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The name of our town
is Grover's Corner, New Hampshire.
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It's just across the line
from Massachussetts.
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Latitude is 42 degrees, 40 minutes.
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Longitude is 70 degrees, 37 minutes.
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Running right through the middle
of the town is Main Street.
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Cutting across Main Street on the left
is the railroad tracks.
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Beyond the railroad tracks
is Polish town.
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You know, foreign folks who come here
to work in the mills,
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a couple of Canuck families
and the Catholic Church.
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You can see the steeple
of the Congregational Church.
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The Presbyterian
is just across the street.
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The Methodist and the Unitarian
are up a block.
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The Baptist Church is down in the holler,
by the river.
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Next to the post office
is the town hall.
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Jails in the basement.
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Brian once made a speech
right from those very steps.
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It's a nice town,
know what I mean?
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Nobody very wonderful ever come out of it
so far as we know.
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The earliest dates on the tombstones
up there in the cemetery say 1670.
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There are Grovers' and Cartwrights' and
Gibbs' and Herseys'.
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The same names as you find
around here now.
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First we'll show you
a day in our town.
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Not as it is today
in the year 1940,
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but as it used to be
in the year 1901.
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All right operator, let's start.
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Yes sir, that's the way our town looked
back in the year 1901.
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Along Main Street
is a row of stores with
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hitching posts and horse
troughs in front of 'em.
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The first automobile is going to come along
in about five years.
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The date is June 7, 1901.
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It's just before dawn.
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Hear, just about.
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The sky is already beginning to show
some streaks of light in it
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over there in the east,
in back of our mountain.
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The morning star gets wonderful bright
the moment before it has to go.
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The only lights on in the town
are in a cottage over in Polish Town
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where a mother
is just giving birth to twins,
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and down in the depot,
where Shorty Hawkins
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is just getting ready to flag
the 545 for Boston.
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There she is now.
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Of course, naturally
out in the country all around,
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there have been lights on
for some time,
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what was milking and so on.
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But, uh, town folks sleep late.
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Here comes Joe Crowell
delivering the morning papers.
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So, another day has begun.
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Here comes Doc Gibbs from that baby case
I was telling you about.
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And this is Doc Gibbs' house.
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His neighbor is Editor Webb.
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There's Mrs. Gibbs coming downstairs
to get breakfast.
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Later on, about 1910, she's going on
to visit her daughter Rebecca
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in Canton, Ohio.
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Mrs. Gibbs is going to
die there, pneumonia.
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But she's going to be brought back here,
and she's going to be buried
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in the cemetery
right here in our town.
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With a whole mess of Gibbs' and Herseys'.
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In our town, we like to know the facts
about everybody.
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And there's Mrs. Webb coming downstairs
to get her breakfast too.
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Mrs. Webb was a Grover
before she married Editor Webb.
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Yeah.
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Children, children,
time to get up.
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George, Rebecca, Emily,
time to get up.
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Wally, seven o'clock.
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Whoa, Bessie.
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- Morning, Howie.
- Morning, Mrs. Gibbs.
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Got here late today.
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Yeah, something went wrong
with the separator,
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don't know what it was.
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- There you be.
- Thanks Howie.
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Morning, Mrs. Webb.
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Morning, Mr. Newsom.
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Mighty fine day.
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Yeah.
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How's Mrs. Newsom?
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Good.
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Emily!
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Wally!
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George!
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Rebecca!
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Come on, gedyap.
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Bessie, come on.
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What's the matter with you?
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Oh, they quit taking milk.
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Now come on.
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Morning, Howie.
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- Morning Doc.
- Bessie acting up?
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She's all mixed up about the route,
ever since the Lockharts stopped
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taking a quart of milk a day.
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She wants to leav'em a quart
just the same.
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She keeps scolding me
the whole trip.
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Somebody sick?
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Twins over at Mrs. Goruslawski's.
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Oh, twins. This town keeps getting bigger
every year.
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Come on. Now come on, Bessie.
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- Morning, Doc.
- Morning, Joe.
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Want your paper now?
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Yeah, I'll take it.
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Anybody been sick, Doc?
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No, twins over in Polish Town.
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Joe, I see your teacher, Miss Foster,
is going to get married.
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Yes, sir, to a fellow
over in Concord.
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I swear.
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How do you boys feel about that?
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Well, of course,
it ain't none of my business.
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But I think if a person
starts out to be a teacher,
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she ought to stay one.
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- How's the knee, Joe?
- Fine, Doc.
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Never think about it at all.
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Only like you said, you can always tell
when it's going to rain.
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What's it telling you today?
Going to rain?
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- No, sir.
- Sure?
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- Yes, sir.
- Knee never makes a mistake?
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No, sir.
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- Doc.
- Joe.
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I want to tell you something
about that boy, Joe Crowell.
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Joe was awful smart.
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So he got a scholarship
to Boston Tech.
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Yes, he was going to be
a great engineer, Joe was.
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But, the war broke out and
he died in France.
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All that education for nothing.
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Everything all right Frank?
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Yes.
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Yes. I declare, easy as kittens.
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Children, hurry up!
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George, Rebecca!
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Bacon will be ready in a moment.
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Sit down, drink your coffee.
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You can catch a couple hours of sleep
this morning, won’t you?
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Miss Wentworth’s coming at 11.
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I guess I know
what’s it’s about too
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Stomach ain’t what it oughta be.
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All told, you won't get
more than three hours of sleep.
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Frank Gibbs, I don't know
what's going to become of you.
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We should go away someplace and
take a rest,
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I think it'll do you good.
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Children, hurry now!
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Emily! Wally!
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I declare,
you'll have to speak to George.
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Seems like something’s come over him lately.
He’s not helping me at all.
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Can’t even get him
to cut me some wood.
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Is he a sassy to you?
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Just whines.
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All he thinks about
is that old baseball.
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George, Rebecca,
you'll be late for school.
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George!
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- George, look sharp!
- Yes Paw.
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Don't you hear
your mother calling you?
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Guess I'll go upstairs and
catch 40 winks.
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Ma!
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Ma, what dress shall I wear?
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I washed and ironed
the blue gingham for you special.
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Oh Ma, I hate that dress.
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Oh, how touching.
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Every day I go to school
dressed like a sick turkey.
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Oh Rebecca,
you always look very nice.
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Ma, George is throwing soap at me.
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I’ll come up and slap the both of you,
that’s what I’ll do.
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Hurry up children,
after seven o'clock.
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I don't want to call you again.
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Ma?
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Morning, children.
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Children, now I won’t have it.
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This is just as good as any other meal,
and I won’t have you gobbling like wolves.
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It'll stunt your growth,
that's a fact.
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Wally, put your book away.
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-Oh, Ma, by ten o'clock
I've got to know all about Canada.
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You know the rules well as I do.
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No books at table.
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As for me, I'd rather have my children
healthy than bright.
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I'm both, Mama.
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You know I am.
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I'm the brightest girl in school
for my age.
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I have a wonderful memory.
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Eat your breakfast.
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Well, I'll speak to your father about it
when he's rested.
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Seems to me like 25 cents a week's
enough for a boy your age.
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I declare, I don’t know how
you spend it all.
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Oh Ma, I got a lot of things to buy.
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Strawberry phosphate,
that’s what you spend it on.
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Well, I don't see how Rebecca
comes to have so much money.
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She's got more than a dollar.
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I've been saving it up gradual.
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Well yeah, I think it’s a good thing
to spend some now and then.
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Ma, you know what I like most in the world,
do you?
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Money.
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Eat your breakfast.
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That's first bell, gotta go!
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Watch your step, Wally!
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Bye, Mama!
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Goodbye, John!
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Now walk fast,
and you don’t have to run.
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Wally, pull up your pants
in the knee.
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Remember, send Miss Foster
my best congratulations.
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Can you remember that?
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Rebecca, pick up your feet.
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Here chick, chick, chick,
chick, chick.
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Oh, where did you come from?
You don’t belong to me.
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What you been scared of?
Nobody’s going to hurt you.
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Morning, Julia.
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Morning Myrtle, how's your cold.
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Oh, still got that tickling feeling
in my throat.
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Told Charles I didn't know
if I'd go to choir rehearsal tonight.
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Ever try singing
over your voice?
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Yes. But somehow I can’t do that
and stay on key.
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Beans have been good this year.
Let me help you.
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I've decided to put up 40 quarts
if kills me.
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Children say they hate them,
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but I noticed they managed
to get them down all winter.
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Myrtle, I’ve got to tell you something.
If I don't tell somebody, I'll burst.
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Why Julia Gibbs.
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One of those second-hand
furniture men from Boston
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came to see me last Friday.
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First, I thought it was a patient
waiting to see Dr. Gibbs.
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But he wormed his way
right into my parlor.
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Myrtle Webb, he offered me $350
for Grandmother Hersey's highboy,
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as I'm sitting here.
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Well, you're going to take it,
aren't you?
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I don’t know.
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You don't know, $350?
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Well, what's come over you?
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Well, if I could get the doctor
to take the money,
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and go away someplace on a trip,
I'd sell it like that.
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You know, it's always been
the dream of my life
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to see Paris, France.
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Crazy, I suppose.
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For years, I've been promising myself
if we ever had the chance.
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How does Doctor feel about it?
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Well, I did beat about the bush a little.
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Said if I ever got a legacy,
that’s the way I put it,
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I'd make him take me.
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What'd he say?
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You know how he is.
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Haven't heard a serious word out of him
since I've known him.
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No he says, might make him discontented
with Grover’s Corners
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to go traipsing over Europe.
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“No, let well enough alone,” he says.
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Well, if that secondhand man's real serious
about buying it, you sell it Julia.
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Then you'll get to see Paris.
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Just drop a hint
from time to time.
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That's how I got Mr. Webb to take me to see
the Atlantic Ocean, you know.
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I'm sorry I mentioned it.
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Well it seems to me once in your life,
before you die,
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you ought to see a country
where they don't speak in English
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and don't even want to.
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That'll do, ladies.
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Thank you very much.
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Now, we'll skip a few hours.
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Now, before we get on,
I think we ought to have
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a little more information
about the town.
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A kind of a scientific account,
you might say.
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So I've invited Professor Willard
of our state university to come here
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kind of sketch in a few details
of our past history.
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There he is now.
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Am I late?
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Right on time.
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May I introduce Professor Willard
of our state university?
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Now just a few brief words Professor,
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unfortunately, our time is limited.
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Yes, sir. Let me see.
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Grover's Corners.
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Grover's Corners lies on
the old Pliocene granite
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of the Appalachian Range.
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I might say that's some of the oldest land
in the world.
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We're very proud of that around here.
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Some highly interesting fossils
have been found.
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I might say unique fossils.
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Two miles north of town
in Silas Peckham's cow pasture.
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These may be seen in the museum
of the university at any time.
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Well, that is at any reasonable time.
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Shall I tell him about
the meteorological conditions,
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the mean precipitation,
et cetera?
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I'm afraid we won't have time
for that, Professor.
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We might have a few words about
the history of man here, though.
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- Oh, anthropological data.
- Yes.
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Let me see.
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Early Amerindian stock,
Cotahatchee tribes.
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No evidences before the 10th century
of this era.
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Now entirely disappeared.
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Possible traces in three families.
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Migration in the early 17th century of
English brachiocephalic blue-eyed stock,
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and since then,
some Slav and Mediterranean...
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And the population, Professor.
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Uh, within the town limits, 2,640.
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The po...
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Is that so?
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In that case, the population
at the moment is 2,642.
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The postal districts bring in 507 more,
making a total of 3,149.
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Mortality, birth rates constant.
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By McPherson’s gauge, 6.032.
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Thank you very much, Professor.
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I'm sure we're all
very much obliged here.
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Not at all sir, not at all.
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So move on it.
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- Just what we wanted.
- Good day.
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And now the social and political report.
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Oh, Editor Webb!
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Mr. Webb!
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Charlie Webb's the father
of Wally and Emily.
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Emily's the smart girl
with a good memory.
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You know, you saw her
at breakfast.
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All right Editor Webb,
it's your turn now.
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Well, I don't have to tell you
that we're run here
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by a board of selectmen.
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All males vote at the age of 21.
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Women vote indirect.
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Politically, we're 86% Republican,
12% Democrat, 4% Socialist.
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The rest, indifferent.
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Religiously, we're 85% Protestant,
12% Catholic.
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The rest indifferent.
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Very ordinary town,
if you ask me, but
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our young people here
seem to like it well enough.
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Lots of them settle down
right here to live,
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even after they've been
away to college.
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Now, is there anybody in the audience
who'd like to ask Editor Webb
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any questions about our town?
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Is there much drinking
in Grover’s Corner?
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00:16:35,140 --> 00:16:37,877
Well, ma'am, I wouldn't know
what you'd call much.
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00:16:38,380 --> 00:16:41,499
Saturday night, the farm hands meet
down at Elery Greenough's stable
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and holler some.
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00:16:43,660 --> 00:16:46,658
We got one or two town drunks,
but they're always having
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remorses everytime
an evangelist comes to town.
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00:16:50,054 --> 00:16:53,507
No, I'd say that liquor wasn't
a regular thing in the home here,
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except in the medicine chest.
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Quite good for snake bites,
you know, always was.
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00:17:00,912 --> 00:17:02,073
Ah, Mr. Webb.
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00:17:02,771 --> 00:17:03,781
Yes.
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00:17:03,806 --> 00:17:09,116
Mr. Webb, is there any culture
or love of beauty in Grover’s Corner?
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00:17:10,147 --> 00:17:11,993
Well, no ma'am, not much.
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00:17:12,127 --> 00:17:13,590
That is, in the sense you mean.
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00:17:14,420 --> 00:17:17,456
There are some girls that play the piano
with the high school commencement,
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but, they ain't happy about it.
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00:17:20,766 --> 00:17:23,159
No, there ain't much culture.
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00:17:23,340 --> 00:17:26,477
Robinson Crusoe and the Bible,
and Handel's Largo,
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00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,936
we all know that,
and Whistler's Mother.
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00:17:29,573 --> 00:17:31,142
And, that's about
as far as we go.
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00:17:31,580 --> 00:17:32,870
Thank you very much, Mr. Webb.
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00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:35,804
Is there no one in town aware--
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No, I'm sorry, but we haven't time
for any more questions.
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00:17:38,999 --> 00:17:40,603
We must be getting on with the picture.
