 and write your letters. 1128 01:10:23,128 --> 01:10:25,359 But what about Pa and me? 1129 01:10:25,758 --> 01:10:28,595 Pa's gone half the time. 1130 01:10:28,633 --> 01:10:32,070 Mrs.--Mrs. Satter-- Mrs. Satterfield-- 1131 01:10:32,103 --> 01:10:34,820 Do you know the first thing that she wanted to do? 1132 01:10:34,924 --> 01:10:37,792 She wanted to kick out Wowser and Rascal, too. 1133 01:10:37,925 --> 01:10:41,089 That's right. Just--just--she hates animals. 1134 01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:44,348 She wanted to kick them out like they were nothing. 1135 01:10:44,578 --> 01:10:46,672 Like-- like they didn't even matter. 1136 01:10:47,164 --> 01:10:48,344 I see. 1137 01:10:49,049 --> 01:10:51,322 Soon as she came in here, she was walking in... 1138 01:10:51,356 --> 01:10:53,552 putting her finger all over mother's furniture... 1139 01:10:53,592 --> 01:10:56,892 saying, "Kick 'em out. Animals aren't people." 1140 01:10:56,928 --> 01:10:58,089 Well, maybe they're not... 1141 01:10:58,129 --> 01:11:01,156 but they're not just animals to me, Theo. 1142 01:11:01,199 --> 01:11:02,895 They're--they're-- 1143 01:11:02,934 --> 01:11:04,459 Yeah. 1144 01:11:04,503 --> 01:11:07,735 I'm not gonna let anyone kick them out. 1145 01:11:07,906 --> 01:11:09,704 Not anyone. 1146 01:11:10,458 --> 01:11:12,993 Hey, Sterling... 1147 01:11:13,928 --> 01:11:15,658 I'm sorry. 1148 01:11:17,582 --> 01:11:19,448 Gotta finish cleaning up. 1149 01:11:19,484 --> 01:11:21,146 Wait a minute. 1150 01:11:28,961 --> 01:11:30,520 Theo? 1151 01:11:36,569 --> 01:11:39,539 ♪ Over the river and through the wood ♪ 1152 01:11:39,572 --> 01:11:40,972 Theo? 1153 01:11:45,244 --> 01:11:47,839 Hello, Papa. 1154 01:11:48,289 --> 01:11:50,986 Look, I know just what you're going to say. 1155 01:11:51,264 --> 01:11:52,631 Mea culpa. 1156 01:11:52,685 --> 01:11:55,280 That's Latin for "I know the house is a mess... 1157 01:11:55,321 --> 01:11:57,032 "daughter, but you got here three hours early." 1158 01:11:57,056 --> 01:11:58,251 Papa-- 1159 01:11:58,291 --> 01:12:00,202 I know. Just give Sterling and me some working room... 1160 01:12:00,226 --> 01:12:01,870 and we'll have the whole thing shipshape... 1161 01:12:01,894 --> 01:12:03,138 before you can say Jack Robinson. 1162 01:12:03,162 --> 01:12:05,791 - What do you think of that? - Just fine. 1163 01:12:05,832 --> 01:12:07,266 I pulled off a real transaction. 1164 01:12:07,300 --> 01:12:08,777 You know, there's a fella down in Illinois-- 1165 01:12:08,801 --> 01:12:11,202 Named McQuade. He owes you real estate commission. 1166 01:12:11,237 --> 01:12:12,637 Gave you the pick of the flock... 1167 01:12:12,672 --> 01:12:14,249 and that just happens to be the biggest turkey... 1168 01:12:14,273 --> 01:12:16,469 in the state of Illinois. Right? 1169 01:12:16,509 --> 01:12:18,501 I forgot I told you that. 1170 01:12:18,544 --> 01:12:20,240 So where's your young fella? 1171 01:12:20,279 --> 01:12:22,510 Down at the telegraph office. 1172 01:12:22,548 --> 01:12:27,111 Why don't you be a love, go down and pick him up... 1173 01:12:27,153 --> 01:12:28,951 take him out to Koshkonong... 1174 01:12:28,988 --> 01:12:31,514 and watch the ice boats or something? 1175 01:12:31,557 --> 01:12:35,187 Ice boats? The water won't freeze over for a month. 