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The story of Grizzly Adams is big and powerful and beautiful.

They call me Mad Jack.

And me and my burro number seven been traipsing these slopes and valleys for a

long spell. So I know the story from the beginning. 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.

Weren't no time at all, for he was beaten down, ragged, and nearly starved.

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.

Now, one of the reasons mountain men like me and Adams wouldn't live no place

else on Earth is the friendly solitude we enjoy.

Being alone, you might say. Now, being alone ain't the same thing as being

lonely. Why, we got the trees and the streams and the animals to keep us

company. Of course, that ain't to say we don't like human company now and again,

if it's the right kind.

Now you take Nekoma's young friend Tatani.

Now there was a boy that everybody enjoyed having around, and Ben not the

When an Indian boy gets to be close to manhood, he has to start learning the

ways of men.

So the old chief gave Nekoma the job of learning Tatani about life and about

friends. So naturally, Tatani was soon right at home with Adams and Ben.

Ben was happy to stack all the wood that Tony was cutting, and Adams knew Nekoma

would be pleased as punch with how the young brave was taken to his new rolling

knife. But Adams also knew that there was a time to work and a time to rest.

So, Tony, how about a little rest?

A man must work if he is to eat.

Well, that's true, but not all the time.

Nekoma says hard work makes a strong man.

Well, Nekoma's right.

But not all in one day.

I will finish the work.

Then I will rest and eat.

Well, you go ahead and finish what you're doing and I'll finish setting the

table.

Mr. Adams.

I see you aren't the only one that came to pay us a visit today, Totani.

Easy now, Ben.

You're scaring these little cubs. I know you're just trying to say hi.

Howdy, Jack.

Nekoma?

Showed how you began.

Now, Adams, we ain't got time for that till I decide what we're gonna do about

this problem we got. What problem? Well, Nekoma told me he saw a fella up in

Deer Valley and he had some kind of a strange new shooting iron and a mean

So naturally, that makes him a bounty hunter. Well, what else could he be?

Come on over and have some fun. It'll calm you down. Now, I ain't gonna calm

down, and I ain't gonna move from this spot till we decide what we're gonna do.

All right.

Well, go have us a look.

Mr. Jack.

Nakoma. Look.

Look at that, Joshua.

You don't know what to make of them cubs.

Are they lost, or are they orphans?

No, Totani. They're neither lost nor orphans.

Those are Chakotah's young 'uns.

I guess she figured they're old enough to go off on their own for a spell and

take a look at this big old world of ours.

But how will they find their way home?

They have no teacher like I have in the coma.

Yeah, you're right, Totani.

But I think their instincts will lead them home all right. Adams, we've got

business to take care of.

Just a minute.

Totani, how would you like to make sure these little cubs get home all right?

Oh, yes.

I think they need someone older to help them find their way.

I think you got a good point.

It's a good idea, Nekoma.

Why, I'll put Totani in the cubs. I'll go with Jack and take a look at this

stranger he's been talking about.

You might learn something.

You can start right now.

Look at that.

Come on, Nekoma. Before we lose them.

He's going to need some good luck. But fortunately for him, he's got me.

That boy's in for a real good time.

You're not fooling me, Adams.

You just don't want that boy around here in case there's trouble.

What trouble?

I got you, don't I?

That's true enough.

Maybe you touch me, number seven, and then we can save you from your trust in

nature.

We'd come a long

way and we hadn't seen a thing.

But I know trouble was waiting for us and we was getting closer to it with

step we took.

There's no tracks out here.

I'm telling you, that stranger's around here somewhere.

I can feel it in my bones.

The only thing you feel in your bones is this long hike you brought us on.

Adams, I can out -walk, out -run, out -dance any man, critter, or bear in the

whole territory.

Now, Ben, you be quiet.

I don't want to lose the element of surprise.

Do you hear that?

Now, everybody stop their jabbering.

I'm going to get my ears.

Tuned up. Only one making any rackets, you.