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00:17:41,836 --> 00:17:43,575
It's getting on
in the afternoon.
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All 2,642 are having dinners.
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00:17:46,286 --> 00:17:47,664
All the dishes have been washed.
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00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,199
There's an early afternoon calm
about the town.
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00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:54,580
Charlie Webb's going home
to mow his lawn.
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00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,080
One man in ten thinks it's a privilege
to push his own lawn mower.
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00:17:59,532 --> 00:18:01,772
The afternoon session of school is over.
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00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:06,721
Doc Gibbs is in his office tapping people
and making them say, ah.
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00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,103
Ahh!
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00:18:13,546 --> 00:18:16,858
I have to go home
and help my mother. I promised.
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00:18:18,183 --> 00:18:19,763
Emily, walk simply.
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00:18:20,110 --> 00:18:21,729
Who do you think you are today?
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00:18:24,657 --> 00:18:26,564
Papa, you’re terrible.
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00:18:26,990 --> 00:18:28,768
One minute you tell me
to stand up straight,
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00:18:28,792 --> 00:18:30,654
and the next minute
you call me names.
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00:18:31,170 --> 00:18:32,970
I just don't listen to you.
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00:18:34,773 --> 00:18:38,289
Golly, I never got a kiss
from such a great lady before.
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00:18:39,776 --> 00:18:40,783
Hello, Emily.
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00:18:41,956 --> 00:18:43,202
Oh, hello.
361
00:18:45,270 --> 00:18:48,382
You made a fine speech in class today.
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00:18:49,429 --> 00:18:52,228
Well, I was really ready
to make a speech
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00:18:52,262 --> 00:18:53,457
on the Monroe Doctrine,
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00:18:53,482 --> 00:18:56,745
but at the last minute,
Miss Foster made me talk about
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00:18:56,770 --> 00:18:59,097
the Louisiana Purchase instead.
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00:18:59,970 --> 00:19:01,930
I worked an awful long time
on both of them.
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00:19:03,130 --> 00:19:04,466
Gee, it's funny Emily.
368
00:19:05,170 --> 00:19:07,987
From my window up there,
I can see your head nights
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00:19:08,914 --> 00:19:10,741
when doing your homework
over in your room.
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00:19:12,203 --> 00:19:13,408
Why can you?
371
00:19:14,270 --> 00:19:16,178
You certainly do stick to it, Emily.
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00:19:17,109 --> 00:19:19,183
I don't see how
you can sit still that long.
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00:19:19,896 --> 00:19:21,476
I guess you must like school.
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00:19:22,781 --> 00:19:23,907
Well.
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00:19:24,698 --> 00:19:27,679
I feel it's just something
you have to go through.
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00:19:28,323 --> 00:19:29,684
What do you think, Emily?
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00:19:30,110 --> 00:19:31,864
We might work out
a kind of telegraph
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00:19:31,889 --> 00:19:34,772
from your window to mine
and you can give me a hint
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00:19:34,797 --> 00:19:37,416
every once in a while
with those algebra problems.
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00:19:37,695 --> 00:19:38,704
Well--
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00:19:39,331 --> 00:19:40,800
Oh, I don't mean the answers, Emily.
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00:19:40,890 --> 00:19:44,455
Of course not.
I mean, just some little hint.
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00:19:45,630 --> 00:19:48,017
Well, I think hints are allowed, so--
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00:19:49,576 --> 00:19:51,247
if you get stuck George, just--
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00:19:52,187 --> 00:19:54,695
whistle to me and
I'll give you some hints.
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00:19:56,577 --> 00:20:00,510
Gosh, you’re just naturally bright,
I guess.
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00:20:01,663 --> 00:20:02,816
Well, I--
388
00:20:03,661 --> 00:20:06,279
I figure it's just the way
a person's born.
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00:20:07,230 --> 00:20:08,238
Yeah.
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00:20:08,550 --> 00:20:09,579
But you see--
391
00:20:09,950 --> 00:20:12,268
I want to be a farmer and--
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00:20:12,637 --> 00:20:13,954
My Uncle Luke says--
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00:20:14,774 --> 00:20:16,063
whenever I’m ready why,
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00:20:16,290 --> 00:20:18,066
I can come over and
work on his farm and,
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00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:20,089
...if I’m any good at all,
396
00:20:20,283 --> 00:20:21,912
I can just gradually have it.
397
00:20:22,814 --> 00:20:24,494
You mean the house and everything?
398
00:20:24,736 --> 00:20:25,773
Oh, yeah.
399
00:20:30,962 --> 00:20:31,962
Well, I--
400
00:20:32,740 --> 00:20:34,936
I guess I better be getting off
to the baseball field.
401
00:20:35,366 --> 00:20:36,679
Thanks for the talk, Emily.
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00:20:38,180 --> 00:20:39,936
- Afternoon, Mrs. Webb.
- Hi, George.
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00:20:40,315 --> 00:20:41,429
So long, Emily.
404
00:20:41,820 --> 00:20:42,906
So long, George.
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00:21:21,772 --> 00:21:23,498
Emily, what you doing?
406
00:21:24,168 --> 00:21:25,667
Nothing mama.
407
00:21:25,806 --> 00:21:27,016
Well, if you’re doing nothing,
408
00:21:27,041 --> 00:21:29,084
you can come in here and
help me with this yarn.
409
00:21:40,740 --> 00:21:44,339
Well, George Gibbs let himself
have a real conversation, didn't he?
410
00:21:45,266 --> 00:21:46,357
He's grown up.
411
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,301
How old would George be?
412
00:21:49,473 --> 00:21:50,533
Oh, I don't know.
413
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,818
Let's see, he must be around 17.
414
00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,236
Mama, I made a speech in class today.
I was very good.
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00:21:58,032 --> 00:21:59,928
You must recite it
to your father at supper.
416
00:22:00,335 --> 00:22:01,375
What was it about?
417
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:02,946
The Louisiana Purchase.
418
00:22:03,794 --> 00:22:05,730
It was like silk off a spool.
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00:22:07,102 --> 00:22:09,237
I'm going to make speeches all my life.
420
00:22:09,537 --> 00:22:10,997
You're holding it too tight, Emily.
421
00:22:11,710 --> 00:22:12,827
There, that's better.
422
00:22:14,012 --> 00:22:15,360
- Mama?
- Huh?
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00:22:16,447 --> 00:22:18,579
Will you answer me a question,
serious?
424
00:22:19,264 --> 00:22:20,731
Seriously dear, not serious.
425
00:22:21,690 --> 00:22:22,930
Seriously, will you?
426
00:22:23,055 --> 00:22:24,199
Of course, I will.
427
00:22:24,883 --> 00:22:25,892
Mama,
428
00:22:27,532 --> 00:22:28,754
am I good-looking?
429
00:22:29,672 --> 00:22:30,796
Of course you are.
430
00:22:31,147 --> 00:22:33,035
Both of my children have gotten
good features.
431
00:22:33,165 --> 00:22:34,674
It'd be a shame if they hadn't.
432
00:22:35,167 --> 00:22:36,855
Oh Mama, that's not what I mean.
433
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:38,608
What I mean is--
434
00:22:39,142 --> 00:22:40,489
am I pretty?
435
00:22:41,506 --> 00:22:43,104
I've already told you yes.
436
00:22:43,577 --> 00:22:44,704
Now, that's enough of that.
437
00:22:45,143 --> 00:22:47,059
You got a nice, young pretty face.
438
00:22:47,579 --> 00:22:49,016
Never heard such foolishness.
439
00:22:49,114 --> 00:22:52,217
Oh Mama, you never tell us
the truth about anything.
440
00:22:52,307 --> 00:22:53,799
I am telling you the truth.
441
00:22:54,620 --> 00:22:55,686
Mama?
442
00:22:55,879 --> 00:22:57,103
...were you pretty?
443
00:22:57,976 --> 00:22:59,460
Yes, I was if I do say it.
444
00:23:00,060 --> 00:23:02,797
I was the prettiest girl in town
next to Mamie Cartwright.
445
00:23:03,428 --> 00:23:06,252
Oh but, Mama, you've got to say something
about me.
446
00:23:07,622 --> 00:23:09,691
Am I pretty enough to get anybody,
447
00:23:10,565 --> 00:23:13,705
well, to get people interested in me?
448
00:23:14,254 --> 00:23:16,124
Emily, you make me tired,
now stop it.
449
00:23:16,998 --> 00:23:19,275
You're pretty enough
for all normal purposes.
450
00:23:25,036 --> 00:23:26,129
It's evening.
451
00:23:26,842 --> 00:23:28,255
You can hear the choir practicing
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00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,881
in the Congregational Church.
453
00:23:31,238 --> 00:23:33,825
The children are all home
doing their schoolwork.
454
00:23:36,194 --> 00:23:39,158
The day is running down
like a tired clock.
455
00:24:50,735 --> 00:24:56,159
All right, that's better,
which ain't no miracle.
456
00:24:57,709 --> 00:24:59,010
Now do it again.
457
00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:02,574
Now remember ladies,
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00:25:03,841 --> 00:25:06,769
music come into the world
to give pleasure.
459
00:25:10,308 --> 00:25:11,743
Now try it again.
460
00:25:20,492 --> 00:25:21,605
Softly.
461
00:25:27,536 --> 00:25:28,629
Softer.
462
00:25:32,518 --> 00:25:33,913
Now listen everybody.
463
00:25:35,199 --> 00:25:39,321
Get it out of your minds
that music's only good when it's loud.
464
00:25:41,986 --> 00:25:44,153
You leave loudness
to the Methodists.
465
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,295
You couldn't beat them,
even if you wanted to.
466
00:25:51,902 --> 00:25:53,316
Once again, now.
467
00:25:54,065 --> 00:25:57,889
Art thou weary, art thou languid?
468
00:25:59,471 --> 00:26:01,814
It's a question, ladies and gentlemen...
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00:26:03,224 --> 00:26:04,657
...make it talk.
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00:26:05,896 --> 00:26:07,527
Oh and remember...
471
00:26:08,493 --> 00:26:10,762
...on Sunday take the second verse
472
00:26:11,668 --> 00:26:12,911
real soft.
473
00:26:14,770 --> 00:26:17,022
Sort of die out, at the end.
474
00:26:20,289 --> 00:26:21,422
Ready?
475
00:26:36,741 --> 00:26:38,143
Emily!
476
00:26:40,145 --> 00:26:41,574
Oh, hello.
477
00:26:41,853 --> 00:26:42,904
Hello.
478
00:26:45,283 --> 00:26:47,100
I can't work at all.
479
00:26:47,785 --> 00:26:49,420
The moonlight's so terrible.
480
00:26:55,145 --> 00:26:57,428
Emily, did you get the third problem?
481
00:26:58,723 --> 00:27:00,559
- Which?
- The third.
482
00:27:04,231 --> 00:27:07,714
Well, yes, George,
that's the easiest of them all.
483
00:27:09,507 --> 00:27:10,809
I don't see it.
484
00:27:12,411 --> 00:27:15,661
Emily,
could you give me a hint?
485
00:27:19,844 --> 00:27:22,454
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
486
00:27:24,262 --> 00:27:26,462
The answer is in yards.
487
00:27:27,761 --> 00:27:31,087
In yards, what do you mean?
488
00:27:32,294 --> 00:27:33,761
Square yards.
489
00:27:34,299 --> 00:27:35,901
Oh, square yards.
490
00:27:36,968 --> 00:27:38,929
Yes, George,
don't you see?
491
00:27:40,632 --> 00:27:41,731
Yeah.
492
00:27:43,901 --> 00:27:46,003
Square yards of wallpaper.
493
00:27:48,139 --> 00:27:51,522
Oh, I see,
square yards of wallpaper.
494
00:27:53,322 --> 00:27:54,596
Thanks a lot, Emily.
495
00:27:55,181 --> 00:27:56,348
You're welcome.
496
00:27:58,899 --> 00:28:00,265
Oh, my.
497
00:28:02,012 --> 00:28:03,814
Isn't the moonlight terrible?
498
00:28:10,651 --> 00:28:12,301
I think if you hold your breath,
499
00:28:13,090 --> 00:28:15,272
you can hear the train
all the way to Contoocook.
500
00:28:23,186 --> 00:28:24,205
Hear it?
501
00:28:25,490 --> 00:28:27,052
Yeah, what do you know?
502
00:28:31,147 --> 00:28:32,235
Well.
503
00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:35,717
I guess I'd better get back now
and try to work.
504
00:28:36,261 --> 00:28:37,444
Good night, Emily.
505
00:28:39,624 --> 00:28:40,758
Good night, George.
506
00:28:44,169 --> 00:28:46,678
Oh George,
can you come down a minute?
507
00:28:46,797 --> 00:28:47,837
Yes, Pa.
508
00:28:54,205 --> 00:28:56,064
Make yourself comfortable, George.
509
00:28:57,374 --> 00:28:58,604
I'll only keep you a minute.
510
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,616
George, how old are you?
511
00:29:04,398 --> 00:29:07,468
Me, well I'm past seventeen.
512
00:29:08,775 --> 00:29:10,996
What do you want to do
after school's over?
513
00:29:12,476 --> 00:29:16,333
You know Pa, I want to be a farmer
on Uncle Luke's farm.
514
00:29:18,735 --> 00:29:20,905
And you'll be willing will you,
to get up early
515
00:29:20,930 --> 00:29:22,603
and milk and feed the stock?
516
00:29:23,285 --> 00:29:25,377
And you'll be able to
hoe and hay all day?
517
00:29:26,826 --> 00:29:29,872
Sure I will, what do you mean Pa?
518
00:29:31,866 --> 00:29:33,476
Well George.
519
00:29:33,878 --> 00:29:35,902
When I was here in the office today,
520
00:29:36,427 --> 00:29:37,746
I heard a funny sound.
521
00:29:39,022 --> 00:29:40,257
What do you think it was?
522
00:29:41,372 --> 00:29:43,040
It was your mother chopping wood.
523
00:29:45,518 --> 00:29:47,834
Now, there you see your mother...
524
00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:51,610
...getting up early,
cooking meals all day,
525
00:29:51,637 --> 00:29:53,265
washing and ironing,
526
00:29:53,630 --> 00:29:55,485
...and yet she has to go out
in the backyard
527
00:29:55,510 --> 00:29:56,967
and chop wood.
528
00:29:57,794 --> 00:30:00,030
I suppose she got tired asking you.
