1 00:00:01,390 --> 00:00:06,050 The story of Grizzly Adams is big and powerful and beautiful. 2 00:00:06,530 --> 00:00:08,410 They call me Mad Jack. 3 00:00:08,730 --> 00:00:13,550 And me and my burl number seven been traipsing these slopes and valleys for a 4 00:00:13,550 --> 00:00:18,890 long spell. So I know the story from the beginning. My friend Adams was accused 5 00:00:18,890 --> 00:00:21,030 of a crime he didn't commit. 6 00:00:21,330 --> 00:00:27,830 So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he 7 00:00:27,830 --> 00:00:28,830 knew. 8 00:00:32,650 --> 00:00:37,430 Now, that wilderness out there ain't no place for a greenhorn, and his chances 9 00:00:37,430 --> 00:00:39,650 of surviving were mighty slim. 10 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:44,710 There was no time at all, for he was beaten down, ragged, and nearly starved. 11 00:00:46,710 --> 00:00:53,150 Long about then, he come upon a grizzly bear cub, all alone and helpless. 12 00:00:53,650 --> 00:00:57,970 Now, Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he 13 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:01,350 started right down that cliff, risking his own life. 14 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:02,900 To save it. 15 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,180 Now that cub took to Adams right off. 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,340 And that was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals. 17 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,280 They just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness. 18 00:01:17,660 --> 00:01:20,580 But that bear cub, he was extra special. 19 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:25,960 As he growed, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together, they 20 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:26,960 became a legend. 21 00:02:11,630 --> 00:02:14,510 Everything and every animal has a sense of belonging. 22 00:02:15,110 --> 00:02:18,010 Some folks call it the balance of nature. 23 00:02:18,490 --> 00:02:23,530 But every now and again, something happens to kind of tip that balance a 24 00:02:33,610 --> 00:02:38,470 It was harvest time in the vegetable garden that my friend James Adams had 25 00:02:38,470 --> 00:02:40,390 planted out there next to his cabin. 26 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,320 Good morning, Joshua. 27 00:02:48,060 --> 00:02:49,780 Like to try some of this corn I grew? 28 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:51,040 It's mighty good. 29 00:02:51,740 --> 00:02:52,740 Here you go. 30 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:53,820 Take it easy. 31 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:56,820 I know it's good, but you gotta take your time. 32 00:03:09,460 --> 00:03:12,180 Well, I can't give you some without giving Ben some. 33 00:03:12,660 --> 00:03:13,720 Here you go, Ben. 34 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,900 Well, you've got yours over here, Josh. 35 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:19,520 Now just eat the corn, not the husk. 36 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,480 You eat that husk and you're going to end up with a stomachache. 37 00:03:25,780 --> 00:03:26,780 Pretty good, isn't it? 38 00:03:27,940 --> 00:03:29,800 I want you to try some of this lettuce here. 39 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,740 Ben likes lettuce better than the corn, Joshua. 40 00:04:05,230 --> 00:04:06,230 Look who's here. 41 00:04:06,970 --> 00:04:08,810 If it isn't Ginger, all growed up. 42 00:04:09,250 --> 00:04:10,810 He's just in time for lunch, Ginger. 43 00:04:13,270 --> 00:04:16,250 Well, with Ginger here, Robbie Carver can't be too far behind, Ben. 44 00:04:22,590 --> 00:04:23,590 Hi, Mr. Adams. 45 00:04:24,510 --> 00:04:25,510 Hi, Robbie. 46 00:04:25,690 --> 00:04:26,690 How are you, son? 47 00:04:27,250 --> 00:04:30,190 That fawn of yours is getting mighty big, isn't he? Yeah, he is. 48 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,560 Boy, as soon as we rounded that van, he took off like grease lightning once he 49 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:35,560 spotted your cabin. 50 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:37,620 You must be getting tired of chasing that deer. 51 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:41,420 Something wrong? 52 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:43,600 No. 53 00:04:45,980 --> 00:04:47,540 You want to sit down and talk to me, Isabel? 54 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:50,300 Yes, sir. 55 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:53,880 How's your pa, Robbie? 56 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:56,500 Pa's fine. 57 00:05:05,719 --> 00:05:06,960 It's ginger, Mr. Adams. 58 00:05:08,260 --> 00:05:09,260 Is he sick again? 59 00:05:10,780 --> 00:05:13,440 No, he hasn't been sick a day since you cured him last spring. 60 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,680 Trouble is, well, he keeps running away from the farm. 61 00:05:20,380 --> 00:05:23,740 He'll go for two or three days and not come back, and I'll have to go and find 62 00:05:23,740 --> 00:05:24,740 him. 63 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,580 What do you think the trouble is? 64 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:28,960 Don't right any no. 65 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,880 Pa thinks that now that he's all grown up... 66 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,860 Well, he has a bad hankering to go back to the wilderness. 67 00:05:37,780 --> 00:05:39,400 Your pa makes a heap of sense, Robbie. 68 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:42,760 You take a cow. 69 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:46,360 Goat, sheep, cat. 70 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,560 Farm's a proper place for that animal. 71 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:52,480 They feel comfortable and at home there. 