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Oh, Blossom's Blue on a thorny bush.

Oh, Blossom's Blue on a thorny bush.

I'll be back in old Dublin there.

Oh, Blossom's Blue on a thorny bush.

Help me, please! Help me, this is it!

Help me, do I jump? Please, help me down!

Make a habit of hanging around.

Please, get me down.

Easy boy, I'll have you down in two shakes.

This snake's too.

Well, thank you for your charity, maybe.

Now, you just have a carelet you drop that boy on his head.

Just swing it down so quick. Get a little dip.

Don't mention it. Some puny, but you're a man-sized bakes.

Well, as a good book says,

I'll be your little children to come home to me.

I just, uh, twist it back and forth a little.

These impacts.

Just a nice and full. Them animals are just about ready to keel over and belly up.

Oh, we can't look that happen, can we?

Be downright inhuman.

Matthew, you did real well.

Now, I want you to keep a beat on our good Samaritan here,

while serving me hard time.

But if he makes one move out of the way...

I know. Shooting.

Good boy.

MUSIC

Double boil and pop, little old pot.

You're up to a bad start in life, young girl.

Leaving, cheating and the like.

Mr. You're making a terrible mistake.

I just look like whoever was the soul from you.

Yes, indeed. You sure do look just like him.

But you ain't gonna look near the same time we'd dov you real good with pitch

and give you a coat of feather.

He isn't tied, boy. He isn't tied.

Evening. Mind if I join the festivities?

I gotta say one thing for you.

You sure have a knack for keeping busy.

Howdy.

You a friend of yours, Izzy.

So you notice him and a couple of others play the kind of a slippery on me

back up the trace of ways?

Well, guess you will feel like joining in with it.

Grab yourself a tar-brite there and, uh, pitch in.

Oop.

Kinda slippery, ain't it?

Reckon the two you mentioned was an older man than a girl.

Them is the two.

Same bunk that Slim Plam duts out all our supplies about a month back.

Just Plam luck we ran into him out here in the wilderness.

Looks like he was heading up the trace.

You, uh, bigger known, joined up with the other two and Salem, were you, son?

What other two?

You might have got me mixed up with somebody else, I tell ya.

Keeps on dryin', don't he?

Well, you can't fall him for lack of grit. That's for certain.

He seems the mad young for feathers and tar, don't he?

Younger they are the better steaks.

Man gets a couple of years of trail grease on his hidein' the blame pitch peels right off in the month or two.

Bring him on over to the pot, friend.

Sooner we get started, the sooner we can get on our way.

Can you put the pitch on hot like that?

Yeah, it hurts some, all right.

There's worse things they could do to ya like 20 lashes with a bull whip for a hot iron, brandon used a thief.

But the way you're goin', I reckon you'll get a taste of all those things before you get yourself hung.

Yeah. Like you said, sooner it's done, sooner we'll be on our way.

He'll do the couple of bad heat ends for supper.

Feathers'll do just fine after we got him tarred up good.

You ain't hardly got enough, have ya?

It's like plenty to me.

I guess it depends on what you're gonna do with him.

Red horse!

This way.

Take four.

I don't know why you've done it, Lester.

My name's Boone.

Battle Boone.

Good yet used to that word, Mr.

Gail Boone.

I hate nobody ain't heard of you.

All right, sure do wanna thank ya.

Hey, hey, where you going to this?

Hey, what are you going to do? Let me go!

I wouldn't do too much of wittin' around if I were you, boy. That belt could slip.

I thought you wouldn't help me.

Sure do. I put you right back where you were in that first match here.

Hangin' from a limb like a puzzle.

You wouldn't go off of leaving like this, would ya?

Damn, it's up to you.

If you'd like to take me to where those other two have gone with my pack mules in first.

No, sir. I don't care what you do, Lee.

I'll give my regards to the puzzles.

No, wait!

They cast your belongings, animals and all, that I'm out to trace from where we left ya.

They was gonna lay them all out to see them, see if I could find somebody to buy them off of.

