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bye

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starring tommy rettig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

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hello jenny ellen miller uh ring millie

bradford for me would you please

uh hello millie

uh ellen again dear listen i don't want

to upset you but i don't think dad will

be able to come to the wedding

oh no no it isn't that it's just

well you see he's really much older than

any of us realize

no no the thing is that he just can't

stand on his feet for any length of time

he gets tired and weak

yes well i'm i'm terribly sorry here

yes of course

bye

helen

you've got no call to tell people things

like that

what on earth are you talking about you

know what i'm talking about i heard

every word of it they ain't nothing

wrong with my feet and i can stand by

them just as long as you can or anybody

else and i ain't weak and i ain't tired

and why are you refusing to go to

milly's wedding

well i got reasons to date the reasons

that you told her

oh well i'm sorry but it it's too late

now it'll be all over town now you get

on that phone you call me tell her i'm

coming to the wedding and i ain't gonna

sit down from beginning to end

i'll show them

oh dad what

if you see jeff tell him you're going to

the wedding would you please here

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come in here a minute will you okay

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what do you want

well it looks to me the proper thing to

do is

go to the wedding you and me both i mean

i've got to carry that ring with that

red cushion and everything

you're gonna be the ring boy

just gonna be a ring boy

jeff's gonna be eating it out for me

oh my

oh dear here's an eq i said

all

right do i have to do it gramps now look

here jeff

if i can manage to give the bride away

you can carry that little bitty pillar

around for five minutes

but this is the last concession we're

gonna make

what's a concession

uh concession

well uh uh

concession is uh when you agreed to do

something that somebody asked you to do

when they had no bad blame right to ask

you in the first place

now you two go on play

and leave me alone

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oh sure i can let that out a bit dad

yes siree

say that you to be just about the

handsomest men at the wedding

with your fresh suits and your clean

shirts and

your hair cut

haircut who said we was going to get a

haircut grange affair is the same day

you weren't thinking of going to that

without a haircut were you i wasn't

thinking of going at all and i ain't

going to the grain social

oh now dad you have to go

i need an escort you have to do this you

have to do that i joined the grains for

business not for a social tea drinking

all afternoon

look i'll make a deal with you

i'll go to one with the other i'll go to

the grain social or i'll go to the

wedding but not to both

well now no matter which one you go to

you still have to have a haircut

well i ain't got no time i got things to

do

i'm sure jeff will want to get one

jeff ain't got no time either

he gets through school tomorrow

afternoon he's got to help me out in the

barn as a matter of fact i've got

something for us to do out in the barn

right now now i'm going to take off

these past jeff and then you come up in

the bar and i'll see you there

see you later

now just a minute

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that's it all right

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make room for me i'm coming soon

i have to get something from calverton

for uh millie's wedding cake look we got

a lot of things to do we've got a market

the potatoes got a lot of errands to run

well i'll be glad to do something errors

for you and then you'll both have time

for your haircut get in sweetie

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here you are ellen out

thanks bob excuse me ella another

customer

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oh hello anne

nice news about millie bradford isn't it

yeah certainly is

oh my goodness is that mr miller and

jazz

is hard to tell isn't it

and give me a favor

for sure

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there you are you poor man

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hey look here wait a minute grabs she

dropped a dime in your hat where'd she

go oh ducked into one of those stores

well here i am mom did you see what mrs

bush did just now she dropped a diamond

graham's hat yeah what you think i am a

panhandler

well considering the way you two look

you can hardly blame her

a poor old man

his poor grandson

and even a poor old dog

we didn't have no time for haircuts had

too many things to do

oh i have one more stop to make where's

the truck around the corner

i'll meet you there in five minutes

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i just made an appointment for you two

at the barber shop for tomorrow morning

at nine o'clock tomorrow morning but mom

porky mayweather nine o'clock

and jim grant says he's so busy with

people getting ready for the grange

social that you better keep your date

with him

because he says he's going to charge you

for the haircut even if you don't show

up

he's going to charge me for nothing

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okay young man

huh you heard me

time for you and dad to leave for your

haircut let me finish my breakfast won't

you mm-hmm

if you've been going fishing you'd have

finished a long time ago come on

hey

come on dad off you go you get the same

treatment

when does a man get old enough not to

have a woman tell him what to do that's

what i want to know

have a nice trip

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get that business from the back there to

