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my feet

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starring tommy redig as jeff miller

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jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

lassie

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do you know what's in this letter

not exactly you don't have to tell me if

you don't want to i'll do even better

than that i'll read it to you

dear mrs miller i am concerned as i know

you will be about jeffrey's work and

arithmetic

he is capable of much better work than

he is doing may i suggest that he devote

more time to this subject at home i

think a little effort on his part will

solve his problem very quickly sincerely

amelia robbins

well

i didn't know miss robin's first name

was amelia you ever know anybody else

named amelia i didn't let steps forget

about the names and concentrate on the

arithmetic

why are you doing so poorly gosh mom you

have to be a whiz in every subject

i don't know why miss robinson's saying

no it's home about arithmetic she never

writes you about geography i'm doing

okay in that

you're supposed to do okay in all of

your subjects

i don't like arithmetic

i don't blame you but it's important

now look

learning is is like building if you

don't have a good foundation you can

never build a solid house we're studying

fractions no one ever builds one seventh

of a house why do i have to learn it

oh

suppose lassie was sick

the doctors left some medicine with you

now you're supposed to give her a half

the first day a quarter the next day and

the rest of it in the next four days now

what would you do

what kind of medicine

well that isn't important

but it is a flashy sick we wouldn't want

to give her the wrong all right she's

not sick uh this is a tonic to keep her

healthy

well if she's healthy why does she need

a tonic

you aren't by any chance trying to evade

this question i don't know what evade

means

well if aid means

it's when you

oh never mind i see we're not going to

get very far this way can i go out and

play under the circumstances i think

that you'd better stay here instead of

your arithmetic

oh gosh mom i see me we're good lassie

and i i don't want any notes about your

english we're gonna meet porky

it's time for work the time to play jeff

and this is your time for work

arithmetic you think the guy could play

once in a while instead of having to do

school work all the time

come on lassie

oh no jeff i think you'll get a lot more

work done in less time if lassie isn't

with you oh gosh mom unless he's always

with me well that may be part of your

trouble no if you're in your room alone

i think you'll concentrate on your work

now run along sweetie

no messi

you go out and play there's no reason

why you can't have a good time even if i

can't

i'll be locked up in my room but you go

out and get the fresh air it's healthy

when you're growing you need a lot of

fresh air

well you just leave your window open and

you'll have plenty of fresh air

i'm gonna be president when i grow up

and i'll make a law there won't be any

arithmetic in the whole world

okay girl you run all out you see your

pal later

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oh

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last thing

you can't come in here

didn't hear what mom said i'm a prisoner

no go away

hi gramps

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classy go on

what you doing arithmetic

how you coming

pretty good do you know anything about

fractions uh well what do you want to

know

well

if something is times something it's

more than something that's plus

something right um you say that again

well

four times four is sixteen and four plus

four is only eight sixteen is more than

eight so that makes time more than plus

right got to agree with that

then how come they say that one half

plus one half is one and one half times

one half is only a quarter

who says that my teacher and my book

let me see it

that don't make sense you can't multiply

half a dollar by a half a dollar and

come out with a quarter then how come it

says so in the book

um ain't got mistakes you can't read a

word you're right in your pocket well i

ain't got time you want to go to circus

the circus yeah when where capital city

saturday the circus oh boy who cares

about arithmetic anyway

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can everybody read that all right