Sound reasonable, hope it's true.

It is.

Well, we'll have a look, see.

It's not the truth. Remember, there are a lot of trees as big as this one down to the trace.

Since the world leveled out for ya, we'll start.

Matchin'. Not what the old man calls you, matchin'?

Yeah.

Once you get your things back, what are you gonna do with me?

Take your own asylum, turn you over to my district.

About Ben and Sarah.

The old man and the girl?

It wasn't their idea, all this.

Take me in if you want, but let them be. Please?

You can, boy.

Almost.

I'm ready to start now.

Help me!

Please! Help!

Help me!

Help me! Help me! Help me!

Help me! Help me!

I'm dying!

Sarah! Mr. Boone, you gotta help. Or you can't leave her like that.

Oh, someone's help! I can't hold on my stronger.

I can't help you.

But Sarah, see if...

An idea she'll keep. Let's go.

Matthew, use so much as blank, you're gonna find yourself upside down again.

Playing?

Playing? Help someone!

Oh, glory be!

I can hear the angels of strong and in.

Waiting for somebody?

Oh, no.

A rifle of mine. You wanna hand it back wrong in first if you don't mind?

Better do like you said.

A stand on Boone.

I could always pick him.

Help me! Someone, please help me!

You wanna tell her? You want me to?

Sarah, the curtainess just went down.

What do you mean?

He means the wrong one's holding the rifle.

Matthew!

Over there. Both of you.

Who wasn't expecting to see you until tomorrow?

Salem was further off than we figured on.

Yeah, so I see.

You told me you and Sarah was gonna sit snug until I got back.

We got restless doing nothing.

We might just pick out him.

We couldn't see you that far away.

It was a good act, Sarah.

You're almost as good an actor as Matthew and he's pretty good.

Well, thank you, Sarah. It's kind of you to say so.

Must come from a lot of practice.

This is a regular habit of ours.

Matter of fact, we came on a long run of bad luck recently,

and we didn't know what else to do.

It was either Starboard, still?

Right!

Nothing like that to break a run of bad luck.

Amen, and hallelujah, neighbor?

Of course. It was merely temporary.

You won't believe you, then.

Well, now look, Mr. Boone.

You've got your rifle back.

We're giving you your pack animals, and your supplies, and your purse.

So, we're all even. Why not call it quits?

And leave you to practice your trade on the next pack, train up the trace?

I don't think so.

Well, then, uh, just, uh, what, what did you have in mind for us?

I'll think of something.

On a thorny bush,

over lots of blue monotorny bush,

and roses are fair.

Do you have to do that?

You've done right.

Here's the

first pack of the

first pack of the

first pack of the

first pack of the

first pack of the

first pack of the

first pack of the

first pack to

do thatport?

Pointless pen posts

a few

swings through the

away at the

idents, and

little

Be careful with that pack, sir.

You don't like the way I carry it? Why don't you take over?

Well, I wouldn't want to do that.

I'll just, uh, tell the magister how you willfully destroyed other folks' property.

I'll get you a little extra time.

Well, there's nothing like being out on the trail all day to work up an appetite.

Now, clearing up ahead, we'll make camp there tonight.

Oh, lordy, lordy. Lordy, I never knew I had so many muscles that could all ache at the same time.

I'll help you rub out some of the kinks before you turn in for it.

Um, I'm obliged for the kind of gal, but comes morning, I'll just have to take up that mountain at Mr. Boom calls a pack.

It'll be worse than ever.

Man, my ears might be the end of it.

You got an ordinary street, Mr. Boom. You enjoy seeing a party suffer?

What kind of street do you have?

Steven from honest folk.

We never hurt anybody. Never actual did a soul harm.

And those we take from can afford it. Never leave anybody bad off.

That makes it all right.

Well, law wise, no, no.

But man wise, that's a different thing. How?

Well, you see, man, each has a different way to go to get what he wants.

Now some they use their hands and their backs to work with, while others, no, no.

They put others' hands and backs to work, you see.

Well, that's one way.

The only way.