72 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,240 But a deer? 73 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:56,860 Well, his instincts are for the forest. 74 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:00,780 But Ginger's happy down at the farm with me. 75 00:06:02,740 --> 00:06:03,740 Is he? 76 00:06:05,140 --> 00:06:06,520 Is that why he keeps running away? 77 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,800 What am I going to do, Mr. Adams? 78 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,260 Paul says he won't make me let Ginger go. 79 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,100 He said that he thought I ought to bring him up here to you. 80 00:06:21,020 --> 00:06:23,480 You know wild animals better than anyone in the mountains. 81 00:06:25,340 --> 00:06:28,020 He said maybe you could help me decide what to do. 82 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,000 Mr. Adams, how did you get Ben to stay here with you? 83 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:43,880 I didn't, Robbie. 84 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:45,640 Ben made up his own mind. 85 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:47,700 In fact, he does every day. 86 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,100 There's something you gotta learn about wild animals, son. 87 00:06:52,740 --> 00:06:53,740 Nobody owns them. 88 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,400 They live where they see fit. 89 00:06:57,460 --> 00:06:58,560 And they belong to themselves. 90 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:05,800 But I can't ask Ginger what he wants. 91 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,420 Well, if you're willing, we'll take Ginger out and we'll find him a herd. 92 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,080 And we'll let him make up his own mind. 93 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:18,400 Kind of like Ben does. 94 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,040 If he wants to stay with you, he can. 95 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:28,280 But if you'd like to stay with the herd, we'll let him do that. 96 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:30,000 You willing to try that? 97 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,600 Well... Yes. 98 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:37,220 Good boy. 99 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,380 I guess Adams never took a walk in the woods with a heavier heart. 100 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:47,120 He knew what Ginger meant to Robbie, and he knew what Robbie meant to that deer. 101 00:07:53,580 --> 00:07:54,580 Hello, the house! 102 00:07:57,180 --> 00:07:58,180 Adam! 103 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,000 I got your supplies! 104 00:08:04,180 --> 00:08:05,280 A garden! 105 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,900 He's going to turn himself into a farmer. 106 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:12,860 Well, once a greenhorn, always a greenhorn. 107 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:17,140 Jack. 108 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,060 Oh, no, 109 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:32,960 he ain't here. 110 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,360 I don't know, he's been off somewhere, there's no doubt. Anything I can do for 111 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,360 you? 112 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:41,110 Well, 113 00:08:41,610 --> 00:08:44,290 how come you want to catch a wild mustang for the chief? 114 00:08:45,270 --> 00:08:46,510 Oh, is he going to get married? 115 00:08:47,070 --> 00:08:48,770 Hey, they make good wedding presents. 116 00:08:49,050 --> 00:08:53,390 Yeah. Listen, since Adams ain't here, I'll go along and help you catch it. 117 00:08:53,990 --> 00:08:58,870 Have I ever caught a wild mustang? Listen. 118 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,520 They didn't call me Mustang Jack for nothing. When I first come to this 119 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:06,660 we was up in the Wind River country. 120 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:12,440 I was chasing Mustangs up there. I did, and I furnished half the branches up 121 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:13,440 there with livestock. 122 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:24,300 When Ginger started taking some natural light to the animals, Adams figured he 123 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:25,920 best have another talk with Robbie. 124 00:09:30,490 --> 00:09:34,930 Robbie, if Ginger decides to go back to his own kind, there's something I want 125 00:09:34,930 --> 00:09:35,930 you to remember. 126 00:09:36,230 --> 00:09:37,230 What's that? 127 00:09:38,130 --> 00:09:41,590 Well, as pretty as your pa's farm is, there ain't no farm as pretty as this 128 00:09:41,590 --> 00:09:42,590 wilderness. 129 00:09:43,490 --> 00:09:44,930 Ginger have everything out here. 130 00:09:46,010 --> 00:09:50,910 Trees, water, stream, beautiful mountains to run and play in. 131 00:09:51,650 --> 00:09:54,430 All the animals living together like one great big happy family. 132 00:09:57,950 --> 00:09:59,950 I know you're right, Mr. Adams, but... 133 00:10:01,230 --> 00:10:02,750 Don't make me happy to say so. 134 00:10:09,050 --> 00:10:11,750 I don't see any other deer out here, Mr. Adams. 135 00:10:13,390 --> 00:10:16,330 Maybe they all moved, migrated to a different part of the mountain. 136 00:10:18,690 --> 00:10:20,630 We couldn't leave Ginger here all by himself. 137 00:10:21,910 --> 00:10:25,890 Being raised on a farm and all, he just wouldn't know what to do with himself up 138 00:10:25,890 --> 00:10:26,890 here in this big wilderness. 139 00:10:28,110 --> 00:10:30,270 We won't leave Ginger until he's found a family. 