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my feet

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starring tommy rettig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

lassie

jenny get me doc wilson

i'll hold on

been a long time since you filled a baby

bottle

very long time where did you find him

in the attic

oh thanks jenny

yeah hello pete george miller

i tried to reach uh gil deming but he's

out

hold on a minute

don't let the dog out okay

reason i called you pete is uh

jeff and me picked up a fawn in the

woods

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isn't she beautiful mom

hi

i got some nice warm milk for you

not only was they shooting on posted

land but out of season to boot

laws don't mean nothing to some people

i'm telling you we saw him put the dough

in the trunk of the car

you're out in the barn

jeff's feeding her

milk

now hard to tell but she ate newborn

probably 10 12 weeks

all right peter

bye

gosh i wish i could keep her

couldn't i mom

you heard what gramps said jeff wild

animals don't belong on a farm

but she's not wild now

he could keep her in the calf pan you

know when she grows up and can take care

of herself we could let her go

boy i never had a farm in my whole life

well there may be a lot of things you

won't have in your whole life dear much

lots of fun

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how's she doing fine

beating me by to pick her up

cute when they cheat

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no lesson

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lassie come here

come here

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rip says you gotta stay away from the

farm

here comes doc wilson

hi doc

hi there

hello lassie girl

say

her coat's getting a little dull better

put some cod liver oil on her food okay

i hear you found the fawn she's in the

barn

let's take a look at her

you better stay out here girl do you

think she'd hurt the fawn well you can't

tell dogs and deer generally don't mix

that's one of nature's laws of course

like all laws they're exceptions but why

take a chance we won't be gone longer

you stay

what do you know

look at here

why she's a spindly little thing ain't

she

easy girl

easy

that's right

did you feed her jeff

she'd like a whole bottle of warm milk

we're good

good

seems to be in good health

no parasites

not even any ticks

no no lesser you stay out

hello breed

hello george

if it isn't the fawn somebody's brought

in out of the woods there's a spaven

horse or a cow with the heaves the widow

brown's cat with his paw caught in a pot

bottle it seems to me more things happen

to animals than humans but maybe it's

just because i'm around animals more

now about this little orphan jeff

i reckon the best thing for her would be

to go to the state game farm until she

can fend for herself couldn't i raise

her till she's big enough to let go

that's not nagging yet it's all right

george what a mask he won't get any

answers unless he asks

first place jeff you've got to have a

permit to keep a wild animal like this

of course we might get over that hurdle

seeing as how i'm a deputy game warden

dually appointed by this sovereign state

but second and most important there's

lassie lassie wouldn't hurt the far i

know she wouldn't you know it but does

lassie and the fawn know it

what does lassie do when she jumps

rabbit

she chases it that's right natural

instinct there's something about the

smell of a wild animal

maybe i can explain it this way

seems like a long time ago there was a

kind of a choosing up of sides

man chose the animals that he wanted to

help him like the horse and the cow and

the dog and so forth he trained him got

him used to people

domesticated

that's a good word jeff comes from the

latin thomas meaning home

well ever since then it seems like the

wild animals and the domesticated ones

have been kind of natural enemies but

why

you got me there jeff i don't know i

don't think anybody does

same reason wild birds migrate and

salmon go up the river to spawn

you said before there's always

exceptions that's right textbook calls

them deviations from the norm

well i don't know anything about your

deviations from whatever you said but

maybe lassie's different now look here

jeff

god's got better things to do than stand

around here gavin with you no it's all

right george the boy's got a point here

and let him make it now you were saying

jeff

unless he in the farm might get to be

friends anyhow i can keep lassie away we

could keep the fawn in the calf pan well

it won't be long before you'll have to

let it go anyway if i could just keep

her till she can take care of herself

it'll

well it'll make me feel good

gonna run you for congress when you grow

up you got a mighty persuasive tongue

then can i keep her i guess we can pull

a few strings and get a permit for you

gramps

won't work out jeff

mark my words please let me try please

all right

thanks gramps

thanks doc

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how's it going seems to be all right

sweet of you to let jeff keep it for a

while

he's so thrilled even went to bed

without a murmur

i go through the same anything i can get

for you no guess i'll eat an apple and

turn in myself

good night

good night

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so

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lassie

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i see

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get out of here

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go ahead in the house

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get in there now

come on now

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ah

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on it good morning here

jeff huh oh up and out

feeding the fawn

take glassy with it

here

yeah

what's the matter

what is it tell you when it gets here

she drank it all

morning fans

get awful fast don't you

don't listen to what people tell you do

you

i don't know what you mean gramps

both doc and me told you the dogs and

deer don't mix oh but gramps lassie was

fine with the farm she was writing a pen

with her and you see claw marks on the

farm's flank

how did you know

i caught lassie in the pen with her last

night and the claw marks were fresh

take the dog's fault

it's just like we told you

wild animals got a scent the dogs don't

like

lassie

did you hurt the pawn

mom i'm sure she didn't

wash it and change your shirt you'll be

late for school we'll talk about it

later

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well

it's too bad

it can't be helped

fall's got to go if she don't

we wake up someone and find her dead

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all right george all right you know what

happened no wolf got one of my heifers

last night wolf they know wolves around

here this time of year you're gonna

argue you're gonna listen go ahead

curly's coming up from town with his

hands we're gonna try and track it down

you sure it was a wolf couldn't have

been nothing else half her weighed 200

pounds tore throat clean out

maybe that's what was after the fawn huh

i was just thinking well i got to get

going i'm meeting curly up to kirby's

woods you got another gun i'll go with

it well curly's likely got one he'll be

holding the hounds come on good

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which how do you think those are the

only one that's got any hounds around

here is curly

what's he chasing boxes

i guess so

hi mom hi sweetie

oh hello parky hi miss miller what are

you making cake

no

i'll be through with it in a few minutes

then we can cut it

in the meantime why don't you feed the

fawn

didn't gramps send her away not yet the

bottle's over on the stove

come on

come on porky all right

no

no

stay in there stay

stay

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come on

come on

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sorry girl

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how old is she i don't know a few months

i guess

come on nice warm milk

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skitters she wasn't one i fed her this

morning

maybe she scared those hounds of yelping

come on nobody's gonna hurt you

i'll bet she smells lassie on you that's

why let me try it

you're funny

you're funny

good

good

good

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good chaser porky

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oh now look what you did

i see stop

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i it stand much more of this

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would you be quiet

yes

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can you stay here no stay here

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wow

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yes

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oh

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lose the sense yeah

well there's only two ways it could have

gone east to georgia's place or west to

the meadow i don't think it would head

for the open

let's try this way come on boys go

go

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you

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you shouldn't have run away come on

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oh

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so

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uh

four or less

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this ain't no wolf

it's a wild dog it's just as bad

well

in that case i've got to apologize to

jeff and lassie

according to doc wilson you two were

exceptions

uh abbreviations from the

from the dorm or something there's a

latin word too i forgot it well anyway

that's what you two are

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you