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They call me Mad Jack.

And if there's anybody in these mountains that knows the real story of

Adams, that'd be me.

So I'm putting it down and writing just the way it happened in hopes of setting

the record straight.

Now, my friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit.

So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he

knew.

Now, that wilderness out there ain't no place for a greenhorn, and his chances

of surviving were mighty slim.

There was no time at all, for he was beaten down, ragged, and nearly stopped.

Long about then, he come upon a grizzly bear cub, all alone and helpless.

Now, Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he

started right down that cliff, risking his own life to save it.

Now that cub took to Adams right off.

And that was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals.

They just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness.

But that bear cub, he was extra special.

As he growed, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together, they

became a legend.

There's a time we'll call our own. Living free in harmony and majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Living in the wilderness has lots of pleasures to it. Especially if you've

hankering for good eating.

Like... Fresh honey from the hive for your morning flapjacks or your evening

flapjacks. New ripe apples from the hill country. Well, there's enough juice in

one bite to float a canoe.

But I reckon my favorite is them blueberries.

Just right for making my special weakness, blueberry pie.

Adam's had a mighty taste for it, too. Not to mention Ben.

So, every year...

When them wild blueberries was just busting with goodness, Adams would make

two -day trip to Berry Valley and load up with them, knowing that I'd be along

to do the baking when he got back.

But in the wilderness, well, a lot of things can happen in two days.

I know you're tired, Ben, but we've still got a long way to go.

All right.

I guess we can take a little breather.

Calm your bones, Ben.

Calm your bones.

We gotta save these berries for Jack's special blueberry pie.

First the berries go into the filling, and then the pies will be a filling you.

Doesn't that sound like a dandy idea?

I just quit messing with that pack.

You scamp to wait anyway.

Listen, Batman.

That's a wolf.

Sounds like he's in trouble.

Come on.

Now there's a lesson for you, Ben.

Never go chasing nothing into a hollow log less than you know you can fit.

Just take it easy.

We'll get you out of there.

I just got to figure out the best way to do it.

I'm going to help you now, little fella.

Just take it easy.

Ben, come on. Pull on that end.

Come on, Ben.

Hang on, little fella. Hang on. It's coming.

Whoo!

Come here.

Come over here, little guy.

Now, don't go sticking your nose into no logs.

I might not be around to help you next time.

Yeah.

Ben!

Now, what are you doing in there?

You feeling all right?

You sure have been acting strange lately.

Let's go home.

Living life happy and free.

That's the way it should be.

We've found our own way of living together.

Hard to resist.

For me, too.

But if Jack's home by nightfall, he'll be eating our full of blueberry pies,

baked in that nice, tasty, flaky crust he makes.

Hello.

Are you lost, little fella? Huh?

You're shaking like a leaf.

Yeah, you'll be all right.

You can stay here till your mama comes looking for you.

I'll leave the door open for you in case you might want to leave.

Ben?

Ben?

Let's go down to the stream and give our feet a nice treat and soak them in the

cool water.

Oh, this sure feels good, Ben.

don't know what you're missing.

Ben, I never thought I'd see the day you didn't want to go on the walk.

You just don't know what you're missing.

I sure wished I knew what was eating you.

You ain't sick.

Number seven.

Me? It's Adams.

You're gonna be fine.

That's fine.

Yeah, that's right.

Adams?

Jack?

You all right?

Come on, let's go inside.

You gave me quite a scare when you came up, Jack, but it looks like you're gonna

live. Well, no thanks to that thing.

Tried to kill me.

What thing? The thing.

The thing.

The monster.

You sure you didn't see a frisky rabbit or something?

Not unless a rabbit's as big as a young pine tree.

With the long, green, shaggy fur.

With eyes, purple eyes, big as pie plates.

I've seen a rabbit like that once myself.

With a long, yellow tongue, long as a rifle barrel and breathing fire.

No, but I know just how you feel.

