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01:20Looking back down the years to the Great Depression,
01:24I realize now that our family was much more fortunate than most.
01:28Many things were in short supply,
01:31but we had the advantage of being able to live
01:33on the bounty of the rich Virginia country.
01:36And even more important than the gifts of the land,
01:39our family remained intact.
01:42We stayed together under one roof
01:44and were never deprived of the comfort and closeness
01:46of our mother and father.
01:48Those feelings easily made up
01:50for what we often lacked in material things.
01:54What you doing?
01:57Fixing my shoe.
02:00You live around here?
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02:08What's your name?
02:11Reed.
02:14Mine's Elizabeth.
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02:29How many of you folks at home?
02:32Eleven in all.
02:34Seven kids, and then
02:37Mama, Daddy, Grandpa, and Grandma make four.
02:41That's eleven.
02:44Any of you folks Reed?
02:46John Boy Reed, he reads all the time.
02:50He does?
02:51Uh-huh.
02:53You going to the store?
02:57Yes indeed I am.
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03:14Hi Mr. Godsey.
03:15Hi Elizabeth.
03:16Are you back here to change your guess?
03:18Nope.
03:19If I'm right, I'm going to win.
03:21Want to see something pretty?
03:28That's the most beautiful star in the world.
03:31Oh, she sure is pretty.
03:34I'm going to win her.
03:35I'm a real good guesser.
03:37You are, huh?
03:46Thanks Mr. Godsey.
03:47You're welcome Elizabeth.
03:48Soon she'll be all mine.
03:50Well soon I'll be able to tell you who the winner is.
03:52That's about the best I can do for you Elizabeth.
03:54I know who it is.
03:55It's me.
03:57Bye Mr. Godsey.
03:58Bye.
04:03Nice little girl.
04:05I got her.
04:12I'm prepared to bring you culture and knowledge.
04:15Don't waste your breath.
04:16I haven't used any yet.
04:18Then mister, don't waste it will you?
04:22I've got a whole store room full of supplies back there and I'm having trouble selling them.
04:27I bought a whole bunch of those dolls that I've got to sell.
04:29I'm giving this one away.
04:31The kids come in and they count the beans.
04:33But I've got to sell those dolls at $2.98, hard cash.
04:37I've got an ice box over there that's broken down and I've got meat that's going to spoil pretty soon.
04:41I've got things going wrong around here that you can't even count.
04:47Alright.
04:48What do you got?
04:51Books.
04:53Oh, books.
04:55Mister, you better keep right on going.
04:57Why don't you go into Charlottesville?
04:58Or better yet, you know, you ought to go into Westham.
05:00Now Westham, it's a college town.
05:01You probably can sell some.
05:03I stopped there before I came here.
05:15Well.
05:21Thanks anyway.
05:33Sure hope that little girl wins this doll.
05:40Say, uh, you got more of these, huh?
05:46Yeah.
05:48$2.98.
05:50That's right.
05:51They're not cheap, are they?
05:52My old girl would give her heart and soul for a doll like that.
05:57How old is your little girl?
06:00Oh, uh.
06:03Seven.
06:06Sort of like.
06:12Uh.
06:15What did you say the little girl's name was?
06:17Elizabeth.
06:18Elizabeth Walton.
06:19A doll bed's a little hard to make.
06:21Not for you.
06:23You know, a man came at me pestering like that one time.
06:26All he wanted me to do was to build himself a courthouse with new steps.
06:31Any work takes time, honey.
06:34Not a doll bed.
06:36The last time I saw your doll bed, Elizabeth, it looked pretty good shape to me.
06:40But this is for a new doll.
06:42Oh, you got a new doll.
06:43Where is it?
06:44At Mr. Godsey's store.
06:45He has to count the beads before I win.
06:48Maybe we ought to wait till you bring that doll home, honey.
06:51You know, there's a chance you won't win.
06:53I'll win.
06:55Oh.
06:56Hey.
07:00You know, she's been down that store every day.
07:03She's just convinced that doll's hers and Ike's just holding it for her.
07:07You know, we tend to forget as we ramble on, John, that one of the sweetest words in life is hope.
