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

They called me magic.

And me and my burrow number seven been traips and these slopes and valleys for a long spell.

So I know the story from the beginning.

My friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit.

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

Now that wilderness out there ain't no place for a green horn.

And his chances of surviving were mighty slim.

Where no time at all for he was beaten down, bragged, nearly star-harmed.

Well, how about then he come upon a Grizzly Bear cub all alone and helpless.

Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he started right down that cliff, risking his own life to save it.

Now that cub took to Adams right off.

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

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

But that bear cub, he was extra special.

As he grody became the best friend Adams ever had and together they became a legend.

There's a world where we don't have to run away.

There's a time for all our own living free and all the need and majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Now nothing pleases the mountain man mourned to greet the morning with the sun shining out across a carpet of green pies.

No matter how many times he's seen it, the same feeling a comfort and pleasure comes back over and over again.

Now the animals ain't much different than humans.

They get the same pleasure and the same comfort being every day in the peaceful surroundings just like us.

But there'll be times and this was sure one of them when something new and different, something that just don't fit comes along.

Now since most critters live by their nose they get mighty upset when they get the scent of something unfamiliar to them.

And when that happens it can be as confusing as a blizzard in July.

Ben figured it was awful strange seeing him acting this way and then he got a whiff of it.

Now Ben couldn't see nothing but he could sure smell a strange critter in them trees and he figured that he'd have to know about it.

Meanwhile not too far away Adams and the coma was concerning themselves about a different kind of animal problem.

One they couldn't help but write by a little planet and a lot of hard work.

You haven't trouble little fella?

Well once the coma and I get that damn finished there'll be plenty water for you and the rest of the animals.

There you go.

The way Adams knowed animals it didn't take him long to figure out that something was making those animals axle strange.

There's something spooking the animals in the coma.

What is it Ben? Is there something wrong?

A gold dust or cold up? You're right in the coma there's something strange going on. Let's go take a look.

Do you see anything?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Never say. You keep rain bug-eyed bag of bones you're getting slower than January's molasses.

What's that? Instead of talking you should be walking now just get them feet unglued.

You're getting slower and slower. What's the matter with you?

You're acting as scared as a few miles hiding from a boulder like that.

There ain't nothing to be afraid of. Bad Jack's here to protect you.

Now you see that? Your knees is knocking so hard you're shaking the pine cones right off in the tree.

What? Carny? Protect yourself, 7. That's a genuine gorilla.

Dad!

Come on, 7. Let's get out of here.

Come on!

Adam! Adam's! Am I glad to see you were being attacked by gorillas?

The whole army! Jack does this can't be.

Did you see him? No. Well I did and I tell you there's 10 feet tall.

Arms are big around the pine trees and blow them smoking fire.

Well where are they now? Well they were like...

Well number 7 means lucky to be alive I tell you.

It's a little chimpanzee. That ain't it.

Number 7 in me seeing his father.

Be careful Adam's. Them gorillas are as strong as 10 men.

Now that narrow teary apart. Well howdy!

Oh.

Well I never thought I'd see you today. I'd see one of these out here Jack.

Well wherever you belong too can't be too far away.

Friendly little critter ain't he? He might be but his papa sure wasn't.

Where'd you come from anyways?

Do you think he understood what I was saying?

Well I don't know Jack. But you know what they say?

They say that apes and men, well they think they came from the same family tree.

You mean me and that gorilla? His cousins?

That's alright. That's just Ben.

He's just trying to be friendly. I think he's saying he likes it.

Look at Jack. I think he's trying to show us where he belongs.

Oh it's our...a coda. You know eat me like a child but you better hope we don't run into its papa.

Tell me where are you? You jump-chipped again to get you a swabby.

How about a fast salad?

It was a boy. Ah there you are.

I see you're bringing some company too.

Captain of the new Morgan, not a Boston Harbor, at your service.

Great spot, come on.

Well that's alright Captain. I like you to meet Benjamin Franklin.

My name's James Adams. Welcome mate.

This is Jack.

Eddie? Captain of what? You shipwrecked or something?

I like you to meet in the coma Captain.