Did you see that?

Yeah.

Looks like a bobcat stopped by to say howdy. It ain't what he said, it's how

said it.

Look there, Adams.

They're all trying to tell us something.

That sounded perfectly natural to me.

You're getting as careless as number seven.

Now think on this a while. What time is it?

It's time for the animals to be drinking, yet they're all headed that -a

and the water hole's directly ahead of us.

Yeah, you do have a point. Yeah. Well, from now on, we's all gonna walk single

-file military style.

And I don't want to hear a word out of nobody, unless it's me. And that goes

you, too, Ben.

Meanwhile, Titani was about to get lesson number one in tracking.

They was talking in crow, of course.

But my friend, I see neither the cubs or their tracks.

But I only looked away for a second.

A man does not look away from his responsibilities, even for a second.

Nakoma, I think we've lost them.

Do you think they could be in trouble?

Why do you think that they are in trouble just because we've lost them for

moment? Because they are small, and the forest is big.

The forest is their home.

To find them, we'll have to think as they do.

But, Donnie... They're still all right.

But they're a long way from home.

And what of you, my young brave?

I'm a long way from home. But I have you, Nokoma.

Let's go, before we lose them again.

Now, Ben, this ain't no time to be fancying up your claws.

I'm getting so we can't take him no place.

Now, Ben!

That weren't Ben at all.

Well, would you look at that?

What do you think now?

I don't think I've ever seen a man shop with any better than that.

Well, I see a stranger with a deadly weapon in his hand, standing by a rifle,

and a fierce -looking whatchamacallit over there with a canvas over.

Jack, a stranger's just a friend we've never met before, that's all.

Well, this is one stranger we're going to meet real easy like.

Let's just mosey down there.

That stranger's horse seen and heard that rattler right off.

But being tied to that tree, there was nothing he could do but cry out for

A stranger couldn't get there in time, and from the looks of it, neither could

we.

With that rattler set to strike, that poor horse didn't have a chance, unless

someone could separate him from that rope.

No one's going to hurt you.

So just move along.

Well, I don't know quite how to thank you, sir.

Sergeant, I am mighty fond... I'd hold it right there.

This bear's a friend of mine.

Ben, say howdy.

Once again, we thank you, sir.

I mean, this is S. Grant, Captain of the United States Army, and this here is

Sarge.

Easy, Sarge. Take it easy.

You'll be all right. It's a mighty fine -looking animal you have there. It's one

of the best.

We've already met, Ben. My name's James Adams.

This is my good friend, Mad Jack, and number seven.

Jack?

Howdy.

Well, look, you're welcome to my camp, such as it is.

Thank you, Captain.

I'd like to invite you gentlemen to share my food, at least I can do.

Well, thank you very much. We have been walking quite a spell.

What you fixing?

Oh, I got a little bit. Never eaten no army food yet. It wasn't an insult to my

stomach. Well, to tell you the truth, I haven't been foraging too well.

I'm not much of a hunter.

Figured you for a greenhorn.

I'd like to apologize for my friend.

That's all right, Mr. Adams. That's true.

If you gentlemen will stay around here for a while, I'll go out and get us

something. Sure there's a lot of game around these parts.

Oh, there's no need for that, Captain.

My friend Jack, he knows where all the good eating plants and berries are in

these parts.

They're right.

You mean you make a meal out of those things?

I'll tell you what.

Why don't you join us in some of Jack's fixings?

Without a doubt, he is the best natural cook in this territory.

My indebtedness to you gentlemen is really mining.

That's okay.

He's a quiet man, your friend.

You just wait till you get to know him. I'll remind you what you just said to

me.

Now, growing up in a crow village like Tatani had, he didn't know the ways of

wild critters, particularly how one type of critter would act when introducing

himself to another.

So when them cougar cubs said howdy to the rabbit, well, it was a special kind

of treat for him, especially when them cubs didn't know what to make of that

stranger they had met.

And vice versa.

