Original subtitles

Hey, Willie.

Willie, how you doing?

All right.

What are you two doing here?

We heard you was barking in new school, teacher.

We figured we'd come over and take a look.

Oh, though maybe you were thinking about going to school.

You know, we don't hold no book learning.

We're gonna be hog farmers, just like Pa.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

How did you drag them?

They did!

Okay.

I was sp dining Weber.

Keep getting lane.

Oh, thank you.

drowned out at eight p.Mizzy.

zombie

Run up

hazard

Diagnistic

Inside

ice

apologizes

And they want you to come down in mine.

Oh?

Ohh.

A little girls What?

Dana has happened here.

It is such a lovely day for worse backright.

And you were so thought to suggest it.

It's my pleasure, Miss Betty.

Abby.

Glass is dismissed.

Come on.

Come on.

Jim!

Those are wedding battles.

Jim.

Come on, let's go.

Oh, you're so beautiful.

Hey, you shouldn't talk like that in front of him.

He's allowed to get a swell head.

Joe, do you think I could ride him?

I sure know why not. He's real gentle with ladies.

Abby!

Abby, Abby, you all right?

I'm sorry. How stupid.

Why are you? What's your fault?

What's the matter?

Oh.

It's my ankle.

I'm going to swell. I think it's broken.

No, no, no. We'll hear no more of that.

Mr. Cartwright, I just can't stay here as a long-term house guest.

Now, you can't stay at your own place with a broken act or can you?

No.

You can get the best thing that's happened around here in a long time,

each.

You might even get the like-us.

Yes.

Thank you, Dandy.

Well?

No luck.

I thought I could get Mrs. Ferguson.

She was a pretty good substitute teacher, but you can't quit her job at the millinery store.

I would all be easy enough to find something. I ain't no big deal.

Teach the school.

I got an idea, Joe.

What's that?

What's that?

It says it's no big deal.

Why don't you do it?

Why don't I do what?

I'm going to teach school for a couple of weeks.

Oh, come on.

What are you looking at me like that for?

I was just thinking...

This better grew.

How do you think Joseph would make out as a teacher?

Well, he says it would be easy enough.

I think he'd make a fine teacher.

I think he'd make a great teacher.

As a matter of fact, I would. I'd make a great teacher.

I just have a lot of work to do here.

That's how I...

That's no problem. I'll do the work for you.

I'll do my work myself. Thanks.

Joseph,

every man married a single,

owes something to the children of his community.

Now, what have you done for the children of your community?

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Absolutely nothing, Joseph.

Now, don't you think it's about time you assume some responsibility?

I'm willing to do my share, but I'm not going to teach school.

I'm not kidding. I'm not going to teach school.

Oh, no. That's it.

I don't know how to do this.

I'm not going to teach school.

What do you think of our new teacher, Billy?

You look kind of natural, don't you?

Mm-hmm.

What do you do to one?

Well, me and Billy, we were thinking about how Miss Pettigrew always wanted us to do this.

I think he's going to do it.

Well, I think he's going to do it.

I think he's going to do it.

I think he's going to do it.

I think he's going to do it.

We were thinking about how Miss Pettigrew always wanted us to come to school.

We thought we'd come over and enroll.

You two want to enroll?

Sure. Why not?

We as good as anybody, ain't we?

Don't sit on the desk.

Don't you want to go to school? Take a seat.

Any place in particular?

Yeah, even.

Come on, right in front, right in keeping on you.

Right in.

Anything you say, Joe?

From now on, the name is Mr. Cartwright.

Oh, Mr. Cartwright.

You hear that, Mr. McNabb?

I mean, from now on, Joe ain't Joe.

Joe is Mr. Cartwright.

Yes, sir, Mr. Cartwright.

Take off your hat.

Yes, sir, Mr. Cartwright.

Show some respect.

Kathy?

Kathy?

Kathy?

Is it all over there?

She scared Mr. Cartwright.

Scared of what?

She never had a man teach you before.

Kathy?

Kathy, honey, you're not scared of me, are you?

Oh, now how can that be?

After all the times I've taken you on rides

and you went over your house to see your paw?

You can't be afraid of me.

You're not scared of me.

You can't be afraid of me.

Let me see a little bit of a smile.

Okay, that's better.

Hey, oh, you...

Oh, you can't.

