1 00:01:23,183 --> 00:01:26,949 MAN ON PA: The Atlantic and Southern Pioneer leaving at 9:15. 2 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:30,456 Gate 4 is now open for Pullman and coach passengers. 3 00:01:30,924 --> 00:01:32,483 MA: (WHISTLES) Come on! 4 00:01:52,012 --> 00:01:53,878 MAN ON PA: Your attention, please. 5 00:01:53,947 --> 00:01:55,278 Come on, kids. 6 00:01:55,349 --> 00:01:58,375 The Saint Louis Flyer now arriving on Track 8. 7 00:02:00,287 --> 00:02:01,914 (MEOWING) 8 00:02:02,322 --> 00:02:03,915 (DANGER BARKING) Oh! 9 00:02:04,324 --> 00:02:06,986 Who did that? I don't know, Ma. What's the matter? 10 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:08,585 (BARKING) 11 00:02:08,662 --> 00:02:10,152 (SCREAMING) (YOWLING) 12 00:02:12,899 --> 00:02:14,697 Stop him! Stop him! 13 00:02:14,768 --> 00:02:16,429 Stop Danger! 14 00:02:17,104 --> 00:02:19,038 (BARKING CONTINUES) 15 00:02:26,947 --> 00:02:29,712 (SCREAMING) Get him! Hold him. Stop him. 16 00:02:30,350 --> 00:02:32,216 Stop him! Help her! 17 00:02:32,285 --> 00:02:34,344 Oh, no! Stop him! 18 00:02:35,889 --> 00:02:37,288 (SCREAMING) 19 00:02:39,493 --> 00:02:41,518 Oh, help her! 20 00:02:43,497 --> 00:02:45,090 (MEOWING) 21 00:02:45,932 --> 00:02:47,366 (WOMAN SCREAMING) 22 00:02:47,934 --> 00:02:50,130 Stop him! 23 00:02:50,203 --> 00:02:51,898 MAN ON PA: Your attention, please. 24 00:02:51,972 --> 00:02:53,770 You shouldn't have oughta done that, Danger. 25 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,399 Ma, are you all right? The Arkansas Argonaut 26 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:58,376 leaving on Track 16 at 9:00. 27 00:02:59,179 --> 00:03:01,773 That's us. Get me on my feet, kids. 28 00:03:01,848 --> 00:03:04,545 The Arkansas Argonaut leaving on Track 16 at 9:00. 29 00:03:04,618 --> 00:03:06,017 This is the last call. 30 00:03:06,086 --> 00:03:07,247 I'll take Danger. 31 00:03:07,354 --> 00:03:08,583 AW, gee, Ma! 32 00:03:08,655 --> 00:03:11,420 Since I bought the tickets, I'd like to ride to the Ozarks, 33 00:03:11,491 --> 00:03:13,084 not run to them. 34 00:03:36,616 --> 00:03:39,551 Just can't ride facing front. Makes me dizzy. 35 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:52,091 (WHISTLE BLOWING) 36 00:03:55,869 --> 00:03:57,769 Oh! Oh! 37 00:03:59,506 --> 00:04:02,237 Sorry, mister. I'm Ma Kettle. 38 00:04:02,743 --> 00:04:04,541 Pleased to meet you. 39 00:04:10,417 --> 00:04:12,112 Unharness yourselves, kids. 40 00:04:12,185 --> 00:04:13,983 Be little ladies and gentlemen. 41 00:04:14,054 --> 00:04:15,681 Find places to sit. 42 00:04:15,756 --> 00:04:17,121 Here, Ma. 43 00:04:17,457 --> 00:04:18,925 Come out here. 44 00:04:19,426 --> 00:04:21,190 Oh, I'll take Jenny. 45 00:04:27,567 --> 00:04:29,763 (CLUCKING) GIRL: How's Jenny, Ma? 46 00:04:30,971 --> 00:04:32,837 She's a good traveler. 47 00:04:34,775 --> 00:04:36,106 (DANGER BARKING) 48 00:04:39,312 --> 00:04:41,076 No animals in the car. 49 00:04:43,650 --> 00:04:46,119 Absolutely no animals allowed. 50 00:04:47,053 --> 00:04:48,646 (WHIMPERING) 51 00:04:51,358 --> 00:04:52,848 That dog must go. 52 00:04:52,926 --> 00:04:54,223 (CONTINUES BARKING) 53 00:04:54,895 --> 00:04:56,294 (WHIMPERING) 54 00:04:58,431 --> 00:04:59,990 Now that's all right. You can keep a bird in a cage 55 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:03,366 as long as it's covered, but absolutely no animals. 56 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,238 (EXCLAIMS) 57 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:11,403 The dog will have to ride in the baggage car. 58 00:05:11,478 --> 00:05:12,570 Oh, Ma! (SHUSHES) 59 00:05:12,646 --> 00:05:14,478 It's the rules! 60 00:05:14,548 --> 00:05:17,017 Could you put this up here, please? 61 00:05:24,324 --> 00:05:26,190 (CLUCKING) 62 00:05:31,298 --> 00:05:33,460 A chicken's a bird. Ain't it? 63 00:05:41,074 --> 00:05:42,269 Sit down, Janie. 64 00:05:42,876 --> 00:05:44,366 (WHIMPERING) 65 00:05:47,914 --> 00:05:49,814 Sure have to cart a lot of stuff 66 00:05:49,883 --> 00:05:51,817 travelling with 13 kids. 67 00:05:56,489 --> 00:05:58,150 So long, Danger. 68 00:06:06,766 --> 00:06:09,997 We're going to Mournful Hollow. That's in Arkansas. 69 00:06:10,804 --> 00:06:14,331 We're gonna visit my husband's brother, Sedgewick Kettle. 70 00:06:16,009 --> 00:06:17,238 He lives on a farm. 71 00:06:17,310 --> 00:06:19,176 It's a nice, big place. 72 00:06:19,679 --> 00:06:22,444 Sedgewick and Pa, that's my husband, 73 00:06:22,816 --> 00:06:24,978 they was willed it by their father. 74 00:06:25,051 --> 00:06:26,644 But Sedge runs it. 75 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,848 Not very good though. (SOFTLY) Janie! 76 00:06:28,922 --> 00:06:32,051 Wouldn't you like to sit with the other kids, Janie? 77 00:06:32,158 --> 00:06:33,683 JANIE: No, Ma. 78 00:06:34,194 --> 00:06:36,424 The bank man wrote Ma and Pa a letter. 79 00:06:36,496 --> 00:06:38,692 He wants to take Uncle Sedge's farm away. 80 00:06:38,765 --> 00:06:40,290 That's why we're going to Mournful Hollow. 81 00:06:41,001 --> 00:06:44,096 MA: Financial matters get in such a mess, 82 00:06:44,170 --> 00:06:46,571 but I figure I can straighten things out, 83 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,472 and me and the kids will put that farm 84 00:06:48,541 --> 00:06:49,872 on a paying basis in no time. 85 00:06:50,543 --> 00:06:53,069 Pa's staying home to look after our house in town, 86 00:06:53,146 --> 00:06:54,545 and the farm in Cape Flattery. 87 00:06:56,216 --> 00:06:58,810 Real responsibility having two places. 88 00:06:59,486 --> 00:07:01,887 Pa started to grow a peanut crop this year. 89 00:07:01,955 --> 00:07:04,856 Of course, Geoduck and Crowbar will do all the work. 90 00:07:04,925 --> 00:07:06,017 Pa watches them do it. 91 00:07:06,192 --> 00:07:09,287 (STAMMERING) Pa's kind of delicate like. 92 00:07:09,763 --> 00:07:11,128 He ain't able to do too much. 93 00:07:11,932 --> 00:07:14,697 The bank says Uncle Sedge doesn't do much either. 94 00:07:14,768 --> 00:07:16,759 That's why they want to take his farm away. 95 00:07:18,538 --> 00:07:21,599 Sedge must be sick, is what Janie means. 96 00:07:26,413 --> 00:07:28,575 Tickets. Tickets, please. 97 00:07:28,648 --> 00:07:30,207 Ma's got 'em. She's there. 98 00:07:30,283 --> 00:07:31,307 Oh. 99 00:07:35,188 --> 00:07:38,089 Well, are you all in the same family? 100 00:07:39,492 --> 00:07:40,755 How many of you are there? 101 00:07:41,194 --> 00:07:42,423 Sixteen. 102 00:07:43,063 --> 00:07:45,259 Six... Sixteen? 103 00:07:46,566 --> 00:07:48,159 And who's the youngest? 104 00:07:48,234 --> 00:07:49,429 He is. 105 00:07:49,970 --> 00:07:51,131 And how old are you, little man? 106 00:07:51,705 --> 00:07:53,002 Six and a half. 107 00:07:53,373 --> 00:07:54,898 Six and a half. 108 00:08:06,019 --> 00:08:08,545 Oh! There it is! 109 00:08:09,189 --> 00:08:10,623 Tickets, please. 110 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:11,953 Tickets? 111 00:08:13,927 --> 00:08:15,861 They're here someplace. 112 00:08:23,269 --> 00:08:24,430 Those are mine, Ma. 113 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:25,562 I knew they weren't mine. 114 00:08:25,972 --> 00:08:29,033 Well, I put 'em in here. I... I know I did. 115 00:08:30,810 --> 00:08:32,869 Where'd they get to? 116 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,145 Oh, here they are. All 14 of 'em. 117 00:08:38,018 --> 00:08:39,884 Shouldn't there be 16? 118 00:08:40,286 --> 00:08:42,516 No, just four full fares. 119 00:08:42,756 --> 00:08:45,555 For me and Nancy, and Freddie, and Betty. 120 00:08:46,359 --> 00:08:48,088 No, she's half fare. 121 00:08:48,161 --> 00:08:49,754 She won't be 12 till November. 122 00:08:49,829 --> 00:08:51,729 It's Johnny who... No, Ma. Johnny's nine. 123 00:08:52,098 --> 00:08:53,532 One moment! 124 00:08:54,634 --> 00:08:56,693 May I ask how many children you have? 125 00:08:57,003 --> 00:08:58,937 Sure. Sixteen. 126 00:08:59,606 --> 00:09:01,267 And you bought 14 tickets? 127 00:09:02,142 --> 00:09:04,474 Yes. For me and 13 kids. 128 00:09:05,678 --> 00:09:08,079 Why should I buy tickets for Tom and Rose and Elwin? 129 00:09:08,515 --> 00:09:09,778 Are they under five? 130 00:09:09,849 --> 00:09:13,308 Ha! Of course not! They're the oldest. 131 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:15,381 Well, then, why didn't you buy tickets for them? 132 00:09:16,089 --> 00:09:17,750 'Cause they didn't come with us. 133 00:09:18,058 --> 00:09:19,321 Now, uh... 134 00:09:19,692 --> 00:09:21,387 (WHISTLE BLOWING) 135 00:09:25,131 --> 00:09:26,758 Ma! It's raining! 136 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:28,865 What in tarnation is that? 137 00:09:28,935 --> 00:09:30,994 I guess Billy must've brought Oscar. 138 00:09:31,071 --> 00:09:32,470 (KIDS LAUGHING) 139 00:09:36,443 --> 00:09:37,808 (CROAKING) 140 00:09:39,646 --> 00:09:41,341 Oscar got out of the bottle. 141 00:09:41,414 --> 00:09:43,405 I thought Oscar stayed home with Pa. 142 00:09:43,850 --> 00:09:45,113 I've got him. 143 00:09:45,218 --> 00:09:46,515 (SCREAMING) 144 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:50,022 Oh, excuse me. I... I thought I had Oscar. 145 00:09:50,356 --> 00:09:51,881 I'll get him, Ma. 146 00:09:52,358 --> 00:09:53,883 (WOMEN SCREAMING) 147 00:10:02,769 --> 00:10:04,294 I'll get him! 148 00:10:07,907 --> 00:10:10,001 I never should've left home. 149 00:10:10,076 --> 00:10:12,067 Sedge or no Sedge. 150 00:10:19,719 --> 00:10:21,517 You comfortable, Sedge? 151 00:10:21,588 --> 00:10:24,819 Well, you might fluff up the feathers just a little, Bedelia. 152 00:10:24,891 --> 00:10:26,120 Mmm-hmm. 153 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:29,554 Mighty much obliged to you. 154 00:10:47,213 --> 00:10:49,011 You are extremely awkward. 155 00:10:49,782 --> 00:10:52,683 I think Small Fry could use some help. 156 00:11:25,552 --> 00:11:26,781 Bedelia! 