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01:21I suppose at one time or another in the course of our lives,
01:25many of us have experienced an event or occurrence
01:28which could not be explained
01:30and at the same time was shrugged off as a coincidence
01:33or a trick of the mind.
01:35I remember a series of such events
01:37and even today, many years later,
01:39I still can't help wondering just how much of it was coincidence.
01:46It all started one afternoon in late fall.
01:51♪
01:56Hey, Mike.
01:57Mm-hmm?
01:59Did your wife have implores for you last winter?
02:02Yeah.
02:05You know, come all this rain and mud,
02:07I believe I got a touch of it myself
02:09and I can't hardly get my hair.
02:12Well, Horace, I can tell you what Mavis used.
02:17What is that?
02:20Well, she larded herself down real good.
02:23Some of them mutton-tallowed poultices, you know.
02:28Oh.
02:30I believe it'll just keep the pleurisy.
02:36So that oldest boy of John Walton's is short-groved.
02:41How many they got over there by now?
02:46By the last count, I believe there's seven.
02:49Well, that one, he don't look like the rest of them.
02:54No, he don't, but it may be that he's not one of their clan.
03:00Luke, let's see the puppies.
03:04Hi, Mr. Oswald.
03:07Hey.
03:09John, boy.
03:10Howdy.
03:11John, Oswald, Lily.
03:13John, Oswald, Lily.
03:15How's everything over at your place, son?
03:17Pretty fair.
03:18How about over by you?
03:20Can't complain.
03:22Say, that young fellow with Elizabeth,
03:25he don't belong to y'all, does he?
03:27Nah.
03:28That's Tom Enright's boy.
03:30We're just taking care of him
03:31until Tom finds a home in Richmond.
03:33Tough on Tom.
03:36Losing his wife and trying to raise that kid all by himself.
03:39It's true.
03:41It hasn't worked in a long time to boot.
03:45Well, I'm gonna go and see if there's any mail.
03:48I'll see you later.
03:52Mike.
03:57Mike?
03:58What do you want, John, boy?
04:01Uh, is there a letter from Luke's daddy?
04:04No, there's no mail today.
04:07Where are you?
04:09Right here.
04:11We're here, John, boy.
04:13We needed a flat surface and an isolated place
04:16where we might concentrate.
04:20What are you doing?
04:22We're not playing pool, if that's what you suspect.
04:26We're consulting the spirit board.
04:28You ask it questions,
04:29and by means of this indicator, it answers you.
04:32Spirit boards are all the rage in New York City.
04:35Papa forbade us ever to have one in the house.
04:38So whenever we have a perplexing question,
04:40we come down here,
04:41and Mr. Godsey is kind enough to let us use this one,
04:44don't you know?
04:45I sure do.
04:46Now, Mr. Godsey, don't break the concentration.
04:49Oh, I'm sorry.
04:50Uh, what are you trying to find out right now?
04:53What to do.
04:55About what?
04:56Mason jars.
04:58Mason jars.
04:59A gentleman in Charlottesville
05:01has offered to supply us with Mason jars
05:03at the wholesale price.
05:05So we're trying to decide
05:07whether to buy our jars from Mr. Godsey
05:09at the retail price.
05:12Uh, you're helping with this decision, are you, Mike?
05:16I'm just lending a hand.
05:19Join us, John boy.
05:20You help us, too.
05:22Is it all right?
05:23Yeah.
05:24Good.
05:25Um, what do I do?
05:28Well, put your hand on this board.
05:33Concentrate on the question.
05:43Why don't you ask the question, Miss Sumley?
05:47It's not my turn.
05:49It's Mamie's.
05:50Oh, no, dear.
05:51It's yours.
05:53You've forgotten.
05:54Remember that dreadful day we both forgot
05:57one of the chief ingredients of the recipe.
05:59The recipe is written down,
06:01and in a safe deposit box in the bank in Charlottesville.
06:04But this day, the bank was closed,
06:06so we consulted the spirit board.
06:08And in a twinkling of an eye,
06:10it spelled out the answer.
06:1214 level tablespoons of...
06:14Sister!
06:16Oh.
06:19I'm sorry.
06:21Why don't you tell him what it said
06:23when you asked about Ashley Longworth?
06:26I don't believe I'm up to discussing
06:28Ashley Longworth today, sister.
06:30I'm feeling very sentimental,
06:33and I'd rather not discuss him.
06:37Well, that's up to you, dear.
06:41What's up to me?
06:42Whether you want to ask about Ashley Longworth.
06:45Oh.
06:47No.
06:49Well, what you've got to decide
06:51is whether you're going to order mason jars today.
06:54Oh, dear, Mr. Godsey,
06:56now you have broken the concentration.
06:58Oh, well, I'm sure we can get it together again.
07:05Oh, I think I've lost it.
07:08So have I.
07:10I really think it would be better
07:12if we pursued our quest tomorrow.
