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00:01:30Corporal Pierce,
00:01:31honorable discharge.
00:01:35What about them government lands, Captain?
00:01:37I'm going looking for some of them.
00:01:39They're up Indiana way,
00:01:40in the Black Creek district.
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00:01:43Private Ralph Pertzo.
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00:01:45Honorable discharge.
00:01:47Are you going to look for some of that land, too?
00:01:49No, sir.
00:01:50Just a job teaching school for me.
00:01:52Years of that and I can study for a while.
00:01:54Well, good luck to you, schoolmaster.
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00:01:58Private Henry Frantz.
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00:02:07Oh, go on.
00:02:10Eat a good feed now,
00:02:11but we got a long ways to go.
00:02:13There, little boy.
00:02:17Hey, Ralph.
00:02:19Now that the war is over,
00:02:21you know what you're going to do, Ralph?
00:02:23No.
00:02:24Sure you don't want some of them Black Creek lands?
00:02:27I don't know anything about farming.
00:02:29I was never out of the city until I joined the army.
00:02:33If I could get a job teaching for a couple of years,
00:02:36I could study up on Blackstone.
00:02:38Yeah.
00:02:40Where are you going to get the job?
00:02:43I don't know.
00:02:45Hey.
00:02:47How about putting in with us?
00:02:49I'm sure the colonel here won't mind your company.
00:02:52Heh, heh, heh.
00:02:53Well, if it's all right with the colonel,
00:02:55it's all right with me.
00:02:57How about it, colonel?
00:02:59It's Black Creek!
00:03:00Black Creek!
00:03:02Ha, ha, ha.
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00:03:07Come on, lady.
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00:03:13Okay, well, then.
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00:03:27Let's go out there.
00:03:29Come on.
00:03:30Go on, girl, go.
00:03:40You know where Flat Creek is, Reb?
00:03:43A lot of.
00:03:44Used to live there.
00:03:45Isn't that we?
00:03:46Reckon.
00:03:47Mind if we trail along with you?
00:03:49No!
00:03:57The world will little note or long remember what we say here, but it can never forget
00:04:07what they did.
00:04:08Hey, Cracky Ralph, you've got an education.
00:04:09It's great to hear you say them big words.
00:04:14I wish you'd say that last one again.
00:04:17The colonel here always perks up when he hears that jellied bird speak.
00:04:22Why, I'll have to listen to that darn cool thing again.
00:04:26Don't you worry, General Branch.
00:04:29He'll run out of breath mighty soon.
00:04:32Come on, people.
00:04:34Kind of soothes General Branch's left ear.
00:04:38Lincoln always meant everything he said.
00:04:41Too bad he didn't live to carry it through.
00:04:44We'll be all right when we get them lambs.
00:04:46Yes, if you ever get them.
00:04:47Oh, shut up, Ralph.
00:04:49We won this war, didn't we, Ralph?
00:04:51I never could find out who won any war,
00:04:54except those that had sense enough to stay home.
00:04:59Here, come on, Ralph.
00:05:01Relax, relax, relax.
00:05:04All right.
00:05:08Hey, I wonder whose barn that's burning over yonder.
00:05:12Well, come on.
00:05:13Let's go help them.
00:05:16Hello, Dutch.
00:05:18How did it happen?
00:05:19Knight Riders.
00:05:20What for?
00:05:21I was warned about getting soldiers to sleep in my barn.
00:05:24They don't want no strangers coming to flap eggs.
00:05:27What does he mean by Knight Riders?
00:05:29Well, it's take the law in old hands.
00:05:31Kind of tough country, eh?
00:05:35Well, let's go.
00:05:36Let's go.
00:05:37Let's go.
00:05:38Let's go.
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00:05:41Old hands.
00:05:42Kind of tough country, eh?
00:05:51We're getting near Flat Creek.
00:05:53Yonder's Jake Means' place now.
00:06:10Hey, Chris!
00:06:15Here's some more of them.
00:06:19Chalky, what are you doing with Dr. Small's gun?
00:06:22We're still rats.
00:06:24There ain't no more stern Yankees gonna kiss you.
00:06:30Chalky, I've got something better than a shotgun.
00:06:36Get away or you'll catch smallpox.
00:06:43You're just wasting your time.
00:06:45You ain't gonna get nothing from Jake.
00:06:47I'll catch up with you.
00:06:52I'll get you the rebel.
00:06:54You don't mind if we have some water, do you?
00:06:56Go ahead if you want to.
00:06:57It's your funeral.
00:07:00Smallpox!
00:07:02Let's get out of here.
00:07:23Can't you read?
00:07:27Yes, but it's never gotten me anywhere.
00:07:50Don't say I didn't warn you.
00:07:54It'll just be a secret between us.
00:07:57Forever.
00:07:59It's catching all over.
00:08:03I'll risk one foot anyway.
00:08:14Why don't you haul in your flag, rebel?
00:08:17War's over.
00:08:20Aren't you afraid of catching something?
00:08:24I've had everything out of this war.
00:08:27Except a nice cut of pie.
00:08:30We're out of everything and also pie.
00:08:34We'll heat up some water and we'll boil these boots.
00:08:37You know, I ate my best bear back in Chattanooga,
00:08:40but these are fairly tender in the uppers.
00:08:45Yep, these uppers will stew up in about seven hours,
00:08:48but the heels...
00:08:50I wouldn't give you that for boot heels.
00:08:53Not unless, of course, you soak them overnight
00:08:55with a pinch of soda.
00:08:57Maybe the heels got tough from too much running away.
00:09:06Hold on there!
00:09:09Shockey, I know what you're aiming to do.
00:09:12I'm your prisoner, soldier.
00:09:13Go away, Shockey.
00:09:14He can't kiss you.
00:09:16Not if I know it.
00:09:18Who, me?
00:09:19Kiss her?
00:09:20Say, soldier, there are some things a man simply has to draw the line...
