"(tropical birds cawing)" "(children chattering indistinctly)" "(animal bellowing)" "Yes, sir." "You got a dollar?" "All alone, off the land, like Thoreau." "Yeah." "Edible Plants of the Forest." "Gus?" "Gus, where are you?" "Okay." "Here we go." "(man speaking over PA, indistinct)" "SAM:" "But you promised, Dad." "You promised." "PRUDENCE:" "Next summe" "and I'm going to travel to Mars and Venus." "(dog barking in distance)" "(upbeat adventure theme playing)" "(cow moos)" "this seems like a good time to get rid of that old box" "Laurentians, here we come." "Hey, Gus, look." "Here we are." "(slurping)" "I'm going to catch us a fish" "Dinner, here we come." "(birds cawing)" "All by myself." "Come on." "Rats." "I can't do it." "I just can't do it" "and too tired to write any more." "(sniffing and grunting)" "Go on, you old bear." "In a tree." "I tried again with my flint and steel." "Come on." "(blowing)" "Everything we need." "The only thing we don't need, Gus, is... that bear." "that I will be completely alone." "(falcon cries)" "(falcon cries)" "Hey, Gus, look at this e?" "What have we got here" "This could be" "Oh, mint." "Gus, where are you?" "of You go" "Hey, what do you got there, Gus?" "Nobody can ever find us here, Gus." "It was very hard work." "Hi, Gus." "What have you got there, Gus" "Hm." "Yes, I really could." "(whistling:" "I've Been Working on the Railroad)" "(bird chittering)" "Shh." "(squawking)" "(squawking continues)" "Boy, I'd like to know where his nest is." "(panting)" "(coughing)" "(continues coughing)" "(helicopter buzzing in distance)" "Huh?" "No." "Continue patrol." "Roger." "Wilco." "Phew." "I swear to it by this holy hemlock branch." "Okay." "Come on, let's move in." "One, dry algae to make flour from it." "so I can continue my experiments." "Wow!" "(falcon cries)" "(slow adventure theme plays)" "(grunts)" "Rats." "What are you doing up here?" "But you're alone." "right down there in that gorge." "You one of them?" "Oh, no, ma' 'am." "Come on!" "Where do you live, boy?" "(falcon crying)" "I'm going to get me a baby falcon or die trying." "Keep in touch" "Thank you." "Peregrine falcons." "if my memory serves me right, and it usually does." "Of course." "Sam." "Sam." "Training." "Uh-huh." "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "Sam... you'll need a leather glove." "SAM:" "And so I bought some gloves." "(chirping)" "(squawking)" "(hawk crying)" "(sighs)" "(chirping)" "Hey, what should we call her?" "How about Frightful?" "Frightful it is." "Come on, Frightful" "I'm going to teach her to catch our dinner for us" "And so my training of Frightful began." "Come on, little one." "Come on." "That's it." "You eat only when you're on my hand." "Good girl, Frightful." "(gunshot)" "Yeah." "you'll have that BB gun of yours zeroed in..." "(sighs)" "I scraped the hair from the hide." "and had a place to tan the deer hide." "Now I'm really getting prepared for the colder weather." "but she has not yet learned to come to the lure." "(Frightful crying)" "Good girl, Frightful." "Good girl." "so I was still experimenting with natural food sources." "Algae soup, here we come." "(blows)" "Hey, Gus, you got a friend." "Hey, you guys, how about some algae soup?" "Well, at least somebody likes it." "Okay, Frightful, you're on your own." "(Frightful crying)" "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "(music fades, Frightful crying)" "you'll turn wild on me again." "Come on." "(squawking)" "I'm going to share this with you." "(Frightful cries)" "Testemondia." "And who's that ferocious-looki creature, huh?" "Look, name is Bando." "Let's be friends, huh?" "How about you?" "And I record them." "Come on, let's be friends, huh?" "Okay." "take me to your leader." "The only way." "I agree." "(owl hooting)" "SAM:" "Well, what do you think of it, Bando?" "I mean, really?" "William Shakespeare, my boy." "Say, Sam... if I stayed the ni ght here around the fire?" "Come on." "It's over here." "Well, I'll be..." "These here are my food niches." "Quite a pad you have here, Sam." "Les pays trangers" "(♪♪ plays melody on flute)" "(Bando plays flute)" "(Fearful squawks)" "(Bando snores)" "Bando." "Bando?" "Bando!" "Bando!" "You going to a fire or something?" "but it doesn't quite accommodate my legs." "(Bando