07:17Well, ta-ta, Mr. Godsey.
07:20Ta-ta, ta-ta.
07:22Ta-ta, young boy.
07:25No, sister, I think it might hurt Mr. Godsey
07:27if we get our jars from Charlottesville.
07:29Well, we'll let the spirit board decide,
07:31and then we can make it up to Mr. Godsey in other ways.
07:34John, boy, I want you to do something for me.
07:35Sure, what?
07:36I want you to take this thing away.
07:38I don't have money to spend on a thing like that.
07:40It won't cost you anything. It's free.
07:42Why?
07:43You just heard the ladies.
07:44I mean, they come in and talk to this thing every day.
07:47It's costing me business,
07:48and they're here for hours and hours and hours.
07:51Well, Ike, if they like it so much,
07:53I really don't want to take it away from them.
07:55No, I just can't.
07:57John, boy, please.
07:58I just can't.
07:59Will you take the thing from me?
08:01Okay, I'll take it.
08:03Look, just don't tell them it's at my house.
08:04If they want to play with it, we'll bring it back here.
08:06Okay.
08:07Come on, Elizabeth.
08:08Look on the throne, John, boy.
08:09Yeah, watch out now.
08:10Charity might bite at you.
08:12Charity won't bite me.
08:13She knows I like to kill puppies.
08:15You want a whole one, though?
08:16You'd think with all the trouble that Charity has put me
08:19through sneaking in here behind my back
08:21and having her babies right here on the premises,
08:23you'd think she'd at least have the courtesy
08:25to stop growling at me.
08:26What are you going to do with the puppies, Mr. Bobsey?
08:29Well, they're all spoken for, Elizabeth,
08:31except that one skinny one.
08:33And from the looks of that one,
08:34I don't think anybody will want it.
08:36Can I take them?
08:39Well, you'll have to ask your daddy.
08:41You think he will, John, boy?
08:43You better ask him.
08:48Come on, we better go home now.
08:50Come on, Luke.
08:52Let's go, Luke.
08:53Come on, Luke.
08:54No, she wants out.
08:55She wants out.
08:58Come on, little baby.
08:59You get back.
09:00No, you get back, too.
09:01Come on.
09:02Just be quiet and let me eat my cake, all right?
09:04He doesn't want to talk about it.
09:06No, I do not want to talk about it.
09:08Oh, sure.
09:09Jason Coverdale.
09:12Listen, Jason Baldwin was bad enough.
09:17Could you imagine that?
09:20Jason Baldwin, Jr.
09:22No.
09:23Shut up, you're out of your mind.
09:31The Baldwin sisters are sitting at this table
09:34asking this board whether they should buy their mason jars
09:36from Iker, this fellow in Star Wars.
09:38I know he was trying to push that thing over to Yen,
09:40but it wouldn't move,
09:41because they had their hands that way.
09:43She thinks you have a great future in music,
09:45and the two of you are going to tour across the world.
09:48Can I have a milk?
09:50I suppose so.
09:51I know Jason can, he's in love.
09:53See ya.
09:54Where'd you hear that, man?
09:56Becca Birdwell told me,
09:57and she heard it from Rosa Pollitt.
10:01He was sitting at the table,
10:02I know he was trying to move this thing,
10:03and it has this little pointer on it.
10:06I heard you two had a fight there.
10:08No, it's an old-fashioned Ouija board.
10:10I thought you two...
10:11No, it's not, it's called a spirit board.
10:12I used to have it at my own grandmother's.
10:17I'd be the one to have to tell him.
10:19So would I.
10:21The answer, see, when you ask a question,
10:23that way you can tell the question, see?
10:26What's that?
10:27It's a spirit board.
10:28Ike gave it to me.
10:30Here, listen.
10:35Transport yourself into the unknown.
10:39The origins of this board are as old and mysterious
10:41as the pyramids themselves.
10:44With its help,
10:45you can practice the ancient art of mind reading
10:47and clairvoyance.
10:48Clair-who?
10:49Clairvoyance.
10:51Messages from the past,
10:53insights into the future will be yours.
10:56Do not store in a damp place.
10:59No, it's very serious.
11:00It's very serious.
11:01You speak to the spirit world,
11:02and you foretell the future.
11:04What's a spirit world?
11:06It's a place where ghosts and goblins live,
11:08and they walk around with no clothes on their bones.
11:11It's about as dark as the moon.
11:13Don't scare him.
11:14You summon him up, you summon him up,
11:15and they answer your questions.
11:16That's all there is to it.
11:17All right, let's see if it works.
11:19Let's try it.
11:20Can we play with it, John boy?
11:22That's what it's for.
11:25I can't say I care much for that thing.
11:28Just a game, Lou.
11:31Don't sound like a game to me.
11:33Fooling the spirits, disturbing the dead.
11:38I agree with Grandma.
11:43And on her way, she met Henny Penny.