00:09:24Well?
00:09:27Wasn't you trying to kiss her?
00:09:30Soldier, I resent that.
00:09:32Why, what ever put such an idea in your head?
00:09:35I don't see any sense in kissing.
00:09:37It's a waste of time.
00:09:38It ought to be abolished.
00:09:41Do you agree with me, Shockey?
00:09:48Shall I, soldier?
00:09:51Well, maybe.
00:09:53After dinner.
00:10:01Say, you've got sense, mister.
00:10:06But I never could see nothing in this kissing.
00:10:09All my life, I never could myself.
00:10:13There's nothing in it, mister.
00:10:16Besides, it wouldn't do you no good.
00:10:19She'd have slapped your face like she'd done the others.
00:10:23Don't say she done.
00:10:25Say she did.
00:10:26You know, past tense of the verb to do.
00:10:30Now, let's take up the verb to slap.
00:10:33Will the second form girl kindly rise and explain the same to teacher?
00:10:40Hey, you ain't the new schoolmaster, are you?
00:10:45Don't say I ain't, Shockey.
00:10:47He means it's that Creek District is looking for a new schoolmaster.
00:10:51Oh, are they?
00:10:53Say, that's the best news I've heard since I started on this walking tour.
00:10:57Oh, you needn't be in such a hurry.
00:10:59Well, maybe somebody will get there ahead of me.
00:11:01Won't make any difference if they do.
00:11:03Schoolteachers don't last very long around here.
00:11:06Well, at least I can try.
00:11:07Whom do I see?
00:11:09Jake Means.
00:11:10You'll find him at the general store.
00:11:12Thanks, miss.
00:11:15I didn't catch your name.
00:11:17I'm Jake Means, Hannah.
00:11:20Thanks, Hannah.
00:11:23Wish me luck, soldier.
00:11:32John Rodenhaber, still owe you, Doc?
00:11:35Yep.
00:11:36I can't get it out of him.
00:11:38Well, after he pays me, I'll tell you and maybe you can collect.
00:11:44More soldiers.
00:11:47This bunch sounds troublesome.
00:11:50Maybe we'd better get the Knight Riders on them.
00:11:53No.
00:11:54Maybe Doc's got some of that soft soap left over from that last bunch that he talked to.
00:12:01Hey, Doc.
00:12:03A few well-chosen words might not be amiss.
00:12:08We're always proud to welcome our country's heroes.
00:12:31Fellow citizens of the glorious Grand Army.
00:12:41Wait a minute, boys.
00:12:43Let's hear what he's got to say.
00:12:45Men, I appreciate your feelings.
00:12:49There's no one more than I who deplores seeing his country's heroes going around begging from town to town.
00:12:58But you will have to move on to some other place.
00:13:01There are no government lands for you here.
00:13:05Why, we were told to cover an open land for us.
00:13:09Here's Black Creek.
00:13:10I'm sorry, but you have been misinformed.
00:13:14You have been misled into marching over this land like a bag of locusts.
00:13:19The towns are aroused against you.
00:13:22But what are we supposed to do?
00:13:25Some of these boys have walked hundreds of miles.
00:13:28You may camp on the river bottom for a few days.
00:13:31After that, you'll have to move on.
00:13:34Move on where to?
00:13:37Well, sir, I see Doc ain't forgotten none of his soft soap, huh?
00:13:42Say, you've been away quite a while.
00:13:45I wouldn't go around doing too much talking if I was you.
00:13:48Oh, Doc don't worry me none.
00:13:56Hi, Corporal. How'd you make out?
00:13:58Not so good.
00:13:59They're trying to tell us there ain't no land.
00:14:01But we're going to camp on that creek bottom where we find out.
00:14:03Why don't you notify the government?
00:14:05Say, that's a good idea.
00:14:06That's what we'll do.
00:14:07Come along, camp with us.
00:14:08I can't just now.
00:14:09I hear they're looking for a new schoolmaster.
00:14:11See you later.
00:14:12All right.
00:14:13Hey, take your colonel down there, will you?
00:14:15All right.
00:14:17So you'd like to try the job of a schoolmaster, eh?
00:14:20I'd like a chance, Mr. Maines.
00:14:29You don't know what you're up against in this district, young man.
00:14:33You don't know what you're up against in this district, young man.
00:14:46My cough medicine.
00:14:49Bad season for cough.
00:14:51You know, the boys drive off the last two schoolmasters
00:14:55and they lick the one before them like blazes.
00:14:58Maybe the teachers didn't use the right methods.
00:15:01Well, now you might teach summer school where nothing but children come.
00:15:06But I figure it takes the right smart man to be schoolmaster in Flat Creek in the fall.
00:15:16They pitch out a door sunny, neck and heels before Christmas.
00:15:22I think we should give the young man a chance.
00:15:25I think we should give the young man a chance.
00:15:29I'm sure I'll be able to handle the curriculum.
00:15:32Eh?
00:15:33Curriculum.
00:15:34You know, a course of study.
00:15:36Reading, writing, arithmetic.
00:15:38Oh, that's a whopper. Can you spell it?
00:15:43You know...
00:15:45You know, we set great store in spelling here in Flat Creek.
00:15:50Curriculum.
00:15:51Here it is.
00:15:52One or two R's.
00:15:54C-U-R-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C-R-I-C
00:16:24Well, it's kind of peeker-looking to me for a schoolmaster, Bud.
00:16:31Ha, ha, ha! Is that him?
00:16:35Shocks! He's still wet behind the ears.
00:16:39Are they the scholars?
00:16:41You'll find some of your pupils rather full-grown.
00:16:44Yeah. Take Bud Larkin there, for instance.
00:16:47Who's gonna take me?
00:16:49We were just saying, take you for example, Bud.
00:16:54Think you can learn me anything?
00:16:56That depends on you.
00:16:58You're darn right it depends on me.
00:17:02I'm sure we'll get along all right, Larkin. Don't worry.
