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00:00:30♪♪
00:00:56Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly, bring the broom along, we'll sweep the kitchen clean, my dear, and have a little song.
00:01:11Hi, Nellie! Oh, Nellie, listen, love, to me. I'll sing for you, play for you, a jolesome melody.
00:01:22How do you make them go fast, laddie? Easy now, little sister. Please, can't I make them speed?
00:01:31I imagine they're pretty tired after a long day in the field. This is a heavy load of hay.
00:01:36I guess you're right. When I get out to the enchanted forest, I'm going to ask the princess to give me two fast white chargers,
00:01:46and we'll ride across the forest moonbeams like the wind. Giddy up!
00:01:51Easy now. Don't you think you'd better wait and ask the princess?
00:01:55She's beautiful when she sits on her throne in the enchanted forest.
00:02:00Who is? Why, the princess. Oh, yes.
00:02:05You don't believe me. Sure I do. Sometime I'd like to meet her myself.
00:02:10The princess is going to give me a magnificent gold carriage.
00:02:16Laddie! Laddie!
00:02:22Get over, you fool! Sorry, Mr. Pryor.
00:02:26Why didn't you move over? Father, please.
00:02:28You can't turn a hay wagon as quickly as you can a carriage.
00:02:31Well, if you can't handle your horses, you've no business driving them.
00:02:34Now, wait a minute. The law gives the right of way to a man with a wagon load.
00:02:38A law, no law. Next time you'd better look out, you country clodhopper.
00:02:48The Pryors aren't very nice neighbors, are they?
00:02:50Perhaps English people live differently than we do.
00:02:52I'm disappointed in the princess, too.
00:02:55Pamela Pryor. Is she your princess?
00:03:00Oh, what's the use of pretending? She isn't really a princess.
00:03:04But she looks like one. Yes, I've noticed that before.
00:03:19Now, girls, you mustn't be too hard on the Pryors.
00:03:21Well, I don't know what Mr. Pryor meant when he said his wife was indisposed and disposed of nothing.
00:03:25I saw it with my own eyes, sitting in the upstairs window, looking as well as I do.
00:03:29No way, Mr. Pryor, the princess drove by and left you standing on the porch.
00:03:32English people are very reserved, Sally.
00:03:34Well, there's a difference between reserve and downright impoliteness.
00:03:37Someone ought to tell them we won the revolution.
00:03:46Well, we did our part. We've been neighborly.
00:03:49Oh, Mother, you take the minister's sermons too seriously.
00:03:52And just think, I might have been out in the woods working in the fields,
00:03:56And just think, I might have been out in the woods working on my nature studies.
00:04:00Where, at Peter Dover's farm?
00:04:02After all, romance is a part of nature study.
00:04:05Make her stop, Mother.
00:04:07Shelly, I just think we baked all those cookies for the Pryors, too.
00:04:11Don't worry, I'll see that they're not wasted.
00:04:14You put a hand on those cookies, Leon.
00:04:16Oh, just because you're all mad at the Pryors, you needn't take it out on me.
00:04:20Mad at the Pryors? I wouldn't go to all that bother.
00:04:23Miss Princess Pryor.
00:04:25You're jealous of her clothes.
00:04:26I am not. I wouldn't be as stuck up as she is for the world.
00:04:29They tried to run us down with their horses.
00:04:31Maybe you wouldn't find she was stuck up if you tried to get acquainted with her.
00:04:34How are you going to get acquainted?
00:04:36Even at church, she only speaks to the minister.
00:04:38Does Pryor go to church on Sundays?
00:04:40I can see where somebody's going to church Sunday.
00:04:46Here he comes! And he's got them!
00:04:49They're beautiful!
00:05:05There you are, Mother. A gift from your loving husband.
00:05:08Oh, I wish Peter could see them.
00:05:10Now we can all go to church in real style.
00:05:12Can I drive them to the barn, Father?
00:05:13Sure, son. Don't drive too fast and handle them gently.
00:05:16Come on, Sarah. Come on.
00:05:24All right.
00:05:30We'll certainly put the Pryors' eyes out.
00:05:32And speaking of the Pryors, you should hear the way they snubbed us today, Father.
00:05:35They almost ran us down.
00:05:37Just who do they think they are?
00:05:39Mr. Pryor was driving like mad.
00:05:42I want to talk to you, little sister.
00:05:44Talk to me now.
00:05:45Oh, you don't want to be a clucking hen like Shelly and Sally, do you?
00:05:48No, but I like to listen.
00:05:50That's good.
00:05:52You should do as Mother does.
00:05:54Listen a lot and don't say very much.
00:05:57I want to ask you to do me a favor, little sister.
00:05:59Sure, lad.
00:06:01Remember you were telling me about your walks in the woods?
00:06:04How you saw the princess in the enchanted forest?
00:06:07Do you believe in fairy tales?
00:06:10Couldn't we pretend?
00:06:12I don't know.
00:06:14It's going to be awful hard after the way she acted.
