Lassie Page #3

Not bad, huh?

Are you kidding? That was great.

Where did you learn how to do that?

- That's no big deal.

- Yeah? You can't do it.

- How do you know, dung head?

- Because I know you're a spaz.

You're Matt, right?

"Let's all make Matt real welcome,

because he doesn't know anybody here."

- Knock it off, Jim.

- What?

I'm April Porter.

This is Jim and Josh Garland.

- You're from the Collins farm, right?

- Yeah.

- What a hole!

- We like it OK.

- Can you do a back flip?

- Sure.

- Let's see.

- Yeah, maybe some other time.

- Come on, do it!

- He can't do it.

- I can do it, I just don't want to.

- Yeah, right. He just doesn't want to.

Our dad is the biggest sheep farmer

in the whole state.

My folks are going away this weekend.

Why not come over Saturday night?

- We're going to rent some cool videos.

- I don't think so, Josh.

My parents already have other plans.

Wait till you see our place.

Now this is a real farm.

Stay here, Lassie.

I'll only be a minute.

Come on in.

Make yourself at home.

You have a swimming pool

in your living room.

- You like guns?

- Yeah, I guess.

Look at that.

Bolt-Action.22. It's mine.

You get all this from raising sheep?

Sure do.

"Warm, durable American wool."

- We know the motto, Jim.

- Well, he doesn't.

I'm coming, girl.

Lassie?

Where did you go?

Lassie!

There she is.

Bringing in a stray.

As good as any sheepdog.

Good girl, Lassie.

Hey, Matt... Ever seen

so many lamb chops on a hoof?

- Josh!

- April's so sensitive.

They're not pets, April.

Just wool and good eating.

I've got to go. Bye.

- Well, I'll see you guys around.

- Yeah. See you.

Come on, Lass!

Come on, girl.

Big city guy's going to run off

with your girlfriend.

Shut up, lame-brain!

You stretch the wire,

you pound in the staple...

...and you go on to the next post.

Stretch the wire, pound in the staple,

go on to the next post...

Oh, my God!

I have a question:

what does 4-H mean?

It stems from...

"Head, Heart, Hands and Health."

"Head, Heart, Hands..."

- Well, see you.

- Bye.

- Bye.

- Bye.

"Twenty-five years of my life

and still..."

"...l'm trying to get up

that great big hill of..."

"...hope!"

That was good.

Hey, where are you going?

Wait up!

Coyotes.

It'll be all right. It'll be fine.

It's just sleeping.

Lassie, I don't know what to do.

I'm not a vet.

Just forget about it.

All right...

Come on, Lass... Here.

Is April here?

It's OK, Dad.

Hi...

I was wondering if you'd come over

to my house for a little while?

The thing is, I need some help.

It's in here.

- Will it be OK?

- I don't know.

Sometimes they can make it without

a mother, sometimes they can't.

It just depends on the sheep.

Keep a blanket over it tonight, because

it'll probably get pretty cold in here.

I'll bring you some extra formula

tomorrow.

Yeah, you like that, don't you?

Yeah, you do.

I don't think it's hurt.

It just looks really hungry.

- You are from Baltimore, right?

- Yeah.

I've been there once.

It was cool.

- Thanks for coming over.

- Sure.

- I better get going home.

- Yeah.

- I'll see you tomorrow.

- Right.

- Matt, guess what!

- Not now, Jen.

- But guess what!

- What?

We're going home!

- Moving back?

- It's not definite, I'll know in a few days.

- What are you talking about?

- Your dad got a call about a good job.

In Baltimore. They've been trying

to reach him for a week.

That place I interviewed a month ago.

At the time, they didn't have anything.

- You don't have to take it, do you?

- No, but I need a hell of a reason not to.

- What about the job you have here?

- Mending fences at 5 dollars an hour?

Hey, what's going on?

- I thought you'd want to move back?

- Yeah, sure. Why not?

Look, it doesn't matter

to me either way.

I didn't tell Mom then, but that's just

what I want to do,

have a real sheep farm some day,

right here.

- What do you mean, how do they do it?

- You saw their ranch.

- They make a fortune. How?

- Well, they raise a lot of sheep.

- And that's it?

- Well, yeah...

- And they've got the best pasture.

- That's what I'm trying to say!

- Now, where is this pasture-land?

- I don't know.

Down around Greenly's,

the whole high meadow. Why?

- Well, that's their flock, right?

- Yeah.

- And this is their pasture-land, right?

- Right.

So what's that fence?

I come by every day, and there's no

other fence between here and our farm.

I've seen their sheep grazing all over

here, all the way up to the creek.

- All right, let's say that this is our land.

- I don't know.

Let's just say. Somebody has put

that fence here for something.

You know, raising sheep

is not as easy as it looks.

- You need pens and sheepdogs...

- I've got the dog!

Lassie, go!

Round them up!

Bring them here, girl!

Good girl!

This is our boundary, right?

Our farmhouse is right here.

- I can read a plat map.

- All right, sorry.

- This is the Garlands' ranch.

- Yeah, I've seen it.

And whose land are they using? Ours.

They've got sheep all over that pasture.

- It's the best grazing land in the area.

- If it's done right, you can make money.

300 ewes and 20 rams, by the end

of next year you have 450 sheep.

- What's going on?

- Your brother just lost his mind.

You should see the Garlands' ranch...

I'm a contractor. I don't know the first

thing about farming, neither do you.

- Grandpa does.

- I'm no expert, but I know the basics.

With the animals and the construction,

that's doing labour ourselves,

we could probably get started

for 30-35,000.

I'm sorry, Matt. I'd be lucky

to cover half of that.

If you'd be willing, I'd be glad

to put up the other half.

That's very generous of you,

but we couldn't ask you to do that.

Nothing generous about it. The fact is,

I'm kind of thinking about myself.

I'd sure like to have

these grandkids around me.

You want to stay here?

Yeah.

Yeah, I really do.

What do you think we should do?

I wish I knew.

Come on...

- Let me try.

- OK, just don't tilt the bottle too much.

- Come on, you're drowning the thing.

- I am not.

That's enough.

That's done. Don't worry,

I've got another one.

There you go.

Well, I hope you're not driving.

Me, too.

That's the whole flock. I brought them

down from the high pasture on Friday.

So, how many is that?

That's 380 ewes and 34 rams.

380 and 34, that's just about right

for the land we got.

How much?

Like I said on the phone,

I don't know about this.

Sam Garland said he might be

interested in the whole flock.

So are we.

What's he offering?

We talked about 57 a head

for the ewes.

We'd like to offer you

60 dollars a head, Pete.

Well, 60 is fair.

- I'd say so.

- More than fair.

- But Garland was here first.

- I don't understand the problem.

We'd like the whole flock,

we're offering 3 dollars more.

It's all right, Mr Jarman.

We respect your position.

I'm sure you and Sam Garland go

way back, and he'd do the same for you.

I hope we didn't take up

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