00:17:06Who, me? I ain't worrying none.
00:17:11Pick Mr. Hartshoek a nice coat and pants and shoes and hat.
00:17:17And a medium-small in size.
00:17:20But I don't think I can afford them.
00:17:22Bud, if you don't stick on the job, we'll take them back.
00:17:26Give me the school key and that bunch of birch rods.
00:17:35There's nothing like licking to go with learning.
00:17:38Girls ain't so bad.
00:17:40Boys need a lot of walloping to make them learn.
00:17:44Lickin' and learnin' and lickin'. They both go together.
00:17:49You'll board the first fortnight with me.
00:17:52The second with Squire Hawkins here.
00:17:54Yeah, if he lasts that long.
00:17:56Oh, Pa.
00:18:00Hello, Pa.
00:18:03Just heard you got a new schoolmaster.
00:18:08That's it. This is my daughter Martha.
00:18:11She'll show you the way home.
00:18:13With pleasure, Miss May.
00:18:15I'm happy to make your acquaintance, Mr. Hartshoek.
00:18:19Hartshoek. Ralph Hartshoek.
00:18:22Well, super sick. It don't make no difference.
00:18:26So long as you put your heart in your work.
00:18:29I'm sure he'll put his heart in his work.
00:18:37Looks kinda young to be teaching girls.
00:18:46I hope he's not overly fond of female society.
00:18:50We know how to take care of that kind.
00:18:59We got a new schoolmaster.
00:19:01Big fella?
00:19:02Nah, 0.5.
00:19:05Look out! Here he comes now!
00:19:10Is that him?
00:19:12Yeah.
00:19:14Why, he won't last any longer than I can see underwater.
00:19:23How do you like teaching big girls?
00:19:26Maybe they could teach me.
00:19:31That's our place.
00:19:32Yes, I know.
00:19:37Hannah! Hannah! I got that job.
00:19:41I got that job.
00:19:48Your sister's a funny girl.
00:19:51Hannah?
00:19:53Yes.
00:19:54She's not my sister.
00:19:56That's our bound girl.
00:19:58Bound girl?
00:20:00Yes.
00:20:01She's bound out to us, and her brother's bound out to Dr. Smalls in Larravae.
00:20:06Oh, I see.
00:20:08Did she say she was my sister?
00:20:10No. No, it's my mistake.
00:20:13She said she was...
00:20:15Jake Means Hannah.
00:20:26Oh, Ma!
00:20:28What is it?
00:20:30Oh, Ma.
00:20:32This is a new schoolteacher.
00:20:41This is Mr. Harker. He's going to board with us.
00:20:44Pleased to meet you.
00:20:46The pleasure's all mine, Mrs. May.
00:20:48I'll help you get the spare room ready.
00:20:54Like some fruit?
00:21:11Now, that's something we gotta get settled right now.
00:21:14What?
00:21:15I saw you this afternoon.
00:21:18You mean with Hannah?
00:21:20Bound girls ain't to be spoke to or carried on with,
00:21:24especially for schoolmasters.
00:21:35Hey, you forgot his eyes, boy.
00:21:37I ain't got any black charm.
00:21:40Hey, kid, how do you like that new teacher?
00:21:53Put another nail in there.
00:21:59Hey, if there's any fight in your do-here, I'll do it.
00:22:11How's he gonna fall through, bud, if you ain't gonna let him in?
00:22:14I've been hauling water to fill the cellar since sun-up.
00:22:17Maybe we'll let him in later.
00:22:19Fix that crap door, Hank.
00:22:28All right, you kids, come on.
00:22:30Get back to your seats.
00:22:34All right, children, forget your ABCs,
00:22:36and let's sing Pop Goes the Weasel.
00:22:39Ah!
00:22:43All around the power bank,
00:22:46a monkey chased a weasel.
00:22:49A monkey thought with all his might,
00:22:52Pop goes the weasel.
00:22:55Morning, Sharky.
00:22:57Why aren't you ready for school?
00:22:59I can't go.
00:23:01Oh, Doc Small needed you to hold potatoes, I suppose.
00:23:04Mm-hmm.
00:23:06Anyhow, there won't be any school.
00:23:09We've got the whole place nailed up again.
00:23:12I'll be back in a minute.
00:23:14I'll be back in a minute.
00:23:16I'll be back in a minute.
00:23:18I'll be back in a minute.
00:23:20I'll be back in a minute.
00:23:22We've got the whole place nailed up again.
00:23:25And Bud's got a loose flank,
00:23:28but you'll fall through into the cellar.
00:23:33Well, that shows they're interested anyway.
00:23:40Oh, Doc!
00:23:44I'm late. He's gone.
00:23:47Don't you run after him.
00:23:49If he gets through today, let him run after you.
00:24:14Where do you think you're going?
00:24:16I finished the breakfast dishes.
00:24:19I asked you.
00:24:21Where do you think you're going?
00:24:23To school.
00:24:25Common school wasn't good enough for you once.
00:24:28That's changed your mind.
00:24:30A new schoolmaster?
00:24:32That's not so.
00:24:34What did Bud Larkin say,
00:24:36if he found you taking sides again?
00:24:38Get that dress off
00:24:40and start cleaning up around here.
00:24:46All right.
00:25:01I just swallowed a sleep pencil.
00:25:05All right, children.
00:25:07We're going to have a spelling bee.
00:25:09I'm Squire Hawkins.
00:25:15The object of this spelling bee,
00:25:18as is customary,
00:25:20is to see who can spell the new schoolmaster down.
00:25:23Hey, Bud, where's your cough medicine?
00:25:25Shut up!
00:25:27I'm going to pick up the spelling bee.
00:25:29I'm going to pick up the spelling bee.
00:25:31I'm going to pick up the spelling bee.
00:25:33I'm going to pick the first word.
00:25:36Mr. Hartzler, shall I get Paul?