529
00:30:00,959 --> 00:30:02,491
I suppose she just gave up,
530
00:30:02,516 --> 00:30:04,876
and decided it was easier
to do it herself.
531
00:30:07,246 --> 00:30:10,021
Yet, you eat her meals.
532
00:30:11,095 --> 00:30:13,438
You put on the clothes
she keeps nice for you.
533
00:30:14,685 --> 00:30:16,506
Then you run out and play baseball.
534
00:30:19,311 --> 00:30:22,582
Like she was a hired girl
we kept around the house,
535
00:30:22,607 --> 00:30:24,402
but didn't like very much.
536
00:30:27,959 --> 00:30:30,834
I knew all I had to do
was call it to your attention.
537
00:30:35,373 --> 00:30:37,053
Here's a handkerchief, son.
538
00:30:43,028 --> 00:30:45,186
I wonder what's happened
to your mother?
539
00:30:49,107 --> 00:30:51,654
Choir practice never was as late
as this before.
540
00:30:53,031 --> 00:30:55,033
It's only half past eight, Pa.
541
00:30:56,782 --> 00:30:58,905
I don't know what she wants
in that choir anyway.
542
00:30:59,430 --> 00:31:01,799
She hasn't got any more voice
than an old crow.
543
00:31:04,182 --> 00:31:06,917
Traipsing around the street
at this hour of the night.
544
00:31:12,896 --> 00:31:15,698
It's just about time you retired,
don't you think, George?
545
00:31:17,528 --> 00:31:18,571
Yes, Pa.
546
00:31:42,093 --> 00:31:43,494
My, it's late.
547
00:31:44,442 --> 00:31:46,842
Real nice choir practice, wasn't it?
548
00:31:47,168 --> 00:31:48,738
Myrtle Webb, look at that moon.
549
00:31:49,540 --> 00:31:50,868
Potato weather, sure.
550
00:31:52,149 --> 00:31:54,929
Well naturally,
I didn't want to say a word about it
551
00:31:54,954 --> 00:31:55,963
in front of those others,
552
00:31:56,303 --> 00:31:57,738
but now we're alone,
553
00:31:58,452 --> 00:32:00,949
really, it's the worst scandal
that ever was in this town.
554
00:32:00,974 --> 00:32:02,792
- What?
- Why, Simon Stimson.
555
00:32:02,930 --> 00:32:04,326
Now, Louella.
556
00:32:04,366 --> 00:32:07,791
But Julia, to have
the organist of a church drink,
557
00:32:07,995 --> 00:32:09,874
and drunk year after year.
558
00:32:09,899 --> 00:32:12,856
- Louella.
- Julia, you know he was drunk tonight.
559
00:32:12,943 --> 00:32:15,046
Now, Louella,
we all know about Mr. Stimson.
560
00:32:15,173 --> 00:32:17,248
We all know about the trouble
he's been through,
561
00:32:17,515 --> 00:32:19,072
and Dr. Ferguson knows too,
562
00:32:19,192 --> 00:32:21,737
and if Dr. Ferguson's willing
to keep him on his job there
563
00:32:21,763 --> 00:32:23,233
the only thing
the rest of us can do
564
00:32:23,258 --> 00:32:24,490
is just not to notice it.
565
00:32:24,543 --> 00:32:25,878
Not to notice it?
566
00:32:26,084 --> 00:32:27,331
But it's getting worse.
567
00:32:27,363 --> 00:32:29,228
No, it ain't Louella,
it's getting better.
568
00:32:29,408 --> 00:32:31,539
I've been in that choir
twice as long as you have,
569
00:32:31,564 --> 00:32:33,387
and it doesn't happen
anywhere near so often.
570
00:32:34,799 --> 00:32:36,011
Oh, my.
571
00:32:36,477 --> 00:32:38,624
I hate to go to bed
on a night like this.
572
00:32:39,249 --> 00:32:42,342
- Well, good night Louella.
- Good night.
573
00:32:42,367 --> 00:32:44,024
- Good night, Julia.
- Good night, Myrtle.
574
00:32:45,043 --> 00:32:46,530
Can you get home all right, Louella?
575
00:32:46,644 --> 00:32:48,338
Oh, it's as bright as day.
576
00:32:48,658 --> 00:32:51,607
I can see Mr. Soames scowling
at the window now.
577
00:32:54,030 --> 00:32:57,741
You'd think we'd been to a dance
the way the menfolk carry on.
578
00:32:58,084 --> 00:32:59,157
Good night, Julia.
579
00:32:59,258 --> 00:33:01,347
- Good night, Louella.
- See you on Sunday.
580
00:33:01,407 --> 00:33:02,780
See you then.
581
00:33:08,073 --> 00:33:09,946
Well, we had a real good time.
582
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:11,123
You're late enough.
583
00:33:11,351 --> 00:33:14,064
Frank, I'm not any later than usual.
584
00:33:18,025 --> 00:33:20,778
You stopping to gossip
with a lot of hens.
585
00:33:21,018 --> 00:33:22,294
Now don't be grouchy.
586
00:33:25,916 --> 00:33:27,379
Smell my heliotrope.
587
00:33:31,436 --> 00:33:33,096
What'd you do all the time I was away?
588
00:33:33,191 --> 00:33:36,074
Oh, I read as usual.
589
00:33:36,677 --> 00:33:39,609
Well, what did the girls
gossip about tonight?
590
00:33:39,696 --> 00:33:41,840
Believe me, Frank,
there's something to gossip about.
591
00:33:42,066 --> 00:33:44,336
Simon Stimson, far gone was he?
592
00:33:44,362 --> 00:33:45,629
The worst I've ever seen.
593
00:33:45,936 --> 00:33:47,610
Frank, how's all that going to end?
594
00:33:47,783 --> 00:33:49,755
Dr. Ferguson
can't forgive him forever.
595
00:33:50,001 --> 00:33:53,245
I guess I know Simon
as well as anybody in this town.
596
00:33:54,445 --> 00:33:57,253
Some people just ain't made
for small-town life.
597
00:33:57,843 --> 00:33:59,234
I don't know how that will end,
598
00:34:00,214 --> 00:34:02,999
but there's nothing we can do
but leave it alone.
599
00:34:03,521 --> 00:34:05,370
- Get in.
- Oh, no, not yet.
600
00:34:06,350 --> 00:34:07,925
Frank, I'm worried about you.
601
00:34:08,622 --> 00:34:09,727
What are you worried about?
602
00:34:09,910 --> 00:34:12,221
Well, I think it's my duty to,
603
00:34:12,314 --> 00:34:15,088
plan for you to get a real rest
and change,
604
00:34:15,503 --> 00:34:17,777
and if I get that legacy
I'm going to insist upon it.
605
00:34:17,836 --> 00:34:20,226
Now, now, Julie no,
606
00:34:20,279 --> 00:34:22,403
there's no sense
in going all over that again.
607
00:34:22,537 --> 00:34:23,999
Come on, it's getting late.
608
00:34:24,885 --> 00:34:27,090
First thing you know,
you'll catch a cold.
609
00:34:27,712 --> 00:34:30,125
I gave George
a piece of my mind tonight.
610
00:34:30,445 --> 00:34:31,967
I reckon you'll get
your wood chopped
611
00:34:32,083 --> 00:34:34,015
for a little while anyway.
612
00:34:34,365 --> 00:34:37,255
You know, that Mrs. Fairchild,
always locks her front door every night.
613
00:34:37,358 --> 00:34:39,235
All of the people
in that part of town do.
614
00:34:39,417 --> 00:34:41,316
They're all getting too citified,
615
00:34:41,889 --> 00:34:43,103
that's the trouble with them.
616
00:34:45,054 --> 00:34:48,219
They haven't got a thing fit to burgle,
and everybody knows it.
617
00:34:52,061 --> 00:34:53,306
Good evening, Constable.
618
00:34:54,186 --> 00:34:55,640
Good evening, Mr. Webb.
619
00:34:56,566 --> 00:34:59,311
- Quite a moon.
- Yeah.
620
00:35:00,941 --> 00:35:02,148
All quiet tonight?
621
00:35:02,573 --> 00:35:04,666
Simon Stimson is
roaming around a little.
622
00:35:05,217 --> 00:35:07,437
I just saw his wife moving about
to hunt for him,
623
00:35:08,123 --> 00:35:09,419
so I looked the other way.
624
00:35:11,256 --> 00:35:12,390
There he is now.
625
00:35:31,976 --> 00:35:33,506
Good evening, Simon.
626
00:35:37,794 --> 00:35:39,008
Good evening.
627
00:35:40,149 --> 00:35:42,696
Most of the town's
settled down for the evening,
628
00:35:44,086 --> 00:35:45,492
guess we'd better do the same.
629
00:35:46,503 --> 00:35:47,838
Can I walk along with you?
630
00:35:57,247 --> 00:35:58,545
Good night.
631
00:36:10,208 --> 00:36:11,711
I don't know how that's going to end.
632
00:36:13,096 --> 00:36:15,249
Oh Bill, if you see my boy
smoking cigarettes,
633
00:36:15,744 --> 00:36:17,050
give a word to him, will you?
634
00:36:17,770 --> 00:36:19,284
He thinks a lot of you, Bill.
635
00:36:19,749 --> 00:36:22,059
- I don't think he smokes no cigarettes,
Mr. Webb.
636
00:36:22,808 --> 00:36:24,849
Leastways, not more
than two or three a year.
637
00:36:25,729 --> 00:36:27,127
Well, I hope not.
638
00:36:27,470 --> 00:36:28,482
Good night, Bill.
639
00:36:28,764 --> 00:36:30,288
Good night, Mr. Webb.
640
00:36:53,829 --> 00:36:55,122
Who's that up there?
641
00:36:55,909 --> 00:36:57,025
Is that you, Myrtle?
642
00:36:57,366 --> 00:36:59,494
Oh, no it's me Papa.
643
00:37:00,770 --> 00:37:02,151
Why aren't you in bed?
644
00:37:02,806 --> 00:37:04,442
I don't know.
645
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,640
I just can't sleep yet, Papa.
646
00:37:11,142 --> 00:37:13,209
The moonlight's so wonderful,
647
00:37:16,227 --> 00:37:19,350
and the smell
of Mrs. Gibbs' heliotrope.
648
00:37:21,492 --> 00:37:22,927
Can you smell it?
649
00:37:25,223 --> 00:37:29,979
Yes, haven't any troubles on your mind,
have you, Emily?
650
00:37:30,108 --> 00:37:32,010
Troubles, Papa, no.
651
00:37:32,864 --> 00:37:34,986
Well don't let your mother catch you.
652
00:37:35,273 --> 00:37:36,446
Good night, Emily.
653
00:37:36,507 --> 00:37:38,075
Good night, Papa.
654
00:37:46,855 --> 00:37:48,644
I never told you about that letter
655
00:37:48,677 --> 00:37:51,540
Jane Crawford got from her minister
when she was sick.
656
00:37:52,336 --> 00:37:54,137
He wrote Jane a letter,
and on the envelope,
657
00:37:54,162 --> 00:37:56,063
the address was like this.
658
00:37:56,454 --> 00:37:58,218
It said, "Jane Crofut"
659
00:37:58,725 --> 00:38:00,292
"The Crofut Farm"
660
00:38:00,805 --> 00:38:02,236
"Grover's Corners"
661
00:38:02,792 --> 00:38:04,419
"Sutton County"
662
00:38:04,667 --> 00:38:05,997
"New Hampshire"
663
00:38:06,340 --> 00:38:08,005
"The United States of America."
664
00:38:08,052 --> 00:38:09,471
What's funny about that?
665
00:38:09,628 --> 00:38:11,432
But listen, it's not finished.
666
00:38:12,073 --> 00:38:14,407
"The United States of America"
667
00:38:14,628 --> 00:38:16,492
"Continent of North America"
668
00:38:17,194 --> 00:38:18,840
"Western Hemisphere"
669
00:38:19,478 --> 00:38:20,704
"the Earth"
670
00:38:21,333 --> 00:38:22,572
"the Solar System"
671
00:38:23,148 --> 00:38:24,327
"the Universe"
672
00:38:24,653 --> 00:38:25,981
"the Mind of God."
673
00:38:26,350 --> 00:38:28,098
That's what it said on the envelope.
674
00:38:29,153 --> 00:38:30,621
Hmm. What do you know?
675
00:38:30,762 --> 00:38:33,057
Yep, and the postman brought it
just the same.
676
00:38:36,327 --> 00:38:37,989
What do you know?
677
00:39:00,724 --> 00:39:03,482
Well, three years have gone by.
678
00:39:04,258 --> 00:39:06,170
The sun's come up
over a thousand times.
679
00:39:06,580 --> 00:39:09,204
Summers and winters have cracked
the mountains a little bit more,
680
00:39:09,229 --> 00:39:11,085
and the rain's brought down
some of the dirt.
681
00:39:11,575 --> 00:39:13,401
Some babies
who weren't even born before
682
00:39:13,426 --> 00:39:15,610
have begun
talking regular sentences already,
683
00:39:16,066 --> 00:39:18,315
and some folks who thought
they were right young and spry
684
00:39:18,340 --> 00:39:20,465
have discovered they can't
bound up a flight of stairs
685
00:39:20,490 --> 00:39:23,407
the way they used to
without their hearts fluttering a little.
686
00:39:23,888 --> 00:39:25,870
All that can happen
in a thousand days.
687
00:39:26,581 --> 00:39:29,029
Nature's been pushing and
contriving in other ways, too.
688
00:39:29,589 --> 00:39:31,836
A number of young people
fell in love and got married.
689
00:39:32,882 --> 00:39:34,594
Most everybody in the world
gets married.
690
00:39:35,222 --> 00:39:37,334
In this town, there aren't hardly
any exceptions.
691
00:39:38,775 --> 00:39:41,671
Most everybody
climbs into the grave married.
692
00:39:43,779 --> 00:39:45,666
What you've seen was called
"the daily life."
693
00:39:46,088 --> 00:39:48,866
Let's call what you're going to see
"love and marriage."
694
00:39:49,473 --> 00:39:52,591
So it's three years later, it's 1904.
695
00:39:53,230 --> 00:39:55,519
It's July 7th just after
the high school commencement.