Until you get caught.

Well, yeah, yeah, that doesn't happen.

But you see, with our way, if a man just stays alert,

if he waits for that one big chance and then he grabs it and holds it all.

He can just lay back and count rainbows and womb beams for the rest of his days.

And that's what you're doing, waiting for that one big chance.

Ben's right. One day it'll come our way. It's got him.

Not behind iron bars, it won't.

Tell me, old man, how many years have you waited already?

I'm turning in.

Don't get any notions.

Remember our sleep life?

An old tick-licker don't sleep at all.

What do you think, Ben?

Well, if he is a light sleeper, he's more than the three of us can, madam.

Do you think we should wait for a better time?

No.

I think we ought to wait until we can make a better time.

I don't fret about me, Sarah.

These old bones are gonna long win ago before they wear up.

Night.

Night, Ben. Night, Sarah.

Sleep in the music.

You too, Bob.

Tell me, old man, how many years have you waited already?

A lifetime of hope.

I'm not sure.

All right, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's take a look.

Breathe there.

This consideration really missed the boom consideration.

Let that boy ride that mule.

Instead of having a mule ride the boy.

Well, it never could have said one place too long.

Always made me restless.

I know the feeling.

I've had it ever since before.

It took my first step.

You know, I can only carry a pack as heavy as this,

but just so long before I stiffen up like dried jerky.

I know he, Barry, like you, can work me into the ground and how it's a moon all night.

Mr. Boom.

Look.

Chippewa's. Looks like a hunting party.

Sarah, head up there for those rocks.

Matthew, you go along with her.

Ben, you take the mule to a pack.

Ben!

I expected this out of you, Ben.

Listen, now, let's go.

The mule closes.

You can't get much closer than that.

Take the first sign and it'll be a lot closer.

Better get up there behind those trees.

You were great.

I could have admitted.

You were great.

You were fast. You were quick.

Like me when I was younger.

I was bad.

What for did you have to go and do that?

I was trying to steal my mules again and trying to go off and leave that boy and Sarah.

Me, Steve, I was trying to make sure your pack was good and safe.

Good and safe.

That's what you wanted for the boy and Sarah.

Well, I could plan on coming back, but them always have, always will.

Now you're going to get my mules back.

Not me.

You're going to get them back with your teeth, if necessary.

Now, I missed it.

I've only pushed just so far.

Nobody pushes Ben Hanks and me further. Nobody.

I'm thriving.

We are working.

You think you're running a foot race to get into jail?

I don't know what you think you've been doing.

I think it's true that we get there.

The swimming will do our time and get out.

That kind of talk is just like we looked before we started.

Anytime old Ben Hanks took the forest taken, I'll be six feet under and six months of molding.

Whatever you come up with, he'll top it.

Have I ever failed you and Sarah yet?

Nope.

There's always that first time.

Who lost your throat, is it, Matthew?

Thanks, Sarah.

Don't let up one little bit, don't you?

So far, Ian.

Hilled it up.

But more locked up and sailing.

Don't Hank had to spend one day behind bugs. Not one day.

Don't seem to matter what we hang before.

Not much of what changes his mind.

You've got some changes.

Matthew, I'd like to have a drink.

Thoughtful of you. Just put it down there, I can manage.

What are we going to do after you threw it at me?

I'm going to try to figure that far ahead.

What's it like being in jail?

Don't you know? It's kind of close.

How does it treat you?

It may work you, treat you.

You behave yourself, they let you out when your time's up.

You don't make it sound one-spector for life, do you?

No, Sarah. The prisons weren't built to be cheerful life.

Ain't there something we could do? I mean, you have to take a chance.

Ben!

Are you out of your mind?

I'm out of your mind.

I'd like to open invitations for that chip-a-wah-hutting party to come back.

Maybe there's somebody else out there that you want to see.

Oh, no. Boy, you got a real suspect in mine that was just an accident.

I didn't mean for it to happen.

That whole life seems to be one great big mistake. Now, get back to work.

Was that a signal fire, Ben?

