"There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow," "There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow." "The corn is as high as a elephant's eye," "An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'!" "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rythin's goin' my way." "All the sounds of the earth are like music" "All the sounds of the earth are like music." "The breeze is so busy it don't miss a tree," "And a ol' weeping' willer is laughing' at me." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'!" "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rythin's goin' my way..." "Oh, what a beautiful day!" " Hi, Aunt Eller." " Scare me to death!" " What are you doing here?" " I'm coming and singing to you." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'!" "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rythin's goin' my way." "If I wasn't an old woman and if you wasn't so young and smart-alecky  I'd marry you and get you to sit around at night and sing to me." "No, you wouldn't either." "I wouldn't marry you nor none of your kin if I could help it." " None of my kinfolks?" " You tell them that, too, all of them." "Including that niece of yours, Miss Laurey Williams." "Who are you taking to the box social tonight?" "I ain't thought much about it." " Bet you come over to ask Laurey." " What if I did?" "You asking me, too?" "I'll wear my fascinator." "Yeah, you, too." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'" "Oh, what a beautiful day" "Thought you were somebody." "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rythin's goin' my way." "Is this all that's come a-calling at 8:00 this Saturday morning?" "You knowed it was me before you opened the door." " No such thing." " You heared my voice." " You knowed it was me." " I heard someone singing like a bullfrog." "You knew it was me, so you set in there thinking up something mean to say." "I've a good mind not to ask you to the box social." "You two." "If you asked me, I wouldn't go with you." "Besides, how'd you take me?" "You ain't bought a new buggy with red wheels, have you?" "No, I ain't." "A spanking team with their bridles a-jinglin'?" "No." "Expect me to ride behind Old Blue, I guess." "Ask that Cummings girl you took such a shine to." "If I was to ask you, Miss Laurey-smarty, there'd be a way to take you." "Oh, there would?" "How'd we get there?" "When I take you out tonight with me," "Honey, here's the way it's goin' to be:" "You will set behind a team of snow white horses" "In the slickest gig you ever see!" "Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry" "When I take you out in the surrey," "When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top." "Watch thet fringe and see how it flutters" "When I drive them high steppin' strutters" "Nosey pokes'll peek through their shutters and their eyes will pop!" "The wheels are yeller, the upholstery's brown," "The dashboard's genuine leather," "With isinglass curtains y'c'n roll right down" "In case there's a change in the weather;" "Two bright sidelights winking' and blinking'," "Ain't no finer rig, I'm a-thinkin';" "You c'n keep your rig if you're thinkin' 'at I'd keer to swap" "Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top." "Would y'say the fringe was made of silk?" "Wouldn't have no other kind but silk." "Has it really got a team of snow white horses?" "One's like snow-- the other's more like milk." "All the world'll fly in a flurry" "When I take you out in the surrey," "When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top." "When we hit that road, hell fer leather," "Cats and dogs'll dance in the heather," "Birds and frogs'll sing all together, and the toads will hop!" "The wind'll whistle as we rattle along," "The cows'll moo in the clover," "The river will ripple out a whispered song," "And whisper it over and over:" "Don't you wisht y'd go on ferever?" "Don't you wisht y'd go on ferever?" "Don't you wisht y'd go on ferever and ud never stop" "In that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top?" "You'd sure feel like a queen setting up in that carriage." "Only she talked to me so mean a while back  I've a good mind not to take her." " Who said I would go?" " We'll I ain't asking'." "Where'd you get such a rig at?" "I'll bet he hired a rig at Claremore thinking I'd go with him." "I did not hire it." "I made the whole thing up out of my head." "What?" "Made it up?" "Dashboard and all." "Get off the place, you!" "Aunt Eller, make him get himself out of here." " Telling me lies." " Now hold on." "Making up a few pretties ain't against any law I know of." "Besides, don't you wish there was such a rig though?" "Then you could go to the party and do a hoedown till morning." "Then when you were all worn out, I'd lift you on to the surrey  jump up alongside you, and we'd just point the horses home." "I can just picture the whole thing." "I can see the stars gittin' blurry" "When we ride back home in the surrey," "Ridin' slowly home in the surrey with the fringe on top." "I can feel the day gittin' older," "Feel a sleepy head near my shoulder," "Noddin', drooping' close to my shoulder till it falls, kerplop!" "The sun is swimming' on the rim of a hill," "The moon is takin' a header," "And jist as I'm thinkin' all the earth is still," "A lark'll wake up in the medder" "Hush!" "You bird, my baby's a-sleepin'" "Maybe got a dream worth a-keepin'." "Whoa!" "You team, and jist keep a-creepin' at a slow clip-clop;" "Don't you hurry with the surrey with the fringe on the top." "Only there ain't no such rig." "Well..." "Why'd you come around with your lies, getting me worked up that way?" "Why don' ya just grab her and kiss her when she acts thata way Curly?" "She's just achin' for ya to I'll bet" "I won't even speak to him, let alone allow him to kiss me  the bragging, bowlegged, wished-he-had-a-sweetheart bum!" "She likes you, quite a lot." "She liked me any more, she'd sic the dogs on me." " Hello, Jud." " Hello, yourself." "Listen, who's the low filthy sneak Laurey's got her cap set for?" " You." " Never mind that." "There must be plenty of men trying to spark her." "Plenty." "What about him?" "She wouldn't take up with a fellow like that, that bullet-colored hired hand." "Don't you go saying anything against Jud." "Best hired hand I ever had." "Just about runs the farm by himself." "Two women couldn't do it, you oughta know that." "He's around all the time, ain't he?" "Takes his meals with you, sleeps down at the smokehouse." "I changed my mind about cleaning the henhouse today." "I got to quit early." "I'm driving Laurey to the party tonight." " You're driving Laurey?" " Asked her." "Well, wouldn't that just make you bawl?" "Don't forget, Aunt Eller." "You and me still got a date." "How're we going, Curly, in that rig you made up?" "That ain't no made-up rig, you hear." "I done hired it over at Claremore." " Why don't you go with him?" " I can't, I promised Jud." "Why ever did ya?" "Curly's too fresh and big-headed, waiting till the last minute to ask." "Aunt Eller, are you really going with Curly tonight?" "I sure am." "You didn't want him." "But you could go with me and Jud." "You picked your fellow, I picked mine." "That's the way you want it, ain't it?" "You're sure a pair." "Crazy young ones." "It's time I started for the station." "Hey, Curly." "Tell all the folks to stop by here on their way to the Skidmore party  to freshen up." "I will, Aunt Eller." "Get your beauty spots fastened on proper, so you won't lose them, ya' hear?" "That's a right smart turnout." "Ain't no finer rig I'm a-thinkin' 'at I'd keer to swap" "Fer that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top." "Aunt Eller!" "be a nice evening for the party." " Jud." " What?" "I don't think I can..." "You ain't thinking of going with someone else, are you?" "Laurey!" "I'll come by for you around sun down" "What did you do at the fair, Will?" "Bust any bones?" "No." "Too smart for that." "Just made sure I landed on my head." " Will Parker?" " Hi, Aunt Eller." "If you ain't got the fancy lanterns for the party..." " ... get back on that train." " Here you are." " You