1 00:01:44,813 --> 00:01:46,230 A soaring hawk. 2 00:01:48,358 --> 00:01:49,358 What? 3 00:01:49,526 --> 00:01:51,568 Just studying that hawk up yonder. 4 00:01:53,238 --> 00:01:55,405 Oh, yeah. Chicken hawk. 5 00:01:57,367 --> 00:02:00,077 What do you suppose is going on in his head? 6 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:01,537 What? 7 00:02:03,081 --> 00:02:05,207 What's he thinking? 8 00:02:05,375 --> 00:02:07,543 He's got a brain like we have. 9 00:02:07,710 --> 00:02:10,295 Got a heart. 10 00:02:10,463 --> 00:02:11,797 What do you think is going on in his head 11 00:02:11,965 --> 00:02:14,466 while he's looking down at us pitching hay? 12 00:02:19,013 --> 00:02:21,807 Sometimes I wonder about you, boy. 13 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:23,642 Me, too. 14 00:02:23,810 --> 00:02:25,936 Suspect that's the difference between us. 15 00:02:26,104 --> 00:02:29,857 You're riding the wind, and me, I'm just... Riding a hay wagon. 16 00:02:30,024 --> 00:02:31,567 Farming don't give a man much of a chance 17 00:02:31,734 --> 00:02:33,861 for riding the wind. 18 00:02:34,028 --> 00:02:36,488 But then it ain't a bad life, farming. 19 00:02:36,656 --> 00:02:38,407 At least you're your own man. 20 00:02:38,575 --> 00:02:41,243 I know. 21 00:02:41,411 --> 00:02:42,744 Get on! 22 00:02:51,129 --> 00:02:52,588 Mary: John! 23 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,382 - John! - Whoa. 24 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:58,760 John! 25 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:02,181 Pa, I'll be home directly. 26 00:03:10,148 --> 00:03:13,025 Just come in on the stage! 27 00:03:13,193 --> 00:03:15,402 - I'd about given up. - Yeah, me, too. 28 00:03:15,570 --> 00:03:16,737 What's it say? 29 00:03:16,905 --> 00:03:18,322 Wait a minute. 30 00:03:20,909 --> 00:03:23,452 "John Sanderson, esquire, 31 00:03:23,620 --> 00:03:25,078 "we apologize for the delay in acknowledging 32 00:03:25,246 --> 00:03:26,663 "receipt of the collection of short poems 33 00:03:26,831 --> 00:03:28,999 "you sent last month entitled prairie songs. 34 00:03:29,167 --> 00:03:30,459 "Please know it was not lack of interest 35 00:03:30,627 --> 00:03:34,504 that occasioned the delay. On the contrary." 36 00:03:34,672 --> 00:03:35,881 They like them. 37 00:03:36,049 --> 00:03:38,467 That's wonderful. Go on, John. 38 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:39,927 "We have discussed your work in detail 39 00:03:40,094 --> 00:03:41,762 "and would like now to put forward a proposition 40 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:45,349 "which we feel should interest a young man of your obvious talents. 41 00:03:45,516 --> 00:03:47,100 "To that end, our Mr. Frederick deering 42 00:03:47,268 --> 00:03:49,686 will come to call on you very soon." 43 00:03:53,191 --> 00:03:55,901 They're going to buy my poems. 44 00:03:56,069 --> 00:03:57,778 They're going to buy my poems! 45 00:03:57,946 --> 00:04:00,405 They're going to publish my poems in "the pathfinder"! 46 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:06,203 Oh, I'm going to get paid for doing what I love best in all the world. 47 00:04:06,371 --> 00:04:08,038 Second best. 48 00:04:08,206 --> 00:04:09,873 I'm so happy for you. 49 00:04:10,041 --> 00:04:12,125 Not for me. 50 00:04:12,293 --> 00:04:13,794 For us. 51 00:04:24,973 --> 00:04:27,307 You can live anywhere you please if you're a writer, 52 00:04:27,475 --> 00:04:29,101 in timbuktu if you want. 53 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:30,352 I want to stay here. 54 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,604 So do I. In our own house. 55 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:34,982 Yeah. I know just the place for it. 56 00:04:35,149 --> 00:04:36,316 On the rise, just above our place. 57 00:04:36,484 --> 00:04:37,734 How'd you know? 58 00:04:37,902 --> 00:04:41,780 I could tell the first time we went there together. 59 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:43,907 With pa's help, I could build it... 60 00:04:44,075 --> 00:04:46,034 With a corral and a barn. 61 00:04:46,202 --> 00:04:47,244 And a horse! 62 00:04:47,412 --> 00:04:48,912 Maybe two. Maybe we could have a pair! 63 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,163 And a cow? 64 00:04:50,331 --> 00:04:51,790 - How good are you at milking? - Very good. 65 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:53,834 And I can churn the best butter you ever tasted. 66 00:04:54,002 --> 00:04:55,377 That'll be a help. 67 00:04:55,545 --> 00:04:59,047 We'll need a vegetable garden just like ma's. 68 00:04:59,215 --> 00:05:00,924 Strange what money does to you. 69 00:05:01,092 --> 00:05:03,010 It makes you feel grown up all of a sudden. 70 00:05:03,177 --> 00:05:04,344 It isn't everything, pa says, 71 00:05:04,512 --> 00:05:06,596 but it sure helps. 72 00:05:06,764 --> 00:05:10,559 You know, we've been carrying on as if it was all settled. 73 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,147 I never even asked you. 74 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:16,523 Yes, you did. 75 00:05:16,691 --> 00:05:17,983 That was yesterday, 76 00:05:18,151 --> 00:05:19,693 when I was a boy. 77 00:05:21,904 --> 00:05:24,614 I think I'd better ask you again. 78 00:05:24,782 --> 00:05:26,116 Go ahead. 79 00:05:27,827 --> 00:05:29,619 Mary Ingalls... 80 00:05:29,787 --> 00:05:31,455 I love you very much... 81 00:05:33,458 --> 00:05:35,667 More than anything in the world. 82 00:05:37,962 --> 00:05:39,755 I want you to be my wife. 83 00:05:42,508 --> 00:05:43,884 Thank you, John. 84 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:55,395 Grace: For what we are about to receive, 85 00:05:55,563 --> 00:05:58,357 may we be truly thankful. Amen. 86 00:05:58,524 --> 00:06:00,192 - Amen. - Amen. 87 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,694 The business with the poetry. How'd that get started? 88 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:03,945 Miss beadle. 89 00:06:04,113 --> 00:06:06,031 She said that John's poems are too good 90 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:08,408 to keep hidden away in a notebook. 91 00:06:08,576 --> 00:06:10,577 You kept it under your hat, seems like. 92 00:06:10,745 --> 00:06:12,621 Well, we thought maybe nothing would come of it. 93 00:06:12,789 --> 00:06:15,165 Well, maybe nothing will. 94 00:06:15,333 --> 00:06:16,833 How do you figure what a poem's worth? 95 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:17,959 Oh, I don't know. I think they figure it up 96 00:06:18,127 --> 00:06:19,669 the same way as they do corn. 97 00:06:19,837 --> 00:06:21,755 Except it don't go by the bushel. Ain't that right, John? 98 00:06:21,923 --> 00:06:25,008 Yep. You set it up on the scale, weigh it out. 99 00:06:25,176 --> 00:06:27,719 16 poems, 428 lines, 100 00:06:27,887 --> 00:06:29,596 3 1/4 pounds... 101 00:06:29,764 --> 00:06:32,140 Comes to $7.10 exactly. 