696
00:39:56,493 --> 00:39:58,825
That's the time most young people
jump up and get married
697
00:39:59,295 --> 00:40:01,351
as soon as they've passed
their final examinations,
698
00:40:01,384 --> 00:40:03,703
in solid geometry and
Cicero's orations.
699
00:40:04,832 --> 00:40:07,747
That's the time most young people
think themselves fitted to get married.
700
00:40:08,621 --> 00:40:10,355
It's early morning again,
701
00:40:10,380 --> 00:40:11,681
only this time
it's been raining.
702
00:40:11,977 --> 00:40:14,008
It's been thundering and pouring.
703
00:40:15,425 --> 00:40:17,030
I don't know,
704
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:18,898
it may start in again any moment.
705
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,614
Yeah, there's the 5:45
for Boston.
706
00:40:25,503 --> 00:40:27,279
There's Si Crowell
delivering the papers
707
00:40:27,352 --> 00:40:28,706
like his brother before him.
708
00:40:29,692 --> 00:40:31,227
And there's Mrs. Gibbs,
709
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,400
and Mrs. Webb coming downstairs
to get breakfast
710
00:40:35,493 --> 00:40:37,643
just as though
this were an ordinary day.
711
00:40:38,215 --> 00:40:40,418
I don't have to point out
to the women in the audience
712
00:40:40,576 --> 00:40:42,523
that both these ladies they see
before them,
713
00:40:42,653 --> 00:40:45,165
both these ladies have been cooking
three meals a day,
714
00:40:45,218 --> 00:40:47,751
one of them for 21 years
and the other for 25,
715
00:40:48,091 --> 00:40:50,043
and never took a summer vacation.
716
00:40:51,162 --> 00:40:52,596
They raised two children apiece,
717
00:40:52,691 --> 00:40:53,964
washed, cleaned the house,
718
00:40:54,039 --> 00:40:55,633
and never had a nervous breakdown.
719
00:40:58,135 --> 00:41:00,844
Here comes Howie Newsome and Bessie
delivering the milk.
720
00:41:05,756 --> 00:41:07,468
- Morning Howie.
- Morning Si.
721
00:41:07,898 --> 00:41:09,556
anything in the paper I ought to know?
722
00:41:09,619 --> 00:41:10,646
Nothing much.
723
00:41:10,723 --> 00:41:13,099
'Cept we're losing
about the best baseball pitcher,
724
00:41:13,124 --> 00:41:14,285
Grover's Corners ever had.
725
00:41:14,470 --> 00:41:15,703
George Gibbs, huh?
726
00:41:15,997 --> 00:41:17,221
I don't see how he can give up
727
00:41:17,259 --> 00:41:19,071
a thing like that just to get married.
728
00:41:19,856 --> 00:41:20,916
Would you have, Howie?
729
00:41:20,941 --> 00:41:22,862
Can't say, never had no talent
that way.
730
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:25,429
But in '95 we had a player Si,
731
00:41:25,454 --> 00:41:27,250
that even George Gibbs
couldn't have touched,
732
00:41:27,396 --> 00:41:28,599
Name of Hank Todd.
733
00:41:28,756 --> 00:41:30,618
But he went down to Maine
to become a parson.
734
00:41:31,465 --> 00:41:33,170
A wonderful ball player.
735
00:41:33,676 --> 00:41:34,911
- Si.
- Howie.
736
00:41:44,615 --> 00:41:46,004
Morning, Mrs. Gibbs.
737
00:41:46,624 --> 00:41:48,429
- Morning, Howie.
- It's too bad it's so wet,
738
00:41:48,454 --> 00:41:49,934
but I guess it's
cleared up for good.
739
00:41:49,959 --> 00:41:50,971
I certainly hope it has.
740
00:41:51,007 --> 00:41:53,104
I'm going to have
a house full of relations today, Howie.
741
00:41:53,128 --> 00:41:55,590
Looks like I'll need three of milk
and two of cream.
742
00:41:55,659 --> 00:41:57,228
Three of milk and two of cream.
743
00:41:57,253 --> 00:41:59,213
My wife says to tell you
we hope they'll be happy.
744
00:41:59,238 --> 00:42:00,558
- We know they will.
- Thanks a lot, Howie.
745
00:42:00,591 --> 00:42:01,994
Tell your wife,
I hope she gets to the wedding.
746
00:42:02,019 --> 00:42:03,913
- Maybe she can,
she'll get there if she can.
747
00:42:06,506 --> 00:42:08,460
- Morning, Mrs. Webb.
- Morning, Mr. Newsome.
748
00:42:08,603 --> 00:42:10,965
I told you four quarts,
but I hope you can spare me another.
749
00:42:11,030 --> 00:42:13,059
Yes, and I brought you
a pint of cream too.
750
00:42:13,444 --> 00:42:15,005
Mrs. Newsome told me special
to tell you
751
00:42:15,035 --> 00:42:16,721
as how we hope
they'll be very happy.
752
00:42:16,921 --> 00:42:17,944
We know they will.
753
00:42:18,214 --> 00:42:20,179
Thank you, Mr. Newsome,
and thank Mrs. Newsome.
754
00:42:20,287 --> 00:42:22,027
We're counting on seeing you
at the church.
755
00:42:22,068 --> 00:42:24,395
Yes, we hope to get there all right.
Wouldn't miss that.
756
00:42:29,472 --> 00:42:33,028
Well, Ma, the day's come
for losing one of your chicks.
757
00:42:33,068 --> 00:42:35,947
Frank Gibbs, don't you say another word,
I feel like crying any minute.
758
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:37,490
Sit down and drink your coffee.
759
00:42:37,516 --> 00:42:39,291
The groom's upstairs shaving himself,
760
00:42:39,316 --> 00:42:40,929
only there isn't very much to shave.
761
00:42:41,458 --> 00:42:43,734
He's whistling and singing
like he was glad to leave us
762
00:42:44,745 --> 00:42:47,385
every now and then saying,
"I do" to the mirror.
763
00:42:48,356 --> 00:42:50,416
But it don't sound convincing to me.
764
00:42:50,514 --> 00:42:52,863
I declare Frank, I don't know how
he's going to get along.
765
00:42:53,283 --> 00:42:54,958
I've always arranged his clothes
for him,
766
00:42:55,261 --> 00:42:56,714
seen to it that his feet were dry,
767
00:42:56,739 --> 00:42:57,896
and he had warm things on.
768
00:42:57,975 --> 00:42:58,975
They're too young, Frank.
769
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,526
Emily will never think of those things.
770
00:43:00,557 --> 00:43:02,355
He'll catch his death of cold
within a week.
771
00:43:02,388 --> 00:43:03,893
I remember my wedding morning, Julie.
772
00:43:03,921 --> 00:43:05,052
Don't start that, Frank Gibbs.
773
00:43:05,077 --> 00:43:06,999
I was the scaredest young fellow
774
00:43:07,024 --> 00:43:08,347
in the state of New Hampshire.
775
00:43:08,580 --> 00:43:10,100
Thought I'd made a mistake for sure.
776
00:43:10,675 --> 00:43:12,930
Now when I saw you
coming down the aisle
777
00:43:12,997 --> 00:43:15,129
I thought you were the prettiest girl
I've ever seen.
778
00:43:15,265 --> 00:43:17,675
The whole trouble was,
I'd never seen you before.
779
00:43:18,362 --> 00:43:20,539
There I was,
right in the Congregational Church
780
00:43:20,564 --> 00:43:22,268
being married to a total stranger.
781
00:43:22,455 --> 00:43:23,812
Well, how do you think I felt?
782
00:43:23,965 --> 00:43:26,752
I tell you Frank,
weddings are perfectly horrible things.
783
00:43:26,792 --> 00:43:28,319
Farces, that's what they are.
784
00:43:30,588 --> 00:43:31,755
Made something for you.
785
00:43:31,967 --> 00:43:33,660
Why Julie Hersey!
786
00:43:34,843 --> 00:43:36,035
French toast.
787
00:43:37,068 --> 00:43:38,363
It ain't hard to make.
788
00:43:38,647 --> 00:43:40,294
Besides, I had to do something.
789
00:43:41,121 --> 00:43:42,759
How did you sleep last night, Julie?
790
00:43:44,735 --> 00:43:46,270
Heard a lot of hours struck off.
791
00:43:47,374 --> 00:43:49,633
I get a shock
every time I think of George
792
00:43:49,715 --> 00:43:53,751
setting out as a family man,
that great gangling thing.
793
00:43:54,234 --> 00:43:56,117
I tell you Julie,
there's nothing in the world
794
00:43:56,170 --> 00:43:57,715
so terrifying as a son.
795
00:43:57,767 --> 00:43:59,486
The relation between
a father and a son
796
00:43:59,511 --> 00:44:01,302
is the dangdest, awkwardest -
797
00:44:01,336 --> 00:44:04,488
Well, mother and daughter's
no picnic I can tell you.
798
00:44:07,085 --> 00:44:08,378
I do.
799
00:44:09,292 --> 00:44:10,344
I do.
800
00:44:11,045 --> 00:44:12,299
I do, I do.
801
00:44:15,751 --> 00:44:17,359
They'll have a lot of trouble
I suppose,
802
00:44:17,384 --> 00:44:18,736
but that's none of our business.
803
00:44:19,048 --> 00:44:21,512
Everybody's got a right
to their own trouble.
804
00:44:24,215 --> 00:44:27,603
You know one thing that scared me
when I married you?
805
00:44:27,678 --> 00:44:28,989
Go along with you.
806
00:44:29,485 --> 00:44:32,440
I was afraid we didn't have material
for conversation
807
00:44:32,467 --> 00:44:34,351
more than would last a few weeks.
808
00:44:39,478 --> 00:44:40,555
I was afraid we'd run out,
809
00:44:40,580 --> 00:44:44,050
and have to eat our meals
in silence, that's a fact.
810
00:44:44,928 --> 00:44:48,221
Well, you and I have been conversing
for 20 years
811
00:44:48,299 --> 00:44:50,673
without any noticeable barren spells.
812
00:44:50,953 --> 00:44:53,237
Good weather, bad weather,
it ain't very choice but,
813
00:44:53,653 --> 00:44:55,490
but, I always find something to say.
814
00:44:56,350 --> 00:44:58,409
Did you hear Rebecca
stirring around up there?
815
00:44:58,622 --> 00:45:01,438
No, this is the only day in the year
816
00:45:01,463 --> 00:45:03,519
when she isn't managing
everyone's affairs up there.
817
00:45:03,627 --> 00:45:05,926
She's hiding in her room and
I have an idea she's crying.
818
00:45:06,853 --> 00:45:08,385
Land Sakes, this has got to stop.
819
00:45:08,533 --> 00:45:11,822
Rebecca, Rebecca,
come and eat your breakfast.
820
00:45:19,330 --> 00:45:20,539
Good morning, everybody.
821
00:45:20,564 --> 00:45:22,134
Only four more hours to live.
822
00:45:23,534 --> 00:45:25,585
George Gibbs,
where re you going?
823
00:45:26,970 --> 00:45:28,939
I'm just stepping across the grass
to see my girl.
824
00:45:28,964 --> 00:45:31,255
Now, George, put your rubbers on
it's raining torrents.
825
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,808
You don't step out of this house,
unless you're prepared for it.
826
00:45:33,896 --> 00:45:35,408
Oh, Ma, it's just a step.
827
00:45:35,448 --> 00:45:37,728
You'll catch your death of cold,
and cough all through the service.
828
00:45:37,776 --> 00:45:39,182
- Ah.
- George.
829
00:45:39,681 --> 00:45:41,083
Do as your mother tells you.
830
00:45:46,262 --> 00:45:48,451
From tomorrow on, you can kill yourself
in all weather,
831
00:45:48,476 --> 00:45:50,962
but when you're in my house,
you'll live wisely, thank you.
832
00:45:51,649 --> 00:45:53,322
Maybe Mrs. Webb ain't used to callers
833
00:45:53,347 --> 00:45:54,919
at seven o'clock in the morning.
834
00:45:55,145 --> 00:45:56,560
Here, have a cup of coffee first.
835
00:45:56,678 --> 00:45:57,695
Be back in a minute.
836
00:46:00,449 --> 00:46:01,877
Good morning, Mother Webb.
837
00:46:01,902 --> 00:46:03,027
Goodness, you frightened me.
838
00:46:03,052 --> 00:46:04,122
George, I hate to say it,
839
00:46:04,147 --> 00:46:05,672
but you understand I can't ask you in.
840
00:46:05,739 --> 00:46:07,570
- Why not?
- You know as well as I do
841
00:46:07,595 --> 00:46:09,541
a groom can't see his bride
on his wedding day,
842
00:46:09,692 --> 00:46:11,172
not 'til he sees her in church first.
843
00:46:11,212 --> 00:46:12,744
Oh, that's just a superstition.
844
00:46:13,338 --> 00:46:15,267
- Good morning, Mr. Webb.
- Morning, George.
845
00:46:15,330 --> 00:46:17,170
You don't believe in that superstition,
do you?
846
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:19,577
There's a lot of common
sense in superstitions, George.
847
00:46:20,117 --> 00:46:21,839
Millions have followed it,
and don't you be
848
00:46:21,864 --> 00:46:23,811
the first to fly
in the face of custom.
849
00:46:25,731 --> 00:46:26,735
How's Emily?
850
00:46:26,778 --> 00:46:27,874
She hasn't waked up yet.
851
00:46:27,898 --> 00:46:29,221
Haven't heard a sound out of her.
852
00:46:29,801 --> 00:46:30,805
Emily's asleep.
853
00:46:30,948 --> 00:46:33,484
Well, no wonder, we were up 'til all hours,
sewing and packing.
854
00:46:33,986 --> 00:46:35,208
Tell you what I'll do, George.
855
00:46:35,245 --> 00:46:38,134
you sit down here with Mr. Webb
for a minute, drink that cup of coffee.
856
00:46:38,159 --> 00:46:39,173
I'll run up and see,
857
00:46:39,205 --> 00:46:41,081
that she doesn't come down,
and surprise you.
858
00:46:41,747 --> 00:46:42,763
There's some bacon there.
859
00:46:42,863 --> 00:46:44,100
I won't be too long about it.
860
00:47:13,677 --> 00:47:14,929
Well George, how are you?
861
00:47:16,796 --> 00:47:17,955
Oh I'm fine.
862
00:47:19,268 --> 00:47:20,268
Uhh.