do any good in the steer roping?" " I did pretty good." "I won prize money." " Good!" " That's my boy!" "I've got to get over to Ado Annie's." "Her pa said I could have her if I was worth $50, and I got that $50." "If Annie's pa keeps his promise, we'll be dancing at your wedding." "If he don't, I'll take her right from under his nose  and I won't give him the present I brought him." "Lookie here fellars, what I got for Ado Annie's pa." "Excuse us, Aunt Eller." "You hold it up to your eye like this." "Then when you get a good look, turn the top and the picture changes." "Well I'll be!" "They call it the Little Wonder." "Silly goats!" "The hussy!" "Ought to be ashamed of herself." "You, too." "How do you turn it to see the other picture?" "Right on the top." "Wait a minute, I'm getting it." "I've a good mind to tell Annie on you." "Bet you carried on plenty in Kansas City." "I sure did see a lot of things I never did see before." "I got to Kansas City on a Frid'y." "By Sattidy I I'arned a thing or two." "For up to then I didn't have an idy" "Of whut the modren world was comin' to." "I counted twenty gas buggies goin' by theirsel's" "Almost ev'ry time I tuck a walk." "'Nen I put my ear to a Bell Telephone, and a strange womern started in to talk!" "To you?" "Whut next?" "Yeah, whut!" "Whut next?" "Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City." "They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!" "They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high" "About as high as a buildin' orta grow." "Ev'rythin's like a dream in Kansas City" "It's better than a magic lantern show." "Y' c'n turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat," "With ev'ry kind o' comfort ev'ry house is all complete," "You c'n walk to the privies in the rain an' never wet your feet" "They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!" "Yes, sir!" "They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!" "Ev'rything's up to date in Kansas City." "They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!" "They got a big theayter they call a burleekew." "Fer fifty cents you c'n see a dandy show." "Gals?" "One of the gals was fat and pink and pretty," "As round above as she was round below." "I could swear that she was padded from her shoulder to her heel," "And then she started dancing and her dancing made me feel" "That every single thing she had was absolutely real" "She went about as fur as she could go!" "What you doing, Will?" "This is called a two-step." "That's all they're dancing nowadays." "The waltz is through." "They don't do it alone." "Come on, Aunt Eller!" "That's about as fur as I can go" "Yes sir!" "And that's about as far as she can go" "What you doing now, Will?" "This here's called ragtime." "I seen a couple actors doing it." " Don't like it." " Oh Will, I do!" "Still don't like it." "Come on, Aunt Eller, do-si-do!" "Hey!" "Pick it up!" "Yeah!" "Hey there!" "Will Parker!" "Come back here!" "Ado Annie, I could ride with you like this to the end of the world." "Please, Mr. Hakim, don't start talking pretty." "Laurey!" "Laurey." "Hello, Laurey." "What you doing with that peddler-man?" "Will Parker gets back today." "Oh, foot!" "I didn't count on today being Saturday." "I can see that." "My, oh, my, Miss Laurey!" "Jiminy Cricket!" "Last time I came through here, you were teeny like a shrimp." "With freckles!" "Now look at you." "Quit biting me!" "If you ain't had no breakfast, go eat a green apple." " Are you coming out or going in?" " Standing still while you're here." " Go on up to the house and wait." " It's no trouble to wait right here." "So much water." "Why don't we all swim together?" "In Persia, bathing is a social event." "This ain't Persia!" "I can already see you two in those beautiful Persian bathing suits." "What do they wear when they bathe socially in Persia?" " Nothing." " Nothing!" "The peddler-man's gonna drive me to the box social." "I got a tasty lunch." " But you're promised to Will Parker." " I ain't promised." "I just told him maybe." "Don't you like Will no more?" "Course I do." "There won't never be nobody like Will." "Then what about this peddler-man?" "There won't never be nobody like him neither." "You've got to make up your mind." "Which one do you like the best?" " Whatever one I'm with." " Well, you are silly." "Well, now, Laurey, nobody paid me any mind up to this year  on account I was scrawny and flat as a beanpole." "Then I rounded up, and now the boys act different to me." " What's wrong with that?" " Nothing's wrong." "I like it!" "When a fellow talks pretty to me, I get shaky from horn to hoof." " Don't you?" " Can't think what you're talking about." "Don't you feel sorry for a fellow when he looks like he wants to kiss you?" "You can't kiss every man that asks you." "Didn't anyone ever tell you that?" "Yeah, they told me." "It ain't so much a question" "Of not knowin' whut to do," "I knowed whut's right and wrong since I've been ten." "I heared a lot of stories" "And I reckon they are true" "About how girls're put upon by men." "I know I mustn't fall into the pit," "But when I'm with a feller" "I fergit!" "I'm jist a girl who cain't say "no"," "I'm in a turrible fix." "I always say "come on, le's go!"" "Jist when I orta say nix!" "When a person tries to kiss a girl" "I know she orta give his face a smack." "But as soon as someone kisses me" "I somehow sorta wanta kiss him back." "I'm jist a fool when lights are low." "I cain't be prissy an' quaint" "I ain't the type thet c'n faint" "How c'n I be whut I ain't?" "I cain't say no!" "Whut you goin' to do when a feller gits flirty" "And starts to talk purty?" "Whut you goin' to do?" "S'posin' 'at he says 'at yer lips're like cherries," "Er roses, er berries?" "Whut you goin' to do?" "S'posin' 'at he says 'at you're sweeter'n cream" "And he's gotta have cream er die?" "Whut you goin' to do when he talks thet way?" "Spit in his eye?" "I'm jist a girl who cain't say no," "Kissin's my favorite food." "With er without the mistletoe" "I'm in a holiday mood." "Other girls are coy and hard to catch," "But other girls ain't having' any fun." "Ev'ry time I lose a wrestling' match" "I have a funny feelin' that I won." "Though I c'n feel the undertow," "I never make a complaint" "Till it's too late fer restraint," "Then when I want to, I cain't" "I cain't say no!" "Like I told you, I get sorry for them." "Now Will's come home, he'll start talking pretty to me and changing my mind back." " But Will wants to marry you." " So does Ali Hakim." " Did he ask you?" " Not directly, but he said this morning  he wanted for me to ride with him to the end of the world." "Well, if we only drove to Catoosie, he couldn't bring me home till morning..." " ... and that means a wedding, don't it?" " Not to a peddler, it don't." "I've been waiting for you to show your face again, old peddler-man." "You said that eggbeater you sold me would beat eggs, wring out dishrags  turn the ice cream freezer and more." " Now, Aunt Eller" " Don't you "Aunt Eller" me, I'm mad at you." "If the eggbeater don't work, I give you something just as good." " A present." " I wouldn't have it." " What is it?" " Real silk." "Made in Persia." "What would I do with an old Persian garter?" "It looks real pretty." "Now let me have the other one." "Which one?" "You want to buy this one to match it." "What do you mean, do I want to buy it?" "I can let you have it for 40 cents." "Want me to get that eggbeater and ram it down your windpipe?" "Give me that." " Howdy, Aunt Eller." " Howdy, yourself." "Now that all the ladies are here, let me show you some pretty doo-daddles." "Lace around the bottom and ribbons running in and out." "I never wear them, but I like looking at them." "How about these?" "They's all right if you ain't going no place." "Don't nobody want to buy something?" "Miss Laurey, you must be wanting something  a pretty young girl like you." "Me?" "Of course I want something." "I want a buckle made out of shiny silver to fasten onto my shoes." "I want a dress with lace." "I want perfume." "I want to be pretty." "I want to smell like a honeysuckle vine." "Give her a cake of soap." "I want