07:13It's way beyond hope, Pa.
07:15He really believes that.
07:17It's as catching as measles.
07:18She's got me believing it, too.
07:20You suppose that's why I've been trying to figure out whether I should put straight legs on that doll's bed or make them curve like a rocker?
07:32Honey, I tell you, I've got to get on down to Ike's.
07:34Just two more pushes, Daddy.
07:37One.
07:40Two.
07:41Hey.
07:44How do?
07:46Not bad.
07:50Come on, this way.
07:55Something I can do for you?
07:58Well, sir, I think maybe there's something I can do for you.
08:02I'm prepared to bring you culture and knowledge and travel and trips to the far and wondrous places.
08:10Wit?
08:11Keep going on, mister.
08:13Whatever you're selling, we can't afford anything right now.
08:16I hate to have you waste your time.
08:20I'll be going down to the general store if you'd like a lift.
08:26I don't think there's much sense in my going back that way.
08:29Thanks.
08:32Sir, would you mind if I sat down for a minute?
08:38Sure, go ahead. Take your time.
08:41Jimmy, I'll be down in Ike's.
08:48Bye-bye, honey.
08:54Mister?
08:55Yes, ma'am?
08:57Mister, would you like a cup of coffee?
09:06That's very generous of you, ma'am.
09:13I'm selling culture and knowledge.
09:15Travel and trips to the far and wondrous places.
09:18The wit, wisdom, and philosophy of a hundred great minds.
09:22And more.
09:24Excitement, adventure, drama, and laughter.
09:29You got all that in that bag of yours?
09:31I think he's talking about books, grandma.
09:34Yes, ma'am.
09:35The Harvard Classics.
09:37Five-foot shelf of books.
09:39The greatest set of books in the whole world.
09:41Excuse me.
09:42Are you selling the Harvard Classics?
09:45You must be John Boy.
09:47I met your little sister down the road and she said you're a powerful reader.
09:52That's an accurate description.
09:54John Boy seems to read.
09:55How do you do?
09:57Those are wonderful books, those Harvard Classics.
09:59Yes, sir.
10:01The greatest set of books in the whole world.
10:04There are over 418 stories contained within 50 volumes.
10:11Good morning.
10:14Yes, ma'am.
10:15I could give you testimonials from people across the country.
10:20Why, there's a woman in Washington, D.C., a Mrs. Clara Emerson, mother of five.
10:31She claims that the purchase of this very same set of books is what prompted her children to go on with their education.
10:42Must be very expensive.
10:44You got the whole collection here? You got the whole set with you?
10:47I have samples here.
10:49Real fine book. Beautiful binding.
10:53Ma'am, it'd take me the whole day to properly describe this set of books.
10:59This one book is just the index for what's contained in the other 49 volumes.
11:09Whose idea was all this anyway?
11:13These books were put together by the president of a great university.
11:16Why, it takes three pages just to list the professors he had helping him.
11:20Sounds right impressive.
11:24John boy, these are no times to be spending hard-earned cash money on a whole set of books.
11:34But just think of the adventure locked within these pages.
11:39The great literary works of the ages.
11:42Would be wonderful.
11:45Help you with your college work too, John boy.
11:47Oh, sure. You know, Grandma, it could probably save me a lot of money.
11:50Save me from having to buy books at school and everything.
11:52Might even encourage the other children to read. You heard what he said about that lady in Washington, D.C.?
11:56Oh, lady, what's come into you?
11:59Grandma, sometimes I get so tired of this depression that I think the only way to keep my sanity is to do something extravagant.
12:05And this isn't even extravagant. Why, it would help the whole family.
12:08This is really just... I can't believe this. They've got books on science and astronomy and poetry and it's incredible.
12:15And all for only three dollars down and a little bit per month thereafter.
12:19Oh, good Lord.
12:22Well, I can only repeat, Mrs. Walton, I would feel as if my children were being deprived if they didn't get a set of these books for themselves.
12:38Oh, wait a minute.
12:42Um, all right.
12:45What?
12:46Libby, now.
12:48But, Mama.
12:50Just a little over three dollars. Now, this thing here.