00:26:03Inseparable.
00:26:05Now then, who can spell it?
00:26:09Go ahead, sonny.
00:26:11Can I leave the room?
00:26:13I told you no!
00:26:25Hey, look, fellas.
00:26:27There's something wrong with that stove.
00:26:29Come on.
00:26:31Hey, Bud!
00:26:32Tom's up the chimney!
00:26:34Get that wood out of there!
00:26:35I said it!
00:26:36Give me that!
00:26:37It's too hot!
00:26:40Get out of here, you kids!
00:26:41Clear out of here!
00:26:44Hurry up!
00:26:46Let me in there!
00:26:48Good morning, children.
00:27:07When the smoke clears, we will all take our places inside.
00:27:18It seems we were preparing for a spelling bee a little earlier.
00:27:38Suppose we continue with you, Mr. Larkin.
00:27:44Would you kindly step up here, Mr. Larkin?
00:27:53What word were you trying to spell?
00:27:56Inseparable.
00:27:58Inseparable.
00:27:59Can you spell it?
00:28:00Can I?
00:28:02I-N-N-S-E-C.
00:28:06Hold on there.
00:28:07That's wrong.
00:28:08Huh?
00:28:10Why, you can see for yourself.
00:28:13Right here in the book.
00:28:20Reset.
00:28:26How was that dirty trick, Bud?
00:28:28Yeah, where is it?
00:28:32Why, Bud, you're wringing wet.
00:28:34You'd better take your coat off.
00:28:36You'd better take off your own coat.
00:28:38What for?
00:28:39You know what for.
00:28:44Well, all right, but it's got to be a private fight.
00:28:47Alone.
00:28:48Man to man.
00:28:49I know a good place.
00:28:51Come on.
00:28:54You kids stay here.
00:28:55I'll be back in ten minutes.
00:28:57Maybe five.
00:29:09What are you doing?
00:29:10I'm clearing a ring.
00:29:11Them sticks might put your eyes out.
00:29:15You're going to a lot of trouble on my account.
00:29:18No trouble at all.
00:29:35Your wonderful arms, Bud.
00:29:38What do you do for a living?
00:29:40I'm a rail splitter.
00:29:44Greatest man this country ever knew was a rail splitter.
00:29:48Don't give me no soft soap.
00:29:50Don't try to talk me out of it.
00:29:58Go ahead.
00:29:59Knock it off.
00:30:00I dare you to.
00:30:03You know, you kind of remind me of him, too.
00:30:06Who?
00:30:07That other young rail splitter.
00:30:09He was a great big hulk of a man like you.
00:30:12Until he began to use his brain.
00:30:15But he wanted an education and he fought to get it.
00:30:18And one day he walked with kings.
00:30:23You going to fight me?
00:30:26I have been fighting.
00:30:28But I've lost, so one more won't make any difference.
00:30:33When it's over, I can't go back, so I want you to leave these at the store for me.
00:30:43I don't want them damaged.
00:30:45They're not paid for.
00:30:49The, uh, the pants will have to report as lost in action.
00:30:59Real fighters always shake hands before the first round.
00:31:09No hard feelings, bud.
00:31:11Just because you can't see things my way.
00:31:13Hey, but no, those things couldn't last if the people were educated.
00:31:17And they'd soon put a stop to their keeping slaves, bound girls and boys.
00:31:22Like Hannah Thompson?
00:31:24Yes, Hannah and Shockey and the others and yourself, too.
00:31:27Because ignorance is slavery.
00:31:30And freedom and education go together.
00:31:33They're inseparable.
00:31:36Inseparable.
00:31:39That's the word you tried to spell.
00:31:42Well, come on. Let's get it over with.
00:31:50It's all over.
00:31:54You win.
00:31:57No, bud.
00:32:00You win.
00:32:02You think a fellow like me would ever amount to anything?
00:32:05A man can be anything he wants.
00:32:08Could I be a surveyor?
00:32:09If you study.
00:32:10Would you learn me?
00:32:11Of course, bud.
00:32:14See, there's a reason.
00:32:16If I could get to be a surveyor as a girl, her and me could get married.
00:32:20Sure you could.
00:32:23You go back to school.
00:32:24I'll be along in a minute.
00:32:42Gee willikers.
00:32:43Look at that.
00:32:44Schoolmaster must have been buzzed.
00:32:53All right, children.
00:32:55You may now all go back to your places.
00:33:00Oh, Mr. Hartsup, you won.
00:33:04Here comes Bud now.
00:33:10Wow, a little black guy.
00:33:15You and me, Bud.
00:33:16We can take him together.
00:33:18From now on, he'll do the learning and I'll do the licking.
00:33:21And I'll lick anybody in this school that won't learn.
00:33:35I think Mr. Hartsup will like it.
00:33:58Well, he's slick enough to say so anyway.
00:34:01He's a smart one.
00:34:02That fellow Lamont or something.
00:34:04Well, a week ain't enough time to judge him on.
00:34:09Well, anybody told me a week ago that Bud Larkin would be eaten out of his hand?
00:34:14Why, I thought that was crazy.
00:34:17No telling how far the schoolmaster will get after he becomes a lawyer.
00:34:21Why, he might even get in the legislature.
00:34:24Then I'd invite you to the mansion.
00:34:26Once or twice, maybe.
00:34:30Look, I hear that.
00:34:32Us in the mansion.
00:34:34Well, you ain't catched him yet.
00:34:44Get along there.
00:34:45Me too?
00:34:46You too, if you know what's good for you.
00:34:48They'll see you.
00:34:49No harm meeting by accident.
00:34:51Accident?
00:34:52Don't you know?
00:34:54Bound girls ain't to be spoke to or carried on.
00:34:57Well, I wouldn't think of carrying on with you.
00:35:00I'm glad to hear it.
00:35:02Well, goodbye.
00:35:03Oh, wait a minute.
00:35:04Wait a minute.