140 00:10:31,110 --> 00:10:32,570 He decides he don't want one. 141 00:10:32,870 --> 00:10:33,870 All right? 142 00:10:44,390 --> 00:10:50,530 Puma, did I ever tell you about the time I caught two Mustangs in one loop? 143 00:10:52,310 --> 00:10:57,010 I tell you, it was up over on the Long Ridge and... 144 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,600 It was the biggest wreck you'd ever want to see happen anywhere. They tore up 145 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,500 dirt for... Number seven. 146 00:11:06,020 --> 00:11:07,200 Come on up here. 147 00:11:07,420 --> 00:11:13,020 What in foreign nations got into you anyway? You cantankerous old bag of 148 00:11:13,060 --> 00:11:14,620 Is something hurting you? You guess. 149 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,840 So that's what's pestering you. 150 00:11:22,540 --> 00:11:25,780 You think that little burrow is separated from the herd. 151 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:27,980 Lost and lonely. 152 00:11:28,660 --> 00:11:32,400 Like you and me was when we first met, huh? 153 00:11:34,980 --> 00:11:41,780 Say, you think that maybe we could talk Nekoma into finding a 154 00:11:41,780 --> 00:11:42,940 home for that little girl? 155 00:11:44,620 --> 00:11:47,960 Now, just a minute, Nekoma. 156 00:11:48,180 --> 00:11:51,240 Just hold on a minute. Them Mustangs can wait. 157 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,880 Now, I gotta... 158 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,000 Much better idea for a present for your chief. 159 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,760 What if you was to give him that little burrow yonder? 160 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:06,140 He hate burrows? 161 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:07,760 Never. 162 00:12:08,220 --> 00:12:12,960 All that guff I give number seven, that's just in fun, ain't it? 163 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:17,920 Now, 164 00:12:18,580 --> 00:12:20,040 Mustangs is all right. 165 00:12:20,940 --> 00:12:25,300 But let me tell you something. Once you got a burrow for a friend, you got a 166 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:26,300 friend for life. 167 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:28,020 And for carrying things? 168 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:30,320 Well, 169 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,700 of course I want to give them a home. 170 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:40,840 Every creature on this green earth of God's needs a home and someone to care 171 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:41,840 them. 172 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:47,300 Bye, Stylator. 173 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:49,680 Dangerous. 174 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:55,140 You're talking to Mad Jack, the best burrow catcher in all of these here 175 00:12:55,140 --> 00:13:00,680 mountains. Well, I'll have my burrow eaten out of the palm of my hand in no 176 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:01,680 at all. 177 00:13:19,150 --> 00:13:20,150 Here's some deer tracks. 178 00:13:21,490 --> 00:13:22,730 They're fairly fresh. 179 00:13:23,870 --> 00:13:25,370 Looks like a small herd. 180 00:13:26,150 --> 00:13:27,750 They can't be too far off. 181 00:13:29,990 --> 00:13:31,030 Over there, son. 182 00:13:32,810 --> 00:13:38,290 When Robbie seen that herd and watched as Ginger began communicating with him, 183 00:13:38,330 --> 00:13:40,810 he knew there was no turning back. 184 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:44,950 It was the saddest single moment of his young life. 185 00:13:50,410 --> 00:13:52,650 It was an awful time for poor little Robbie. 186 00:13:53,210 --> 00:13:57,930 He didn't want Ginger to leave, and it was just as hard on the little critter. 187 00:13:58,390 --> 00:14:03,150 His animal instincts seemed to be pulling him to that herd of deer, but 188 00:14:03,150 --> 00:14:05,330 heart seemed to be wanting him to stay with Robbie. 189 00:14:06,170 --> 00:14:11,490 To Adams and Ben watching, it seemed like it could go well either way. 190 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:27,360 It didn't take no mind reader to see that Ginger was finding it near 191 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:28,840 to make up his mind. 192 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:34,100 And then, for one cruel moment, it appeared like Ginger had decided to stay 193 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:35,100 Robbie. 194 00:14:35,220 --> 00:14:37,500 But it just weren't meant to be. 195 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:45,760 Goodbye, Ginger. 196 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,160 I'll never forget you. 197 00:14:52,650 --> 00:14:55,810 And there wasn't much doubt that Ginger felt the same way. 198 00:14:56,550 --> 00:15:00,370 Painful as it was, little Robbie did a heap of growing up that day. 199 00:15:02,070 --> 00:15:04,630 Looks like Ginger finally found himself a family, Robbie. 200 00:15:08,870 --> 00:15:09,870 Mr. Adams? 201 00:15:11,370 --> 00:15:12,730 Reckon we could follow him a bit? 202 00:15:13,130 --> 00:15:14,130 See how he is? 203 00:15:15,630 --> 00:15:17,850 I think the best thing is just to let him go, son. 204 00:15:19,190 --> 00:15:20,950 I think our scent would just confuse him. 205 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,380 That's the most important thing there is. 206 00:15:24,980 --> 00:15:26,060 Belonging to a family. 207 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:28,440 For man or for animal. 208 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:34,960 I know Mr. Adams. 209 00:15:37,580 --> 00:15:39,080 Ginger's where he belongs now. 210 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:42,080 Are you sure? 211 00:15:45,780 --> 00:15:46,780 I'm sure. 212 00:16:05,770 --> 00:16:06,770 Go ahead, number seven. 