12:54Libby, that money is mine and I'm going to do it.
12:58Are you sure about this?
13:00Three dollars now.
13:01I'm absolutely sure.
13:02Mrs. Walton.
13:03Three dollars now.
13:04First name.
13:05Libby Mundt for the rest of your life.
13:08What's the first name?
13:09Mrs. John Walton.
13:11You're really sure about this?
13:12I'm sure.
13:14Well, it would be good for the whole family.
13:17Let's see.
13:18Here we are.
13:19When do we get the rest of them? You don't have them all with you, but how long does it take to get them all?
13:24The whole set.
13:25Well, uh, it's kind of difficult to say.
13:32I mean, there's packing and shipping.
13:34And, uh, there's quite a bit of bookkeeping involved in this.
13:38So, it's hard to say.
13:41Sure.
13:44Well, I can see that you folks are really interested.
13:50So, I'm prepared to do something extraordinary for you.
13:58This book here.
14:01The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
14:05He was a famous artist.
14:07Born a poor boy across the water.
14:12Now, his is one of the 50 volumes.
14:17This story.
14:19I'm gonna give you this.
14:21Yes, take it.
14:23To keep.
14:25Until the rest of the books arrive.
14:27He, uh, painted, uh, old chapels and, uh, and many things.
14:36I always thought that was Michelangelo that did all that stuff.
14:39Oh, yeah, him too.
14:42Thank you. Thank you.
14:46Mr. Reeve.
14:50You'd make us real happy if you'd finish the rest of these.
14:53Oh.
14:57Much obliged.
14:59You made John Boyer real happy, Mr. Reeve.
15:05You made me real happy.
15:08Well, I suspect John isn't gonna be quite as happy as the two of you are.
15:24Oh, good day to you, Horace.
15:26Ike.
15:27Horace, how's the hunting going?
15:31I'm off hunting, John.
15:34How come?
15:36Oh, with that wife of mine.
15:38Bring home a venison, she turns up her nose at it.
15:41Doesn't like some good deer as far as I'm concerned.
15:44She says it's too gamey.
15:46Tell you what, Horace.
15:48You come with hunting with me and Yancey on Saturday.
15:50I know of the biggest covey of quail in Jefferson County.
15:53It's cut into you, John.
15:55Any weekend goes by you're not off hunting.
15:58I got a lot of mouths to feed, Horace. What else am I gonna do?
16:02Well, if you didn't throw your money away like water, that wouldn't be no grief to you.
16:07You know better than that.
16:09What about all them books you bought?
16:16Books?
16:17Books.
16:18Five feet of them.
16:20That's a yard and two thirds by the way I count.
16:23You want to squander your money away on that kind of truck, that's up to you.
16:26When you send them drummers over to my house, I don't consider it friendly.
16:30Horace, what are you talking about?
16:32Let me tell you something, John.
16:34Next time you send one of them peddlers over to my house,
16:37I'm going to fill his caboose full of rock salt and he can thank you for that.
16:51Wipe your feet.
16:52Olivia?
16:53You all throw dikes?
16:55I'd like you to come outside for a minute. I want to talk to you.
16:57Something wrong?
16:58Could be.
16:59Well, can it wait till I finish this?
17:01Wipe your feet.
17:03Take off your cap.
17:04Olivia?
17:05Where'd those apples come from?
17:07Me and Ben worked for it. Ben and I.
17:09Olivia, Horace Lindley told me there was a book salesman by his place.
17:13Now, I just might make an apple cobbler for supper, John.
17:15Ma, we'll talk about supper in a minute.
17:17Olivia, did that book salesman talk you into something?
17:21John, I thought you liked apples.
17:22Please, Ma.
17:25Olivia?
17:27You were selling the Harvard classics, John?
17:29Yes.
17:30They're very special books and I bought them.
17:33Look, there's one now.
17:35Oh, yeah. Let's take it.
17:37What do you mean there's one now?
17:40Oh, well, it's a whole set. We bought the whole kit and caboodle, whole thing.
17:45How many books did you buy?
17:47Fifty.
17:50Fifty?
17:51Fifty.