102 00:06:32,308 --> 00:06:33,934 You're pulling my leg. 103 00:06:34,102 --> 00:06:36,019 Isaiah: Well, no matter how you figure it up, it would be nice to have 104 00:06:36,187 --> 00:06:38,438 a few dollars coming in on the side. 105 00:06:38,606 --> 00:06:40,524 Won't be on the side. 106 00:06:40,691 --> 00:06:42,109 Hmm? 107 00:06:42,276 --> 00:06:44,694 I'm going to make a living at it, pa. 108 00:06:44,862 --> 00:06:45,862 What do you mean, full-time? 109 00:06:46,030 --> 00:06:47,239 You mean you ain't going to work? 110 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:48,698 Of course I'll work. 111 00:06:48,866 --> 00:06:51,410 This'll be my work, writing poems and stories. 112 00:06:51,577 --> 00:06:53,453 Well, don't look so surprised, Isaiah. 113 00:06:53,621 --> 00:06:56,039 There's nothing so unusual about that. 114 00:06:56,207 --> 00:06:57,874 What do you mean? You're going to get up in the morning, 115 00:06:58,042 --> 00:07:00,210 drink your coffee, go off to work with a pencil? 116 00:07:00,378 --> 00:07:03,713 Yep. Then write down the words and send them off to the publisher. 117 00:07:03,881 --> 00:07:05,382 And get money for it regular? 118 00:07:05,550 --> 00:07:07,509 That's what you hope for. 119 00:07:07,677 --> 00:07:10,595 John, slow down. You're eating too fast. 120 00:07:10,763 --> 00:07:12,472 I got to hurry, ma. I got some work. 121 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:14,057 What work? 122 00:07:14,225 --> 00:07:15,767 Well, get my poems ready, 123 00:07:15,935 --> 00:07:17,602 maybe sharpen up a few things. 124 00:07:17,770 --> 00:07:19,438 Get ready for the man from "the pathfinder." 125 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:21,773 Now wait, hold on here. We got to talk about this. 126 00:07:21,941 --> 00:07:24,693 You can't make a living putting words down on paper! 127 00:07:24,861 --> 00:07:26,653 Well, I'm going to have to. 128 00:07:26,821 --> 00:07:28,530 Going to have another mouth to feed pretty soon. 129 00:07:34,245 --> 00:07:37,456 I just asked Mary Ingalls to marry me. 130 00:07:37,623 --> 00:07:39,040 And she said she would. 131 00:07:54,932 --> 00:07:56,224 Have you heard any talk about the Rasmussens? 132 00:07:56,392 --> 00:07:57,601 Like what? 133 00:07:57,768 --> 00:07:59,311 That they were selling their place and moving east. 134 00:07:59,479 --> 00:08:01,605 Hanson said he heard something about it. 135 00:08:01,772 --> 00:08:03,315 A man's going to come and talk to John 136 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:04,357 about paying him for his poems. 137 00:08:04,525 --> 00:08:05,984 That's very good. I know. 138 00:08:06,152 --> 00:08:08,820 Going to be nice having a working poet around walnut grove. 139 00:08:08,988 --> 00:08:10,447 I was just thinking, if they do sell out, 140 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:12,949 I'd like to put a bid on that bay mare of theirs. 141 00:08:13,117 --> 00:08:15,118 Mr. Frederick deering, his name is. 142 00:08:15,286 --> 00:08:16,119 Whose name? 143 00:08:16,287 --> 00:08:17,662 The man from "the pathfinder." 144 00:08:17,830 --> 00:08:21,041 Oh. You know, that mare's got to be 16 hands high. 145 00:08:21,209 --> 00:08:22,792 Can't be more than 6 years old. 146 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,504 Going to have to put that black horse out to pasture pretty soon. 147 00:08:25,671 --> 00:08:27,631 "Your obedient servant, Jeremy Hollis, 148 00:08:27,798 --> 00:08:29,341 editor of the pathfinder." 149 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:31,301 We're going to save our money and put it in the bank. 150 00:08:31,469 --> 00:08:32,928 Very good. 151 00:08:33,095 --> 00:08:35,847 I don't know how much they'd ask for the animal, but... 152 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:40,977 What'd you say? 153 00:08:41,145 --> 00:08:43,146 I said we're going to save our money. 154 00:08:43,314 --> 00:08:44,481 Well, who's we? 155 00:08:44,649 --> 00:08:46,149 John and I. 156 00:08:46,317 --> 00:08:47,442 For what? 157 00:08:47,610 --> 00:08:49,986 A house. A place of our own. 158 00:08:54,825 --> 00:08:55,909 Well... 159 00:08:56,077 --> 00:08:57,410 Why not? 160 00:08:59,497 --> 00:09:01,164 Well, I... I don't know why not. 161 00:09:01,332 --> 00:09:02,332 I just never thought about it. 162 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:04,960 I mean, she's only 13 years old. 163 00:09:05,127 --> 00:09:07,003 Charles, how old were we when we met? 164 00:09:07,171 --> 00:09:08,672 Oh, come on, Caroline. You know that's different. 165 00:09:08,839 --> 00:09:10,340 We weren't even serious. 166 00:09:10,508 --> 00:09:11,925 We weren't? 167 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:24,187 Isaiah: You know, Ingalls, I don't know as I'd pick you to be a relation. 168 00:09:24,355 --> 00:09:26,314 Maybe I'm going to get you whether I want you or not. 169 00:09:26,482 --> 00:09:29,067 Time's on our side. We aren't going to let her marry till she's 15. 170 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:30,652 That's a year and a half away. 171 00:09:30,820 --> 00:09:32,112 He'll be over to talk to you before long. 172 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:33,989 I'll be ready for him. 173 00:09:34,156 --> 00:09:37,075 You know, I ain't exactly the world's greatest authority on poetry. 174 00:09:37,243 --> 00:09:39,494 Seems like most of them was pretty well off when they started. 175 00:09:39,662 --> 00:09:43,290 Byron was a lord. What do you figure a lord makes? 176 00:09:43,457 --> 00:09:44,541 More than a farmer. 177 00:09:44,709 --> 00:09:46,042 Can't get it through my head 178 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:47,544 how a boy can go off into the world 179 00:09:47,712 --> 00:09:50,088 and make a living putting words down on paper. 180 00:09:50,256 --> 00:09:51,715 He's just a pup. He don't know 181 00:09:51,882 --> 00:09:52,757 half the things we knew at his age. 182 00:09:52,925 --> 00:09:54,134 Ah, he'll learn. 183 00:09:54,302 --> 00:09:55,468 Maybe. Can't say nothing to him, though. 184 00:09:55,636 --> 00:09:57,053 Boy's got to make his own decision. 185 00:09:57,221 --> 00:09:59,014 He ask you for advice, you give it to him. 186 00:09:59,181 --> 00:10:01,266 He don't, you shut up. 187 00:10:01,434 --> 00:10:04,436 Well, like you say, we got a year and a half. 188 00:10:06,230 --> 00:10:08,231 He's coming! 189 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:11,026 He's on his way! 190 00:10:11,193 --> 00:10:12,527 - He's here! - Who? 191 00:10:12,695 --> 00:10:14,362 The man from "the pathfinder." 192 00:10:14,530 --> 00:10:16,531 - How'd you know it was him? - I could tell. 193 00:10:16,699 --> 00:10:17,907 He was driving a livery rig. 194 00:10:18,075 --> 00:10:19,326 He had a store- bought suit on, 195 00:10:19,493 --> 00:10:20,994 a satchel, and a necktie! 196 00:10:21,162 --> 00:10:23,413 He's probably in the house right now! 197 00:10:23,581 --> 00:10:24,914 Whoo-hoo! 198 00:10:27,001 --> 00:10:29,294 - Watch the team. - Okay. 199 00:10:30,671 --> 00:10:33,923 We're all very impressed with your work, young man. 200 00:10:34,091 --> 00:10:35,675 Thank you, sir. 201 00:10:35,843 --> 00:10:38,053 Imagination is a gift, you know. 202 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:41,097 Can't be taught. Can't be learned. 203 00:10:41,265 --> 00:10:44,434 You obviously have it. 204 00:10:44,602 --> 00:10:46,686 I hope you're properly grateful. 