The Happy Years Page #4

that we don't like

the most.

All:
Connie brown.

John:
Connie brown.

Miss connie.

Miss connie, a gentleman

is calling on you.

Wouldn't give

his name.

Show him right in.

Miss brown,

i am john h. Stover.

I've come to call.

I'm-i'm delighted,

mr. Stover.

Won't you sit down?

Thank you. I will.

I trust your mother

and father are well?

They're fine.

And your sister?

Oh, she's fine, too.

Have you seen

miss maude adams

in her new play

this season?

I have.

I like maude adams.

Maid:
Miss connie.

There's another gentleman

calling on you.

He wouldn't

give his name.

Oh, show him in.

Miss brown,

i am fred maither.

I have come to call.

I'm so glad.

Won't you sit down?

Thank you. I will.

Miss brown, i trust your

mother and father are well?

They're-

they're fine.

And your sister?

Oh, yes.

She's fine.

Have you seen

miss maude adams

in her new play

this season?

Why... yes.

I have.

I like maude adams.

Maid:
Miss connie.

There's another

gentleman.

Show-

show him in.

Miss brown, i am

harvey broker.

I have come to call.

Won't you sit down?

Thank you.

I trust your mother

and father are well?

L- oh, yes.

They're-

they're fine.

Maid:
Miss connie.

I like maude adams.

I like

maude adams.

I like maude adams.

I like

maude adams.

I like maude adams.

I like

maude adams.

Maid:
Shall i show

this one in, too?

Miss brown,

i am edward ellis.

I have come to call.

Aah! Aah!

Aah!

She was prancing

like a horse.

Did you see

her eyes?

Stover, that's

the greatest idea

since the invention

of the safety pin.

Let's get out

of here

before her folks

come home.

We'll play it on a

different girl every sunday.

Won't connie tip off

the other girls?

Don't you know

anything about women?

Who we play it on

next sunday?

Next sunday, my cousin emily, please!

I can't stand her.

Watch that-

i saw maude adams 5 times.

I saw maude adams

5 times.

I saw maude adams 5 times.

I saw maude adams

5 times.

I saw maude adams

5 times.

I saw maude adams 5 times.

Ohh.

Boy:
Oh, boy,

did she go down!

Miss dolly.

There's a young gentleman

who wants to see you.

He won't give

his name.

Show him right in.

Miss travers,

i am john h. Stover.

I have come to call.

Of course, mr. Stover.

Nice of you.

Won't you sit down?

How did you like

lawrenceville?

I trust your mother

and father are well?

Oh, they're

splendid.

Isn't lawrenceville

a wonderful school?

I went to the lawrenceville

prom last spring.

And your sister?

Perfectly grand.

But the boys

at lawrenceville.

The tennessee shad is the

best dancer i ever met.

And george mccarty.

Tough mccarty?

He really is tough,

but in the nicest

way, of course.

That's why he's

going to be captain

of the kennedy house

football team this fall.

My hero.

Never mind, margaret.

Boys, which would

you rather do?

Come in

one at a time

and play

your little joke

or all come in

at once

and have ice cream

and chocolate cake?

Bartlett,

bring it on.

Dolly:
Too bad tough mccarty isn't here.

He likes ice cream.

All flavors.

Well, excuse me.

Dolly:
Gentlemen,

help yourselves.

Man:
Well, see you

next summer, mrs. Stover.

Mom?

When's dad coming back

from the village?

I got to see him.

Oh, any time, john.

Sambo:
Anything i can

do for you, mother?

Maude:

No, no, dear.

Don't bother me.

Sambo:
Well, kid.

The summer's over.

You'll be back at

lawrenceville tomorrow.

How do you feel

about it now? Good?

Go away, sam bones.

Dad and i had

a little confab

about you

and the school.

I got something to say

to dad about that, too.

Now-now, wait

a minute, kid.

I heard something about what you

went through at lawrenceville.

Oh, you did, did you?

It's a great

school, kid,

but after all,

you're my brother,

and, well,

maybe the going was

too rough for you.

Maybe the boys gave you

too hard a ride.

Some of those boys are a

lot bigger than you are,

and some of them

are tougher, too.

I know.

So, kid, if-

well, if you don't want to

go back to lawrenceville,

i can guarantee

to make dad understand.

Sam bones,

i'm going back

to lawrenceville for-

for one reason:

To beat the stuffings

out of a guy

by the name

of tough mccarty.

Hey, now, wait

a minute, kid.

That's not

the right spirit.

If you go back

like that,

you'll get into more

trouble than you did before.

You bet your life

i will.

Hello.

Welcome to

the kennedy house.

Hello.

You're mr. Stover,

aren't you?

Yeah.

Mr. Hopkins said

be sure and see him

soon as you come in.

Mr. Hopkins?

Yes, the old roman.

He's the housemaster

here, you know.

Oh, well, i thought you weren't

coming back to lawrenceville.

It is stover, isn't it?

John humperdink stover?

Yes... sir.

Oh.

Well, it must be

our food you prefer

to that

at reform school-

our hot dogs,

our pancakes.

It's the jiggers.

I like jiggers.

Stover, i'm very pleased

to have you here

at the kennedy house.

Well, sure you are.

You arranged it

that way.

I propose to pay

special attention

to your-your gerunds

and gerundives.

Do you know with whom

you're rooming this term?

Tough mccarty?

Dear me, no.

Mccarty rooms alone.

I am putting you in

with the tennessee shad,

second floor, front.

Is that all, sir?

For the moment... john.

If it isn't

the rinky-dink himself.

Well, here we are

again, dink.

Same old grind,

same old slaves,

nothing fit to eat,

stuck in the old mud hole.

Hello.

I'll take a walk

around for an hour

and let you

get unpacked.

I don't want to get

in your way.

Hey, wait a minute.

Bup-bup-bup.

I'll take that.

Thanks.

You're the fella down

at the green last year,

tried to fight

the whole school.

Look here, youngster.

My name is

joshua montgomery smeed,

but they call me

"the great big man."

Great big man?

You look

a little embarrassed.

That's because i'm

trying to be impressive.

Mr. Stover, you're going

to get in wrong again.

What in thunder-

you are, mr. Stover.

You are.

You can't forget what

everybody else has forgotten.

Forget what?

What happened last term.

The-the unpleasantness.

You've still

got it on your mind.

You're brooding over it.

I like your nerve.

Everybody else

has forgotten it.

It never happened.

You're

one of us now,

but you can't

be one of us

if you don't want

to be one of us.

You make an awful lot

of noise, great big man.

How did you happen to come

to a school like this?

On account of

my being an orphan,

and my father went to

yale with the old roman.

I'm very intelligent

for my age,

but outside of that,

i'm just a total loss

for the house.

Sorry for the way i acted

a couple of minutes ago.

That's better, dink.

And about that

crockery set-

i guess i had it

coming to me.

Dink, you and i will slip

it over on somebody else.

All you got

to remember, dink,

is that you're

on the inside now-

with everybody.

Everybody except

tough mccarty.

Oh, dink, tough

isn't a bad guy.

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