00:06:18Maybe I could think up another princess.
00:06:21No, no.
00:06:23I think I prefer this one.
00:06:25It's a shame.
00:06:27Because I'm not so fond of this one anymore.
00:06:30Well, I am.
00:06:32I mean, if you should ever see her in your walks in the woods...
00:06:35You'd like to meet her?
00:06:37That's right.
00:06:39And you want this to be kept a secret.
00:06:41An important one.
00:06:43Cross my heart.
00:06:45Hey!
00:06:47Come on.
00:07:17Come on.
00:07:47Come on.
00:08:18Little sister.
00:08:20Are you looking for me?
00:08:23Yes, princess.
00:08:25I have a message.
00:08:28Thank you, little sister.
00:08:31Don't be afraid of me.
00:08:33Come here and let me kiss you.
00:08:36Thank you, princess.
00:08:38Hey!
00:08:40Jerry, come back here.
00:08:42There you are.
00:08:44Hello.
00:08:46Hello.
00:08:48Who are you?
00:08:50Little sister.
00:08:52That's what Laddie calls me.
00:08:54That's not my name.
00:08:56I'm Laddie.
00:08:58I'm Laddie.
00:09:00I'm Laddie.
00:09:02That's what my mother calls me.
00:09:04That's not my name.
00:09:06Do you know who I am?
00:09:08Of course.
00:09:09You're Pamela Pryor.
00:09:11And you're English.
00:09:13And you live on the farm next to ours.
00:09:17Is your mother really sick?
00:09:19Or is she just pretending because she doesn't want to see anybody?
00:09:22She really is sick.
00:09:25She has heart trouble.
00:09:27I'm sorry.
00:09:29You will be glad to know that she's really sick because she's a...
00:09:33What?
00:09:35Well...
00:09:37You're not a very neighborly family, are you?
00:09:41No.
00:09:48We're not.
00:09:50You can call me little sister if you'd like.
00:09:52Thank you, little sister.
00:09:55Would you like a cookie?
00:09:56Yes, thank you.
00:10:00What are you doing out in the woods all alone?
00:10:04Looking for someone.
00:10:06Who?
00:10:08I... I guess it's you.
00:10:11After all, people do call you the princess.
00:10:14They do?
00:10:16They say, there goes the princess.
00:10:19But Laddie says, there goes the princess.
00:10:24Laddie says?
00:10:26That's my big brother.
00:10:28You saw him when your father almost ran him down.
00:10:32I'm sorry.
00:10:34My father's temper gets the best of him sometimes.
00:10:37Your brother's very nice.
00:10:39Then it's all filled.
00:10:40What is?
00:10:42Why, he thinks you're nice.
00:10:44And you think he's nice.
00:10:46Now you both can see each other.
00:10:48I'm afraid we can't.
00:10:50I don't understand grown-ups.
00:10:53They make things so mixed up.
00:10:56Perhaps you'll understand them when you grow up.
00:10:59But he wants to see you so bad.
00:11:03No.
00:11:04No, I can't.
00:11:06Tell him that he mustn't make any attempt to see me.
00:11:09Even at church?
00:11:12Even at church.
00:11:14Goodbye, little sister.
00:11:17Come on, Jane.
00:11:26Come on.
00:11:56We're expecting you for dinner, remember?
00:11:58Yes, thank you, Mrs. Stanton.
00:12:03Mrs. Stanton.
00:12:06Hello.
00:12:07Hello, Peter.
00:12:08Are you going home from church?
00:12:10I always do.
00:12:12I was wondering if I could drive you home from church.
00:12:15You always do.
00:12:21Sally.
00:12:28Laddie.
00:12:30I'm right glad to see you, Laddie.
00:12:33You know what's happening to me?
00:12:35My crops are being destroyed by a little red bug
00:12:39that leaves a scale that looks like rust.
00:12:42Well, that's too bad, Tom.
00:12:43I've been around here a long time,
00:12:45but I never saw a bug like that before.
00:12:48Hello, princess.
00:12:50Hello, little sister.
00:12:56Father!
00:12:57Father!
00:12:58This is a friend of mine, Pamela.
00:13:01I met her.
00:13:02I met her in the woods.
00:13:04How do you do?
00:13:05How do you do?
00:13:06I've been hoping to meet you.
00:13:07Ever since that day you were kind enough to call.
00:13:09What would you do with a bug that leaves a scale that looks like rust?
00:13:13Try tightening it up and using a little axle grease.
00:13:17Huh?
00:13:19How is your mother's health, Miss Pryor?
00:13:21Oh, about the same, thank you.
00:13:23She was so sorry that she couldn't receive you that day.
00:13:25But your kindness to a stranger in a strange land meant a great deal to her.
00:13:29Oh, I was just trying to be neighborly.
00:13:31I know what it means to be away from one's folks.
00:13:34Here's another of my brood, Miss Pryor.
00:13:36My son, Laddie Stanton.
00:13:37Miss Pryor.
00:13:38Mr. Stanton.