whistling)" "I just don't need anybody." "This is a good place to fly Frightful." "(Frightful crying)" "(harmonica and guitar playing melody)" "(song ends)" "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "for some sugar." "Right now, all this seems pretty dull." "for any sugar tomorrow." "we're going to make us some syrup." "Mm." "Yeah." "Here comes your first pancake." "Not too many of those kind among people nowadays." "Well, eat the rest of it." "Maybe you'll get used to it." "Here, you try." "(playing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in unison)" "Again." "(song ends)" "but now I was doing them myself." "(squawking)" "Yeah, he's quite a character." "(guitar playing melody)" "Yes, we shall meet another day ♪♪" "(song ends)" "Say, I could make some kind of a fireplace thing." "It should stand up well to heat." "When are you going, Bando?" "Oh, any day now." "Find me some new strumming music, Sam." "doing it all myself." "Mail a letter for me?" "so is good news from a far country." "with any human animal." "She'''s a great lady." "the whole change that's going come over this place." "(wind whistling)" "You've got a great thing going for you up here." "Thanks, Bando." "I hope you find some new songs." "There's always songs." "Well, so long now." "Keep in touch." "(mournful flute playing)" "Everybody's leaving us, Frightful." "being alone, doing it... myself." "(squawking)" "Hello, Mr. Otter." "Dried algae for your dinner today?" "How about that, huh?" "Here you go, Mr. Otter." "We're going to make it." "Bando was right about building that fireplace." "Hey, Gus, stop eating up our old fireplace." "Anyway, I finally got something that looks like a fireplace." "we'll have us a nice, warm home." "(snoring lightly)" "You'll need a leather glove." "(harmonica and guitar playing melody)" "You lost, boy?" "(breathing unevenly)" "(coughs)" "Air." "Air." "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "The fireplace is using up all our oxygen, Gus." "Now we won't suffocate." "Honest, he did." "I won't be gone long." "Hi" "Did you, uh, manage to observe those falcons at close range?" "Then come on." "Wait till you see her in the sky." "(Frightful crying)" "Oh, she'''s glorious." "Goodbye, Sam." "Goodbye, Miss Turner." "and I was glad to talk to someone." "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "(Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk" playing)" "Oh, sure." "I am." "and how to live off it." "It's dying." "(Frightful crying)" "Frightful." "(twig snaps)" "She was my pet." "Yes, to be as deadly as any gun." "and with it... came the snow." "look so different, so bare and desolate." "I really loved her, and I need her." "and mountains and marshes, as easily as the deer." "So bare and desolate." "Gus?" "Gus?" "Gu... (chittering)" "(sighs deeply)" "Gus." "I thought you'd run off or something." "Hey, Gus, want an algae ice cream cone?" "Well, let's go up and thaw it out." "Hi, you guys." "Having fun?" "Ew!" "It decays as soon as the ice is melted away from it." "because my breath fogs up the mirror and the eyepiece." "Wonder what Pasteur would have done." "millions of miles away." "Most of the animals are hiding out from us." "(wind whistling)" "(flute playing)" "We're snowed in." "We've gotta save our oxygen, Gus." "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "(panting)" "(breathing slowly)" "BANDO:" "Sam?" "Sam?" "Sam, where are you?" "Sam?" "Sam, where are you?" "I'm snowed in." "Here." "Here" "BANDO:" "You keep digging up." "I'm digging down to you." "That's right, you keep digging up." "I'll be right back." "Come on." "Come on there, Gus." "I was in that old tree for two days." "Oh, Bando." "Oh, that's too bad." "to keep it growl ng after it got cold." "Now, Sam, what did I tell you about trusting me?" "(guitar playing)" "By the way, Sam, you got quite a few people worried about you." "And I came because of my experiments." "And I learned about survival." "I learned about myself." "That's quite a lot." "What now, Sam?" "I've learned all I can here." "It's just time to go home." "By Saint Agnes fountain ♪♪" "(song ends)" "Sure thing, Sam." "(♪♪♪♪♪♪)" "So long, Mr. Otter." "Keep in touch." "(falcon crying)" "BANDO:" "Let's go, Thoreau." "(upbeat adventure theme playing)"