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How much more you got to come aboard?

Well, I think it's about a ton and a half.

This can go right in the hole there.

Well, better be getting steam up pretty soon. When's the skipper coming back?

As soon as he gets here.

Well, what's he doing in town this time of day, anyhow? You know, Mr. Carney,

he practically never tells me.

Mr. Travis, you're a dirty dog!

You can put all the Cornell cargo here on the prowl.

Hello, I'm looking for Ed Baker. I think he's staying here.

Oh, yes, yes, I see him.

Mr. Carter, my company's in the insurance business,

and we'd hate to lose $50,000 too. Hello, Ed. I'm sorry I'm late.

Oh, that's all right.

Mr. Carter, may I present Captain Holden of the Enterprise? Captain.

Mr. Carter, you're a fortunate man indeed.

We just had a couple of last-minute cancellations,

and you'll be able to get aboard after all.

Why, I didn't know there was any doubt.

Well, now there isn't.

Mr. Carter feels he'll rest a lot easier if he's aboard with the diamonds. Oh,

well, there's nothing to worry about, Mr. Carter.

You'd better give them to me now and get on board. We sail in less than two hours.

Well, Mr. Baker is going to put them on the boat. Thank you, Captain. Thank you.

Mr. Baker?

Well, then, what am I doing here?

Well, I just wanted to meet you first. Oh, I see.

Well, if I'm satisfactory...

It'll be the first test I pass since the third grade.

See you aboard, gentlemen. Bye.

I hope I didn't offend the captain. Oh, no, no, not a bit. Oh, of course,

I'll have to have your signature on this policy, Mr. Carter.

Please.

You understand my apprehension, Mr. Baker.

Well, $50,000 is a lot of money, but...

It could never replace the time and effort that

went into the acquisition of those diamonds. No, of course not.

Oh, you do still have the stones on you.

I'll put them in the safe on the Enterprise. Now, don't you worry about a thing,

Mr. Carter, and thank you.

Oh, I'm sorry. Are you all right, sir?

Watch where you're going. No harm done.

Fine. Good evening, sir.

Wait a minute.

Do you still have that package on you?

My friend means no harm.

Good evening, sir. Good evening.

You can't be too careful.

I'll see you on board, Mr. Carter.

Well, how did I do? Did you switch packages? Of course, it was easy.

It was like falling off a barrel.

Good morning. You go right on to the passenger deck.

The steward will show you your cabin.

All right, move this cargo along.

Miss Goldie, right down the deck.

All right, take it easy now, Travis. We got 20

minutes before sailing yet. All right, sir.

Well, what a nice way to begin the day.

Well, good morning.

You must be Miss... Mrs. Rutherford.

Oh, yes, yes, of course. Mrs. William Rutherford. Destination St.

Louis.

Johnny, show Mrs. Rutherford to the Arkansas captain.

I hope you have a nice trip with us, Mrs. Rutherford.

Just a minute, sir. Your name, please?

Britt.

Paddy Britt. Britt. Oh, yeah. You're a deck passenger right over there.

Now, wait just a minute. If you think that I'm going to sleep down

in the midst of all that freight, you'd better think again.

Well, go aboard and stay ashore. It's all the same to me.

I see.

Well, I guess it'll have to be all right.

Yeah.

That's fine.

Captain, if you need these potatoes stacked here,

we let them off at Cordell's Landing. Well, that's your department.

Just keep them out of my cabin.

I'm sorry about all this, Gray, but you saw yourself what a nervous man Carter is.

And it's not enough that my company's insuring his diamonds,

but I had to guarantee that your safe was more than adequate.

What do you want me to do? Post a guard over it?

Yes, he did mention it. Oh, no.

Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. You tell Mr.

Carter that I haven't stolen any jewels in at least a week.

You also mention to him that I'm gonna place him next

to another nervous old lady at dinner tonight.

Just a moment, please. Come in.

Captain Holden? Oh, yes, yes, Mr. Carter. Come in, come in.

You're just in time to watch me lock away all your worries.

Well, I must say, I feel much better now.

Well, gentlemen, now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a boat to get on the river.

Thank you, Captain. Yes, of course.

Oh, thanks for everything, Gray. I'll see you next trip. Yes.

I believe your worries are over by now, Mr. Carter. I believe they are, Mr. Baker.

I believe they are.