00:13:40I must go now.
00:13:42Won't you come over and see us real soon?
00:13:44I will.
00:13:46I'm awfully glad to have met you.
00:13:48I have the pleasure of escorting you to your carriage.
00:13:50That's very kind of you.
00:13:52Goodbye.
00:13:53Goodbye.
00:13:54Goodbye.
00:13:55She's even prettier near too than she is at a distance.
00:13:59What did little sister say?
00:14:01Oh, she was very sweet.
00:14:03She merely said that she met me in the woods.
00:14:07I'm glad of the opportunity to meet you formally.
00:14:09Oh, I want to apologize for father's actions the other day.
00:14:13Don't bother.
00:14:15In England, whenever he met any of the villagers on the road,
00:14:18they naturally stood aside and touched their caps to him and he...
00:14:21Lord of the manor idea.
00:14:22I understand.
00:14:23Oh, no.
00:14:24No, he was in the army and used to obedience.
00:14:27Oh, I see.
00:14:29Oh, but you must promise me never to mention anything about the army in his presence.
00:14:32All right.
00:14:33Pamela.
00:14:34Coming, father.
00:14:35You did just right.
00:14:36You see, he must get used to not having his own way.
00:14:40I must go now.
00:14:41When am I going to see you again?
00:14:43I don't know.
00:14:44Pamela.
00:14:45I'm coming, father.
00:14:46This afternoon in the forest clearing at 3 o'clock.
00:14:53My, she's lovely and a real lady, too.
00:14:56The way her people have acted.
00:14:58Oh, I do hope that Laddie...
00:14:59Oh, now, mother, don't stop worrying about Laddie.
00:15:01He has a good head on his shoulders.
00:15:03For many, a good head has been lost over a pretty woman.
00:15:05Well, didn't I lose mine?
00:15:18What a lovely dinner.
00:15:20What one needs after a meal like this is some good exercise.
00:15:26Wake me in an hour.
00:15:29Thank you, Laddie.
00:15:48Good night.
00:16:17Good night.
00:16:41Mother!
00:16:42Mother!
00:16:43Mother!
00:16:44They're engaged.
00:16:45They're engaged.
00:16:46I saw him kiss her.
00:16:47Little sister, what are you talking about?
00:16:49Well, Sally and Peter, they're engaged.
00:16:51He kissed her right in the living room.
00:16:53What makes you think we're engaged?
00:16:55But mother says when a boy kisses a girl, they're engaged.
00:17:11Mr. Dover.
00:17:13That's my name.
00:17:15Mrs. Stanton.
00:17:18That's your name.
00:17:23Well, Mr. Stanton, surely you cannot be unaware of the deep and tender emotion to which I, however unworthy, have been inspired by your daughter, Sally.
00:17:37I trust I'm not being presumptuous in hoping that my noble and honorable affections have not gone unrequited.
00:17:50Yes, Peter.
00:17:51Go on.
00:17:57I assure you I will make you a good husband.
00:18:00That is, I mean, make Sally a good son-in-law.
00:18:02I mean...
00:18:07What he means is that he's willing to put up with Sally's cooking for the rest of his life.
00:18:11Yeah, that's it.
00:18:15I understand, young man.
00:18:17And you'll find Sally a mighty good cook.
00:18:20Almost as good as her mother.
00:18:31All right for you.
00:18:33I'll be glad when you get married and go away.
00:18:35And I won't never, never kiss you goodbye, neither.
00:18:54Hey, where are you headed for, young lady?
00:18:57I'm leaving home.
00:18:58I'm going out west to Pennsylvania to fight Indians.
00:19:01That sounds like a pretty quick decision.
00:19:03Besides, Pennsylvania's east.
00:19:05Then I'll go somewhere else.
00:19:07Sally spanked me because I told mother she and Peter Dover were engaged.
00:19:11Oh, that's a shame.
00:19:13Are they really engaged?
00:19:15Uh-huh.
00:19:16I saw him kissing her.
00:19:18Who are the flowers for, laddie?
00:19:21I know.
00:19:22The princess.
00:19:23Right, the princess.
00:19:25Look, little sister, I wouldn't run away too soon if I were you.
00:19:29Just don't forget, when Sally goes, you have a whole room to yourself.
00:19:34Laddie, please, can I go with you?
00:19:38Now, wait a minute.
00:19:44All right.
00:19:46If you promise not to run away, you can come along.
00:19:48But remember, as soon as we get to the clearing, you have to turn around.
00:19:52Remember, as soon as we get to the clearing, you have to turn and go home.
00:19:56Understand?
00:19:57Uh-huh.
00:19:58All right, come along.
00:20:03What are you going to say to the princess when you see her, laddie?
00:20:06I hadn't thought.
00:20:08You better.
00:20:09You'll want to say something awful nice.
00:20:11Yes, I guess that's right.
00:20:14How about this?
00:20:16Fair lady, these flowers are put to shame by your beauty.
00:20:20That's pretty good to start with.
00:20:22Go on.