Oh, we're just waiting to see, shall we?

Matthew, you take Mr. Boona, play the beans.

Be good for him.

Guess I ought to enjoy seeing you worry, but I don't.

We get to kind of trouble I'm looking for.

You'll find it worth worrying about for all of us.

What do you mean?

Maybe. Maybe worse.

Worse than engines?

There are others along the trace, not the gentle nature that your folks claim to be.

Ones I'm thinking about don't care one bit how they leave you.

You've got a stuffed full of stones sunk in the river.

What kind of men are they doing?

You're setting out to be.

Oh, no. Not me. I told you. Ben's way is my way.

Take what you can get.

Yeah, just so you don't hurt nobody.

Well, suppose somebody don't want you to take from them.

What if you have to hurt them to take it?

Well, it ain't happened yet.

But when it does, I'll back away.

You said Ben and Sarah were almost your kin.

What does almost mean, Matthew?

Ben found me in a tavern slopping out pots when I was 10.

Haven't you?

That's right.

Orphan owls and slings got too much for me.

So, I run off.

I always figured they were glad to get shut on me.

And I got by somehow until Ben took me under his wing.

You rattled the back teeth of some settler who was coming me around for still an ale on him.

And when Ben left the tavern, I just sort of tagged along.

Been doing it ever since.

And you do whatever he wants you to do.

He ain't had to twist my arm to make me do it.

Sarah, I guess she feels the same way about it.

Oh, he's her paw. He can't do no wrong, her eyes.

That's the way it should be. Most of the time.

This time I'm not so sure.

Pretty girl.

Like some manna. Good wife.

Sarah? A wife?

Well, as long as you've known her, Matthew, you've been like a brother to her.

And the brother's usually the last one to realize that he's got a sister that's very fetching.

I don't know.

I don't know. Sarah getting married off. No, that just wouldn't seem natural somehow.

It's not likely to happen.

But with a life or a post cut out for him.

I don't need many eligible young men dodging through the bush or sitting in jail.

You don't seem in mine?

Doesn't seem to.

Maybe she just doesn't show in for his sake.

Oh!

Oh, my foot! Oh, my head!

Oh, my...

I'm not a tight stretch, my ears.

I'm not a... let me see.

Put it down, sir.

You all get this.

It's a... it's a money belt.

It's... it's gold!

We had him hop tied and out listened, and we didn't search him for a money belt.

All right, you've seen it. Put it back and hand it to me.

Don't make sense.

Taking gold to Salem, what would the...

The furs and the store goods and all that they did don't make sense.

That's right, then.

The gold was the real reason for the trip. It belongs to ever-settler and Boomsburg,

a years payment on the land they hold.

Man, I just didn't money your hold.

That's ground, cabins, crops, and livestock.

Everything in this world of people is close to me as you three are to each other.

And figure this.

If you're gonna take it from me, you're gonna have to kill me.

It's the only way.

Very long, Ben. I'm with a thief in this place. I know.

Ben!

Listen!

The bird has stopped.

Hush, girl, hush.

Something out there, Ben. Maybe they're men here.

Maybe a salvation boy. Maybe a salvation.

He's gone. Let's make a run for it.

With that fortune and gold around his middle, I should say not.

Ben, you heard what he told us, what we have to do?

That was just scared, Tor. Look, we'll let two of you just simmer down and let me run things again.

We'll talk.

What do you think?

Now they look to be alone. They ain't got no weapons.

Anybody build a fire like they did ought to be easy. Easy pickens.

Maybe. We'll play it slow.

They're dirty looking. Me and dirty looking. You know them, Ben?

Yes, you sure who it's our salvation boy.

Say it, tell me it's Ben Hanks.

Sounds like he knows you.

Ben Hanks.

Yeah, sure, Ben Hanks. We used to work the river together about ten years ago.

Ben, you all river us? Been lots of years? Ha ha! It's your hands!

Oh, it's all right. They're friends of mine.

I don't like to look for your friends. Not one bit.