00:35:05I want to ask your advice about my career.
00:35:07You seem to be getting along very well.
00:35:09What's the next thing I ought to do, Hannah?
00:35:11You know, you got me into this right up to my sleeves.
00:35:14All you need now is some of this.
00:35:18Hey, look out.
00:35:19That's rich land.
00:35:20You should get some of it.
00:35:22Gee, that's lovely stuff, isn't it?
00:35:25What would a fellow have to do to get an acre of this?
00:35:28You might get a lot of acres.
00:35:30And a very nice girl thrown in.
00:35:33Martha?
00:35:34Say, do you think I could get 100 acres and Martha?
00:35:38That's a lot of mud.
00:35:40But a smart Yankee might even get 200.
00:35:43Thanks, Hannah.
00:35:44I'll never forget you for this suggestion.
00:35:48You'd have to spruce up a bit.
00:35:50Fix your cravat.
00:35:52Go home nice and not run around with bound girls.
00:35:55Who, me?
00:35:56I'd never look at a bound girl again.
00:35:59Martha's so sweet.
00:36:01I hate to see you take her away.
00:36:03Oh, you could go right on working for us.
00:36:05Martha and me.
00:36:06Oh, thanks.
00:36:08Then when your bound time was up,
00:36:09I'd pick you out a nice middle-aged farmer to marry you,
00:36:12and you could keep on working for him
00:36:14and not even notice the change.
00:36:16You mustn't keep thinking always of me.
00:36:18Try to think of Martha.
00:36:20Oh, that's no effort.
00:36:21She's very sweet and very pretty.
00:36:23Do you?
00:36:24I don't want to wait a minute to go see about those acres.
00:36:27Thanks, Hannah.
00:36:28Wait a minute.
00:36:29Take the first of them with you now.
00:36:31Wait, what?
00:36:32Why, you...
00:36:34Ha, ha, ha.
00:36:35Ha, ha, ha.
00:36:36Ha, ha, ha.
00:36:37Ha, ha, ha.
00:36:38Ha, ha, ha.
00:36:39Hey.
00:36:40You could go on all night that way.
00:37:10Too much for words.
00:37:12Play.
00:37:13Listen to the mockingbird.
00:37:16Yeah.
00:37:29Well, just getting along about my bedtime.
00:37:48Me too, Pa.
00:37:55I'm going to bed early.
00:37:56I don't want you to snore.
00:37:58I'm going out.
00:38:01That way of breath must be doing too much talking.
00:38:11Boys, that rider burned the whole place down last night because I was trying to help you
00:38:32fellas.
00:38:33Oh, no, no.
00:38:34Wait a minute, boys.
00:38:35It ain't no use.
00:38:36The same one's been keeping you fellas from them lambs too.
00:38:40Well, how about riding to Washington like Hart did there?
00:38:42That's right.
00:38:43Ralph's got the education to put this thing straight up to the government.
00:38:48That's right.
00:38:49That's right.
00:38:50Oh, I can't seem to get it.
00:38:56Don't worry about it, bud.
00:38:58It takes three years to learn to be a surveyor.
00:39:02Come on, walk over to the house with me.
00:39:04We'll talk about it on the way over.
00:39:23That's fine, bud.
00:39:24Guess I'll have to show it to my girl.
00:39:26Great.
00:39:27When's the wedding?
00:39:28I'll be the best man.
00:39:29Would you?
00:39:30Well, you're my best friend, aren't you?
00:39:33Who is she?
00:39:34Oh, I ain't told you much about her.
00:39:36I ain't even told her what I'm trying to do.
00:39:38I want to surprise her.
00:39:42She lives in there.
00:39:45That really is a surprise.
00:39:52Yeah, she's a wonderful girl, bud.
00:39:55You like her?
00:39:56Like her?
00:39:57Why, bud, I envy you.
00:40:00She's the prettiest girl in Plattsburgh.
00:40:06Say, I guess you mean Martha, don't you?
00:40:09Well, yes, of course.
00:40:12I'm glad you like Martha.
00:40:13I thought for a minute it might be Hannah.
00:40:17Hannah?
00:40:18Yes.
00:40:23There she is now.
00:40:25What are you doing?
00:40:33Hiya, Hannah.
00:40:36Look what I've been doing.
00:40:41Ralph's helping me to be a surveyor.
00:40:45Hello, Ralph.
00:40:47Hello, Martha.
00:40:52Ralph knows all about you and me.
00:40:54He wants to help us get married.
00:40:56He even said he'd be the best man.
00:40:59Did he say that?
00:41:01Sure, him and me as friends.
00:41:03We're inseparable.
00:41:07We ain't the only ones.
00:41:09He was just telling me how pretty Martha is.
00:41:14It's very becoming.
00:41:17Yes.
00:41:18Shall we go in the house?
00:41:22Yes.
00:41:29I'm telling you, Hannah,
00:41:30he's the smartest man that ever come to Platt Creek.
00:41:33Smart enough to get a hundred acres.
00:41:35All Yankees are smart.
00:41:36Yankee peddlers, Yankee school teachers.
00:41:38They're always looking for the best bargain.
00:41:40You shouldn't talk like that about him.
00:41:42Don't talk to me about him.
00:41:43He's just a cheap Yankee peddler.
00:41:46I hate him!
00:41:47I hate him!
00:41:59Mr. Hart took stuff all gone?
00:42:01Yes, ma'am.
00:42:02But I took everything over to Squire Hawkins.
00:42:04Did school nurse do any complaining
00:42:05about the squire making you sleep in the barn?
00:42:08We'll talk to him.
00:42:18Go on, Martha.
00:42:20What about it, Tom?
00:42:22Might not get the chance when he's boarding with the squire.
00:42:29I ain't for it.
00:42:32Better have him on your side.
00:42:35Won't cost you more than 160 acres.
00:42:40Indeed.
00:42:41And not another acre.
00:42:44160.