The coma is it?

Yes, welcome mate.

The coma, the coma.

Wally likes your name, the coma.

Adam, look at that. Why would somebody stick a pole like that up out of a wagon?

That ain't a pole. That's a mast.

A what? A mast for a rig in Miss Elle.

Come on, I'll show you what I'm doing.

That's how we lead the way.

Come on Ben.

What are you doing?

Tamed the wild bear, did you?

No, like us telling you Captain Ben and I have been friends for a long time.

Ah, stole that, Adams. People and animals can't be friends anymore.

And a fish can swim online.

What do you call Pauline Sally?

Well they're a... They're mascots.

Just like any other beast you feed them and they'll, uh, they'll obey orders, huh?

Well animals aren't servants, Captain.

Just because they can't speak, that doesn't mean they're dumb.

And Sally there?

She seems like a right smart little critter to me.

Mate, you just don't understand.

I mean, Sally can't think on her own.

She just imitates what she sees.

And Pauline, how is he just an echo?

Sally! Sally, get off of that boat!

Sally! We lay that nasty anchor!

Ah!

Get down over there, Sammy!

Ah!

It's alright.

Thank you, Adams. Sally, what's the matter? You could have hurt yourself!

And look what you did to my mast!

Well Captain Sally didn't know that the mast wasn't anchored down.

Well she ain't supposed to do nothing without orders.

Trouble is since we've become land lovers.

She's like a scaredy cat. Everything's new and fearful to her.

You know you can help her get over there.

I can't go chasing around with her Adams like I worked to do.

There was nothing left for me with a rockin' chair at the old sailor's home.

And that's why I came out here, see? I wanted to chart me a new life.

And Sally's got to learn to be part of that.

Maybe Ben and I could help you.

How about if we took Sally for a while?

Well, if you could learn her something I would be beholden to you.

Sally, come on now.

You'll go get some ration, see?

Go get your little sweater to put on there's a children bee's mountaineer, hey?

What?

Get...

Help! As soon as I get my old prairie spoon or a float here,

I could use a bit of help navigating these woods myself.

Just a minute.

Did I hear you right?

Did you say you was going to float this sir wagon?

I am eight.

See folks that have trouble crossing the rivers and I'm fixing up the old prairie spoon here to help.

Why can't you leave the sailor in the lakes?

Well, that's a crazy thing I ever heard of.

Wagons don't float. Everybody knows that.

Anything will float if you can make it watertight and see where they...

I'm going to cock her up with pinepits.

There's plenty of that around here, ain't there?

Well, we can show her there's plenty of pinepits, Captain.

But...but we got fairies out here to help people across rivers and across lakes.

Why there's...

Tell them about it, Adams.

Well, there's lots of places that don't have fairies, Jack.

Like down there at Rogers Crossing.

Well, the wagon's back up for two weeks when the river gets high.

Ah!

Ah!

Sally! Get off of that hut!

And, Tommy, you hear me?

Get off before you break it!

You hear me, Sally? I said stop it!

You heard me, and that's an order!

You're pumped to obey your Captain, Sally!

She did it again.

Well, here we are, Captain.

Jack, I'll say we're all the pinepitches.

Sally, she's going to take a little walk with Ben and I and meet some of our friends.

Sally, you'll be taking orders from your new skipper now.

I've got to give you an idea to hands for a lot.

We'll be fine, Captain.

Let's go, Ben.

Ah!

Right over here's...

Pitch fine.

See that?

You find enough of that to...

...cock your whole wagon.

Thank you, mate.

Now, I know the Indians use this to cock their canoes.

But it ain't going to work on your wagon.

That's different.

Mate, you're a trouble if you've got no imagination.

No imagination.

Let me tell you something.

You're going to get yourself drowned in that ain't imagination.

That's back, mate.

I've been swamped in a typhoon, capsized in an order, and beached in a hurricane.

But I've never been drowned yet.

See number seven here.

He's as stubborn as a burrow, but that's what he is.

But you're acting like you're stubborn as a mule, which you ain't.

Come on, number seven.

Let's go help Nakoma build that dam.

Well, I was out working with Nakoma.