213 00:16:08,250 --> 00:16:12,850 What do you mean you don't understand? I'll tell you what I'm doing. 214 00:16:13,490 --> 00:16:15,370 I'm going to send number seven in first. 215 00:16:16,050 --> 00:16:18,670 That's the only way we're going to get close to that burl. 216 00:16:19,190 --> 00:16:21,310 This scent is strong. It'll cover ours. 217 00:16:21,550 --> 00:16:25,850 In fact, his scent's so strong that that little burl will just stand still 218 00:16:25,850 --> 00:16:29,510 thinking he's got a cousin coming to call. Then all we've got to do is take 219 00:16:29,510 --> 00:16:32,390 rope of yours, drop a little loop over his head, and he's ours. 220 00:16:33,150 --> 00:16:34,150 Go on, seven. 221 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:39,440 Now, seven. 222 00:16:40,260 --> 00:16:45,360 There's no time to... Number seven. 223 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,120 We want to help your little friend up there. We don't want to hurt him. 224 00:16:52,260 --> 00:16:53,260 Well, 225 00:16:54,820 --> 00:16:57,120 I don't know why he doesn't want to obey me. 226 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,740 Usually he does everything I tell him. 227 00:17:00,260 --> 00:17:01,260 Now, seven. 228 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,480 You don't have to be worried about spooking that little friend of yours. 229 00:17:05,940 --> 00:17:10,300 Don't you want him to belong to the chief and have a nice, happy home like 230 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:11,300 you've got? 231 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:13,500 You don't? 232 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:15,700 Sure you do. 233 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,260 Now, come on. 234 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:22,319 Seven, you're laying down on the job. 235 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:30,300 Hey, nephew, you cantankerous bag of bones. Now, just get up. 236 00:17:31,610 --> 00:17:32,610 Easy now, Joshua. 237 00:17:35,950 --> 00:17:42,870 Since your pa said he could 238 00:17:42,870 --> 00:17:44,730 stay, maybe you wouldn't mind helping me around the cabin. 239 00:17:47,110 --> 00:17:48,110 Yeah. 240 00:17:49,050 --> 00:17:50,050 I'd like that. 241 00:17:50,730 --> 00:17:53,390 Well, how about going over to the garden and picking us some nice fresh 242 00:17:53,390 --> 00:17:54,390 vegetables? 243 00:17:55,030 --> 00:17:58,730 You can start a fire and boil those vegetables you picked in that big black 244 00:17:58,730 --> 00:17:59,790 collar I got in the cabin. 245 00:18:00,370 --> 00:18:01,370 Think you can do that? 246 00:18:04,390 --> 00:18:09,230 Ben and I are going to mosey on up and see if we can get some blueberries and 247 00:18:09,230 --> 00:18:12,790 maybe even come across a patch of wild strawberries. 248 00:18:13,310 --> 00:18:14,310 Mix them with some honey. 249 00:18:16,330 --> 00:18:17,330 How's that sound to you? 250 00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:22,190 Good. As if I can keep old Ben from sticking his head in one of them 251 00:18:22,190 --> 00:18:23,190 and getting his nose stung. 252 00:18:32,430 --> 00:18:35,570 Now, Ben, you listen to Mr. Adams, all right? 253 00:18:36,370 --> 00:18:38,870 Don't you go getting your nose stung by some angry old bees. 254 00:18:39,470 --> 00:18:40,590 You ready to go, Ben? 255 00:18:42,870 --> 00:18:43,870 Let's go. 256 00:18:44,830 --> 00:18:45,970 We'll be right back, Robbie. 257 00:18:49,630 --> 00:18:51,590 Adams wanted them berries all right. 258 00:18:52,270 --> 00:18:54,150 But he had something else on his mind. 259 00:18:54,450 --> 00:18:57,870 He wanted to make sure things was going all right with little Ginger. 260 00:19:04,780 --> 00:19:05,780 Morning. 261 00:19:06,740 --> 00:19:09,500 I don't have time to chat with you right now. I'm looking for a herd of deer. 262 00:19:21,420 --> 00:19:22,760 Some other time, little friend. 263 00:19:33,770 --> 00:19:38,590 They had found the herd of deer, and Adams and Ben stayed up to win so the 264 00:19:38,590 --> 00:19:41,310 wouldn't spook the swift little animals down in the meadow. 265 00:19:42,030 --> 00:19:44,350 Little Ginger was now one of the family. 266 00:19:45,070 --> 00:19:49,810 It appeared like his new folks were used to him by now, and he was right where 267 00:19:49,810 --> 00:19:50,810 he belonged. 268 00:19:53,390 --> 00:19:54,390 Well, Ben? 269 00:19:55,030 --> 00:19:57,130 Ginger seems to be well taken care of. 270 00:19:58,410 --> 00:19:59,990 Now we've got to worry about Robbie. 271 00:20:20,330 --> 00:20:24,750 In the cabin, he'd come across the wagon he'd used to haul Ginger up to Adams' 272 00:20:24,970 --> 00:20:28,370 last spring, when the little critter almost died. 273 00:20:41,890 --> 00:20:46,050 Seeing that wagon just about broke Robbie's heart all over again. 274 00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:15,340 Meanwhile, me and Nekoma was hot on the trail of that little wild burrow. 275 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:23,600 Well, we got our little friend boxed in, it looks like. 276 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,480 This is going to be as easy as falling off a log. 277 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:31,460 All right. 278 00:21:32,140 --> 00:21:33,280 Steady, little fella. 279 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,420 Now, Nekoma, just leave me alone. I want to do this by myself. I just want to 280 00:21:38,420 --> 00:21:40,000 show you how tame he really is. 281 00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:45,440 Now, I don't need no sass out of you. 282 00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:49,780 Since you don't choose to help, the least you can do is just sit quiet and 283 00:21:49,780 --> 00:21:50,980 rattle our little friend here. 284 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:53,480 Did you see you're making him jittery? 