11:45Now, where are you going, chicken-licking ass?
11:47Henny Penny?
11:48When the sky is full,
11:49I'm going to tell the king you're chicken-licking.
11:51Come on, spirit, answer.
11:53Ben, don't talk to it that way.
11:55You'll hurt its feelings.
11:56It's not working.
11:57Shh.
11:59What is your name, spirit?
12:01What's your name, spirit?
12:03Shh, Ben.
12:04You've got to concentrate.
12:05But it's not working.
12:06You've got to be patient with it.
12:07You've been patient.
12:08Shh.
12:10Okay, come on, ask it again.
12:12Spirit, what is your name?
12:17Hey, it's moving.
12:18A.
12:19Write it down, Aaron.
12:20See, it works if you ask it nicely.
12:22A.
12:23Write it down, Aaron, A.
12:24A.
12:25Are you pushing it?
12:26No, I'm not pushing it.
12:28R.
12:31T.
12:35H.
12:36H.
12:37R.
12:38A.
12:39A.
12:40Spirit, what is it?
12:41This is...
12:42Arthur.
12:43Arthur?
12:44His name is Arthur.
12:45Wait a minute.
12:46No, it's not finished.
12:50T.
12:57C.
12:59Shh.
13:00You come...
13:01Listen.
13:02So Henny Penny and Chicken Lickin' hurried off together.
13:05Soon they met Cocky Locky.
13:10P.
13:15What is that, T?
13:16No, it's a U.
13:17U.
13:20What does that spell?
13:22Don't ask me.
13:24Arth...
13:25No, wait a minute.
13:26What is it?
13:27What does it say?
13:28Arth...
13:31What is it?
13:34Arthazapap.
13:37Arthahazapap.
13:40It's Arthazapap.
13:41Of course, Arthazapap.
13:42It's one of mine.
13:44Hello, Arth.
13:45Welcome.
13:51Soon they met Drakey Lakey.
13:55Where are you going, Chicken Lickin'?
13:58Shh.
14:05Come on.
14:08It's your fault.
14:09It's mine.
14:10In the name of Arthazapap, what do you expect?
14:12You did it, you idiot!
14:17Stop, stop, stop.
14:19What's going on?
14:20What makes it work, Daddy?
14:21What makes it move around?
14:22I reckon somebody's pushing it.
14:23No, nobody's pushing it.
14:24It's supposed to work on some kind of, you know,
14:26the heat from your hands or body electricity or something.
14:28I don't...
14:29Maybe.
14:30But I bet you Ben's pushing it.
14:34Like what?
14:35Like, will I marry a rich man?
14:37Well, I can tell you that.
14:39O...
14:40L...
14:41D...
14:42M...
14:43A...
14:44I...
14:45D.
14:46Old maid!
14:51You young dickens, you.
14:53All right, all right.
14:54All right, all right.
14:55That's...
14:56Hey!
14:57Stop it, stop it.
14:58Put that thing away.
14:59We've played with it enough for one night.
15:02Come on, Luke.
15:03Good night, son.
15:04Good night, Mama.
15:05Good night, Ben.
15:06Off you go.
15:07I'll be up in a little while.
15:08Good night, Mama.
15:09Good night, son.
15:12Oh, sure.
15:18A chicken lickin' in any penny.
15:20Cocky, locky.
15:21Drakey, lakey.
15:22Goosey, loosey.
15:24Come on, Jason.
15:25I'll be up in a couple minutes.
15:26Oh, yeah.
15:27Come on.
15:28Elizabeth?
15:29Hey, Elizabeth.
15:30Hey, Elizabeth.
15:31Good night, Elizabeth.
15:32Good night.
15:33Oh, John, those poor animals.
15:34Well, you know what it is.
15:36funny thing...
15:37at that boy Luke...
15:38and this spirit board here at the same time.
15:41Well, why's that, Grandpa?
15:43Something happened over there at the Enright house...
15:46oh, four or five years back.
15:49Just after his mother Alice had passed on.
15:53Yeah.
15:54I remember that.
15:55I remember that.
15:56I don't remember anything.
15:57I can't remember.
15:58I don't remember anything.
15:59I don't know.
16:00I just remember that.
16:01I just remember that.
16:02I just remember that.
16:03Alice had passed on. Yeah, I remember you coming home from there all upset, Liv.
16:08What happened, Mama? You remember what happened over there, Livvy. I told you I don't
16:15believe the stories that went around, Grandpa. That's something to do with
16:19Luke's birthday party and something strange happened. Something strange, all
16:24right, but I just can't seem to recollect the full particulars. It was just a bunch
16:29of nonsense. Mommy, Jimbob says there's a ghost up in the closet with no clothes on
16:38his bones. I'd better see what those children are up to.
16:52I surely do wish I could recollect the full particulars.
16:57Come on, old man. I think you've had enough hauntings for one night. You can't be too
17:03sure of that. Come on. Good night.
