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hey rob

hey there

gosh

you do take the prize for daydreaming

what is it this time

poetry i'll bet

look at you don't get it full of dirt

that isn't dirt it's good clean earth

i have loved wind

and light and the bright sea

but holy and most sacred night

not as i love and have loved thee

here take it and bury it i suppose it's

that year in college gave you a liking

for that kind of stuff

i'm darn glad i stopped at high schooler

maybe i've been crazy too

i mean imagine me reading poetry and

plowing at the same time the team would

run away all back

or picture me plow it

you should have gone back to college

last fall like i know you wanted to

now you know why i didn't go back andy

paul didn't like the idea

even if he didn't say so

and i know he wanted the money he was

improving the farm

besides

i'm not keen on being a student just

because you see me reading books all the

time

what i want to do now is just keep on

moving

so i won't take root in any one place

well the trip you're living on tomorrow

will keep you moving all right

uncle says you'll be gone three years

yeah about that figures that's a long

time

and not so long when you come to

consider

well you know the sunda

sails around the horn for yokohama first

yeah that's a long voyage on a sailing

ship

if we go to any of the other places

uncle dick mentions

india

australia south africa south america

yeah it'll be long voyages too well you

can have all those

ma is going to foreign you a lot rob

and i'll miss her

and pinefield and i'm too happy to have

you go though he's been trying not to

show it

i can see how it feels

and you can bet that i'm not giving any

cheers about it

i know that too andy

let's see as much as anybody i guess

you see

you and i like most brothers

always fighting and separate a lot of

the time

while we've always been together just

the two of

us it's different with us

i hate to leave you

and the old folks

i feel i've got to there's

something calling me

i can't just explain it to you andy yeah

no need to rob

well you want to go that's all there is

to it

i wouldn't have you miss this chance for

the world

i'd be a nice son of a gun if i didn't

wouldn't i

i know how you need this sea trip to

make a new man out of you

all you

seem to keep harping on my health

you all got so used to seeing me lying

around the house in the old days you

never will get over the notion that i'm

a

chronic

invalid you don't realize how i've

bucked up these last few years what

if i had no other excuse for going on

uncle dick's [ __ ] but just my health

i'd stay right here

starting plowing

can't be done

farming at your nature

there's all the difference shown

just the way the two of us feel about

the farm

you well

you like the home part of it i expect

but as a place to work and grow things

you hate it

ain't that right yes

suppose it is

for you it's different

you're a mayo

through and through you're wedded to the

soil

you're as much a product of it as an ear

of corn is or a tree

father is the same i

i think it's wonderful

and sincere but i

well i'm not made that way

no you ain't

when it comes to understanding i

i guess i realize that you've got your

own angle of looking at things

yeah i wonder if you do really

sure i do

you have seen a bit of the world enough

to make the farm seem small

and you've got the itch to see it all

it's more than that handy of course

i know you're going to learn navigation

and all about a ship so you could be an

officer look that's natural too

there's fair pain that i expect when you

consider that you've always got a home

and grub thrown in

and if you're set on traveling you can

go anywhere you're a mine to without

paying fair

it's more than that andy i've heard

there are great opportunities for a

young fellow with them some of those new

countries that are just being opened up

well

if you get to be a millionaire all of a

sudden call around once in a while and

i'll pass the plate to you

you know

i never considered the practical side of

it for a minute andy

well you want to no i oughtn't

supposing i was to tell you that

it was just beauty that's calling me

the beauty

the far off

and the unknown

the mystery

spell of the east that lures me in the

books i've read

the need for the freedom of great wide

spaces

the joy of wandering on and on in quest

for a secret which is hidden over there

beyond the horizon

supposing i was to tell you that that

was my one and only reason for going

then i should say you're a nutty don't

andy i'm serious

then you might as well stay here

because we've got everything you're

looking for right on this farm

i mean there's wide space enough lord

knows

and you can have all the sea one by

walking a mile down to the beach

and plenty of horizon to look at him

beauty enough for anyone

except in the winter

as for the mystery and spell

i haven't met him yet but they're

probably lying around here somewheres

i better run along

i gotta wash up some as long as ruth's

mods coming over for supper

and ruth

yes

ruth will be staying too

well i better hustle i guess and um oh

wait a minute andy

there is something that i wanted to uh

yes

never mind doesn't matter

there's nothing

maybe i can guess

what you were gonna say

but i guess you're right not to talk

about it

we can't help those things rob

you'll be coming along shortly won't you

yes

see you later then

hello rob

hello ruth

i've been looking for you

and he just left here i know i just met

him on the road a minute ago he told me

you were here

i wasn't looking for andy smarty i was

looking for you

because i'm going away tomorrow

because your

mother was anxious to have you come home

and ask me to look for you

i just wheeled them all over to your

house

how's your mother

it's about the same

she never seems to get any better

or any worse

i do wish she'd try to make the best of

things that can't be helped

has she been nagging at you again

she never stops snagging

no matter what i do for her she finds

fault

only paw was still living

i'd like to be going away someplace

like you

it's hard to stay

equally hard to go sometimes

i swore i wasn't going to speak about

your trip until after you'd gone and

there i go first thing

why didn't you want to speak of it

because

didn't want to spoil this last night

you're here

rob i'm going to

we're all going to miss you

so awfully

your mother's been going around looking

as if she might burst out crying any

minute

you ought to know how i feel

