A Horse Called Bear Page #3

- Hey!

What are you kids doing?

Get outta there?

- We're supposed to be

weeding for Miss Gloria.

Remember?

(grunting)

- Mister Otto's mean too.

- Yes he is.

- I know, we could pray for

them, Hanna and mister Otto.

- I guess so.

- How about we try it

and see what happens.

- OK!

- So did you girls have a good day today?

- Mostly, but there was some bad parts.

- Oh, did something happen?

- Hannah was mean to us again.

She even tried to push Austin down.

- And Mister Otto yelled at us again.

- Well...

- That's OK dad, we decided

to pray for both of them.

- Sweetie that's perfect.

- We want to treat them

nice 'cause that's how

we would want them to treat us.

- Wow, well do you want to pray then?

- Dear Jesus, be with

Hannah and Mister Otto

and be nice to them and

help them to learn to be

nice to us too.

- And we also pray for them to be happy.

- Amen.

- Amen.

- [Beth] What you doing?

- Drawing.

- That's looking great!

This looks like it teaches you shading,

different shading techniques?

- Yeah.

- You're really getting good!

You really like to draw don't you?

- Yeah, I'm excited to

come up with something

for the drawing contest.

- I'm excited to see

what you come up with.

Do you have any ideas?

- Not yet, I'm working

on some ideas though.

- Austin, I love it, this is great.

- Your dad and I are really proud of you.

- Now you've done it!

- What?

- Ethan's gone!

- He'll be back, where can he go?

- I don't know?

Maybe he's on his way back home!

- Just give him time to cool off.

He'll be back.

- I hope so, I'm finally

getting to know Ethan better.

I'm not ready for him to leave yet!

- Welcome to the farm.

- Yeah thanks.

- So that car of yours

got you all the way here.

- Just barely.

- Wow.

How are you doing after the funeral?

- Yeah, I've been better.

- Well, you're gonna get on with life.

It's hard, but you'll get on.

- I hope so.

- There's room to bunk in there with Josh.

He's one of the ranch hands,

not much older than you.

- Well thanks uncle Carl

for giving me this job.

- Well leaning stalls is hard work,

but as my granddaddy used

to say, it's an honest job.

(laughing) And you look plenty strong.

I've gotta meet with a supplier.

Rachel's gonna show you around

for the rest of the day.

- [Ethan] OK.

- [Carl] I'll see you at dinner.

- Yeah.

Hey!

- What?

So have you ever mucked a stall before?

- No, never even been on a horse farm.

- Really, I'm surprised.

- Why?

- Well I heard your mom was a good rider.

- She never told me about it.

- Well then, here I'll show

you how to muck a stall.

You think you get the idea?

- [Ethan] Yeah, thanks.

- Yeah sure, have fun.

(neighing)

(neighing)

- Hey Bear.

So you were my mom's horse.

- Hello, my name's Andy,

I come around here regularly to ride.

- I'm Ethan Riley, I

just started work today

as a stable boy.

- Oh nice to meet you.

- Likewise.

- I'm sure I'll be seeing you around.

- Mm hmm.

- Hey new guy.

You're gonna be staying with me

you need to follow some rules.

One, don't set your alarm before mine,

and two, don't touch my food.

And shoes off.

- I still can't believe

my mom owned a horse.

- She always loved horses.

Do you remember when she was little?

As soon as she was able, she was riding.

- It's true.

- Why didn't she tell me about him?

- I don't know, it

doesn't sound like Sara.

She loved her Bear.

Do you know that she won

a lot of ribbons with him?

- We were really surprised

that you sold him.

- I know nothing about horses!

Besides I'm not planning on

staying around this place

for long anyway.

Why is he called Bear anyway?

- (laughing) His official

name is General Theodore,

named after President Theodore Roosevelt.

- Really?

- Yeah, your mom thought

that was such a stuffy name.

- And then she discovered

that President Roosevelt's

nickname was Teddy Bear,

and shortened it to Bear.

- We were really sorry

when she moved away Ethan.

- Yeah we felt bad that we

haven't been able to visit.

- It's all right.

The only one who ever

came to visit was grandma,

and she didn't stick around for long.

- Well how about if we have some dessert?

- Sounds good, thanks honey.

- Thanks.

- Ethan.

- Hey Bear, you remember me?

- Hey.

- Oh hey.

- You like my new horse?

- You're Bear's new owner?

- Yes.

I've had my eye on him for quite a while.

Who are you anyway?

- I'm Ethan Riley, Bear

used to be my mom's horse.

- Well you're welcome to ride him,

just don't get attached,

'cause we're moving on

at the end of summer.

(ringing)

- Hang on a sec.

Hey grandma.

Yeah everything's fine, I

stopped by to see mom's horse

and uncle Carl gave me a job.

I got a bunk and everything

so it's gonna be fine.

Yes, I'm all right.

I just needed to get out

of the house for a while,

that's all.

All right,

bye.

- Hey it's Rachel right?

- Uh huh what do you need?

- I have some papers I

was supposed to give you,

delivery truck guy from

the feed company left 'em.

- Oh you need to sign

right here for those.

So...

- So you must be a good rider then.

- Well, I started riding when I was around

the same age as the Baker children.

You wanna ride today sweetie?

- No, I don't think so.

- Oh but you could do it.

- I'm only six years old,

I think I should wait

till I'm seven.

- OK.

- [Gwen] Austin are you ready to trot?

- Um, I guess so.

- [Gwen] Hold on, let's go!

That's great, good!

How you doin?

- Good.

- How's it feel?

- Good, good.

- Hi kids.

- Hi.

- You have fun riding Bear?

- Yeah.

- I'm glad you kids are done,

it's my turn to ride my horse now.

- Hannah!

Excuse her manners, she's just

excited about owning Bear.

- Here you go.

Come on kids, let's go find Miss Gloria.

- Here you go.

- Thank you.

- Thanks Josh.

- You're welcome.

- You don't have long.

Got some things I need

to do then I'll be back.

- [Austin] Thanks for coming to our party.

I'm sorry we can't play outside.

- This is boring, can

we do something else?

- Takes work to be a good artist.

- Yeah let's take a break.

- One, two, three, four.

- I don't want to play any more.

- Hey guys, I got an idea!

(squealing and laughing)

Score!

Score, score score!

Score!

(squealing)

(excited squealing)

(laughing)

- Hannah, I invited

you 'cause I wanted you

to play with us.

- But I don't want to play.

- Come on, it'll be fun!

- No.

- Please?

- It's just it's not for me.

- Ethan!

(horse neighing)

- Now you're looking good buddy.

Yeah the years have been kind to you.

I can't believe she just

walked out on both of us.

I never thought she would leave.

- I can't believe you guys got me a horse!

This is the best birthday

present ever, thank you!

(crying)

- Are you OK?

- It's...

Just my allergies.

- I was just gonna take

Bear out for a ride,

he's my horse now.

- I'm sorry, I haven't

seen him in a while.

Just wanted to say hello.

See ya Bear.

- Otto is that you?

- Hi.

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