things I can't tell you about, not only things to look at and hold  but things to happen to you." "Things so nice that if they ever did happen to you..." " ... your heart'd quit beating." " I got just the thing." "The elixir of Egypt." "A secret formula that belonged to Pharaoh's daughter." "Smelling salts." "A special kind of smelling salts." "Read what it says on the label." "Take a deep breath, and you see everything clear." "That's what Pharaoh's daughter used to do  when she had to decide what dress to wear  or which prince to marry." "She'd take a whiff of this." "I'll take a bottle." "Precious stuff." " How much?" " Two bits." "Throwing away your money." "Helps you decide what to do." "Put your trappings away and come inside." "Come along, Laurey, maybe we can find him something to eat and drink." "Ali, Laurey and me been having an argument." " About what, baby?" " About what you meant when you said  you'd drive with me to the end of the world." "I didn't really mean to the end of the world." "Then how far did you want to go?" "About as far as, say, Claremore." " What's at Claremore?" " The hotel." "In front is a veranda, inside is the lobby and upstairs might be paradise." "I thought they're just bedrooms." "For you and me, baby, paradise." "You see, I knows I was right." "You do want to marry me, don't you?" "Oh, Ado Annie..." "What did you say?" "I said you do want to marry me, don't you?" "What'd you say?" "I didn't say nothing." "Oh, foot, that's Will Parker." "Promise me you won't fight him." "Why fight?" "I never saw the man before." "I fight only my friends." "Ado Annie!" "How's my honey bunch?" "How's the sweetest little 120 pounds of sugar in the territory?" "Will, this is Ali Hakim." "Hiya, Hak!" "Don't mind the way I talk." "It's all right." " I'm going to marry her." " Marry her?" "On purpose?" "No such other thing." "It's a wonderful thing to be married." "My brother in Persia has six wives." "All at once?" "That's how they do it in them countries." "Not always." "My other brother only got one wife." "He's a bachelor." "You know what I got for first prize at the fair?" "$50." "Well, that was good, $50." "Your pa promised I could marry you if I could ever get $50 together." "That's right." "He did." "Your pa's like all the rest of them farmers." "Don't think us cowboys got much sense." "Well, this'll show him." "You know what I've done with the $50?" "I spent it all on presents for you." "But if you spent it, you've got no cash." "What I got is worth more than cash." "The feller that sold me the stuff told me." " But, Will" " Stop saying "But, Will"." "When do I get a little kiss?" "Ado Annie, honey, you ain't been off my mind since I left  all the time at the fairgrounds, even when I was chasing those steers." "I'd rope one under the hoofs, and I'd pull him real sharp." "He'd land on his little old rump." " And then I'd think of you." " Don't start talking pretty." "A lot of pretty girls in Kansas City." "I didn't give one a look." "How could you see them if you didn't give them a look?" "I didn't look loving at them  the way I look at you." "Oh, Will, please don't look like that." "I can't bear it." "I won't stop looking like this till you give me a little kiss." "What's a little old kiss?" "Nothing, unless it comes from you." "You do talk pretty." "No!" "I won't!" "S'posin' 'at I say 'at yer lips're like cherries," "Er roses, er berries?" "Whut you goin' to do?" "Can't you feel my heart palpitating' an' bumpin'," "A-waitin' fer sumpin'," "Sumpin' nice from you" "I gotta git a kiss and it's gotta be quick" "Er I'll jump in a crick an' die." "Whut's a girl to do when you talk that-a-way?" "Must be the folks stopping on their way to Skidmore's." "Oh, you're all welcome." "Glad you could all come." "Everybody come in and have a good time." "Curly!" "I've been right behind you the whole way." "I know." "I heared you." "You're all welcome!" "Everybody is welcome." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'," "Oh, what a beautiful day." "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rything's goin' my way..." "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "Girls, come in the house and freshen up." "You boys, drive your wagons down to the trough  and give your horses some water." "Hi, Laurey." "Hey, Curly, don't you reckon you better take care of your horses, too?" "Thanks, Aunt Eller." "I reckon I better." "Can't I come too?" "I just love watching you handle horses." "It's about all I can handle I guess." "Another mile in that buggy with that Perkins boy and I'd have lost my mind." "I'll take Wilbur if you don't want him." "Looks like Curly's took up with that Cummings girl." "What do I care about that?" "Why should a womern who is healthy and strong" "Blubber like a baby if her man goes away?" "A-weepin' and a-wailin' how he's done her wrong" "That's one thing you'll never hear me say!" "Never gonna think that the man I lose" "Is the only man among men." "I'll snap my fingers to show I don't care." "I'll buy me a brand-new dress to wear." "I'll scrub my neck and I'll brush my hair," "And start all over again!" "Many a new face will please my eye," "Many a new love will find me." "Never've I once looked back to sigh" "Over the romance behind me." "Many a new day will dawn before I do!" "Many a light lad may kiss and fly," "A kiss gone by is bygone;" "Never've I asked an August sky," "'Where has last July gone?" "'" "Never've I wandered through the rye," "Wonderin' where has some guy gone" "Many a new day will dawn before I do!" "Many a new face will please my eye," "Many a new love will find me." "Never've I once looked back to sigh" "Over the romance behind me." "Many a new day will dawn before I do!" "Never've I chased the honeybee" "Who carelessly cajoled me;" "Somebody else just as sweet as he" "Cheered me and consoled me." "Never've I wept into my tea" "Over the deal someone doled me" "Many a new day will dawn," "Many a red sun will set," "Many a blue moon will shine," "Before I do!" "Many a new face will please my eye," "Many a new love will find me." "Never've I once looked back to sigh" "Over the romance behind me." "Many a new day will dawn!" "Many a red sun will set!" "Many a blue moon will shine, before" "Many a blue moon will shine before" "I do!" "Time we got out of here." "Back to the open road." "The open road" "Hey, Ali!" "Hey, Ali!" "I'm sure sorry to see you so happy  'cause what I got to say will make you miserable." "I got to marry Will." "Well, that's sure sad news for me." "Well, he's a fine fellow." "Don't hide your feelings!" "I can't bear it." "I'd rather have you just say your heart's busted in two." " You're positive you've got to marry Will?" " Yes." "No chance for you to change your mind?" " No chance." " All right then." "My heart is busted in two." " What you been shooting'?" " Rabbits." " That true about Will Parker getting $50?" " Right, Pa." "He wants to hold you to your promise." "Too bad." "But I can't go back on my word." "Listen to me, Annie, get that money before he loses it all." "Put it in your stocking or your corset where he can't get it." "Or can he?" "He ain't kept it." "He spent it all on presents." "See, what did I tell you?" "He can't have you!" "I said $50 cash!" "Is that fair, Mr. Carnes?" " Who the devil are you?" " That's Ali Hakim." "Shut your face, or I'll fill your behind so full of buckshot, you'll walk like a duck." "Ali, if I don't have to marry Will, maybe your heart don't have to be busted." " I did not say that." " Yes, you did." "No, I did not." " Are you trying to make my daughter a liar?" " No." "I'm showing you what a liar I am." "If she's telling the truth" "What else have you been saying to my daughter?" "An awful lot." " When?" " Last night in the moonlight." " Where?" " Alongside a haystack." " Listen" " I'm listening." " What else did you say?" " He called me his Persian kitten." " Why'd you call her that?" " I don't remember." "I do." "I'm like a Persian kitten 'cause they have soft round tails." "That's enough." "In this country, that'd better be a marriage proposal." " That's what I thought." " That's what you think." " Look" " I'm looking." "I'm