157 00:11:28,788 --> 00:11:30,187 Howdy, Bancroft. 158 00:11:30,256 --> 00:11:31,621 Howdy. 159 00:11:31,691 --> 00:11:34,456 Big Trout's gonna kill off that corn sure enough, 160 00:11:34,527 --> 00:11:37,360 putting them dead fish in the ground like that. 161 00:11:37,430 --> 00:11:39,398 Big Trout knows what he's about. 162 00:11:39,866 --> 00:11:41,356 Thank you, Sedgewick. 163 00:11:41,434 --> 00:11:42,993 My people taught corn-raising 164 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:45,834 to Myles Standish and John Alden at Plymouth Rock. 165 00:11:46,172 --> 00:11:47,867 (LAUGHS) 166 00:11:48,274 --> 00:11:51,209 Maybe that's the way they do it in them foreign places, 167 00:11:51,277 --> 00:11:53,006 but it ain't the Ozark way. 168 00:11:53,479 --> 00:11:56,744 (SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE) 169 00:11:58,284 --> 00:12:00,844 This corn will be good enough to sell for seed, Sedgewick. 170 00:12:01,321 --> 00:12:02,447 Hmm. 171 00:12:02,522 --> 00:12:04,422 Ain't gonna do you much good, 172 00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:06,982 if'n the bank takes over your place. 173 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:11,221 That's right un-neighborly of you, Bancroft Baines. 174 00:12:11,297 --> 00:12:13,493 Me being your sister's intended. 175 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:15,925 Never mind him, Sedgewick. 176 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:18,595 Let us hope the bank holds off until harvest time. 177 00:12:19,539 --> 00:12:22,304 If I could just give 'em a little bit on account. 178 00:12:23,076 --> 00:12:25,568 Perhaps your wealthy sister-in-law will lend you the money 179 00:12:25,645 --> 00:12:26,840 when she arrives. 180 00:12:27,113 --> 00:12:30,481 Oh, I don't like to take advantage of my kinfolk, 181 00:12:30,550 --> 00:12:33,212 but I'll think of something. 182 00:12:33,286 --> 00:12:34,447 BIG TROUT: Certainly you will. 183 00:12:39,192 --> 00:12:41,661 That corn ain't no good for seed. 184 00:12:41,728 --> 00:12:43,025 Big Trout's crazy! 185 00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:47,865 But, Bancroft, it is the finest corn in Mournful Hollow. 186 00:12:47,934 --> 00:12:49,197 Fine thing! 187 00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:52,136 My own sister what lives off of me, taking sides agin' me! 188 00:12:52,739 --> 00:12:55,037 Come on! You got the milking and the washin' to do. 189 00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:57,076 'Sides, you ain't done the plowing yet. 190 00:13:03,316 --> 00:13:05,148 Sun's moved, Small Fry. 191 00:13:35,315 --> 00:13:36,805 Howdy, mister. 192 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,795 Well, why the galoshes on a goose? 193 00:13:50,396 --> 00:13:52,626 Well, the eggs got mixed up, 194 00:13:52,699 --> 00:13:54,895 and Gertie was hatched by a hen. 195 00:13:54,967 --> 00:13:57,231 Chickens don't like to get their feet wet, 196 00:13:57,303 --> 00:13:59,431 and Gertie is even fussier. 197 00:13:59,505 --> 00:14:01,234 Them galoshes make her happy. 198 00:14:01,841 --> 00:14:03,309 Is that your cornfield? 199 00:14:03,810 --> 00:14:06,438 Yep. Right nice, ain't it? 200 00:14:07,213 --> 00:14:08,510 Looks like a good crop. 201 00:14:08,581 --> 00:14:11,551 I'm Jack Dexter of the International Development Company of America. 202 00:14:11,984 --> 00:14:15,614 Well, I'm Sedgewick Kettle of Mournful Hollow. 203 00:14:16,055 --> 00:14:17,545 Just call me Sedge. 204 00:14:17,623 --> 00:14:20,217 Mighty glad to make your acquaintance. 205 00:14:21,060 --> 00:14:23,119 Well, I don't mind if I do. 206 00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:26,223 You got a match? 207 00:14:30,937 --> 00:14:32,063 I travel around the country, 208 00:14:32,138 --> 00:14:34,300 buying up crops in the field. 209 00:14:35,441 --> 00:14:36,533 Before harvesting? 210 00:14:37,076 --> 00:14:39,704 Well, if the weather turns bad and the crop spoils, 211 00:14:39,779 --> 00:14:41,611 the farmer gets his money just the same. 212 00:14:42,181 --> 00:14:45,276 Must be mighty nice fellers, doing things like that. 213 00:14:45,651 --> 00:14:48,018 We have to protect ourselves, of course. 214 00:14:48,087 --> 00:14:49,316 The farmer signs an agreement 215 00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:51,585 to do all he can to ensure a good yield. 216 00:14:52,058 --> 00:14:53,753 Well, can't blame 'em for that. 217 00:14:54,193 --> 00:14:56,093 I'll give you $100 to bind the agreement, 218 00:14:56,162 --> 00:14:57,391 and the balance at harvest. 219 00:14:57,797 --> 00:15:00,425 Well, the bank fellers will be glad of that. 220 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:02,935 Better talk 'em over with Big Trout first. 221 00:15:03,002 --> 00:15:04,231 Who's Big Trout? 222 00:15:04,303 --> 00:15:07,102 Oh, he's a real educated feller. 223 00:15:07,173 --> 00:15:09,608 Come down here to study... 224 00:15:10,209 --> 00:15:11,472 What is he studying? 225 00:15:12,178 --> 00:15:14,704 Cherokee Indians' big trek westward. 226 00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:17,276 Chief Sequoyah slept here. 227 00:15:19,652 --> 00:15:21,313 Either take it or leave it. 228 00:15:21,387 --> 00:15:22,513 I'll take it. 229 00:15:22,588 --> 00:15:24,056 Better have your wife sign these, too. 230 00:15:24,791 --> 00:15:26,555 Ain't got no wife. Just me. 231 00:15:27,260 --> 00:15:28,694 You live here all alone? 232 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:30,490 SEDGE: All by myself. What about him? 233 00:15:31,197 --> 00:15:33,825 Oh, just a friend, comes around to help me. 234 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:35,527 CROW: (CAWING) Here he is! 235 00:15:39,505 --> 00:15:41,974 Here he is! Go away, Jimmy. Go away! 236 00:15:42,041 --> 00:15:43,805 (CAWING) Here he is! 237 00:15:43,876 --> 00:15:45,344 What was that? 238 00:15:46,112 --> 00:15:50,015 That was my neighbor Bancroft's pet crow. 239 00:15:50,082 --> 00:15:51,481 He pesters me all the time. 240 00:15:51,551 --> 00:15:53,610 Don't like me very much. 241 00:15:53,686 --> 00:15:54,915 Why not? 242 00:15:55,054 --> 00:15:58,080 Well, a long time ago when I was a young'un, 243 00:15:58,157 --> 00:16:00,717 I got a job working for a revenuer. 244 00:16:01,127 --> 00:16:03,095 You just chopped wood for him. 245 00:16:03,162 --> 00:16:04,323 Yep. 246 00:16:04,397 --> 00:16:07,128 It was enough to make the neighbors all turn against me, 247 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,725 and they never did forget it. 248 00:16:09,769 --> 00:16:12,261 What's all this got to do with the crow? 249 00:16:12,338 --> 00:16:14,773 He's trained to spot revenuers. 250 00:16:15,408 --> 00:16:18,810 When he sees one, he yells, "Here he is!" 251 00:16:19,479 --> 00:16:20,969 Just like he done to me. 252 00:16:23,783 --> 00:16:25,182 Would you like to make some extra money? 253 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:28,150 Working? 254 00:16:28,221 --> 00:16:29,916 Nothing like that. 255 00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:32,048 I'd like to rent your barn. 256 00:16:36,262 --> 00:16:39,357 You see, my company's working on a secret project, 257 00:16:39,432 --> 00:16:41,958 developing new products from corn. 258 00:16:44,837 --> 00:16:49,365 Too much to ask for $5 a month, or maybe $6? 259 00:16:49,442 --> 00:16:51,206 Could you afford that? 260 00:16:52,411 --> 00:16:55,847 My company's generous. We'll make it $7. 261 00:17:03,523 --> 00:17:05,082 Must have money to burn. 262 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:06,482 I'll be back with the... 263 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:08,926 Other fellows tomorrow some time. 264 00:17:08,995 --> 00:17:11,726 Just sign these and we're in business. 265 00:17:11,797 --> 00:17:13,128 Better read it first. 266 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,497 It's just a regular rental form. 267 00:17:17,136 --> 00:17:21,903 Grandpa Kettle says you can always trust a man with an honest face. 268 00:17:29,282 --> 00:17:30,875 (WHISTLE BLOWING) 269 00:17:47,934 --> 00:17:49,732 Oh, it's you. Excuse me. 270 00:17:50,636 --> 00:17:52,400 Thanks for getting us the berths. 271 00:17:52,471 --> 00:17:54,235 The kids sure need a good rest. 272 00:17:54,307 --> 00:17:56,776 I hope they sleep all the way to Mournful Hollow. 273 00:17:56,842 --> 00:17:59,436 Oh, they don't need that much sleep. 274 00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:08,978 (YELLS) Come and get it! 275 00:18:10,122 --> 00:18:11,419 (KIDS CLAMORING) 276 00:18:21,701 --> 00:18:23,135 Let me in there, kids. 277 00:18:23,202 --> 00:18:24,533 I'm hungry, too. 278 00:18:26,739 --> 00:18:28,138 Madam! I... 279 00:18:28,374 --> 00:18:31,173 Oh, we're just having a little snack. 280 00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:33,568 If you're hungry, dig in. 281 00:18:36,015 --> 00:18:39,451 Madam, it's my duty to encourage train travel. 282 00:18:39,518 --> 00:18:41,816 But from now on, I hope you fly. 283 00:18:46,492 --> 00:18:49,655 What time you say the train is coming in, Bedelia? 284 00:18:50,129 --> 00:18:53,030 3:30. You read the letter, Sedge. 285 00:18:53,733 --> 00:18:55,428 I wonder what your sister-in-law is like. 286 00:18:55,501 --> 00:18:56,798 I hope she's not too uppity. 287 00:18:57,269 --> 00:19:01,228 Well, I don't know. Being from the city and rich, besides. 288 00:19:01,907 --> 00:19:03,966 Being rich, she ain't used to working. 289 00:19:04,043 --> 00:19:06,842 I told you, Sedge, you should've answered the letter. 290 00:19:06,912 --> 00:19:08,380 You could've asked her for the money 291 00:19:08,447 --> 00:19:09,881 and told her to stay home. 292 00:19:09,949 --> 00:19:11,940 Oh, Bedelia, you know how I feel 293 00:19:12,018 --> 00:19:15,579 about borrowing money from my kinfolks. 