candy and you

die

my

seemed as if we'd always been together

well you and andy will still have each

other

be harder for me without anyone you will

have new sights

and new people to take your mind off

well we'll be here

the old familiar place to remind us

every minute of the day

it's shame you're going

just at this time

everything's getting so nice

why do you want to go

why do you ask that ruth

because it

it seems such a shame

why

because everything

well i could hardly back out now

even if i wanted to

and i'll be forgotten before you know it

she won't i'll never forget

will you promise me that

of course

it's mean of you to think any of us

would forget so easily

oh but you haven't told me your reason

for leaving yet

i doubt if you'll understand

it's difficult to explain

even to myself

but either you feel it or you don't

i can remember being conscious of it

first when i was only a kid

you haven't forgotten what a

sickly specimen i was in those days

in those days

when ma was fixing meals she used to get

me out of the way

i push in my chair to the west window

tell me look out

be quiet

that wasn't hard

i guess

i was always quiet

yes

you always were

i used to stare out

over the fields of the hills out there

somehow after a time i'd forget any pain

i was in

start dreaming

i knew the sea was over beyond those

hills the folks have told me

i used to wonder

what the sea was like and

try to form a picture of it in my mind

there was all the mystery in the world

to me then about the

far off sea there still is

it called to me then

just as it does now

other times

my eyes would follow this road just

winding off into the distance towards

the hills

as if it too was searching for the sea

i promised myself

that when i grew up

and was strong

i'd follow that road

and it and i would find the seat

together

so you see

my making this trip is only keeping that

promise of long ago

yes i see

those are the only happy moments of my

life then

just

dreaming there at that window

i like to be alone those times

i got to know all the different kinds of

sunsets by heart

and all those sunsets took place

over there

beyond the horizon

so gradually i came to believe that all

the wonders of the world

happened on the other side of those

hills

there was the home of the good fairies

who performed beautiful miracles

yeah

i believed in fairies then

perhaps i still do believe in

anyway

in those days

they were real enough

sometimes i could actually hear them

calling to me to

come out and play with them dance with

them

down the road in the dusk

in a game of hide and seek

find out where the sun was hiding

himself

they sang their little songs to me

songs that told of all the wonderful

things that they had in their home on

the other side of the hills

and they promised to show me all of them

if i'd only come

come

i couldn't come then

i used to cry sometimes

mom would think i was in pain

that's why i'm going now i suppose

i can still hear them calling

but the horizon

is as far off and

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as luring as ever

do you understand now ruth

yes

you feel it then yes

yes i do

rob how can i help feeling it you tell

things so beautifully

well

now you know why i'm going

it's for that reason

and one other

you have another

then you must tell me that too and you

promise not to be angry

whatever it is i promise

i love you

that's the other reason

i wasn't gonna tell you but i feel i

have to

it can't matter now that i'm going so

far away and for so long perhaps forever

god i've loved you all these years

the realization never came until i

agreed to go away with uncle dick

then i thought of leaving you

the pain of that thought revealed to me

in a flash that i loved you

had loved you as long as i can remember

but the revelation of my love seemed to

open my eyes to the love of others

i saw andy's love for you

and i knew you must love him

i don't

i don't love andy

whatever you put such a full notion

into your head

don't go away

please

it wasn't now

you can't

i won't let you it'd

break my

heart

do you mean that

that you love me

yes

yes of course i do what do you suppose

stupid thing i've loved you right along

but you and andy were always together

because you never seem to want to go any

place with me

you're always reading an old book and

not paying any attention to me

and i was too proud to let you see i

cared

i thought that year you had a way to

college had made you stuck up

and you thought yourself too educated to

waste any time on me

i was thinking

what fools we've been

he won't go away

on your trip will you

you'll tell me you can't

what account of me won't you rob

you can't go now

can't go

not now

well

perhaps you can come too

oh don't be so foolish rob you know i

can't

who take care of ma

i don't just see i couldn't go on her

account

please don't go

not now

tell them you've decided not to

i know your mother and father will be

glad they're all of me

please

we'll be so happy here

together where it's natural and we know

thanks

uncle dick oh he won't mind when he

knows it's for your happiness to stay

how could he

rob

he said you loved me

i won't go ruth

i promise you

i think

after all andy was right

when he said i could find all i was

seeking for here on the farm

i think love

must have been the secret

the secret that called me over the

world's room the secret beyond every

horizon

and when i did not come

it came to me

look

the first star

our star

yes

her very own star

should go into dinner

come on

she hails me from the dark as i'm coming

ashore and she says with her silly face

oh screwed up serious judgment

wouldn't you be so kind as to tell me

where the seagull sleeps at night

it blew me those were the exact words

so i looked at her serious as i could

ma'am says i i couldn't rightly answer

that question

i've never seen a seagull in his bunk

yet

and next time i hear one snoring i says

i'll make note of where he's turned in

and i will write you a letter about it

she called me a full real sparkle and

tacked away from me quick

but i got rid of it that way

but when it comes to that

where do seagulls sleep dick

and listen to her james that's another

one

don't beat all hell

excuse the custom kit

they unhitch their wings katie and they

spread them out on a wave for a bed and

then they tell the fish to whistle form

when it's time to turn out

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you men folk are just too smart to live