285 00:21:57,900 --> 00:21:58,900 No, 286 00:22:00,140 --> 00:22:01,140 he's not mad. 287 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,980 He's just anxious for me to catch him, that's all. 288 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,460 Of course, he is a little jittery. 289 00:22:13,710 --> 00:22:14,710 it, watch it. 290 00:22:18,730 --> 00:22:22,010 I, uh, I just slipped, that's all. Just slipped. 291 00:22:22,950 --> 00:22:24,970 I'm gonna get the little darling this time. 292 00:22:28,430 --> 00:22:29,430 Easy now. 293 00:22:31,650 --> 00:22:33,030 There you go. 294 00:22:36,290 --> 00:22:37,290 Well, 295 00:22:41,390 --> 00:22:43,330 we could say one thing about your friend. 296 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,880 Number seven, he sure ain't no kissing cousin. 297 00:22:54,760 --> 00:23:01,700 Now, a deer herd don't have to see an animal 298 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:06,300 to know it's around, particularly if that animal happens to be a wolf. 299 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:11,340 The deer herd sensed the presence of the wolf and took off like a shot. 300 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,860 But poor little Ginger, he didn't know what was going on. He'd been a pet so 301 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:19,620 long he'd lost the herd instinct to sense danger. 302 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,580 Now that goat just couldn't believe his good luck. 303 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:37,460 It appeared like he had found the one deer in the whole world who wouldn't 304 00:23:37,460 --> 00:23:38,980 off at the mere sight of him. 305 00:23:39,420 --> 00:23:40,640 As for Ginger... 306 00:23:41,050 --> 00:23:45,170 Well, since he had never seen a wolf before, he probably figured it was just 307 00:23:45,170 --> 00:23:47,790 another animal friend dropping by to say hello. 308 00:23:48,490 --> 00:23:53,510 Of course, when that wolf started coming at him like that, Ginger knew that he 309 00:23:53,510 --> 00:23:56,290 had more on his mind than just getting excited. 310 00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:11,980 Hopping over Robbie's fence might have caused a lot of trouble back at the 311 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,880 That practice was sure coming in handy now. 312 00:24:20,820 --> 00:24:26,300 Lucky for Ginger, the wolf pup come along and seeing what her baby wanted 313 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:29,240 more important to the wolf than chasing any stray deer. 314 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,540 I know what you're thinking about Ginger, Bobby. 315 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:58,320 You're probably fretting about her, too. 316 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,440 When Ben and I were out getting these berries, we saw Ginger. 317 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:04,920 She was mixing with her new family. 318 00:25:06,140 --> 00:25:07,280 She was doing well. 319 00:25:08,220 --> 00:25:09,220 Mighty well. 320 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,420 Gee, I'd like to see him. 321 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,740 I think that'd be a good idea. 322 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,300 We'd have to keep a good safe distance, though. 323 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,940 Let's go take a look for her. 324 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,560 Come on. 325 00:25:37,060 --> 00:25:38,240 Ginger's not out there, Robbie. 326 00:25:39,460 --> 00:25:41,660 Best thing we should do is split up and look for him. 327 00:25:42,340 --> 00:25:43,460 You go off that way. 328 00:25:44,220 --> 00:25:46,240 Van, I want you to go off that way and look for Ginger. 329 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:59,440 finally comes and we all know it will what will we do 330 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:06,280 and how will we feel the time has to come 331 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:12,820 when we must give way to hopes that we feel and our 332 00:26:12,820 --> 00:26:14,220 hearts we obey 333 00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:47,330 mistake letting Ginger go. 334 00:26:49,330 --> 00:26:50,650 I don't think he did, Robbie. 335 00:26:52,150 --> 00:26:54,690 I know he's in terrible trouble. 336 00:26:55,190 --> 00:26:56,190 I just know it. 337 00:26:57,750 --> 00:27:00,850 Well, you and Ben and I'll keep tracking him till we find out he's not. 338 00:27:06,870 --> 00:27:07,870 Meanwhile, 339 00:27:08,130 --> 00:27:11,790 me and the coma was still tracking that wild burl. 340 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,760 Oh, would you look at that. 341 00:27:17,060 --> 00:27:19,100 This is that little seller's lucky day. 342 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:25,260 I'm just going to shinny around that ridge and drop down on his back. 343 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,600 Here, you just sit tight. 344 00:28:04,810 --> 00:28:05,810 and to show me affection. 345 00:28:06,410 --> 00:28:07,410 It's teasing. 346 00:28:58,580 --> 00:28:59,580 Well, 347 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,540 I didn't fall off. 348 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:05,000 I got off. 349 00:29:05,940 --> 00:29:09,600 They don't like to be ridden too far the first time, and that's a fact. 350 00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,320 Ain't that right, number seven? 351 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:20,040 Hey, I just figured out why that bird didn't want me to ride him. 352 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,800 He didn't like number seven's scent. 353 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,080 It scared him. Now, that's the truth. Now, number seven? 354 00:29:27,790 --> 00:29:32,490 Why don't you go off and... You better not go that. Go off down yonder and feed 355 00:29:32,490 --> 00:29:33,710 in the meadow for a while. 