17:52Fifty?
17:54All right, you two. Go out and finish your chores.
17:56Put the apples down.
17:57Go!
18:03Olivia, we can't afford this.
18:05You should have talked it over with me first.
18:09I'm going to find that book salesman. I'm going to cancel that order.
18:12John, please don't.
18:14This is very important to me.
18:16To John, boy.
18:17He won't have to spend as much money on books for school.
18:20Where are we going to get the money from, Liv?
18:22I used my egg money for the first down payment.
18:25And I'll make the rest of the payments as the money comes in.
18:27Are those books going to be any use to you at all, son?
18:30Oh, absolutely, daddy. They're the greatest classics in the world.
18:33And like mama says, it'll save me lots of money at college.
18:35And I could even help pay for it myself if I got an odd job.
18:43Would you like a cup of coffee, John?
18:46Yes, I would like a cup of coffee.
18:48Livvy, I think you better tell him the rest.
18:50Let me get the coffee first.
18:51What else?
18:53You know that Mr. Reed?
18:55You mean the book salesman?
18:57Mm-hmm.
18:58He didn't have a place to stay.
19:01So he's going to be staying in the barn the next couple of nights.
19:04How did you know?
19:05Just a lucky guess.
19:08Where is this Mr. Reed now?
19:10He's down at Ike's mailing in the order for the books.
19:13But he'll be back.
19:14In time for supper, I hope.
19:16Oh, John, you just can't imagine.
19:19He told me how hard things are on the road just now, and I felt sorry for him.
19:25Your luck sure did change fast, didn't it?
19:29Yeah, it sure did.
19:31You'd be surprised how many people around here like to read.
19:36How many orders you get?
19:39A couple.
19:43There you go.
19:45No, I want to look at it first.
19:50Okay.
19:58Let's see. That's one.
20:02Two.
20:04Ninety.
20:09Yeah.
20:11It's just about perfect.
20:14Serena's going to be real happy.
20:17Birthday's next week.
20:20Serena, that's pretty nice.
20:24Where's your family live?
20:27New York.
20:30A company I work for is based there.
20:47Okay, this is the time you kids all have been waiting for.
20:51What's it about here, huh?
20:53I think that we're about, and I think we've both come.
20:56I'll help you here.
20:58I'm going to get you.
21:00All right.
21:02Hey, kids, come on. You slow down now.
21:05Hey, kids, come on. You slow down now.
21:07Hey, kids, come on. You slow down now.
21:10Hey, kids, come on. You slow down now.
21:13Hey, kids, come on. You slow down now.
21:16Ten.
21:17That's ten. That's ten.
21:20Okay, I got five. I got five.
21:22Seven hundred.
21:23Okay, got it.
21:24You got five. Seven hundred and five.
21:26Hurry up, Mr. Gonsi, so I can win.
21:28Five for me.
21:29Five.
21:30One for me.
21:31Ten.
21:32Ten. You got ten.
21:33I got ten.
21:34Twenty.
21:36Mr. Reed?
21:38Mr. Reed?
21:40I'm reading that book about Cellini?
21:42Oh, he was something, wasn't he?
21:44I just...
21:45Nothing, nothing could get in that man's way.
21:47If I wrote a story...
21:49If I wrote a story about such a man, no one would believe me.
21:53Got to that part where he burned his house down.
21:57Burned down his house?
21:58Yeah, you remember.
21:59You know, he needed to keep the furnace going all night long so he could...
22:02so he could melt down the bronze, so he could pour it into the mold,
22:05so he could make that statue.
22:08Burned down his whole house?
22:10Every piece of it.
22:12Bit by bit.
22:13Furniture.
22:14All night long.
22:15In the morning, there just wasn't any house left.
22:18Nothing but that mold and that statue standing there.
22:21But the thing about it is that the writing is just so vivid.
22:24It just... it just jumps right off the page at you.
22:27I could... I could smell the smoke.
22:30I could see the flames.
22:32Didn't you think so?
22:35Yeah.
22:36I just...
22:38cannot wait to get my hands on the rest of those books.
22:41Which one is your favorite?
22:44I'll tell you the truth.