205 00:10:46,854 --> 00:10:48,271 Yes, sir, I am. 206 00:10:48,439 --> 00:10:50,190 John reads a great deal. 207 00:10:50,358 --> 00:10:52,025 Of course. 208 00:10:52,193 --> 00:10:54,235 Well, tell me, John... 209 00:10:54,403 --> 00:10:56,946 What do you want to do with your life? 210 00:10:57,114 --> 00:11:00,116 Well, sir, I'd like to be a writer. 211 00:11:00,284 --> 00:11:02,702 Well, you've made a very good start. 212 00:11:04,789 --> 00:11:06,915 Do you work hard at it? 213 00:11:07,083 --> 00:11:09,709 I don't have to, sir. 214 00:11:09,877 --> 00:11:12,837 I don't know just how it happens. 215 00:11:13,005 --> 00:11:16,049 My mind is just full of people. 216 00:11:16,217 --> 00:11:17,759 I can lie on my back 217 00:11:17,927 --> 00:11:20,762 and let my mind go, 218 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,931 and things happen. 219 00:11:23,099 --> 00:11:24,808 Words... 220 00:11:24,975 --> 00:11:28,978 And lines of poetry and stories... 221 00:11:29,146 --> 00:11:31,523 Kind of like music inside me. 222 00:11:31,691 --> 00:11:34,818 That's why I call my poems "prairie songs." 223 00:11:34,985 --> 00:11:37,570 The words just come flying in my head. 224 00:11:37,738 --> 00:11:41,533 Well, you just might be a writer in time. 225 00:11:41,701 --> 00:11:44,244 You have the talent and the imagination. 226 00:11:44,412 --> 00:11:48,998 What you need now is the discipline to shape it. 227 00:11:49,166 --> 00:11:53,753 It's a fine beginning. Fine. 228 00:11:53,921 --> 00:11:55,588 But not yet ready for publishing. 229 00:11:57,550 --> 00:11:59,759 Then... I don't understand. 230 00:11:59,927 --> 00:12:02,554 Each spring, we choose a promising boy 231 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:06,808 from the farming community to send to the university... 232 00:12:06,976 --> 00:12:09,060 Seed corn, a spring sowing 233 00:12:09,228 --> 00:12:11,604 in the hopes that in a dozen years 234 00:12:11,772 --> 00:12:15,650 we might have another Sam clemens, Cullen Bryant. 235 00:12:15,818 --> 00:12:20,488 We feel that you are an excellent prospect, young man. 236 00:12:20,656 --> 00:12:24,617 We're offering you 4 years at the university. 237 00:12:24,785 --> 00:12:27,120 Board, room, tuition. 238 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,877 Oh, John! 239 00:12:34,044 --> 00:12:36,212 Well, this is the proposal. 240 00:12:36,380 --> 00:12:37,672 I know it's a big decision. 241 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,215 You'll want to discuss it with your parents. 242 00:12:39,383 --> 00:12:41,301 - Yes, sir. - Now, if you'll excuse me, 243 00:12:41,469 --> 00:12:42,385 I have a train to catch. 244 00:12:42,553 --> 00:12:43,720 Oh, yes, of course! 245 00:12:43,888 --> 00:12:45,972 Now, John, should you decide not to accept, 246 00:12:46,140 --> 00:12:47,724 we have another young man in mind, 247 00:12:47,892 --> 00:12:50,518 and we would appreciate you letting us know as soon as possible. 248 00:12:50,686 --> 00:12:52,145 Yes, sir. I will. 249 00:12:52,313 --> 00:12:54,481 - A real pleasure, ma'am. - Well, thank you, sir. 250 00:12:54,648 --> 00:12:57,066 I hope you'll accept, John. Bye. 251 00:12:57,234 --> 00:12:59,903 - Bye. - Good-bye! 252 00:13:00,070 --> 00:13:01,237 Oh, think of it, John! 253 00:13:01,405 --> 00:13:03,573 A 4-year scholarship! 254 00:13:03,741 --> 00:13:05,408 Isaiah, isn't it... 255 00:13:05,576 --> 00:13:06,910 Pa? 256 00:13:14,752 --> 00:13:16,085 Pa! 257 00:13:16,253 --> 00:13:17,754 I'm going to run over and tell Mary. 258 00:13:17,922 --> 00:13:19,714 Then I'll be back to give you a hand. 259 00:13:19,882 --> 00:13:21,424 It's all right. I can handle it. 260 00:13:21,592 --> 00:13:23,802 What do you mean? You need me on top of the load. 261 00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:25,345 Loaded a lot of hay wagons by myself. 262 00:13:25,513 --> 00:13:26,888 Reckon I can do it again, 263 00:13:27,056 --> 00:13:28,807 what with you going off to college. 264 00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:30,892 I'm not going away until fall. 265 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:32,769 As long as I'm here, I'm going to help. 266 00:13:32,937 --> 00:13:35,772 Going to be a poet, you got no business pitching hay. 267 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:37,273 You don't want me to go. 268 00:13:37,441 --> 00:13:39,484 It's your life. It's your decision to make. 269 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:41,945 You got better things to do than chores, 270 00:13:42,112 --> 00:13:43,655 putting words down on paper. 271 00:13:43,823 --> 00:13:45,490 Now you can do that, you got no business farming 272 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:47,784 or chopping wood or pitching hay. 273 00:13:47,952 --> 00:13:48,952 Pa, listen to me. 274 00:13:49,119 --> 00:13:51,120 I'm only going away for a spell. 275 00:13:51,288 --> 00:13:53,456 I'm not leaving you. 276 00:13:53,624 --> 00:13:56,042 I can do my chores and be part of the family 277 00:13:56,210 --> 00:13:58,711 and write my words, too. 278 00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:00,296 We're different, boy. 279 00:14:00,464 --> 00:14:02,465 You and me, we're different. It's like... 280 00:14:02,633 --> 00:14:05,301 Like we live on two different hills with a big ditch between us. 281 00:14:05,469 --> 00:14:06,761 I mean, you're doing things 282 00:14:06,929 --> 00:14:08,930 I ain't got the faintest notion what they are. 283 00:14:09,098 --> 00:14:10,765 You don't want me, then. 284 00:14:10,933 --> 00:14:13,184 I want you to be what you want to be. 285 00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:14,477 I ain't gonna pull you up on my hill 286 00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:17,230 if you want to stay on yours. 287 00:14:17,398 --> 00:14:19,691 I can't ever thank you enough. 288 00:14:19,859 --> 00:14:20,984 I ain't asking for thanks. 289 00:14:21,151 --> 00:14:23,403 It's not just thanks. 290 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:25,029 I love my real pa... 291 00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:27,407 I ain't a patch on your pa. I ain't... 292 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:29,742 Never mind what you ain't. 293 00:14:29,910 --> 00:14:32,412 You're all I needed for a father... 294 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:35,748 And then some. 295 00:14:35,916 --> 00:14:37,709 I'll be out in the field. 296 00:14:46,635 --> 00:14:48,720 Ma... 297 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,180 He's hurting or... Or mad or something. 298 00:14:53,475 --> 00:14:56,519 It'll pass. 299 00:14:56,687 --> 00:14:59,689 What did I do wrong? 300 00:14:59,857 --> 00:15:01,608 Most every father would like his son 301 00:15:01,775 --> 00:15:04,152 to follow in his footsteps. 302 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:05,695 You're going in a different direction, 303 00:15:05,863 --> 00:15:08,031 and that bothers him. 304 00:15:08,198 --> 00:15:09,782 Well, he didn't say that. 305 00:15:09,950 --> 00:15:11,326 No. 306 00:15:11,493 --> 00:15:14,662 But it's still the problem. 