356 00:29:34,010 --> 00:29:35,790 While I catch up my friend here. 357 00:29:36,010 --> 00:29:36,749 All right. 358 00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:37,750 You go on. 359 00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:39,290 Go on, number seven. 360 00:29:42,090 --> 00:29:43,090 See here, Robbie? 361 00:29:44,070 --> 00:29:45,710 Ginger's tracks, and they're nice and fresh. 362 00:29:47,790 --> 00:29:49,510 But he's separated from the herd. 363 00:29:50,250 --> 00:29:51,250 Oh. 364 00:29:51,670 --> 00:29:52,670 You're right. 365 00:29:53,170 --> 00:29:54,950 But we can't be too far behind him. 366 00:29:56,090 --> 00:29:57,090 Let's go. 367 00:29:58,670 --> 00:29:59,670 Come on, Ben. 368 00:30:02,410 --> 00:30:08,070 Ginger was now about as alone and lonely as he'd ever been in his whole life. 369 00:30:08,410 --> 00:30:12,210 And one day he had lost Robbie and the deer herd. 370 00:30:12,770 --> 00:30:17,510 And the likelihood of finding either must have seemed about as slim as a twig 371 00:30:17,510 --> 00:30:18,510 a windstorm. 372 00:30:18,790 --> 00:30:23,430 All he could do was just keep on moving and hoping for the best. 373 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:44,560 What'd you find, Ben? 374 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:45,980 Huh? 375 00:30:48,620 --> 00:30:49,720 Good boy, Ben. 376 00:30:50,060 --> 00:30:51,060 Good boy. 377 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,200 We've lost him, Mr. Adams. 378 00:31:13,430 --> 00:31:14,430 Not for long, Robbie. 379 00:31:15,650 --> 00:31:17,810 The question is, did Ginger cross the stream here? 380 00:31:18,830 --> 00:31:20,350 Or did he go upstream or downstream? 381 00:31:23,790 --> 00:31:25,030 Well, what are we going to do now? 382 00:31:26,030 --> 00:31:27,290 We're going to widen the search. 383 00:31:28,430 --> 00:31:29,430 Ben? 384 00:31:29,790 --> 00:31:31,450 I want you to go upstream. 385 00:31:32,050 --> 00:31:34,750 And if you find Ginger, I want you to guide him back to the cabin. Do you 386 00:31:34,750 --> 00:31:36,130 understand? Uh -huh. 387 00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:38,150 That a boy, Ben. 388 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:44,200 Ginger gonna be all right? 389 00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:49,200 I didn't see any other animal tracks, Robbie, so I figured before too long 390 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,020 either Ben's gonna meet up with Ginger or we will. 391 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,880 Now, somewhere along the way, Ben and Seven met up. And somehow, the way those 392 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,460 critters talk between themselves, Ben got Seven to understand that Ginger was 393 00:32:09,460 --> 00:32:12,340 lost and had to be found before nightfall. 394 00:32:19,340 --> 00:32:20,760 Poor little Ginger. 395 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,840 On his first day in the forest, he had lost his sense of direction and was 396 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,160 starting to wander around in circles like a, well, like a greenhorn that 397 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,180 tell which way the wind is a -blowing. 398 00:32:38,420 --> 00:32:40,740 Ginger had run into a sand hole. 399 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,740 Maybe one of the worst traps to fall into next to quicksand that they is 400 00:32:45,740 --> 00:32:58,120 You're 401 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:03,520 right Robbie they are learned well 402 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:09,080 There's a pup with her too Which means she's more interested in a little one 403 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,080 than she is in ginger 404 00:33:11,580 --> 00:33:15,500 Besides, if there was a wolf around here anywhere, a speedy deer like Ginger 405 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:16,500 could outrace him anytime. 406 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:32,340 It was a combination of Ben's tracking 407 00:33:32,340 --> 00:33:37,520 ability and luck which brought Ben and Seven to the sand hole where poor little 408 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,520 Ginger was trapped. 409 00:33:40,430 --> 00:33:46,030 Now, Ben told Seven to stand guard and keep Ginger from being lonely while he 410 00:33:46,030 --> 00:33:49,610 scouted around to see what friends were handy to help out. 411 00:34:00,770 --> 00:34:01,850 He got it. 412 00:34:02,210 --> 00:34:03,210 He got it. 413 00:34:03,230 --> 00:34:04,230 Yep. 414 00:34:04,770 --> 00:34:06,570 He was just here, all right. 415 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,620 He's probably plum -tuckered out from all the exercise we've been giving him. 416 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,179 Come down here to water. 417 00:34:16,940 --> 00:34:22,239 Now all we gotta do is find out where he's watering himself. 418 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,679 I bet his hide's just plum all eaten up with gnats and mosquitoes. 419 00:34:29,940 --> 00:34:31,159 He's probably just brain... 420 00:34:38,219 --> 00:34:40,739 Just like a berry, waiting to be picked. 421 00:34:41,460 --> 00:34:42,540 Up here, there, where? 422 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,000 Well, I'm going to go over there and catch him. That's what I'm going to do. 423 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:49,500 Till I bang, Mike. 424 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:51,100 Kick me? 425 00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:55,679 Never. That's the secret of the whole thing, is feed her in the water. They 426 00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,480 can't kick you while their feet's in the water. 427 00:34:57,940 --> 00:34:59,100 Now you just watch. 