Happened to me once.

It did? I tripped over my own two feet.

Dagnab you, Adams.

You haven't believed a word I've said, have you? You've got to admit, you do

stretch things at times, don't you, Jack?

Where are you going?

I'm going to unpack number seven and get to making pies.

Why, you wouldn't believe there was a monster if he was to come right through

this door here and stab on you.

You know something, number seven?

I'm a half of mind to not bake many pies at all. Just hightail it out of here.

Except that thing is up there somewhere.

Not that it scared me any.

It just sort of took me by surprise is all. I'm glad you feel that way. Because

we're going to go find that thing.

Find it?

Are you crazy?

I mean...

Why would you want to find something that you don't believe is there?

Well, I don't believe your monster's out there.

But there's probably something out there.

Most likely a bull buffalo that strayed from the herd.

Bull buffalo?

Don't you think I know a buffalo track when I see one?

These tracks were like nothing I've ever seen before.

I tell you, they were... They were unholy. Well, then I'm going to go find

unholy tracks.

I'm going to go find me a monster.

One with yellow eyes and purple tongue.

It was purple eyes and a yeller.

You probably couldn't find them tracks anyway.

Well, I'm going to do the best I can.

It's got to be something natural.

It's got to be a natural thing you say.

Can't be nothing else.

You want to go?

You want to go?

You scaredy cat.

Hold on, Adams.

Hurry up.

Now, in all my years out in the mountains, I never heard tell of no

running about.

But I knowed for sure that what I saw was more than just an ugly buffalo.

Call it what you will.

But whatever it was, I didn't have no hankering to go looking for it.

Of course, I couldn't let Adams know that.

He was dependent on me to protect him in case he got in a tight spot.

Now, it was right about in here

that thing come thundering out of the bushes at me.

What's that?

You're hearing things.

Sure I am.

So are you.

Maybe that thing's eyes weren't exactly purple. It was probably more like blue

with just a touch of devil fire in them. The precise color don't matter anyhow.

What matters is that thing was out there and we was walking thumb smack dab into

its territory like a couple of dummies.

You sure take a heap of convincing.

You still believe there's something out here?

I sure do.

Hold it.

There he is.

Hey! Where are you?

Come on back!

Where in the heck did you get to?

Is that your monster?

Well, I can't see if his tongue's yellow.

Adams, quit your funny.

That fella's got the look of a lawman about him.

You're still a wanted man and that reward looks mighty tempting.

You don't look like no lawman to me See that like flashing

on his chest every once in a while that could be a bad Let's you and me head for

the high country and lay low for a while. Just in case you still afraid of

made -up monster.

Well, I ain't And you can figure in that made -up sheriff, too

I never thought I'd run into anybody that's stubborn or number seven.

You call me stubborn.

We go out looking for some monster and what do we find?

We find a bird and a tree.

Ben comes out of the bushes.

We see some man waving a stick and yelling something.

Yelling at something that ain't even there.

And you can call me stubborn without even flinching.

Shut up, you big guy.

I'm glad to see you, Nekoma.

Now I can talk to somebody sensible.

This old codger here's a -funnin' with me.

Because I won't swallow his tall tale about some monster in the forest.

Well, go ahead and tell him, Nekoma.

Tell him his mind's racin' quicker than a twig goin' over a waterfall.

Tell him there ain't no monsters out there.

Well, go ahead and tell him.

Stretch things, he says.

Well, of course I do.

It's necessary, but then I don't. If it ain't necessary, then it ain't my fault

if he can't tell the difference.

Jack says that there's a monster out there somewhere.

Well, he's having hallucin... Hallucin... He's imagining it.

But when the coma tells him that there's a monster out there, why, it's a gospel

truth.

You think for him I'm good -natured.

I'm still gonna bake them pies because I promised you and I promised Ben.

And I promised me.

Now, don't you two argue. There'll be enough for everybody.