no good." "I'm a peddler." "A peddler has to travel up and down." "You'd hardly ever see your daughter no more." "That'd be all right." "Just take care of my little rosebud." "Oh, Pa, that's pretty." "You sure you can bear to let me go, Pa?" " Are you sure, Mr. Carnes?" " You just try to change my mind." "Ali, ain't it wonderful, Pa making up our minds?" "And he won't change neither." "Once he gives his word that you can have me, you got me!" "I know I got you." "Mrs. Ali Hakim, the peddler's bride." "Oh, wait till I tell those girls." "Laurey!" "Laurey!" "The peddler-man and me is going to get married." "Congratulations." "I hope we'll be very happy." "Hi, Laurey." "What're you doing?" "Going to pick peaches." "What's you doing?" "I peeked in your basket up at the house." "I see you've got gooseberry tarts, too." "I wonder if they're as light as mine." "Mine would float away if you blew on them." "I blew on one of mine and it broke into a million pieces." "Ain't she funny?" "Stop that!" "Stop it!" "Gertie!" "Go on up to the house and cool off." "Don't forget tonight at the auction, Curly, mine's the biggest hamper." "So that's that old Cummings gal I heard so much talk of." " You seen her before, ain't you?" " Yeah, but not since she got so old." "Never did see anybody get so peaked-looking in such a short time." "Yeah." "Says she's 18." "Bet she's 19." "Are you really going to drive to the box social with that Jud fellow?" "I reckon so." "Why?" "Oh, nothing." "Everybody seems to expect me to take you." "Then maybe it's just as well you ain't." "We don't want people talking about us, do we?" "Do you think people do talk about us?" "You know how they are, like a swarm of mud wasps  always buzzing about something." "What are they saying, you're stuck on me?" "Most of the talk is that you're stuck on me." " Can't imagine how these ugly rumors start." " Me, neither." "Why do they think up stories that link my name with yours?" "Why do the neighbors gossip all day behind their doors?" "I know a way to prove what they say is quite untrue" "Here is the gist, a practical list of "don'ts" for you" "Don't throw bouquets at me," "Don't please my folks too much," "Don't laugh at my jokes too much" "People will say we're in love!" "Who laughs at your jokes?" "Don't sigh and gaze at me" "Your sighs are so like mine," "Your eyes mustn't glow like mine" "People will say we're in love!" "Don't start collecting things" "Like what?" "Give me my rose and my glove;" "Sweetheart, they're suspecting things" "People will say we're in love!" "Some people claim that you are to blame as much as I" "Why do you take the trouble to bake my fav'rit pie?" "Grantin' your wish, I carved our initials on that tree..." "Jist keep a slice of all the advice you give, so free!" "Don't praise my charm too much," "Don't look so vain with me," "Don't stand in the rain with me" "People will say we're in love!" "Don't take my arm too much," "Don't keep your hand in mine." "Your hand feels so grand in mine" "People will say we're in love!" "Don't dance all night with me," "Till the stars fade from above." "They'll see it's all right with me," "People will say we're in love!" "You reckon you could tell Jud you'd rather go with me tonight?" "Curly." "No, I couldn't." "No, you couldn't." "Think I'll go down to the smokehouse, where Jud's at." "See what makes all the girls want to go to parties with him." "Curly!" "What?" "Nothing." "Open it, can't you?" "What do you want?" "I got through with my business up there at the house." "I just thought I'd pay a call." " You got a gun, I see." " That's right." "It's a Colt .45." "Say, now." "That pink picture  that's a naked woman, ain't it?" "Plumb stark naked as a jaybird." "That ain't nothing to what I could show you." "Hey, that's a good-looking rope." "Feels good, too." "That's a good strong hook you got there, Jud." "You know?" "You could hang yourself on that." " I could what?" " You could hang yourself." "Yes, siree." "Easy as rolling off a log." "Why, in five minutes or less, with good luck..." " ... you could be dead as a doornail." " What do you mean by that?" "And then folks would come to your funeral  and they'd sing sad songs." "Why, they would." "You never know how many people like you till you're dead." "You'd be laid out in a parlor, all decked out in your best suit  your hair combed down slick, high, starched collar  and lots of pretty flowers all around you." " Would there be flowers, you think?" " And palms, too, all around your coffin." "Folks would gather 'round, and men would bare their heads  the women would sniffle softly, some probably even faint  the ones that took a shine to you whilst you were alive." "What women ever took a shine to me?" "Why, lots of women, only they never come right out  and tell you how they feel unless you die first." "I guess maybe you're right." "They'd sure sing loud, though, when the singing would start  sing like their hearts would break." "Pore Jud is daid," "Pore Jud Fry is daid," "All gether 'round his cawfin now and cry." "He had a heart of gold" "And he wasn't very old" "Oh, why did sich a feller have to die?" "Pore Jud is daid," "Pore Jud Fry is daid," "He's lookin', oh, so peaceful and serene" "And serene!" "He's all laid out to rest" "With his hands across his chest." "His fingernails have never b'en so clean." "Why then the preacher'd get up, and he'd say:" "Folks, we are gathered here to moan and groan over our brother Jud Fry  who hung himself up by a rope in the smokehouse." "Then there'd be weeping' and wailin' from some of those women." "And then he'd say:" "Jud was the most misunderstood man in this territory." "People used to think he was a mean, ugly fella and call him a dirty skunk  and orn'ry pig stealer." "But the folks that really knowed him" "Know that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore" "There beat a heart as big as all outdoors" "As big as all outdoors" "Jud Fry loved his fellow man" "He loved his fellow man" "He loved the birds of the forests and the beasts of the field" "He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn" "And he treated the rats like equals" "Which was right." "He loved all the little children." "He loved everything and everybody in the world" "Only" "Only he never let on, so nobody ever knowed it." "Pore Jud is daid," "Pore Jud Fry is daid," "His friends'll weep and wail fer miles around." "Miles around." "The daisies in the dell will give out a diff'runt smell" "Becuz poor Jud is underneath the ground." "Pore Jud is daid" "A candle lights his haid." "He's layin' in a cawfin made of wood." "Wood." "And folks are feelin' sad" "Cuz they useter treat him bad." "And now they know their friend has gone fer good." "Good" "Pore Jud is daid," "A candle lights his haid" "He's lookin', oh, so purty and so nice!" "He looks like he's asleep." "It's a shame that he won't keep," "But it's summer and we're runnin' out of ice..." "Pore" "Jud" "Pore" "Jud!" "... that'll sure be an interesting funeral." " I wouldn't want to miss it." " Maybe you will." "Maybe you go first." "Let's see, now." "Where did you work at before you came up here?" " It was up by Quapaw, wasn't it?" " That's right." "Lousy they was to me, too." "Always making out they were better than I was." "Always treating me like I was dirt." "So what'd you do?" "Get even?" "Who said anything about getting even?" "No one, I recollect." "Just came into my head." "If it came to getting even with somebody, I'd know how to do it." "Remember the fire in the Bartlett farm over by Sweetwater?" "I sure do." "It was about five years ago." "Burned up the father, and the mother, and the daughter." " It was a terrible accident." " That weren't no accident." "Feller told me." "Said that the hired hand was stuck on the Bartlett girl." "One day he found her in the hayloft with another feller." "It was him that burned the place." "Took him weeks to get the kerosene, buying it at different times." "Feller that told me  he made out like it happened in Missouri, but I always knew it was the Bartlett farm." "What a liar he was." "Get a little air in here." "You ain't told me yet what business you had here." "We've