00:42:46I've got something to say about this.
00:42:50Leave me the stingy.
00:42:52Seems how you and Doc and the squire got the land.
00:42:57Don't swallow me, are you?
00:43:03All right, 160.
00:43:11Better call the schoolmaster again.
00:43:36I want to explain something to you.
00:43:38That won't be necessary.
00:43:48Sorry I'm late.
00:43:54Better eat hearty, Mr. Hart.
00:43:56Won't get such good feeding at the squire's.
00:43:59Or such good quarters, either.
00:44:00Thanks.
00:44:07Great country this Mr. Hart shook for a fellow to take hold and settle down.
00:44:15When Jake and me came here, we started on 80 acres.
00:44:22I guess he owes his prosperity to you, Mrs. Lane.
00:44:26I brung Jake the 80 acres we started on.
00:44:30The man that marries Martha will be luckier.
00:44:34You'll get half a section.
00:44:36320 acres.
00:44:41What's that?
00:44:44I should say the man who marries Martha would be very lucky to get her without any land at all.
00:45:03What is it, Sharky?
00:45:06I want to speak to Mr. Hart, Sharky.
00:45:12Excuse me.
00:45:21Yes, Sharky?
00:45:22Yes, Sharky?
00:45:24I want to see you right away.
00:45:41There.
00:45:42I guess that covers about everything.
00:45:44The only thing that worries me is mentioning their names.
00:45:47You sure worry about that.
00:45:49When I left here to go to war, Jake Bean didn't have but 200 acres.
00:45:53Doc Small wanted nothing but a horse doctor.
00:45:56And Squire Hawkins didn't have enough money to even buy a horse manager.
00:46:00Now they got thousands of acres.
00:46:02What did they give them if they didn't steal government land, huh?
00:46:08All right.
00:46:09Here it goes to Washington.
00:46:21Well, Doc.
00:46:23Better for you.
00:46:24I mean, you never have.
00:46:52Come on.
00:46:57I got you in a trap that time.
00:47:00Well, see if you can get us out of this.
00:47:07Adjutant General's Office, Indianapolis, Indiana.
00:47:13Well, what does it say?
00:47:15Read it.
00:47:16Yes, sir.
00:47:18The charges of irregularity in government land have been filed against yourself,
00:47:24Squire Hawkins,
00:47:28and Jacob Mean
00:47:37by Schoolmaster Ralph Harchuk on behalf of soldiers.
00:47:46These are common occurrences we must investigate,
00:47:50and to that end you will kindly be prepared to make explanations to Major Thorndyke,
00:47:57who is en route en route to your district.
00:48:07Schoolmaster, eh?
00:48:09And you was going to give him 328 acres to marry your daughter.
00:48:13Yeah.
00:48:16It's hard to get rid of him.
00:48:17He's too smart.
00:48:19Let's fire him.
00:48:20Well, we can't do that without giving the town a good reason.
00:48:24And we have to be careful of the Adjutant General's Office now.
00:48:28If he was spelled down at the spelling bee tonight,
00:48:31that would be reason enough.
00:48:33Yeah, but we can't depend on it.
00:48:37We ain't depending on that.
00:48:42Gee, Mr. Harchuk,
00:48:44I don't see why Squire Hawkins makes you sleep in the barn.
00:48:47Well, schoolmasters have to get used to boarding around, Chuck.
00:48:59Well, I'll get it.
00:49:00Looks like we're going to have a pretty good crowd tonight.
00:49:03Yes, they're coming in right, Clark.
00:49:05I hope it's as big as it was last year.
00:49:07So do I. That was a good one.
00:49:12Seven o'clock, Squire.
00:49:14I reckon we'd better get started.
00:49:15Why, of course.
00:49:22There's the bell. You'd better hurry.
00:49:25I'll bet nobody's going to spell you down tonight.
00:49:28You never can tell, Shaki.
00:49:34Deuteronomy.
00:49:44You ought to know them all by this time.
00:49:46You've been at it all week. Come on.
00:49:48I'll be finished in a minute.
00:49:50If you don't hurry, you'll miss seeing Ralph spell everybody down.
00:49:53I'm going to see him get spelled down.
00:49:55Huh? Nobody could do that.
00:49:57You're a good speller, Hannah.
00:49:59And he ain't practiced for years.
00:50:01But you can't hold a candle to him.
00:50:03We'll see.
00:50:12I'm so excited.
00:50:14I hope nobody spells the new schoolmaster down.
00:50:18I'd hate to see him have to go.
00:50:21There's a lot of good spellers here tonight.
00:50:25Don't worry.
00:50:34Bell and Beal come to order.
00:50:54Ladies, and what came with you?
00:50:58What'd he say?
00:51:00He said, ladies, and what came with you?
00:51:03Huh?
00:51:04Ladies, and what came with you?
00:51:07Oh, he said it louder last year.
00:51:11We will now choose sides.
00:51:14Doc Small takes one team.
00:51:20And the schoolmaster takes the other.
00:51:31All those that want to spell, step right up the front and put your spelling books on the desk.
00:51:41I'll take Mr. Johnson.
00:51:48Mrs. Gamble.
00:51:54Yes, we've got the sides ready.
00:51:57Now, we...
00:52:02Are we on time?
00:52:03Yes.
00:52:07Your next choice, Mr. Schoolmaster.
00:52:14I'll take Bud Lark.
00:52:22Well, I'll take Hanna.
00:52:29Now, we will commence with the word commence.
00:52:36You first, Mr. Johnson.
00:52:38C-O-M-C-E-N-C-E-N.
00:52:41Commence.
00:52:42Wrong.
00:52:47Next, Mrs. Gamble.
00:52:50C-O-M-C-E-N-C-E-N. Commence.
00:52:54Correct.
00:52:55The next word is partiality.
00:52:59P-A-R-T-I-L-I-T-Y.
00:53:03Wrong.
00:53:04Next.