307 00:15:14,830 --> 00:15:17,874 He'll get over it. 308 00:15:18,042 --> 00:15:19,417 Now why don't you go over to the Ingalls' 309 00:15:19,585 --> 00:15:22,378 and give Mary the good news? 310 00:15:22,546 --> 00:15:23,838 All right. 311 00:15:24,006 --> 00:15:26,215 But I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. 312 00:15:26,383 --> 00:15:28,009 It's the rightest thing you ever did, 313 00:15:28,177 --> 00:15:29,552 and don't you ever forget it. 314 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,472 Isaiah'll come to know that in time. 315 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,223 He'll get over it. 316 00:15:34,391 --> 00:15:35,558 Then go on! 317 00:15:35,726 --> 00:15:38,978 Mary's going to be as happy for you as I am! 318 00:15:39,146 --> 00:15:40,688 All right. Thanks. 319 00:16:07,883 --> 00:16:10,343 Charles. Shall I go inside? 320 00:16:10,511 --> 00:16:13,262 No, no, no. Go right on with what you're doing. 321 00:16:13,430 --> 00:16:14,597 - John. - Morning. 322 00:16:14,765 --> 00:16:16,641 - John, how are you? - Fine. 323 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:18,434 Come over for a little talk, did you? 324 00:16:18,602 --> 00:16:21,145 Well, no, sir. I got no time. Where's Mary? 325 00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:22,438 She's over at the big oak. 326 00:16:22,606 --> 00:16:23,898 Had a little studying to do. 327 00:16:24,066 --> 00:16:27,652 Come on in the house where we can be alone. 328 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,320 Hey, John? 329 00:16:29,488 --> 00:16:31,531 Hey, don't you want to have a talk? 330 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:39,872 How can I tell him he and Mary have to wait a year and a half 331 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:41,457 if he doesn't ask me? 332 00:16:44,712 --> 00:16:46,045 Mary! 333 00:16:48,966 --> 00:16:50,174 - I got great news. - What is it? 334 00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:51,801 I talked to the man from "the pathfinder." 335 00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:54,470 - What'd he say? - I'm going to the university. 336 00:16:54,638 --> 00:16:56,472 - When? - This fall. 337 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,057 Only one boy from the whole district, 338 00:16:58,225 --> 00:16:59,559 and they picked me! 339 00:16:59,727 --> 00:17:02,061 He says I got the imagination and the talent, 340 00:17:02,229 --> 00:17:03,771 and I'm going to make a writer someday 341 00:17:03,939 --> 00:17:06,816 like mark twain or Robert burns. 342 00:17:06,984 --> 00:17:09,027 How long will you be away? 343 00:17:09,194 --> 00:17:11,154 4 years. 344 00:17:11,321 --> 00:17:13,364 4 years. 345 00:17:13,532 --> 00:17:16,200 I didn't talk to him for more than 5 minutes, 346 00:17:16,368 --> 00:17:19,078 and he changed my whole life. 347 00:17:19,246 --> 00:17:20,621 4 years at the university. 348 00:17:20,789 --> 00:17:22,874 Everything paid. 349 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:25,543 I don't even know what a university looks like. 350 00:17:25,711 --> 00:17:27,712 Wonderful, I expect. 351 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,173 It's a great opportunity. 352 00:17:30,340 --> 00:17:32,008 You'll be gone a long time. 353 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:34,677 But I'll be back in the summer, though, for two weeks, 354 00:17:34,845 --> 00:17:36,554 maybe 3! 355 00:17:36,722 --> 00:17:38,806 And at Christmas. 356 00:17:38,974 --> 00:17:41,517 Why, we'll see each other twice a year! 357 00:17:41,685 --> 00:17:43,061 Twice a year. 358 00:17:43,228 --> 00:17:44,896 That's better than nothing. 359 00:17:45,064 --> 00:17:47,565 We'll have so much to talk about! 360 00:17:47,733 --> 00:17:49,150 You'll be different. 361 00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:53,696 No, I won't. 362 00:17:53,864 --> 00:17:56,032 You will, too. 363 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,825 Living in Chicago... 364 00:17:57,993 --> 00:18:00,536 Going to the university. 365 00:18:00,704 --> 00:18:01,829 It'll be like living on the moon 366 00:18:01,997 --> 00:18:03,790 compared to walnut grove. 367 00:18:06,460 --> 00:18:10,129 What do you want me to do? 368 00:18:10,297 --> 00:18:11,756 I want you to go. 369 00:18:11,924 --> 00:18:15,885 You can't turn down 4 years at the university. 370 00:18:16,053 --> 00:18:17,762 It'll be different, John. 371 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:22,892 And you'll be different, too, when you come back at Christmas. 372 00:18:23,060 --> 00:18:26,354 Are you sure you want me to go? 373 00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:28,856 Of course I do. 374 00:18:29,024 --> 00:18:32,944 When it's done, we'll both be glad you did it. 375 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:34,654 I got to get home. 376 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:57,135 Sorry I missed supper. 377 00:18:59,555 --> 00:19:01,305 Are you hungry? 378 00:19:01,473 --> 00:19:04,600 Haven't given it much thought. 379 00:19:04,768 --> 00:19:07,520 Well, I'll fetch something for you. 380 00:19:07,688 --> 00:19:09,063 Thanks. 381 00:20:03,243 --> 00:20:04,827 There's more if you want it. 382 00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:06,537 That'll be fine. 383 00:20:13,503 --> 00:20:14,879 Is it Mary? 384 00:20:20,677 --> 00:20:21,886 It'll work. 385 00:20:22,054 --> 00:20:23,137 Takes time, but... 386 00:20:23,305 --> 00:20:26,265 Thought my mind was made up. 387 00:20:26,433 --> 00:20:28,434 Seems like it ought to be. 388 00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:44,533 You'll ride the wind one day, John. 389 00:20:44,701 --> 00:20:47,495 Will I? 390 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:48,955 And Mary? 391 00:20:49,122 --> 00:20:52,041 Well, she'll be here, waiting for you. 392 00:20:52,209 --> 00:20:55,378 If she's fond enough of you, she will be. 393 00:20:55,545 --> 00:20:56,796 Oh, you're both so young. 394 00:20:56,964 --> 00:20:59,048 You've got so much to do, so much to learn. 395 00:20:59,216 --> 00:21:01,050 I know. 396 00:21:01,218 --> 00:21:02,885 I know all that. 397 00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:06,889 Knowing doesn't make it any easier. 398 00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:10,476 What'll I be when I come back? 399 00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:11,769 Will I be the same? 400 00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:13,813 No. 401 00:21:13,981 --> 00:21:16,190 Neither will she. 402 00:21:16,358 --> 00:21:18,317 She's a girl now. 403 00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:19,568 She'll be a woman then, 404 00:21:19,736 --> 00:21:21,237 and you'll be a man. 405 00:21:21,405 --> 00:21:24,532 And you'll see each other with different eyes. 406 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:28,327 That's what I'm afraid of. 407 00:21:28,495 --> 00:21:31,539 I don't want things to change. 