22:59I didn't have time to...
23:03read them all.
23:06Oh.
23:08Of the ones you have read, which one is your favorite?
23:10Of the ones you have read, which one is your favorite?
23:16Let's see.
23:20I mean, how can you sell them if you don't know what's in them?
23:25I'll tell you the truth.
23:29This isn't my line of work.
23:32I mean, I'm a printer by trade, and I'm a darn good one.
23:36And when this...
23:37rough time came along, I had to take the first thing I could get, and this was it.
23:42It's all I could get.
23:44I got a wife and a child.
23:48They got to eat just like anybody else.
23:52This your...
23:54first time out as a salesman?
23:57First time I've...
24:00been away from home, too.
24:04Away from my wife.
24:07Serena.
24:09That's...
24:12my little girl.
24:18I tell you, John boy, it's hard.
24:22It's real hard.
24:25Ah, there you are.
24:27Your grandma said you'd fallen into a milk field and got drowned.
24:30No, no, we're just talking about books and things.
24:34Mr. Reed, I'm real glad that Libby's...
24:37buying that set of books off of you.
24:39I do hope there's a volume of poetry.
24:41Now, I was always partial to poetry.
24:43Blue Ben Adam, his tribe in Creeks,
24:47awoke one night from a deep dream of...
24:49Lo, his name...
24:51Here. What's that?
24:53Poetry, what you were asking about.
24:55Oh, you're supposed to be legal for me to accept this volume with...
24:59without making another payment?
25:01Sure, sure.
25:05We often...
25:08give away an extra volume with a down payment.
25:14That is real nice of you.
25:19Say, would you like to stay for supper?
25:24I'm real tired. I think I'll...
25:27Turn in now, if you don't mind.
25:29Have it your own way.
25:31Come on, John.
25:33Oh, it sounds like Jim Bob.
25:37Yeah.
25:57What's her name?
25:59I'm telling you, John,
26:02didn't I tell you that Hope was something worth waiting for?
26:05Just like your crew.
26:07Don't get her dirty.
26:09I'm not getting dirty.
26:12All right, thank you very much.
26:14You have a number.
26:16She did it the whole time.
26:18I'm going to get some more.
26:20All right, take care.
26:23Just like you always do.
26:38What's so funny?
26:40It's Ben Venuta, fella.
26:42He sure knew how to have himself a good time.
26:50I don't know, though.
26:52It's pretty gamey.
26:54I don't know this sort of book the children should read.
26:57It's pretty racy.
26:59Where?
27:01Whenever you mind.
27:03Let me see that.
27:05Come on.
27:08Ah.
27:11What does racy mean?
27:14Fast.
27:19Oh, I don't see anything racy in that.
27:26Well, looky here.
27:28Maybe this is the kind of book you shouldn't read either.
27:30No, fool.
27:32You can read anything into anything with that mind of yours.
27:34If you sleep on the floor tonight, you'll catch a cold.
27:36But Doll's new bed isn't ready yet.
27:38Well, how about Doll sleeping on the floor?
27:40If she sleeps on the floor, she'll catch a cold.
27:43Well, it's better than if you do.
27:45No, it isn't.
27:47Yes, it is, because if you catch a cold, we'll catch it.
27:49Now, get back in your own bed.
27:51No.
27:53Doll told me she wanted to sleep on my bed.
27:55Yeah, I'll bet she did.
27:57Funny, I didn't hear anything.
27:59That's because you don't understand.
28:01She did it right in front of you.
28:03You see, she talks in a different language.
28:05Yeah, oogle-loom-a-google-goop.
28:07That's doll talk, Aaron, for I want to sleep in Elizabeth's bed.
28:10You're mean. I hate you.
28:12Nobody hates anybody, Elizabeth.
28:15Get in your bed.
28:17If anybody sleeps on the floor, it's going to be Doll.
28:19But, Daddy.
28:21Get in your own bed.
28:23I bet Mr. Reed's little girl's doll doesn't have to sleep on the floor.
28:26Mr. Reed doesn't have a little girl.
28:28He couldn't afford a doll like that.
28:30You know, the thank you, lucky stars, you won it.