Adams was out trying to educate that army little gorilla in it.

Anybody could do it.

Adams was the man.

He was determined to introduce Sally to some of the animals in the forest.

And that rabbit seemed a good one to start with.

Hi, little fella.

I'd like to make a new friend.

Sally, I bet you didn't.

You saw rabbits along the way out here, didn't you?

It's like to get to know one.

Well, go ahead and pet them.

Now, Adams figured the best way for Sally to get acquainted was to say,

outy to some of the animals on her own.

I think he likes you, Sally.

Well, you made a new friend anyway.

Off you go.

Bye-bye, little rabbit.

Seeing new faces and meeting new friends.

That's how each day of your life should be.

Somehow you know when the feeling is right.

You're not alone and your future is bright.

Even when things aren't going your way.

You left tomorrow for what happened to me.

Now, climbing a tree was second nature in Sally.

But reaching into holes too small for her hand to fit.

Well, that was new.

And a mike painful.

Sally!

Sally!

Where are you?

We got your hand caught in the hole, Sally.

I bet you got a fist full of nuts, don't you?

Well, the squirrel's been stowing them away for the winter.

See, your hand's too big to get out of that hole.

What you're gonna have to do is drop what you got in your hand.

And I'll be small enough to get out.

I know you don't want to let go of what you're holding, but you got to.

The only way you're gonna get out of that hole.

That's a good girl.

Come on down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that's the lesson that you just learned that you better not ever forget.

You could have been caught up there with a blizzard coming on, you know.

That's a bobcat, Sally.

She's just a baby, Sally.

So you play real nice with her.

Give the cover chance to get to know you.

You're playing too rough with that cub.

That's her momma, Sally.

She's just checking out her cub.

Come here, Sally.

That's all right.

That mama cougar didn't mean no harm.

She was just worried about her cub.

I think you've had enough for one day, don't you?

Let's go.

While Adams was getting Sally used to the ways of the forest,

me and Nicole Mo was working on that damn Adams that started.

That looks like you and Jack could come along just fine, the coma.

Sally, he's sorta like you.

Sally's starting to feel a lot more at home.

There you go, Sally.

Howdy, Jack.

Can't we get all the piepitch you needed?

What he needs is some horse sense for that mule's head of his.

It won't work to tell you.

Wagons don't float, and they never will.

Get that in.

Sally, you stay close by now.

That's a good girl.

But staying close by wasn't in Sally's nature,

especially when she heard a familiar sound coming from that Bobcat cub.

Sally's instinct told her something was wrong, so she went out looking for that cub.

The raccoon she met along the way seemed to know something was wrong too.

And even that scumptly past knows things wasn't right.

When Sally got to the tree and started climbing up,

she's seeing what the problem was.

That Bobcat cub had got herself treed,

and this time no mama Bobcat was coming and running.

Sally tried to talk that cub down, but it weren't no use.

Being so scared that cub had all it could do just to hang on.

Now that little gorilla was a fast learner,

and she knew there was nothing more she could do except to go back and get Adams,

hoping of course that no harm would come to the cub while she was gone.

That cub sure needed its mama.

But all it had was a little gorilla named Sally,

running through the forest for help.

While that Bobcat cub was struggling to keep from falling,

Sally raced back to where we was.

The way she carried on we know something was wrong somewhere.

The way she was how learned we knew something was terrible wrong.

Come on Jack, Nokoma let's follow her.

This way Nokoma.

We're coming Adams, come on Sammy.

What is it Sally, what's wrong?

So that's it, I see her Sally.

There's the problem Nokoma.

That little Bobcat's got self-treat.

Now don't be scared Sally, don't run off.

Sally, Sally come back here.

That's just the cub's mother.

Mama, now you take it easy now.

Sally's one of the daughters out here.

It's alright Mama, just take it easy, we'll get you a cub down.

You're gonna need a ladder or something to get up there.

Maybe Nokoma and I can rig something.

Now that'll take too long Jack.

Sally.

Sally?

And Sally I want you to go up there and jump on that branch, do you understand me?

Go on.

That's a good girl.