00:20:26The stars are no brighter than your eyes.
00:20:29The sun hides its head when you smile.
00:20:31There, how about that?
00:20:33Why, that's simply magnificent.
00:20:36Seems pretty good myself.
00:20:49Well, here's where you and I part company.
00:20:51Do I have to go?
00:20:55Goodbye.
00:20:57Goodbye.
00:20:58Goodbye.
00:21:20Hello.
00:21:26Hello.
00:21:30I'm sorry if I kept you waiting.
00:21:31You haven't.
00:21:32I've only been here a minute.
00:21:35What lovely flowers.
00:21:37Yes, they are lovely.
00:21:40They're for you.
00:21:42That was very thoughtful.
00:21:44Yes.
00:21:45No, I mean, it was nothing at all.
00:21:49Yes?
00:21:51I didn't say anything.
00:21:54Is that why you wanted to see me this afternoon?
00:21:56Or are you a trifle shy?
00:21:59No, I've never been called bashful.
00:22:02I found that out at church.
00:22:04I had a world of confidence before you came,
00:22:06but now that you're here, I can't think of anything to say.
00:22:10You act like a young man meeting a girl for the first time.
00:22:14This is a confession of how I feel.
00:22:22Hello.
00:22:26I thought I told you to go home.
00:22:30I couldn't let you hang there.
00:22:36Thanks.
00:22:38She was supposed to go home, but she didn't.
00:22:42I'm sorry, laddie,
00:22:44but I wanted to hear all the nice things he was going to say to you.
00:22:49What was he going to say?
00:22:51He said I'm coming over.
00:22:53I guess he must have forgotten.
00:22:56But you remember them, don't you?
00:22:58Oh, no, she doesn't.
00:22:59Yes, I do.
00:23:01He said she was more beautiful than the flowers,
00:23:05and her eyes were like...
00:23:07were like, uh...
00:23:09stars.
00:23:11Why, that's lovely.
00:23:13That's just what I told him.
00:23:18Well, I guess I better be going.
00:23:20Oh, don't go.
00:23:24Goodbye.
00:23:26Goodbye, dear.
00:23:29Goodbye.
00:23:31I wouldn't be so cross.
00:23:33I think your family does wonders for you.
00:23:36Pamela,
00:23:38it's unfair to meet you under circumstances like these.
00:23:41Your parents mightn't approve.
00:23:43I should meet your father and mother.
00:23:44Oh, no.
00:23:45Why not?
00:23:46I'll be on my best behavior.
00:23:49It isn't that.
00:23:51I'd like to tell my father what a fine young man you are.
00:23:54You want him to get the country cloudhopper idea out of his mind.
00:23:57Laddie, can't you forget that?
00:23:59He's really a fine man.
00:24:01I'm sorry.
00:24:04Wish I could explain it to you.
00:24:07Something that happened to him in England.
00:24:10A tragedy that he's never really recovered from.
00:24:16You'll be patient.
00:24:17Sure, I will.
00:24:19Thank you, Laddie.
00:24:21Goodbye.
00:24:22Goodbye.
00:24:34You did a lot better that time.
00:24:39Can I send you home, young lady?
00:24:54Laddie!
00:24:55Help!
00:24:56Laddie!
00:25:24Get away from here, or you'll be a wedding breakfast.
00:25:35Leon, I need some more firewood.
00:25:37And get me some more eggs and be quick about it.
00:25:48Anyone would think they're going to the wedding.
00:25:50Well, not exactly.
00:25:52They've still got to look their best.
00:25:54Why?
00:25:55Father told me I could use them to go over and pick up the princess.
00:25:58Is she really coming?
00:26:00She's been invited.
00:26:03Sure she's coming.
00:26:05Suppose her father won't let her.
00:26:07Then I guess I'll have to kidnap her.
00:26:09You mean put a ladder up to her window?
00:26:12And carry her away?
00:26:14In spite of her wicked father?
00:26:16Just like the princess in the fairy story?
00:26:19Well, I can't get her any other way.
00:26:24Laddie.
00:26:27Let me go with you.
00:26:29Oh, no.
00:26:30Not this time.
00:26:34Please.
00:26:38Hey, little sister.
00:26:39Come on and help me.
00:26:40You better run help Leon.
00:26:42Please take me with you.
00:26:43I said no.
00:26:45Come on, will you?
00:26:46Scoot.
00:26:53Sarah doesn't think ten chickens are enough.
00:26:56Now she wants six more.
00:27:00All this work and what do we get?
00:27:02The neck, the wings, and a part of this we'd like to talk about.
00:27:08Sure.
00:27:10Well, it's going to be different today.
00:27:12Come on, Sean.
00:27:17Hey, aren't you going to help me?
00:27:19I've got to go kidnap somebody.
00:27:21But I've got a good idea.
00:27:23Tell me later.
00:27:40Well, young lady, what can I do for you?
00:27:42I wanted to ask you something.
00:27:44Well?
00:27:45Are you going to forbid your daughter to come to the wedding with my brother?