863
00:47:21,385 --> 00:47:22,746
Mr. Webb,
864
00:47:23,848 --> 00:47:26,296
what common sense could there be
in a superstition like that?
865
00:47:27,898 --> 00:47:29,374
Well, George, on the wedding morning
866
00:47:29,399 --> 00:47:30,963
a girl's head is full of,
867
00:47:31,645 --> 00:47:33,684
oh you know, clothes and
one thing and another.
868
00:47:34,277 --> 00:47:35,732
Don't you think that's probably it?
869
00:47:36,421 --> 00:47:37,523
Oh, yes.
870
00:47:38,593 --> 00:47:39,626
Yes.
871
00:47:40,437 --> 00:47:42,181
I guess I never thought of that before.
872
00:47:42,521 --> 00:47:45,175
A girl's apt to be a mite nervous
on her wedding day.
873
00:47:47,267 --> 00:47:49,460
Gee, I wish a person could get married
874
00:47:49,485 --> 00:47:52,173
without all that marching up and down.
875
00:47:53,304 --> 00:47:55,519
Every man that's ever lived
has felt that way George,
876
00:47:56,929 --> 00:47:58,210
but it hasn't been any use.
877
00:47:59,156 --> 00:48:01,901
It's the womenfolks
who built up weddings, my boy.
878
00:48:03,192 --> 00:48:05,359
A man looks mighty small
at a wedding George.
879
00:48:05,896 --> 00:48:08,321
All those good women standing
shoulder to shoulder
880
00:48:08,346 --> 00:48:11,772
making sure that the knot's tied,
in a mighty public way.
881
00:48:14,913 --> 00:48:16,680
But you believe in it,
don't you Mr. Webb?
882
00:48:17,534 --> 00:48:18,566
Oh, yes.
883
00:48:18,591 --> 00:48:20,894
Oh yes!
Now don't misunderstand me George.
884
00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:22,729
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
885
00:48:22,945 --> 00:48:24,000
A wonderful thing.
886
00:48:24,866 --> 00:48:26,155
Don't you forget that, George.
887
00:48:26,555 --> 00:48:27,586
No sir.
888
00:48:33,190 --> 00:48:34,350
Mr. Webb.
889
00:48:36,033 --> 00:48:37,843
How old were you when you got married?
890
00:48:38,438 --> 00:48:39,971
Well you see I had been to college,
891
00:48:39,996 --> 00:48:41,906
and I'd taken a little time
to get settled.
892
00:48:43,234 --> 00:48:45,879
But Mrs. Webb wasn't much older
than what Emily is.
893
00:48:46,765 --> 00:48:49,148
Oh, age hasn't much to do with it
my boy.
894
00:48:50,474 --> 00:48:52,081
That is compared with
895
00:48:52,734 --> 00:48:53,734
...other things.
896
00:48:54,925 --> 00:48:56,908
What were you going to say Mr. Webb?
897
00:48:58,906 --> 00:49:00,208
Well, I don't know, uhh.
898
00:49:00,470 --> 00:49:01,835
Was I going to say something?
899
00:49:03,957 --> 00:49:05,004
George!
900
00:49:06,675 --> 00:49:08,051
I was remembering the other night,
901
00:49:08,081 --> 00:49:10,063
the advice my father gave me
when I got married.
902
00:49:11,195 --> 00:49:13,797
Yes he said, "Charles" he said.
903
00:49:14,556 --> 00:49:17,008
"Start right off
by showing her who's boss."
904
00:49:18,515 --> 00:49:19,930
"Best thing to do is to
905
00:49:19,955 --> 00:49:21,713
...give an order, about something."
906
00:49:22,213 --> 00:49:23,466
"Even if it don't make sense."
907
00:49:24,764 --> 00:49:26,565
"Just so she'll learn to obey,"
908
00:49:26,772 --> 00:49:27,835
...he said.
909
00:49:28,780 --> 00:49:31,290
Then he said, "If anything
about her irritates you,
910
00:49:31,315 --> 00:49:32,399
"conversation or anything,
911
00:49:32,424 --> 00:49:33,825
"get right up and leave the house.
912
00:49:34,134 --> 00:49:35,752
"That will make it clear to her."
913
00:49:36,069 --> 00:49:37,284
And oh yes, he said,
914
00:49:38,589 --> 00:49:40,951
"Never tell your wife
how much money you have."
915
00:49:41,404 --> 00:49:42,449
"Never!"
916
00:49:42,865 --> 00:49:44,323
Well, I couldn't exactly do th--
917
00:49:44,348 --> 00:49:46,096
So I took the opposite of his advice, and
918
00:49:46,267 --> 00:49:47,633
I've been happy ever since.
919
00:49:51,221 --> 00:49:53,166
Let that be a lesson to you, my boy.
920
00:49:53,818 --> 00:49:56,768
Never ask advice of anybody
on personal matters.
921
00:49:57,188 --> 00:49:59,489
George, Emily's got to come down
and eat her breakfast.
922
00:49:59,514 --> 00:50:00,514
She sends you her love,
923
00:50:00,552 --> 00:50:02,692
but she don't want
to lay eyes on you. Goodbye.
924
00:50:05,349 --> 00:50:06,487
Good bye.
925
00:50:10,153 --> 00:50:13,857
Myrtle, I guess you didn't know
about that older superstition.
926
00:50:14,083 --> 00:50:15,139
What do you mean, Charles?
927
00:50:15,224 --> 00:50:17,872
Since the caveman, no bridegroom
should see his father-in-law
928
00:50:17,897 --> 00:50:19,622
on the day of the wedding,
or near it.
929
00:50:19,815 --> 00:50:21,370
Remember that.
930
00:50:26,443 --> 00:50:27,938
Now before we get on with the wedding
931
00:50:28,051 --> 00:50:29,827
I think we should see how it all began,
932
00:50:30,028 --> 00:50:32,219
this plan to spend a lifetime together.
933
00:50:32,823 --> 00:50:36,262
I'm awfully interested
in how such big things begin.
934
00:50:37,513 --> 00:50:39,987
You know, you're 21 or 22,
and then--
935
00:50:40,757 --> 00:50:41,864
...you're 70.
936
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,003
you've been a lawyer for 50 years,
937
00:50:44,493 --> 00:50:46,215
and the white-haired lady beside you
938
00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:48,158
has eaten 50,000 meals with you.
939
00:50:49,075 --> 00:50:50,360
How do such things begin?
940
00:50:51,162 --> 00:50:52,842
Now George and Emily
are going to show you
941
00:50:52,867 --> 00:50:54,733
the conversation they had
when they first knew
942
00:50:54,758 --> 00:50:56,842
as the saying goes,
they were meant for one another.
943
00:50:57,517 --> 00:51:00,161
Now, it all happened last year
on the way home from school.
944
00:51:00,517 --> 00:51:03,173
George had just been elected president
of the senior class,
945
00:51:03,761 --> 00:51:06,142
and Emily had just been elected
secretary/treasurer.
946
00:51:06,612 --> 00:51:08,241
Now, you all know
how important that is.
947
00:51:08,679 --> 00:51:11,381
Emily, can I carry your books
home for you?
948
00:51:12,623 --> 00:51:13,632
Well, uhh...
949
00:51:14,294 --> 00:51:15,820
Thank you, it isn't far.
950
00:51:18,055 --> 00:51:20,086
Bob, if I'm late start practice,
951
00:51:20,119 --> 00:51:21,499
and give Herb some long high ones.
952
00:51:21,579 --> 00:51:22,973
All right.
953
00:51:25,987 --> 00:51:28,327
Awfully glad
you were elected too, Emily.
954
00:51:28,699 --> 00:51:29,772
Thank you.
955
00:51:31,841 --> 00:51:33,843
Emily, why are you mad at me?
956
00:51:35,411 --> 00:51:37,047
Oh, I'm not mad at you.
957
00:51:39,109 --> 00:51:41,018
You've been treating me
so funny lately.
958
00:51:43,403 --> 00:51:44,623
Well, since you asked me,
959
00:51:44,648 --> 00:51:46,433
I might as well
say it right out, George.
960
00:51:47,922 --> 00:51:49,766
- Goodbye, Miss Cochrane.
- Emily.
961
00:51:49,791 --> 00:51:51,884
- Good bye, Miss Cochrane.
- George.
962
00:51:52,855 --> 00:51:53,912
What is it?
963
00:51:56,393 --> 00:52:00,590
I don't like the whole change
that's come over you this last year.
964
00:52:03,517 --> 00:52:05,450
I'm sorry if that hurt your feelings,
but...
965
00:52:07,008 --> 00:52:09,553
...but I've just got to tell the truth
and shame the devil.
966
00:52:10,860 --> 00:52:14,170
Change... what do you mean?
967
00:52:15,779 --> 00:52:18,434
Well, up to a year ago,
I used to like you a lot.
968
00:52:19,663 --> 00:52:22,085
I used to watch you
while you did everything,
969
00:52:22,966 --> 00:52:25,399
...because we've been friends
for so long, and
970
00:52:26,362 --> 00:52:29,035
...then you started spending
all your time at baseball,
971
00:52:29,136 --> 00:52:32,379
and, you never stop
to speak to anybody anymore,
972
00:52:33,188 --> 00:52:34,588
...not to really speak.
973
00:52:35,198 --> 00:52:37,856
Not even to your own family
you didn't.
974
00:52:39,202 --> 00:52:40,614
George, it's a fact.
975
00:52:41,057 --> 00:52:42,998
Since you've been captain,
you've got awful
976
00:52:44,351 --> 00:52:46,293
...stuck up and conceited, and
977
00:52:46,919 --> 00:52:48,593
all the girls say so.
978
00:52:50,113 --> 00:52:51,734
It hurts me to hear them say it, but
979
00:52:52,594 --> 00:52:55,489
...but I have to agree with them a little
because it's true.
980
00:52:58,087 --> 00:53:00,063
Oh, gosh Emily,
981
00:53:01,290 --> 00:53:03,846
I never thought that such a thing
was happening to me.
982
00:53:05,506 --> 00:53:09,674
I guess it's hard for a fella not to have,
some faults creep into his character.
983
00:53:11,383 --> 00:53:14,699
I always expect a man to be perfect,
and I think he should be.
984
00:53:15,544 --> 00:53:20,529
Well I... I don't think it's possible
to be perfect, Emily.
985
00:53:20,670 --> 00:53:22,138
Well, my father is.
986
00:53:23,246 --> 00:53:25,598
And as far as I can see
your father is.
987
00:53:27,412 --> 00:53:30,347
And there's no reason on earth
why you shouldn't be too.
988
00:53:30,603 --> 00:53:31,730
Hmm.
989
00:53:32,180 --> 00:53:34,770
I feel that it's just
the other way around, that
990
00:53:35,592 --> 00:53:38,962
...men aren't naturally good,
but girls are.
991
00:53:40,813 --> 00:53:43,400
Well, you might as well know right now
that I'm not perfect.
992
00:53:45,722 --> 00:53:49,766
It isn't as easy for a girl to be,
perfect as a man because
993
00:53:52,375 --> 00:53:53,425
...well
994
00:53:54,462 --> 00:53:57,633
...we girls are more... nervous.
995
00:54:00,899 --> 00:54:03,675
Oh now, I'm sorry I said that
about you.
996
00:54:04,754 --> 00:54:06,649
I don't know what made me say it.
997
00:54:07,136 --> 00:54:09,736
- Emily--
- Now I can see it isn't the truth at all.
998
00:54:12,109 --> 00:54:14,736
Suddenly I feel,
it isn't important anyway.
999
00:54:20,396 --> 00:54:21,574
Emily,
1000
00:54:23,753 --> 00:54:26,723
...would you like an ice cream soda
or something,
1001
00:54:26,748 --> 00:54:27,895
before you go home?
1002
00:54:32,883 --> 00:54:34,618
Thank you, I would.
1003
00:54:37,988 --> 00:54:40,365
Hello George, hello Emily.
1004
00:54:40,458 --> 00:54:41,518
Hello, Mr. Morgan.
1005
00:54:41,631 --> 00:54:43,001
No, what can I do for you?
1006
00:54:43,834 --> 00:54:46,254
Why Emily Webb,
what you been crying about?
1007
00:54:46,754 --> 00:54:49,207
She got an awful scare,
Mr. Morgan, that
1008
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,843
...that hardware store wagon
almost ran over her.
1009
00:54:52,890 --> 00:54:55,605
Everybody says that Tom Hawkins
drives like a crazy man.
1010
00:54:56,229 --> 00:54:58,301
Well, here, let me give you
a glass of water.
1011
00:54:59,009 --> 00:55:00,802
Gracious, you look all shook up.
1012
00:55:01,202 --> 00:55:03,424
I tell you, you got to look both ways
1013
00:55:03,449 --> 00:55:05,081
before you cross Main Street
these days.
1014
00:55:05,660 --> 00:55:07,250
It's getting worse every year.
1015
00:55:08,009 --> 00:55:09,071
What'll you have?
1016
00:55:10,656 --> 00:55:13,026
I'll have a strawberry phosphate,
Mr. Morgan.
1017
00:55:13,450 --> 00:55:15,103
Oh no Emily, have a soda with me.
1018
00:55:15,741 --> 00:55:18,889
Well I-- Two strawberry ice
cream sodas, Mr. Morgan.
1019
00:55:19,329 --> 00:55:21,885
Two strawberry ice cream sodas.
1020
00:55:23,774 --> 00:55:25,764
Yes sir,
I want to tell you something.
1021
00:55:26,136 --> 00:55:28,417
There are 275 horses
in Grover's Corners
1022
00:55:28,442 --> 00:55:29,941
this very moment I'm talking to you.
1023
00:55:30,260 --> 00:55:32,016
State inspector
was in here yesterday.
1024
00:55:32,526 --> 00:55:34,286
Now with all these automobiles
coming along,
1025
00:55:34,311 --> 00:55:36,300
looks to me
like the only safe place to stay,
1026
00:55:36,325 --> 00:55:37,643
was to home.
1027
00:55:37,667 --> 00:55:39,949
Gracious, I can remember the time
when a dog could lie...
1028
00:55:40,015 --> 00:55:42,137
...in the middle of Main Street
all day long
1029
00:55:42,162 --> 00:55:44,084
without anything coming along
to disturb him.
1030
00:55:45,870 --> 00:55:47,095
There you are.
1031
00:55:47,544 --> 00:55:49,410
Howdy Mrs. Ellis,
what can I do for you?