Now, Nekoma knew that watching them little ones play was more fun than a

of monkeys. But he also knew there was an important lesson in life to be

here. And he was hoping that Tatani could figure out just what that lesson

Nekoma, watching these cubs is almost as much fun as working with Ben.

But are you learning anything from what you see?

I am learning that you can make friends almost anywhere.

If your heart is set on it.

Good.

Very good.

You know, as a man, even as a boy, I don't think I've tasted anything as

as this.

Roots, sparks, and herbs, huh?

Yeah, that's right.

That's amazing.

And it used to be a day of revelations.

Amazing?

I'll tell you what's amazing.

It's amazing that the army would send a greenhorn out here.

All by his lonesome.

That don't make no sense to me.

Well, the Army has good reason for their orders, Jack.

I follow them without question.

Jack knows all kinds of things that grow out here that are good for eating.

I guess he just figures everybody should know the same.

No, no, Jack.

Well, I was just trying to figure out what kind of a shooting iron this is.

That's not a shooting iron, Jack. That's a transit. It's a surveying instrument.

What's an Army man doing with a...

Instrument? I need that to make a survey of the locations and limits of this

area, Jack, so I can do a census of the wildlife here.

You mean to tell me that you're taking an animal count?

Well, in a way you might say that, yeah.

How about that, Jack?

The government's finally taking an interest in the animals.

I, uh... I know all about domestic animals.

Horses and mules are a specialty of mine, but I really don't know that much

about animals in the wilderness.

Anybody that's a friend of the animals is a friend of ours.

Isn't that right?

It depends, Adams.

It just depends.

Very kind of you, Adams.

Adams, there's something I'm... Listen, I'm not going to take no for an answer.

I'd like to take you down to the waterhole.

Waterhole? Well, sure.

The animals got to drink just like we do, and they leave a lot of tracks down

there. I'd like to see that.

I'd be more than happy to show you.

Look, let me just get squared away here, then I'll be with you.

You know, Jack, I think you're being a mite unfriendly to him.

Well, Adams, we don't know a thing about that man, except his name is Ulysses,

if you can call that a name.

You still think he's a bounty hunter, don't you?

Well, he might be a spy or a trapper or maybe something even

worse.

How's that taste, number seven?

Roots, bark, and herbs.

Number seven don't seem to mind him.

Nekoma was doing more than just tracking cubs.

He was teaching Tatani the ways of the wild, explaining to him about the nature

of everything that growed, inviting the youngster to ask questions.

to express his curiosity.

It weren't much different with them cougar cubs, this being their first day

in the world, you might say.

Why, them cougar cubs didn't know how they were supposed to act when they went

-calling, so they just let their curiosity and playful nature take over.

Of course, cougar cubs coming a -calling ain't exactly an everyday event, but

left to themselves, animals can generally...

Figure out a way of getting acquainted.

Don't cubs ever get tired of playing?

Do you?

I guess not, Nokoma.

Look!

Do you think they're going home to their mother now?

I don't think so.

Not yet.

Then we can follow them some more, can't we?

Whatever that there Ulysses fellow was, or weren't, he was darn smart.

I never seen a man learn more and faster about pug marks.

Why, in less than an hour, he could identify practically every animal that

down to the water to drink.

And it was clear to me that he was in a big hurry.

But what I couldn't figure out was why.

So that would be, uh...

Four raccoon and three deer?

And one wolf.

Sam, this has been one of the most informative, one of the most

experiences of my life.

I've been in this forest many times, but you've really opened my eyes to the

real wonder of it all for the first time.

Well, you know, it does take some time to get used to, but... I'll tell you

we're gonna do.

We'll have us some dinner.

First thing come morning, Jack and I'll take you down to the other waterholes.

That's a good idea.

How about some wood?

Well, Captain Grant, I'd sure appreciate it if you wouldn't use that axe on the

live trees.

There's plenty of dead ones around here to make firewood.