How many passengers, Gray? Full house, a good cargo. You know,

if we're not careful, Ben,

we may have to split a couple of bucks when we get to St. Louis.

Will that be a novelty?

Yeah, that's a fact. You know, I have a hunch this is gonna be a nice, quiet,

peaceful trip, in spite of a very explosive-looking widow in the Arkansas cabin.

You know what we do to stowaways in this boat, young man?

I ain't in any stowaway. My mother bought me a ticket,

and I just got it in the sack to keep warm.

Well, let's go see the captain.

I tell you, I got a ticket.

Where is it?

It must be in the sack.

Let go of me, will you?

Let go of me.

Now, not so loud. You're hurting me, will you? Will you be quiet?

No. Let go of me, will you? Let go of me, will you?

Now what's all this about? Well, my brother and I are on our way to St. Louis,

and we're going to study to be river pilots.

I mean, my big brother has the tickets,

and he must have gone on another boat or something.

Oh, I see. Well, what are you going to do with him?

He said that he was going to throw me in the river.

I said no such thing.

You did, too. Tell him to leave me alone, lady.

Ma'am, the captain will take care of this.

I think you better go with him.

You hear? Now, you come with me to the captain's cabin.

All right. Why are you going up there? You're

going to the captain's cabin. You again?

Come on. I will not, and you can't make me.

Come with me, you little demon. Get your feet down. All right, all right,

all right. Now, what's this?

Wait a minute. What is this?

Well, it's a story. It's a story. Let's take a look at it.

Oh, if I had my way.

What's his story? Tells a different one every time he opens his mouth.

First he says his mother brought him a ticket,

then I don't know where he comes up with a brother.

I've missed him.

Boy, this sure is a swell cabin.

Simon, come here.

Are you a real captain?

Well, that all depends on who you talk to. What's your name, boy?

Tom. Tom James, sir.

All right, Tom, what's the story?

Well, my uncle sent a letter to my folks, and he wanted me to come to St.

Louis to learn to be a riverboat captain like him.

And anyways, my dad gave me $50 for my fare.

Only a bunch of crooks jumped on me and took away all my money.

That's a pack of lies. A bunch of crooks, huh?

Sure, and they had knives and everything.

Knives, too.

Don't fall for it, Captain. He's trying to pull a whole family out of the hat.

Travis, would you mind stepping outside for a minute, please?

All right, now, Tom, what's the real story?

I just told you.

No, Tom, no. Fathers don't give their boys $50 to ride on boats.

They buy them tickets and come down to see them off.

Well, he would have. Only he had to take my little sister

to the hospital on account of she got the fever.

Boy, you rattle them off without even thinking, don't you?

How do you fix your grandfathers?

Huh?

I got three. Oh, three. Three grandfathers.

You know, son, from the cut of your coat,

I'd say that you used to be a guest at the orphanage up in Pittsburgh.

Yeah, I thought so.

Look, son, we can't keep you on board here.

The authorities wouldn't let us.

Travis.

Travis, Tommy here ran away from the orphanage back in Pittsburgh.

Let's see if we can't find something to keep him busy while we take him back.

I won't go back. You can beat me and kill me and break

my legs and stick it under me and set me on fire.

Tom, nobody's... Come back here, boy!

All right, Travis, you discovered him. You go find him and bring him back here.

What are you doing snooping around? Get out of here, quick!

The two boilers are right on the other side of this wall.

This is the place.

Right where the wall is hot.

It'll blow sky high.

Let's get out of here.

Go on ahead. Now, wait a minute. You know how I want it done.

They're putting the gunpowder on the boat at a place.

Did you see a boy come through here?

Oh, I think he just went out that door. All right, thanks.

Well, the captain's got me searching the boat for a storm. Oh,

every time they have trouble, they're down here on my back.

My uncle used to be the head engineer on the River Queen. Who's that so?

Anybody whose uncle was the head engineer on the River Queen

is certainly welcome to inspect my water room.

Hey, what do you think of her act?

It's, uh, it's pretty good.

Well, thank you, me bucko. Make yourself at home.

I think we've got what you're looking for down here, Skipper.

Good, bring him right up to my cabin. I'll do just that, right now.

Hey! Hey, you svelte beast, come back here!

Never mind, Connie.

Hey, Simon. Sir, I'm doing the best I can. That boy slipped her in a greased pig.