1032
00:55:49,580 --> 00:55:50,580
I've got a prescription.
1033
00:55:50,611 --> 00:55:52,581
Yeah, well let's see.
1034
00:55:52,877 --> 00:55:54,331
It shouldn't take long to fill that.
1035
00:55:54,357 --> 00:55:56,743
You just sit down here,
I'll be with you in just a minute.
1036
00:55:57,016 --> 00:55:58,200
It's so expensive.
1037
00:55:58,447 --> 00:56:00,267
No Emily,
don't you think about that.
1038
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:02,584
We're celebrating our election.
1039
00:56:03,740 --> 00:56:06,746
Emily, I want to ask you a favor.
1040
00:56:08,523 --> 00:56:09,523
What?
1041
00:56:11,377 --> 00:56:12,706
If I go away to,
1042
00:56:13,018 --> 00:56:15,007
state agricultural college next year,
1043
00:56:16,814 --> 00:56:19,111
...will you write me a letter
once in a while?
1044
00:56:20,616 --> 00:56:22,218
I certainly will.
1045
00:56:24,781 --> 00:56:26,282
I certainly will, George.
1046
00:56:29,633 --> 00:56:33,243
It certainly seems
like being away three years, you'd...
1047
00:56:34,450 --> 00:56:36,006
...get out of touch with things.
1048
00:56:37,854 --> 00:56:41,984
Maybe letters from Grover's Corners
won't seem so interesting after awhile.
1049
00:56:43,216 --> 00:56:45,331
Grover's Corners
isn't a very important place
1050
00:56:45,378 --> 00:56:47,992
when you think
of all New Hampshire, but
1051
00:56:50,048 --> 00:56:52,297
...I think it's a very nice town.
1052
00:56:52,411 --> 00:56:53,679
Hmm.
1053
00:56:53,839 --> 00:56:56,378
The day wouldn't come
when I wouldn't want to know everything
1054
00:56:56,403 --> 00:56:57,944
about... our town.
1055
00:56:59,161 --> 00:57:00,729
I know that's true, Emily.
1056
00:57:02,232 --> 00:57:06,616
Well... I'll try to make
my letters interesting.
1057
00:57:12,235 --> 00:57:15,437
- You know Emily,
whenever I meet a farmer,
1058
00:57:15,846 --> 00:57:18,042
I ask him if
he thinks it's important to go to
1059
00:57:18,109 --> 00:57:20,050
agricultural school
to be a good farmer.
1060
00:57:20,258 --> 00:57:21,386
Why, George?
1061
00:57:21,498 --> 00:57:24,701
Yeah, and some of them even say
it's a waste of time,
1062
00:57:24,761 --> 00:57:26,651
and you can get
all that stuff anyway
1063
00:57:26,676 --> 00:57:29,582
in the pamphlets
the government puts out.
1064
00:57:31,857 --> 00:57:33,493
Uncle Luke's getting pretty old, and
1065
00:57:34,206 --> 00:57:37,375
...he's about ready for me
to start taking over his farm.
1066
00:57:38,399 --> 00:57:40,034
Tomorrow, if I could.
1067
00:57:41,286 --> 00:57:43,628
Oh but George, maybe it's important
for you to go
1068
00:57:43,653 --> 00:57:45,008
and learn all that about...
1069
00:57:46,482 --> 00:57:49,904
cattle judging, and soils,
and those things.
1070
00:57:51,994 --> 00:57:53,529
Of course, I don't know.
1071
00:57:55,819 --> 00:57:58,958
Emily, I'm going to
make up my mind right now.
1072
00:57:59,498 --> 00:58:02,540
I won't go, I'll tell Pa
about it tonight.
1073
00:58:02,565 --> 00:58:04,721
But George,
you don't have to decide right now,
1074
00:58:04,761 --> 00:58:05,987
it's a whole year away.
1075
00:58:06,753 --> 00:58:11,668
Emily, I'm glad you spoke to me
about that fault in my character.
1076
00:58:12,769 --> 00:58:14,439
Everything you said was right, but
1077
00:58:14,811 --> 00:58:16,225
there was one thing wrong with it.
1078
00:58:17,164 --> 00:58:19,024
That's when you said
I wasn't noticing people,
1079
00:58:20,476 --> 00:58:21,577
you, for instance.
1080
00:58:23,313 --> 00:58:26,082
You say you were watching me
when I did everything.
1081
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,502
I was doing the same thing
about you all the time.
1082
00:58:29,974 --> 00:58:30,974
Why?
1083
00:58:31,888 --> 00:58:34,644
Sure, I always thought about you as,
1084
00:58:35,797 --> 00:58:37,675
one of the chief people
I though about.
1085
00:58:39,265 --> 00:58:41,865
I always made sure
that you were sitting on the bleachers,
1086
00:58:42,691 --> 00:58:44,092
who you were with.
1087
00:58:45,912 --> 00:58:48,843
For three days now,
I've been trying to walk home with you, but
1088
00:58:49,420 --> 00:58:51,025
something always got in the way, and
1089
00:58:51,822 --> 00:58:54,906
...yesterday, I was standing out by the wall
waiting for you, and
1090
00:58:56,902 --> 00:58:58,920
...you walked home
with Miss Cochrane.
1091
00:59:03,038 --> 00:59:04,139
Oh, George.
1092
00:59:06,147 --> 00:59:07,507
Life's awful funny.
1093
00:59:07,893 --> 00:59:10,278
- How could I have known that I--
- Emily
1094
00:59:10,331 --> 00:59:12,863
I'm going to tell you why
I'm not going to agricultural school.
1095
00:59:14,889 --> 00:59:19,579
I think once you've found a person
you're very fond of,
1096
00:59:20,388 --> 00:59:22,381
a person who's fond of you too,
1097
00:59:23,041 --> 00:59:25,975
and likes you well enough
to be interested in your character.
1098
00:59:27,844 --> 00:59:30,436
I think that's
just as important as college is, and
1099
00:59:31,551 --> 00:59:33,090
...even more so.
1100
00:59:33,821 --> 00:59:34,989
That's what I think.
1101
00:59:37,259 --> 00:59:39,227
I think it's awfully important too.
1102
00:59:42,565 --> 00:59:43,605
Emily.
1103
00:59:45,208 --> 00:59:46,270
Yes, George.
1104
00:59:48,531 --> 00:59:51,434
Emily, if I do improve, and
1105
00:59:53,188 --> 00:59:54,585
...make a big change,
1106
00:59:57,872 --> 00:59:59,140
...would you be,
1107
01:00:00,429 --> 01:00:03,586
...I mean, could you be--
1108
01:00:03,707 --> 01:00:07,317
I am now,
I always have been.
1109
01:00:12,388 --> 01:00:16,502
So I guess this is a pretty important talk
we've been having.
1110
01:00:19,557 --> 01:00:20,564
It is.
1111
01:00:23,325 --> 01:00:24,325
Yes.
1112
01:00:30,807 --> 01:00:32,275
Good bye, Mrs. Ellis.
1113
01:00:32,300 --> 01:00:34,277
Good day.
1114
01:00:41,422 --> 01:00:44,095
If you'll wait a minute,
I'll walk you home.
1115
01:00:55,598 --> 01:00:57,505
- Mr. Morgan.
- Yes.
1116
01:00:59,312 --> 01:01:01,908
I'll have to go home and get the money
to pay you for this.
1117
01:01:02,482 --> 01:01:05,266
Why, George Gibbs,
do you mean to tell me--
1118
01:01:05,306 --> 01:01:06,877
Mr. Morgan, I had a reason.
1119
01:01:06,950 --> 01:01:10,113
Look, I'll leave my gold watch with you
until I get back.
1120
01:01:10,138 --> 01:01:12,243
No, no, you keep your watch George,
I'll trust you.
1121
01:01:12,419 --> 01:01:13,772
But I'll be back in five minutes.
1122
01:01:13,797 --> 01:01:15,985
I'll trust you for 10 years, George.
1123
01:01:16,415 --> 01:01:17,968
Not a day more, though.
1124
01:01:23,426 --> 01:01:25,150
Feeling all right now, Emily?
1125
01:01:25,490 --> 01:01:28,065
Oh, yes, thank you Mr. Morgan,
it's nothing.
1126
01:01:29,799 --> 01:01:31,041
I'm ready.
1127
01:01:43,220 --> 01:01:45,668
Well, now to get on with the wedding.
1128
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,454
There's a lot of things to be said
about a wedding.
1129
01:01:51,955 --> 01:01:54,085
We can't get them all
into one wedding naturally,
1130
01:01:54,426 --> 01:01:56,259
especially, not a wedding
in Grover's Corners
1131
01:01:56,284 --> 01:01:58,339
where weddings are mighty short
and plain.
1132
01:01:59,670 --> 01:02:01,908
People think a lot of thoughts
during a wedding.
1133
01:02:02,967 --> 01:02:05,962
The bride, the groom,
the relatives, and the guests,
1134
01:02:06,836 --> 01:02:07,937
and even the minister.
1135
01:02:09,719 --> 01:02:13,096
Yes, a lot of thoughts go on
during a wedding.
1136
01:02:15,856 --> 01:02:18,352
I've married 200 couples
in my day.
1137
01:02:19,488 --> 01:02:20,856
M marries N.
1138
01:02:21,977 --> 01:02:23,081
Millions of them.
1139
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:26,120
The cottage, the go-cart,
1140
01:02:26,556 --> 01:02:28,396
the Sunday afternoon drives
in the country,
1141
01:02:28,958 --> 01:02:31,828
the first rheumatism,
the grandchildren,
1142
01:02:32,340 --> 01:02:33,474
the second rheumatism,
1143
01:02:33,796 --> 01:02:36,463
the death bed,
the reading of the will.
1144
01:02:40,054 --> 01:02:42,464
Once in a thousand times
it's interesting.
1145
01:02:44,507 --> 01:02:46,923
I don't know why on earth
I should be crying.
1146
01:02:48,156 --> 01:02:50,272
I suppose
there's nothing to cry about.
1147
01:02:51,827 --> 01:02:55,039
This morning at breakfast,
it just came over me.
1148
01:02:56,339 --> 01:02:58,153
There was Emily,
eating her breakfast,
1149
01:02:58,178 --> 01:03:00,139
as she's done for 17 years.
1150
01:03:02,544 --> 01:03:04,279
She's going out of my house.
1151
01:03:05,707 --> 01:03:06,977
I suppose that's it.
1152
01:03:10,404 --> 01:03:12,885
I never felt so alone
in my whole life.
1153
01:03:14,810 --> 01:03:16,545
I don't want to get married.
1154
01:03:18,368 --> 01:03:20,476
Why can't I stay for awhile
as I am?
1155
01:03:22,651 --> 01:03:23,772
Papa darling,
1156
01:03:24,730 --> 01:03:26,423
...don't you remember
what you used to say
1157
01:03:26,448 --> 01:03:28,155
all the time, that I was your girl?
1158
01:03:29,544 --> 01:03:30,948
I don't want to get married.
1159
01:03:39,119 --> 01:03:40,522
I'm going to get married.
1160
01:03:41,152 --> 01:03:42,152
I'm grown up.
1161
01:03:43,032 --> 01:03:44,283
I'm getting old.
1162
01:03:44,739 --> 01:03:46,213
I don't want to get old.
1163
01:03:46,726 --> 01:03:48,622
Taking on all these responsibilities.
1164
01:03:49,272 --> 01:03:51,205
Why is everybody pushing me so?
1165
01:03:51,841 --> 01:03:53,544
All I want to do is be a fella.
1166
01:03:54,897 --> 01:03:56,071
and I'm going to get married.
1167
01:04:02,250 --> 01:04:03,996
Cheer up, Ma, I'm getting married.
1168
01:04:05,614 --> 01:04:06,657
Come on Ma.
1169
01:04:07,356 --> 01:04:09,230
Now Ma, you save Thursday night.
1170
01:04:09,509 --> 01:04:11,829
Emily and I will be over for supper
every Thursday night.
1171
01:04:11,967 --> 01:04:13,032
You'll see.
1172
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:17,867
Come on Ma,
we've got to get ready for this.
1173
01:04:17,992 --> 01:04:19,010
Got the ring?
1174
01:04:19,035 --> 01:04:20,058
Oh, yes, sir.
1175
01:04:20,602 --> 01:04:21,610
Come on.
1176
01:05:18,427 --> 01:05:20,396
It's a lovely wedding.
1177
01:05:20,495 --> 01:05:22,545
Loveliest wedding I ever saw.
1178
01:05:22,999 --> 01:05:25,288
Oh I do love a good wedding,
don't you?
1179
01:05:26,235 --> 01:05:28,680
Doesn't she make a lovely bride?
1180
01:05:39,907 --> 01:05:42,718
Dearly beloved,
we are gathered together here
1181
01:05:42,743 --> 01:05:45,587
in the sight of God
and in the face of this company
1182
01:05:46,239 --> 01:05:49,743
to join together this man and this woman
in holy matrimony.
1183
01:05:50,057 --> 01:05:52,065
Don't know when I've seen
such a lovely wedding.
1184
01:05:53,067 --> 01:05:54,168
I always cry.
1185
01:05:55,295 --> 01:05:57,669
I don't know why it is,
but I always cry.
1186
01:05:58,461 --> 01:06:00,549
I just like to see
young people happy.
1187
01:06:01,270 --> 01:06:03,129
They're such a lovely couple.
1188
01:06:04,340 --> 01:06:06,102
I've never been
to such a nice wedding.
1189
01:06:06,629 --> 01:06:08,076
In sickness and in health,
1190
01:06:08,101 --> 01:06:10,513
to love and to cherish
'til death you do part
1191
01:06:11,130 --> 01:06:12,817
according to God's holy ordinance,
1192
01:06:13,176 --> 01:06:15,017
and thereto plight her your troth?
1193
01:06:15,523 --> 01:06:16,524
I do.
1194
01:06:18,484 --> 01:06:20,982
Do you Emily, take George
to your wedded husband,
1195
01:06:21,249 --> 01:06:23,353
to have and to hold
from this day forward,
1196
01:06:23,783 --> 01:06:26,619
for better, for worse,
for richer for poorer,
1197
01:06:27,017 --> 01:06:28,424
in sickness and in health,
1198
01:06:29,077 --> 01:06:31,801
to love and to cherish,
'til death you do part,
1199
01:06:32,248 --> 01:06:34,170
according to God's holy ordinance,
1200
01:06:34,641 --> 01:06:36,323
and thereto plight him your troth?