got no cattle to sell and no cow ponies." "There's only one thing you could want on this farm, and it better not be that." "That's just what it is." "You keep away from her, ya hear?" "You know, somebody ought to tell Laurey just what kind of a man you a." "And for that matter, somebody ought to tell you once about yourself." "Curly, you better get out of here!" "In this country, there's just two things you can do if you're a man." "You can live outdoors, is one." "And you can live in a hole, is the other." "I set by my horse in the brush somewhere  and I heard a rattlesnake many a time." ""Pppffft," he'd go, scared to death somebody was going to step on him  got his fangs all ready." "Curly, you better get o' here!" "How'd you get to be the way you are, sitting in here in this filthy hole?" "Why don't you do something healthy once in a while  instead of staying shut up here, crawling and festering?" "Well..." "You ought to feel better now." "I wish you'd let me show you something." "There's a knothole over there about as big as a dime." "You see it a winking'?" "Right through the knothole, slick as a whistle." "Who fired off a gun?" "Was that you, Curly?" "Well, I..." "I shot once." "Well, what were you shooting at?" "Knotholes." "Well, ain't you a pair of purty nothings?" "Pecking away at knotholes and scaring everybody to death?" "Well!" "What happened, Aunt Eller?" "Nobody hurt." "Just a pair of fools swapping noises." "Mind if I visit with you gents?" "I got a few pretties to show you." "Private knick-knacks, special for the men folk." "Not me." "I got to shine up that surrey I hired for tonight." "Laurey promised to go with me, and she better not change her mind." "She better not!" "Now, take a look at those, straight from Paris." " You got any frog-sticker?" " You mean one of those long knives?" "I tell you what I'd like better." "Y'ever hear of a Little Wonder?" "You hold it up to your eye to see pictures." "You say to a fellow, Come here - look through this." "While he's looking, you press a jigger on the end  out snaps a blade, and bang, down you come." "That's a good joke to play on a friend." "No, I don't handle things like that." "That's too dangerous." " Take a look at these postcards." " I'm sick of them things." "I want me a real woman." "I'm tired of all these pictures of women." "Throw them away!" "Buy some new ones!" "You get tired of a woman, what can you do?" "Nothing." "You just keep getting tireder and tireder." "I made up my mind." "Oh, say!" " Do you know a girl named Ado Annie?" " I don't want her." "I don't want her either, but I got her." "Ain't you done your basket yet?" "Lands!" "You ain't even dressed!" "I believe you got something worrying on your mind." "Aunt Eller, I want everything to stay just the way it is." "Well, won't it?" "I like living the way we do." "I like the looks of the prairie outside my window." "The thicket where the possums live." "And sitting around in the evenings in threshing time  eating muskmelons and singing, and..." "Lots of things." "Why should any of that have to change, Laurey honey?" " What if something happened?" " What could happen?" "We got money in the bank." "It's going to be another good year for corn and oats." "You ar' a silly." "Hold bottle two inches from nostril  close your eyes, and inhale." "Ask your heart what you really want  and wait for the answer." "Elixir of Egypt, make up my mind for me." "I'm waiting for the answer." "Out of your dreams your dreams your dreams" "Out of your dreams your dreams your dreams" "Out of my dreams and into your arms" "I long to fly." "I will come as evening comes" "To woo a waiting sky." "Out of my dreams and into the hush of falling shadows," "When the mist is low," "And stars are breaking through," "Then out of my dreams" "I'll go," "Into a dream with you." "Laurey!" "Laurey!" "It's time to get started for the party." "Crawling along like this, we'll get there when the party's over." "Last time I saw you alone  was in the winter." "I was sick." "And I remember you brought me some hot soup out to the smokehouse." "You gave it to me." "Me in bed." "You asked me if I had a fever." "Put your hand on my head to see." "I remember." "Do you?" "Bet you don't remember as much as me." "I remember everything you ever done." "Every word you ever said." "I can't get it out of my mind." "You see how it is?" "Whoa, there!" "Whoa, there!" "Whoa, now!" "Down boy." "Whoa, now." "Whoa, boy, whoa boy" "There, now." "Quiet, everyone." "The farmer and the cowman should be friends," "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "One man likes to push a plow," "The other likes to chase a cow," "But that's no reason why they cain't be friends." "Territory folks should stick together, Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with the farmers' daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals." "Territory folks should stick together, Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with the farmers' daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals." "No, no, no." "I'd like to say a word for the farmer;" "Well, say it!" "He come out west and made a lot of changes," "He come out west and built a lot of fences," "And built 'em right acrost our cattle ranges." "Why don't the dirt scratchers go back to Missouri where they belong?" "The farmer is a good and thrifty citizen" "He's thrifty all right." "No matter what the cowman says or thinks" "You seldom see him drinking in a barroom" "Unless somebody else is buying drinks" "But the farmer and the cowman should be friends," "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "The cowman ropes a cow with ease, the farmer steals her butter and cheese," "But that's no reason why they cain't be friends." "Territory folks should stick together, Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with the farmers' daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals." "Quiet, everybody." "I'd like to say a word for the cowboy..." "Oh, you would?" "The road he treads is difficult and stony." "He rides for days on end with jist a pony fer a friend..." "I shore am feeling sorry for the pony." "The farmer should be sociable with the cowboy," "If he rides by and asks fer food and water," "Don't treat him like a louse, make him welcome in yer house..." "But be shore that you lock up your wife and daughter!" "Who wants an ole farm womern, anyhow?" "Notice you married one, so you could get a square meal." "You can't talk that way about our women." "He can say what he wants." "The farmer and the cowman should be friends," "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "One man likes to push a plow, the other likes to chase a cow," "But that's no reason why they" "There ain't anybody going to slug out anything." "This here is a party!" "Sing it, Andrew." "Dum-diddy-um-dum-dum!" "The farmer and the cowman should be friends," "Good, but louder." "Sing it." "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "Sing it!" "One man likes to push a plow, the other likes to chase a cow," "But that's no reason why they cain't be friends!" "And when this territory is a state," "And jines the Union jist like all the others," "The farmer and the cowman and the merchant" "Must all behave theirsel's and act like brothers." "I'd like to teach you all a little saying'" "And learn the words by heart the way you should:" "I don't say I'm no better than anybody else," "But I'll be danged if I ain't jist as good!" "I don't say I'm no better than anybody else," "But I'll be danged if I ain't jist as good!" "Territory folks should stick together, Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with the farmers' daughters!" "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals!" "Quiet, everybody!" "Quiet!" "Quiet!" "It's time to start the auction." "Who's going to be the auctioneer Mr. Skidmore?" "Why, Aunt Eller, of course." "Say, Aunt Eller, Laurey ain't here yet." "What do you reckon's happened?" "Oh, they're just pokey." "Loosen up your pockets, fellows." "You've been pounding the floor of the new schoolhouse." "Now let's get money enough to raise the roof." "Mr. Skidmore's been generous enough