28:32Now, go to sleep.
28:34Mr. Reed does, too, have a little girl.
28:36And she has a doll just like mine.
28:38Mr. Godsey told me so.
28:40Mr. Reed likes my doll so much
28:42that he bought his little girl one.
28:44All right, all right, now.
28:46Settle down. Go to sleep.
28:48Good night, everyone.
28:50Good night.
29:01John boy.
29:03Daddy.
29:05Did Mr. Reed say anything to you about having a little girl?
29:08Huh? He said something about it.
29:11Did he say anything about buying his little girl a doll like Elizabeth had?
29:16Uh-uh.
29:18I don't reckon he's got enough money to be throwing it away on dolls.
29:23Elizabeth was just...
29:26Yeah, she was probably just pretending.
29:29Yeah, unless, uh...
29:32Unless what?
29:34Well,
29:37I can't imagine him having any other money than what Mama gave him for our books.
29:43Hmm.
29:55Daddy, do you reckon...
29:57Daddy?
30:07He's saying he's staying with your folks now, huh?
30:11Yeah.
30:13Funny thing about him.
30:15The first time he came into the store,
30:17I thought he was going to fall over with hunger.
30:20Then the second time he comes in,
30:22he's got nothing better to do with his money
30:23than to buy one of those great big dolls like Elizabeth had.
30:26A doll, eh?
30:28It costs a lot of money to buy that doll, doesn't it?
30:30Oh, yeah. And he punked it right down
30:32and said that his little girl was going to have the best birthday ever.
30:35And then he said he was moving on.
30:37And now you say he's staying with your folks?
30:40Yeah, he is. Well, he was, anyway.
30:42Much obliged, T.I.
30:44Yeah, don't mention it, John boy.
30:54Daddy?
30:56Elizabeth was right.
30:58Is he still here?
31:00He left just after you did this morning.
31:02Stuff's probably still in the barn.
31:07Yeah.
31:09There you are, right there.
31:11There's your doll box.
31:24All right.
31:26We'll leave everything just as it is.
31:28I'm going to go find him right now.
31:30No, I'll take care of it, son.
31:32Daddy, come on.
31:34He might have had some other money.
31:36Could have used that to buy the doll.
31:38Got to give him a chance, son.
31:40Daddy, you realize that if he's taking our money,
31:42we're never going to see those books.
31:44You realize that, don't you?
31:46He's got to have his say.
31:48Get to your chores.
31:54Grandma said to give you this.
31:58She didn't have to go to all that trouble?
32:00She likes to wire and wash.
32:02I mean, wash and iron.
32:06Will you thank her for me?
32:08Sure.
32:14You don't have to hold that.
32:16I'll hold it for you.
32:23What's your little girl got to name her doll?
32:26My little girl doesn't have a doll.
32:29I mean the one you bought her for her birthday.
32:43I don't know.
32:44I don't know.
32:50I want to thank you both for a very nice meal.
32:54Mrs. Walton, excellent cobbler.
32:59Glad you enjoyed it, Mr. Reed.
33:02Mr. Reed.
33:05There's a matter I'd like to discuss with you outside.
33:08Mr. Reed.
33:11We're going to be listening to the radio.
33:12Why don't you join us?
33:14Well.
33:17Thank you, but I think I'd better be getting back to the bar.
33:21I'm going to get up early tomorrow and I want a good night's rest.
33:25Sit down. You'll enjoy it.
33:33Thank you, Mrs. Walton.
33:35We'll enjoy it.
33:39All right, everybody, let's go.
33:40It's time for Pepper McGee and Molly.
33:47Oh, not aesthetic tonight, Pa.
33:50Throw him up rock free.
33:52Keep trying, Daddy.
33:54I want to listen to Hollywood on the air.
33:56So you can pretend you're going to be a famous Hollywood movie actor someday?
33:59What about you?
34:01You're always pretending you're going to be Gene Autry when you grow up.
34:03What do you mean when I grow up?
34:05All right, you two.
34:07Daddy, she's always pretending she's going to be one thing or another.
34:09It's all right to pretend as long as you don't hurt anybody.