17:27Now, spirit, are you there? Spirit, are you there? Hey, there it goes. There it goes. It's moving.
17:52Okay. What should I ask it now? Ask it its name. No, no, everybody asks it its name. Let me see, let me see. Spirit, will I ever write the great
18:10American novel? Farewell? It said farewell. Well, it's a fraud. Hey, hey, it moved. No, you're just cold.
18:35You're pushing on it with your fingers. No, honestly, I felt it move. Put your hands on it. Try again. Okay, okay.
18:41Oh, yeah. Okay, you ask it something now. It moved for you, so you ask it something. Do you have a message for John, boy?
18:55Never. Oh, boy. Okay, ask it something else. Do you have a message for me? This is Jason. It's not going anywhere.
19:11I guess that's a no. Who do you have a message for? What is that? L.
19:25L? An orphan. Sorry, Spirit. Put your hands back on it. You, you, you.
19:43K. K. E. Nope.
20:06You have not. Have to. When we took Mom and Daddy on their honeymoon, we went through Richmond. Oh, yeah, I forgot.
20:15Daddy took us down Monument Avenue. Then we went to the Capitol to see where they keep the government. Got out and walked around and everything.
20:24I bit a squirrel. Something funny about those city people, though. They dress up like every day was Sunday and they walk real fast.
20:32You'll have to dress up when you go to Richmond, too. My daddy says we'll ride a streetcar. I've seen one of those. They go about six million miles an hour.
20:40Well, it's getting late. You're malingering. Just one more cup. You're not going to deny that to your old man, are you? Nothing I can do to get there.
20:50Guess I'll have one, too. Mom, are you going to pretend to tell Luke all about Richmond? Why? Well, I want to tell Daddy something, but I don't want to miss anything.
21:05What are you going to talk to Daddy about? You'll see. Come on, Luke.
21:14So we're going to finish up that order and get it over there by 11, I hope, huh? Sure.
21:20Daddy? Yes, honey? Do you know about Mr. God's puppies? I know about them. I saw you talked about last night before you went to bed.
21:31You know, that charity almost took my leg off yesterday when I went too near Ike's pool table. That's where you were when I thought you were delivering wood.
21:38Hold your tongue, woman. I was picking up some mash for the cow. Unlikely story. The puppies aren't mean like charity, Daddy. They'd never bite anybody.
21:46It's because his eyes are barely open. Wait till he gets some teeth, then you'll see. But all the puppies are spoken for except for him.
21:55That's because he's a runt. I thought a runt was a pig. Oh, a runt can be most anything so long as it's the smallest of the litter.
22:04Am I a runt? No, honey. You just haven't grown yet.
22:10Would you like me to take the puppy home so you could see him?
22:16No, no thank you, Elizabeth. Well, we'll just go down there and look at him. You want to come, Luke? Sure. Is that okay, Mrs. Walton?
22:24Of course. Go along. Come on, Jimbo. Don't get in Ike's way now. Luke?
22:34Come on.
22:41Sure I'm going to miss Luke when we have to ship him off to Richmond. So is Elizabeth. She really likes that little boy. I call it puppy love.
22:49Don't laugh. Seems we had that and look what happened.
22:54Mama? When did Luke's mama die? About five years ago. After the influenza epidemic.
23:02You know, I'm tending to forget what I used to remember. I laid awake all last night trying to recollect what went on at that birthday party, Libby.
23:14What did happen over there, Libby? Nothing.
23:18Mama, do you realize that every time that story crops up, you do your darndest not to talk about it?
23:24Because there's nothing to talk about.
23:26Yeah?
23:32Well, I can see nobody's going to give me any peace until I do, so...
23:40Well, about a year after Alice's death, Tom Enright gave a birthday party for Luke and I took Jimbo.
23:46And?
23:48Well, all during the party, Tom seemed very uneasy and kept saying that he felt Alice's presence in the house, like she was in the room wanting to be near Luke.
24:06Is that all that happened?
24:09No. Some of the people at the party thought they caught the smell of violence.
24:17What's so strange about that?
24:19Well, nothing. Ever since she was a girl, Alice loved the smell of violence. They were her favorite flower.
24:29And, well, the next day, Tom told me that when he was cleaning up, he saw something on the floor and he'd been to pick it up and it was a single wild violet.
24:46Couldn't somebody have brought it in with them and dropped it or something?
24:51Yes.
24:52No. Now I remember. It couldn't have been a wild violet. It was February and there were several feet of snow on the ground.
25:17He's talking to us. He's mad at us. He's really mad at you.
25:23He is mad.
25:24Would you be quiet?
25:26What are you up to now?
25:28Jimbo is doing it again.
25:30He's doing what again?
25:32The board just keeps spelling Luke's name over and over.
25:35Really?
25:36Yeah. You talk to it now, Jimbo.
25:39Well, has it said anything at all about Luke?