408 00:21:31,707 --> 00:21:33,499 But they do, John. 409 00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:36,627 You can't help it. 410 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,879 Oh, there's a great, big world out there 411 00:21:39,047 --> 00:21:41,090 waiting for you, John. 412 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:43,718 Like an enormous house with a million rooms 413 00:21:43,885 --> 00:21:46,053 all filled with treasures, 414 00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:49,348 and at the university, they'll give you the keys. 415 00:21:51,768 --> 00:21:54,562 What about Mary? 416 00:21:54,730 --> 00:21:57,523 She's a very bright girl. 417 00:21:57,691 --> 00:21:58,774 No telling what she might do 418 00:21:58,942 --> 00:22:02,862 if she sets her mind to it. 419 00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:05,114 But if I go away... 420 00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:09,118 I... I'll lose her. 421 00:22:09,286 --> 00:22:11,078 Maybe. 422 00:22:11,246 --> 00:22:14,749 Things won't be the same again. 423 00:22:14,916 --> 00:22:17,293 Things never are the same. 424 00:22:22,716 --> 00:22:26,135 Don't fret about it, John. 425 00:22:26,303 --> 00:22:28,929 Good night. 426 00:22:48,116 --> 00:22:50,910 John, breakfast is ready! 427 00:23:04,716 --> 00:23:06,884 Put it on the table. Be careful. 428 00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:08,969 Sit down. Breakfast is all ready. 429 00:23:09,137 --> 00:23:11,138 I got something to say. 430 00:23:15,185 --> 00:23:17,978 I, uh, done my thinking and made my decision. 431 00:23:19,689 --> 00:23:21,857 I'm not going to take it. 432 00:23:22,025 --> 00:23:23,067 Grace: Oh, John! 433 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:25,403 John: My mind's made up. 434 00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:27,696 I thought about it all last night. 435 00:23:27,864 --> 00:23:32,535 I'm going to stay here and farm with Isaiah. 436 00:23:32,702 --> 00:23:34,120 I could spend 4 years at the university 437 00:23:34,287 --> 00:23:36,914 and not become a writer after all. 438 00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:38,416 Nobody's promising anything. 439 00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:39,875 You don't need promises. 440 00:23:40,043 --> 00:23:43,129 All you want is an opportunity! 441 00:23:43,296 --> 00:23:45,131 I got an opportunity here. 442 00:23:45,298 --> 00:23:46,549 Are you sure you know what you're doing, 443 00:23:46,716 --> 00:23:49,343 - what you're giving up? - I think so. 444 00:23:49,511 --> 00:23:51,262 You haven't the faintest notion, John! 445 00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,889 They're offering you the world! 446 00:23:54,057 --> 00:23:57,518 My world's right here. 447 00:23:57,686 --> 00:23:59,562 I made my decision. 448 00:23:59,729 --> 00:24:01,063 Now I'm going to go haying. 449 00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:02,898 Never mind about the haying. I'll take care of that. 450 00:24:03,066 --> 00:24:04,483 You go get your gal. There's something I want to show you. 451 00:24:04,651 --> 00:24:06,068 She's probably left for school. 452 00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:08,237 Well, go on! Get her. I'll meet you up on the rise. 453 00:24:08,405 --> 00:24:09,613 Isaiah! 454 00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:11,740 Isaiah, you can't let it go like this! 455 00:24:11,908 --> 00:24:13,284 What are you talking about? You heard the boy. 456 00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:15,744 His mind's made up! He made a man's decision. 457 00:24:15,912 --> 00:24:18,998 A man's decision? A boy made it! 458 00:24:29,050 --> 00:24:30,384 Charles. 459 00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:36,223 - Yeah, darling. - Here he comes. 460 00:24:36,391 --> 00:24:37,766 It's about time. 461 00:24:43,690 --> 00:24:44,648 - Hi, Mr. Ingalls. - John, how you doing? 462 00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:46,150 Mr. Ingalls, I got to... 463 00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:48,360 Now just take it easy. I understand how you feel. 464 00:24:48,528 --> 00:24:50,779 We can talk this over like a couple of grown men. 465 00:24:50,947 --> 00:24:52,156 Is she here? 466 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:54,241 No, no. She went off to school about 5 minutes ago. 467 00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:55,534 Excuse us. Why don't we go in... 468 00:24:55,702 --> 00:24:58,287 Well, I'll catch up to her. 469 00:24:58,455 --> 00:25:00,247 John! 470 00:25:00,415 --> 00:25:02,625 John, don't you think we ought to have that talk? 471 00:25:10,967 --> 00:25:12,968 John: Mary! 472 00:25:13,136 --> 00:25:14,678 Pa says he has to show us something. 473 00:25:14,846 --> 00:25:16,013 I got to go to school. 474 00:25:16,181 --> 00:25:17,348 Come on! 475 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,517 He said it's important. 476 00:25:37,994 --> 00:25:40,788 Ha ha! Hey, come on, you two. Come on! 477 00:25:40,956 --> 00:25:43,415 You can see it real good from right down here. 478 00:25:43,583 --> 00:25:44,833 Come on! Come on! 479 00:25:45,001 --> 00:25:46,585 You're going to be a man of property, boy. 480 00:25:46,753 --> 00:25:50,506 Come on. No sorry house for you, gal, when the time comes. 481 00:25:59,766 --> 00:26:01,517 Been saving this. 482 00:26:01,685 --> 00:26:02,810 I been hoping. 483 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,688 Never let on, but I been hoping. 484 00:26:05,855 --> 00:26:07,815 There's 80 acres down there. 485 00:26:07,983 --> 00:26:09,191 There ain't a better piece of bottom land 486 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,360 in this whole state than that one! 487 00:26:11,528 --> 00:26:13,445 Ain't been turned yet, but we can do that. 488 00:26:13,613 --> 00:26:15,030 We can do that together. 489 00:26:15,198 --> 00:26:16,657 Sow a crop of winter wheat. 490 00:26:16,825 --> 00:26:17,908 We'll borrow your pa's team. 491 00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:21,787 We'll turn that sod on its ear! Ha ha. 492 00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:24,915 Oh, you're not going to make much of a crop the first year. 493 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:28,252 But the next year... the next year you watch out! 494 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:29,920 We'll work it together, you and me. 495 00:26:30,088 --> 00:26:32,881 You see, what happens is you make a crop. 496 00:26:33,049 --> 00:26:34,800 You got money in the bank. 497 00:26:34,968 --> 00:26:36,135 Then when the time comes, you can move 498 00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:39,138 that gal of yours into a real house. 499 00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:40,973 Right over here. 500 00:26:41,141 --> 00:26:42,808 Put it... put it right there. 501 00:26:42,976 --> 00:26:44,893 It faces out on your field, see? 502 00:26:45,061 --> 00:26:46,270 That way you can sit up here 503 00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:48,897 and look out on your land. The thing you do... 504 00:26:49,065 --> 00:26:51,442 The thing you do is you build a big old porch 505 00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,402 right here across the front, see? 506 00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:55,904 Oh, you got to have a chimney 507 00:26:56,072 --> 00:26:58,073 and some shingles on the roof, 508 00:26:58,241 --> 00:27:01,744 and a plank floor and some glass windows. 