to give us the land." "He's got more kids than the rest of us!" "Now, you know the rules, gentlemen." "You ain't supposed to know what girl goes with what hamper." "If your sweetheart told you hers will be done up in a certain way  with a certain color ribbon, that ain't my fault." "Can't hardly lift this one." "I'm bound there's a mince pie in here." " Is there rum in it?" " Well, come and sniff for yourself." " Is there?" " Yeah." " I'll go two bits." " Two bits." "Four bits." "$2." "That's my boy." "Hi, Laurey." " Where's Aunt Eller and Curly?" " Up at the house, I think." "What am I offered for this one?" "Sold to Pete Larkin for six bits." "Pete, you sure got a pretty gal to go with your supper." "Well, let's go ahead." "What am I offered for this one?" "Anybody just ate?" "I'll give two bits." " Two bits." " Four bits." "Four bits." "I've heard enough bits, let's hear a mouthful." "Hello, young fellow." "Well, Mr. Hakim  I hear you got engaged to Ado Annie." " Well" " Well, nothing!" "I don't know what to call you." "Ain't pretty enough for a skunk." "Ain't skinny enough for a snake." "Too low to be a man and too big to be a mouse." "I reckon you're a rat." "That's logical." "Answer me one question." "Do you really love her?" "'Cause if I thought you didn't, I'd tie you in that bag and drop you in the river." " Are you serious about her?" " I'm serious." "Do you worship the ground she walks on, like I do?" "You'd better say "yes"." "Yes." "Yes." "Would you spend every cent you had for her?" "That's what I did." "See the bag?" "Full of presents." "Cost $50." "All I had in the world." " If you had that $50" " I'd have Ado Annie, and you'd lose her." "Yeah, I'd lose..." "Let's see what you got in the bag." "Might want to buy something." " What would you want with them?" " I'm a peddler, ain't I?" "What a beautiful hot water bag." "Looks French." "It must have cost you plenty." "I'll give you $8." "$8?" "That wouldn't be honest." "I only paid $3.50." "All right!" "I said I'd give you $8." "I will." "That's a crackerjack!" "Take your hands off that." "That was for our wedding night." "It don't fit you so good." "I'll give you $22." "All right, $22.50." "Not a cent more." "Mighty dainty!" "$15." "Let's see, now." "$22 and $8 is $30 and $15 is $45  and 50 cents is $45.50." "$45.50" "Hey" "That's almost..." " You want to buy some more?" " Might." "Did you ever see one of these things?" "How much for this?" " I don't handle things like that." " It's just a girl in pink." "No." "It's more than that!" " Either of you two seen Laurey?" " Up to the house looking for Curly." "How much you give me for this thing?" "What do you want for it?" "Let's see. $3.50." "Sold." "Now, that's $3.50 from him, $45.50 from you." " That makes $50, don't it?" " No. $1 short." "Darn it!" "I must have figured wrong." " How much for the rest of the stuff?" "." " $1." "Done!" "Now I've got the $50, ain't I?" "That means I'm going to take Ado Annie back from you." " You wouldn't do a thing like that to me!" " Wouldn't I?" "When I tell Ado Annie's pa who I got most of the money off ofa  maybe he'll change his mind about who's smart." "Say young fellow, you certainly buncoed me!" "Now here's the last two hampers." "Whose they are, I ain't got no idea." "The big'ns mine, and the next one to it, is Laurey's!" "That's the end of that secret." "Now what am I bid for Annie's hamper?" "Two bits." "Ain't nobody hungry no more?" " What about you?" "Six bits?" " No, no." "I don't care." " Bid 'em up." " Six bits!" "Six bits ain't enough for a lunch like Annie can make." "Let's hear a dollar." "How about you?" "You won her last year." " You still got the same sweet potato pie?" " You bet!" "Same sweet potato pie!" "What do you say?" "It gave me a three-day bellyache!" "Never mind about that." "Who bids $1?" "Come on, bid." " Mine was the last bid." "I got her for six bits." " Bid a dollar." "90 cents!" "90 cents!" "We're getting rich!" "Another desk for the schoolhouse." "Do I hear more?" "You hear $50." "$50!" "Nobody ever bid $50 for a lunch!" "Nobody ever bid $10." "He ain't got $50." "Yes, I have." "If you're a man of honor, you'll say Annie belongs to me." " Where's your money?" " Right here in my hand." "That ain't yours." "You just bid it." "Give it to the schoolhouse." "I still say the peddler gets my daughter's hand." "Now wait a minute!" "That ain't fair!" " Going for $50." "Going, going-- - $51!" " Are you crazy?" " $50..." "Wait a minute." "Hold on." "Aunt Eller, If I don't bid any more, I can keep my money, can't I?" "You sure can!" "Then I still got $50, and this is mine!" "Simple-minded shag-poke." "Going, going, gone for $51!" "And that means Annie will get the prize." "I guess." "And I'll get Annie, I guess." "What are you getting for your $51?" "A three-day bellyache." "Now here's my niece's hamper." "I took a peek inside a while ago." "It looks mighty tasty." "What do I hear, gents?" " Two bits." " Four bits." "What do you say?" "Six?" " $1." " More like it!" "Do I hear $2?" "$1.25." "$2." "$2.50." "$3." "And two bits." "$3 and four bits." " $4." " And two bits!" "$4.25." "Ain't I going to hear any more?" "Curly?" "I've got a bid of $4.25 from Jud." "Are you going to let him have it?" "Andrew." " $4.50." " $4.50!" "Going for" "$4.75!" "$4.75." "Come on, gentlemen!" "The schoolhouse ain't built yet." " Got to get a nice chimney." " $5!" " $5." "Going for $5" " And two bits!" "Too rich for my blood." "I can't afford no more." "$5.25." "Ain't got nearly enough yet, not for cold duck with stuffing  and that lemon meringue pie." " $6." " $6!" "Going" "And two bits." "And two bits!" "My, you're stubborn, Jud." "Mr. Carnes is a richer man than you  and I know he likes custard with raspberry syrup!" "Oh, let it go." "Anybody gonna bid any more?" "No." "They all dropped out." "Can't you see?" " You got enough, Aunt Eller." " Let's get on." "I got the money." " I ain't said "going, going, gone" yet" " Say it!" "Going to Jud  for $6 and two bits." "Going." "Going..." " Who did you say was getting Laurey?" " Jud Fry!" " For how much?" " $6.25!" " I don't believe that's enough, do you?" " More than you got." "I've got a saddle here." "It cost me $30." "You can't bid saddles, you gotta bid cash." "A $30 saddle must be worth something to somebody." "I'll give you $10." "You can't earn a living without a saddle." " You've got cash?" " Right in my pocket." "Let's don't waste time." "How high are you going?" "Higher than you, no matter what." " Aunt Eller, I'm bidding all of this $10." " $10!" "Going, going" "$10 and two bits!" "Curly?" "Most of you men know my horse, Blue." "He's kind of a nice horse." "He's gentle." "He's well-broke." "Don't sell Blue, Curly!" "I'll give you $25 for him." "Sold." "Aunt Eller, that makes the bid $35." "Curly, you're crazy  but it's all for the schoolhouse, ain't it?" "Going for $35" "Hold on now!" "I'm ain't finished bidding yet!" "You just sold everything you've got in the world, ain't you?" "Your cain't sell your clothes, it ain't worth nothing." "You can't sell your gun because you're gonna need it." "Yes, sir, you're gonna need it bad." "I'm just as good as Curly at getting what I want!" "I'm going to bid everything I've got in the world." "$42.31!" "Anybody want to buy a gun?" "I bought it brand-new last Thanksgiving." "It's worth a lot." " Curly." " Give you $18 for it, Curly." "Sold." "Aunt Eller, that makes the bid $53." " Anybody going any higher?" " Sold!" "Going, going, gone!" "What's the matter?" "Ain't nobody going to cheer?" "Come on, you two, shake hands." "There." "That's better." " Curly." " What?" "Can I show you something?" "Excuse us, Laurey?" "You ever see one of these?" " Just what is it?" " It's something special." "You take it and you hold it up to your eye like that." " Curly!" "Curly!" "What you doing?" " Nothing!" "Why do you want to squeal at a fella like that for?" "You scared me." "Stop looking at them old French pictures!" "Ask me for a dance." "You brung me, didn't you?" "All right, I'll dance with you You silly old woman." "Sam, pick that banjo to pieces!" "Now that I've got that $50, you name the day." "August 15th." "Why August 