Alright Sally, now when you shake the tree I'll catch the cub.

You ready? Just take it easy Mama.

Take it easy.

Alright Sally.

Sally, I want you to jump up and down.

That's it Sally. Keep it up, keep it up.

That's it, that's a good girl.

That's it Sally, keep shaking it.

That's a good girl.

Good girl Sally.

There you go Mama.

All safe and sound.

You can come down now Sally.

You did real good Sally.

I can't figure it Adam.

That little grill acts like she understands everything you say.

You know I think Sally's got more sense than the captain gives her credit for.

Gee smart.

Well there was just plain grill of curiosity or wanting to be more human I don't know.

But on the way back the little grill of decided she was going to look like a mountain man.

And the mountain man she was going to look like was me.

Why else would she have gotten up on number seven the way she did?

And would you believe number seven acted as if he were happy to have that gorilla on his back saying,

get him up to him in gorilla talk.

Number seven you get back here.

Give me that hat back you little gorilla.

See that?

Number seven's beginning to do what I tell him.

What you tell him what Sally tells him.

You notice I didn't get my hat back.

Your gorilla not a mountain man.

We wasn't the only ones in the forest trying to put things in apple pie order.

But when we got back to where the captain was he got the mask back up where it belonged

and he was spreading pine pitch all over his both way.

Say to Sally. Say to Sally.

Hello Captain.

Ah! Where's Sally? What is Sally?

How did you get Sally up on that barrel?

It's all Sally's idea. She's feeling right at home.

Ah, no, that's because you've got a right good handle of animals.

That's what that is. How's the wagon coming?

Well, sister about ready for lunch. Come on in. I'll show you.

See there? Just about finished.

The wagon I with, bitch.

I sure hope it works for you, Captain. Thank you.

See, how about you and your mates joining me in a cup of tea?

I'll go brew some up. I'd like that.

Making the food out of a wagon?

That captain's going to get his britches wet and drowned.

All at the same time, you mark my words. Come on, let's have some tea.

I don't drink tea. That's a woman's drink. I want to look this thing over.

Ah, Sally, I don't need the glass right now. You take it over to Jack.

All right, show it to Jack.

This thing will never float.

Well, I ain't never been wrong in my life.

I sure ain't wrong now.

Well, what do I want with that?

Oh.

Yeah.

You know something?

You're as dumb as that captain over here if you think this thing's going to float.

No way is this thing going to float.

No, Sally! No!

Whoa!

Now, that nammin'! Whoa!

Whoa!

Jack! Jack!

I said, whoa! Where is that little parell? Wait, wait!

Look at me, I'm out!

No!

Where?

Jack!

Jack!

Jack!

Here!

Where is that dumb gorilla?

No dumb swabby.

You cast off without orders and you nearly wrecked my ship!

He nearly drowned me!

Why don't you teach that gorilla how to be a?

It made me take my all over bath six months before I was opposed.

See, Adams, you couldn't learn enough of me either.

I told you she can't thank or understand nothing.

What am I going to do with her?

Tief, Mindia.

Monkey from Africa.

I'm not a

monkey from Africa.

I don't know what to do with her.

I'm not a monkey.

I'm not a monkey.

I'm not a monkey.

I'm not a monkey.

I'm not a monkey.

I'm not a monkey.

Tief, Mindia.

Monkey from Africa.

Crazy captains from Boston that think wagg is consulted.

Come on.

Come on, boy.

Sally, I won't talk to you.

I know you didn't mean to hurt Jack, but you got to learn that just certain things that you can't do.

That's all the captains trying to tell you.

I know you're smart enough to understand what I'm saying to you.

So you got to prove it to him.

You take it serious.

Captain's got a good right to be upset with you.

You got to make it up to him.

Sally, I want to talk to you.

Listen here.

Sally, you come back here before you get in more trouble.

Sally's going to be just fine, Captain.

She can find either of us whenever she's got the mind to.

Can I make a suggestion to you?

Why don't you try having a little patience with her?

I ain't got time for that foolishness.

My wagonboat's all I got time for.

When we got back to the dam, we was half expecting the little gorilla to be there.