any questions before we start

all right you have 30 minutes

so

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so

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so

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oh

all right children time's up

leave your test papers on your own desks

have a nice weekend and i'll see you on

monday

jeffrey miller and sylvester brockway

will you please bring your papers to me

pastor smith

thank you

your paper is perfect sylvester

and your paper jeffrey is perfect

except for the last problem it's too bad

you weren't able to copy the last

problem jeffrey

and it's too bad you weren't able to let

him copy it sylvester

don't you have anything to say jeffrey

i'm sorry sorry you copied or sorry you

were caught

both i guess

we give test jeffrey to learn what

progress you're making not how well you

can copy

so i think under the circumstances it

might be a good idea for you to take

another test don't you

yes ma'am

i prepared another set of problems for

you

and you can go to work right now

i'll wait for you outside here just a

minute sylvester

there's no reason for you to take

another arithmetic test but since

jeffrey and i have to stay after school

you might as well stay with us

and take a test in history

i've got one all ready for you isn't

that fine

daniel

sylvester i think perhaps it might be

better if you were to take another seat

not so close to jeffrey

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hi mom

sorry i'm late

supper's almost ready i've been worried

but i got a call for miss robin's

explaining why you'd be late

you did

yes yes she explained that she kept you

after school

what's she picking on me for

told i was sorry i copied corki's paper

ms robins didn't say anything about your

copying fork his paper

oh

did you

yes

why

i don't know yes you do now think about

it

no i don't know why

it's very simple you didn't know the

answers you felt you had to copy from

porky the reason you didn't know the

answers is because you've been

neglecting your schoolwork

that's right isn't it

i guess so

we won't mention about the copying from

now on

it wasn't a nice thing to do but i'm

sure you've learned your lesson

you won't do it again will you

now about the second test it's robin's

graded it and out of six problems you've

got one right

only one that's it

well i'm improving

after all you tell me i don't have to be

perfect if i improve

last month i didn't get any right

don't try to be funny jeff i'm quite

serious about this

i'll do better next time mom i promise i

hope you will because the next time is

tomorrow but mom tomorrow's saturday i

know

there's no school tomorrow

jeff miss robbins and i had a long talk

she was very sweet about this she's

agreed to meet you tomorrow at school

and give you another test i can't mom

tomorrow i'm going to the circus i'm

sorry dear oh but i gotta go i can't

miss the circus on a calvin all

arithmetic test

it isn't just an old arithmetic test

jeff

honey i'm not trying to punish you but

you must have a sense of values you've

got to learn what is important and what

isn't the circus may not be important to

you but it is to me

well of course it is

but responsibilities come before fun you

know that

cooking and cleaning taking care of you

in gramps my responsibilities and

schoolwork is one of yours

i think it's mean of you to make me miss

the circus

all right son you have a right to think

as you wish but i expect you to go to

your room now and study for your test

you know lassie you can't come in with

it's like i was in jail no friends no

fun nothing

what have you got to complain about at

least he doesn't think you're mean

hi miss miller

oh hi sylvester my got a haircut yeah

where's jeff well he's in his room but

you can't see him now is he being

punished no he's studying his arithmetic

isn't that being punished

you better scoot on home now honey it's

getting yourself for time it is bye

marky hi miss miller hi

yeah all set for the circus sure i am is

jeff gone nobody is

excuse me i don't want to be late for

dinner i bet you never have

been hey helen

well

i see you got that look on your face

what look

that jeff trouble look

you're too good to guess sir

well

let's hear it

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jeff flunked his arithmetic test

well that ain't nothing to make the

world come to an end is it well i've

made arrangements for him to take

another test tomorrow oh wait a minute

what about circus

well to be honest with you i i forgot

about that when i made the arrangements

but i can't back down now oh that's

going to be pretty rough on a kid

he probably hates me

i've got to make him understand that he

he can't slough off his responsibilities

just because they're no fun look

jeff's a good kid

i've seen him where they get stubborn as

a mule but jeff does pretty much as he's

told

i know that

he just he hasn't made any effort with

this arithmetic

it'd be different if he tried and failed

when is the test tomorrow

in the morning

look i got an idea

now if he does good

how's about me taking him to the circus

right after the test it starts at two

o'clock and

we won't miss much of it oh that's

that's just wonderful only let's not say

anything to him about it until he gets

home tomorrow maybe he'll study better

if he thinks he isn't getting away with

anything

come here lassie

we gotta have a talk

you don't know it yet but we're running

away from home tomorrow

i'd go tonight but i gotta prove

something first

i'm gonna show mom and miss robins that

i can do their crummy old fractions when

they find out we'll be gone

maybe i will miss the circus but they'll

be sorry because we're not coming home

after that test tomorrow not ever we

might even join the circus

but you gotta help me i gotta learn all

this fractions junk tonight and it may

take middle morning i get awful sleepy

so you gotta see that i don't go to

sleep

understand

look

if i start to go to sleep you nudge me

and if you fall asleep i'll wake you so

that you can wake me right

i'm starting from page one

i'm gonna know more about fractions than

miss robin's

fraction is a part of a unit if you

divide an orange into four parts each

part is a fraction of the whole orange

oranges

the lowest common denominator

the

smallest fraction

this problem can be defined

lowest common denominator is the 1 4

plus one-fifth

equals nine twentieths

thanks lassie

one-fourth

plus one-fifth

one and

two-thirds times two

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i'm awake i guess

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one and two thirds times two

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you seem to have trouble staying awake

jeffrey anything wrong didn't you sleep

well last night i'm all right just

finishing the last problem

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i'd like to wait on graduate paper now

jeffrey

i can't tell you how pleased i am this

is a perfect paper

i knew you could do good work if you

just made up your mind to do it

will you phone my mom and tell her i

certainly will

don't forget

bye

oh that was very sweet of you thanks

again miss robbins bye

okay where's jeff

he'll be home any minute no

he got a hundred on his test a perfect

paper i told you there was nothing to

get into a stool about the trouble is

you forget who his grandfather is

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no sign of him no

no i i suppose so but i i don't know

what to think he's never done anything

like this before

well

thanks a lot

of course i'll let you know goodbye

i said there's no sign up

that was miss robbins jenny located her

at the prescotts she said jeff was

acting awfully strange when he left

school

and he left it 20 minutes till 11. i

can't understand that why you know it's

110 right now

i i tried the brockways but i guess

birdie went to the surface was matt and

the boy

with that i'm worried now look don't

you'll be worried at all because there's

nothing to worry over and if at least

you don't mind any i'll go and get out

of these clothes and i'll go and look

for them it's too late to go to the

circus anyway

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sometimes i wonder if it's worth it

worth what

having children

just mumps or measles or hooking coffins

something like this look sit down here

and relax now with it they're just a few

places he can be and i know them all

that if anything happened

now look stop talking foolish nothing's

happened to him but he's probably down

at the lake right now and he's good mom

i'm sorry i'm late mom but

me and lassie

well we fell asleep in the field on you

fell asleep in the field darling yeah on

the way home on account we were up most

the night studying for the test

got something to tell you

it's not about the test no i didn't copy

this time

it's about me

what about you dear

well after i missed the circus i was

gonna run away from home

but then me and lassie sat down the

field to think it over

and we

figured it out that it would be sort of

dopey to run away from home because

because you were right and if i'd have

studied like i was supposed to

i i wouldn't have missed the circus

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now i got something to tell you young

fella the circus is coming to belleville

next saturday golly grams thanks

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