34:12It's all right, everybody.
34:14Too much static tonight.
34:19Oh, dear.
34:21Well, I'll tell you what, I've got an idea.
34:24Why don't we do things the way we used to?
34:27That new book of poems you've got here.
34:30Mr. Reed Gubbers.
34:32Would you read out of this, John Boyd?
34:35No, no.
34:36No, thank you. Not tonight.
34:38Now, why don't you read, Grandpa?
34:40It's a good idea. We haven't heard you read for ages.
34:42Well, if you want me to.
34:46I really do think I'd better be going.
34:50Mr. Reed, being a family man, I thought you'd like joining our family.
34:54Please stay.
34:56How did you know I was a family man?
34:59Well, John Boyd was telling me about your daughter and her birthday,
35:02and Mrs. Walton was saying how you wanted to buy the books you sold for her.
35:06For your own children.
35:08He's got a wonderful voice.
35:11Sit down, you'll enjoy it.
35:18Esther.
35:20Show off.
35:22Sit down.
35:24Lee Hutt.
35:261784, 1859.
35:28Jenny kissed me.
35:31Jenny kissed me when we met.
35:33Jumping from the chair, she sat in.
35:36Time, you thief, who loved to get sweets into your list, put that in.
35:41Say I'm weary.
35:43Say I'm sad.
35:45Say that health and wealth have missed me.
35:48Say I'm growing old.
35:50But, Dad,
35:52Jenny kissed me.
35:54Yes, she did.
35:56Oh, you old fool.
35:58Daddy's gone.
36:01Maybe he felt he was intruding.
36:04Yeah, John Boyd.
36:06Take care of him.
36:11Want to play cards?
36:22I want to have a talk with you.
36:25I've got to be going, Mr. Walton.
36:27Mr. Reed,
36:29that money my wife gave you,
36:32when does she get the rest of the books?
36:34Well, there's, uh,
36:36there's packaging and mailing
36:39and all that. It's hard to say
36:41the exact day.
36:44How do you send that money to your company?
36:47Money orders, along with the form.
36:50I got it right here in my case.
36:52Where'd you get the money order?
36:54The store on the road.
36:57I gots you store?
36:59That's right.
37:01That's wrong.
37:03You didn't buy anything like that from Mike Godsey.
37:06Yes, I did. I got it right here in my case.
37:08You want to see it?
37:24Mr. Reed, you stole that money from my wife.
37:27I want it back.
37:29Mr. Walton,
37:34I have, uh,
37:37a little girl, too.
37:42She'll be seven years old next week.
37:45Mr. Reed.
37:47I guess I must have traveled
37:50over
37:524,000 miles this past year trying to
37:57sell these books.
37:59Walk, walk,
38:00walk.
38:02And
38:05and all that time
38:10I wasn't able to put away
38:14the book.
38:19That's why my little girl is present.
38:22I know you want your money,
38:25but I want my little girl.
38:31I have a present.
38:38I want her to wake up.
38:45I want her to wake up
38:48on her birthday
38:53with something special.
38:57It doesn't matter to you who it is.
38:59It doesn't matter to you who pays for it?
39:01No.
39:07Doesn't matter.
39:11Doesn't matter.
39:26All right, Mr. Reed.
39:29Take your doll
39:33and get on out of here.
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40:31Morning.
40:33Hi, John boy.
40:35It's the prettiest piece of burrow wood
40:37I've ever seen.
40:39Sure is.
40:41How long you been hoarding that?
40:43Oh, three, four years maybe.
40:45You know, it's a funny thing.
40:47A tree can grow up tall and straight
40:49and good like this.
40:51You cut it down,
40:53cut it up into ordinary boards
40:55just like that.
40:56Like this one is full of knots and gnarls,
40:58all sickly and diseased,
41:00parasites and whatnot.
41:02And it turns out to something beautiful
41:04like this.
41:09Maybe that just goes to show us
41:11that trouble sometimes brings out
41:13the best in all of us.
41:17Well,
41:19trouble may bring out the best in trees,
41:21but I'm not too sure about people.
41:23How's that?
41:24What you gonna do with that?