But Sally was out on her own and looking for trouble as usual.

What Adams had taught her helped her to take to the little critters.

It weren't long before she met a raccoon playing with a bear cub.

Sally wanted to join in to fund them to seem to be heaven,

but she hadn't learned yet that sometimes two's company but three's a crowd.

Least ways, that's how Mama Bear felt about it when she come to see what all that ruckus was about.

After that raccoon skedaddle, Sally took a look at the size and sound of that bear,

and being a smart one, she figured maybe it weren't such a good idea to hang around,

so she scampered up the nearest tree she could find.

Then Bear sounds was making Sally more nervous by the minute, so she decided it was time to move on, jump inside.

Now these woods have seen some mighty strange things, but nothing stranger than a big black bear having a conversation with a gorilla.

Meanwhile, me and the Coleman Adams was working as hard and fast as we could to finish that dam,

since it was the only way the critters in the area would have enough water.

That's a good boy.

Everyone was pitching in for all he was worth.

Heh, even Ben.

Thank you, Ben.

Are you catching coal from all that, Duncan?

That's mountain men don't catch coal, we're made of iron.

Well, then that means your joints are going to rust up on you.

It ain't funny, Adams.

That gorilla liked to drown me, and if that captain ain't smart, it's going to drown him too.

There she is.

Help!

This is all ship ship now, Polly.

Spare a master's arm.

Sally, a hoy!

Oh, Sally.

Oh, Sally.

Sally is Robbie.

Hit the deck.

Now, Adams told me to be patient with you, otherwise it'd be off to the brig with you, see?

Now, you stand too, because I'll need you to cast off.

Now, I taught you to pull that chalk from me, not that mountain man.

He didn't much appreciate that bad, you give him.

He even though he might have needed it somewhere.

That's it.

All right.

Anybody now ready to cast off?

Cast off!

Cast off!

All right.

Cast off the main line.

It's all right, Sally. I gave it the order this time.

Go ahead.

Ha ha!

Ha ha!

Ha ha! Here we go, mates.

Hoy! We did it, mates!

She's watertight and flocified.

Ha ha ha!

Now then, we'll just set the sail line.

There now.

Ha ha ha!

Hoy!

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha!

I'll sail and we will go way up and up and ride him.

Ha ha ha!

Just believe me, ha!

Ha ha ha!

Come on, here you little.

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha ha!

Where the time being, that there captain was just about the happiest man who ever set sail in the woods.

But things was going to change because, like I told him, that there wagon he was using for a boat weren't going to keep the water out for long.

Ha ha ha!

Now the captain seeing the water coming in, but he didn't see the mass swinging around.

Ha ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha ha!

Ha ha ha ha!

Hmmm.

The lion there unconscious with the boat wagon taken on water, well, it seemed the captain's first voyage was going to be his last.

Sally was crying with pain of what she was seeing.

She knew there was only one hope of saving the captain's life.

Her friend, James Adams.

But Adams was long ways off.

Adams, Nicoma 7, Ben and me was just about finished with the dam and looking forward to taking things of mine easier, but it weren't to be.

It's Sally and she's mighty upset.

Ha ha ha!

What's wrong, Sally?

Huh?

There's something wrong, Jack, come on.

Ha ha ha ha!

We was running as fast as we could.

Adams in particular, but that boat was taken on water even faster.

When Adams hit that shoreline, it looked like we hadn't run near fast enough.

Nicoma seemed what was happening and he jumped in the water to lend a hand.

Adams was a swimming for all he was worth.

When I got there and took me a look, it appeared to me like everything that Adams and Nicoma was doing was all for naught.

But Adams didn't give up.

They're roped. I gotta get through. Can't inform me, will you, Sally?

I'll need it to hold them out. That's right.

No, don't bring it to me. Good girl.

Please get to me.

Thank you, Sally. I'll be right back.

Nicoma?

I'll be right back.

We got to him just in time.

This is a cap.

He's all right, Sally.

Oh, no.

The captain's all right.

Well, with a captain out of trouble, Nicoma returned to his village and Adams, Ben,

seven and me got to look at some water that didn't spell trouble.