I accidentally named Miss Pettigrew herder leg,

so I'm gonna have to be your teacher for a little while.

I don't know too much about being a teacher,

so it's gonna be up to you to help me.

Now, will you help me?

Yes, sir.

Okay, good.

How about you show me where you sit, huh?

Where's Missy, Kathy?

Over there.

There you go, honey.

My desk's over there, Mr. Cartwright.

Go sit down, Mary.

All right, erase it, Willie.

Why me, Joe?

The name's Mr. Cartwright, I said erase it.

Can you say so?

Go erase it, Billy.

Do it, Willie.

Not sure, Billy, you.

You know, you really shouldn't get all fretted up, Mr. Cartwright.

My paw, he always says, uh,

man, get fretted up, he's just gonna wear himself out.

That's right.

The man getting fretted so early in the morning, Mr. Cartwright,

it's gonna be plump-tooking off for the days over.

Yeah, that's right.

I think we had enough school for one day, don't you, Billy?

Yeah.

See you tomorrow, Mr. Cartwright.

And then Chicken Little said that, uh,

then Chicken Little said the sky is falling.

Yeah, yes, Cathy?

That's not the way Miss Pettigrew said it.

She did it with different animal sounds.

Well, that was Miss Pettigrew, you don't expect me to do it that way, do you?

Yeah.

Yes, you do.

All right, I'll try.

And then Chicken Little said,

the sky is falling.

The sky is falling.

I must go and tell the king.

Children, I think I'll find another story to read.

I think I'll find another story to read.

All right?

I think I'll find another story to read, all right?

They got a much better one for you.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

Chicken Little.

Chicken Little?

The sky is falling.

Oh, the sky is falling on my head.

Oh, Mercy.

Ha, ha, ha.

Oh, you're still right here.

I'm gonna go tell the king.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Hey, get back inside.

Quick, quick.

Miss Pettigrew!

Ah, look, look, look.

Excuse me.

Well, you boys been.

I ain't seen you since son up.

We've known that school, Pa.

You know, Joe Cartwright, he's taken over from Miss Pettigrew now

that she's laid up.

We just kind of impressed her.

Miss Pettigrew.

She ain't got you boys hankering to go to school, has she?

Miss Pa, what do we do at school?

Well, there's him that values it.

It looks to me like we got everything right here

wherever we're going to need.

That's right, Pa.

Get out and get your chores done.

It's getting late.

Right, Pa.

Right.

Hey, Joe.

Joey, can you news?

Check a little.

Just came by the Sky Falls off till next Thursday.

Oh.

Ha, ha, ha.

Abby.

Yeah, you met my friend, check a little.

Ha, ha, ha.

What was that all about?

Oh, nothing. He thinks he's funny.

How did your first day go?

Many problems?

Well, the McNabb boys showed up if you considered a problem.

Joe, that's wonderful.

I have been trying to get them to enroll for the past year,

but they're...

Well, their father's been dead set against it.

Well, he's been doing your favor.

Why did that cause you a lot of trouble?

No, not too much.

I didn't stay in school long enough.

Joe, they need an education.

And if you could just give them a special attention they need.

Now, I'm not going to bend over backwards for the McNabb boys.

If they come back to school,

look at the same treatment the other kids get.

And they start fooling around again.

They'll get something the other kids don't get.

You surprised me.

Boy.

I just didn't think you would admit

the McNabb boys could get the better of you.

That's all.

Well, I didn't say they could.

I just said they better not try.

I think you have a lot to learn about being a teacher.

You got a lot to learn about McNabb brothers.

We'll bring you your reward.

Try again.

All that other folks can do,

why with...

Patience.

Patience should not you.

Only keep this ruling view.

Try again.

It's very good, Mary.

That was very good, Mary.

Thank you.

So sit down.

I think we've all been working real hard.

You got your young folks,

why don't you take a little rest

and the older ones can work on their arithmetic?

Working your arithmetic.

Right.

It's a car train.

We thought it was getting kind of chilly in here, Sue.

Could we put some more wood on the fire?

It's very nice, Willie. Thank you.

Not yet.

Carl.

Don't tell me.

I can't.

I can't!

This thing's a mess!

We could get right!

We should if didn't report.

All right, we should have seen you.

Hey, Dad!

Look real funny, huh?