One that makes no never mind what you think of them. They're gonna help us. That's what counts.

You still must have been worried about?

Mr. Boone, there's less about worrying now.

Ben, you're kind of getting careless in your old age.

I spotted you're a fire a long way off. Only because he wanted you to.

He quiet and dropped your rifles.

You still think he's less worried?

Come on out, friend. We intend no harm, Ben Hanks.

I'm telling you to drop your rifles. I won't ask you again.

Are we talk?

I can't get the three of us before we get to you.

I'll give you five seconds to find out who doesn't get to me. One, two...

And the knives.

Take them out, Matthew. Throw them as far as you can.

And the rifle. Bring them around here and smash them on the rocks.

Hold on for you. We ain't done you no harm. We're trappers, is all.

And them rifles cost us a heap of money. You got no call to go busting them up on us.

I don't know who you are or what you are. If I'm wrong, you come to Boone's burn. I'll apologize.

And I'll pay you for them. Go ahead, Matthew.

Go back across the trays or on up to Salem. Either way, I'll be easy to find.

Hold it.

Easy, Sarah. Don't try to move. Sorry.

Sorry, Sarah. You were fine. Good girl. Go ahead.

It's gone. It's gone. I told you to stay one ahead of you.

That's sneaky. That's dirty, sneaky. He must have hit it before he jumped you.

Get out of what?

I got your tongue, old man.

You walked us into this, Ben. We figured you all this. Now, what's this all about?

Look, Sam, Sam. Now, you and me, we've always been able to work things out, haven't we?

Ben. All right, now, the deal, Sam. The deal. Same as always, huh?

Sure, Ben. Right down the middle. Right down the middle. That's it, Sam. Now, listen.

He had a money belt on him. A big one. A big one. I seen it.

You must have hit it somewhere around in here, see?

All right, Ben. We'll help you find it. All right, boys.

Hey, Sarah. Come on. Make camp. We're going to be around here for a while.

You don't find the money. Ben, why?

And our friend here will tell us where he hit it.

One way or another, he will tell us.

Matthew's fetching water. All men, mothers are looking for your money belt.

In the dark.

Well, don't give up, Edie. That way, hard money is concerned.

Best day, quiet.

You told me if you were to try anything, I was to shoot you.

I don't want to do that, Mr. Bloom.

Well, I just, uh, soon put that off for a while myself.

You wouldn't be worrying about my hide all of a sudden, would you?

Just don't want those big huts to bash you around.

So, you buy nightfall, it'd be too dark for them to find your money.

Maybe by morning you'll see this. No use, you're holding out.

You're just putting off what's bound to happen anyway.

I guess I ought to thank you for it.

About that fall, I'm not proud of it.

But I had to.

I wish you could understand that.

Oh, I understand all that.

And when you understand everything you've done, I hope you can live with it.

And luck.

Let the look under every rock and bush with him at quarter of a mile a year.

Ben, you just don't seem reasonable.

He could have hit it that good.

A little time you say he was out of sight.

Well, I...

You'll see, sooner or later, that fat little rainbow will pop right up out of that ground.

You'll see. I got a better idea.

I say we talked Mr. Boone there in the show and it's the way.

Might be a few little chuck-tall tricks with a fire-bounce, Dr. Ballerole.

Oh, you can't do that.

Okay?

Who's to say I can't?

I now waited a minute. Simma Donna boy didn't mean anything.

You know the mule works much better at the front of the wagon than from behind.

Tomorrow's plenty of time I talk to Mr. Boone.

And then, besides, he'll have all night to think it over, huh?

What do you think, Sam?

The reputation has never hurt nobody and soap.

Then all the lookin' we can tell some of them.

I'm sure hungry.

Yeah, yeah. Come on, come on, Sarah. Serve it up, serve it up.

Thanks.

It's likely to be chill tonight.

Thanks. It's likely to be chill tonight.

Nice to have friends that got admitted.

Maybe a little late, but it's nice.

So go on and get over the rest of them.

That's the work.

One thing.