00:27:51Why didn't he come here and inquire for himself?
00:27:54Oh, he didn't send me.
00:27:56He doesn't even know I'm here.
00:27:58You can thank your family for the invitation
00:28:01and express my daughter's regret for going to a previous engagement
00:28:05she will be unable to accept.
00:28:09That means no?
00:28:11That means no.
00:28:14Thank you very much.
00:28:16Well, goodbye.
00:28:18Goodbye.
00:28:39Goodbye.
00:29:10Help!
00:29:11Help!
00:29:12Help!
00:29:13Somebody help!
00:29:14Get me down!
00:29:15Somebody get me down!
00:29:16Hurry!
00:29:17Help!
00:29:18Help!
00:29:19Help!
00:29:20Somebody get me down!
00:29:21Hurry!
00:29:22Help!
00:29:23Help!
00:29:24Stop it, boy!
00:29:25Stop it!
00:29:26Heaven's name child, what are you trying to do?
00:29:28I'm trying to kidnap your daughter, but I got stuck.
00:29:31Oh, you're a confounded moron.
00:29:33I'm going to kill you.
00:29:36Pamela, I was afraid I'd be met by your father and an argument.
00:29:40He's somewhere around.
00:29:41Let's hurry before he finds you're being hidden.
00:29:43Now, miss, just what's all this nonsense about, eh?
00:29:47Oh, I'm sorry.
00:29:49I'm sorry.
00:29:50I'm sorry.
00:29:51I'm sorry.
00:29:52I'm sorry.
00:29:53I'm sorry.
00:29:54I'm sorry.
00:29:55I'm sorry.
00:29:56I'm sorry.
00:29:57I'm sorry.
00:29:58I'm sorry.
00:29:59I'm sorry.
00:30:00I'm sorry.
00:30:01I'm sorry.
00:30:02I'm sorry.
00:30:03I'm sorry.
00:30:04Oh!
00:30:05Oh, look!
00:30:07Pamela!
00:30:08Pamela!
00:30:15Well, I'll be hanged.
00:30:17So you did help him to kidnap her, eh?
00:30:19I did.
00:30:21Hooray!
00:30:35Ma'am.
00:30:40It's nice holding you like this, even if it's just for a moment.
00:30:52And we wanted to keep this a secret.
00:30:54I don't care.
00:30:55I want a shout out from the housetops.
00:30:57You don't have to now.
00:31:02Oh, Sally, you look lovely, don't you?
00:31:05Oh, you too.
00:31:06You look beautiful.
00:31:07Sally.
00:31:18Wear this, please, for good luck.
00:31:20Then maybe I'll get married next year.
00:31:22Here, Pamela.
00:31:23Here's my suit.
00:31:24Oh, now, girls, that's enough.
00:31:25You don't want to stop the circulation there, do you?
00:31:28Well, I guess we're all ready.
00:31:30Pamela.
00:31:31Yes?
00:31:32Take your places.
00:31:34Come, children.
00:32:01I don't know what to say.
00:32:03He looks lovely.
00:32:04He does.
00:32:05He does.
00:33:00Dearly beloved, we are gathered together in the sight of God, and in the face of this
00:33:30this man and this woman in holy matrimony into this holy estate these
00:33:38two persons present come now to be joined if any man can show just cause
00:33:46why they may not lawfully be joined together let him now speak or forever
00:33:53hold his peace Peter Lemuel Dover wilt thou have this woman to be thy lawful
00:34:02wedded wife to live together after God's ordinance to love honor and cherish her
00:34:11and forsaking all others to cleave only unto her so long as you both shall leave
00:34:21I will Sally Elizabeth Stanton wilt thou have this man to be thy lawful wedded
00:34:29husband to cherish and protect him in sickness and in health
00:34:51are you really gonna eat another piece I can chew but I can't swallow you know
00:35:09you're pretty brave I didn't think you'd come in on this with me I thought you'd
00:35:16want to stay for the wedding I saw her rehearse so often I could have married
00:35:22Peter Dover myself without a hitch that's 15 calls for you and 10 for me
00:35:38are you going might as well face the music and get it over with back to the
00:35:47engagement day we shouted our heads off for you Sally wanted you to sit at the
00:36:01bride's table the bride's table that's what I get for listening to you come on
00:36:08Sally wants to see you where's little sister I won't go until I see her here she is Sally
00:36:15I I'm sorry I spanked you I didn't mean to hurt you really
00:36:30you didn't kiss my feelings will you forgive me will you kiss me goodbye
00:36:45I love you honest I'll make you something terrible and I'll miss you little sister
00:37:03Sally Sally everybody's waiting including your husband mrs. Peter Dover
00:37:11Pamela this afternoon when Sally and Peter were getting married don't you wonder how it
00:37:38feels to stand up in front of an altar like this with the minister saying Pamela Pryor
00:37:46wilt thou take this good-for-nothing man to be thy lawful wedded husband I will
00:37:52Laddie Stanton wilt thou take this beautiful woman who's entirely too good for you to be
00:38:05thy lawful wedded wife I will I now pronounce you man and wife
00:38:14they're waiting for you you're holding up everything
00:38:30did you see what I saw
00:38:47well did you think Sarah's forgotten all about you I hadn't thought come on sit down get to
00:38:59work come on come on but but we're really not hungry that's right with all the excitement we
00:39:13kind of lost our appetites oh it was only the excitement was it well you come along and start
00:39:19eating and don't you leave a thing on your plate so I'll tell your mother
00:39:21and I saved you some of the nice white breast meat
00:39:49Daddy we can't go through with this we must it's just your father you're afraid of isn't it yes
