Stars in My Crown Page #4

Never mind.

Now, john, what did I tell you?

Nothing terrible's going to happen.

John was showing bobby Sam how to cast,

And the first thing...

Dr. Harris!

Let me have one of your hatpins.

Look here, stop that!

Now, look.

This is you,

And this is that fishhook

Sticking into you.

Now here's the eye.

That's for the fishing line, you know.

Now, I'm going to take and cut the eye

Right off that hook like this.

Then I'm going to pull the shank out

With one pull, like this.

See? That's all there is to it.

Now, you're not going to make a fuss

About a little thing like that, are you?

# 10 green bottles hanging on the wall #

# 10 green bottles hanging on the wall #

# If one green bottle

should accidentally fall #

# There'd be 9 green

bottles hanging on the wall #

# 9 green bottles hanging on the wall #

# 9 green bottles hanging on the wall #

# If one green bottle

should accidentally fall #

# There'd be... #

8!

# 8 green bottles hanging on the wall #

8 green bottles!

Some other time, bobby Sam.

Come on, pinhead.

Oh, and we're very grateful

to dr. Harris, aren't we?

Please don't mention it, miss...

Samuels, faith Samuels.

I guess I was still in short dresses

When you went away to study.

I'm the schoolteacher now.

I live next door.

Miss Samuels,

What makes you think I

never saw a fishhook before?

Why, I didn't say...

do I impress you as

the sort of man who...

well, who isn't the sort

of man who goes fishing?

Well, you...

do I, or do I not, miss Samuels?

Yes, you do.

I see.

Thank you.

I have to go in.

Aw!

Why, dr. Harris.

Miss Samuels,

I came to inquire if you would care

To go driving with me

some morning fairly soon.

I thought maybe we might take a lunch

And go as far as tom's creek.

We might even do some fishing.

Why, I...

I would be delighted.

Good. We'll start tomorrow at 8:00.

Folks wondered

what a sweet girl like faith

Could see in young doc Harris.

I guess the only person

who knew the answer to that

Was faith herself.

As for young doc,

When he drove her home that afternoon,

He drove slowly,

As though he didn't want the day to end.

All aboard!

# 10 green bottles

hanging on the wall #

# 10 green bottles hanging on the wall #

# If one green bottle

should accidentally fall #

# 9 #

But the

happy day was forgotten

When he saw the silent crowd

in front of his father's house.

Don't they sound plain all of a sudden?

Wind's freshening.

I know it.

Pa had a hound once,

Chased a fox for 10 days.

Only give up when he died of starvation.

Pa says I'm named after him... chase.

Aw, that's just a joke.

I know it.

Sounds like this old fox

Is working his way around that hollow

In back of uncle famous' place.

Most likely got his hole up there.

Most likely fixing to hole up.

You don't have to tell me

Everything that's happening.

I wasn't telling you. I was just saying.

All right.

On the way home, you want to

stop by and see uncle famous?

What for?

Aunt Harriet made a big pan

Of gingerbread yesterday.

I brought him some.

Maybe it's all gone.

It was a big pan.

Sounds like that fox changed

his mind about holing up.

Sounds like he's doubling back

across uncle famous' place.

I know what it sounds like.

I was just talking. You

don't have to listen.

Whoa, whoa. Famous!

Come on over here.

Famous, what in Tobit's

been happening here?!

Some kind of accident?

No, sir, I reckon it wasn't no accident.

Told you how it'd be when I

had to close down the mine.

No, sir, t'ain't in

nature for men to sit quiet

Whilst the bread's took

out of their mouths.

Famous, I tell you what I'll do.

I'll make you one more

offer for this land of yours.

50 cents an acre,

cash on the barrelhead.

What do you say?

Mr. Backett, that's uncommon kind.

Aw, no, it ain't nothing.

But I told you before,

I couldn't see no reason

why I should sell my land,

And there ain't nothing

happened to change my mind.

Nothing's happened?!

No, sir.

Why, your stock's gone, ain't it?

Your stores is gone.

Your feed and green

crop, your corn crop.

Where you fixing to get money

to buy seed to plant again?

How you aim to restock and rebuild?

How you gonna live?

Where's the money coming from?

Why, you old fool,

you'll starve to death!

Tom...

go on home and fetch some

seed corn out of the crib.

Cabe, tell your ma we'll

be wanting some chickens

And all the bacon and meal

she ain't got any use for.

Jeb, we'll be needing

the mules and the plow.

Rolfe, you and me better

start cleaning up this field.

Mr. Isbell?

Just don't mention it, don't mention it.

No, sir.

You's a real Christian, sir.

When you coming to church, Jed?

Hup! Get along there!

Hey, if you was god,

What'd be the first thing you'd do?

Heap of things.

No, I mean the first.

I don't know. What'd you do?

Well, first off,

I'd make it so it was

summer all the time.

No Christmas?

Oh, I'd have it in the summertime.

I'd have everything in the summertime...

'cause that's all there'd be,

Just summer all the time.

Gee, what about school, though?

Oh, there wouldn't be any school.

Whoever heard of having

school in the summer?

Whoever heard of having

Christmas in the summer?

Well, god could do it if he wanted to.

Gee.

Another thing.

If you was god,

And it was summer all the time,

And there wasn't any school,

What would the schoolteachers do?

I don't know. I haven't

come to that yet.

But I know one thing. There'd

be wars all the time...

fighting every day,

but nobody'd get killed.

Who'd win?

Well, my side, of course,

And I'd be the general.

And I'd ride around on a white horse

Just like Robert e. Lee,

And I'd never wear any shoes.

That ain't fair.

You'd have all the fun.

What's the good of being god

If you can't have all the fun?

Pinhead.

Ha ha!

Hey, here comes somebody.

Hurry, close the well up.

It's the enemy.

Hurry up!

Whoa, whoa.

I'll only be a minute.

Faith, can't I have an answer...

a real answer this time?

Look, I've done everything you said.

I've waited.

I've tried to be patient.

Dan, please.

I know what I'm asking.

I'm asking you to leave this town,

Your home where you've

lived all your life

And where you're loved and secure.

I'm asking you to give all of that up

Just to be with me.

All I want is to be with you.

You know that.

# Oh, them golden slippers, oh #

# Them golden slippers #

# Golden slippers, I'm gonna wear #

# 'Cause they look so... #

John!

Yes'm?

Have you got your new shoes on?

Well, let me see you walk in them.

Hurry up, now, I want those shoes

Broken in before school takes up.

Why do I have to wear those

shoes to school anyway?

They don't make me any smarter.

Well, we can always hope. Walk!

Whoa!

Here's the Parsonage, professor.

Good morning, buckaroo.

Your pa to home?

He ain't my pa.

Well, whoever he is,

Tell him I want a chin with him.

Yes, sir, I'll fetch him.

Hold on, there.

What's that sticking

out of your ear there?

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