Don't think tell me you're sorry and I'll tell you these are conscious because it's more often.

Not after you see what they're gonna do to me sooner or later.

Let's say that.

Don't talk about it anymore. I am sorry.

I'm sorry that you know.

Well, that's fine, boy.

But sorry you won't get these ropes off of me.

No.

I can't do that. I can't go against them.

I can't go against them.

She's gonna sit back and watch.

After all you said before, I'm not going to hurt anybody.

They won't hurt you. They won't let out.

What do you think you can stop them?

Please, Mr. Boomer. Tell them we hid the money.

I told you, Matthew.

Killing me is the only way they're gonna get it.

And now that the money's hit out, they're not gonna get it at all.

And they're not smart enough to think ahead.

So they're gonna wind up killing me.

Unless you do something about it.

You wake.

Well, when you flipping and flopping like a beach salmon,

ever since you rolled in, what do you expect?

Why don't we let him go?

Let him go?

We let him go and he'll have to make a run for it.

Then he can't take us to jail in Salem.

We'll be able to go where ever we want to go.

Why is there a back where we started?

Back where we started with no money, no chance of getting any,

no chance of getting anything but older.

I ain't got that many years left, gal.

This is the one big chance always dreamed of.

I can't just throw this side.

But they're gonna do terrible things to evolve.

You heard what they said.

That's just scared talk.

How many times I have to tell you that?

Besides, boom.

I heard that talk.

He's got all night to think about it.

Believe me.

In the morning he'll talk like a javer,

I'll bet my life will it.

But it ain't your life you're betting on, Pa.

Right now lured intoAV apes.

It dead.

Now I hear the m tracks.

Don't talk.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

What you need is a knife, boy.

Too bad Mr. Boone had you throw him all away.

Sam, tell me.

Over the fire.

Me too.

Hey, what is this?

What's going on here?

Boone trying to get away?

That's right.

But the kid giving him all kinds of help.

Well, that about ties it then.

You can't even manage your own camp.

No, it's just what's that supposed to mean?

It means as of now this is our camp.

Telly, dink, and me, and we run it our way.

Oh, no, we had a deal.

So I was lying.

We had a deal.

You had nothing, old man.

That means you ain't going to get nothing.

No, you... you hear what's going on?

That you're doing just as sure as you're standing there after all I've done for you.

Now if you hadn't tried to help him, I would have.

You? You two sound.

The both of you turning on me in one night.

What's this world coming to anyway?

When you can't trust the two people you give your whole life for.

You got a big mouth.

Well done.

Well done.

Well done.

Well done.

Well, no, that's better.

It's almost worth taking a clip on the side of the head from a rifle

to know that you two young girls remember how to fight like a legend.

Oh, great big old bumble-headed he bear.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh, heh, heh.

Heh, heh, heh.

Heh, heh.

Heh, heh, heh.

Well done.

Heh, heh.

What's this Bruce Brody talk about?

Much of a place, isn't it?

Well, it's got a point.

Curious?

I figure Ben's got his one big champ now.

Settle down here and make a living for himself.

Sarah, too.

But they don't need me to take care of him anymore.

Well, what about you?

Well, I ain't ready to set down roots yet.

Well, I know what you mean. I know the feeling well.

You kind of got an itch in the seat of your sitting pocket.

So, if I ever do pass through this, soon, Bruce,

all right, if I look you up?

Nice to you. If I ever hear of you passing within 50 miles

of Boomb's Burl without looking me up, I'll...

I know. I'll be upside down some tree again.

Big and bones, Bob, maybe.

Hopes on, my view. Hopes on.

Ten young booms was a man,

just a big man.

With an eye like an eagle

and as tall as a mountain was sea.

From the goose and calf,

on the top of old land,

to the deal of his wrong eye and shoe.

The ripman is for and his fight,

and his man is the frontier ever new.

Daniel Boom was a man,

just a big man.

Can he hunt for America to make all Americans free?

What a boom!

What a dream come true.

What a boom! What a boom!

What a dream come true.

What a dream come true.