294 00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:18,590 After all, this place is half theirs. 295 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,650 Well, we'll make the best of things. 296 00:19:22,094 --> 00:19:23,391 Being used to living so fancy, 297 00:19:23,462 --> 00:19:25,453 maybe she won't stay long. 298 00:19:25,798 --> 00:19:28,597 (GRUNTS) Got you fixed up as good as I can. 299 00:19:28,668 --> 00:19:30,397 I'll go get myself ready now. 300 00:19:30,469 --> 00:19:31,959 Before you pretty up, 301 00:19:32,038 --> 00:19:34,598 Bedelia, you'd better harness Sweetnin'. 302 00:19:34,674 --> 00:19:36,267 Mmm-hmm. Sweetnin'! 303 00:19:36,509 --> 00:19:38,341 Sweetnin'! Come on, boy! 304 00:19:38,411 --> 00:19:41,312 Come on, boy! We're going to town. 305 00:19:41,847 --> 00:19:44,544 Come on, Sweetnin'. Come on, honey. 306 00:19:55,895 --> 00:19:57,761 That's got to be Uncle Sedgewick. 307 00:19:57,830 --> 00:20:01,391 (LAUGHING) Nobody but a Kettle would drive an outfit like that. 308 00:20:02,201 --> 00:20:04,693 Whoa. Whoa. 309 00:20:06,338 --> 00:20:07,806 You be my kinfolk? 310 00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:09,902 If you're Brother Sedge, we are. 311 00:20:10,242 --> 00:20:13,610 We're kinfolk. Kind of not what I expected, 312 00:20:13,813 --> 00:20:16,510 but you're right welcome to Mournful Hollow. 313 00:20:17,149 --> 00:20:18,617 Thank you. 314 00:20:18,684 --> 00:20:22,587 I want you to make yourself acquainted with Miss Bedelia Baines. 315 00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:25,386 You might call her my intended. 316 00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:29,953 Well! I didn't know Sedge was engaged. 317 00:20:30,563 --> 00:20:31,928 Glad to hear it. 318 00:20:31,997 --> 00:20:33,795 We've been for 20 years. 319 00:20:35,468 --> 00:20:36,799 Cautious types, ain't you? 320 00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:38,667 I'm not, but he is. 321 00:20:40,206 --> 00:20:41,367 Oh. 322 00:20:46,145 --> 00:20:49,979 You don't look like Pa, but you sure remind me of him. 323 00:20:50,483 --> 00:20:52,952 Brothers got things in common, son. 324 00:20:53,018 --> 00:20:54,918 MA: Pile in, kids. Pile in now. 325 00:20:57,790 --> 00:20:59,451 (DANGER BARKING) 326 00:21:05,664 --> 00:21:08,634 Sedge, maybe I better stop off and see the banker. 327 00:21:08,701 --> 00:21:11,261 Oh, no need bothering them fellers. 328 00:21:11,337 --> 00:21:13,806 I got everything fixed up. 329 00:21:13,873 --> 00:21:17,036 Already sold my corn crop to some city fellers. 330 00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:18,804 Rented my barn, too. 331 00:21:18,878 --> 00:21:21,575 Why, Sedge. You mean you're going to be able to pay 332 00:21:21,647 --> 00:21:23,240 the mortgage off with no trouble? 333 00:21:23,315 --> 00:21:24,646 Sure. 334 00:21:24,717 --> 00:21:26,845 Sorry the bank bothered you. 335 00:21:26,919 --> 00:21:28,910 I didn't want to worry my brother, 336 00:21:28,988 --> 00:21:31,423 in spite of his being so rich. 337 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:33,219 Rich! Ha! 338 00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:35,920 I see you need catching up with the family history. 339 00:21:53,379 --> 00:21:56,041 It sort of hits you the first time you see it. 340 00:21:56,115 --> 00:21:58,209 Like I said, it's quiet. 341 00:21:58,484 --> 00:22:00,509 You sure there's no one to snoop around here? 342 00:22:00,586 --> 00:22:01,951 Not a one. 343 00:22:11,030 --> 00:22:13,089 Yeah, this is a good spot. 344 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:14,633 You used your head this time. 345 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,193 Thanks, Professor. This will be the easiest caper we ever tackled. 346 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:20,967 Our worries are over. There won't be a thing to disturb us here. 347 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:22,872 Okay, park the stuff. 348 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:26,640 Ah, it's so quiet it gives me the creeps. 349 00:22:26,712 --> 00:22:29,181 Isolation is exactly what we need. 350 00:22:29,248 --> 00:22:30,773 We like solitary, huh, Professor? 351 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:32,318 (LAUGHS) (KIDS CLAMORING) 352 00:22:57,610 --> 00:22:59,271 (CHICKEN CLUCKING) 353 00:22:59,511 --> 00:23:03,709 Ha! All it needs is Geoduck and Crowbar 354 00:23:04,350 --> 00:23:06,250 and I'd think I was back in Cape Flattery. 355 00:23:06,318 --> 00:23:07,911 (LAUGHS) Oh! 356 00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,756 That does it. Just like home. 357 00:23:18,130 --> 00:23:22,260 Howdy, Mr. Dexter. Want you to meet my brother's wife. 358 00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:23,961 Just call her Ma. 359 00:23:24,203 --> 00:23:25,932 Pleased to meet ya. 360 00:23:26,372 --> 00:23:28,238 What'd you say your names was? 361 00:23:28,307 --> 00:23:29,570 This is my boss, the Professor. 362 00:23:29,642 --> 00:23:31,371 That's Benny and this is Joe. 363 00:23:31,443 --> 00:23:32,808 Howdy. 364 00:23:32,878 --> 00:23:34,710 This is a surprise. 365 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:36,771 Well, it ain't no surprise to me. 366 00:23:36,849 --> 00:23:38,647 I been expecting Ma and the kids. 367 00:23:39,318 --> 00:23:41,685 They come to visit me. 368 00:23:41,754 --> 00:23:42,983 Come on, Ma. 369 00:23:43,055 --> 00:23:44,580 I want to make you acquainted 370 00:23:44,657 --> 00:23:47,058 with Big Trout and Small Fry. 371 00:23:51,363 --> 00:23:53,297 So you made a mistake. 372 00:23:53,365 --> 00:23:55,197 Let's set up operations anyway. 373 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,235 If we're careful, they'll never know what we're doing. 374 00:23:57,303 --> 00:23:58,498 They can't kick us out. 375 00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:01,665 Kettle signed away the crop and we got the lease on the barn. 376 00:24:04,910 --> 00:24:06,810 (BARN ANIMALS BAYING) 377 00:24:20,092 --> 00:24:22,356 (EXCLAIMS) Sure looks familiar. 378 00:24:26,832 --> 00:24:28,391 Go! Get out of here. (CLUCKING) 379 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:30,299 Shoo! Shoo! Get out! 380 00:24:30,369 --> 00:24:32,770 Get out of here. Go! Shoo! 381 00:24:35,741 --> 00:24:39,200 I told you Ma wouldn't like hens in the kitchen. 382 00:24:39,278 --> 00:24:41,940 No sense moving 'em till we was sure. 383 00:24:42,948 --> 00:24:44,609 Git! Git! Git! 384 00:24:44,683 --> 00:24:46,082 (BLEATING) 385 00:24:46,151 --> 00:24:47,550 Outside, Genevieve. 386 00:24:48,087 --> 00:24:49,782 Company's come. 387 00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:04,530 Kind of foolish to pull all that stuff down, Ma. 388 00:25:05,270 --> 00:25:07,602 It was stacked so neat and tidy. 389 00:25:09,008 --> 00:25:13,206 Everything's got to be in its proper place and in its right place. 390 00:25:13,545 --> 00:25:16,139 (LAUGHS) Grandpa Kettle always said. 391 00:25:17,316 --> 00:25:20,513 I better get this place cleaned up before I start supper. 392 00:25:20,586 --> 00:25:23,078 Well, Bedelia'll be glad to help you. 393 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:29,589 (sums) 394 00:25:32,564 --> 00:25:33,759 Tarnation! 395 00:25:35,868 --> 00:25:37,927 Gonna fix that one of these days. 396 00:25:38,003 --> 00:25:39,402 (LAUGHS) 397 00:25:53,786 --> 00:25:55,982 Come and get it! 398 00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:11,136 Dear Sir, we thank you 399 00:26:11,203 --> 00:26:15,003 for the fine vittles that Ma's prepared for us, 400 00:26:15,340 --> 00:26:17,707 and I'd appreciate it 401 00:26:17,776 --> 00:26:22,873 if you could make my kinfolk's visit an enjoyable one. 402 00:26:22,948 --> 00:26:24,575 ALL: Amen. 403 00:26:34,660 --> 00:26:37,686 You know, Uncle Sedge says grace just like Pa. 404 00:26:37,763 --> 00:26:39,959 Uncle Sedge and Pa are lots the same. 405 00:26:40,032 --> 00:26:41,363 Don't you think so, Ma? 406 00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:43,458 (LAUGHING) I can see what you mean. 407 00:26:43,535 --> 00:26:46,937 The reason is that me and your pa got our lessons 408 00:26:47,005 --> 00:26:48,871 on your Grandpa Kettle's knee. 409 00:26:49,808 --> 00:26:51,742 You hear that, children? 410 00:26:52,244 --> 00:26:53,575 Look here. 411 00:27:01,987 --> 00:27:04,046 That's your Grandpa Kettle. 412 00:27:04,723 --> 00:27:06,817 He's the dude of the family. 413 00:27:07,426 --> 00:27:09,394 Yeah, your pa was kind of like him. 414 00:27:10,095 --> 00:27:11,859 In fact, he favors him a lot. 415 00:27:12,297 --> 00:27:14,288 Well, the hat's the same. 416 00:27:15,334 --> 00:27:17,200 I think it looks like you. 417 00:27:17,269 --> 00:27:18,759 Aw, shucks no. 418 00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:23,775 Everybody in the family knows I'm the spitting image of Grandma Kettle. 419 00:27:27,513 --> 00:27:29,174 Why do you keep the picture covered up? 420 00:27:29,515 --> 00:27:31,950 Gotta keep things clean, you know. 421 00:27:32,584 --> 00:27:34,074 (RATTLING) 422 00:27:34,153 --> 00:27:35,814 (KIDS LAUGHING) 423 00:27:47,833 --> 00:27:49,267 Get away from there! 424 00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:52,736 What are you doing in there, mister? I couldn't see. 425 00:27:52,804 --> 00:27:55,933 We don't want nobody snooping around here. See? 426 00:27:56,008 --> 00:27:57,169 Go on! 427 00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:00,103 (KIDS LAUGHING) 428 00:28:00,479 --> 00:28:02,004 Who did that? 429 00:28:03,682 --> 00:28:07,846 Go ahead, scram. You heard me. 430 00:28:12,724 --> 00:28:14,385 Don't do that. I can't stand it. 431 00:28:15,727 --> 00:28:16,853 Ow! 432 00:28:17,829 --> 00:28:19,194 (KIDS LAUGHING) 433 00:28:43,488 --> 00:28:44,853 (BLEATING) 434 00:28:47,993 --> 00:28:50,758 Help! Help! Help! 435 00:28:51,530 --> 00:28:52,691 Help! 436 00:28:59,972 --> 00:29:01,440 Help! 437 00:29:01,506 --> 00:29:02,974 (GROANING) 438 00:29:05,010 --> 00:29:07,479 Help! Help! 439 00:29:09,281 --> 00:29:10,806 Hang on to this. 440 00:29:12,117 --> 00:29:13,312 (SCREAMING) 441 00:29:13,785 --> 00:29:15,446 Here, haul him up. 442 00:29:17,189 --> 00:29:19,283 Help! Help! Help! 443 00:29:24,096 --> 00:29:25,359 (GROANING) 444 00:29:27,566 --> 00:29:29,830 Uncle Sedge! We can't hang on! 445 00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:31,894 Spit on your hands. 