1176 01:12:35,384 --> 01:12:38,115 Fine. Take him out there and wait. 1177 01:12:42,635 --> 01:12:44,729 Now, what was that? 1178 01:12:44,771 --> 01:12:46,364 Nothing. 1179 01:12:46,406 --> 01:12:48,637 Why don't you just come right out and say it? 1180 01:12:48,674 --> 01:12:50,540 Do your heart good. 1181 01:12:50,576 --> 01:12:53,842 I have said it all, Papa. I'm out of words. 1182 01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,577 Just go down and fetch Norman, tell him I'm sorry... 1183 01:12:56,616 --> 01:12:58,778 and that I wasn't thinking too clearly. 1184 01:12:58,818 --> 01:13:00,582 Look, don't you think you're making... 1185 01:13:00,620 --> 01:13:03,317 an awful lot out of nothing? 1186 01:13:03,667 --> 01:13:05,348 Nothing?! 1187 01:13:05,391 --> 01:13:07,087 We're just living the way we want to live. 1188 01:13:07,126 --> 01:13:08,617 Is that so bad? 1189 01:13:08,661 --> 01:13:12,192 Papa, you've always lived the way you wanted to live. 1190 01:13:12,765 --> 01:13:14,529 Well, what's wrong with that? 1191 01:13:14,567 --> 01:13:16,627 What is wrong with it, Papa... 1192 01:13:16,669 --> 01:13:19,605 is that somebody else has to pay the price. 1193 01:13:22,375 --> 01:13:24,435 Now, see here, young lady. 1194 01:13:24,477 --> 01:13:26,571 You just hold on. 1195 01:13:26,846 --> 01:13:30,112 What is most particularly wrong at this moment, Willard North... 1196 01:13:30,637 --> 01:13:34,182 is that I've just made up my mind I can't marry Norman. 1197 01:13:34,770 --> 01:13:36,046 Theo! 1198 01:13:36,088 --> 01:13:37,556 Because I haven't the heart... 1199 01:13:37,590 --> 01:13:40,082 to let Sterling grow up in a vacuum... 1200 01:13:40,126 --> 01:13:42,994 while you're off chasing rainbows. 1201 01:13:43,029 --> 01:13:45,055 Because you are too eternally selfish... 1202 01:13:45,097 --> 01:13:47,657 to act like an adult responsible human being... 1203 01:13:47,700 --> 01:13:50,169 and give that boy the father he deserves. 1204 01:13:50,203 --> 01:13:51,637 Now, you just wait a minute-- 1205 01:13:51,671 --> 01:13:53,401 Papa, I won't wait! 1206 01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:55,567 This has got to get said for once. 1207 01:13:56,636 --> 01:13:59,511 Look, Papa, for every fun-loving... 1208 01:13:59,545 --> 01:14:02,105 happy-go-lucky free spirit... 1209 01:14:02,148 --> 01:14:05,016 for every charming, rollicking pixie... 1210 01:14:05,051 --> 01:14:07,077 somebody has got to pay the price. 1211 01:14:09,288 --> 01:14:12,156 Somebody is seeing that the bills are paid... 1212 01:14:12,191 --> 01:14:14,558 and the checkbook balances... 1213 01:14:14,594 --> 01:14:17,291 and the kids are dressed and homework's done... 1214 01:14:17,456 --> 01:14:20,221 and that there's soup on the back of the stove. 1215 01:14:20,551 --> 01:14:24,613 Somebody, Papa, has got to do the worrying. 1216 01:14:25,073 --> 01:14:27,173 And it's a father's job mostly. 1217 01:14:27,206 --> 01:14:30,233 And if a father wants to chase dreams-- 1218 01:14:30,276 --> 01:14:32,302 Theo, there's no point in going into all that. 1219 01:14:32,345 --> 01:14:33,836 Papa, I'm afraid there is. 1220 01:14:34,055 --> 01:14:36,870 Because I'm going to have to do your job. 1221 01:14:37,283 --> 01:14:40,412 Because I know what'll happen to Sterling. 