Please don't tell on me, lady.

He's making a circus out of my boat here. I want that boy found. All right,

if you take four, then I'll take half. We're worked on.

Yes, sir.

Thanks, lady.

Thanks a lot.

Now, what are you doing on this boat?

Well...

The real reason I didn't have no ticket was on

account I saw a bunch of crooks robbing a bank. Oh, changed your story.

This one's the truth, lady. Honest, that is.

What's your name, boy?

Tom James, ma'am.

What, Tommy? Tom.

Tom, is this your first time on a riverboat? Heck no.

I'm starting to be a riverboat pilot. Oh, are you really?

I'm sure. I already know about larboard and starboard and junk like that.

Sounds like a little boy I know.

You see, I have a little boy about your age, Tom. Yeah?

That's why I know if you run away, somebody's going to miss you. Heck, not me.

What are these bottles, Lady? It's perfume, Tom. Please don't touch them.

I'm not going to hurt them.

I said don't touch them.

You don't like me, do you, Lady?

Of course I do. What makes you say a thing like that?

I don't know.

I just sort of feel it.

Hey, I bet I know what's the matter. It's these smelly clothes and all.

When I'm cleaned up, I look a little better in this.

I'm sure you do. Tommy, why don't you just make

yourself at home, and I'll be right back.

Sure.

Come on, son.

Boy, you really don't like me, do you?

It's called water.

They say that if you mix it with soap, it gets you clean.

Let me know how it works. I'll be taking it.

Oh, you'll survive. I think you'll survive.

I've been thinking, Gray, what are we going to do with the boy? Oh, I don't know.

I haven't given it much thought, Ben.

You got any ideas?

Well, I think for his own sake, we ought to put him to work. Put him to work?

Do him good. Oh, now, wait a minute, Ben.

The boy spent his whole life in an orphanage. Listen, let's give him a vacation.

It's bad enough we have to send him back there.

Well, that was quick.

I'm clean, honest.

You're clean, honest. Come in. Clean.

It's gonna take longer than that to clean those clothes you wore, boy.

Yeah, we got two men working on it. Just a minute here now. Oh, my goodness.

You hungry?

Jeepers, yeah.

All right, sit down.

I'll see you later, Tommy.

After a while, can I come by the house and watch you, Mr. Fraser?

We'll see.

Good?

Want some?

No, no, no, thanks.

I'm... Yeah, sure, why not?

You like picnics, Tom?

Sure. We used to have them in the courtyard every fourth of July.

Courtyard, huh?

You know, when I was a boy back in Boston,

I used to like picnics almost as good as anything.

I used to go sailing down in the harbor.

Sailboats. Sailboats. They were rafts, really.

But anything we could hag and rag on, why, we used to call a sailboat.

Didn't they have steamboats back in them days?

Nope. But they used to make us wear shoes.

Did you have folks, Captain Holden, when you were a kid, I mean?

You know, my mother died when I was pretty young.

My father did the best he could, I guess.

Finally I left home.

I shouldn't have, Tom.

Those were rough and rugged years.

Yeah, but now you're a riverboat captain.

Oh, that's true, but...

A boy should have some kind of a home base, even if it's an institution.

Oh, no boy should be wandering around like I did and like you're doing now.

Yeah, but you're a riverboat captain.

Now, you stop saying that.

All right, but you are.

All right, I am. I'm a riverboat captain, and you're a stowaway.

And you're going to do just exactly what I say just

because I am the captain of this riverboat.

You're going back to that orphanage and finish whatever education they can give you.

No, I'm not. No, I'm not.

You're pretty cocky, aren't you? Yep.

Well, just for that, you're going to work your way down to St.

Louis and work your way back to Pittsburgh. Now, what do you think of that?

I am?

Yes, you are.

I'll be part of the crew!

That was very good, Mr. James. You spilled hardly a drop on Mrs. Mortensen's lap.

Captain Holden, isn't there some other job I could do around here?

Are you dissatisfied with your berth, Mr. James?

Well, yes.

Which is what you have in mind.

Jeepers, this kind of stuff is for girls.

Oh.

Well, I was thinking something like assistant engineer. Or maybe steer the boat.

Steer the boat?

Mr. James, this is a mutiny, sir. Now, you will either learn how to pour water,

or you'll learn how to tread water when I throw you over the side,

and I'll get back to work there.