hold up the hood

well it can't be the plugs i cleaned

them last month for the points reset at

the same time

it felt to me like she won't getting

fuel thanks bo i checked it this morning

well it could be the carburetor

what you can do gramps well there's only

one thing to do clean it but that takes

a long time yep

oh

well we'll miss our appointment and have

to pay for it anyway

hmm

i got it

where's lassie

lassie

lassie

oh honey they should be back in about a

half an hour why don't you go outside

and play until jeff gets back

okay

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oh and parking

well just so you won't starve before

they get back have a cookie

thank you

hey mrs miller here comes lassie

wait a minute porky she has a message

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dear mom truck broke down can't get to

barber on time

please phone and break date expect us

when we get there

love jeff and gramps

i guess there's no sense when you're

waiting for you guess not until jeff

i'll be back later

goodbye sylvester

you must be mad at me

oh no no goodbye fortune

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i'll fix them

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hi mom hi there

hi

did you get our note of course this sure

was tough luck i'm not sure why ramps

had to take apart the whole carburetor

nothing to matter with it though

no

you had to blow out the fuel line was

clogged up that was all the trouble but

it didn't take a second

don't say yeah too bad we have to miss

our appointment but then maybe we'll

have better luck next time

next time

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come in here both of you immediately

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all right now one way or another you

boys gonna get your cut who's first but

gee mom now look here ellen i'm getting

tired of this nonsense i'm not gonna

have any woman tell me when to get my

hair cut

i ate samson and you ain't no delilah

you're right samson was strong but

you're just plain stubborn now come on

who's first oh now listen ellen be

reasonable will you you don't know

nothing about cutting hair oh don't i

and who used to cut jeff's hair when he

was a little boy

maybe a bit rusty

but the shears are sharp come on get up

here

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whatever did i do with your scissors

sure i put them here on the table

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so

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i'm sure i put them right here on the

table

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jeff where are my scissors do you know

know where they are no ma'am

jess

do i gramps

did you hide them no mom honest i didn't

all right

how about you dad

are you telling me the truth

ellen you know i wouldn't lie to you

well there must be something in this

house i can cut your hair with

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i say come here

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wow

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hi lassie

what are you hiding there girl

mrs miller won't like it

all right you two think you're so smart

i don't know where those scissors went

but i think you do

now i have to go to millie's and help

with the arrangements the wedding is

tomorrow

remember that

and you'd better get yourselves haircuts

even if you have to drive to capitol

city for them nothing dawn i've got to

tie the hen house roof i've got some

hands sitting in there and pretty soon

it's going to rain like blazes i've been

listening to the radio there's been no

such weather report look the sun's

shining i don't need no newfangled

contraption to tell me when it's gonna

rain this barometer tells me

the hen house can wait your haircuts

can't and you'd better do it before i

get back or else look what i've just

found

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get the tire bucket boys and the mop

that's enough chip

okay i'll stop

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hey graham

are you all right grams

but for luke ceo and lassie we're in

trouble

now this kerosene won't do it either

get that pile of shears

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uh

i ain't gonna do either here mr miller

no

is only one thing to do

what's that

i'll tell you later

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all right boys

i know you're there you can come out now

oh you're just beautiful both of you

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thank you we did it just to please you

mom didn't we gramps for no other reason

son for no other reason smell messy too

mrs miller they rum

hello

this is she

long distance well who's calling

hello

where are you

where

what

oh no you can't no you just mustn't

all right dear

oh of course i do

good luck

bye-bye

that was millie

you know why

they couldn't face the thought of a

wedding her husband's a very shy man

so they eloped

eloped

you mean we got these haircuts for

nothing

of course not

you're going to escort me to the grange

social tomorrow night remember our

bargain

either the wedding or the social

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you