446 00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:33,267 You can get a better hold. 447 00:30:06,471 --> 00:30:07,905 (KIDS CLAMORING) 448 00:30:09,808 --> 00:30:11,708 Take some mending, 449 00:30:11,777 --> 00:30:14,712 but I'll get around to it one of these days. 450 00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:28,119 Hey, you all want us to help you unload that corn? 451 00:30:28,460 --> 00:30:31,987 No, you all... And you kids stay away from that barn! 452 00:30:33,432 --> 00:30:34,593 Benny! 453 00:30:35,934 --> 00:30:38,460 Them city people sure are strange. 454 00:30:39,271 --> 00:30:42,434 Ain't no use in trying to figure 'em out. 455 00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:45,970 Well, I think I'll rest a spell. 456 00:30:47,412 --> 00:30:51,974 Gertie, move over. It's my turn now. 457 00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:53,518 (QUACKING) 458 00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:11,666 What do we need these for? 459 00:31:11,737 --> 00:31:13,432 We're research chemists. 460 00:31:13,505 --> 00:31:15,303 This'll help fool the local yokels. 461 00:31:15,741 --> 00:31:17,402 Ah, who worries about them? 462 00:31:17,476 --> 00:31:20,070 All these people aren't like Sedge. They're no dopes. 463 00:31:20,145 --> 00:31:21,635 And they don't like outsiders moving in here 464 00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:23,044 with this kind of operation. 465 00:31:23,115 --> 00:31:24,708 If the revenue boys stay away, 466 00:31:24,783 --> 00:31:26,182 everything'll go okay. 467 00:31:26,251 --> 00:31:27,343 If these hicks get sore at you, 468 00:31:27,419 --> 00:31:28,978 they can be tougher than any city mob. 469 00:31:29,054 --> 00:31:31,352 Joe, go unpack the rest of the stuff. 470 00:31:31,423 --> 00:31:33,289 We'll get a fire going and we're in business. 471 00:31:33,392 --> 00:31:35,383 Your biggest headache will be getting rid of the mash. 472 00:31:35,460 --> 00:31:37,758 Don't worry about it. We'll bury it in the woods. 473 00:31:46,805 --> 00:31:49,399 We'll have a good fire going in a minute, boss. 474 00:31:49,474 --> 00:31:51,033 (MEN COUGHING) 475 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:56,347 (KIDS LAUGHING) 476 00:31:59,317 --> 00:32:01,183 Uncle Sedge! Uncle Sedge! 477 00:32:02,687 --> 00:32:04,246 Uncle Sedge! Uncle Sedge! 478 00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:05,551 Wake up! 479 00:32:06,358 --> 00:32:07,757 Is it important? 480 00:32:07,826 --> 00:32:10,227 Look! The barn's on fire! 481 00:32:10,295 --> 00:32:13,925 Well, go get the hose and put it out. 482 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:17,491 And get the other kids to help you. 483 00:32:17,702 --> 00:32:19,466 Come on, kids! 484 00:32:19,538 --> 00:32:21,336 (KIDS CLAMORING) 485 00:32:42,561 --> 00:32:44,029 (EXCLAIMING) 486 00:32:56,475 --> 00:32:57,943 Barn's on fire! 487 00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:00,104 We just saved you. 488 00:33:00,912 --> 00:33:02,573 Stop that! You're flooding it! 489 00:33:03,849 --> 00:33:04,941 What? 490 00:33:08,854 --> 00:33:10,549 Turn that water off. 491 00:33:20,966 --> 00:33:22,434 Disconnect it. 492 00:33:36,281 --> 00:33:38,545 Been quite a dry spell. 493 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,412 Mind if the hogs join you? 494 00:33:45,924 --> 00:33:47,119 Next. 495 00:33:57,569 --> 00:33:59,901 Evening, Bedelia. Got your chores done? 496 00:34:00,238 --> 00:34:02,764 Reckon so. Leastwise till Bancroft 497 00:34:02,841 --> 00:34:04,400 thinks of something else he wants done. 498 00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:07,777 Ouch! I ain't that dirty, Ma. 499 00:34:07,846 --> 00:34:09,575 Sorry, honey. You're done. 500 00:34:09,648 --> 00:34:12,811 If'n you're tired, Ma, I'd be pleased to spare you awhile. 501 00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:14,352 Oh, I'm not... 502 00:34:15,854 --> 00:34:18,084 Why, that's nice of you, Bedelia. 503 00:34:18,156 --> 00:34:19,783 I am kind of tired. 504 00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:25,423 Good night, Ma. Good night. 505 00:34:25,497 --> 00:34:27,226 Just give me a lick and promise. 506 00:34:27,399 --> 00:34:28,958 Ma washed me good before supper. 507 00:34:29,034 --> 00:34:30,160 (LAUGHS) 508 00:34:35,173 --> 00:34:36,698 Good night, Ma. Good night. 509 00:34:37,175 --> 00:34:38,438 Do you like little girls? 510 00:34:38,510 --> 00:34:40,945 Sure do. Little boys, too. 511 00:34:41,046 --> 00:34:42,536 When you marry Uncle Sedge, 512 00:34:42,614 --> 00:34:45,208 you can have lots of kids, just like Ma. 513 00:34:56,795 --> 00:34:57,921 Oh. 514 00:34:59,764 --> 00:35:01,357 Good night, Ma. Good night. 515 00:35:01,433 --> 00:35:03,231 Remember to say your prayers. Okay. 516 00:35:11,176 --> 00:35:14,202 When I was a young'un, just spoken for by Sedge, 517 00:35:14,279 --> 00:35:18,375 I used to say I wanted a whole house full of kids. 518 00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:21,548 Guess we kind of waited too long. 519 00:35:23,021 --> 00:35:27,322 Bedelia, you ever tried pushing Sedge toward the preacher? 520 00:35:27,392 --> 00:35:31,295 Tried lots of times, but Sedge don't want to be hurried into it. 521 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:33,589 The best thing for Sedge and this farm 522 00:35:33,665 --> 00:35:35,360 is for you to marry him. 523 00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:37,265 He can't take care of himself, 524 00:35:37,335 --> 00:35:39,531 and I can't stay here forever. 525 00:35:39,604 --> 00:35:43,063 Nothing I'd rather do than take care of him 526 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:45,337 and, oh, this wonderful place. 527 00:35:48,179 --> 00:35:51,080 You know, making a man jealous 528 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:53,481 is one way of hog-tying him. 529 00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:56,955 Ain't nobody around here to make him jealous of. 530 00:35:57,555 --> 00:35:59,080 That's too bad. 531 00:35:59,290 --> 00:36:01,759 We'll think of something, I reckon. 532 00:36:03,595 --> 00:36:05,859 Another thing that bothers me, 533 00:36:06,197 --> 00:36:07,824 the neighbors never come around. 534 00:36:08,566 --> 00:36:10,694 Ain't Sedge got any friends? 535 00:36:11,636 --> 00:36:14,003 None but Big Trout and Small Fry. 536 00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:15,904 All the others shun him. 537 00:36:16,808 --> 00:36:20,506 Say, is there any way you could fix things, 538 00:36:20,578 --> 00:36:22,808 so I could meet the neighbors? 539 00:36:23,982 --> 00:36:25,746 We could go to the social 540 00:36:25,817 --> 00:36:27,478 at the schoolhouse Saturday. 541 00:36:27,552 --> 00:36:28,644 Good! 542 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:30,245 Except Sedge won't want to. 543 00:36:30,321 --> 00:36:31,948 We'll all go. 544 00:36:32,691 --> 00:36:35,490 Maybe I can straighten Sedge out with the neighbors. 545 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:41,658 KIDS: Dear Lord, bless this house and all of us in it. 546 00:36:42,467 --> 00:36:46,631 Bless Pa, too. Take care of him. 547 00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:49,939 Bless Ma and help her 548 00:36:50,008 --> 00:36:54,309 get Uncle Sedge straightened out. Amen. 549 00:36:54,913 --> 00:36:59,851 JANIE: P.S. Please help Bedelia marry Uncle Sedge. 550 00:36:59,918 --> 00:37:01,852 She'd like to so bad. 551 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,045 KIDS: Amen. 552 00:37:17,435 --> 00:37:19,199 Yoo-hoo, Mr. Benny! 553 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:28,506 Morning, Mr. Benny. I fetched you a present. 554 00:37:29,614 --> 00:37:32,242 Sugar cookies. Baked 'em last night. 555 00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:35,679 If I do say, and who shouldn't, they're right tasty. 556 00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:37,722 I never touch the stuff. 557 00:37:38,490 --> 00:37:39,582 I'll take 'em. 558 00:37:42,393 --> 00:37:45,488 Nice of you to make these cookies for Mr. Benny. 559 00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:58,671 Well, dearie, we got to think of something better than that. 560 00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:16,384 Bedelia, I sure don't like the idea of going to that social. 561 00:38:16,461 --> 00:38:18,725 I wish you hadn't told Ma about it. 562 00:38:19,364 --> 00:38:21,890 You gotta mix with the neighbors, Sedge. 563 00:38:21,966 --> 00:38:24,401 Living like a hermit the way you been doing, 564 00:38:24,469 --> 00:38:27,063 folks get the idea you don't like 'em. 565 00:38:27,438 --> 00:38:29,372 You'll see for yourself. 566 00:38:29,741 --> 00:38:32,574 Folks around here don't wanna mix with me. 567 00:38:34,212 --> 00:38:36,840 Never should've chopped that wood. 568 00:38:37,048 --> 00:38:38,311 (SCOFFS) 569 00:38:38,550 --> 00:38:40,814 Soured you on work ever since, huh? 570 00:38:41,252 --> 00:38:44,153 Ma! Ma! A letter from Pa. 571 00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:48,125 Ah! I hope Pa's all right. 572 00:38:48,193 --> 00:38:50,287 I been kind of worried about him. 573 00:38:50,361 --> 00:38:51,954 (WHISTLES) 574 00:38:52,230 --> 00:38:53,629 (KIDS CLAMORING) 575 00:38:55,266 --> 00:38:57,200 A letter from Pa, kids! 576 00:39:00,071 --> 00:39:01,561 BOY: Read it, read it, Ma. 577 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:03,038 MA: Give me a chance. 