428 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:01,760 All right, little feller. 429 00:35:05,450 --> 00:35:08,010 Now just take it easy, little feller. 430 00:35:09,210 --> 00:35:10,530 Ain't gonna hurt you. 431 00:35:14,950 --> 00:35:17,450 I just want for the chief. 432 00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:20,390 That's the way, baby. 433 00:35:21,790 --> 00:35:24,030 Ain't nobody gonna hurt you. 434 00:35:25,310 --> 00:35:26,350 That's the way. 435 00:35:26,810 --> 00:35:28,050 Ain't that nice? 436 00:35:29,290 --> 00:35:33,510 You're gonna have yourself a nice home, huh? 437 00:35:35,820 --> 00:35:36,820 Come on. 438 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,320 That's the way. 439 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,240 There. There you go. 440 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:41,720 Be there. 441 00:35:42,260 --> 00:35:43,260 Whoa. 442 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:45,260 Oh, now, I told you. 443 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,700 It's just a matter of time till he learned to trust me. 444 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,280 Easy. Hold up. 445 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,200 Beware, it's Koksala. 446 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:58,140 Well, all them other times he was just showing how much he liked me. He didn't 447 00:35:58,140 --> 00:36:00,400 want to make it easy, otherwise he wouldn't appreciate me. 448 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:03,800 Now, little fella, you're going to go in the coma? 449 00:36:04,510 --> 00:36:07,290 And have yourself a nice home, huh? 450 00:36:09,470 --> 00:36:14,530 Number seven kept an eye on Ginger, which, well, was about all that could be 451 00:36:14,530 --> 00:36:15,530 done. 452 00:36:15,630 --> 00:36:21,090 But when Ben came back without Adam to Robbie, it sure looked like there was no 453 00:36:21,090 --> 00:36:23,550 way on this earth of getting poor Ginger out. 454 00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:40,080 Now, when Hawk come along and started chattering, Ben saw that old dead tree 455 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,280 got himself an ID. 456 00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:46,480 But the problem Ben faced was how to chop it down. 457 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:04,760 You got it. 458 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,640 Nicoma and me, we come across Adams and Robbie. 459 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:10,500 You're Adams! 460 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,520 Robbie was sure shaking about losing his fawn. 461 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:21,040 What are you two doing up here? 462 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:22,560 We're looking for Ginger. 463 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:24,680 I can't find him anywhere. 464 00:37:26,140 --> 00:37:27,360 Where'd you get that burrow? 465 00:37:29,190 --> 00:37:33,630 That there's no burrow. That there's a wedding gift to Nekoma's chief. 466 00:37:33,870 --> 00:37:36,390 We went out and caught him. That's what we did. 467 00:37:36,630 --> 00:37:37,970 So you lost Ginger, huh? 468 00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:39,890 Yes, sir. 469 00:37:39,990 --> 00:37:43,450 Well, now, Robbie, you quit your worrying. 470 00:37:43,790 --> 00:37:45,330 Old Mad Jack's here now. 471 00:37:46,190 --> 00:37:51,270 And he ain't lost an animal in 40 years. Besides that, we got Nekoma here. 472 00:37:51,890 --> 00:37:55,430 He's one of the best trackers in these here mountains. Well, we'll find that 473 00:37:55,430 --> 00:37:57,350 Ginger in no time at all if you watch. 474 00:37:58,250 --> 00:38:00,090 Well. Thank you, Mr. Jack. 475 00:38:01,910 --> 00:38:03,050 Where's number seven? 476 00:38:03,930 --> 00:38:06,170 Oh, he's off somewhere. He's grazing. 477 00:38:06,790 --> 00:38:09,090 He'll be along come mealtime. You watch. 478 00:38:20,250 --> 00:38:23,350 Now, maybe Ben, Hawk, and Seven talked it over. 479 00:38:23,590 --> 00:38:25,610 Or maybe it was pure luck. 480 00:38:26,170 --> 00:38:30,830 But there was no way that tree could have got where it had to go if Ben 481 00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:31,830 do it. 482 00:38:31,890 --> 00:38:36,590 Getting that tree to fall in the hole was hard enough, but trying to make poor 483 00:38:36,590 --> 00:38:40,970 Ginger understand it was his way of getting out was even harder. 484 00:38:57,290 --> 00:39:02,390 lots of folks don't take with animals communicating, but it must have took the 485 00:39:02,390 --> 00:39:06,790 powerful lot of animal palaver to get Ginger to take that first step. 486 00:39:13,430 --> 00:39:20,190 But once Ginger was free, there was no way of 487 00:39:20,190 --> 00:39:22,470 stopping him or even slowing him down. 488 00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:39,240 Adam. 489 00:39:43,820 --> 00:39:45,360 It's going to be getting dark soon, Robbie. 490 00:39:46,380 --> 00:39:49,940 If we don't find Ginger tonight, I promise you we'll start at the crack of 491 00:39:53,740 --> 00:39:55,840 Let's get going. You're slower than number seven. 492 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:04,320 Hard as they tried, Ben and Seven couldn't keep up with Ginger know -how. 493 00:40:04,780 --> 00:40:07,820 It looked like things had gone from bad to worse. 494 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:14,840 There's your wedding present. 495 00:40:15,820 --> 00:40:17,700 Give my regards to the chief. 496 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,020 I'll rustle us up some food. 497 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,460 Robbie, would you get me some kindling? 498 00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:29,960 Keep your chin up. All right. 499 00:41:07,050 --> 00:41:08,050 Ginger? Ginger? 