00:53:09Next.
00:53:10P-A-R-T-H-I...
00:53:17Wrong.
00:53:18Next.
00:53:23Partiality.
00:53:24P-A-R.
00:53:29Q.
00:53:30A Chinaman's Q.
00:53:37C-U-E-Q.
00:53:42Wrong.
00:53:43Next.
00:53:45Q-U-E-U-E-Q.
00:53:48Correct.
00:53:50The next word will be commotion.
00:53:56O-M-C-O-M-O-S-H-U-N.
00:54:03Sean, commotion.
00:54:04Wrong.
00:54:07Next.
00:54:08Commotion.
00:54:09C-O-M-T-O-M-M-U-U.
00:54:14Wrong.
00:54:18Pneumonia.
00:54:19Pneumonia.
00:54:20P-N-E-U-N-U-M-O-N-M-O-N-I-A.
00:54:23Yeah, pneumonia.
00:54:24Correct.
00:54:27Diphtheria, Doc.
00:54:31D-Y-P-D-I-P-T-H-E...
00:54:34Wrong.
00:54:37I'm sorry, Doc.
00:54:38I'm sorry.
00:54:39Wrong.
00:54:42What knocked Doc out?
00:54:44Diphtheria.
00:54:45Huh?
00:54:46Diphtheria.
00:54:47What's he know about diphtheria?
00:54:49Horses don't get it.
00:54:53Diphtheria.
00:54:55Diphtheria.
00:54:57D-I-P-H-DIP-T-H-E-R-THER-A-DIPTHER-I-A.
00:55:00Yeah, diphtheria.
00:55:01Correct.
00:55:04Indignant.
00:55:06I-N-N-D-I-G-D-I-G-N-A-N-T-N.
00:55:10Correct.
00:55:15Intangible.
00:55:17IN, T-A-N, TAN,
00:55:20N-TAN, G-I, J-E, N-TAN, J-E,
00:55:23B-L-E, BULL, N-TAN-G-I-B-L-E.
00:55:26Correct.
00:55:29INSUFFERABLE.
00:55:32INN, S-U-S, SUF, INSUF, S-E-R-A, SUF,
00:55:35INSUFRA, B-L-E, BULL, INSUFRABLE.
00:55:38Correct.
00:55:43INSEPARABLE.
00:55:47I am in, S-E-C-N-C-T-E-R, wrong.
00:56:06Inseparable, Hannah.
00:56:14I am in, S-E-C-N-C-T-E-R, par, inseparable, A-R, inseparable, B-L-E, book, inseparable.
00:56:23Correct!
00:56:28Here's the point.
00:56:29Now we can fire him legally.
00:56:33Congratulations, Ed.
00:56:36I guess we'll have to be looking around for a new schoolmaster.
00:56:56Not bad, Mr. Hartman. I'm kind of sorry.
00:57:09I told you I'd do it.
00:57:11Aw, he let you win. He can spell inseparable as easy as I can spell cat.
00:57:16What?
00:57:18Why, he's spelled it for me a hundred times. He taught me the words.
00:57:21Then why didn't he spell it tonight?
00:57:24Aw, because she's a girl. That's why.
00:57:26Because it's all a scene between them, Bud.
00:57:29No, that isn't so.
00:57:30Isn't it? I felt it from the very beginning when you let him think you were my sister.
00:57:36That's a lie.
00:57:47Go on home, Chucky.
00:57:51Thank you, Hannah.
00:57:56Now what's the meaning of this problem, Martha?
00:57:59Bud didn't tell you? It was all a scheme.
00:58:01She didn't spell him down.
00:58:03There's something going on between them two.
00:58:05You'd better go on and do what Doc told you.
00:58:28Ralph, I want to tell you how sorry I am.
00:58:32That's all right.
00:58:33How did you do it, Ralph?
00:58:35What?
00:58:36Let me spell you down.
00:58:39I didn't. You won.
00:58:41On inseparable?
00:58:44Why not? It's a very difficult word to spell.
00:58:48It's a more difficult word to live.
00:58:53I thought the best way to spell it was not to.
00:58:58What do you mean? Was it all on account of Bud?
00:59:02Things might have been different, Hannah, if you'd told me about Bud at the beginning.
00:59:09Maybe that's why I didn't tell you.
00:59:12I wish you had.
00:59:13What difference should it make? I don't love Bud.
00:59:16Then it wasn't fair of you to let him think so.
00:59:18Any more than it was fair of you to let me think you loved Martha.
00:59:21That's why I came here tonight to try to spell you down.
00:59:24I hated you.
00:59:25I wanted to humiliate you the way you humiliated me.
00:59:29I'm sorry for what I did, Ralph.
00:59:32I'm sorry the way things happened, too, Hannah.
00:59:36Nothing makes any difference now.
00:59:39I'm going.
00:59:40You were going anyway.
00:59:41Spelling bee just gave you an excuse to go and then Bud thinks that was the reason.
00:59:46Goodbye, Hannah.
01:00:03I'm afraid to go to Doc's mall.
01:00:06He's got a whip me.
01:00:08You won't have to, Sharkey.
01:00:10We'll run away to Doc's.
01:00:15I know.
01:00:17Mr. Randall won't take us.
01:00:19He's going back to Kentucky.
01:00:21And he said he would take us with him any time.
01:00:24All right, Sharkey.
01:00:27I'm telling you, we've seen him.
01:00:29There's no telling how long this has been going on.
01:00:32It's a disgrace to the community.
01:00:34If he wasn't carrying on with her, there'd be no reason to let her win tonight.
01:00:40It ain't so.
01:00:42If you say that again, Doc's mall, I'll wear you.
01:00:44No, no, no, Ron.
01:00:45Bud, all right.
01:00:46I'm going.
01:00:47I'm going.
01:00:48I'm going.
01:00:49I'm going.
01:00:50I'm going.
01:00:51I'm going.
01:00:52I'm going.