578 00:39:03,107 --> 00:39:05,098 Nice, quiet place. 579 00:39:06,411 --> 00:39:11,747 "Howdy, Ma, Nancy, Freddie, Sammy, Sally, and the rest of you. 580 00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:15,850 "Geoduck is writing what I have to say. 581 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,982 "I and he and Crowbar had a hard day. 582 00:39:21,793 --> 00:39:25,024 "The pigs got in the peanuts, Ma. 583 00:39:25,663 --> 00:39:27,757 "There won't be no peanuts, 584 00:39:27,832 --> 00:39:30,927 "but the pork ought to taste awful good." 585 00:39:31,603 --> 00:39:33,332 Well, pigs is pigs. 586 00:39:37,342 --> 00:39:38,810 Seems that way. 587 00:39:39,244 --> 00:39:41,542 "I'm taking good care of the place 588 00:39:41,613 --> 00:39:44,480 "and there's nothing for you to worry about. 589 00:39:44,916 --> 00:39:49,615 "I got hungry for some biscuits like you used to make, 590 00:39:51,356 --> 00:39:54,257 "but couldn't get the stove to draw. 591 00:39:54,325 --> 00:39:56,419 "Threw in some gasoline. 592 00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:59,629 "Never did get the biscuits that day." 593 00:40:00,265 --> 00:40:02,700 Pa should never try to help with the work. 594 00:40:02,767 --> 00:40:04,166 Something always happens. 595 00:40:04,903 --> 00:40:07,600 One good thing, he don't help very often. 596 00:40:07,972 --> 00:40:11,909 A man's smart to not tackle anything that he ain't good at. 597 00:40:12,277 --> 00:40:13,403 Yeah. 598 00:40:14,178 --> 00:40:18,012 "Forgot to tell you, Ma, kitchen's burned a little. 599 00:40:18,650 --> 00:40:21,517 "There's a new hole in the roof. 600 00:40:21,886 --> 00:40:24,548 "Don't worry about me and the place. 601 00:40:24,622 --> 00:40:27,489 "I'm taking care of things fine. 602 00:40:27,558 --> 00:40:28,957 (SCOFFS) 603 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:31,285 "Say howdy to Sedge for me. 604 00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:35,131 "Your loving husband, Pa." 605 00:40:37,035 --> 00:40:38,560 Come on, gang! 606 00:40:45,043 --> 00:40:47,273 That was a fine letter. 607 00:40:47,879 --> 00:40:50,371 I'm glad everything is going so good out there. 608 00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:54,415 I'd say Pa was getting along about the same as usual. 609 00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:56,983 Ma, dinner's ready. 610 00:40:58,623 --> 00:41:00,182 Come and get it! 611 00:41:01,826 --> 00:41:03,123 GIRL: Come on, let's hurry. 612 00:41:03,194 --> 00:41:04,662 (KIDS CLAMORING) 613 00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:17,271 Pa and Sedge is sure cut from the same pattern! 614 00:41:21,245 --> 00:41:22,940 Well, this is as good a place as any. 615 00:41:23,014 --> 00:41:24,709 Oh, I hate this part of the job. 616 00:41:24,782 --> 00:41:26,682 This mash has got to be ditched right. 617 00:41:26,751 --> 00:41:28,742 One slip-up here and we're in trouble. 618 00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:38,019 (BUSHES RUSTLING) 619 00:41:52,043 --> 00:41:53,442 (ROARS) 620 00:42:03,755 --> 00:42:06,247 There's a bear! There's a bear in the woods! 621 00:42:06,557 --> 00:42:07,854 You scared of something? 622 00:42:07,925 --> 00:42:10,292 There's a man-eating bear out there! 623 00:42:10,595 --> 00:42:13,189 Oh, they won't bother you unless you hurt 'em. 624 00:42:13,264 --> 00:42:16,723 They only eat sweets like honey and wild berries. 625 00:42:17,435 --> 00:42:19,460 You city fellers got a lot to learn. 626 00:42:19,871 --> 00:42:22,431 Well, gotta put Gertie to bed. 627 00:42:35,987 --> 00:42:37,113 Good fight, Game. 628 00:42:44,529 --> 00:42:47,123 All right, get out there and bury that mash! 629 00:42:47,198 --> 00:42:49,792 I ain't digging holes with bears for company! 630 00:42:49,867 --> 00:42:52,427 Okay, okay! Bring it back here 631 00:42:52,503 --> 00:42:54,665 and we'll bury it first thing in the morning. 632 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,934 Bears! Goats! Gooses with galoshes! Thousands of kids! 633 00:43:00,011 --> 00:43:02,378 A cop would sure look good to me right now! 634 00:43:02,447 --> 00:43:03,676 Come on! 635 00:43:10,788 --> 00:43:12,449 Come on! The coast is clear! 636 00:43:37,215 --> 00:43:38,410 Hey, what's that? 637 00:43:38,483 --> 00:43:39,951 I don't know. 638 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,285 (BUZZING) 639 00:43:44,622 --> 00:43:48,286 Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! 640 00:43:51,129 --> 00:43:53,120 (ALL SCREAMING IN PAIN) 641 00:44:15,386 --> 00:44:17,514 Howdy, Bancroft. Howdy. 642 00:44:19,157 --> 00:44:21,785 That some of your pumpkin liquor? Yeah. 643 00:44:24,929 --> 00:44:26,522 Where're them city fellers? 644 00:44:26,597 --> 00:44:28,793 Thought I might sell 'em some. 645 00:44:36,908 --> 00:44:39,934 Well, you oughtn't to be fooling with them hornets. 646 00:44:40,011 --> 00:44:41,775 Got something right here in this jug 647 00:44:41,846 --> 00:44:43,940 that'll make you forget about them stings. 648 00:44:44,015 --> 00:44:45,073 (LIQUOR SLOSHING) 649 00:44:45,149 --> 00:44:46,310 A 'w??-? 650 00:44:47,218 --> 00:44:49,050 Never do favors for strangers, 651 00:44:49,153 --> 00:44:50,279 but you're nice fellers 652 00:44:50,354 --> 00:44:52,789 and I feel sorry for you. Yeah? 653 00:44:53,224 --> 00:44:55,318 Best liquor you ever tasted right in that pumpkin. 654 00:44:55,660 --> 00:44:57,389 Make it in the shell. 655 00:44:57,461 --> 00:44:58,519 You're kidding. 656 00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:02,492 No, he ain't. He's been making it all his life. 657 00:45:04,135 --> 00:45:05,193 How do you do it? 658 00:45:05,269 --> 00:45:07,465 (CHUCKLES) That's my secret. 659 00:45:07,538 --> 00:45:10,473 Only takes a week, and you ain't got no mash to get rid of. 660 00:45:11,042 --> 00:45:13,636 That's the dangerous thing about a still, 661 00:45:13,711 --> 00:45:15,304 getting rid of the mash. 662 00:45:15,379 --> 00:45:18,644 Well, uh, how do you get rid of the pumpkin shells? 663 00:45:18,950 --> 00:45:20,645 Oh, feed it to the chickens. 664 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,210 Makes the eggs right tasty, too. Here. 665 00:45:23,988 --> 00:45:26,218 I'll open it up and give you a taste. 666 00:45:27,825 --> 00:45:29,122 Good morning. 667 00:45:29,493 --> 00:45:32,793 Goodness sakes. You need fixing up. 668 00:45:32,863 --> 00:45:36,595 Well, Bancroft's gonna take care of that with his pumpkin liquor. 669 00:45:36,667 --> 00:45:38,157 Liquor? Where? 670 00:45:38,936 --> 00:45:41,098 In the pumpkin, like I told you. 671 00:45:43,608 --> 00:45:45,372 (LIQUOR SLOSHING) 672 00:45:46,744 --> 00:45:48,769 You ain't got the right to do that! 673 00:45:48,846 --> 00:45:51,907 You ain't got the right to bring bootleg stuff on this property! 674 00:45:51,983 --> 00:45:54,111 I won't stand for any liquor around here! 675 00:45:54,185 --> 00:45:56,586 Ain't nothing worse than a bossy female. 676 00:45:56,654 --> 00:45:58,713 Go on! Git! Git! Go on! 677 00:45:58,789 --> 00:46:00,052 Go on! Hurry up! 678 00:46:02,460 --> 00:46:05,486 I know just what'll take the sting out of those bumps. 679 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:11,725 It's an old country remedy. 680 00:46:11,802 --> 00:46:13,327 (SNORTS) 681 00:46:14,705 --> 00:46:17,106 Fellers, come on! You're next! 682 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,139 (FOLK MUSIC PLAYING) 683 00:46:35,393 --> 00:46:37,487 Hi, Bedelia! Glad you could come! 684 00:46:38,029 --> 00:46:40,293 Thank you. This here's Mrs. Kettle. 685 00:46:40,431 --> 00:46:41,899 Howdy. Howdy! 686 00:46:41,966 --> 00:46:43,195 Just call me Ma. 687 00:46:43,267 --> 00:46:45,099 Glad to know you, Ma. Happy to know you, Mrs. Kettle. 688 00:46:45,169 --> 00:46:47,695 This is my daughter, Nancy. ALL: Howdy. 689 00:46:47,772 --> 00:46:50,639 I remember your husband, Egbert, well. (LAUGHS) 690 00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:54,504 Egbert moves slower than any boy in the Hollow. 691 00:46:54,578 --> 00:46:56,137 What's he like now? 692 00:46:56,213 --> 00:46:58,045 I think you'd still recognize him. 693 00:46:58,115 --> 00:47:00,641 So you're Egbert's woman, eh? 694 00:47:00,718 --> 00:47:02,914 Got any kids? Sixteen! 695 00:47:02,987 --> 00:47:05,422 Nice, respectable-size family. 696 00:47:05,556 --> 00:47:08,787 Can see Egbert married hisselfa good woman. 697 00:47:09,593 --> 00:47:11,755 Glad Egbert turned out so good. 698 00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:13,820 Not like some I could name. 699 00:47:21,105 --> 00:47:23,096 (PEOPLE CHATTERING) 700 00:47:44,362 --> 00:47:47,627 Bedelia, you seen my grandson? 701 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,466 There's Lafe now, Miz Hawkins. Oh. 702 00:47:53,938 --> 00:47:55,963 Where'll I put the ham, Grandma? 703 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:57,303 On the table! 704 00:48:05,082 --> 00:48:07,608 Miz Hawkins's about Nancy's age, ain't she? 705 00:48:07,685 --> 00:48:08,948 About, I figure. 706 00:48:09,620 --> 00:48:10,917 How old's Lafe? 707 00:48:10,988 --> 00:48:13,218 23, 24, I reckon. 708 00:48:14,058 --> 00:48:15,423 Just tell me one thing. 709 00:48:15,493 --> 00:48:18,190 How does a 17-year-old girl get to be grandma 710 00:48:18,262 --> 00:48:19,627 to a 23-year-old man? 711 00:48:20,064 --> 00:48:21,498 Real natural. 712 00:48:21,565 --> 00:48:23,693 Miz Hawkins is Mr. Hawkins' third wife. 713 00:48:23,768 --> 00:48:26,294 Other two died from one thing or another. 