25:42No, it just keeps spelling out his name.
25:45Come on.
25:48Spirit, do you have a message for Luke?
25:54Perhaps.
25:58Spirit, what is the message?
26:00F.
26:03M.
26:06U.
26:10S.
26:11S.
26:13T.
26:14Must.
26:15Okay, must. Go on.
26:17Wait a minute.
26:18M.
26:21O.
26:23M.
26:25U.
26:26T.
26:27Must not.
26:28Must not what, Spirit?
26:29What are you children doing?
26:31The spirit board spelled out a message for Luke, Mom.
26:33It said Luke must not.
26:35Put that thing away and leave it out here in the barn. Don't bring it in the house.
26:38Come on.
26:40Do as I say.
26:42And don't you mention this to Luke. He's young and it'll just upset him. Now, come on.
26:46Come on.
26:47I'll put it away. You go in the house.
26:49Get going.
26:51Mama.
26:53What's the matter?
26:54Nothing.
26:56I don't understand. Is it that story about Luke's mama that's got you upset or what?
27:00I don't believe that story.
27:01Well, then what is it?
27:03It's that board.
27:04It's that board.
27:05You all sound like a bunch of heathens asking it questions like that.
27:29Got a problem, son?
27:31Mama's all upset about this board.
27:34What is it? Forecasting the end of the world?
27:36No.
27:37But it keeps spelling out Luke's name over and over.
27:41Well, it's in right with your mama's best friend.
27:44Probably doesn't like to play in that game, especially with Luke here.
27:51I know it sounds crazy, but...
27:55I'm not so sure it's just a game anymore.
27:57That thing seems to be trying to give us a message about Luke.
28:01Don't be foolish, son. You're making something out of nothing with a piece of wood here.
28:05There are a lot of people who take these things seriously.
28:09I don't want you upsetting your mama anymore, John boy.
28:12It's up to me. I throw this thing out.
28:15It gives me the spooks.
28:21I don't want to upset mama.
28:28But I can't throw this out. I don't know what it is.
28:35I gotta find out more about this.
28:42Abraham?
28:46He doesn't agree with that.
28:48Anson?
28:52Anchor?
28:57Andy?
28:58Nope.
29:00Alphonse?
29:02That's not even a name.
29:03Yes, it is. He isn't yours anyway. Not yet.
29:07Daddy will let me have him. I'm sure he will.
29:09Even if he is grimy and funny looking.
29:12I'd sure like to have that little one.
29:15What would you do with him in Richmond?
29:18My daddy says if he found a place with a big backyard, I could have him.
29:24Try the bees, Jim Bob.
29:28Bozo?
29:30No.
29:34Bumper.
29:37Daddy?
29:38What is it, honey?
29:40You should have seen Beauregard today. He looks so lonesome.
29:44Who's Beauregard?
29:45Charity's youngest son.
29:47That runt under Ike's table, you mean?
29:49He hates the home so bad.
29:51Go ahead to the table.
29:53All right.
29:54All right.
29:56You kids are going to have to start using more soap.
29:59Elizabeth, you have done nothing but talk about that puppy for days.
30:03Why don't you run along and bring Beauregard or whatever home with you?
30:08Really, Grandpa?
30:09Darn toot.
30:11Jim Bob?
30:12Lou, come on.
30:14You children, come back.
30:16Sit down. Have your supper.
30:18Grandma?
30:20Don't you think John's the one who should decide whether the children should have another puppy or not?
30:25Well.
30:27The last time I had a dispute with Pa, I was seven years old.
30:30He settled it with a peach tree switch.
30:33You want to tangle with him, Ma, you go ahead.
30:35Thank you, John.
30:37Do you mind if the children have their supper first?
30:40No, Ma.
30:42But right after supper, you kids can go get that puppy.
30:45Thank you, Daddy.
30:46Hey, now, what about me?
30:47Thank you, Grandpa.
30:50Thank you, young'uns.
30:52All right.
30:53Now, come on.
30:54Liv, you'll be right down.
30:55Grab hands and we'll have the blessing.
31:18Hey, gentlemen.
31:19Sorry I'm late.
31:20Huh?
31:21Letter for you, Daddy.
31:23I picked it up at Ike's when I went to get gas.
31:26It's from Luke's daddy.
31:27Come over here, son, you can listen to this.
31:35Dear John and Olivia,
31:36here's Luke's railroad ticket to Richmond.
31:39Would you please put him on the evening train from Rockfish on Thursday?
31:44That's tomorrow.
31:45It sure is.
31:47I'll meet him this end.
31:49I've also put in one dollar.
31:51Please give it to Luke
31:52so that he'll have some money along the way.
31:55Here's a dollar for you, son.
31:56A dollar for me?
31:57That's for emergencies,
31:58not for frittering away, young man.
32:01The job is working out just fine.
32:04Praise be.
32:05Tell Luke I have found a place for us to live.