Jack, Nekoma just told me that Grey Wind thinks there's a monster in the forest

and he's gone to track it and kill it. Well, that's a good idea.

Now, I don't know anybody, white man or Indian, that's as good as Grey Wind when

it comes to tracking and hunting in the woods.

Well, I want to find him before he does.

Why bother?

Why not just let Grey Wind kill it?

Because it ain't reasonable, that's why.

He thinks it's a devil beast.

He figures it stole his grandfather's spirit because he heard the thing of

bellowing when the old man died.

The only way he can release his grandfather's spirit is to track it and

Well, that sounds reasonable to me.

I ain't gonna ask Nakoma to go because I got respects for his belief.

I gotta find it and ease everybody's mind.

I guess me and Ben are gonna have to go alone.

Adams?

Yeah?

You're forgetting one thing.

There's a lawman out there somewhere, and he's waiting for you.

Well,

thanks, Nokoma.

We're glad to have you go along.

Nokoma? Adams?

Wait a minute!

That thing, whatever it is, probably hightailed it for California.

I hear tell out there they got a monster that Indians call a

Sasquatch.

Means wild man.

Big hairy thing.

Adam, you got?

Had to be some heavy critter in a coma.

How long ago?

He looked at it.

He looked at it.

Just now.

That means it was standing right here while we was over there in that

It could be... Well, it could be... Adams!

Come on, wait for me!

What did he say?

He said he just came through here.

He said more than that. I heard him.

He said that when it runs, it makes tracks like he's never seen before.

Well, a bear could have done this.

In order for a bear to do that, he'd have to be full -grown.

And a full -grown bear would have left claw marks.

And there ain't none.

Then we're just going to go find out what did do it.

The deeper we got into the woods, the more spooked I'd become.

Suppose it was just as well that we didn't know that stranger was also

around out there.

It would have made me as jumpy as a fly on a horse's ear. I was dead sure that

fellow was a lawman, or worse yet, a bounty hunter.

And for Adams...

That spells more trouble than any monster.

Adams!

There's your prints.

They look like they're fresh ones.

Now, if you want my advice, Adams...

we'll go back to the cabin and wait for it to show up there, that is, if it ever

does. Jack, I'm telling you, there ain't no monster out here.

Oh, of course.

There's no weird monster. The birds are jumping out of their feathers, three

-toed tracks from no critter that's ever been in these parts, and a banshee

howl, and branches broke off of trees with no claw marks.

Of course there's no monster. I know there's got to be a reasonable answer

it.

I just can't wait to hear it.

Now, that weren't the wind whistling through the trees.

Tacoma, stay with Ben and Jack. I'm going on up ahead.

Well,

there's

no sense in my staying back here alone.

We're safe.

All right.

Whatever you are, I'm coming in to meet you.

I mean you no harm.

Now, if you've got any ideas about hurting me, I'd be much obliged if you'd

forget them. I'm a friend.

Don't be scared.

Jack? Nekoma?

Jack, there's your monster.

Holy jumpin' squirrelfish.

It's a... it's a... What in tarnation is that?

It's a camel.

Look at that swelling on its back.

Looks like it swallowed a tent.

It's just another animal.

Comes from Africa.

How'd it get here?

Walking? No.

There's an ocean between here and Africa.

Swim? No, it didn't swim.

Somebody had to bring it over here. See, it's got a bright line.

Come on, let's catch it before Gray Wind does.

About catching it, Adams.

My, uh... My, uh... Lumbago's been acting up.

What do you mean, you lumbago?

Yeah, yeah. You know, all this tracking and running.

All right. You stay right there. And if he turns around, I want you to spook him

back this way.

Spook him back, huh?

Yeah.

Easy now.

No reason to be scared, big fella.

Tacoma, stay on that side of him.

Nice and easy.

Come on now.

We ain't gonna hurt you.

Jack, get the halter. Yeah.