509 00:27:01,911 --> 00:27:04,955 Ooh! Something else I wanted to show you. Here. Look at here. 510 00:27:05,123 --> 00:27:07,958 Here you go. Feel that. 511 00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:09,084 There. 512 00:27:09,252 --> 00:27:10,669 You know what that means? 513 00:27:10,837 --> 00:27:12,630 That means there's water down there. 514 00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:15,591 I'll bet it ain't 10, 15 feet under the ground! 515 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:17,051 You know what that means, gal? 516 00:27:17,218 --> 00:27:18,260 That means we can put a well 517 00:27:18,428 --> 00:27:20,846 just 10 feet from your back door! 518 00:27:21,014 --> 00:27:23,974 Then we'll have a barn. Have a barn right yonder there. 519 00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:26,727 Big old barn, and a corral for some stock. 520 00:27:26,895 --> 00:27:29,605 And a garden. Garden here. 521 00:27:29,773 --> 00:27:33,317 And a whole lot of flowers! Ha. 522 00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:34,860 I'll tell you what. 523 00:27:35,028 --> 00:27:36,445 You make a crop, 524 00:27:36,613 --> 00:27:39,114 you got money in the bank! 525 00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:40,574 When can we start building? 526 00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:42,284 Oh, well, uh... Tomorrow. 527 00:27:42,452 --> 00:27:44,286 - Tomorrow! - Right. I already talked to hanson 528 00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:46,121 about getting the first jag of lumber. 529 00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:47,498 I didn't want to say nothing, you know, 530 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,292 until you made up your mind. 531 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:53,337 But she's here. She's all yours. 532 00:27:53,505 --> 00:27:55,714 You can go to work on her tomorrow. 533 00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:12,064 Carrie. 534 00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:13,315 Thank you. 535 00:28:13,483 --> 00:28:14,483 More soup? 536 00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:16,402 I'm not hungry. 537 00:28:16,569 --> 00:28:18,362 Anything wrong, Mary? 538 00:28:18,530 --> 00:28:19,822 Not exactly. 539 00:28:19,989 --> 00:28:21,573 - It's just that... - Hush up, Laura. 540 00:28:21,741 --> 00:28:23,534 Hush up, Laura! 541 00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:27,996 Is there something I should know about, or... 542 00:28:28,164 --> 00:28:31,875 Pa, I just don't feel like eating. That's all. 543 00:28:32,043 --> 00:28:33,085 Sorry. I just thought... 544 00:28:33,253 --> 00:28:35,379 Charles, have some more stew. 545 00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:36,922 Oh. Thank you. 546 00:28:38,425 --> 00:28:39,800 I'll get it. 547 00:28:41,845 --> 00:28:43,804 - Ah, John. Come on in. - Evening, Mr. Ingalls. 548 00:28:43,972 --> 00:28:46,014 Mary's just about through supper. 549 00:28:46,182 --> 00:28:50,227 Um, I'd just as soon talk to you now, if you don't mind. 550 00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:53,522 Sure. Come in. 551 00:28:53,690 --> 00:28:57,401 Could we talk outside? It's kind of private. 552 00:28:57,569 --> 00:28:59,778 Yeah. We'll be right back. 553 00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:17,087 Mr. Ingalls... 554 00:29:19,132 --> 00:29:20,799 I, uh... 555 00:29:23,011 --> 00:29:24,928 Well... 556 00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:29,266 Take a deep breath, boy, 557 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:31,852 and swallow hard and say it. 558 00:29:36,816 --> 00:29:39,234 I love your daughter, sir. 559 00:29:39,402 --> 00:29:40,402 So do I. 560 00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:43,447 But I want to marry her! 561 00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:45,032 I'll be a good husband. 562 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,409 I'll take care of her and... 563 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:52,998 Well... 564 00:29:55,543 --> 00:29:57,795 That's about it, sir. 565 00:29:57,962 --> 00:29:59,963 I've said my piece. 566 00:30:03,510 --> 00:30:06,094 And I think you said it very well. 567 00:30:06,262 --> 00:30:08,680 I'd be happy to have you as a member of the family. 568 00:30:08,848 --> 00:30:10,140 Thank you, sir. 569 00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:13,060 Now, why don't you sit down before you fall down? 570 00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:17,523 You know, John, we have another question here, 571 00:30:17,690 --> 00:30:20,859 and it's a pretty important one. 572 00:30:21,027 --> 00:30:22,653 Yes, sir? 573 00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:24,112 It's something that's... 574 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,617 Going to have a big effect on you and Mary both. 575 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:31,119 You made a decision not too long ago. 576 00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:34,456 Yeah. I, uh... 577 00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:38,502 I've made up my mind about that, sir. 578 00:30:38,670 --> 00:30:42,214 Your mind's made up right now, 579 00:30:42,382 --> 00:30:46,426 but what about a few years from now? 580 00:30:46,594 --> 00:30:50,597 You're giving up a chance for a good education. 581 00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:53,016 It's a chance you're not going to have again. 582 00:30:53,184 --> 00:30:55,978 Once you're married, that's all going to be in the past. 583 00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:01,149 You're sure? 584 00:31:01,317 --> 00:31:03,318 Yes, sir. 585 00:31:03,486 --> 00:31:04,945 I'm sure. 586 00:31:05,113 --> 00:31:06,572 I've made my decision. 587 00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:10,492 All right, a year and a half from now when Mary's 15, 588 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:12,077 she's yours. 589 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:16,415 A year and a half, sir? 590 00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:18,458 That's an awful long time. 591 00:31:18,626 --> 00:31:19,710 You and my daughter are going to spend 592 00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:21,003 the rest of your lives together. 593 00:31:21,170 --> 00:31:23,672 That's a long time. 594 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:24,840 Yes, sir. 595 00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:27,134 Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. 596 00:31:27,302 --> 00:31:29,887 What do you expect he'll say? 597 00:31:30,054 --> 00:31:31,138 "Sir... 598 00:31:31,306 --> 00:31:33,181 I've come to ask you on bended knee..." 599 00:31:33,349 --> 00:31:35,851 Mary: Laura, will you hush up? 600 00:31:38,438 --> 00:31:41,565 Mary, your pa knows how he feels. 