32:07A room and house.
32:09Food is not bad
32:10and there's a big backyard.
32:12John, I'm right grateful to you.
32:15The rest is just thanking us for looking after you, son.
32:18I sure had a time, Mr. Walton.
32:21We've enjoyed having you, Luke.
32:22Give that to me and I'll pin it to your jacket.
32:25Are you going back there to sit up?
32:27Ben, I think it's your turn to say grace.
32:29Are you sure it's my turn?
32:30Yes.
32:32Daddy, can we ask the spirit board
32:33if Beauregard's a good name for the new puppy?
32:36What puppy?
32:38You don't have to ask the spirit board
32:39if you don't like Beauregard.
32:41Name him Reckless a second.
32:43I'll tell you in a minute, Liv.
32:44Ben?
32:54Oh.
32:56Packing so early, Grandma?
32:58Well, you pack your suitcase today
32:59and you won't miss your train tomorrow, I always say.
33:02Dad, I heard you there.
33:04You lost something, Luke?
33:05A picture of my roller.
33:07It was right down the desk.
33:09Not this morning.
33:10Well, you can't find it anywhere now.
33:12Well, it can't just disappear.
33:13Somebody must have put it someplace.
33:15Well, now, why would anyone do that?
33:17I asked the boys and they all said
33:18that they saw it right on that desk this morning.
33:21I saw it, too.
33:22Well, don't you worry, Luke.
33:23We'll find it.
33:25Oh, this bit.
33:26Now you come here.
33:28Hold that.
33:29You know we looked in the beds.
33:32John-boy, have you seen that little framed photograph
33:34of Luke's mother anywhere?
33:36Uh, no.
33:37I noticed it a couple days ago.
33:38It simply vanished.
33:39We can't find it anywhere.
33:42That's strange.
33:44Well, Grandma's probably packed it.
33:47It's bound to be here somewhere.
33:48I'll just have to keep looking.
33:50What you reading now?
33:53Uh, it's called Spiritualism and Science.
33:57I got it at the library.
33:58I went into town.
33:59I got all these at the library.
34:01Did you know down at Duke University
34:02they're actually conducting experiments
34:04on extrasensory perception?
34:05Scientific experiments.
34:06They're not just playing around.
34:09You know, Mama,
34:11if there's something that I don't understand
34:14or something I'm interested in,
34:16I can't help it.
34:17I've got to find out more about it.
34:19John-boy, I can't stop you reading and learning,
34:21and I'd never try.
34:23But you know how I feel
34:24about all this superstitious stuff,
34:25especially now while Luke...
34:28Now while what?
34:30While Luke's here?
34:32Yeah.
34:33While Luke's here?
34:35It's got nothing to do with it.
34:37You sure?
34:38I'm quite sure.
34:49John-boy?
34:51Come on in.
34:57Close the door.
35:04Those books tell you anything?
35:07No.
35:09It's pretty technical stuff.
35:11But I'm learning some strange things.
35:15Did you know that that photograph
35:16of Luke's mama is missing?
35:19It was right there on the dresser
35:20when I woke up this morning.
35:23Listen to this.
35:24Come here.
35:31Just listen to this.
35:34Right here.
35:37Many cases have occurred
35:39and been verified
35:41where messages have been received
35:44and when heeded by the receiver
35:46some catastrophe or danger has been avoided.
35:52I think someone's trying to send us
35:53a message about Luke.
35:57Maybe I'm crazy,
36:00but I want to try that board again.
36:04Let's go down to the barn, okay?
36:06Yeah.
36:18Spirit?
36:21Spirit, are you there?
36:24Are you there, spirit?
36:33Perhaps.
36:34Perhaps.
36:36Spirit?
36:38Spirit, who is your message for?
36:45L
36:49U
36:54K
36:56E
36:58Luke.
37:00Spirit.
37:03Spirit, what do you have to tell Luke?
37:07What do you have to tell Luke, spirit?
37:12T
37:17R
37:21A
37:25I
37:29N
37:31Train.
37:32We know he's going on a train.
37:33Jason, Jason, put your hands back on it, quick.
37:36Spirit?
37:37Are you still there, spirit?
37:39Spirit, what about the train?
37:42What about the train?
37:57Will you kids please hurry up?
37:58We're almost home.
37:59Come on, Biber.
38:00Biber.
38:01I thought his name was Beauregard.
38:02He looks more like a fibber.
38:03Well, whatever his name,
38:04would you please pick him up
38:05or Luke's going to miss his train.
38:07Okay, I'll carry him.
38:08Can I carry him?
38:10Okay.
38:12Hello, fibber.
38:15Come on, Luke.
38:17Come on, hurry up.
38:21Come on, hurry up.
38:22Mama's been looking for you.
38:23Come on.
38:24What do you got there?
38:25Isn't he nice?
38:27He's dandy.
38:28Come on, get inside.
38:29Mama's been looking for you.