The halter.

Get the halter?

That's easy to say.

Nice, Campbell.

Easy... Nice,

Campbell. Say, you're taller than you look.

And you got pretty eyes for a critter.

I got her.

I think... Why didn't you hold on to the halter?

It's not the halter. You hold on to it.

Not that.

I'm listening.

My hat.

You dropped that hat, you long -legged critter.

Leave the beep.

What are you doing now?

Jack, grab its holder. Give me that.

Now look what you did.

You got my hat all soggy. There's nothing worse than a soggy hat.

Hey, looks like your own bagel's feeling better.

Well, a little running always makes it feel better. Look what it did to my hat.

Watch it, will you?

Adams!

Looks like it wants to go with you, Jack.

Not me. I got my hands full with number seven.

Hey, Adams, looky here.

U .S. Army.

You suppose the Army's looking for you?

I don't know, Jack.

I don't know.

The critters around Adams' cabin went plum loco when they seen that humpback

monster. Why, they was even more scared than Adams and their coma was when we

first come on it out in the brush.

It was just a good thing I was around to calm everybody down.

Hey, number seven.

You should have been there.

Look what I captured.

Hi, Charlie.

Hi, Charlie.

You're beautiful, thank you.

Hello, man, Adams.

Get inside.

Hi, Jolly. Hi, Jolly. Oh, you all right, hon?

Oh, gosh, I missed you. Where on earth have you been?

Well, I've been a -tromping all over the mountains looking for you. Yes, I sure

missed you, good gal.

I sure did.

Look at you. You okay?

Oh, yeah, you're a sweet pal. Oh, that was a good kiss. Hi, Jolly. Hi, Jolly.

I take it his name is Hi, Jolly.

You know, I sure am grateful to you for finding High Jolly for me.

I bet I chased that doggone critter all over these mountains in the last four

days. How'd you happen to get a critter like that anyway?

Oh, the Army's been using them down there in Arizona for crossing the

Then the Army, being like the Army is, why, they decided to quit using them.

And so when they mustered her out, why, we left together.

How long were you in the Army?

Oh, I scouted for the Army for now under 25 years.

You know, Mr. Adams, I've been watching you and your bear.

Would you like it if you lost him?

And you, Jack, despite all your caterwauling, would you want to be

separated from number seven there?

Well, no.

How'd you manage to lose High Jolly?

Oh, we run into a mountain lion.

I don't know which one of them critters was the most scared.

Shoot, they took one look at each other and headed for the hills in different

directions.

Why would you look at that?

Critters are only afraid of things that they don't know.

Well, that raccoon knows that High Jolly ain't gonna hurt him.

It's funny how animals take to one another.

I've seen Ben do it all the time.

Well, I certainly do appreciate your hospitality, but me and High Jolly got

be a moving on place.

What did he say?

He says you can't leave yet.

Too dangerous out there.

You mean to tell me if some Indian went and seen your bear around his camp one

night, wouldn't one of his relatives was a dying why he'd send somebody after

him? No.

The Indians believe that the bear's a healer, carry a powerful spirit.

Now, see, nobody in these parts have ever seen a camel before.

And he really believes that he's got to kill her to release his grandfather's

spirit. Well, you've got to find him, and you've got to reason with him.

Because if that doggone redskin harms one hair on that camel... The first

we've got to do is hide her.

We've got to get her up in the brush somewhere.

Me and the coma are going to go look for Grey Wind. You stay here with High

Jolly. You think Grey Wind will be coming around here?

Not with you two here, but you keep your eyes open.

Come on, the coma.

Don't you worry, High Jolly.

We ain't going to let nothing happen to you.

Do you suppose they can find Grey Wind before he... I don't want to sound

disappointing, but finding that Grey Wind is like trying to catch you.

Puff of smoke in your fist.

That Indian don't want to be caught.

Ain't likely anybody's going to catch him.