Would be a shame to ruin all this, wouldn't it?

I understand.

You like killing a living thing.

Thank you.

I'll take that.

That's the way he is.

Not only about people and critters, but about all living things.

He's surprised at all the trouble he's got me into because of his IDs.

He's a rare man, you Mr. Adams.

Indeed he is.

Say that again.

You're a mighty hard -working man with that axe, Jack.

If I could give you a little advice... But what?

Well, you're wasting half your effort. You're going about it all wrong.

Well, Captain Ulysses, do you realize you're talking to the man who hacked out

half of the trails this side of the Mississippi?

Well, you probably could have hacked out all the trails, Jack, if you'd only

learned how to swing an axe.

Well, and if that don't take the knob off in the pickle, you, a brass

on the Army Greenhorn, telling me a greenhorn what even can't find his way

through the wilderness without a spyglass instrument, telling me, Mad

where do you think they got the word lumberjack from? Why, I was bull of the

woods. Why, you should have seen me make a... Jack, hold this.

Now, you never flex your wrists.

Both arms have to be as stiff as the axe handle.

Deliver your blows.

Add an ink.

First one side, then the other.

Never, never.

Straight down.

Now, don't try to chop it all at once, Jack. Let the axe do the work.

Let the axe do the work, he said.

Nobody asked you in the first place.

Sad, sad, I ain't no army no more. I can chop just any way I want to.

The other way?

Like that.

Well, I'll be dog number seven. It works.

You're quite a hand with horses, Captain.

Does the Army know this?

Somewhat.

Spent two years as a remount officer, and then another couple of years trying

find better ways to use mules as packers.

Well, it sure shows.

He gets better care than most folks I know.

Well, horses and mules are my favorite folks.

Sarge here, he's a special favorite.

Now, if you don't mind, I've got to give Sarge his daily workout.

That Captain Grant, he sure does a lot of things well, Jack.

Yeah.

He ain't all huff and puff like a lot of them officer fellas I've known.

You still don't like him, do you?

Made up my mind yet.

Well, you gotta have some reason.

That's what's bothering me.

Ain't got a reason.

Come on, Jack. There's gotta be something wrong.

You guard the fort, Seven.

Grant was so intent on helping that little bear cub, he didn't see that bear

cub's mama.

He's in big trouble, Adams, and he don't even know it.

When he finally did see her, it was too late.

Stay, Ben. Captain, put that cub down and let him go.

Easy now, Mama. Easy.

Easy, Mama.

Easy.

Nobody's coming.

We're just trying to help.

Stay right where you are, Captain.

Don't move.

I see your cub's just fine, Mama.

That's right.

You go with your cub.

That's a good girl. You could have gotten killed doing that, Adams.

You could have gotten killed doing what you was doing.

Just thought the little fellow was going to get hurt, that's all.

I know that, Captain.

But that cub's mama just didn't see it that way.

She's just trying to protect that young one of hers.

Well, that's another lesson I'll never forget.

Thank you, Haps.

Well, come morning, Captain.

You'll find that's the best time to see the animals as the sun's coming up

because they all go down to the lake for early morning watering.

Adams, I really appreciate you staying over to help me out.

And Jack, this dinner you prepared is excellent.

I know the ingredients are bark and herbs and berries, but what do you call

It's number 16.

Jack's recipes, they don't have names. We just call them by numbers.

This here is number 19.

16's got sawgrass in it.

Well, anyway, there's so many of them. There's hundreds of them. They're all

different. Now, that right there for dessert, that's berry pie

number nine.

Nope. Number nine is a gooseberry.

This heron, that there is number 11, snowberry.

All I can say is it's incredible.

Look, if you fellows don't mind, I'm going to get a little bit of reading

before it gets dark.

You going to read all them books?

Write them all twice.

Who could understand how a man could read a book more than once?

Which one are you reading now?

Hmm?

Which one's that?

This?

This is number one.

The Bible.