38:30The train's going to go.
38:31His name's Fibber,
38:32and he's an Alaskan hound dog.
38:34What kind of dog is that?
38:35I don't know.
38:36He's a shaking dog.
38:39As much as I love all of you,
38:40I think Alice Enright loved Luke even more.
38:43She was just about the most devoted mother
38:45you could imagine.
38:47Come here.
38:48Well, in not a moment too soon,
38:49it's getting late.
38:51Luke, you've got to get changed.
38:52Okay, come on, son.
38:54There was a hole in this,
38:55I donned it for you.
38:56Thank you, ma'am.
38:58There we go.
39:01Your daddy's going to be real glad to see you.
39:03Me, too.
39:05Your father's going to see us, too.
39:07Chum boy did it.
39:09Thank you, Jeremy.
39:10You're welcome.
39:11Okay, Elizabeth.
39:12Don't pull him off the bed.
39:13Take it easy, you two.
39:14Come on, Elizabeth.
39:15Let's you and I go see if Fibber's ready to go.
39:17Go, go, go, go.
39:18Okay, we can brush him.
39:19Okay, hurry up.
39:20We'll see you in a minute in the truck.
39:21Okay.
39:22You sure are lucky.
39:23Who's that, Luke?
39:24They're boys and girls.
39:27I knew you were going to say that.
39:28They're boys and girls.
39:30I knew your mother, Luke.
39:31Did you know that?
39:32Yes, ma'am.
39:33We were friends even when we were your age.
39:36Got into all kinds of mischief.
39:39I can't believe we were that wicked.
39:43You remember my mama?
39:44Mm-hmm.
39:46We used to climb trees and play hooky
39:49and go to the swimming hole when we weren't supposed to
39:52and gather violets.
39:53Those were your mama's favorite flower.
39:55She was the best friend I ever had.
39:58She was the best and the kindest person I ever knew.
40:02And she loved you very, very much.
40:06Oh, my goodness, it's getting late.
40:07Here, you finish that up and I'll get your...
40:11Did you take the ticket off here?
40:13No, ma'am.
40:14I didn't touch it.
40:16Well, I was sure I pinned it here this morning.
40:19Are you sure?
40:21Yes, ma'am.
40:22Maybe Grandma packed it.
40:27It's not in here.
40:29John!
40:31Grandma!
40:32Come and help me find Luke's ticket.
40:35Luke?
40:37Are you sure that you haven't seen your ticket anywhere?
40:40Yes, ma'am.
40:41Sure.
40:53So what do we do now?
40:55Well, we'll have to get him another one at the train station.
40:58But the point is that the ticket is gone.
41:02Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
41:04Let's think back to the beginning.
41:06How did the ticket get lost?
41:07I don't know.
41:09Hey,
41:11the spirit board said Luke must not entrain
41:15and now this with the ticket.
41:16I don't know, Jason.
41:17I just don't know.
41:18Half of me says that something very strange is going on here.
41:21The other half of me, which is sensible,
41:22is saying it's nothing at all.
41:23It's just us.
41:25How do you mean us?
41:26Well, in these books I've been reading,
41:28they say that a lot of what appears to be supernatural
41:31really isn't supernatural at all.
41:33It's just people making things happen unconsciously.
41:35I don't understand.
41:38Look,
41:40none of us really wants Luke to go.
41:42I mean, while he's been here, we've been very fond of him.
41:44And part of the reason we're here
41:45I mean, while he's been here, we've been very fond of him.
41:47And part of him might not want to go either.
41:49I mean, after all, he's grown up here on Walden's Mountain.
41:51He spent his whole life here.
41:53So maybe without knowing it,
41:55what we're doing is putting stumbling blocks in his path,
41:57like things like losing pictures and losing tickets
42:00and pretending we're receiving mysterious messages
42:02on the spirit board.
42:04Things to stop him from going.
42:05Exactly right.
42:06You really believe that?
42:08What am I going to do?
42:10We found it!
42:12We found the ticket!
42:13Well, there goes one of our stumbling blocks.
42:15John found it.
42:17It's all down behind the dresser.
42:19Hurry, we're going to miss that train.
42:21Me too.
42:23There you go.
42:25Careful.
42:27Easy there.
42:29Now you hold on to the hook.
42:31John, hurry!
42:33Do you want us to come with you?
42:35You mean keep him?
42:37Yes, he'd be good company for you.
42:39If he ever has babies,
42:41I'll send some kids.
42:43I'll send some too.
42:45Okay, here we go.
42:47Everybody step back.
42:49Drive careful.
42:51Watch it, we're late.
42:53Careful, honey.
43:05He likes riding in the truck.
43:07Sure does.
43:09Just like breakfast.
43:13About ten minutes till the train gets in.
43:15Yeah, in five.
43:18Watch it!
43:23You all right?
43:24I think so.
43:25Is everybody okay?
43:26I'm scared.