Yeah.

I just wonder how funny you're gonna look

while you're splitting a wood this afternoon.

We're gonna need a cord.

Yeah.

One and I raise your two.

Oh.

You see that?

For a nice lady you know a lot about playing cards.

Well, I find a small knowledge of the science of mathematical probability

used to be greater.

Hey, Joe.

A little late today, huh?

Yeah, and to keep a couple of little boys after school.

You're tired?

Yeah.

Joe, I hope you're not too tired to read me a story for you to go to sleep.

That's fine.

Alipus, he cats my favorite.

Well, figures.

Perhaps you find him taking care of a bunch of kids to use your awards is more difficult than your thought show.

Was it William Billy that you kept in after school?

Oh, yeah, it was William Billy.

Because I'm not too worried, I figure in two or three days I'll stop coming to school.

Well, that seems like a pity, Joe.

No, that's your opinion.

Oh, I agreed to teach these kids, but I didn't say anything about raising William Billy McNabb.

Well, you know, teaching is only part of a teacher's task.

Concerned for the boys' future welfare is the rest of it.

Oh, for some reason I thought that was their father's job.

They need to look up to someone more than their father, Joe. You could be that someone.

Oh, come on. We're happy these kids don't give a darn about going to school.

All I want to do is horse around.

Well, maybe they're testing you. Maybe they want to make sure that you're worthy of their admiration.

The admiration of Willie and Billy McNabb are the least of my worries.

I just hope I can keep them from burning the school down.

All right, kids, come on. Everybody inside. It's late.

Come on, hurry up. Come on.

Come on, inside. Everybody. Come on, you two.

Hey, all your kids, keep your coats on. I'm a little bit late. I'm going to start a fire.

Good morning, Mary. Good morning, story.

Good morning. Time to recess.

There we go.

Now, we're going to do it right until the hands warm up.

So I'm going to put some problems on the board, and you just shout out the answers.

All right.

Two plus two, four plus four, three plus four, two plus four, four plus four. All right.

All right. Yes, I'm a hero.

Nobody I think you do. Look.

All your kids outside. Go outside with smoke clears.

Outside with smoke clears. Not you, Tim.

All right. What'd you do with this, though?

Mr. Cara, are you plums suspicious?

What school's on? I'm going to check that stove, and if I find out somebody's been fooling around with it,

then somebody's going to be in a lot of trouble.

We better get out of here, Mr. Cara. It's bad in here.

You'll get out of here when I tell you to. Now go on and sit down.

Sit down.

What's up?

What's up like that doing up at chimney, Mr. McNabb?

All right.

All right. You want to act like little boys, and that's just how I'm going to treat you.

Now which one of you wants to go first? Now hold on, Joe.

Ain't nothing to get in a sweat over. Just a little old smoke.

I said which one of you wants to go first?

Now Billy didn't have anything to do with that chimney.

Why don't you just let him get on out of here? All right, Billy, get on home.

I done, my sure. I want to stay.

You get.

Hey, look, Joe. You've been having yourself at times playing schoolteacher.

That's fine. I'm going right along with you.

Put a tan in? No. I'll fight you.

I'll fight you like a man in no hard feelings.

Nobody going to pass with me for my pal.

All right. That's enough, Willie.

I told you that's enough.

Oh, it's out of here.

Oh, it's out of here.

I didn't want to hit him. He didn't give me any choice.

I'm just sorry I let him get to me.

Oh, is he all right?

Oh, he's fine. I didn't hit him hard.

His pride's hurt worse than anything.

I don't think for sure he won't be back to school.

I suppose that's best for both of us.

Joe, that is where you're wrong.

Look, you've accomplished something that I could never do.

I'd like to know what that is.

You've got them to go to school.

Now, regardless of their motives, it's a start.

Now, that is the important thing.

Now, important enough, it's too late. It's over.

Joe, it's not over. You must talk to those boys.

I'm not going to be able to get through to them now.

Joe, as a teacher...

As a teacher, I am not the teacher, Abby. You are.

That's right. I am their teacher.

And their future is my responsibility.

Now, it's your responsibility.

Not anymore.

Joe, for what it's worth, I think Abby's right.

I'd love to know why you two are getting so upset over the McNabs.

Oh, and you're not.

I did the best I could.

And that's the end of it.