Meanwhile, Nekoma and Tatani were settling themselves in for the night,

Nekoma, will we find the trail of the Cubs again in the morning?

Yes, we shouldn't have any problem once they start to move again.

Do you know why we lost their trail today?

I do not know, my teacher.

Think?

Because they knew we were following them.

No, they'd known that all along.

It was something that made them hide away.

I know.

It was the coming of night.

They grew afraid.

Not afraid, but careful.

The Great Spirit has taught the young ones of the wilderness to be aware.

And with the coming of night, they found themselves a safe place to rest.

As we did.

I think you must be very wise, Nokoma.

Is it because you're so old?

That must be the reason.

I can't think of another one at the moment.

Nokoma?

Does a brave pray to the Great Spirit as much as a boy who's trying to learn so

much? More, Totani.

Much more.

The true man has learned how little he really knows.

Hey, Adams.

What?

Look at the cap.

Seen a lot of army men in my life.

I've never been around one like that.

You

know

something?

There's a man with a lot of problems on his mind.

I got a lot of problems on my mind, too.

Like you not letting me go to sleep.

Ben, not again.

Now, Adams, Grant, and me spent the morning at the last waterhole in the

Grant's ledger was getting all filled up with the names of animals of just about

every kind in the forest.

And thanks to a playful raccoon, he even found himself a turtle.

While Grant was learning his lesson about the animals, young Totoni was

about animals, too.

He was learning that cubs was like children, playful all the time and

curious. He learned, too, that in the animal's world, there are no enemies.

Now, even though that skunk family was considerable put out by them two cuckoo

cubs, never once did the skunks resort to their favorite weapon, you might say.

Yes, sir. To Tony was having every bit as much fun as them cubs he was a

-following.

What's that one up there?

Well, that's a Chinese elm, Kathy.

We was finished with that there animal census, but Grant still wanted to learn

more about the wilderness.

Adams identified each tree for him, explaining how important it was to make

that man didn't cut too many of them down. And I was delighted to show Grant

different kinds of bark and herbs, the ones that you could eat and the ones you

couldn't eat.

Well, gentlemen.

You too, Ben. I wish I had instructors like you at West Point.

Didn't they teach you about the wilderness at that school? Jack, they

some things, but their point of view was quite limited.

They were concerned with survival in the wild, and your concern is with survival

of nature itself.

Well, Jack, I think I'm ready to try one of your specialties, if you'll trust

me.

What are you going to fix, Jack? No, it's all right.

Jack, I thought I'd try, uh... How about number 39?

That's pretty complicated.

Well, come on, Ben. See how well I've learned my lesson.

Meanwhile, them two cubs were still enjoying their romp in the woods.

Now, when they started playing with that raccoon, it gave Nikoma a chance to

tell Tatani some of the things that he knew about the animal that looked like a

bandit. He told Tatani that the black patch around each eye gave the raccoon a

sort of a cunning look.

which rightly fitted his mischievous nature, and that the raccoon ate just

everything, with berries and fruits being his special favorites.

Nikoma even explained that if there was a water supply, why, that ring -tailed

bandit actually washed his food before he ate it. Nikoma told Totani that the

raccoon family generally had three or six young 'uns at a time, and when they

cried, they sounded just like little human babies.

Yep. The townie had learned just as much about them raccoons as them cubs have.

Well, what's the verdict?

Look, I expect nothing but total candor.

Tastes mighty tasty to me, Captain.

Mighty tasty.

Well, it ain't bad for a greenhorn, but I think he got a mite too much yarrow in

it. And it looks like number seven agrees with me. He's going down to the

to get some sweet grass to...

take away the yarrow taste.

Well, look, Jack, I'll make a note of that. Would you hand me my ledger there

the pouch?

No, no, the other one.

Isn't this the book you was reading the other day?

Yes, it is.

Maneuvers in the Wilderness and Techniques for Survival.

Jack, I believe that's the captain's business.

It's all right, Adams.

It's just as much his business as yours.