Heck, I didn't mean nothing great.

What?

Uh, sir.

It's better.

Just a minute.

Are you taking care of Miss Rutherford?

Yes, sir. I mean, no, sir.

What?

She don't need no water.

Oh, I see. All right, take care of your guests.

Yes, sir.

May I join you?

Of course.

I don't mind having dinner alone,

but somehow coffee without conversation doesn't seem quite right, does it?

That's true. Johnny, thank you.

Well, I tell you...

I guess the only thing that I was ashamed of at that age was being seen as a girl.

But somehow I guess I've changed.

I hope so.

Miss Rutherford, I understand that you have a boy of your own, is that right?

Yes, that's right, I do.

So I got to thinking that perhaps you might like to keep an eye on Tommy.

I'm afraid not, Mr. Holden.

He's a nice kid, Miss Rutherford.

Yes, I know he is.

And having a boy of your own,

I thought you might understand his problems better than I would.

Mr. Holden, why should you impose his problems on me?

Well, no, no, what I mean is, perhaps, well,

what he needs is somebody like you to talk to.

I don't think you understand.

I do understand, Mr. Holden. I'd rather not, if you don't mind.

Mr. James, you like your job any better now?

Sure, it's improving.

Good.

I think Mrs. Rutherford could use some water.

Oh, careful!

Oh!

Gee, I'm sorry. No, no, it's all right. It's all right. It's just water.

I didn't mean to do it. No, it's all right.

Don't worry about it. Here, let me help you.

No, for heaven's sake, leave me alone! It was an accident.

Oh, now, now, forget it, Tom. Forget it. She didn't mean anything.

How come she doesn't like me?

Oh, women are funny that way. You know, when something happens to their dresses,

why I say they turn into tigers, you know what I mean?

Uh-uh, that ain't it.

She... She just doesn't like me.

Oh, come on now, Tom, forget it, huh?

Come on, how about going up to the pilot house with me right now, huh? Tommy?

Tommy boy, where are you?

What have you been doing all this time?

Turn up the lamp.

You got everything straight so far?

Once we get straight, I put the powder next to the boiler room wall,

light the fuse, we get into the rowboat, ship goes bluey,

and I head for the nearest saloon.

Fine.

Fine.

And where do you get the gunpowder?

Oh, the gunpowder, yeah.

Now, tomorrow some kegs of nails will be put

on board at a place called Cordell's Landing.

One of them will have an X on it.

That will be your keg.

All right, I hide it until it gets dark.

You hide it till I tell you it's time.

Now, if you spoil this deal for me,

I'll feed that rotten carcass of yours to the fish. All right, all right,

but don't you think this whole thing might backfire against us, Jeff? No, no,

it can't. I won't let it.

I can't collect that insurance money unless the fake diamonds go down with the boat.

I'll get out of here.

But you've got two bunks.

I said, get out.

It's Gray Holden.

Who is it?

Yes?

May I come in?

What do you want, Mr. Holden?

If you've come for an apology, you have it.

You know, I'm not very long on intuition, Mrs. Rutherford.

But I'd say that you're running away from something.

You're right, Mr. Holden. You're not wrong on intuition.

Look, why don't we put tonight's incident down as bad temper and let it go at that?

Fine.

Fine. Will you tell Tommy that?

Of course I will.

Excellent, I'll arrange for you to have lunch with him tomorrow.

No!

All right, the boy's entitled to an apology and he'll get it,

but I just don't want to have lunch with him.

You know, I don't expect this is going to keep you awake nights.

You just broke a boy's heart, Miss Rutherford.

All the boy wanted was a little attention. You gave it to him all right.

Yes, sir, right between the eyes.

What's gonna happen when you greet your son in St. Louis?

You gonna shake hands with him?

My son is dead, Mr. Holden.

But you said... I know what I said.

Sometimes if you say something over and over again, you can almost believe it.

I'm terribly sorry.

Yes.

My father was in the army.

He was killed in a senseless skirmish along the Mexican border.

Oh, so senseless.

Then one day my son Jimmy came home with a fever.

They told me it was scarlet fever. For a while,

it almost looked like he was going to get well.

And then one day, he wasn't there anymore.

He just, he just wasn't the right man.

I'm so sorry.

You know, Mrs. Rutherford, you can't go on hiding from yourself forever.

You're going to find all through your life

little boys who remind you of your own son.