aren't you

you folks look as if you sitting up with

a corpse

god almighty that anyone dead be

there don't play the don stick you know

as well as we do there ain't no great

cause for feeling chipper ain't no cars

to be wearing mourning either i can make

out how can you talk that way dick scott

when you're taking our robbie away from

us in the middle of the night you might

say just to get in that old boat of

yours on time

i think you might wait until morning

when he's had his breakfast

ain't that a woman's way of seeing

things for you

god almighty kate i can't give orders to

the tide it's got to be high just when

it suits me to have it i'm getting no

fun out of missing sleep and leave it at

six bells myself

man the sun ain't an old ship at least

when he's not very old she's as good as

she's ever been

i wish robbie weren't going oh there

katie well i do wish he wasn't it ain't

no good going on that way kate huh it's

all settled

it's all right for you to talk you've

never had any children you don't know

what it means to be part of them there's

one thing none of you seem to take into

consideration that rob wants to go he's

dead set on it he's been dreaming over

this trip ever since it was first talked

about it wouldn't be fair to him to not

have a go and he's right

there that settles our argument you can

see that

now i wonder where robert's got to

well he'll be right back i guess

i guess i'll go take a look at the black

cow posse if she's hailing anymore yes

son better head

there's a boy that make a good strong

seafaring man if you don't mind too

don't you put no such fool motions in

andy's head dick

he's gonna fall out

what's come over andy tonight i wonder

he acts so strange he does seem sort of

glum and out of sorts it's a counter

robert levin i suppose

dick you wouldn't believe how their boys

and mine sticks together well they ain't

like other brothers they've been

thickest thieves their whole lives with

nary a quarrel i can remember don't need

to tell me that

i can see how they take to each other

did you notice james how queer everyone

was at supper

robert was stirred up about something

and ruth was so flustered and giggly and

andy just sat there dumb looking as if

he lost his best friend

and all of them only nibbled at their

food

well guess they sing about tomorrow same

as us

no

i'm afraid something's happened

something else

you mean about ruth

yes

oh

well i hope it ain't nothing serious

i always sort of hoped she and andy

hitch up together sooner or later

good thing for andy and more ways than

one now i ain't what you call

calculating generally and i believe in

letting young folks run their affairs to

suit themselves but there's advantages

for both of them in this match you can't

overlook in reason

the atkins farm is right next to iron

giant together they make a gym dandy of

a place with plenty of room to work in

and being a winner with only a daughter

and laid up all the time to boot mrs

atkins can't run things the way they

ought to be she needs a man a first

class farmer to take hold of things and

andy's just the one

i don't think ruth loves andy you don't

well

maybe a woman's eye is sharper in such

things but

they're always together

and if she don't love him now she'll

come around sooner or later

well you seem mighty fixed in your

opinion katie how do you know

it's just what i feel you don't mean

shucks katie i'm losing respect for your

eyesight while robert ain't got no time

for ruth except as a friend

well here you be now what you've been

doing out there boy counting the stars

make sure they come out right in proper

oh there's only one i'll ever look for

anymore paul well you might get a waste

of time looking for that one it's your

last night

you ought to have worn your coat a sharp

night like this robbie oh mighty kid

yeah you treat robert like he's one year

old

you're all worked up over something what

is it

yes

there is something

that's something i must tell you

all of you

something i discovered only this evening

very beautiful and wonderful

there's something i hadn't taken into

consideration previously because

i never dared to hope that such a