00:40:09Pamela how do you know what he's gonna say I know that he's even tried to keep him from going to
00:40:13church he hasn't wanted me to meet anyone well that may be just family pride no one good enough
00:40:19for his only child but I'm not I'm not his only child we never speak of it but father lost his
00:40:32son in England that's why we came to America that isn't easy to get over but don't you see
00:40:44dear that explains his whole attitude he's afraid of losing you too maybe no maybe about it that
00:40:51simplifies everything I'll just tell him that there's no danger because we'll be living practically
00:40:55right next door no yes Pamela if you love me that's just it I do love you ah Pamela how'd you
00:41:15do good evening sir father this is Larry Stanton yes I'm aware of that thank you young man for
00:41:22escorting my daughter home just a moment sir I'd like to speak to you if I may you better go
00:41:28inside Pamela the air is getting chilly father and your mother needs you too now what can I do for
00:41:40you Oh mr. prior I'm here to ask a very great favor of you one that I did not ask lightly and
00:41:50one that you may not grant without deep consideration but ever since your daughter
00:41:55first honored me with her friendship I've been anxious to meet you and to obtain your permission
00:41:58yes yes my daughter's already asked me about the church party unfortunately she'd be unable to
00:42:04attend that isn't what I was talking about what were you talking about truth of the matter is
00:42:10that I love her what did you say I love your daughter and I'd like your permission to marry
00:42:17her you'll marry my daughter that's ridiculous mr. prior I don't wish to discuss the matter
00:42:25further the idea is preposterous and unthinkable I know how you must feel it won't be like losing
00:42:31Pamela I even thought that eventually you might let me in some measure take the place of your
00:42:38son my son what do you know about my son only that you lost a son in England if I did what's
00:42:50that to you are you trying to mock me no sir well I want no son do you hear if I did I wouldn't
00:43:03choose a clod hopper like you you impudent young yokel you'd like to take the place of my son eh
00:43:09you and your upstart family you leave my family out of this why should I haven't you been whining
00:43:15around here with your insolent suggestions you weren't her father I'd get out get out
00:43:20and if I catch you around here again I'll have you thrown out you farmer
00:43:33my son
00:43:52Pamela I've been wanting to see you I've been waiting every day in the forest clearing hoping
00:43:57that you'd come I've wanted to see you too father hardly let me out of the house buddy
00:44:04what are we going to do Pamela we love each other that's all that really counts let's get married
00:44:11anyway no no I couldn't do that without father's consent he's been hurt too much already what
00:44:20happened to him in England made him a changed man I wish we could change him back maybe he
00:44:25wouldn't be so infirmly stiff-necked well that he mustn't talk about father like that did you hear
00:44:30what he called me he called you a bum I didn't like the way he said it either laddie have you
00:44:42ever considered anything else like going into a profession considered it and rejected it but you
00:44:48education I know you'd make good why don't you try politics or law I've tried law I worked a
00:44:57couple of summers in Chicago how do you never told me I don't even like to think about it closed-in
00:45:03offices stuffy streets houses jammed up together musty old courtrooms digging into other people's
00:45:09troubles personally I'd rather dig in a good clean earth what's the matter with farming anyway
00:45:16even your father owns a farm don't you see owning a farm working one well there is a
00:45:25difference Oh a farmer isn't a gentleman not exactly but I thought if you could do something
00:45:33else why didn't you mention this before you knew what I was all along and I never seemed to make
00:45:38any difference to you now you want to change me you want to change everything about me just your
00:45:42work lady it's only because the father but look I must go laddie I don't dare say any longer
00:45:54but think it over please you'll make things so much easier
00:45:57for what we are about to receive may we be duly thankful there I'll bring the coffee you wash
00:46:14your hands Leon yes mother to tuck a napkin in a jelly pot father I was talking to Wilson at the
00:46:24bank and he told me that that 40 acres adjoining our West 80s for sale well that's part of
00:46:29priors land isn't it yes and I want to buy you do that yes I've saved enough money anyway
00:46:38someday I want a farm of my own what's happened nothing much money yes there has to I asked mr.
00:46:49Pryor's permission to marry Pamela oh laddy I've just lost Sally don't worry I was told that a
00:46:59farmer wasn't a gentleman well I never what about your father he's been a farmer for 30 years I
00:47:07think I'll step over and have a few quiet words with mr. Pryor this is my Ralph father but if mr.