500 00:41:16,890 --> 00:41:20,630 Ginger, you've come back to me. 501 00:41:21,610 --> 00:41:22,610 Mr. Adams. 502 00:41:22,990 --> 00:41:24,230 Nicoma. Mr. Jack. 503 00:41:25,090 --> 00:41:26,090 Something's wrong, Adams. 504 00:41:30,710 --> 00:41:31,710 It's Ginger. 505 00:41:31,810 --> 00:41:32,810 He came back. 506 00:41:34,540 --> 00:41:35,560 I knew he would. 507 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:36,900 I just knew it. 508 00:41:38,460 --> 00:41:40,640 So Ginger came back to you after all, Robbie? 509 00:41:41,260 --> 00:41:42,260 Yes, sir. 510 00:41:43,240 --> 00:41:44,920 Does that mean he wants to stay with me? 511 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:47,620 Well, I guess Ginger has made up his mind. 512 00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:50,980 Then he wants to stay with me the way that Ben stays with you? 513 00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:52,400 Well, I reckon so. 514 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,160 What do you think, Jack? 515 00:41:55,160 --> 00:42:01,460 Well, it looks to me like Ginger's found a home with Robbie like number seven 516 00:42:01,460 --> 00:42:02,460 has with me. 517 00:42:03,790 --> 00:42:05,010 Which reminds me. 518 00:42:06,430 --> 00:42:07,630 About mealtime. 519 00:42:08,990 --> 00:42:10,170 Number seven should be. 520 00:42:11,570 --> 00:42:13,470 Ben, number seven, where are you being? 521 00:42:14,650 --> 00:42:18,870 Out lollygagging around, I suppose, while we've been nearly out of our minds 522 00:42:18,870 --> 00:42:19,870 looking for Ginger. 523 00:42:23,170 --> 00:42:25,550 Aren't you being a little hard on number seven and Ben, Jack? 524 00:42:27,270 --> 00:42:28,730 Well, maybe I am. 525 00:42:29,690 --> 00:42:32,590 Can't expect animals to do the work of us men, can you? 526 00:42:52,780 --> 00:42:56,180 I got to get you looking nice and pretty, because you know what's going to 527 00:42:56,180 --> 00:43:00,400 happen? The coma's going to take you up and give you to the chief as a wedding 528 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,480 present. Won't that be nice? 529 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,100 You're going to have just as nice a home as old number seven over there. 530 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:11,440 You know, I wish I had more time with you. 531 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,140 I could teach you some tricks, some real fancy ones. 532 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,500 Yes, sir. Maybe even better ones than old number seven over there knows. 533 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:23,160 Yes, sir. 534 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,180 There you go. That's going to be pretty. 535 00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:27,900 Great. 536 00:43:28,420 --> 00:43:29,420 Yeah. 537 00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:37,760 Then, the next thing you know, you and me sit down and have ourself a nice 538 00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,320 man to burrow talk. 539 00:43:40,580 --> 00:43:41,580 Well, 540 00:43:42,100 --> 00:43:43,100 good morning. 541 00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:45,040 Oh, thank you. 542 00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:46,560 Thank you. 543 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:49,760 That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen a burrow do. 544 00:43:50,540 --> 00:43:52,840 When did you find time to teach him how to do that, Jack? 545 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:58,700 Well, uh... Uh... This morning. 546 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:00,940 Before anybody woke up. 547 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,740 Sure is a mighty smart burro. 548 00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:08,500 Well, didn't they teach you down at that settlement school that a pupil is only 549 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,000 as smart as its teacher? 550 00:44:14,060 --> 00:44:15,060 Nakoma? 551 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,200 Maybe someday you can bring the chief's new burro down and visit Ginger and me. 552 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:24,360 See you next time around. 553 00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:26,380 Bye. Bye, Jack. 554 00:44:27,580 --> 00:44:28,580 Bye, Nokoma. 555 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:32,919 Bye, Robbie. 556 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,840 Bye, Adam. You know, Robbie, what Jack was saying about teachers and their 557 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:37,840 pupils? 558 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,960 Well, I learned a lot from you and Ginger yesterday. 559 00:44:42,820 --> 00:44:46,380 Even though adults like your pa and myself think we can figure out problems 560 00:44:46,380 --> 00:44:47,380 our heads. 561 00:44:49,130 --> 00:44:52,410 Well, sometimes the heart of a boy and the instinct of an animal seem to make a 562 00:44:52,410 --> 00:44:53,410 lot more sense. 563 00:44:53,450 --> 00:44:57,190 Well, I guess I better be going. Thank you, Mr. Adams. 564 00:44:57,950 --> 00:44:58,950 So long, Ben. 565 00:45:00,570 --> 00:45:02,950 You be careful, Robbie. 566 00:45:09,410 --> 00:45:10,530 Come on, little fella. 567 00:45:11,350 --> 00:45:12,350 We're going home. 568 00:45:12,470 --> 00:45:17,550 Deep inside the forest is a door into another land. 569 00:45:18,170 --> 00:45:21,350 Here is our life and home. 570 00:45:22,310 --> 00:45:29,030 We are staying here forever in the beauty of 571 00:45:29,030 --> 00:45:31,150 this place all alone. 572 00:45:32,090 --> 00:45:34,330 We keep on hoping. 573 00:45:36,090 --> 00:45:42,490 Maybe there's a world where we don't have to run. Maybe 574 00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:46,710 there's a time we'll call our own. 575 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,080 Take me home.