I'm afraid I haven't been very truthful with you. Listen.

Wyatt.

That's number seven.

Sounds like he's in real trouble.

Come on, Adams.

Then you stay here.

Easy, Sasha.

Easy, Wyatt.

Jack,

number seven's in trouble.

Seven's got himself in the sinkhole.

He'll break a leg for sure.

Adams will never get to him on time.

Adams, we're too late.

We're coming, number seven.

Captain's got to him, Jack.

He's fine.

He's fine.

Number seven.

You all right?

We're going to get you out now. Don't you worry.

Don't you worry now.

Back up, Sarge. Come on. Back up.

Back, boy. Come on. Back, Sarge.

Come on, Seven.

Come on. Back up, Sarge.

Come on, Seven.

Come on. Come on, that's it. Come on, Seven. That's it, boy.

Come on, Captain. Back him up. Come on, Captain.

Keep that rope drawn. Back up.

That's it, Seven. You're getting it. Come on. Pull. Easy.

That was a close call, wasn't it, Seven?

Now you can just...

Get that dumb look off in your face.

Now look what you went and done. You've got your pack all catty wants.

Whoa, now. She's fine, Jack.

She seems to be all right.

Jack, if I might make a suggestion, I think it's a better way of packing

seven would be easier on her.

Now, just a minute, Ulysses.

Chopping wood is one thing, but packing a burrow, that's something else. Jack, I

know you're a good man with a burrow. I can see that. But your pack here, it's

a...

It's a little old -fashioned.

Old -fashioned?

Well, if that don't twist the tail off in the turtle.

Adams, get over here. But, Jack, see, the U .S. Army, we've come up with a

that we use a double girth and a padded crooper, and it's a lot more comfortable

for the animal.

Adams, tell this blowed -up drummer boy here who he's giving advice to.

That was a mighty close one, Seven.

Mighty close squeeze there, son.

Never mind about number seven. Tell him who he's giving advice to about packing

a burrow.

Oh, yeah, Jack.

Well, Captain, there's not a thing that Jack wouldn't do to make things easier

on number seven, and that's the truth.

Well, I'll just make a drawing for him. Jack, then it won't be any trouble

making the pack.

A drawing?

Ulysses S. Grant!

I've got one thing to say to you, and... All we want to say is thank you,

Captain. We're mighty grateful that you were here.

Isn't that right, Jack?

Well, that is true.

I am obliged to you.

Sir.

Number seven, you lop -eared, knock -kneed old bag of bones. What'd you have

go and get to follow him to a mud pit for?

Jack!

Don't be too hard on him. I've done the same thing more than my private like to

admit. Oh, that's all right, Captain. That's just Jack's way of showing number

seven how much he loves him.

I'm surprised at you.

Acting like a greenhorn and getting yourself trapped in an old sink pit.

Why, you might have got yourself killed.

And I'd have to go get myself a number eight.

You wouldn't get to wear that nice new back saddle that I'm going to make.

Nekoma, I know Mr. Adams said the cubs wouldn't get lost or anything.

That finding the way home was part of growing up.

But do you think he could have been wrong just this once?

There are many things I will teach you, Tatani.

But when it comes to the animals of the wild, no one knows them better than my

brother Adams.

It is as he told you.

See for yourself.

Nekoma, I wasn't worried.

And I want to thank you for helping me to learn.

I am growing up.

I can feel it.

Look at old number 70.

You know, any human being that was through something like he was would be

sick of bed.

But he's just eating like there ain't no tomorrow.

Well, it could have something to do with the captain's cooking.

I guess we got everything in order for you, Captain.

Wish that were true Say that's right.

You said you was gonna tell us something that would be painful for us to hear

Gentlemen I'm a training officer

It's my special duty To see that our soldiers are prepared to survive in

different areas. That's why I'm here To research and write a manual to show our

men how to survive in the wilderness by living off

By living off animals.

I knew it. I just knew it in my bones.