Gray Wind was a great hunter, all right.

But Adams and Nakoma weren't so bad, neither.

Now, they figured they'd backtrack on their own trail and come on him as he

a -following it.

But after traveling quite a ways, they started to think that...

Well, maybe they was wrong.

He's found our trail all right.

Why'd he go off that way?

Why didn't he follow it in?

He knows where my cabin is.

He's gone to circle around and come in from the other side.

Come on, we got a long way to go.

You know, I still think that we should have left her hid up there in them

like Adam said.

Well, High Jolly didn't like it up there in the brush, and if she don't want to

stay there, I ain't going to make her.

We got to do something with her.

Wait a minute.

What if we was to put her inside the cabin?

I'm telling you, Jack, camels don't cotton to being put inside of something.

Well, we just can't leave her standing around outside here where...

Gray wind can spot her.

And sides.

Don't be telling me what critters like and don't like.

I know about critters. I taught Adams everything he knows about them, and he

knows a lot.

Now, I say that High Jolly won't mind being in that cabin at all.

Unless, of course, she wants her own room.

Come on, High Jolly. You're going to like it in here.

It ain't going to work.

Now, come on high, Jolly.

That's a good girl. You're going to like it in here.

Now, come on. Now, wait.

Well, now, wait a minute.

Look, see, it's got a nice solid floor and a bed.

Come on.

Oh, come on high, Jolly.

Listen to what Jack's to say.

What?

Don't talk to me like that. You're worse than number seven.

Get her in there, Gail. See, you can't even get the feel of the place till you

get inside. Now, once more.

Oh, come on, hi, Jolly. Quit batting them eyes at me. I ain't

courting you.

Gee, that's her number set.

Come on, hi, Jolly. Don't give us no more grief.

You like it in there, don't you?

That's a good girl.

I told you High Jolly didn't like to be indoors.

Well, I got to admit, there is a thing or two I don't know about Chris.

Now what?

Well, now we got to...

I don't know what now.

We gotta figure something else.

Well, I reckon I could shoot Gray Wind if he showed up around here.

I hate killing, though.

Need to open that medal from the Army for sharpshooting.

So that's what that is.

Sharpshooting medal.

We thought it was a badge.

We had you figured for a lawman.

Sharpshooter, eh?

Only at targets I don't believe I can shoot at a man.

You know, I'm somewhat of a sharpshooter myself.

One time, I was leading this party of settlers up over South Pass.

I was riding along there, and this old rattlesnake stuck his head up over a

And I just swung around on him and fired.

Well, sir, after a bit, he stuck his head up again.

I reloaded and fired again.

Then he stuck his head up. He kept sticking his head up. And every time

stick it up, I'd fire.

And those people, they all started laughing at me, saying I couldn't hit

side of a barn from inside with all the doors closed.

Well, sir, I must have shot 50 balls and a pound of powder.

After a while, he quit sticking his head up.

I went around that log.

You know what I found? I found a whole wagon load of rattlesnakes with their

head shot off.

That's the truth.

Jack.

I've been watching him.

That's Grey Wind.

She's coming after High Jolly.

I gotta get her away from here. No, that'd be the worst thing you could do.

He's just trying to spook you. I don't care.

I'm going to get her out of here.

No, no. You just relax.

Like I said, he's just trying to spook you. And like Adam said, he wouldn't

down here with the two of us around.

Besides,

they've probably talked to him already.

What if they ain't?

Well...

We're too late.

Jack?

Jack?

Jack?

It's about time you decided to show up. Get me out of here.

Don't just stand there. Get me loose.

Where's Fine Hope?

Well, who do you think did this?

Number seven?

Fine Hope's gone.

He's not going to find no hope once I get my hands on him.

Well, what happened?

Grey Wind spooked him from up on the ridge.

And when I wasn't looking, he threw a rope over me, tied me up, and took

off with his camel.

Not more than ten minutes ago.