15th?" "'Cause that was the first day I was kissed." "Was it?" "I didn't remember that!" "You wasn't there." "We've got to have a serious talk." "Now that you're engaged to me, you've got to stop having fun" "I mean with other fellas." "You'll have to be a little more stand-offish" "When fellers offer you a buggy ride." "I'll give a imitation of a crawfish" "And dig myself a hole where I c'n hide." "I heared how you was kickin' up some capers" "No!" "I heared some things you couldn't print in papers" "From fellers who been talkin' like they know!" "Foot!" "I only did the kind of things I orta-- sorta" "To you I was as faithful as c'n be-- fer me." "Them stories 'bout the way I lost my bloomers-- rumors!" "A lot o' tempest in a pot o' tea!" "The whole thing don't sound very good to me" "Well, y'see" "I go and sow my last wild oat!" "I cut out all shenanigans!" "I save my money, don't gamble er drink in the back room down at Flannigan's!" "I give up lotsa other things a gentleman never mentions" "Before I give up any more, I wanta know your intentions!" "With me, it's all er nuthin'!" "Is it all er nuthin' with you?" "It cain't be "in between"" "It cain't be "now and then"" "No half-and-half romance will do!" "I'm a one-woman man, home-lovin' type," "All complete with slippers and pipe." "Take me like I am er leave me be!" "If you cain't give me all, give me nuthin'" "And nuthin's whut you'll git from me!" "Not even sump'n?" "Nuthin's whut you'll git from me!" "It cain't be "in between"?" "It cain't be "now and then"?" "No half-and-half romance will do!" "Would you build me a house, all painted white," "Cute and clean and pretty and bright?" "Big enough fer two but not fer three!" "Supposin' that we should have a third one?" " He better look a lot like me!" " The spit in' image!" "He better look a lot like me!" "With you, it's all er nuthin'" "All fer you and nuthin' fer me!" "But if a wife is wise, she's gotta realize" "That men like you are wild and free." "So I ain't gonna fuss, ain't gonna frown," "Have your fun, go out on the town," "Stay up late, and don't come home till three," "And go right off to sleep if you're sleepy" " No use waiting' up fer me!" " Oh, Ado Annie!" " No use waiting' up fer me!" " Come on and kiss me!" " Why'd you drive off and leave me?" " I didn't want to be late for the party." "You didn't want to be with me, you mean." "I ain't good enough for you, am I?" "I'm a hired hand." "I've got dirt on my hands, pig slop." "I ain't fit to touch you." "You're better." "You're so much better Miss Laurey" "We'll see who's better   and you won't be so free and easy with your highfalutin' airs." " You're such a fine lady!" " Who are you to make threats to me?" "Are you trying to tell me if I don't love you you'll slobber over me like a hog  why you gonna do something about it?" "You ain't a hired hand for me anymore!" "You can pack up your duds and scoot!" "Don't so much as set foot inside the pasture gate, or I'll sic the dogs " "You said your say  and you brought it on yourself." "I can't help it." "I can't never rest." "I told you how it was  and you wouldn't listen." "You ain't never gonna get rid of me." "Never." "Hey Laurey!" "Have you seen Annie?" "She's gone again." "Will you do something for me?" "Will you find Curly and tell him I'm here?" "I want to see Curly awfully bad." "I've got to see 'im" "Why don't you turn around and look, crazy woman?" "Curly!" "Well, you found yours." "I'm still looking for mine." "Now what on earth is ailing the Belle of Claremore?" " By gum, if you ain't crying." " Curly, I'm afraid for my life." " Jumping toadstools!" " Don't you leave me!" " Gosh almighty!" " Don't mind me crying." "I can't help it!" " You can cry your eyes out!" " I don't know what to do." "Here, I'll show you." "That's about all a man can stand in public." "You go away from me, y'hear!" "You don't like me, Curly?" "Like you?" "You get away from me, I tell you, plumb away from me." "Curly, you're sitting on the stove!" "No!" " It's cold as a hunk of ice." " Wished it had burned a hole in your pants." " Oh you do, do you?" " You heared me!" "Laurey, you stand right there where you ar  and I'll sit right over here." "Now." "You tell me what you wanted with me." "Well  Jud was here." "He scared me." "He talked wild and threatened me, so I, fired him." "I wished I hadn't." "There's no telling what he might do now." "You fired him?" "Then that's all there is to it  I'll stay on the place myself tonight, if you're nervous about that hound dog." "You quit your worrying, or I'll spank you." "Hey ..." "While I think of it  how about marrying me?" "Gracious." "What would I want to marry you for?" "Couldn't you maybe think of some reason why you might?" "I can't think of nothing right now, hardly." "Laurey?" "Please, ma'am  marry me?" "I don't know what I'm gonna do if you don't." "Curly!" "Well I'll marry you if you want me to." "I'll be the happiest man alive, as soon as we're married." "Well, I've got to learn to be a farmer, I can see that." "Quit thinking about throwing that rope  startin' to get my hands blistering a new way." "Things is changing Laurey, right and left." "Buy up mowing machines and cut down prairies!" "Shoe your horses and drag them plows under the sod!" "They're going to make a state out of this!" "They'll put it in the Union!" "The country's changing." "I've got to change with it." " We'll bring up a pair of boys!" " Curly!" "New stock to keep up with the way things are going in this here crazy country!" "Now that I've got you to help me, I'll amount to something yet." "I remember the first time I ever seed you." "It was at the fair." "You was riding that grey filly of Blue Star's." "I said, "Who's that skinny little thing with the bang on her forehead?"" " I remember." "You were riding broncs that day." " That's right." " And one of them throwed you." " Yeah." " It did not throw me." " Guess you jumped off." " Sure, I jumped off." " Yeah, you sure did." "Hey!" "If anybody can hear my voice, I want them to know that Miss Laurey Williams is my girl!" "Curly!" " She went and got me to ask her to marry me." " They'll hear you all the way to Catoosie." "Let them." "Let people say we're in love!" "Who keers whut happens now?" "Jist keep your hand in mine," "Your hand feels so grand in mine." "Let people say we're in love!" "Starlight looks swell on us," "Let the stars beam from above," "Who keers if they tell on us?" "Let people say we're in love!" "Well, I'll say goodbye here, baby." "Time for the lonely gypsy to go back to the open road." "Wish I was going." "Then you wouldn't be so lonely." "Look, Annie, there's a man who loves you like nothing never loved nobody." "That's the man for you:" "Will Parker." "Oh, yeah." "Well, I like Will a lot." "Oh, he's a fine fellow." "He's strong like an ox." "He's young, handsome." " I love him all right, I guess." " Of course you do." "You love his clear blue eyes and the way his mouth wrinkles up when he smiles." "Do you love him, too?" "I love him because he will make my Ado Annie happy." "Goodbye, baby." "I will show you how we say goodbye in Persia." "That was goodbye?" "We have an old song in Persia." "It says, "One goodbye is never enough"." "Hello, Will." "Ali Hakim's saying goodbye." "I want to say goodbye to you, too." "No, you don't." "I saw the last one." "Be good to her, Will." "And you be good to him, baby." "Friend of the family." "Did you say you was going?" "I'll show you how we say goodbye in my country." "Oh, friend of the family." "Lucky fellow." "I wish it was me she was marrying." "Instead of you." "It don't seem to make much difference." "Well, back to the open road, the lonely gypsy!" "Giddy-up, boys!" "You ain't gonna think of that ol' peddler man anymore, are you?" "I never think of no one unless he's with me." "Then I'll never leave your side." "Well, even if you never go away  can't you once in a while give me one of them, Persian goodbyes?" "Persian goodbye?" "Why, that ain't nothing compared to an Oklahoma hello." "Hello, Will!" " Sleeping in the saddle?" " Worse than that." "I got to thinking." "It's the last time for me, Mr. Skidmore." "No more roundups." "Not