The Indian in the Cupboard Page #2

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- Bye, guys.

- Bye, Omri.

- Bye, Dad.

OK. All right.

Can I get your attention, please?

Are we ready? Shall we read?

- Who wants to go first?

- Please! Can I do it?

Emily?

"The day I got Punisher,

the masterpiece of my collection.

"Also, I got

the first hologram card.

"I'm looking for

the original card of Wolverine."

Very good, Emily. Sam.

"JFK. There was once a man named JFK

"who always wanted to be good

and do what was right.

"JFK was elected President

of the United States in 1960."

"I have a magic cupboard

with a magic key.

"I put a plastic Indian

in the cupboard and he came alive.

"He is a real Iroquois man.

"He talks. He eats. He trusts me."

That's very interesting.

Good imagination.

Your house is fantastic.

It will do. It is agreeable.

I learned a lot about you today.

Good. Tonight, I will hunt for food

and we will cook meat

and we will tell stories.

You tell all about me.

Little Bear?

- Do you keep the man, Omri?

- Just the bow and arrow.

Can I watch?

He is Mohawk.

It is an excellent bow.

It's all right.

It's OK.

No... Little Bear?

- He is dead.

- He's dead? I killed him?

He is old. His days are done.

- We must bury him.

- Bury him? Us? Here?

Yes. You never had a dead man here?

Do people die here?

- People die. We just don't see them.

- How do you not see them?

Come down here, please.

Can't I just send him back?

You are afraid of him?

A dead man?

You are a child. Yes, send him back.

- What if he was alone?

- Then he is alone!

Where were you?

Guiding my nephew through the woods

to live alone and learn to be a man.

You should not do magic

you do not understand!

Omri, now!

Send him back.

He would want to be back.

Are you mad at me?

What did you do with them?

- I buried them.

- My saw blades? Why?

Those are my things.

I work with them. I need them.

What do you want me do to?

We'll go to Yapp's and buy a set.

Come on.

I can go alone. It's a block away.

You don't need to go with me

like I'm a baby.

I've been before.

You just didn't know.

What did you get? Let me see.

What is this junk? Give me the money.

You! Come back!

You don't deserve that hair!

Look. I got this guy

to go with your Indian.

Patrick. Omri? Are you OK?

Omri, are you sure you're OK?

- This thing is incredible.

- Get your hands out of the way.

Where do you think he got this?

Look how small it is.

- What are you looking at?

- This is incredible.

How did you make this?

Don't bring that rat in here.

I found him in here, Beavis, and

my figures and my magnifying glass.

- What else do you have that's mine?

- That thing was in here?

This is great. Dad should see this.

I want you both to leave my room now.

Jeez, temperamental.

- You got to promise me...

- What?

Little Bear, where are you?

What are we looking for?

Here!

It's all right. You can come out.

- I heard them and I ran.

- That was good.

- They are enemies?

- Brothers.

Brothers?

Those brothers took my house!

I am in the dark here.

Send me back. I want to go back.

But I brought my friend to meet you.

Patrick, Little Bear.

Another Great Spirit?

Make another little man?

No. No more men.

- Little Bear, will you come out?

- No. You come in.

- This is the plastic Indian?

- Not plastic any more.

- How did you do that?

- The cupboard.

Show me.

Put a plastic thing in and lock it.

If it's a person,

the person is alive.

They're real people.

They can even be real dead people.

- I want to make one.

- Never!

- It's a huge responsibility.

- I'm a responsible person.

Omri, I'm down here.

- Don't touch the cupboard.

- OK.

I mean it, Patrick.

It means a lot to me.

Thank you. I heard.

Can I see your arm? Yeah.

You all right?

You need to wash that.

- It's not much.

- This child has a very strong will.

- Good ones all have a strong will.

- Patrick is just plain defiant.

- No! No!

- Yes!

It's not a game!

Slow down!

God-dang it! Put me down!

Dang... tarnation.

No more. I promise no more.

Oh, dog! Not another drop.

- He's mine.

- Shut your eyes! Watch out, Patrick!

Get back. Come on.

He shot me! He shot me!

Deliriums! Hell-fire and damnation!

That's what it is. They're deliriums!

That rotten Kansas sheep-dip!

William Howard, where are you,

you pot-bellied drunkard?

Anthony Miles,

you son-of-a-buck's horse's ass!

I can't believe it.

He really shot me!

Darlin'! What the hell

you doin' way over there?

- I can't believe it. This is great.

- This is not so great.

This has got to be a delirium!

Where's my hat?

- He can't stay here.

- I want to keep him.

- I've lost my hat!

- Can we send him back?

I'm comin' to get you, Darlin'!

I want him!

Not one more drop as long as I live.

Oh, my dear sweet Lord!

I need a drink.

This is just gettin'

worse by the minute.

What's your name?

Boone. What's yours, Mr Delirium?

He is so cool!

Step back, cow pie.

How will you take care of him?

- Patrick, time to go.

- Coming! Let me keep him.

But it's got to stay a secret.

Listen, let me keep him here tonight.

I have this under control.

- Bring him to school tomorrow.

- School?

Everybody's so big.

You'll be OK. Don't cry.

I always cry.

The boys call me "Boo-hoo" Boone.

I've got a soft heart.

- Bring him to school. Promise?

- I promise.

Be careful - cowboys and Indians!

Indians?

Omri, don't turn him back, please?

What Indians?

Redskins.

No!

Wait! What in the...

You better put me down!

Who do you think you are?

I'm telling you the truth,

I'll lay you in your grave.

I don't care how big you are.

Kindly return to me my hat,

tenderfoot.

You say you take no more men.

You tell blind stories.

Watch out that savage don't

scalp you in your sleep, Injun lover.

You're not gonna shut me

up in here, are you?

Now we've become reconciled...

as you start away.

Now we've become reconciled

as you start away.

Don't you want this open?

I'm not scared any more.

You can close it.

- Is she in the dark?

- What do you mean?

- Does she know of me?

- No.

I'm alone.

I need a wife.

Come on and fight!

Darlin'!

Every time I try to...

We're supposed to be a team.

Hey, dang!

- What's the matter with that Injun?

- No, no, stop!

Behave!

He says I steal his horse.

He shoots at me.

If that's true, I'll squish him

like a bug. Boone, drop it!

Well, she's my horse.

- Drop it!

- No!

I'm sick of being hauled off. I knew

you'd side with that stinkin' savage.

He smells and he calls me

a dirty savage.

I didn't call you dirty,

I called you stinkin'!

Stop it, Boone!

Listen to me. Boone is leaving.

You don't have to live together.

Where can I buy coffee?

I like to start my day with coffee.

OK, if you'll be good,

I'll make you breakfast.

Omri cooks! Like a woman.

You are a woman.

Please! You guys

are so old-fashioned.

I'll have you know

I'm a civilized man.

Unlike some!

Where did you come from?

I come from Texas, Mr Half-a-Brain.

The United States of America,

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