1222 01:14:40,453 --> 01:14:42,820 What is happening to him right now. 1223 01:14:42,855 --> 01:14:45,154 I can feel the loneliness in him. 1224 01:14:45,659 --> 01:14:48,170 Why, he never said a word. 1225 01:14:48,911 --> 01:14:51,095 No, Papa, he wouldn't. 1226 01:14:51,130 --> 01:14:52,894 He's too proud to tell you... 1227 01:14:53,549 --> 01:14:56,314 that he needs something in his life... 1228 01:14:56,339 --> 01:14:59,741 besides a yellow dog and a pet raccoon. 1229 01:15:02,393 --> 01:15:06,023 Papa...face up to it. 1230 01:15:06,929 --> 01:15:09,906 Be honest with yourself. 1231 01:15:10,649 --> 01:15:13,612 Don't go running off to Wentworth Woods... 1232 01:15:14,038 --> 01:15:16,011 or out to Minnesota. 1233 01:15:16,556 --> 01:15:19,185 Don't go chasing after the biggest turkey... 1234 01:15:19,225 --> 01:15:21,558 in the state of Illinois. 1235 01:15:21,968 --> 01:15:27,134 Just stop and ask yourself if you're being fair to that boy. 1236 01:16:13,553 --> 01:16:14,714 Theo? 1237 01:16:15,775 --> 01:16:16,664 Oh. 1238 01:16:16,756 --> 01:16:18,208 Well, Norman. 1239 01:16:18,758 --> 01:16:20,454 I saw the lights. 1240 01:16:20,493 --> 01:16:21,984 Thought it might have been Theo. 1241 01:16:22,028 --> 01:16:23,963 You couldn't sleep either, huh? 1242 01:16:24,311 --> 01:16:26,831 Well, join the club. Cup of coffee? 1243 01:16:27,070 --> 01:16:28,470 Thank you. 1244 01:16:35,151 --> 01:16:37,780 Mr. North, could you tell me what's going on? 1245 01:16:37,906 --> 01:16:40,933 I mean, first Theo drops me off in the middle of town... 1246 01:16:40,958 --> 01:16:44,122 and now she's hardly even speaking to me. 1247 01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:47,802 Am I engaged or aren't I? And if so, why? 1248 01:16:49,389 --> 01:16:52,086 Norman, sit down. 1249 01:16:54,948 --> 01:16:59,936 Norman, the longer I live, the more I'm convinced... 1250 01:17:00,550 --> 01:17:03,452 no, the less I'm convinced... 1251 01:17:03,569 --> 01:17:07,690 that I know the answer to anything. 1252 01:18:02,495 --> 01:18:06,772 Norman! Norman! Papa! Sterling! 1253 01:18:06,966 --> 01:18:09,367 - Theo! - Norman, oh! 1254 01:18:09,402 --> 01:18:10,563 Honey, what's wrong? 1255 01:18:12,472 --> 01:18:14,031 That is what's wrong! 1256 01:18:14,073 --> 01:18:16,167 I reached out in my sleep, and it-- 1257 01:18:16,209 --> 01:18:18,235 What happened? Where's Rascal? 1258 01:18:18,277 --> 01:18:19,609 - Downstairs. - Rascal! 1259 01:18:22,815 --> 01:18:24,113 What's going on? 1260 01:18:24,150 --> 01:18:25,914 Rascal's trying to get out again. 1261 01:18:27,653 --> 01:18:30,851 Rascal! Now, how many times do I have to tell you-- 1262 01:18:35,646 --> 01:18:37,143 He bit me. 1263 01:18:39,332 --> 01:18:41,096 I'll get the iodine. 1264 01:18:46,403 --> 01:18:49,497 Sterling, don't get too fond of him. 1265 01:18:49,976 --> 01:18:52,002 He won't al ways be young. 1266 01:18:52,044 --> 01:18:53,876 There'll come a day when old Mother Nature... 1267 01:18:53,913 --> 01:18:57,261 will reach across your shoulder and tap his ear... 1268 01:18:57,783 --> 01:19:00,719 and he'll tell you that it's time to go. 1269 01:19:15,111 --> 01:19:17,080 Come here, son. 1270 01:19:21,849 --> 01:19:23,977 Take care of these bites. 