601 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:44,693 He's been through the same thing as John Jr. 602 00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:56,872 I hope my stew didn't get cold. 603 00:32:02,086 --> 00:32:03,211 Oh, you're engaged. 604 00:32:03,379 --> 00:32:05,964 Oh, pa! 605 00:32:06,132 --> 00:32:07,716 Thank you. 606 00:32:07,884 --> 00:32:10,177 - Where's John? - Well, it's dark, I sent him home. 607 00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:13,430 You're just engaged, you know? 608 00:33:15,243 --> 00:33:16,284 Guess who. 609 00:33:16,452 --> 00:33:18,286 Uh... jenny Lynn. 610 00:33:18,454 --> 00:33:19,621 Lillie langtry? 611 00:33:19,789 --> 00:33:21,915 No. Don't look so disappointed. 612 00:33:22,083 --> 00:33:24,710 I brought you some cornbread and buttermilk. 613 00:33:24,877 --> 00:33:27,170 Thanks. 614 00:33:27,338 --> 00:33:28,630 I can't believe you're doing it. 615 00:33:28,798 --> 00:33:30,674 Well, I wasn't much of a carpenter at first. 616 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:32,801 But I'm learning. 617 00:33:32,969 --> 00:33:34,428 What's this? 618 00:33:34,595 --> 00:33:38,348 Robert burns. Miss beadle thought you might want to look at it. 619 00:33:38,516 --> 00:33:40,642 - No? - I'm not interested. 620 00:33:40,810 --> 00:33:42,310 It's got "highland Mary" and "sweet afton." 621 00:33:42,478 --> 00:33:44,521 I told you I'm not interested. 622 00:33:46,607 --> 00:33:49,443 Just take it back and tell her thanks. 623 00:33:49,610 --> 00:33:50,527 I don't want to look at it. 624 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:52,070 She has some others. 625 00:33:52,238 --> 00:33:54,531 I've got no time for books. I'm building a house. 626 00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:56,116 Isn't that enough? 627 00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:00,412 Mary. 628 00:34:02,498 --> 00:34:04,291 I am through with writing. 629 00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:07,753 I'm through with poetry, I'm through with books. 630 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,422 The sooner we get that settled, the better off we'll be. 631 00:34:13,092 --> 00:34:15,510 I'm sorry. 632 00:34:15,678 --> 00:34:17,137 I guess I'll be going home now. 633 00:34:17,305 --> 00:34:19,890 Ma's doing some canning, and I told her I'd help. 634 00:34:45,124 --> 00:34:47,709 Did you look at this? 635 00:34:47,877 --> 00:34:49,753 No. 636 00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:53,381 Robert burns. 637 00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:55,967 "Oh, Mary, at thy window be! 638 00:34:56,135 --> 00:35:00,180 "It is the wished, the trysted hour. 639 00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:01,932 Those smiles and glances..." 640 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:03,767 grace! 641 00:35:06,604 --> 00:35:07,729 I'm sorry. 642 00:35:07,897 --> 00:35:10,816 I don't want to hear poetry. 643 00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:11,983 Why not? 644 00:35:12,151 --> 00:35:14,152 Do I have to have a reason? 645 00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:21,576 Hello, darling. 646 00:35:21,744 --> 00:35:24,830 Evening, Isaiah. 647 00:35:24,997 --> 00:35:25,997 Hey, John, I was talking to Ingalls. 648 00:35:26,165 --> 00:35:27,415 He's going to lend us that team. 649 00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:29,876 Means we can start busting that field by tomorrow. 650 00:35:30,044 --> 00:35:32,254 I figure the house can wait, but the crops can't. 651 00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:35,048 Got to get them in before it rains. 652 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:37,968 Of course, I don't mean to make no decisions for you. 653 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:38,927 I know. 654 00:35:39,095 --> 00:35:40,428 What you're doing here, 655 00:35:40,596 --> 00:35:43,723 you don't agree with me, all you got to do is... 656 00:35:45,101 --> 00:35:47,310 What's eating you, John? 657 00:35:47,478 --> 00:35:49,938 Nothing. 658 00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:53,233 I'll take this back to miss beadle. 659 00:35:53,401 --> 00:35:55,277 Tell her thanks. 660 00:35:55,444 --> 00:35:57,195 There's another one on my desk you can have, 661 00:35:57,363 --> 00:36:00,407 if you want it. 662 00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:02,117 I'm going to bed. 663 00:36:02,285 --> 00:36:03,618 Good night. 664 00:36:10,459 --> 00:36:15,005 Oh, don't fret about him. He's put in a big day. He's tired. 665 00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:17,424 He's empty. 666 00:36:17,592 --> 00:36:19,968 What do you mean? 667 00:36:20,136 --> 00:36:22,345 Something's gone out of him. 668 00:36:24,432 --> 00:36:25,807 Isaiah, you're the one that told me 669 00:36:25,975 --> 00:36:28,727 not long ago that you and the boy are different. 670 00:36:28,895 --> 00:36:30,770 You forgetting that? 671 00:36:30,938 --> 00:36:33,607 He's growing up. He's coming into manhood. 672 00:36:33,774 --> 00:36:36,026 A lot of things on his mind, that's all. 673 00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:37,986 He'll be all right. 674 00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:39,696 I hope so. 675 00:36:41,991 --> 00:36:44,075 I wonder, though... 676 00:36:44,243 --> 00:36:46,912 What? 677 00:36:47,079 --> 00:36:49,372 He used to smile. 678 00:37:16,734 --> 00:37:18,652 Kind of late, isn't it? 679 00:37:18,819 --> 00:37:23,198 I know. I'm not sleepy. 680 00:37:23,366 --> 00:37:24,908 John's poems. 681 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:28,453 He gave them to grace, but she thought I'd like to read them. 682 00:37:33,876 --> 00:37:36,711 "Meadowlark." 683 00:37:36,879 --> 00:37:39,256 "Winter kill." 684 00:37:39,423 --> 00:37:40,548 "Charlie's fiddle"? 685 00:37:40,716 --> 00:37:42,300 That's about pa. 686 00:37:49,558 --> 00:37:51,726 How does he do it? 687 00:37:51,894 --> 00:37:53,061 How does he put into words 688 00:37:53,229 --> 00:37:54,437 exactly what I hear 689 00:37:54,605 --> 00:37:58,900 and feel when I hear your pa play? 690 00:37:59,068 --> 00:38:00,860 Ever ask him? 691 00:38:01,028 --> 00:38:03,405 We don't talk much about poetry. 692 00:38:03,572 --> 00:38:05,448 Other things on his mind, hmm? 693 00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:07,242 He's awful busy. 694 00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,327 Hmm. 695 00:38:09,495 --> 00:38:13,123 That's what happens when you fall in love and get married. 696 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,583 You enter a whole new world, 697 00:38:15,751 --> 00:38:18,003 and you leave the old one behind. 698 00:38:18,170 --> 00:38:19,629 That happen to you? 699 00:38:19,797 --> 00:38:23,633 Sure. Happens to everybody. 700 00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:26,344 What kind of a world did you leave behind? 701 00:38:26,512 --> 00:38:28,305 Can't remember. 