714 00:48:26,370 --> 00:48:28,031 Lafe's Mr. Hawkins' grandson 715 00:48:28,105 --> 00:48:30,506 by his oldest daughter by his first wife. 716 00:48:30,574 --> 00:48:32,372 Being Lafe's Mr. Hawkins' grandson, 717 00:48:32,443 --> 00:48:34,434 and being this Mrs. Hawkins is Mr. Hawkins' wife, 718 00:48:34,512 --> 00:48:36,606 naturally, she's Lafe's grandma. See? 719 00:48:38,482 --> 00:48:39,643 Kind of. 720 00:48:43,587 --> 00:48:44,986 (LIQUOR SLOSHING) 721 00:48:45,055 --> 00:48:47,023 (FOLK MUSIC CONTINUES) 722 00:48:50,428 --> 00:48:52,157 Run along with the folks, honey, and dance! 723 00:48:52,229 --> 00:48:54,027 Have a good time! Okay, Ma! 724 00:48:54,098 --> 00:48:56,430 I hear you been right friendly to Bedelia. 725 00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:59,060 Why not? Bedelia's a fine woman. 726 00:48:59,136 --> 00:49:01,127 Be glad when Sedge makes her a Kettle. 727 00:49:03,007 --> 00:49:04,907 I don't know why she wants him. 728 00:49:04,975 --> 00:49:07,069 But there's no accounting for other people's tastes. 729 00:49:07,745 --> 00:49:09,042 MA: Are you gonna hold it against Sedge 730 00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:11,741 for something he did 25 years ago? 731 00:49:12,183 --> 00:49:14,515 Well, what's he done since to make us like him? 732 00:49:14,819 --> 00:49:18,016 Sister, if you give folks a chance, 733 00:49:18,722 --> 00:49:21,953 nine times out often you'll find there's plenty in them to like. 734 00:49:22,293 --> 00:49:25,388 Well, maybe our men folk will forget that awful thing he did, 735 00:49:25,463 --> 00:49:28,057 but us women don't let our men forget. 736 00:49:28,866 --> 00:49:29,924 That ain't right. 737 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,230 WOMAN: Us women folk got to stick together. 738 00:49:32,303 --> 00:49:34,362 The way Sedge's been keeping Bedelia here 739 00:49:34,438 --> 00:49:36,600 dangling for 20 years is a shameful thing! 740 00:49:37,141 --> 00:49:39,235 Sets a bad example for the other men. 741 00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:43,872 You all ain't got a right to speak so mean about Sedge. 742 00:49:43,948 --> 00:49:45,677 He is gonna marry me. 743 00:49:46,550 --> 00:49:47,847 Someday. 744 00:49:48,385 --> 00:49:49,784 From the number of the kids in the Hollow, 745 00:49:49,854 --> 00:49:52,846 I'd say Sedge never had any influence on the other men. 746 00:49:54,358 --> 00:49:56,258 If Sedge marries Bedelia, 747 00:49:57,127 --> 00:49:58,788 would you all be friendly to him, 748 00:49:58,863 --> 00:50:00,422 like neighbors ought to be, 749 00:50:00,731 --> 00:50:03,166 and let your men-folks do the same? 750 00:50:03,267 --> 00:50:04,496 Reckon so. 751 00:50:05,169 --> 00:50:07,137 That's sure foolish talk. 752 00:50:07,505 --> 00:50:10,270 Sedge ain't never gonna tie the knot with Bedelia. 753 00:50:10,508 --> 00:50:12,499 You might get a surprise. 754 00:50:13,978 --> 00:50:17,846 All right, folks! Everybodyjoin the ring play! 755 00:50:17,948 --> 00:50:21,043 (PEOPLE CHEERING) Go on, Ma! You're good at verse-making. 756 00:50:21,418 --> 00:50:22,408 Well, what do you do? 757 00:50:22,486 --> 00:50:24,818 Oh, just say anything comes to you. Watch him. 758 00:50:25,422 --> 00:50:27,789 (FOLK MUSIC PLAYING) 759 00:50:29,994 --> 00:50:32,429 Raccoons a-coming from the hollow 760 00:50:32,496 --> 00:50:34,590 Possums a-coming from the swamp 761 00:50:34,732 --> 00:50:37,064 A hoot-owl called a get-together 762 00:50:37,134 --> 00:50:39,228 All the critters want to stomp 763 00:50:39,403 --> 00:50:41,701 ALL: Hoot-owl called a get-together 764 00:50:41,772 --> 00:50:43,706 All the critters want to stomp 765 00:50:44,675 --> 00:50:46,109 Go on, Ma! 766 00:50:46,176 --> 00:50:48,110 (LAUGHS) Well, if you go first. 767 00:50:53,450 --> 00:50:55,714 Everybody's mighty social 768 00:50:55,786 --> 00:50:58,153 This here is a social night 769 00:51:01,625 --> 00:51:03,821 Sedgewick, dear, don't look so fearful 770 00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:06,226 These good folks ain't gonna bite 771 00:51:06,297 --> 00:51:08,595 ALL: Sedgewick, dear, don't look so fearful 772 00:51:08,666 --> 00:51:10,930 Us good folks ain't gonna bite 773 00:51:11,001 --> 00:51:13,299 (ALL LAUGHING) 774 00:51:20,477 --> 00:51:24,641 I can see you folks is social 775 00:51:24,715 --> 00:51:28,913 ('d be friendly if I might 776 00:51:28,986 --> 00:51:33,082 [ain't mean like you been saying 777 00:51:35,526 --> 00:51:39,554 My dam shoes is just too tight 778 00:51:39,630 --> 00:51:41,997 ALL: He ain't mean like we been saying 779 00:51:42,066 --> 00:51:44,160 His dam shoes is just too tight 780 00:51:53,577 --> 00:51:55,909 You sure are a pleasing woman 781 00:51:55,980 --> 00:51:58,244 Would you like to dance a mite? 782 00:51:58,315 --> 00:52:00,807 I'd admire to do some stomping 783 00:52:01,852 --> 00:52:03,843 With the belle of Social Night 784 00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:06,317 ALL: He'd admire to do some stomping 785 00:52:06,390 --> 00:52:08,825 With the belle of Social Night 786 00:52:11,161 --> 00:52:13,459 'Fore I dance with this here feller 787 00:52:13,530 --> 00:52:16,056 There is something must be told 788 00:52:18,168 --> 00:52:20,603 Brother Sedge may not be perfect 789 00:52:20,671 --> 00:52:23,231 But he has a heart of gold 790 00:52:24,241 --> 00:52:26,437 (ALL LAUGHING) 791 00:52:41,425 --> 00:52:43,723 (ALL CONTINUE LAUGHING) 792 00:53:00,878 --> 00:53:02,607 (WOMEN SCREAM) 793 00:53:03,881 --> 00:53:05,747 (ALL CHEERING) 794 00:53:06,984 --> 00:53:08,611 You saved it, Cousin! 795 00:53:08,686 --> 00:53:11,087 Ah, good catch, Sedge! (LAUGHS) 796 00:53:12,256 --> 00:53:14,190 (PEOPLE LAUGHING) 797 00:53:28,672 --> 00:53:30,606 We should've buried it like the Professor said. 798 00:53:30,674 --> 00:53:32,870 My idea'll work fine, and with less trouble. 799 00:53:42,786 --> 00:53:44,686 (CLUCKING) 800 00:53:47,291 --> 00:53:48,781 (HICCUPS) 801 00:53:52,062 --> 00:53:54,258 (CROWING) 802 00:53:54,331 --> 00:53:55,594 (HICCUPS) 803 00:53:58,602 --> 00:54:00,092 (QUACKS) 804 00:54:01,271 --> 00:54:02,705 (HICCUPS) 805 00:54:08,212 --> 00:54:09,839 (ALL HICCUPPING) 806 00:54:15,519 --> 00:54:18,113 (CROWING DRUNKENLY) 807 00:54:23,293 --> 00:54:26,160 (MOOING DRUNKENLY) 808 00:54:31,201 --> 00:54:33,260 (QUACKING DRUNKENLY) 809 00:54:38,475 --> 00:54:40,603 (CACKLING) 810 00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:50,549 (CLUCKING DRUNKENLY) 811 00:55:07,671 --> 00:55:08,729 (BARKING) 812 00:55:09,506 --> 00:55:11,270 (CACKLING) 813 00:55:16,146 --> 00:55:17,545 (CLUCKING) 814 00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:29,183 (SQUEALING) 815 00:55:31,094 --> 00:55:32,926 (SQUEALING) 816 00:55:33,564 --> 00:55:34,861 (CLUCKING) 817 00:55:42,406 --> 00:55:44,704 (MOOING) 818 00:55:44,908 --> 00:55:46,205 (HICCUPS) 819 00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:54,443 (BLEATING) 820 00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:58,745 (GROWLING) 821 00:56:12,970 --> 00:56:14,802 (SQUEALING) 822 00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:18,530 (CLUCKING) 823 00:56:27,751 --> 00:56:28,946 u-uccuppnwe) 824 00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:34,858 What's going on here? 825 00:56:41,765 --> 00:56:43,164 (MOOs) 826 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:44,697 (CLUCKING) 827 00:56:47,437 --> 00:56:50,896 If I didn't know better, I'd swear these critters have been drinking. 828 00:57:19,269 --> 00:57:21,169 (LAUGHING) 829 00:57:24,508 --> 00:57:27,569 CROW: (CAWING) Boy! 830 00:57:29,313 --> 00:57:30,576 What a party! 831 00:57:31,682 --> 00:57:33,207 What a party! 832 00:57:34,351 --> 00:57:35,750 (HOWLS) 833 00:57:37,020 --> 00:57:38,749 (SNORING) 834 00:57:40,357 --> 00:57:42,382 (CAWS) Wow! What a party! 835 00:57:49,032 --> 00:57:50,761 BILLY: Ma! A letter from Pa! 836 00:57:50,834 --> 00:57:52,302 Hey, Ma, open it up! 837 00:57:52,369 --> 00:57:53,962 JANIE: What's Pa been doing, Ma? 838 00:57:54,037 --> 00:57:57,302 Well, land sakes, honey! I don't know till I get it open! (LAUGHING) 839 00:58:01,178 --> 00:58:03,237 "Dear Ma and family, 840 00:58:04,948 --> 00:58:07,474 "I got something on my heart 841 00:58:08,085 --> 00:58:09,814 "I'd like to say to you. 842 00:58:10,354 --> 00:58:12,015 "How are you? (CHUCKLES) 843 00:58:14,257 --> 00:58:18,387 "Mighty quiet 'round here, Ma, since you went away. 844 00:58:19,363 --> 00:58:22,594 "Sure miss your bellering out at us, 845 00:58:23,433 --> 00:58:27,370 "and the nights is awful lonely. 846 00:58:28,038 --> 00:58:30,666 "Sure would like to hear 847 00:58:31,008 --> 00:58:33,602 "the hollering of little voices 848 00:58:34,878 --> 00:58:37,210 "and the clumping of growing feet." 849 00:58:37,547 --> 00:58:39,345 What's Pa mean, Ma? 850 00:58:39,416 --> 00:58:41,145 It means your Pa misses us, honey. 851 00:58:41,218 --> 00:58:42,617 Oh, I miss him, too! 852 00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:44,552 SALLY: So do I! BILLY: Me, too! 853 00:58:45,389 --> 00:58:47,881 "But I ain't complaining, Ma. 854 00:58:48,592 --> 00:58:52,153 "Being alone now makes me appreciate 855 00:58:52,229 --> 00:58:55,255 "how nice it is when you're around. 856 00:58:56,933 --> 00:58:59,959 "Maybe you ain't the prettiest woman in the world, 857 00:59:00,037 --> 00:59:04,201 "but you make up for it by being such a hard worker. 858 00:59:04,408 --> 00:59:08,174 "Soon as you get Brother Sedge straightened out, 859 00:59:09,179 --> 00:59:10,840 "please hurry home. 860 00:59:11,181 --> 00:59:12,842 "I sure miss you. 861 00:59:14,151 --> 00:59:16,677 "Your loving husband, Pa." 862 00:59:18,789 --> 00:59:22,157 Uncle Sedge, you'll be lonesome when we go home. 863 00:59:22,926 --> 00:59:24,553 Sure will, honey. 864 00:59:24,861 --> 00:59:26,693 Why don't you marry Bedelia? 865 00:59:26,763 --> 00:59:28,424 Then you won't be lonesome. 866 00:59:31,268 --> 00:59:33,100 MA: You'll be mighty uncomfortable, too. 867 00:59:33,537 --> 00:59:35,505 There won't be nobody to take care of you. 868 00:59:35,872 --> 00:59:38,068 Bedelia'll do for me like before. 