You can't go on Punishing and hurting them just to protect yourself.

Did Tommy say anything?

Oh, no, not Tommy. Tommy doesn't talk very much.

At least about things that are close to him.

Mr. Holden.

It makes you smile. What's your first name?

Louise. Why?

It sounds rather strange to call a woman Mrs.,

and you're about to take her in your arms.

Captain!

Two crooks are gonna blow up the boat!

They're gonna find the gunpowder and the nails. I was right there.

And after they blow up the boat,

they're gonna get in a rowboat and go to the saloon.

Uh-huh.

I'm telling you, Gray, this boy hasn't get enough sleep.

Come on, I'll show you where the fat one is.

Don't you believe me?

My little brother used to talk that way when he was tired.

No, really.

Honest, I heard him.

You gotta believe me.

This fat man was real sore at the other one.

Please, Captain, I keep telling you.

This man told the other one to blow up the boat, and the other one said he'd do it.

We gotta do something!

All right, Tom. All right. When are you going to blow up the boat?

Tomorrow night. Okay, well, that gives us plenty

of time to hatch a counter plot. All right?

Tomorrow night.

At your bunk right over here.

Good night, Tom.

If you're thinking what I'm thinking you're thinking,

that's the end of your police work for the night.

Now hop into that bunk and stay there.

I know it's awfully late, but could I talk to Tommy for a few minutes?

Oh, yeah, of course. If you'll excuse me.

Tommy?

I heard two crooks say they were going to blow up the boat tomorrow night.

Only nobody believes me.

Really? Yeah.

And this time I didn't make it up.

Well, Tommy... Tom.

Tom, can we talk about that tomorrow?

Right now I have something else I'd like to say to you.

First of all, I'd like to apologize for my behavior tonight.

And second, I'd like to be your friend, Tom.

I think for the rest of the trip that we should see a good deal of each other.

Well, if that is if you want to.

Yeah, I guess so.

I guess I'd like that.

Can I come to see you in St. Louis?

Of course you can. As soon as you're all grown up and

finished with your education back at the orphanage.

Heck, I ain't going back there. Oh, yes you are.

But in the meantime, there's no reason why we shouldn't have a lot of fun, is there?

You know what I think?

I think we should start out by having too much dessert at lunch tomorrow.

What do you say? All right.

Well, do you think you can get some sleep now?

Sure.

All right.

Good night, Tom. Good night.

Good morning.

Morning.

Crave, you seen Tommy?

Yeah, he's down there watching for Potter to come aboard.

I don't wonder. It's all he talked about at breakfast.

Yeah, it's all he talked about last night.

That's them. Those are the nails.

That's exactly what they are, son. Nails and nothing else.

No, they aren't.

One of them... Captain Holden!

Captain Holden! Mr. Fraser!

Oh, boy. Here we go again.

All right, tell me, what is it?

Something else in here, Captain Holden.

Is that a fact? Well, now, that's just fine. I'll take it over from here on in.

You go on up to your cabin.

Ain't you going to do nothing?

Mr. James, you'll retire to your quarters. Now,

that's an order. We're all ready, Skipper.

All right, fine. Leave the rest to us. All right.

Please, Captain Horton, just look in them barrels.

Now, wait a minute, son. We've got better things to do in this boat than play hare and hounds

with you. Now, you come on and leave the stick to the wall. It's all right, Travis.

It's all right. Just a minute.

Hey, listen to me, boy. If we don't find anything but nails in those caves,

will you drop this whole subject from here on in?

Sure, sure. Come on.

Want more? Want these four here?

Should be five. I checked five aboard. Well, check

your manifest later. Here, open them up now.

Yeah.

More nails.

More nails.

Bear to cast off, Mr. Travis. All right, sir. Bear to cast off!

All right, sir. I just remembered. One of them was supposed to have an X on it.

Boy, you never give up, do you? Come on!

Move, move, move! Let's go, come on! Forward, plan secure! Have plan secure!

Plan secure!

Tommy, you didn't eat very much dinner, dear. I'm not hungry.

Good evening, Mr. Carter. Evening, Mr. Frazier.

Good evening. Ma'am.

He's the one. He's one of the crooks.

He's the one that told the other one about the shirts.

Insurance.

Yeah.

I gotta give you credit, Tommy. Your crooks sure don't look like crooks.