43:27It's all right.
43:28What happened, Daddy?
43:30I don't know.
43:31I thought I saw something in the road.
43:36Must have been a deer or something.
43:38Come on, Jumbo.
43:39Let's get out of here.
43:40Okay, okay.
43:41You get in the truck.
43:42Come on.
43:43Up front.
43:44Yeah, go.
43:45Come on, Luke.
43:46You can help push.
43:47Get in the front, Dan.
43:48Push.
43:49When I say push,
43:50push as hard as you can now.
43:51Here we go.
43:52You ready?
43:53Push!
43:54Push!
43:56Push!
43:57Push!
43:58Come on, everybody.
43:59Push!
44:00Push!
44:02Push!
44:03Daddy?
44:04Push!
44:05Daddy, that's a train
44:06coming into Rockfish, sounds like.
44:08We can still make it now.
44:09Come on, everybody.
44:10Let's go.
44:11Push!
44:12Push!
44:14Push!
44:15Push!
44:17Push!
44:19Push!
44:20Push!
44:21Push!
44:23Push!
44:25Push!
44:26We're gonna miss that train.
44:30Like we were supposed to miss it.
44:32Huh?
44:33I tell you, Mama,
44:34something's back of all this.
44:36Jumbo, you know I don't believe
44:37in that nonsense.
44:39Have it your way.
44:41Push!
44:42Push!
44:44Push!
44:45That's doing it.
44:46Here we go.
44:47Push!
44:48Push!
44:49Hard now.
44:50Come on, everybody.
44:51Hard, really.
44:52Push!
44:53Push!
44:54Push!
44:56Come on!
44:57Come on!
44:59Push!
45:00Push!
45:11Push!
45:20We were worried.
45:21What happened?
45:22We had an accident.
45:23Accident?
45:25No one was hurt.
45:26We missed the train, though.
45:28I better get on over to Ike's,
45:29call Tom,
45:30tell him Luke missed the train.
45:32Yep.
45:42Push!
46:01Well, I spoke to Tom.
46:03Get him on the phone?
46:04Yeah, I got him.
46:05He was just leaving for the train station.
46:07Told him what happened.
46:08We'd have Luke on the train in the morning.
46:10He'd have been worried sick
46:11if Luke hadn't been on that train.
46:13Yeah, he most surely would.
46:15He's already eaten,
46:16but I'll fix you something.
46:17Thanks, Lukey.
46:18How's Luke?
46:19He's right as rain.
46:20He's in bed and the puppy's
46:21right along up there with him.
46:23We interrupt this broadcast
46:24for an important announcement.
46:26The 6.30 train from Rockfish
46:28was derailed this evening
46:29and the exact cause of the accident
46:31is still unclear.
46:32All that we know at the moment
46:33is that the train,
46:34which was traveling
46:35at about 60 miles an hour,
46:36left the track
46:37and toppled down
46:38Turn it off.
46:39Rescuers report that
46:40more than 25...
46:42Well, that was the train
46:43that you were supposed
46:44to put Luke on.
46:46I know.
46:47Those poor people.
46:48Thank God we missed it.
47:01Mama?
47:09What's that?
47:10It's Luke's picture.
47:13How'd it get there?
47:14It was never up there before.
47:17Maybe one of the children
47:18found it and put it there.
47:22Okay, Luke, sit down.
47:23Easy now.
47:24Bye, Luke.
47:25Bye-bye.
47:26Bye-bye.
47:27Keep that puppy nice and warm, Luke.
47:30There are forces in our lives
47:32that we can understand and explain.
47:34There are others that mystify
47:36There are others that mystify
47:38and confuse us.
47:39But who is there to say
47:40that the strong bond of love
47:42that existed between a mother
47:44and her child
47:45had to be severed by death?
47:47For love is a force that lives
47:49without beginning,
47:51without end.
47:53It is an energy
47:54that brings sustenance
47:55and nourishment
47:56to the human spirit.
47:58Of all our endowments,
47:59the ability to love
48:01is the most ennobling.
48:03And such is its mystery
48:05that the power of love
48:06can be felt beyond death,
48:08beyond time.
48:12Elizabeth,
48:13Mrs. Hawkins has some puppies
48:14she wants to give away.
48:15I don't want any of them.
48:17But you wanted another dog.
48:18I wanted a run dog,
48:19and she doesn't have one.
48:21Run only means
48:22the dog is the smallest one
48:23in the litter.
48:24I know,
48:25but no one ever wants those.
48:27I think I'll wait for Charity.
48:28She makes good runs.
48:30You're a run, Elizabeth.
48:32Am I, Daddy?
48:33In this family,
48:34you're the girl run,
48:36and Jim Bob's the boy run.
48:38I am not.
48:39You are too.
48:40Oh Lord,
48:41now they'll never get to sleep.
48:42I am not.
48:43You are too, Jim Bob.
48:45I am not.
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