41:26Well, I'm figuring up making
41:28a shelf for you.
41:30That Benvenito celli
41:32like when he burned his house down.
41:34Gonna make a bookshelf, huh?
41:36Uh-huh.
41:39Well,
41:41no need for you to make a bookshelf.
41:44Last thing in the world this family needs
41:46is a bookshelf.
41:48Mr. Reed is gone
41:50and Mama's money is gone
41:52and we've been stung.
42:23Mr. Reed.
42:25Mr. Walton.
42:27I want to talk to you and your wife.
42:29Not much to say as far as I can see.
42:31Yes, there is, Mr. Walton,
42:33and it's important to me.
42:35I'd be much obliged
42:37if you'd give me a moment.
42:38John Boyd.
42:40I want to talk to you and your wife.
42:42Not much to say as far as I can see.
42:44Yes, there is, Mr. Walton,
42:46and it's important to me.
42:48I'd be much obliged
42:50if you'd give me a moment.
42:52Please.
43:08John Boyd.
43:10Could you move the chair for me, please?
43:12Sure.
43:15John Boyd.
43:17Table two, please.
43:24Hello, Mr. Reed.
43:30Mr. Reed, you are not welcome here.
43:32Please, Mrs. Walton.
43:34I've got to talk to you.
43:36You didn't send in the down payment to the company.
43:38That's right.
43:40I don't know how you could even consider buying your little girl
43:42a present bought with stolen money.
43:54What are you up to now, Mr. Reed?
43:59Here.
44:02I hope you'll forgive me.
44:06I had to give it back.
44:09Mr. Godsey was nice enough to
44:12take the doll back and
44:16give back your money.
44:18John Boyd, would you get Mr. Reed's books, please?
44:20Sure, yeah. They're in my room.
44:30These are hard times.
44:34Doing without's gotten to be a way of life.
44:38But it was wrong of me
44:40to try and change that at
44:43your expense.
44:46Times like these, people
44:49do things they've
44:51never dreamed of doing before.
45:02I'll just go on
45:06selling these books
45:09and
45:12manage as best I can.
45:15Hope that
45:17things get
45:19better soon for everybody.
45:26Mr. Reed,
45:29if everybody here has agreed,
45:32I'd like to make another down payment
45:34on the five-foot shelf of books.
45:38We're agreed.
45:40Well, amen to that.
46:02You should get your first shipment
46:04within ten days.
46:09Well,
46:13be going.
46:20Take care on the road.
46:28Bye.
46:29Salama.
46:39Mr. Reed?
46:41Mr. Reed?
46:43Mr. Reed?
46:45Mr. Reed?
46:47Mr. Reed?
47:01Bye, Mr. Reed.
47:08Bye.
47:27How about this?
47:30Two years before the mass
47:32and 24 years after
47:34by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
47:36with introduction and notes.
47:39Let's see.
47:41Chapter one,
47:43Departure.
47:45The 14th of August
47:47was the day fixed for the sailing
47:49of the brig pilgrim
47:51on her voyage from Boston
47:53round Cape Horn
47:55to the western coast of North America.
47:57As she was to get underway
47:59early in the afternoon,
48:01I made my appearance on board
48:03at 12 o'clock in full C-rig
48:05and with my chest
48:07The salesman was right about one thing.
48:09The wit and wisdom of the ages
48:11were contained in those books
48:13and many of the voyages we took
48:15were no less memorable
48:17for having been enjoyed
48:19through the written word.
48:21It was to Michelangelo
48:23who painted chapels, I know it.
48:25You're wrong, Mary Ellen.
48:27It was that Cellini fella.
48:29It was Michelangelo, Jason.
48:31See, smarty.
48:33Well, a body can't be expected
48:34to do much a chapel.
48:36Like a church, honey.
48:38Oh, that's nice.
48:40Good night, Daddy. Good night, Mama.
48:42Night, Elizabeth.
48:44What was it you wanted to know, Jim Bob?
48:46Is Mr. Cellini or Michelino
48:48going to paint our church?
48:50Either one. We're not proud.
48:52Mama.
48:54Night, John boy.
48:56Good night.
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