869 00:59:39,609 --> 00:59:41,043 Ain't Bedelia told you yet? 870 00:59:41,511 --> 00:59:42,808 She ain't coming around no more. 871 00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:45,141 She's decided it ain't right to work for nothing, 872 00:59:45,215 --> 00:59:46,649 'less she's your wife. 873 00:59:47,184 --> 00:59:48,709 Folks are starting to talk! 874 00:59:49,119 --> 00:59:52,487 Course, once you're married, she can work like a dog 875 00:59:52,556 --> 00:59:54,547 and nobody'll think a thing of it. 876 00:59:57,027 --> 00:59:58,995 You aiming to desert me, Bedelia? 877 01:00:01,898 --> 01:00:04,629 That's right, Sedge. I ain't waiting no more. 878 01:00:05,735 --> 01:00:09,433 Well, why didn't you say you was getting anxious? 879 01:00:09,506 --> 01:00:11,804 You just name the day and we'll get hitched. 880 01:00:15,712 --> 01:00:18,374 Well, the circuit rider's due here Thursday. 881 01:00:19,316 --> 01:00:21,717 Fine. Then Thursday's the day. 882 01:00:21,985 --> 01:00:24,010 Uh, that suit you, Bedelia? 883 01:00:24,788 --> 01:00:27,416 This is so sudden, Sedge! 884 01:00:31,328 --> 01:00:33,057 Well, now, if it's too soon... 885 01:00:33,130 --> 01:00:34,655 But I accept! 886 01:00:35,732 --> 01:00:36,927 That's settled. 887 01:00:39,936 --> 01:00:42,837 Don't say nothing to Bancroft till the circuit rider comes. 888 01:00:42,906 --> 01:00:45,466 No sense letting him have time to start trouble. 889 01:00:48,145 --> 01:00:50,978 Maybe we oughta ask Bancroft's permission. 890 01:00:51,047 --> 01:00:52,674 MA: Not on your life! 891 01:01:19,176 --> 01:01:21,167 (HUMMING WEDDING TUNE) 892 01:01:28,351 --> 01:01:31,321 (SINGING) La da de da da da 893 01:01:32,556 --> 01:01:35,150 Here comes the bride 894 01:01:35,792 --> 01:01:38,227 AH dressed in white 895 01:01:38,795 --> 01:01:42,231 La da de da da da da da 896 01:01:42,299 --> 01:01:43,994 (CLANKING) (GASPS) 897 01:01:50,874 --> 01:01:53,639 I hope we can get this mash buried without no big deal. 898 01:01:53,710 --> 01:01:56,236 We will and we'll start a new batch in the morning. 899 01:02:02,352 --> 01:02:04,081 Bootleggers! (SCOFFS) 900 01:02:04,754 --> 01:02:06,950 They must have had a good laugh when I bawled Bancroft out 901 01:02:07,023 --> 01:02:08,991 for bringing that pumpkin liquor here. 902 01:02:09,292 --> 01:02:11,522 And they seemed like such nice fellers. 903 01:02:12,362 --> 01:02:15,923 Well, I'll send Small Fry to get the sheriff tomorrow. 904 01:02:16,633 --> 01:02:19,295 Sedge, that agreement you signed, 905 01:02:20,036 --> 01:02:22,869 did it say what they was going to use the barn for? 906 01:02:23,340 --> 01:02:25,741 I don't know. I didn't read it. 907 01:02:25,809 --> 01:02:28,710 Maybe there's something in it that'll get Sedge into trouble. 908 01:02:29,279 --> 01:02:31,441 Me and Pa owns this place with you, Sedge, 909 01:02:31,514 --> 01:02:33,448 and if the papers get you in trouble, 910 01:02:33,516 --> 01:02:35,382 we'll be messed up in it, too. 911 01:02:36,553 --> 01:02:38,920 I don't know, (STAMMERS) what're we gonna do, Ma? 912 01:02:38,989 --> 01:02:42,289 The first thing we do is to find out what the papers say. 913 01:02:43,660 --> 01:02:45,526 Them folks around here find out 914 01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:48,257 that I been outsmarted by them city fellers, 915 01:02:48,965 --> 01:02:51,900 I'll never be able to live down the disgrace. 916 01:02:52,435 --> 01:02:55,166 Bancroft would have a good reason to stop the wedding. 917 01:02:55,872 --> 01:02:58,034 We'd all be disgraced, 918 01:02:58,108 --> 01:02:59,667 but we ain't gonna be! 919 01:03:21,264 --> 01:03:23,289 We know you got a still in there. 920 01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,967 So? What do you think you're gonna do about it? 921 01:03:26,369 --> 01:03:27,734 Get the sheriff, that's what. 922 01:03:28,305 --> 01:03:31,969 Ah, now, you wouldn't want to do a thing like that, partner. 923 01:03:33,376 --> 01:03:34,366 Partner? 924 01:03:34,444 --> 01:03:36,173 Sure, didn't you know? 925 01:03:36,479 --> 01:03:40,609 The agreement Sedge signed lets me use the barn for anything I want. 926 01:03:41,351 --> 01:03:43,649 You raise the corn, we process it. 927 01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:45,383 That makes us partners. 928 01:03:45,989 --> 01:03:47,354 I want to see that paper. 929 01:03:47,424 --> 01:03:48,983 Ah, no, I couldn't let you do that. 930 01:03:49,059 --> 01:03:50,288 You've gotta show it to us! 931 01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:52,385 I don't gotta do anything. 932 01:03:53,463 --> 01:03:55,625 All you've gotta do is keep your mouth shut. 933 01:03:56,499 --> 01:03:59,560 And I don't want to hear anymore talk about sheriffs, either. 934 01:04:12,248 --> 01:04:14,546 (BLOWING TRUMPET) 935 01:04:20,056 --> 01:04:22,047 Howdy, Miz Tinware. 936 01:04:22,492 --> 01:04:23,982 Howdy, Sedge. 937 01:04:30,266 --> 01:04:31,859 Howdy, Bedelia. Howdy. 938 01:04:31,935 --> 01:04:34,905 I guess you'd be Sedge's sister-in-law. I heared about you. 939 01:04:34,971 --> 01:04:36,097 Howdy. 940 01:04:36,172 --> 01:04:38,869 Any news around the mountains, Miz Tinware? 941 01:04:38,942 --> 01:04:39,932 Nothing much. 942 01:04:40,009 --> 01:04:44,173 The usual courting, fighting, and birthings, 'cept the revenuer. 943 01:04:44,247 --> 01:04:46,181 He's been nosing around town lately. 944 01:04:46,683 --> 01:04:47,673 Revenuer? 945 01:04:48,752 --> 01:04:50,151 Figure he's on to something? 946 01:04:50,253 --> 01:04:53,245 Ah, revenuer thinks there's a gang of city men 947 01:04:53,323 --> 01:04:55,621 operating a still here in the mountains. 948 01:04:55,692 --> 01:04:58,957 No outlander could work a still without our folks finding out. 949 01:04:59,462 --> 01:05:00,554 Seems so. 950 01:05:01,131 --> 01:05:03,065 Are the revenue officers sure? 951 01:05:03,133 --> 01:05:04,225 MIZ TINWARE: They ain't certain. 952 01:05:04,467 --> 01:05:06,458 But they're gonna search the whole mountain, 953 01:05:06,536 --> 01:05:09,870 starting at Laughin' Creek, way over to the other side. 954 01:05:09,939 --> 01:05:13,398 Hear tell they're going to work their way down to Smilin' Valley, 955 01:05:13,476 --> 01:05:14,944 over Sober Peak, 956 01:05:15,011 --> 01:05:17,173 then across to Frownin' Lake. 957 01:05:17,747 --> 01:05:19,511 Then over to Mournful Hollow. 958 01:05:19,582 --> 01:05:22,381 That's right, winding up at Weepin' Springs. 959 01:05:22,786 --> 01:05:24,754 How long do you figure it'll take them to reach here? 960 01:05:24,821 --> 01:05:26,311 MIZ TINWARE: Oh, about a week. 961 01:05:26,623 --> 01:05:28,216 Don't you think so, Sedge? 962 01:05:28,291 --> 01:05:32,421 Well, I figure so, unless they detour around Shriekin' Falls. 963 01:05:33,163 --> 01:05:34,426 (STAMMERS) 964 01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:39,262 Excuse me, Miz Tinware. 965 01:05:39,335 --> 01:05:42,327 You know, all of a sudden I feel right poorly. 966 01:05:51,815 --> 01:05:54,580 You meet up with the circuit rider lately, Miz Tinware? 967 01:05:54,651 --> 01:05:56,483 Well, uh, not lately. 968 01:05:56,753 --> 01:05:59,085 But I'm sure to run into him somewhere around. 969 01:05:59,289 --> 01:06:01,690 Got a message you want me to deliver? 970 01:06:01,758 --> 01:06:03,852 (STAMMERS) Oh, it's a secret, Miz Tinware, 971 01:06:03,927 --> 01:06:06,191 but me and Sedge is gonna get married, 972 01:06:06,262 --> 01:06:08,094 soon as he comes around on Thursday. 973 01:06:08,164 --> 01:06:11,134 Oh, that's fine! It's about time, too. 974 01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:13,901 If'n I run into him, I'll tell him. 975 01:06:15,104 --> 01:06:18,199 Oh, you'll be needing some of my wares for sure now! 976 01:06:20,977 --> 01:06:23,139 I worried all night, Ma. 977 01:06:25,982 --> 01:06:29,043 I'll be the first Kettle to ever be a jailbird. 978 01:06:30,687 --> 01:06:33,213 They'll let you off on accounting you're a woman 979 01:06:33,957 --> 01:06:36,324 and having so many kids to take care of, 980 01:06:36,392 --> 01:06:38,622 but... You ain't gonna be no jailbird! 981 01:06:39,262 --> 01:06:42,061 We'll find away to outsmart those skunks yet. 982 01:06:47,070 --> 01:06:49,471 You know, you just give me an idea. 983 01:06:50,507 --> 01:06:54,171 I'm-a going out and find Big Trout and Small Fry. 984 01:07:00,250 --> 01:07:02,719 Got to finish my breakfast first, though. 985 01:07:11,060 --> 01:07:13,256 I don't know about this idea of yours. 986 01:07:13,329 --> 01:07:14,922 Skunks are like bombs. 987 01:07:14,998 --> 01:07:17,092 Once released, they're difficult to control. 988 01:07:17,166 --> 01:07:19,032 You got a better idea? 989 01:07:29,412 --> 01:07:31,506 JOE: What's that? BENNY: Ah, they're cats. 990 01:07:31,581 --> 01:07:33,276 PROFESSOR: Get 'em outta here. 991 01:07:33,349 --> 01:07:34,612 BENNY: What's that smell? 992 01:07:34,684 --> 01:07:36,209 PROFESSOR: (EXCLAIMS) They're skunks! 993 01:07:40,323 --> 01:07:42,189 (ALL COUGHING) 994 01:07:43,993 --> 01:07:46,155 Run up to the creek and jump in. 995 01:07:47,964 --> 01:07:50,160 I'll bring you some soap and towels. 996 01:08:04,681 --> 01:08:06,615 You'll have to burn all them clothes. 997 01:08:06,683 --> 01:08:07,912 I know! 998 01:08:17,226 --> 01:08:19,092 Keep all your papers in there? 999 01:08:19,829 --> 01:08:21,297 All of them! 1000 01:08:31,307 --> 01:08:32,706 Where's the glue, Ma? 1001 01:08:32,775 --> 01:08:34,072 In the cupboard, over your head. 1002 01:08:50,493 --> 01:08:53,588 Too bad we ain't got time to fix a fancy wedding for you. 1003 01:08:53,663 --> 01:08:55,825 Just so the preacher gets here and marries us 1004 01:08:55,898 --> 01:08:58,128 before they tote Sedge off to jail. 1005 01:08:58,735 --> 01:09:00,362 Sedge ain't going to jail! 1006 01:09:00,770 --> 01:09:03,637 And you're going to be married tomorrow! 1007 01:09:05,908 --> 01:09:09,003 Can you actually believe tomorrow is your wedding day, Bedelia? 