happiness could ever come to me

let's get to the point son

well

the point is this paul

i'm not going

i mean i can't go tomorrow with uncle

dick

or any future time either oh robbie i'm

so glad you ain't serious for you robert

seems to me it's a pretty late hour in

the day to be upset in your plan so

sudden i ask you to remember that until

this evening i didn't know myself i

never dared to dream what is this

foolishness you're talking about ruth

told me this evening that she loved me

it was after i confessed that i loved

her

i told her i hadn't been conscious of my

love until after the trip had been

arranged and i i realized it would mean

leaving her and that's the truth i

didn't know until then

well i hadn't intended telling her

anything but suddenly i felt i must

i didn't think it would matter because i

was going away and i thought that she

loved

someone else but

and she cried and said it was i she

loved all the time but i hadn't seen it

i knew it i was just telling your father

when you came in

robbie i am so happy you're not going oh

i knew you'd be glad mom well i'll be

damned if you don't beat all for getting

folks minds all tangled up robert and

ruth too

i wonder what got into her of a sudden

why i was thinking

never mind what you were thinking james

it wouldn't be any use telling us that

now and what you're hoping for turns out

just the same almost doesn't it

i suppose you're right katie

we're glad you ain't going boy your mom

and i and we'd have missed you terrible

that's certain and sure and

we're glad you found happiness ruth's a

fine girl and she'll make a good wife to

you

thanks paul

eddie oh i wanted to tell you

and uh i guess it's my turn to offer

congratulations isn't it wow i've heard

everything you said and uh

peter's wishing you every happiness

you and ruth

you both deserve the best there is

well thanks andy it's

very fine of you too

good luck to you both

what's the matter dick

aren't you going to congratulate robbie

of course i'd be

luck to you boy

thanks uncle dick

so you're not coming on the sundown with

me

well i can't uncool

not now

i wouldn't miss it for anything else in

the world

under any other circumstances but you

see

i found a bigger dream

and i want you all to understand one

thing i am not going to be a loafer on

your hands any longer i mean this means

beginning of a new life for me in every

way and i'm going to start learning

right away

and you'll teach me

won't you

of course i will boy and be glad to only

you'll go easy at first

you don't mean to tell me you're gonna

let you can let him stay do you change

all right things being as they be

robert's free to do is he's a mine too

let him the very idea

and all i've got to say is you are a

soft weak-willed critter

to be permitting the boy and woman to

to go lay on your course for you whoever

they damn well please just the same with

me as was with you dick you can't order

the tides on the seas to suit you and i

ain't pretending i can regulate love for

young folks huh love

they ain't old enough to know love by

the side of it

lovely

you know i'm ashamed of you robert

to go live a little hugging and kissing

in the dark spoil your chances to make a

real man out of yourself

that ain't no common sense

no certainly not by a hell of a sight of

it

a fine one you are to be talking about

love dick an old cranky bachelor like

you good gracious white never been a

damn fool like most that's what you're

staring at sour grapes aren't they dick

my goodness dick but you do act silly

flying into a temper over nothing

nothing

you talk as if i wasn't concerned know

how in this your business

it seems to me i have a right to have my

say

didn't i make arrangements with the

owners and i had stuck up on special

grub on robert's account you've been

fine uncle dick i appreciate it truly i

was counting sure on having roberta's

company on this here voyage

so i'll talk to

show things too

teach kind of

i had my mind so say i don't have him

be double lonesome on this airport

damn dang all this silly love of

business anyway

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oh all this talking telling me what what