Yeah, that's the end of it.

I seem to recall you being sent home from school on several occasions.

I don't remember the teacher quitting on you.

Now, that's right, and you didn't quit on me.

You sent me straight, you sent me back to school.

Now, why can't their father do the same thing?

I don't know.

Why don't you ask him?

Well, I'll stand right close to home today, ain't you?

Saturday, we just think I have nothing to do.

Well, now, nothing to do with them bruises, you keep trying to hide, would it?

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

No, I don't think so.

Well, I've seen him last night when you come sneaking in.

Hello, Joe Cardrive.

Hi, Mr. McNabb.

You've seen you in a long time.

It's been a while. Good to see you.

Well, you said it, but...

Thank you.

Well, tell me, Willie, how you doing?

I was wondering why you haven't come by for a visit.

Yeah, it seems the older I get, the closer I stay to home.

You ain't here because some of my bullets are done, are you?

Well, why did they say they'd done something?

They said they'd been funny and you saw them, and...

Well, I snired Willie come home looking like he'd been in a fracas.

Well, they have been funny me a little bit, but I don't think about a fracas.

You know anything about a fracas, Willie?

Huh?

I say you know anything about a fracas.

No, I guess not.

You boys go find yourself some chores.

You and Joe got some talking to David.

Well, then...

Tell me what's on your mind, Joe.

Well, first I was wondering when you're going to butcher it.

It kind of like to have some of those hams ears hanging in the smokehouse.

It's going to be long now, cool weather's coming.

You and the boys need some things.

Yeah, boys need things.

They've been complaining?

No, nothing like that.

Well, they better not complain.

They got just about everything a whole farmer needs to have.

What about an education?

I thought that's why he is here.

All right, that's why I'm here.

I was hoping you'd tell him to go back to school.

Oh, sir.

I just don't see it that way.

How do you see it?

It's a bunch of foolishness for a hog farmer.

The boys are going to take over when I leave off.

They got the house, the land, the stock.

You keep saying hog farmer.

I just don't see where it makes any difference what a man does for a living.

He still needs an education.

Joe, I don't want you putting any high-folutin' ideas in them boys' heads.

I came here hoping you'd put some high-folutin' ideas in their heads.

I can't read or write and I get along good.

So will they.

I'm going to go back to school.

I guess that's it, then.

You sure to let us know when you got those hands ready?

I'll sure do it.

Hello, boys.

Well, what did Joe have to say?

If they didn't want to buy our hands, mostly just try to get me to send you boys back to school.

Didn't say anything about me.

Was there some reason you should have said something about you?

I guess not.

Go on, tell him.

Me and Joe, we locked horns yesterday.

You know, well, he worked me pretty good.

I figured as much.

So I couldn't go back there now, anyhow.

Why not?

Well, I got my pride.

Well, that kind of pride you don't need.

I expect you isn't wrong. If you got to eat crow, eat crow.

But you don't have to go back to school.

I just can't see no sense in taking time off from your chores to learn something you don't need to know.

Pa?

You're dead set against us going to school, huh?

I am, but I want to know how you feel about it.

You want to go to school?

No. No, I don't want to go.

You want to go to school?

No, I don't want to go either.

I settle in.

I hear no more about it.

Willie?

Well, how you figured Joe never told Paul about that ruckus you had?

How do I know?

Seems like that'd be the first thing a teacher would do.

Why don't you just hush up?

He ain't hard to like any man I ever know before.

You did a real fine job.

I can't say doing it was easy.

Paul says if a man's got to eat crow, he should go ahead and eat it.

At the end of the race, can you clean the place up?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Paul says if a man's got to eat crow, he should go ahead and eat it.

Look, you didn't tell Paul we had a fight.

So I think I owe you one.

I hope you did it because you want to come back to school.

We don't need any schooling, do we, Billy?

Willie, I've been thinking.

You know what Mar used to say?

You just remember what Paul said.

Yeah.

You don't need no schooling to be a hog farmer.

I don't like to go against your par, but I think he's wrong.

I think you need schooling.

I think a hog farmer can be a better hog farmer if he's got an education.

Look, Joe, Mr. Cartwright, it's done made up on mines.

We've got a lot of choice to do.

Now, come on home.

Now, come on.

Mr. Cartwright, this here of Mar's Bible.