00:47:16Pryor thinks he can make me ashamed of what I am he's badly mistake I'm gonna buy some of his own
00:47:20land and show him that it was put there to grow crops produce food and make money we'll show him
00:47:27sit down little sister good luck son thank you father
00:47:39eat your pie
00:47:42but Charles you must consider Pamela's future I'm looking after a future but not her happiness
00:48:02you don't realize how you let this trouble prey on your mind I never think of it I tell you that's
00:48:09all you do think of Charles remember he was my son too but we also have a daughter and I don't
00:48:16see why her life has to be ruined just because Robert got into trouble good morning mother good
00:48:26morning who is it making that infernal noise Jennifer Thomas Thomas went to town early this
00:48:50morning bringing in the sea bringing in the sea we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sea
00:49:02going in the morning sowing seeds of kindness confirm the audacious young puppy he's actually
00:49:13plowing on my land Charles please father that man was for sale he might have bought it where
00:49:22would a bumpkin like that get the money to buy land I'm going out there to shut him up so he'll
00:49:27never sing again as long as he lived mother it's all over ruined it now darling you know
00:49:36your father not father Maddie Maddie's ruined everything
00:49:39you know what your dogs will do tell it right out of my hand I've been feeding them for months you've
00:49:58what I've made friends with them making friends is easy wouldn't you like to try it this is the
00:50:04last straw you you Clodhopper get off my land I'm on my own land I bought it from the bank the
00:50:12bank doesn't own it the deeds got to come from me and I won't sell to you now get out mr. Pryor
00:50:18this land is the whole difference between you and me that's why I wanted it I wanted to show you the
00:50:25real meaning of it that's good land and it should be growing crops you've never put a plow in an
00:50:33inch of it wait you need us farmers to produce the very food that you eat I pay for what I need
00:50:40and you need what we grow we can get along without you but you can't get along without us the other
00:50:48night you called me a farmer and I want you to know that you're right I am a farmer and I'm proud
00:50:54of it I've plowed straight furrows I've sowed good seed I've watched my crops grow I've gathered
00:51:02in my harvest and I know that there's no finer thing a man can do on this green earth well
00:51:08perhaps you're right Oh poppycock I don't care what you are I wasted enough time listening to
00:51:16you now take your blasted horses and leave at once otherwise it'll be the worst for you this
00:51:21land's no longer for sale plenty got to talk to mr. Pryor
00:51:46father
00:51:51now Charles try and finish your breakfast I'll give you a fresh cup of tea
00:52:06what did he say to you Charles I get Anna he stood up to me what are we gonna do now I wish I
00:52:19knew maybe the princess would appreciate you calling on her by now she probably never wants
00:52:25to see me again you're wrong laddie how could you have done such a thing you must have known
00:52:40that it would spoil every chance that we had with father I didn't know we had a chance with him how
00:52:45we have it now he'll never forgive you what do you want me to do play doormat for your father
00:52:50to walk over oh I just wanted you to wait and have a little patience until we could try to work
00:52:54things out we might have found a way I suppose I could have become a gentleman well what have
00:53:00you gained by this plowing exhibition at least I've shown your father you've shown him you've
00:53:05shown him that you're just as stubborn as he is Pamela aren't you gonna marry her lady the other
00:53:20way around I'm afraid she isn't gonna marry me but laddie that will spoil everything it will
00:53:28spoil everything anything I can do about it you do really I do laddie forever so long I've been
00:53:48saving up a great big powerful prayer a powerful prayer the kind way you talk to the Lord like he
00:53:57was standing right in front of you and we have to get down to business and work at it you know
00:54:03the way father prayed mother was so sick last winter I remember I almost said one like that
00:54:10at Easter when I wanted to find more eggs on me on me I didn't have to and I almost said
00:54:17examination time I got through all right and so I've saved it up and I can say it now for you if
00:54:24you really want me to lady powerful prayer I'll do it right now but you have to want what I asked
00:54:37for I really wanted little sister all right
00:54:55dear heavenly father I come before you this day to ask you to keep laddies heart from breaking
00:55:06like mother's best picture when the cream flows in it on a con of the way the princess is acting
00:55:16I know that you've made every man different Lord so that each woman could tell which one
00:55:26belong to her but the princess don't doesn't seem to know it so if you'll just open her eyes to the
00:55:38truth that lady really and truly belongs to her I'd be much obliged thanking you for this favor
00:55:49I am ever the Lord you've got the wrong man
00:56:13don't he is the one why what on earth are you talking about him he doesn't belong to you but
00:56:27he does he's my brother your brother my brother Robert Pryor he's come all the way from England
00:56:35just to see me I did on the boat coming over I must have got out of bed too soon
00:56:51little sister run and tell your family that my brother's here all right
00:56:57Stanton's are our neighbors don't take care of John John I think you better go for dr. Barnes
00:57:11that poor lad's fever is getting worse before you do anything more I I think that it's only
00:57:26fair that you should know something about Robert my dear he's a sick boy that's all
00:57:32the concerns us miss Stanton by my father's standards my brother's past might almost be
00:57:41considered criminal he was dishonorably discharged from the army doesn't that all seem unimportant at
00:57:49a time like this not to father he was a captain in the service following tradition of the Pryor
00:57:57then he was in line for promotion to major and Robert got into trouble
00:58:08scandal prevented father's advancement
00:58:12then something inside of him seemed to snap he hasn't been the same man you'll forget all that
00:58:18as soon as he realizes that Robert is back parents are a lot more talented you don't know
00:58:24father ever since he resigned his post the importance of the army the disgrace it girl
00:58:33in his mind such a point until you get him home you'll see everything will change no I don't dare
00:58:39take him home father swore he'd shoot Robert on sight shoot his own son you mean he'd shoot him
00:58:50dead land you're always underfoot run out and play go on run along that's a good girl
00:58:59Stanton I think I'd better ride over to get mother that is if I can do it without father's
00:59:04course my dear you run right along don't you worry about Robert
00:59:34Mr.