i'm supposed to do with that starboard

cabin i fixed up

what do you suppose my officers are

going to think when there's nobody comes

aboard to occupy that starboard gavin

liable is not i think it was a woman i'd

plan to ship along

she gave me the go bar at the last

minute oh well then there's nothing to

it but for you to go right out and hunt

up a wife somewhere for that [ __ ] and

span cabin of yours she better be a

pretty one too to match it come on dick

you haven't got much time you can go to

thunder gym

uncle dick

you need to worry about that spur cabin

uncle pick

maybe mine to take me and robert's place

you've made your decision rob and i've

made mine

you're out of this remember but and he

don't interview rob that's all i ask

you haven't answered my question uncle

daddy

of course

be glad to have you andy

settle then i can pack the little i want

to take in a few minutes don't be a fool

dick and he's only joking you it's hard

to tell who's joking and who's not in

this house i'm not joking uncle dick you

need to be afraid i'll go back on my

word yeah it isn't fair seems to me

this ain't no subject for joking

especially for andy i agree with you pop

and i tell you again once and for all

that i've made up my mind like why suck

why

i've always wanted to go andy you shut

up rob

i did never mention it because

as long as rob was going i knew it was

no use

but now rob's staying on here

there isn't any reason for me not to go

no reason

can you stand there and say that to me

andrew he doesn't mean a word of it let

me talk katie

let's come over you so sudden boy

you know as well as i do it wouldn't be

fair to run off right now at a moment's

notice not where we're up to our necks

and hard work wrong beholders end up as

soon as he learns rob was never cut out

for a farmer and you was you could

easily get a man to do my work

it sounds strange to hear you andy that

i always thought had good sense talking

crazy like that

the farm is yarn as well as mine

you've always worked on it with that

understanding and

and and what you're talking about doing

now is is is it's sculpted out of your

rightful responsibility

i'm sorry paul

it's no use talking anymore about it

fair i knew andy'd come to his senses

don't get the wrong idea mom i'm not

packing out you're going

in spite of everything

yes i'm going i've got to

i feel i want to

miss this chance to go out into the

world and see things and

i want to go

so you want to go out in the world and

see things

i never thought i'd live to see the day

when a son of mine had looked me in the

face and tell me a bare-faced lie you

are a liar andy mayo and a mean one to

boots ah he isn't he knows it i won't

argue with you paul

you could think as badly as me as you

like you're running away because you're

put out and riled that your brother's

got roots getting you stop paw

i won't stand hearing that not even from

you don't mind him andy dear he don't

need a word he said it's the truth andy

and you want to be bowed in shame to

think of it

won't you be still james please won't

you i suppose it's hard for you to

explain anyone's wanting to leave this

blessed farm except for some outside

reason like that

but i am sick and tired of it whether

you want to believe me or not

and that's why i'm glad to get a chance

to move on andy don't you're only making

it worse i don't care

i've done my share of work here

i've earned my right to quit when i want

to

i am sick and tired of the whole damn

business

i hate the farm and every inch of ground

in it

i am sick of digging in the dirt and

sweating in the sun like a slave without

getting a word of thanks for it i'm

through through for good and all and if

uncle dick won't take me on this ship

i'll find another i'll get away

somewhere somehow don't you answer him

james please don't you did

you dare to speak to me like that you

talk that way about this farm

the male farm where you was born you you

created

you're no son of mine

no son of mine

you can go to head if you want to

oh james

where are you going james late katie i'm

going to bed it's late james you take

back what you said to andy james james

well if he isn't the devil himself when

he's roused

god don't talk to him that way andy

about the damn farm knowing how touchy

is about

you won't mind what he said in anger

he'll be sorry for it when he's calmed

down a bit

you don't know him

what fed is said

can't be unsaid

and i've chosen

andy you can't go

he can't this whole thing is so stupid

and terrible i'll talk to you in a

minute rob

damn glad you're shipping on auntie

i like your spirit

and the way you spoke up to him

sees a place for a young fella and dead

and alive

you and me will get along like twins see

if we don't

i'm going aloft to go to bed good night

good night

oh [ __ ] up rob

ain't any use crying over spilt milk

and i'll turn out for the best let's

hope

but to lie andy

a lie of course that's a lie

you know it and i know it

but that's all a lot to know it

paul never forgive you

the whole is so senseless and

tragic

why did you think he must go away

you know better than to ask that

you know why

i can wish you and ruth all the good

luck in the world

and i do and i mean it

but you can't expect me to stay around

here

and watch you day after day

and me alone

i couldn't stand it

not after all the plans i made to happen

on this place thinking

thinking she cared for me

god

it's horrible

i feel so guilty

you know i think i should be the cause

of your suffering after

you know we've been such pals all our

lives

if i could have foreseen what would

happen

i swear to you i never said word ruth

i swear to you no you wouldn't

and that would have been

worse for ruth would have suffered then

it's best as it is

it has to be

and i've got to stay in the gap that's

all

i'll see how i felt after a time and

if you don't well

can't be helped

think of ma

god andy you can't go

you can't i've got to go

to get away

i've got to i tell you

i go crazy here

being reminded every second of the day

what a fool i made of myself

i've got to get away

and try and forget

put yourself in my place

what would you do then

tell me the truth

you love her

what would you do

all right

i'd go andy

oh god

then you know why i gotta go

and there's nothing more to be said

andy

oh

i wish

that i could tell you half i feel

how fine you are shut up

let's get to bed

i've got to be up long before sunup

you too if you're gonna drive us down

don't sit there morning rob

i'll come out in the wash

come on and get some sleep

everything will turn out all right

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