01:00:53If you say that again, Doc's mall, I'll wear you.
01:00:55No, no, no, Ron.
01:00:56Bud, hold on.
01:00:58Use some sense.
01:01:00We ain't blaming you for getting mad.
01:01:02That was just too foxy for you.
01:01:04It's her fault, Bud, more than it is his.
01:01:07No, I tell you, Hannah didn't even like him.
01:01:09Why, she was mad at him.
01:01:10What for, if there wasn't anything between them?
01:01:13A girl don't get mad at a boy for nothing.
01:01:15That sounds reasonable.
01:01:17That's no way for a schoolmaster to be carrying on with a bound girl anyway.
01:01:21A schoolmaster's supposed to be trusted almost like a preacher.
01:01:24Yes.
01:01:26We'll close the school and bring him up on charges.
01:01:31We'll question her, make her tell.
01:01:34And if it's true, we'll ride him out on a rail.
01:01:37Come on.
01:01:38Come on.
01:01:39Come on.
01:01:40Come on.
01:01:41Come on.
01:01:42Come on.
01:01:43Come on.
01:01:44Come on.
01:01:45Come on.
01:01:46Come on.
01:01:47Come on.
01:01:48Come on.
01:01:49Come on.
01:01:51She's been here and taken her things.
01:01:53She's running away.
01:01:54You can't have gone far.
01:01:55Give me this.
01:01:56Come on.
01:01:57Come on.
01:01:58Come on.
01:01:59Come on.
01:02:00Come on.
01:02:01Come on.
01:02:10Hey, none of you folks go down by the window.
01:02:12All right.
01:02:18Let's keep an eye on him.
01:02:20He ought to be here any minute.
01:02:24Let's go.
01:02:41Well, she's around here somewhere.
01:02:54I don't think I'll need you anymore.
01:03:21I don't think I'll need you anymore.
01:03:52I didn't mean to trouble you again, Ralph.
01:03:55Just let me hide here a minute until they go.
01:03:58Who?
01:03:59Jake Means and the townspeople.
01:04:01They nearly caught me.
01:04:03Sharky and I are running away.
01:04:05Mr. Randall is taking us to Kentucky.
01:04:09Does Bud know?
01:04:10No.
01:04:13But there's no reason for you to go now.
01:04:16I told you I'm leaving.
01:04:19You mustn't go, Ralph.
01:04:21Everybody knows you didn't lose the spelling bee.
01:04:25Don't you see?
01:04:26You can't give up your chance to become a lawyer and be something in life.
01:04:31I'll be all right.
01:04:33They'll soon stop looking for me and then I can go.
01:04:38You better take off those white shoes.
01:04:44You better go see what people are jumping.
01:04:46All right, Mr. Randall.
01:04:53There they are, Bud.
01:04:55What did I tell you?
01:04:58Oh, my God.
01:05:00Oh, my God.
01:05:01Oh, my God.
01:05:02Oh, my God.
01:05:03Oh, my God.
01:05:04Oh, my God.
01:05:05Oh, my God.
01:05:06Oh, my God.
01:05:07Oh, my God.
01:05:08Oh, my God.
01:05:09Oh, my God.
01:05:10Oh, my God.
01:05:11Oh, my God.
01:05:12Oh, my God.
01:05:13Oh, my God.
01:05:14Give it to him, Bud.
01:05:36You're under arrest
01:05:38for beating a bound person to break a lawful contract
01:05:41and for conduct unfit on a teacher.
01:05:44And you'll be lucky if you get as far as a jail.
01:05:46Come on.
01:05:47Take him out.
01:05:48Come on.
01:05:49Take him out.
01:05:50Take him out.
01:05:51Take him out.
01:05:52Take him out.
01:05:53Take him out.
01:05:54Take him out.
01:05:55Take him out.
01:05:56Take him out.
01:05:57Take him out.
01:05:58Take him out.
01:05:59Take him out.
01:06:00Take him out.
01:06:01Take him out.
01:06:02Take him out.
01:06:03Take him out.
01:06:04Take him out.
01:06:05Take him out.
01:06:06Take him out.
01:06:07Take him out.
01:06:10Take him out.
01:06:12Take him out.
01:06:14Take him out.
01:06:17Take him out.
01:06:20Take him out.
01:06:24Take him out.
01:06:26Take him out.
01:06:29Where is he?
01:06:31They got her.
01:06:32Writer and his guts.
01:06:33The schoolmasters knew it! They're going to get you!
01:06:36You hear that, Miss Henson? You going to stand for it?
01:06:42But they lied to you! Ralph wasn't running away with me!
01:06:46He wouldn't do anything to hurt you, he said so!
01:06:48He was going so he wouldn't stand in your way!
01:06:54Come on, let's get him!
01:06:58Grab the pipe!
01:06:59What do you care? The pipe!
01:07:00Give me that axe!
01:07:02Get back here!
01:07:08Hey! Get back here! You got my leg!
01:07:15Let's get him! Let's get him!
01:07:27Get up!
01:07:31Ralph, don't you see they're lying to you?
01:07:34The only person he ever cared for in this town was you.
01:07:37I didn't count with him. Nobody counted but you.
01:07:40He was proud of you, Ralph.
01:07:46This is one battle we ain't going to miss, son.
01:07:53You can't take sides with men like Jake and Doc at the choir!
01:07:57You can't let them destroy him!
01:07:59He would have given his life for you!
01:08:10Stop it! Stop it!
01:08:30Hey, let's do something!
01:08:35We'll... we'll study together.
01:08:40Three years is a long time to be a surveyor.
01:08:46But you won't let me down, will you, Ralph?
01:09:00Gentlemen, Jake means that Dr. Small and Squire Hawkins
01:09:07have been transferred to Indianapolis for sentencing.
01:09:18What?
01:09:20Well...
01:09:21Well...
01:09:25I bet you can't stay underwater now as long as we're alive!