no more." "Think you're gonna like being a farmer?" "If Laurey can marry a good-for-nothing cowhand  without a red cent in his pocket, I got to love farming." "I reck'n you'll make a good husband." "I can't think about the farming." "I don't like farming." "Never did." " Ain't gonna keep you from the wedding?" " Wouldn't miss it for anything." "After all, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "With this ring, I thee wed." "I pronounce you man and wife." "Congratulations, Curly!" "Let's hear three cheers for the happy couple!" "Hip, hip!" "Hooray!" "Hip, hip!" "Hooray!" "Hip, hip!" "Hooray!" "They couldn't pick a better time to start in life," "It ain't too early, and it ain't too late." "Startin' as a farmer with a brand-new wife" "Soon'll be livin' in a brand-new state!" "Brand-new state!" "Gonna treat you great!" "Gonna give you barley, carrots, and pertaters" "Pasture fer the cattle" "Spinach and termayters!" "Flowers on the prairie where the June bugs zoom" "Plen'y of air and plen'y of room" "Plen'y of room to swing a rope," "Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope." "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain" "And the waving' wheat can sure smell sweet" "When the wind comes right behind the rain" "Oklahoma!" "Every night my honey lamb and I" "Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk" "Makin' lazy circles in the sky." "We know we belong to the land," "And the land we belong to is grand." "And when we say:" "Ee-ee-ow!" "A-yip-i-o-ee-ay!" "We're only sayin', you're doing fine, Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma, O.K.!" "Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain" "Oklahoma," "Where the waving' wheat can sure smell sweet" "When the wind comes right behind the rain." "Oklahoma!" "Every night my honey lamb and I" "Ev'ry night we sit alone and talk and watch a hawk" "Makin' lazy circles in the sky." "We know we belong to the land," "And the land we belong to is grand!" "And when we say:" "Ee-ee-ow!" "A-yip-i-o-ee-ay!" "We're only sayin' you're doin' fine, Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma, you're O.K." "Oklahoma" "Oklahoma" "We know we belong to the land," "And the land we belong to is grand!" "And when we say:" "Ee-ee-ow!" "A-yip-i-o-ee-ay!" "We're only sayin' you're doin' fine, Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma" "O" " K L" " A H" " O M" " A" "Oklahoma!" "Yeah!" "Say, you better hurry and get in that other dress." "We've gotta get goin'." "You hurry and pack your own duds." "They're laying all over my room." "Whatcha gonna do, Pa?" "Give Laurey and Curly a shivery?" "That's right!" "I wish you wouldn't." "It's a good old fashion custom, never hurt nobody." "Now, you ladies just stay where you won't be in the way." "Vamoose!" "Go on, scat!" "Seems like there's times when men ain't got no need for women." "There's times when women ain't got no need for men." "Yeah, but who wants to be dead?" " Thought you was in Bushyhead." " Just come from there." " Too bad you missed Laurey's wedding." " I've been having one of my own." "Lands, who'd you marry?" "Where is he?" "There he is." " Is that him?" " That's him." "Hello, Ado Annie." "Did you see my ring, girls?" "How long you been married?" "Four days." "Four days with that laugh should count like a golden wedding." "If you married her, you must have wanted to." "Sure, I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight  shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun." "I thought it would be better to be alive." "Now I ain't so sure." "Hey, Will, did you hear the news?" "Gertie married the peddler." "Mighty glad to hear that, peddler-man." "I think I ought to kiss the bride." "Friend of the family, remember?" "Hey, Gertie, you ever had an Oklahoma hello?" " Hey!" "What're you doing?" " Keeping Ado Annie from killing your wife." "Mind your own business." "Shh!" "Somebody will hear you." "They ain't listening to anybody but theirselves." "What are you doing out there, you bunch of pig stealers?" "Why don't you go on back home where you belong?" "Up the ladder with you, now." "Put your foot in the right place!" "Go on, Mr. Bridegroom." "We don't want ya to fall an' break your neck." "Maybe we'll let you down in time to catch your train!" "Hey, Laurey, here's a girl baby fer ya!" "Fire!" "Haystack's afire!" "Get some water!" "Curly, I got a present for you!" "I didn't get to kiss the bride, but I got a present for you!" "A present for you!" "Come on!" "Ike!" "Slim!" "Quick!" "What did you do to him?" "I knew this would happen." "What happened?" "He fell on his own knife." "Stuck clean through the ribs." "He's still breathing, ain't he?" "Get back some of you let me look at him." "Can't do nothing here." "Better get him to a doctor." "We'll take him to Doc Tyler's." "I don't see why this had to happen." "Just when everything was so fine." "Don't let your mind run on it." "I can't forget it, I tell you." "I never will." "Don't try, honey." "You've got to get used to having all kinds of things happening to you." "You've got to look at the good on one side and the bad on the other  and say, "Well, all right, then", to both of them." "Lots of things happen to a woman:" "Sickness, or being poor and hungry, even." "Being left alone in your old age, being afeared to die." "And you can stand it." "There's one way:" "You've got to be hardy." " You've got to be." " I wished I was the way you are." "Fiddlesticks!" "Scrawny and old?" "You couldn't hire me to be the way I am." "What would I do without you?" "You're such a crazy." "Sure as you're born." "Jud's over at Doc Tyler's." "They'll take care of everything." "Is he alive?" "Laurey, honey, Cord Elam here, he, being Federal Marshal  thinks I ought to give myself up." "And right now he" "Oh, no!" "Their train leaves in less than an hour." "It's their honeymoon!" "Best thing is fer Curly to go of his own accord." "Tell the judge." " Why ... you're the judge, ain't you, Andrew?" " Yeah." "Then tell him now and get it over with." "Wouldn't be proper." "It's got to be done in court." "Oh, fiddlesticks." "Let's do it here and say we done it in court." "I can't do that." "That's breaking the law." "Let's not break the law." "Let's just bend it a little." "Come on Andrew, start the trial." "We've ain't got but a few minutes." " Andrew, I got to protest." " Shut your trap." "We can give the boy a fair trial without locking him up on his honeymoon." "All right." "Here's the long and short of it." "What's your plea?" "That means, why'd you do it?" "Well, Jud's been pestering Laurey." "I always swore that" "Now, just a minute." "Don't let your tongue wobble in your head." "Listen to my question." "What happened last night that made you kill him?" "He tried to burn us to death." "He come at me with a knife." " And you had to defend yourself, didn't you?" " Yes." " Furthermore" " Never mind the furthermore." "The plea is self-defense." "Now wait a minute." "Order!" "Is there a witness?" "Wait a minute!" "Who seen it happen?" "I feel funny about it." "You'll feel funny when I tell your wife you're carrying on with another woman." "I ain't carrying on with no one." "Maybe not, but you'll sure feel funny when I tell your wife you are." "Laugh all you like." "But as Federal Marshal" "Shut up about being Federal Marshal." "If we get to be a state, we'll elect ourselves a sheriff." "If you don't keep your mouth shut, ain't nobody gonna vote for you." "Let's get the happy couple on the train." "Wait a minute!" "I ain't said the verdict yet." " Well the verdict's "not guilty", ain't it?" " Of course." "But I've got to say it." "Then say it." "Not guilty!" "Court's adjourned." "Why, Ado Annie, where you been?" "You missed all the excitement." "Oh, no, we didn't." "Hello, Will." "Got to get the young ones on that train or they'll miss it." "Hey there, bride and groom you ready?" "Here we come!" "'Bye!" "Good luck, Curly!" "'Bye." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'!" "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rythin's goin' my way..." "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "Thankstonatreifor the subs"