1201
01:06:38,166 --> 01:06:39,234
I do.
1202
01:06:41,244 --> 01:06:43,638
What token dost thou give
of thy sincerity?
1203
01:06:45,151 --> 01:06:47,550
- With this ring
- GEORGE: With this ring
1204
01:06:47,701 --> 01:06:50,361
- I thee wed.
- I thee wed.
1205
01:06:50,946 --> 01:06:52,188
For as much as George and Emily
1206
01:06:52,213 --> 01:06:54,257
have consented together
in holy wedlock,
1207
01:06:54,724 --> 01:06:57,428
and have witnessed the same
before God and this company,
1208
01:06:58,074 --> 01:07:00,730
and have declared the same
by giving and receiving a ring,
1209
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,947
I pronounce that they are
husband and wife.
1210
01:07:04,877 --> 01:07:06,039
Amen.
1211
01:07:15,770 --> 01:07:18,781
Forever and ever,
forever and ever.
1212
01:07:37,649 --> 01:07:39,632
I'll pay you the first of the month
like usual.
1213
01:07:39,665 --> 01:07:40,989
See, you, Howie.
1214
01:07:45,468 --> 01:07:48,435
Man his age shouldn't be
driving one of those things.
1215
01:07:48,744 --> 01:07:51,724
Not when he's got a lot of young fellas
to do it for him.
1216
01:07:52,014 --> 01:07:53,928
Howie likes
to deliver the milk himself.
1217
01:07:54,215 --> 01:07:56,071
He says he gets
the feel of the town that way.
1218
01:07:56,277 --> 01:07:58,397
You know, in all these years,
he never kept a book.
1219
01:07:58,951 --> 01:08:00,456
Carries all the accounts
in his head.
1220
01:08:00,525 --> 01:08:01,991
I hear he's been doing so well,
1221
01:08:02,020 --> 01:08:04,016
he's begun locking
his front door at nights,
1222
01:08:04,723 --> 01:08:05,866
afraid of burglars.
1223
01:08:06,016 --> 01:08:07,623
Ain't no burglars in this town yet.
1224
01:08:07,816 --> 01:08:10,022
No, but Howie's heard about them.
1225
01:08:10,713 --> 01:08:11,713
Heh!
1226
01:08:30,312 --> 01:08:32,614
This time, nine years have gone by,
friends.
1227
01:08:33,127 --> 01:08:34,824
It's the summer of 1913.
1228
01:08:35,896 --> 01:08:38,073
Gradual changes
in Grover's Corners.
1229
01:08:38,969 --> 01:08:40,409
Horses are getting rarer.
1230
01:08:41,103 --> 01:08:43,272
Farmers are coming into town now
in Fords.
1231
01:08:44,646 --> 01:08:46,815
Still, you'd be surprised though,
on the whole.
1232
01:08:47,869 --> 01:08:50,218
Things don't change much
around here.
1233
01:08:53,639 --> 01:08:55,604
This is an important part
of Grover's Corners
1234
01:08:55,629 --> 01:08:57,000
up here on this hilltop.
1235
01:08:57,535 --> 01:09:00,049
Lots of sky, lots of clouds,
1236
01:09:00,510 --> 01:09:03,084
often lots of sun, and moon,
and stars.
1237
01:09:05,026 --> 01:09:07,162
Certainly a beautiful spot up here.
1238
01:09:10,640 --> 01:09:12,783
I often wonder why people
want to be buried
1239
01:09:12,808 --> 01:09:14,130
in Woodlawn or Brooklyn,
1240
01:09:14,173 --> 01:09:16,680
when they might pass the same time up here
in New Hampshire.
1241
01:09:18,538 --> 01:09:23,168
Over here are the old stones,
1660, 1670.
1242
01:09:24,336 --> 01:09:27,983
Strong-minded people who come a long ways
to be independent.
1243
01:09:28,711 --> 01:09:30,073
Over here...
1244
01:09:31,572 --> 01:09:33,595
...are some Civil War veterans.
1245
01:09:33,969 --> 01:09:35,379
Iron flags on their graves.
1246
01:09:36,471 --> 01:09:37,707
New Hampshire boys.
1247
01:09:38,340 --> 01:09:40,768
They had a notion that the Union
ought to be kept together,
1248
01:09:41,365 --> 01:09:44,258
although they'd never seen more,
than 50 miles of it themselves.
1249
01:09:45,599 --> 01:09:47,744
All they knew was a name friends,
1250
01:09:48,309 --> 01:09:50,378
the United States of America.
1251
01:09:51,567 --> 01:09:54,024
The United States of America...
1252
01:09:54,614 --> 01:09:56,364
...and they went and died about it.
1253
01:10:04,947 --> 01:10:06,908
This is the new part of the cemetery.
1254
01:10:08,185 --> 01:10:11,554
There's Mrs. Soames
who enjoyed the wedding so much, remember?
1255
01:10:12,826 --> 01:10:14,951
And there's our friend Mrs. Gibbs.
1256
01:10:15,313 --> 01:10:17,838
Yeah, Doc Gibbs lost his wife
three years ago,
1257
01:10:17,863 --> 01:10:19,060
just about this time.
1258
01:10:20,415 --> 01:10:21,835
And that little Webb's boy Wallace,
1259
01:10:21,895 --> 01:10:24,633
whose appendix burst
on a Boy Scout trip to Crawford Notch.
1260
01:10:26,529 --> 01:10:29,829
There's Mr. Stimson the organist,
at the Congregational Church.
1261
01:10:30,473 --> 01:10:32,193
He drank a lot, they used to say.
1262
01:10:33,179 --> 01:10:34,549
Hung himself in the attic.
1263
01:10:34,777 --> 01:10:37,619
They tried to hush it up,
but of course it got around.
1264
01:10:37,947 --> 01:10:39,512
He wrote his own epitaph.
1265
01:10:40,082 --> 01:10:43,514
Ain't a verse exactly,
it's just a lot of notes.
1266
01:10:44,049 --> 01:10:45,816
I wouldn't know what it was.
1267
01:10:46,697 --> 01:10:49,155
It was all writ up in the Boston papers
at the time, though.
1268
01:10:49,291 --> 01:10:51,994
A lot of sorrows kind of quieted down
up here too.
1269
01:10:53,071 --> 01:10:55,058
All those important things,
1270
01:10:55,412 --> 01:10:58,072
mother and daughter,
husband and wife,
1271
01:10:58,300 --> 01:11:00,646
enemy and enemy,
money and miser,
1272
01:11:01,036 --> 01:11:03,205
all those terribly important things,
1273
01:11:04,714 --> 01:11:08,477
here apart, kind of burns away.
1274
01:11:08,619 --> 01:11:09,955
Burns out and what's left?
1275
01:11:10,355 --> 01:11:12,170
And what's left?
1276
01:11:12,252 --> 01:11:14,583
What's left when memory is gone,
1277
01:11:14,646 --> 01:11:16,318
and your identity, Mrs. Smith?
1278
01:11:19,060 --> 01:11:20,495
Something eternal.
1279
01:11:21,636 --> 01:11:25,222
We all know down in our bones
that something is eternal,
1280
01:11:25,984 --> 01:11:28,384
and that something has to do
with human beings.
1281
01:11:29,398 --> 01:11:31,000
All the greatest people
that have lived
1282
01:11:31,039 --> 01:11:33,496
for the past 5,000 years
have been telling us that,
1283
01:11:34,169 --> 01:11:37,234
and yet you'd be surprised
how we lose sight of that fact.
1284
01:11:38,073 --> 01:11:41,343
There's something eternal
about every human being.
1285
01:11:44,580 --> 01:11:48,955
I guess I'm thinking these thoughts today
on account of our friend, Emily.
1286
01:11:49,518 --> 01:11:52,621
Another baby's expected
down at that happy home we saw started.
1287
01:11:53,649 --> 01:11:55,018
It's Emily's second.
1288
01:11:55,224 --> 01:11:57,872
There's a little boy
about six years old,
1289
01:11:58,831 --> 01:12:00,480
but this time, Emily's pretty sick.
1290
01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:05,501
Doc Gibbs is going around these days
with a mighty worried face.
1291
01:12:38,534 --> 01:12:40,603
I want to live.
1292
01:12:42,685 --> 01:12:44,253
Oh, I want to live.
1293
01:13:11,667 --> 01:13:13,308
Who's coming now, Julia?
1294
01:13:14,023 --> 01:13:15,790
My daughter-in-law,
Emily Webb.
1295
01:13:16,644 --> 01:13:17,958
What ails her?
1296
01:13:18,073 --> 01:13:20,200
Trouble bringing a baby
into the world.
1297
01:13:21,901 --> 01:13:24,178
Why I remember
Emily's wedding.
1298
01:13:24,924 --> 01:13:26,324
Wasn't it a lovely wedding?
1299
01:13:27,756 --> 01:13:30,697
I remember I called on
George and Emily at their farm,
1300
01:13:30,722 --> 01:13:32,121
just before I died.
1301
01:13:32,788 --> 01:13:34,917
It's a beautiful farm.
1302
01:14:11,468 --> 01:14:14,605
Dear friends,
as we gather here
1303
01:14:14,630 --> 01:14:16,911
in the last tribute of memory
to our loved one...
1304
01:14:17,132 --> 01:14:18,300
Hello, Mother Gibbs.
1305
01:14:19,233 --> 01:14:20,669
Hello, Emily.
1306
01:14:20,945 --> 01:14:22,330
Hello, Emily.
1307
01:14:23,384 --> 01:14:24,707
Hello, Mrs. Soames.
1308
01:14:26,575 --> 01:14:28,310
Hello, sis.
1309
01:14:29,611 --> 01:14:30,888
Hello, Wally.
1310
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,356
Eternal in the heavens.
1311
01:14:46,361 --> 01:14:48,194
Mother Gibbs, they're going.
1312
01:14:48,510 --> 01:14:50,466
Yes, dear.
1313
01:15:10,753 --> 01:15:14,317
Father Gibbs is bringing
some of my flowers to you, Mother Gibbs.
1314
01:15:25,134 --> 01:15:28,220
Mother Gibbs, I never realized
how troubled and
1315
01:15:29,333 --> 01:15:30,713
sad he looks.
1316
01:15:31,106 --> 01:15:32,341
I loved him so.
1317
01:15:34,108 --> 01:15:35,325
Father Gibbs?
1318
01:15:37,212 --> 01:15:38,313
Father Gibbs?
1319
01:16:01,062 --> 01:16:03,298
I'm so tired, Mother Gibbs.
1320
01:16:05,440 --> 01:16:09,143
Mother Gibbs, when does
this feeling go away.
1321
01:16:10,846 --> 01:16:12,548
I'm feeling strange here.
1322
01:16:14,550 --> 01:16:16,674
- How long does it-
- MRS. GIBBS: Hush, dear.
1323
01:16:17,486 --> 01:16:19,726
Just wait and be patient.
1324
01:16:21,556 --> 01:16:23,391
How do you do,
Mr. Stimson?
1325
01:16:24,592 --> 01:16:26,256
How do you do, Emily?
1326
01:16:27,863 --> 01:16:29,056
Mother Gibbs.
1327
01:16:29,596 --> 01:16:33,175
George and I have made that farm into
just the place you ever saw.
1328
01:16:33,899 --> 01:16:35,819
We thought of you all the time.
1329
01:16:36,338 --> 01:16:38,206
We wanted to show you
the new barn, and
1330
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:42,047
the great long cement drinking fountain
for the stock.
1331
01:16:42,529 --> 01:16:44,569
We bought that out of the money
you left us.
1332
01:16:45,306 --> 01:16:46,362
I did?
1333
01:16:47,783 --> 01:16:49,717
Mother Gibbs, don't you remember,
1334
01:16:50,690 --> 01:16:52,193
the legacy you left us?
1335
01:16:54,054 --> 01:16:56,941
It was more than $350.
1336
01:16:57,945 --> 01:17:01,186
Oh yes, yes Emily.
1337
01:17:05,004 --> 01:17:07,270
It won't be the same to George
without me.
1338
01:17:10,672 --> 01:17:12,574
But it's a lovely farm.
1339
01:17:17,205 --> 01:17:19,552
My boy is spending the day
at Mrs. Carter's.
1340
01:17:20,877 --> 01:17:22,128
Oh Mr. Carter,
1341
01:17:22,153 --> 01:17:24,428
my little boy is spending the day
at your house.
1342
01:17:24,915 --> 01:17:26,082
He is?
1343
01:17:26,382 --> 01:17:28,423
Yes, he loves it there.
1344
01:17:31,566 --> 01:17:32,669
Mother Gibbs?
1345
01:17:33,729 --> 01:17:36,899
One can go back, in memory,
1346
01:17:37,743 --> 01:17:39,935
and live each of those days
over again.
1347
01:17:42,537 --> 01:17:44,974
Why just then for a moment,
I was thinking about...
1348
01:17:46,237 --> 01:17:47,608
...about the farm,
1349
01:17:48,475 --> 01:17:50,464
for a moment I was there,
1350
01:17:50,998 --> 01:17:53,594
and my baby was in my arms
as plain as day.
1351
01:17:54,421 --> 01:17:56,585
Yes, but when you've been here longer,
1352
01:17:57,058 --> 01:17:59,963
you'll realize that our life here
is to forget all that.
1353
01:18:01,621 --> 01:18:06,418
To think of what is ahead,
and be ready for what is ahead.
1354
01:18:08,191 --> 01:18:11,044
But Mother Gibbs, how can I ever
forget that life?
1355
01:18:12,402 --> 01:18:14,711
It's all I know, it's all I had.
1356
01:18:17,055 --> 01:18:20,020
One can go back
and live all those days over again.
1357
01:18:21,456 --> 01:18:23,158
I feel it, I know it.
1358
01:18:24,313 --> 01:18:29,151
You not only live it,
you watch yourself living it.
1359
01:18:31,302 --> 01:18:32,869
I'll choose a happy day.
1360
01:18:33,069 --> 01:18:36,612
Oh Emily, it isn't wise,
really it isn't.
1361
01:18:37,302 --> 01:18:40,291
I'll choose the day
I first knew I loved George.
1362
01:18:45,766 --> 01:18:47,495
Why should that be painful?