Truly sorry, Adams. I know how you feel about these animals.

Captain, there's got to be another way. Adams, it's my duty.

Soldiers need to eat to survive. That's the way it is.

I'm sorry.

Being sorry don't get it, Ulysses.

Jack's right.

Sorry's not going to bring life back to the force once all the animals are gone,

Captain. Adams, I'm as saddened as you are about the thought of Still Forest.

Captain, how can I explain to you how wrong you are?

Adams, I wish we could part in the happiest circumstances.

So do I.

If it's any consolation, I'll never forget either one of them.

Or you either, Ben.

Captain!

Captain, wait!

I think there's a way.

You really want to teach those men how to live off the land? Of course.

Well, just suppose now that the army is in an area where there was no animals

for them to hunt.

I don't understand.

Well, you haven't been hunting since you've been here with us, have you? No.

You've been eating pretty good, haven't you?

Sure.

Adam.

Adams, you're a veritable genius.

Jack, didn't you say you had over a hundred recipes made up of...

Wild vegetables and nuts and berries and things?

Yeah.

I got maybe 200 recipes. What about it?

Well, what would you say about sharing with the United States Army?

Oh, Jack, don't you understand?

With your recipes?

Well, he can make a survival manual for the Army that won't require any rifles

at all. With their bare hands and a little know -how, the soldiers can live

of berries and herbs and plants.

And not kill a living thing.

Not one animal needs to be harmed, Jack.

You know something, Adams?

Maybe a stranger is a friend we haven't met yet.

What do you say?

Captain, you get your pencil and paper and come with me.

I'm going to give you recipes that you will not believe.

You're going to have to put them soldiers of yours on rations.

They'll eat so much that them uniforms won't fit them no more.

Well, Ben, all our friends and the animals are going to be safe now.

And it's good to see old Jack back to his same normal self again, isn't it?

I sure feel a lot better about that.

Adams?

Adams!

Howdy, Jack!

Will you see what I got?

Here. Look at that.

I tell you, that's going to bug the eyes right out of your head when you see

that. Well, what is this, Jack?

Well, it's a commendation. That's what it is.

A genuine A number one U .S. of A Army commendation. And it's for me.

Well, I'll be.

Now, this is something to be mighty proud of.

To be commended by the United States Army.

For you giving them your recipes.

Well, that's mighty fine, Jack. Mighty fine.

And you know what? All them recipes is going to be in the U .S. of A. field

manual. And all the soldiers is going to read them.

Say, did I give you a note from Ulysses?

Uh -uh.

Well, it wasn't much of a note anyways.

It just said to say, howdy to Ben.

Howdy, Ben. That's from Ulysses back in Washington.

And he said to say hello to Ben's friend. That's you.

Howdy, Adams.

That's from me, Lysias S. Grant.

And he thanked you for everything you'd done for him and for a whole parcel of

other things, including his promotion.

He was promoted?

Yeah, he's a major now.

Leastways, that's the way he signed the note.

Well, it couldn't have come to a better man.

You know, learning's a wonderful thing, ain't it, Jack?

It's kind of like taking a seed and planting it.

A little patience and right tending, and before you know it, you've got a whole

crop of good.

I'll say amen to that.

Why, Ulysses took what he learned here from you and me and he gave it to the

whole U .S. of A. Army. Now all the soldiers can read it.

You know something?

It's a shame he couldn't give you a commendation.

Jack, that's all right.

You know, I got my own commendations.

You know why?

Now the animals are going to be safe.

Soldiers are going to be a whole lot healthier and happier.

And I got you.

I got Ben.

Got the rest, my friends.

Besides that?

Well, I've got all this.

Yeah, that's true enough.

You know something, Adams?

It's a jumping up and hollering shame that that boy's mama went and named him

Ulysses. Otherwise, he might have mounted to something.

Could have even made colonel one day. Who knows?

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

maybe there's a world where we don't

have to run

There's a time we'll call our own, living free and...