Can I go now?

Where are you going?

Mr. Carney said I could go watch him in the engine room for a while.

All right, dear.

He's quite a boy.

Where's he at?

Oh, great. Come and sit and have some coffee with us.

Johnny.

Well, what's he done now? Oh, nothing much.

He just added Jeb Carter to his list of crooks. Jeb Carter?

Is that a fact?

Well, I suppose there's nothing to do but throw Mr. Carter in the irons, huh?

You tell me that you're beginning to believe his stories.

Oh, of course not. But Tommy's story's pretty consistent this time.

Sure, it's consistent. He likes his stories.

Keeps talking about somebody damaging the boat to collect the insurance.

He doesn't even know what the word insurance means or how to pronounce it.

He might have heard it somewhere. That's right.

Do you have anything valuable on board this boat?

Valuable?

Well, Tommy keeps talking about diamonds.

Diamonds?

You open that package, and we'll be responsible, Gray.

I gotta find out what's inside it.

We'll be liable for suit.

I'm afraid I started all this.

Why don't you ask Mr. Jeb Carter to open the package?

Because he doesn't have to, and we can't make him. Oh,

it's another one of Tommy's pipe dreams. No!

No, you check that manifest over there.

There were five kegs of nails that came aboard. One disappeared.

Tommy says it's got gunpowder in it. I'm gonna find that one.

Oh, aren't they beautiful?

$50,000 worth.

Hmm, maybe.

They say that real diamonds can cut glass. Let's make sure. What are you doing?

Ah, scratch. It's a glass.

Ben, get Jeb Carter up here immediately. Right.

Where's Tommy?

Now, just a minute. Let's not run all over this boat until

we know what we're doing. Give it plenty of fuse.

All right, you beavers, get your backs into it!

Get them in there!

Travis, you got Tommy up there in the pilot house with you?

No, sir, I haven't.

Well, maybe he's down below with Carney.

Gray's in some kind of trouble. I just know he is. Gray!

Carney says there's a fire in the hole.

Louise, come back!

Tell Carney to reduce pressure on the boilers.

One minute.

Come on. Get it moving. Hey, come here. Give me the bucket.

Come here. Give me the water.

Move! I'm going in there, Carney. There's one more of them,

and we're pretty done for. Duffy, come on.

He's going to those buckets. Hurry up. Powder. Powder?

Where is it? Right by the one next to the water.

It's a little bow with a big X on it. No, same.

Keep those buckets going. Carney, can you hit that keg back there with that?

Everything all right, son?

I'm all right.

Good, everything's under control, I see.

Better give him up to the cab and put him to bed, huh?

Come on.

Hey, man, how's it going? All right, all right, good. Let's go, come on.

Hey, I just remembered something. What?

The fat guy said he was gonna escape in your rowboat. With the fat guy?

You stay down here.

Mr. Carter, I can't get off this boat. Don't try it.

It takes two men to drop that boat.

Get back, Captain. Don't try to stop me.

Mr. Carter!

No, hold it.

The vault isn't getting the river well.

We'll never find him in this darkness.

How am I doing? Fine, fine.

You gonna make a riverboat captain yet?

Come in.

Well.

St. Louis is out there just waiting for you.

Yes, I know. I can hardly wait to get ashore. They've already taken my baggage.

Still running away, huh?

Gray, Tommy and I have had several talks about

what happens when he goes back to school.

He likes the idea of going back to school.

Oh, I imagine he'd like the idea a little better of staying here with you, though.

I'd rather not talk about that.

Naturally. Tell me, have you said goodbye to Tommy yet?

Gray, I'm just trying to do what's best for the boy. You know that.

What are you getting so upset about? I just asked a simple question.

Mr. Frazier, let me... Oh, hello, Captain Moulton.

Well, good morning, Mr. James. What was it Mr. Frazier let you do?

Um...

You let me take the wheel for a while.

I steered the boat.

Well, Tommy, I think we better say goodbye now.

Sure.

We'll write to each other. We'll write often, won't we?

Sure. Only I sort of print.

I wouldn't worry about that, Tommy.

I think she can read printing.

Tommy, would you think it's sissy if I kissed you goodbye?

I guess it's all right. There. That's not so bad, is it? Uh-uh.

Is this really what you want to do?

Well, come on. Let's go down and see her.

Tommy? Go on, boy.