1363
01:18:47,836 --> 01:18:49,771
Because it's the happiest days,
1364
01:18:49,839 --> 01:18:53,233
that are the hardest to relive
and to forget.
1365
01:18:55,377 --> 01:18:57,555
But I must, I must.
1366
01:18:58,847 --> 01:19:01,583
Then choose an unimportant day.
1367
01:19:02,699 --> 01:19:05,504
Choose the least important day
in your life.
1368
01:19:06,071 --> 01:19:07,930
It will be important enough.
1369
01:19:11,319 --> 01:19:12,487
I'll choose,
1370
01:19:14,222 --> 01:19:15,456
I'll choose...
1371
01:19:16,766 --> 01:19:21,981
Yes, Emily,
think hard, remember.
1372
01:19:24,225 --> 01:19:25,726
I'm remembering.
1373
01:19:28,468 --> 01:19:29,803
I'm remembering.
1374
01:19:31,939 --> 01:19:33,274
I'm remembering.
1375
01:19:36,518 --> 01:19:38,186
There's Main Street.
1376
01:19:40,628 --> 01:19:42,922
There's Mr. Morgan's drugstore
before it changed.
1377
01:19:44,426 --> 01:19:46,581
And there's the livery stable.
1378
01:19:48,663 --> 01:19:50,636
That's the town I knew
as a little girl.
1379
01:19:52,267 --> 01:19:53,383
And look.
1380
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:58,104
There's the old white fence
that used to be around our house.
1381
01:19:58,525 --> 01:20:01,516
Oh, I'd forgotten that, I love it so.
1382
01:20:10,986 --> 01:20:14,287
There's Mama coming downstairs
to make breakfast.
1383
01:20:24,699 --> 01:20:25,918
Mama.
1384
01:20:31,147 --> 01:20:35,412
Look, there's Howie Newsome.
Well there's Joe Crowell.
1385
01:20:36,244 --> 01:20:37,678
Morning, Howie.
1386
01:20:37,712 --> 01:20:38,884
Morning, Joe.
1387
01:20:39,062 --> 01:20:42,477
Children, Emily, Wally,
time to get up.
1388
01:20:43,151 --> 01:20:44,575
Good morning, Mrs. Webb.
1389
01:20:45,348 --> 01:20:48,231
Morning, Mr. Newsome,
sure is cold.
1390
01:20:48,496 --> 01:20:51,426
Yes'm, 10 below by my barn Mrs. Webb.
1391
01:20:55,664 --> 01:20:57,719
Keep yourself
wrapped up, Mr. Newsome.
1392
01:20:57,826 --> 01:21:01,849
Yes'm. Oh, tell Emily,
many happy returns of the day.
1393
01:21:05,718 --> 01:21:08,810
Now I know, it's my 16th birthday.
1394
01:21:09,857 --> 01:21:11,022
Mama,
1395
01:21:11,095 --> 01:21:13,712
I can't find
my blue hair ribbon anywhere.
1396
01:21:13,780 --> 01:21:15,414
Just open your eyes dear,
that's all.
1397
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:18,019
I laid it out special for you
on the dresser there.
1398
01:21:18,096 --> 01:21:21,123
If it were a snake,
it would bite you.
1399
01:21:23,955 --> 01:21:25,381
Oh, how young Mama looks.
1400
01:21:26,070 --> 01:21:28,056
I didn't know Mama
was ever that young.
1401
01:21:28,613 --> 01:21:29,859
Good morning, Warren.
1402
01:21:29,884 --> 01:21:30,887
Good Morning, Mr. Webb.
1403
01:21:30,936 --> 01:21:31,936
There's Papa.
1404
01:21:31,961 --> 01:21:32,982
You're up early.
1405
01:21:33,007 --> 01:21:34,514
Yeah, been back to my old college
in New York State
1406
01:21:34,539 --> 01:21:35,560
to make a speech.
1407
01:21:35,585 --> 01:21:36,730
Any news here?
1408
01:21:36,847 --> 01:21:39,521
I was called up this morning
to rescue a Polish fella.
1409
01:21:39,546 --> 01:21:40,908
Darn near froze to death he was.
1410
01:21:41,018 --> 01:21:42,362
We'll put that in the paper.
1411
01:21:46,108 --> 01:21:47,149
Morning, Mother.
1412
01:21:47,189 --> 01:21:48,902
Well there you are, back at last.
1413
01:21:48,984 --> 01:21:50,085
How'd it go, Charles?
1414
01:21:50,127 --> 01:21:51,424
Oh, fine, I guess.
1415
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:53,156
I told them a few things.
1416
01:21:53,893 --> 01:21:55,166
Everything all right here?
1417
01:21:55,313 --> 01:21:57,626
Yes, can't think of anything
that happened special.
1418
01:21:57,674 --> 01:21:58,867
It's been mighty cold.
1419
01:21:59,127 --> 01:22:01,377
Howie Newsome says
it's 10 below down at his barn.
1420
01:22:01,450 --> 01:22:03,759
Yes, well it's colder than that
at Hamilton College.
1421
01:22:04,132 --> 01:22:06,919
Students' ears are falling off,
it ain't Christian.
1422
01:22:07,502 --> 01:22:09,113
Paper have
any mistakes in it?
1423
01:22:09,173 --> 01:22:10,586
Not that I noticed.
1424
01:22:10,986 --> 01:22:13,244
Oh, you can have your coffee
when you want it Charles.
1425
01:22:14,899 --> 01:22:16,379
Don't forget, it's Emily's birthday.
1426
01:22:16,404 --> 01:22:17,889
Did you remember to get her anything?
1427
01:22:17,914 --> 01:22:19,199
Got it right here.
1428
01:22:19,735 --> 01:22:20,877
Where's my girl?
1429
01:22:21,069 --> 01:22:22,437
Where's my birthday girl?
1430
01:22:22,477 --> 01:22:25,046
Don't interrupt her now Charles,
you can see her at breakfast.
1431
01:22:25,071 --> 01:22:26,525
She's slow enough as it is.
1432
01:22:29,503 --> 01:22:30,985
I can't bear it.
1433
01:22:34,668 --> 01:22:36,470
Why did they ever have to get old?
1434
01:22:39,332 --> 01:22:41,532
Mama, I'm here.
1435
01:22:42,249 --> 01:22:43,693
I'm grown up.
1436
01:22:45,106 --> 01:22:48,675
Oh I love you all... everything.
1437
01:22:50,312 --> 01:22:52,627
I can't look at everything
hard enough.
1438
01:22:56,184 --> 01:22:59,520
Hurry up children, seven o'clock,
I don't want to call you again.
1439
01:23:08,275 --> 01:23:09,610
Morning, Mama.
1440
01:23:11,233 --> 01:23:13,837
Well now dear,
a happy birthday to my girl,
1441
01:23:13,862 --> 01:23:15,250
and many happy returns.
1442
01:23:15,438 --> 01:23:17,424
A surprise is waiting for you
on the table there.
1443
01:23:17,477 --> 01:23:19,608
Oh Mama, you shouldn't have.
1444
01:23:19,694 --> 01:23:20,906
I can't, I can't.
1445
01:23:21,843 --> 01:23:22,934
Birthday or no birthday,
1446
01:23:22,959 --> 01:23:24,799
I want you to eat your breakfast
good and slow.
1447
01:23:24,824 --> 01:23:26,784
I want you to grow up
and be a good, strong girl.
1448
01:23:26,842 --> 01:23:28,912
That in the blue package
is from your Aunt Carrie.
1449
01:23:30,714 --> 01:23:32,010
- Good morning.
- George.
1450
01:23:32,047 --> 01:23:33,448
Good morning, George.
1451
01:23:33,473 --> 01:23:35,327
I brought this over
for your birthday, Emily.
1452
01:23:35,690 --> 01:23:37,459
Many happy returns of the day.
1453
01:23:37,580 --> 01:23:38,746
Thank you.
1454
01:23:39,034 --> 01:23:40,613
It's only a photograph album.
1455
01:23:40,934 --> 01:23:42,357
George, I'd forgotten.
1456
01:23:42,417 --> 01:23:44,181
Oh, it's beautiful.
1457
01:23:44,375 --> 01:23:46,568
Oh, it's just an album.
1458
01:23:47,558 --> 01:23:49,762
I'm going out to
my Uncle Luke's farm today.
1459
01:23:50,199 --> 01:23:51,826
I like it out there.
1460
01:23:51,906 --> 01:23:55,710
George, we grew up and we're married,
don't you remember?
1461
01:23:56,001 --> 01:23:57,774
Uncle Luke gave you the farm.
1462
01:23:58,497 --> 01:24:00,048
Well, good bye.
1463
01:24:00,308 --> 01:24:01,761
Good bye and thanks.
1464
01:24:03,414 --> 01:24:04,637
Chew this bacon good and slow.
1465
01:24:04,662 --> 01:24:06,588
It will help keep you warm
on a cold day.
1466
01:24:09,180 --> 01:24:10,184
Mama,
1467
01:24:11,263 --> 01:24:14,215
just look at me for one minute
as though you really saw me.
1468
01:24:15,849 --> 01:24:18,486
Mama, 12 years have gone by.
1469
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:20,655
I'm dead.
1470
01:24:22,575 --> 01:24:24,706
I married George Gibbs, Mama.
1471
01:24:26,274 --> 01:24:27,742
Wally's dead, too.
1472
01:24:27,937 --> 01:24:29,884
Mama, his appendix burst
1473
01:24:29,924 --> 01:24:31,587
on a camping trip to Crawford Notch.
1474
01:24:32,018 --> 01:24:34,373
We felt just terrible about it,
don't you remember?
1475
01:24:37,826 --> 01:24:40,109
Just for a moment now,
we're all together.
1476
01:24:41,941 --> 01:24:44,379
Mama, let's be happy
just for a moment.
1477
01:24:45,794 --> 01:24:47,429
Let's look at one another!
1478
01:24:49,110 --> 01:24:50,404
That in the yellow package,
1479
01:24:50,431 --> 01:24:51,546
is something I found in the attic
1480
01:24:51,571 --> 01:24:52,947
among your grandmother's things.
1481
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:54,368
You're old enough to wear it now,
1482
01:24:54,393 --> 01:24:55,767
and I thought maybe you'd like it.
1483
01:24:56,094 --> 01:24:58,180
Oh,
and this is from you.
1484
01:24:58,406 --> 01:25:01,414
It's lovely,
it's just what I wanted,
1485
01:25:01,992 --> 01:25:02,995
it's beautiful.
1486
01:25:03,020 --> 01:25:04,389
I hoped you'd like it.
1487
01:25:05,347 --> 01:25:07,142
Wally has a present
for you, too.
1488
01:25:07,255 --> 01:25:08,713
He made it at manual-training class.
1489
01:25:08,738 --> 01:25:10,313
Be sure and make a fuss over it.
1490
01:25:10,748 --> 01:25:12,819
Your father's got a surprise
for you too.
1491
01:25:13,902 --> 01:25:15,456
I don't know what it is myself.
1492
01:25:16,403 --> 01:25:17,510
There he comes.
1493
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:20,628
Where's my girl,
where's my birthday girl?
1494
01:25:20,740 --> 01:25:22,764
I can't, I can't go on.
1495
01:25:29,137 --> 01:25:30,784
It goes so fast.
1496
01:25:33,842 --> 01:25:36,344
We don't have time to look
at one another.
1497
01:25:43,785 --> 01:25:44,979
I didn't realize.
1498
01:25:49,858 --> 01:25:51,493
All that was going on...
1499
01:25:54,328 --> 01:25:55,632
...and we never noticed.
1500
01:25:59,452 --> 01:26:01,259
Must I go back to my grave?
1501
01:26:02,310 --> 01:26:03,329
Wait.
1502
01:26:05,839 --> 01:26:07,107
One more look.
1503
01:26:11,805 --> 01:26:12,989
Good bye.
1504
01:26:15,536 --> 01:26:16,871
Good bye, world.
1505
01:26:19,220 --> 01:26:21,113
Good bye, Grover's Corners.
1506
01:26:22,257 --> 01:26:23,721
Mama, Papa.
1507
01:26:26,461 --> 01:26:28,696
Good bye to clocks ticking,
1508
01:26:30,131 --> 01:26:33,004
my butternut tree
and Mama's sunflowers.
1509
01:26:34,769 --> 01:26:38,577
Food and coffee,
and new-ironed dresses,
1510
01:26:38,602 --> 01:26:43,278
and hot baths,
and sleeping and waking up!
1511
01:26:45,480 --> 01:26:49,053
Oh earth, you're too wonderful
for anybody to realize it.
1512
01:26:51,608 --> 01:26:54,802
Do any human beings ever realize life
while they live it,
1513
01:26:55,223 --> 01:26:56,825
every, every minute?
1514
01:26:59,566 --> 01:27:02,005
I want to live, I want to live,
I want to live!
1515
01:27:02,299 --> 01:27:04,303
Of course you do Emily,
of course.
1516
01:27:46,036 --> 01:27:48,314
Most everybody's asleep
in Grover's Corners.
1517
01:27:48,949 --> 01:27:50,818
Oh, there are a few lights on.
1518
01:27:52,871 --> 01:27:53,897
Down at the depot,
1519
01:27:53,922 --> 01:27:56,619
Shorty Hawkins has just watched
the Albany train go by, and,
1520
01:27:57,396 --> 01:27:59,865
of course out
on George and Emily's farm,
1521
01:28:00,455 --> 01:28:01,569
they're still up.
1522
01:28:02,190 --> 01:28:04,376
Talking over the new baby,
I suppose.
1523
01:28:05,497 --> 01:28:08,077
It's like what one of those
Midwestern poets said,
1524
01:28:08,864 --> 01:28:10,693
"You got to love life
to have life,
1525
01:28:11,249 --> 01:28:13,354
"and you got to have life
to love life."
1526
01:28:23,730 --> 01:28:25,401
Eleven o'clock in Grover's Corners.
1527
01:28:26,587 --> 01:28:28,454
Tomorrow is another day.
1528
01:28:29,730 --> 01:28:31,732
Everybody's resting
in Grover's Corners.
1529
01:28:33,068 --> 01:28:34,794
You get a good rest too.
1530
01:28:44,999 --> 01:28:46,291
Good night.
1531
01:29:00,934 --> 01:29:04,434
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1531
01:29:05,305 --> 01:30:05,385