1271 01:19:25,411 --> 01:19:30,406 He didn't mean it, Pa. He just wants to ramble. 1272 01:19:32,585 --> 01:19:33,951 Hurt? 1273 01:19:33,986 --> 01:19:35,955 It just stings a little. 1274 01:19:35,988 --> 01:19:37,388 Hmm. 1275 01:19:41,013 --> 01:19:42,514 Pa? 1276 01:19:42,886 --> 01:19:45,009 Hmm? 1277 01:19:45,970 --> 01:19:48,496 I'm gonna have to let him go. 1278 01:19:54,307 --> 01:19:56,742 Well, that's the way it is, Sterling. 1279 01:19:57,221 --> 01:19:58,901 Things change. 1280 01:19:59,779 --> 01:20:03,716 We can't always keep them the way we'd like them to be. 1281 01:20:04,704 --> 01:20:07,037 We all have to grow up sometime. 1282 01:20:08,485 --> 01:20:10,716 Raccoons and boys, too. 1283 01:20:14,294 --> 01:20:16,320 Even fathers, I guess. 1284 01:20:19,750 --> 01:20:22,427 He'll ramble for a while. 1285 01:20:22,738 --> 01:20:25,190 That's just some people's nature. 1286 01:20:25,943 --> 01:20:29,262 But he'll get over it. He'll get over it. 1287 01:20:31,976 --> 01:20:35,112 He'll get smart, settle down. 1288 01:20:36,971 --> 01:20:40,567 Might even rent that little office over Pringle's store. 1289 01:20:55,532 --> 01:20:57,728 Just as Miss Whalen had said it would... 1290 01:20:57,763 --> 01:20:59,391 the time had come. 1291 01:20:59,456 --> 01:21:02,953 Old Mother Nature had whispered her mysterious message. 1292 01:21:03,231 --> 01:21:05,632 Rascal had heard and heeded... 1293 01:21:05,667 --> 01:21:08,193 and now I knew I had to take him back... 1294 01:21:08,236 --> 01:21:10,501 to the world where he really belonged. 1295 01:21:18,447 --> 01:21:20,075 As we came near the shore... 1296 01:21:20,115 --> 01:21:21,549 I heard a little call... 1297 01:21:21,583 --> 01:21:24,712 a trilling sound, almost bird-like. 1298 01:21:26,254 --> 01:21:28,723 It was another raccoon, a little female... 1299 01:21:28,757 --> 01:21:29,918 chittering at us. 1300 01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:33,803 Not so much at me as at Rascal. 1301 01:21:34,750 --> 01:21:38,393 I wondered if he'd heard her, half hoping he hadn't. 1302 01:21:38,567 --> 01:21:40,559 But it was soon clear that he had. 1303 01:21:40,602 --> 01:21:43,697 He could hardly wait to land. 1304 01:21:56,585 --> 01:21:59,145 Though I was sorry to see him go... 1305 01:21:59,273 --> 01:22:03,734 it helped to know he wouldn't be alone in the world. 1306 01:22:06,297 --> 01:22:09,597 Just once he looked back to see if I was still there... 1307 01:22:11,178 --> 01:22:15,582 I think he was sort of saying good-bye. 1308 01:23:26,152 --> 01:23:28,212 Well, now I knew my little raccoon... 1309 01:23:28,237 --> 01:23:32,299 could take care of himself, no doubt about that. 1310 01:23:35,851 --> 01:23:37,945 And so I left him. 1311 01:23:37,970 --> 01:23:40,667 Our wonderful summer was over. 1312 01:23:46,276 --> 01:23:49,576 In his way, he seemed to know it, too... 1313 01:23:49,601 --> 01:23:52,969 for he came back to give me one final farewell. 1314 01:24:12,045 --> 01:24:14,488 A character, a personality... 1315 01:24:14,513 --> 01:24:17,608 and a ring-tailed wonder. 1316 01:24:20,286 --> 01:24:23,011 It was all a long, long time ago... 1317 01:24:23,152 --> 01:24:25,451 a different time, a mellow time... 1318 01:24:25,748 --> 01:24:28,948 and as I think of it now, the happiest of times. 93419