Well, he can't get far.

We've got to find him before Grey Wind does.

Come on, let's get a move on.

You mean you...

Haven't talked to Gray Wind yet.

Slow down, you two. I ain't as young as I wish I was.

This dumb predicament was getting to be dumber than most. Every time I turned

around, I had to go trailing after Adams and the coma to keep them out of

trouble. And now I had to worry about Findhope and his crazy camel.

There's just no rest for an experienced mountain man.

Quick, say it.

We've got to be more careful.

We've got to keep moving. Come on.

Mind your foot and hide, Jolly.

We get you stuck and it's all over for the both of us.

Quiet! You want to get us both killed?

You never do nothing I want you to.

Wait a minute. Don't move.

Don't move.

Grab it, Grey Wind. Take it.

Take a hold of that halter, Grey Wind.

Let that camel save you.

He's a friendly spirit.

He'll save you, Grey Wind.

Do it.

Do it.

And it means you no harm.

No, Grey Wind.

Evil spirits don't save the lives of great warriors, so High Jolly can't be

evil spirit.

Howie, but, Barry... No, Grey Wind. What did he say?

He said that evil spirits often use trickery to save their own lives.

No! Run, Gale!

Run, High Jolly! Run,

High Jolly!

Can't you see she's a friendly spirit, Grey Wind?

She saved you.

And even now she's doing you no harm.

Shall I take him, Adam?

Let him go, Jack.

Grey Wind?

You know the great bear spirit wouldn't protect something that's evil.

Now that critter that's in there has got to have a good spirit, too.

What's Sheila beget?

Mr. Adams, what in the world? It's right nice the way critters take care of one

another.

Grey Wind?

I know when we set our mind to doing something, we get blind to a lot of

things.

I know you thought you were doing the right thing.

I want you to go back to your people proud.

I just darn near saved your life.

Many moons from now, your children's children will be singing songs of you.

and how you eased their mind and proved that there was no devil beast.

Adams?

What if Gray Wind hadn't taken hold of that rope?

Bog's around here only about four feet deep.

He wasn't going to sink any further than he already had.

That's just between you and me.

Come on, kid.

Well, Pierce is how we're ready to go.

Guess I better say goodbye.

Mr. Adams, I don't know how I'm ever going to thank you for all you've done

me. Finding High Jolly the way you did and then saving her life.

Oh, now.

That was Ben's doing, not mine.

Well, yeah.

Yeah, guess you're right.

Guess you're right. That Ben, he's some kind of an animal now, isn't he?

Thank you, Ben. Thank you much.

Hadn't been for the two of you, no telling what might have happened. Hi,

You too, Jack.

Thanks. I'm sure sorry that I had to tie you up.

Sorry? Oh, no, Jack.

You know what?

Feller gets kind of worked up at times, and he does some crazy things that,

well, you know, seems right at the time, and then later on... I'll forget it.

Well, thanks, Jack.

Say, I think High Jolly's ready to go. You know, there's a lot of this old

country that we ain't seen.

Being in the Army, why, we ain't got a chance to see too much of it. Take it

easy now.

Bye, Mr. Finehole.

Goodbye to you too, High Jolly.

You know, I can't figure a man like that getting so attached to an animal.

Kind of silly.

Yeah, you're absolutely right, Jack. Nothing like you and Seven or me and

Right, Ben?

Love's a powerful thing.

Jack, I want you to tell me the truth.

Did that monster really have big purple eyes and a long yellow tongue?

Don't want to talk about it. I got some berry pies to fix Then

I don't want you to be afraid any monsters and ain't out there The unknown

that sometimes can be the scariest but that's nothing to be ashamed of But

there's one thing you got to remember.

I Jolly wasn't wearing green fur spitting fire

Deep inside the forest is a door into another land.

Here is our life and home.

We are staying here forever in the beauty

of this place all alone.

We keep on hoping.

There's a time...