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my feet

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starring tommy rettig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course lassie

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jeff jeff we're late

i'm ready

where's your tie

of course you do but it jokes me fix it

so

pretty good layers got 14 of them today

great

but they all talked out so early for 22

o'clock

caleb call they changed the time to 11.

homer's nephew came down from capital

city and they want to get back before

dark that'd be emmett uh sells insurance

pinchy nose

now the stew's ready bread's on the

table butter's in the ice box

we'll be back before noon i certainly

hope so but if we're not you go ahead

and eat

did you suspect anything

almost wish he did might make him a

little less disagreeable

goodness don't you look all slicked up

i heard some fish jumping in the lake

tomorrow maybe after you get back we can

try our luck huh

where do i have to go if gramps doesn't

there you are

she is choking nonsense

jeff

what's that bulge in your pocket jeff

now what is it

my aunt

darling now really this is the end you

know that we're going to the carries and

you know that there'll be other people

there look i'll hold them for you to get

back but don't tip them over they get

dizzy and start eating each other yeah i

know i know keep them straight up

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do hereby set the following down as my

last will and testament hi helen hello

caleb i'm sorry we're late oh now that's

all we just got through the legal

rigamarole

you know matt willis run the farm for

homer no yes of course i hear you're

going to california that's right as soon

as this is over

this is mr and mrs tinch

cousins of homer from leesburg

and this is mr and mrs emmett carey

homer's nephew how do you do

this is mrs miller and her son jeffrey

oh and that there is young edgar county

hello

youtube boys can sit together

and you sit here

thank you caleb

no

now let's see where were we oh yes do

hereby set the following down as my last

will and testament

firstly i appoint cape c brown attorney

at laws by sole executive and charge him

to administer my estate and execute

whatever bequests are made hearing to my

hired man matt willis i leave the sum of

fifty dollars

although he

he has probably stolen ten times that

much

to my neighbor ellen miller i leave all

the furnishings of my house

to young jack miller i leave the best

thing i've got

my dog

lasted

to me

she's all yourself

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uh

hadn't we better proceed with the

reading mr brown

sit down jeff

he can take her outside ellen go ahead

jeffrey take her out

come on lassie come on

been like that since the old man died

i'll take her out

don't hurt her please

what's the matter lassie don't you

remember me anymore i used to come over

and play with you lots of times before

mr carrie died

you're mine now lassie mr carrie gave

you to me

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go on fetch it license

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he can't do nothing

it's a she not a he and she can too

who wants an old she dog all they do is

have pups why my father says who cares

what your father says i care go ahead

and care

make her do a trick i dare you

i double dare you i triple daria

i'll give you a mickey mantle if she

does a trick

what's that

baseball card stupid

yeah mickey manly make her do a trick

well what you're waiting for

come on lassie roll over play dead

come on roll over roll over and play

dead lassie what a dopey dog she is not

dopey she's the smartest dog in the

whole world

you know i stupid these stuffy cards you

pick those up i will not pick them up

pick them up yourself

are there any questions

you're uh your kids are fighting

excuse me

you gotta be ashamed of yourself

fighting with the boy you never saw

before he said lassie was stupid she is

you keep your house up and you'll get in

there and get cleaned up i'm sorry mrs

miller i'm sorry too mrs carey

where's lassie she went inside i'll get

it oh good

man jeff he started it

i uh don't want you to misunderstand me

sir i uh appreciate oklahoma's having

having left me the farm

although what i'm going to do with it i

don't know

uh but when i visited uncle homer in

april uh he told me that he had better

than uh

two thousand dollars in cash

and now of course you know uncle homer

couldn't possibly have spent that much

in just a few months we only found 197

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oh yes

yes thank you

it wasn't my fault it doesn't matter

whose fault it was you've made that

boy's nose bleeding just look at your

suit slung her up around her neck so he

can tie her up oh good man here's his

hat oh thank you

no no in the backseat goodness

have a good trip

thanks

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come on we're home

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laughing

easy now boy easy oh can we go get our

grams

oh darling

you can't make her stay not if she

doesn't want to but i haven't even had a

chance mom

oh please gramps please

look boy

there's one thing you got to understand

the lord made animals free just like

human beings

and you can't force them to love you

they got to do the deciding

but i used to play with her lots of

times when i went over to the carries

were playing with one thing

she was homer's dog he raised her from a

pup

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and by the way uh

joe king's father said it'll be welcome

soon oh i don't want no center props not

ever

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all right boy

we going fetcher

okay

thanks gramps

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so

how did she get in here the front door

was closed

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i don't know she got away from you

hello matt

hello mr miller

i sort of figured she might do that

you ought to tire up in the barns you'll

get over it the barn's cold at night

that won't hurt her then

at any rate you got to get her out of

here i'm closing up and leaving she

comes back she'll starve

come on

wait a minute i'm taker

come on girl

we're not going to tire up in the barn

are we grams we'll work it out boy we'll

work it out yes

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come on messy that's it come on

is

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lastly

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ugh

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so

so

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uh

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so

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well well look who's waking up the

daylight

good morning mr pease

we're headin

down the road

if you got a mail for us i'll take it

now you know better than that i'm just

on my way to pick it up

what you got in your pocket there guns

oh

you know sir there oh there

they're lamb chops

and this is water

we're triggering on running away we're

here oh no sir honest i'm on my way over

to the carrie place to feed a dog home

was lassie

i heard a give her to you

he did but she ran away why in tarnation

didn't you say so in the first place hop

in i'll drop you off there

can i ride in the back

sure but don't hold up the mail okay

all right

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i'll be back in about 10 15 minutes i'll

toot the horn all right thanks a lot mr

peace

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lassie

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hi lassie

i didn't come here to take you back

i just came here to bring you some water

and some lamb chops

gramps says it's up to you to do the

deciding on whether you want to be my

dog or not

but you can stay here as long as you

want making up your mind i'll come by

every morning with something for you to

drink

come on i bet you're thirsty

aren't you

well i bet you're hungry

come on

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of course you won't be getting lamb

chops every day and you decide to be my

dog

come with us on the farm

but my mom's not a good cook there's

always plenty of leftovers

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i'll take that kid

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so this is where the old man headed

give it here

shut up

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all right let's have it

it doesn't belong to you

let's have it kid before you get hurt

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uh

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hmm

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hey what's going on here hold on hold on

she just went quickly split that way

what's that come on we gotta help

so

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so

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foreign

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is

come on

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can't get over that boy getting up at

the crack of dawn this morning sneaking

out to feed that dog and

bringing back two thousand dollars with

him

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what do you want

i want to show you something get mom

wants to show us something

now what you got up you sleep watch

sit sit last night right out lie down

get on your side get on your side get

your head down dead dog stand

why don't you go all right come on

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she's my dog now isn't she ground

yes boy she's all yours now she done it

inside

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you