702 00:38:30,766 --> 00:38:32,309 Oh, if I think back to the time 703 00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:35,520 before I met and married your pa... 704 00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,608 It's like I... 705 00:38:40,776 --> 00:38:44,112 Don't even know that girl. 706 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,907 The things she wanted to do... 707 00:38:48,075 --> 00:38:52,287 Places she wanted to go. 708 00:38:52,455 --> 00:38:54,998 The person she wanted to be. 709 00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:03,548 Things change so. 710 00:39:03,716 --> 00:39:05,759 You get married... 711 00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:10,055 And you have one another to look out for... 712 00:39:10,222 --> 00:39:12,390 House to build... 713 00:39:12,558 --> 00:39:14,934 Crops to grow... 714 00:39:15,102 --> 00:39:17,645 Children to raise, 715 00:39:17,813 --> 00:39:19,981 feed, and clothe. 716 00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:23,443 Bills to pay. 717 00:39:23,611 --> 00:39:25,904 And that'll happen to us, too? 718 00:39:28,157 --> 00:39:30,158 But you'll be glad 719 00:39:30,326 --> 00:39:33,286 for all of it. 720 00:39:33,454 --> 00:39:35,830 You leave one world behind, 721 00:39:35,998 --> 00:39:39,250 and you go on to the new... 722 00:39:39,418 --> 00:39:40,835 And you forget the dreams you had 723 00:39:41,003 --> 00:39:43,046 before it all happened. 724 00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,673 Will John forget his poetry? 725 00:39:45,841 --> 00:39:47,509 Well... 726 00:39:49,929 --> 00:39:53,223 Your pa still plays his fiddle, doesn't he? 727 00:39:58,687 --> 00:40:02,023 Don't fret about it. 728 00:40:02,191 --> 00:40:04,359 It happens to all of us, Mary. 729 00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:14,953 Good night. 730 00:40:56,745 --> 00:40:58,705 Got a lot to do, but it's coming. 731 00:41:02,376 --> 00:41:05,003 Going to have a nice field down there, you and John. 732 00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:06,754 What you're going to have to do next, 733 00:41:06,922 --> 00:41:09,424 you're going to have to figure out what kind of door you want. 734 00:41:09,592 --> 00:41:10,758 Solid from top to bottom, 735 00:41:10,926 --> 00:41:12,594 or we can put in one of them divided ones 736 00:41:12,761 --> 00:41:14,095 where you get air through the top 737 00:41:14,263 --> 00:41:16,931 and keep the varmints out with the bottom. 738 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:21,769 I loved it. 739 00:41:21,937 --> 00:41:24,814 I'd fall asleep thinking about it, 740 00:41:24,982 --> 00:41:27,942 then I'd dream about it... 741 00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:31,362 A green field down there... 742 00:41:31,530 --> 00:41:33,615 New wheat coming up in the spring... 743 00:41:33,782 --> 00:41:36,326 Wildflowers. 744 00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:38,536 It was a wonderful dream. 745 00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:40,121 Dream? 746 00:41:40,289 --> 00:41:43,541 That's what it was, a dream. 747 00:41:43,709 --> 00:41:46,628 Barn over there... 748 00:41:46,795 --> 00:41:49,297 And a chicken house. 749 00:41:49,465 --> 00:41:51,299 Our own well. 750 00:41:51,467 --> 00:41:53,384 This ain't a dream! It's real! 751 00:41:53,552 --> 00:41:57,222 Be ready to move into before you know it. 752 00:41:57,389 --> 00:41:59,599 No, I won't. 753 00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:02,477 What are you talking about? 754 00:42:02,645 --> 00:42:05,647 I don't know how to start. 755 00:42:05,814 --> 00:42:08,316 What's the matter, Mary? 756 00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:10,693 You know what's wrong, Mr. Edwards, 757 00:42:10,861 --> 00:42:13,404 just as well as I do. 758 00:42:13,572 --> 00:42:16,074 What we're doing here is wrong. 759 00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:21,037 What we decided back in the beginning was wrong. 760 00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:23,748 Wrong? There's nothing wrong about it! 761 00:42:23,916 --> 00:42:25,291 I mean, look at him down there. 762 00:42:25,459 --> 00:42:28,461 He'll have that field busted by sundown tomorrow. 763 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:31,005 You got yourself a good farmer down there. 764 00:42:31,173 --> 00:42:32,173 He's doing it all for you. 765 00:42:32,341 --> 00:42:34,133 That's what's wrong about it. 766 00:42:34,301 --> 00:42:36,719 He's doing it for me and for you, 767 00:42:36,887 --> 00:42:39,097 not for himself. 768 00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:41,224 He isn't a farmer. 769 00:42:41,392 --> 00:42:44,811 He wasn't born to be a farmer. 770 00:42:44,979 --> 00:42:47,313 He was born for this. 771 00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:51,192 He was born to books 772 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,777 and words, 773 00:42:52,945 --> 00:42:55,697 and the music he can make with them. 774 00:42:55,864 --> 00:42:58,199 And we're taking them away from him. 775 00:42:58,367 --> 00:42:59,409 Now, Mary, girl, you don't want to... 776 00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:03,246 It's true! You know it's true. 777 00:43:05,249 --> 00:43:09,377 We can't hold him like a meadowlark in a cage! 778 00:43:12,548 --> 00:43:15,300 He'll stay if we ask him to, 779 00:43:15,467 --> 00:43:17,802 with the life gone out of him 780 00:43:17,970 --> 00:43:20,388 and the music. 781 00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:24,726 I want him, more than you do, maybe, 782 00:43:24,893 --> 00:43:27,645 but not that way. 783 00:43:27,813 --> 00:43:29,647 I don't think you do, either. 784 00:43:37,281 --> 00:43:38,865 Do you? 785 00:44:38,884 --> 00:44:41,928 John, here's some sandwiches and some cake. 786 00:44:42,096 --> 00:44:43,262 I made them last night. 787 00:44:43,430 --> 00:44:44,430 Thank you, Mrs. Ingalls. 788 00:44:44,598 --> 00:44:45,890 Keep your hand on your pocketbook. 789 00:44:46,058 --> 00:44:48,476 Isaiah, you've already told him that 20 times. 790 00:44:48,644 --> 00:44:50,895 22. 791 00:44:51,063 --> 00:44:52,772 Don't worry, I will. 792 00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:53,981 Thanks. 793 00:44:54,149 --> 00:44:56,025 Ain't no reason to thank me. 794 00:44:56,193 --> 00:44:58,820 Debt's on my side. 795 00:44:58,987 --> 00:45:01,072 We'll be thinking about you. 796 00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:02,615 All the time. 797 00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:07,829 Good luck, John. 798 00:45:07,996 --> 00:45:09,789 Thank you, Mr. Ingalls. 799 00:45:20,676 --> 00:45:21,926 I'll be back for Christmas. 800 00:45:22,094 --> 00:45:24,053 It won't be so long. 801 00:45:24,221 --> 00:45:26,013 You'll write? 802 00:45:26,181 --> 00:45:28,015 Every day. 803 00:45:28,183 --> 00:45:30,101 I'll write, too. 804 00:45:31,979 --> 00:45:35,064 I want to know all about you. 805 00:45:35,232 --> 00:45:36,357 And your studies. 806 00:45:39,111 --> 00:45:39,902 Aboard! 807 00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:40,987 I love you. 808 00:45:41,155 --> 00:45:42,196 All aboard! 809 00:45:42,364 --> 00:45:44,115 I love you! 810 00:45:50,038 --> 00:45:51,956 Here, John. 811 00:45:52,124 --> 00:45:53,249 Take care! 812 00:45:53,417 --> 00:45:54,917 - Good-bye, John! - Bye, John! 813 00:45:55,085 --> 00:45:56,627 - Bye, John! - Bye, John! 814 00:45:56,795 --> 00:45:58,254 Take care!