00:59:54again hello you should wear a red coat when you go hunting but I haven't got a red coat
01:00:06have you yes but you see I didn't expect to meet another another Nimrod out here Nimrod's in the
01:00:14Bible I didn't know you read the Bible father said he didn't think you did what are you hunting
01:00:22tigers and lions would you like to hunt wild animals in the jungle with me that might be a
01:00:29good idea I haven't had much luck by myself what kind of ammunition do you I use lion's
01:00:36tongue seeds on the lions and tiger lily seeds on the Tigers very appropriate don't you ever
01:00:43bring down your prey I don't like to shoot things dead do you yes sometimes even people
01:00:53why no what gave you that idea even if you're awful terrible mad at them certainly not in
01:01:06fact you can take my word for it oh I'm so glad cuz Robert thought Robert
01:01:15rabbit hole Robert who Robert what Robert prior where is he where is he
01:01:36he's at our house but you said you wouldn't shoot him it said so wait
01:02:06he's gonna kill Robert Robert his own son he's at our house sick the princess find him on the
01:02:13road prior son at our house yes mr. Pryor's awful mad at him he's gonna shoot him I can't help it
01:02:21look little sister you take this other horse and leave back home and be careful
01:02:36well you're too big for me to ride so I guess you and me will just have to walk
01:03:36just a moment mr. Pryor get out of my way I'm sorry sir but you're on the stanton side of the
01:03:46fence now did you want to see anyone special come to get get my son after the gun I hope
01:03:56that's my affair I'm sorry sir but you can't enter our house on you don't let me pass out
01:04:04you'll shoot me I suppose like I understand you threatened to shoot your son he was disgraced to
01:04:12his country he was still your son wasn't he no I disowned him then what are you doing here what
01:04:20do you want with a son you've disowned he doesn't belong to you anymore and you have no right to him
01:04:26come right in doctor hello dr. Barnes hello lady
01:04:35is it Robert that's ill yes and he must be very ill her mother wouldn't have sent for
01:04:46a doctor just a moment
01:04:57Pamela said that mr. Pryor threatened to kill his own son
01:05:08I'm sorry mr. Pryor you disturbed the patient but I've come to take my son home
01:05:12he hasn't any home I beg your pardon he never did have one a home is a place filled with love
01:05:20and understanding where one can find protection and shelter in times of trouble the house he
01:05:26lived in must have been just a monument of pride and the door was shut in his face the moment that
01:05:30pride was in danger I did what I thought was right for yourself maybe but not your son he
01:05:38was in trouble and you left him and he had to face it alone well he isn't alone now thank heaven
01:05:44of course we're just plain people farmers mr. Pryor but Robert is welcome to stay with us as
01:05:51long as he likes to realize what my son did you know the story of the prodigal son mr. Pryor he
01:06:00wasn't a very good boy either and yet his father still loved him and when he came home his father
01:06:06ran to him and he said this my son was lost and is found can you say that mr. Pryor
01:06:20yes I can say that now
01:06:26the room at the head of the stairs thank you your wife is up there too you don't believe in leaving
01:06:32anyone out do you how is he doctor better providing nothing upsets you
01:07:03Oh
01:07:13well son
01:07:32Pamela
01:07:44is there anything I can do
01:07:50no everything's quite all right why don't you tell him you're crying because you hurt his feelings
01:07:54why don't you get down from there before you break your neck but it's true laddie you know I
01:08:01always cry when I make you feel bad will you just this once please keep quiet no wait how did I hurt
01:08:09laddie because he said you didn't like farmers and he's a farmer and my father's a farmer my
01:08:15mother's been married to my father for 30 years and she says she still loves him your father's
01:08:21a very wonderful man but laddie why don't you tell him you're sorry that's what I always do
01:08:35I'm sorry lady
01:08:41then I gave him a great big kiss
01:08:48hey
01:08:51well I guess that's all
01:09:16you