1008 01:09:09,812 --> 01:09:12,440 Won't believe it till the words are said over us. 1009 01:09:12,715 --> 01:09:14,308 They'll be said, all right! 1010 01:09:15,385 --> 01:09:18,013 I just wish we didn't have nothing else to worry about. 1011 01:09:25,361 --> 01:09:28,729 Ma, would you mind if these fellers sat down for awhile 1012 01:09:28,798 --> 01:09:30,596 till the barn airs out? 1013 01:09:32,101 --> 01:09:33,193 Okay. 1014 01:09:44,681 --> 01:09:46,342 (SCREAMS) 1015 01:09:49,419 --> 01:09:51,319 Gonna fix that one of these days. 1016 01:10:00,096 --> 01:10:01,359 Dust in it. 1017 01:10:05,368 --> 01:10:07,496 That smells good. What is it? 1018 01:10:07,870 --> 01:10:08,928 Taffy candy. 1019 01:10:09,005 --> 01:10:11,667 The kind you pull? Yeah. 1020 01:10:11,741 --> 01:10:13,266 Well, let's see. 1021 01:10:20,550 --> 01:10:23,986 I remember pulling taffy once. I was a kid. 1022 01:10:24,353 --> 01:10:26,981 Yeah, I remember, Boss. We was in reform school together. 1023 01:10:27,223 --> 01:10:29,021 Yeah, that was it. (CHUCKLES) 1024 01:10:29,826 --> 01:10:31,055 Shut up! 1025 01:10:40,636 --> 01:10:43,367 Ma! What are you doing? Shh! 1026 01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:46,170 Nancy, run out and see if the kids are all right. 1027 01:10:46,242 --> 01:10:48,802 They went to the woods to pick flowers for tomorrow. 1028 01:10:49,779 --> 01:10:51,042 Okay, Ma. 1029 01:10:51,614 --> 01:10:53,582 Taffy-pulling's fun! 1030 01:10:53,649 --> 01:10:55,083 Of course, you have to know how. 1031 01:10:55,585 --> 01:10:57,781 There's atrick to it, all right. 1032 01:10:57,854 --> 01:10:59,822 We had a taffy-pulling contest once. 1033 01:10:59,889 --> 01:11:00,913 I won! 1034 01:11:01,724 --> 01:11:03,089 Is that so? 1035 01:11:03,192 --> 01:11:05,820 Well, you probably forgot how by now. 1036 01:11:06,162 --> 01:11:08,824 I'll bet I haven't. How about letting us try? 1037 01:11:09,499 --> 01:11:11,866 Sure! If you want to. 1038 01:11:11,934 --> 01:11:14,164 The candy's about ready to pull now. 1039 01:11:29,519 --> 01:11:32,113 Ma, that candy ain't ready to pull yet. 1040 01:11:32,188 --> 01:11:33,451 What do you know about it? 1041 01:11:33,523 --> 01:11:35,423 I just said it ain't ready to pull. 1042 01:11:37,527 --> 01:11:39,461 Here, taste it and see. 1043 01:11:51,374 --> 01:11:52,739 (GRUNTING) 1044 01:11:55,578 --> 01:11:58,104 (MUMBLES INCOHERENTLY) Yeah! Yeah! 1045 01:11:58,181 --> 01:12:00,047 Bedelia, take Sedge and sit down. 1046 01:12:00,116 --> 01:12:02,517 Everything's gonna be just dandy. 1047 01:12:02,952 --> 01:12:05,421 Well, there you are. 1048 01:12:05,955 --> 01:12:08,117 Grab it and start pulling hard. 1049 01:12:08,191 --> 01:12:10,159 All right, boys. Butter up! 1050 01:12:16,632 --> 01:12:17,861 (GRUNTS) 1051 01:12:20,536 --> 01:12:23,233 Ah, just like old times, huh, Professor? Ah, yeah! 1052 01:12:33,316 --> 01:12:35,876 Hey! Something's wrong! 1053 01:12:36,619 --> 01:12:39,611 Oh, no, nothing's wrong with it. Just work it more. 1054 01:12:41,490 --> 01:12:43,424 Ooh! This is awful! 1055 01:12:43,593 --> 01:12:45,527 Ah, this is worse than handcuffs. 1056 01:12:46,996 --> 01:12:49,363 Are you sure? BENNY: You did this on purpose! 1057 01:12:50,766 --> 01:12:52,530 Hey, you! (GRUNTS) (GRUNTING) 1058 01:12:53,769 --> 01:12:55,134 Give me that! 1059 01:12:55,972 --> 01:12:57,337 Here it is! 1060 01:13:03,279 --> 01:13:06,510 (SCOFFS) There ain't nothing in this to hurt Sedge or me. 1061 01:13:07,049 --> 01:13:08,175 You lied to us! 1062 01:13:08,818 --> 01:13:10,479 Do you hear that, Sedge? 1063 01:13:11,287 --> 01:13:13,085 We gotta get outta here! 1064 01:13:15,258 --> 01:13:16,487 (CHILDREN SHOUTING) 1065 01:13:16,559 --> 01:13:18,459 Ma, the circuit rider's come! 1066 01:13:19,495 --> 01:13:21,224 Sedge! 1067 01:13:22,498 --> 01:13:25,433 Well! You're a day early, Reverend. 1068 01:13:25,501 --> 01:13:27,094 Yes. I met Miz Tinware. 1069 01:13:27,169 --> 01:13:28,432 Glad you got here. 1070 01:13:29,071 --> 01:13:31,472 I understand you're the Justice of the Peace, too. 1071 01:13:31,707 --> 01:13:33,038 That I am. 1072 01:13:33,276 --> 01:13:35,540 There are the bootleggers the revenuers are looking for. 1073 01:13:35,745 --> 01:13:37,270 I got here just in time. 1074 01:13:37,346 --> 01:13:38,677 I'll take 'em into town right now. 1075 01:13:38,748 --> 01:13:42,013 Oh, never mind. We can lock 'em up in the storeroom. 1076 01:13:42,585 --> 01:13:44,110 I don't want you leaving now, 1077 01:13:44,487 --> 01:13:46,922 until Bedelia is Mrs. Sedge Kettle. 1078 01:13:47,290 --> 01:13:49,190 Well, all right. 1079 01:13:49,258 --> 01:13:51,693 Good! Then you can be on your way 1080 01:13:51,761 --> 01:13:54,196 as soon as you speak the words over Sedge and Bedelia. 1081 01:13:55,097 --> 01:13:57,065 (ALL CLAMORING) 1082 01:14:22,091 --> 01:14:24,287 As soon as I get a drink of water, we'll start. 1083 01:14:27,964 --> 01:14:30,023 Is there time for me to fix up? 1084 01:14:30,099 --> 01:14:32,158 Yes, but make it fast. You go help her, honey. 1085 01:14:32,234 --> 01:14:33,224 (BOTH GIGGLE) Come on, Nancy. 1086 01:14:33,302 --> 01:14:36,363 Now, children, you know those words? ALL: Yes, Ma. 1087 01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:38,635 Well, let me get you lined up like we said. 1088 01:14:45,915 --> 01:14:47,314 That I will. 1089 01:14:51,954 --> 01:14:53,183 Sticky, isn't it? 1090 01:15:12,408 --> 01:15:13,603 What's the matter, Reverend? 1091 01:15:13,676 --> 01:15:15,701 (MUMBLING) 1092 01:15:21,450 --> 01:15:25,182 Avery smart trick, but it won't work. 1093 01:15:25,721 --> 01:15:28,884 I had to shut his mouth. Now he's done the same thing to the preacher. 1094 01:15:33,796 --> 01:15:35,560 Will it be legal if you hold the book 1095 01:15:35,631 --> 01:15:36,996 and I say the words for you? 1096 01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:39,199 Kind of like your proxy? 1097 01:15:39,435 --> 01:15:40,425 Mmm-hmm. 1098 01:15:41,604 --> 01:15:43,732 I'll be his proxy, too. 1099 01:15:43,806 --> 01:15:45,467 Watch him, and I'll go get Bedelia. 1100 01:15:45,541 --> 01:15:47,509 You and Small Fry can be the witnesses. 1101 01:15:57,853 --> 01:15:59,287 Here she comes! 1102 01:15:59,588 --> 01:16:00,919 One, two. 1103 01:16:01,023 --> 01:16:03,515 ALL: (SINGING) Here comes the bride 1104 01:16:03,726 --> 01:16:06,525 Bursting with pride 1105 01:16:06,595 --> 01:16:09,087 There stands the groom 1106 01:16:09,165 --> 01:16:11,759 A picture of gloom 1107 01:16:11,967 --> 01:16:14,698 Lady victorious 1108 01:16:14,770 --> 01:16:17,262 He'll run no more 1109 01:16:17,339 --> 01:16:22,641 He did his running all before 1110 01:16:22,711 --> 01:16:25,237 Bedeli a is the bride 1111 01:16:25,448 --> 01:16:28,315 All happy inside 1112 01:16:28,384 --> 01:16:30,944 Sedgewick's the groom 1113 01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:33,887 With no place to hide 1114 01:16:37,293 --> 01:16:39,489 Uh, this ain't exactly the kind of wedding we'd planned, 1115 01:16:39,562 --> 01:16:43,157 but I guess it kind of fits into the Kettle way of doing things. 1116 01:16:44,333 --> 01:16:45,801 Sedge, pay attention! 1117 01:16:47,503 --> 01:16:49,335 As Reverend Martin's proxy, 1118 01:16:50,339 --> 01:16:51,568 I'll now begin. 1119 01:16:53,409 --> 01:16:55,036 "Dearly Beloved, 1120 01:16:55,544 --> 01:16:59,777 "we are gathered together here in the sight of God 1121 01:16:59,849 --> 01:17:03,843 "to join together this man and this woman 1122 01:17:04,086 --> 01:17:06,077 "in holy matrimony. 1123 01:17:06,555 --> 01:17:10,287 "If any man can show just cause 1124 01:17:10,359 --> 01:17:14,853 "why they may not lawfully be joined together, 1125 01:17:15,097 --> 01:17:17,293 "let him speak up now." 1126 01:17:23,339 --> 01:17:25,467 You ain't gonna find anybody around here to object. 1127 01:17:28,644 --> 01:17:32,376 "Will you, Sedge, have this woman to be thy wedded wife, 1128 01:17:32,715 --> 01:17:35,741 "to live together in the holy state of matrimony? 1129 01:17:35,951 --> 01:17:37,851 "Will you love her, comfort her, 1130 01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:41,584 "honor and keep her in sickness and in health 1131 01:17:42,057 --> 01:17:43,991 "and forsaking all others, 1132 01:17:44,059 --> 01:17:45,959 "keep you only unto her 1133 01:17:46,028 --> 01:17:49,157 "so long as you both shall live?" 1134 01:17:51,767 --> 01:17:53,997 Nod your head! "I do." 1135 01:17:57,873 --> 01:18:01,036 "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?" 1136 01:18:04,146 --> 01:18:05,545 I'm glad to. 1137 01:18:06,081 --> 01:18:08,880 "Who gives this woman in marriage to this man?" 1138 01:18:09,752 --> 01:18:11,242 You can do that, Big Trout. 1139 01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:12,719 I do. Thanks. 1140 01:18:13,923 --> 01:18:18,827 "Do you, Bedelia, promise to love, honor, and cherish this man, 1141 01:18:19,228 --> 01:18:20,923 "and keep only unto him?" 1142 01:18:35,077 --> 01:18:36,476 (ALL SCREAMING) 1143 01:18:42,952 --> 01:18:44,943 "With this ring, I thee wed. 1144 01:18:46,789 --> 01:18:49,019 "With this ring, I thee wed." 1145 01:18:49,692 --> 01:18:51,854 I hope that don't make me married to Sedge, too. (LAUGHING) 1146 01:18:51,927 --> 01:18:53,452 You're just the proxy, Ma. 1147 01:18:53,529 --> 01:18:55,964 With a wedding like this, who can tell? 1148 01:19:05,841 --> 01:19:08,367 "I now pronounce you man and wife." 1149 01:19:09,311 --> 01:19:10,608 Time to kiss the bride. 1150 01:19:11,380 --> 01:19:13,041 This you can do for yourself, Sedge. 1151 01:19:18,020 --> 01:19:20,387 (ALL CHEERING) 1152 01:19:20,990 --> 01:19:22,583 He's all mine! 1153 01:19:26,228 --> 01:19:27,923 Shucks! It ain't nothing. 1154 01:19:28,330 --> 01:19:29,923 Let her find that out for herself. 1155 01:19:30,299 --> 01:19:33,132 Thanks, Reverend. Now you can take your prisoners. 1156 01:19:58,927 --> 01:20:03,489 Well, Bedelia, you got a husband, and Niagara Falls, too! 1157 01:20:03,565 --> 01:20:06,091 (LAUGHING HEARTILY)