By damming up the stream like we'd done, we had raised the water level,

which meant the animals wouldn't have to worry not about having enough water to drink.

They all came down to take a drink.

A deer, a playful and happy beaver.

Even a couple of cougar cubs came around to check things out.

That raccoon wasn't about to be left out of the fun.

Now, nothing can give a mountain man more pure pleasure than knowing he had a hand

and doing something worthwhile. And in the mountains, there ain't nothing more worthwhile than knowing

you helped give the animals all the water they could need when things turned dry.

Yes, sir.

Seeing all them animals playing and laughing together almost made us forget that

the last time we was around water, things wasn't quite so peaceful.

Come on.

Welcome.

A number of familiar faces showed up.

Hehehe.

Whoa. Oh, my captain.

Let's say it to them out here. Hi, Sally.

Oh, well.

You guys came to say goodbye.

And the thank you both for what you done.

Well, the credit goes to Sally. She wouldn't have known to come fetch us.

We'd never been able to help you.

And now. And I ain't forgetting that either.

She sure proved you right, Adams. Animals can be friends.

It didn't seem like the natural thing at first, but now it does.

Well, when folks learn that's the most important thing,

it'll all be a lot better off.

I see you turned your boat back into a wagon.

Yeah, hehe. He's gonna stay that way, too.

Ha ha. You were right, matey. Wagons just won't float.

What are you gonna do now, Captain?

Well, I don't know. I've been addressed before, but the worst part of failing is losing a dream.

I wanted to help those folks make their way across the rivers and lakes, but...

Ah, yes, it just ain't to be.

Well, there's a lot of other ways to help folks.

You know how about building ships and things like that?

You know what I was telling him about down there, Rogers Cross, and how much they need a ferry?

Yeah, so you were.

Oh, sounds like it might be a snug harbor for an old sea dog and his friends.

Sally, say goodbye to the mountain, then.

Goodbye, Sally.

Goodbye, Sally.

Ha ha.

Well, guess by a gorilla.

I'll be a monkey's uncle.

Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha.

Well, I'll never forget your mate.

Likewise, Captain.

You know, if I'd settle for that old rockin' chair, I'd have missed meeting you.

Same goes for you, mate.

If you weren't such a natural-born mountain man, you'd have made one mighty fine sailor.

Thank you, sir.

Ah, here we go.

Watch your step.

Come on, baby.

Oh, come on, baby.

Come on, baby.

You're not here at all.

Clamper, hang on.

Here we go.

Come on, get up in there.

I am.

I am.

Boy, Captain.

A vast deal, lad.

Love it.

Hm.

Harry.

Ha ha.

Look at this.

Captain, how did you get to, sir?

Ha ha ha ha.

Hm.

Ha ha ha ha.

Looks like you've been down there at Rogers Crossing.

Yeah, I'm aintin' to look what the captain give me.

What do you think of that, Nokoma?

Ha ha ha.

How are you doin' down there, Jack?

Oh, just fine.

Just fine.

Number seven in me, we helped the captain build one of the biggest ferry rafts in this part of the country.

Why?

It's big enough to carry two wagons and horses, all at the same time.

Well, that was real nice to you, Jack.

You took care of what I got.

Have one of them.

These look good.

You know somethin'?

Oh, oh, oh.

We're right, all right.

Wait till I get it ready.

This is no tail.

But that little gorilla is takin' tolls and makin' change.

All by itself.

You know, Captain's a mighty nice man.

I'm glad he finally learned it.

Well, animals aren't somethin' to men just on an order around.

Shh.

Now, that's all you're gettin' so eatin' slow.

And you know what?

He's drinkin' Sally a lot better since she helped rescue her.

He had to come around anyway, I think.

Even her Sally wouldn't have saved his life.

Hmmm?

Hmmm?

Hahaha!

Hahaha!

Hahaha!

Hahaha!

Keep inside the forest, there's a door into another land.

Here is our life and home.

We are staying here forever in the beauty of this place all alone.

We keep on hoping.

There's a world where we don't have to run.

There's a time where all our own living free and holy in majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.