Before she died, she wrote something inside.

I sure would appreciate it.

You could read it to me.

Willie?

Missy, don't hurt her.

My dear sons,

I have so little to leave you.

I must count each thing I have with care.

I leave you with my love with the hope that will warm

and guide you through all the years to come.

I leave you with the brave plans I had for you,

knowing that somehow you'll make them real.

And I leave you this book,

the Word of God to let you away.

Live by it.

Live by it.

And remember, my love is with you always.

Love.

Thank you, Mr. Cartwright.

I guess about time to start school, huh?

Is that what you mean?

Is that what you mean?

Here is the Cartwright.

Bring a bell for me.

All right, darling?

Good morning, Mr. Cartwright.

Yes, it is, Mary.

Yes, it is.

Willie Lettifier.

Missy, Mr. Cartwright.

All right, here we go.

Cat.

C-A-T.

Good dog.

Dog, D-O-G.

Dog.

Try.

Try.

Try.

Try.

Y.

Y.

Y.

Remember that, why?

Why?

Now.

N-O-W now.

C-A-T.

All right, that's it.

Let's turn around.

Is...

the...

cat...

on...

the...

the...

that...

Matt.

Matt!

Matt!

Willie!

Very good, son of a...

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on.

Come on!

Eight, nine, ten, eleven, six and five is a-

Lillian?

What?

What's that word?

What?

What's that word?

Now I lost count.

Four and two is six.

Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

Eight, eleven.

I thought so.

He's just studying a little bit, Pa.

I can read.

So...

I thought we agreed.

How farmers didn't need no book learning.

Joe Cartwright read us what Ma wrote in our Bible.

And we thought she'd like it if we could get some learning.

I could read it to you if you'd like, Pa.

I memorized it by heart.

Pa?

Pa just says a man is...

...

... only half a man without any learning.

All right, kids, come on, everybody inside.

Come on, hurry up.

It's late.

Come on.

Thank you, Mortimer.

I love you.

Welcome back, Miss Pengrove.

Thank you.

And I'm so glad to be back.

And we're all glad you're back.

You got a surprise for you. A little program plan.

Everybody sit down.

All right, Tommy, you can start.

The Getty's broke address by President Abraham Lincoln.

Four score and seven years ago,

our father's black fourth of this continent, a new nation.

Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition

that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war,

testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived

and so dedicated can long endure.

We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field

as a final resting place.

In the beginning, we are

a final resting place.

For those who here gave their lives

that that nation might live.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate.

We cannot concentrate.

Consecrate.

We cannot halo this ground.

The brave men living in dead who struggled here

have consecrated it far beyond our poor power

to add or detract.

The world will.

Good to see you.

Come on in, sit down.

I come from my boys.

Well, thank you boys.

I like to stay in school.

You two get on home.

There's chores to do.

No, well, no, I'm going to fight you on this.

These boys need an education.

Fight me, huh?

There's something I've been waiting to hear.

Come on outside.

No, wait a minute.

That's not what I meant when I said fight you.

You told my boys that a man with no learning

who is only half a man.

Well, I'm going to prove you wrong.

I'll be waiting for you outside.

B

here we go.

Edward,

Edward!

Edward,

Richard.

Edward!

Hello!

Go!

Edward!

Children, how you sit down in your desk.

Children, this will give me an opportunity to find out just how much you've learned

since I've been away.

It's enough, Paul.

Stay out of the way, boys.

I'll show him who's high for man.

No man, Paul.

You proved your point.

So is Joe.

If you're going to do any more fighting, you're going to have to fight me and Billy.

You boys.

You fight me?

No.

Well, I don't want you fighting your Paul.

If school in for me and Billy is worth Joe fighting for, I guess it's worth me and Billy

fighting for too.

And you're again anybody.

You okay, Mr. Carter?

Yeah.

Why don't you go finish that program from Miss Pettigrew on?

Yes, sir.

If I'd go to the police, I'd go to the police.

You fight's over.

My Paul and Joe, Mr. Carter, I'd have fun.

Would it be okay if I went on with the reading?

Please do, Willie.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what

they did here.

It is for us to live in, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who

fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us.

And from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave

their last full measure of devotion.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under

God shall have a new birth of freedom and that the government of the people, by the people,

for the people shall not perish from the earth.

We see

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