"[ZADOK  JOHN LAUGHING]" " Oh." " This is your cousin Zadok." "Well, actually he's Pa's cousin." "He'd be your first cousin, twice removed." " Oh, more or less." "Who am I to tell?" "JOHN:" "Hope you can stay for a spell." "Well, there's a lot to be did up at the farm but I expect I can stay through the picnic." "I do not care who he is." "He is crude and backward." "If there are any telephone calls or anybody drops by to see me you just tell them I'll be back in a whipstitch." "JOHN:" "We'll sure tell them." "He told me a lawyer was after him." "He told me he was getting an honorary degree from Boatwright University." "Well, his hearing's gone, and his eyesight too, for all we know." "His mind wanders." "His memory just turns on and off." "I think he's got hardening of the arteries." "We're the only relatives within 1000 miles." "I think he's come here to die." "You're absolutely crazy." "You've poisoned my baby." "JOHN-BOY:" "On Walton's Mountain as everywhere else on Earth in the later years of World War II there was a constant feeling of dislocation and change." "Until one weekend in 1944 in the midst of the chaos and confusion we unexpectedly found a bright, sturdy link between ourselves and the way of life we were so swiftly losing." "A rich reminder of who we were, what we were, and where." "[CHUCKLES]" "Good afternoon, sir." "I swear to my soul, young woman you a Walton if I ever seen one, and I have saw considerable." "Sir?" " You one of Zeb Walton's girls?" " No, I'm one of John's." "My name's Elizabeth." "Oh, that's nothing, honey." "They named me Zadok." "Mr. Zadok, would you care for a glass of lemonade?" "Elizabeth, I'd be proud, mighty proud." "Ah." "That's prime lemonade, it is, Elizabeth." "Mr. Zadok knows a lot about us." "He's come a long way." "JIM-BOB:" "How long a way, Mr. Zadok?" "Well, I've hoofed it all the way from home and I'd hate to do it twice in one week." "[JIM-BOB CHUCKLES]" "Got me a little patch of scratch-gravel farm across Methodist Creek." "That's way up yonder behind Big Spruce Knob, Boone County." "That's miles from here." "Oh, I computated about 44 miles as the crow flies if anybody's got a crow that don't especially care where he's going." "[CHUCKLES]" " Do you have much farther to go?" " Well, I devoutly hope not." "Where I started out for, I'm at." "A feller told me to meet him at Walton's house on Walton's Mountain." "Here I am and here he ain't." "Who's that, Mr. Zadok?" " Who's what?" "ERIN:" "The man you're meeting here." "Oh." "I'm meeting your grandpa, Zeb Walton." "Mr. Zadok." "Our grandpa passed away almost three years ago." "Well, I expect I oughtn't to be surprised." "Ahem." "Where's Zeb resting?" " Up there on the top of the mountain." " It's where he wanted to be." "Zeb and I growed up together, he being a mite younger than me." "And I'd hate to tell you how old I am." "What about your grandma?" "Where's little Esther at?" "Well, she had a stroke a while back, but she's doing fine." "Ha, ha." "Well, I thought so." "You know, them little-bitty women, they just as tough as whitleather." "Grandma's visiting some relatives over in Buckingham County." "Oh, she always was traipsing about and caucusing." "Yeah, she was always that way inclined if Zeb hadn't kept her on a short string." "Well, now, who else we got?" "[HORN HONKS]" "Well, if that ain't the beatinest!" "He don't even know who I am!" "Cousin Zadok!" "Ha-ha-ha." "I'd recognize your old hide in a tan yard." " Good to see you." "How you been?" " Oh, tolerable, tolerable." "Ha, ha." " Oh." " This is your cousin Zadok." "Well, actually he's Pa's cousin." "He'd be your first cousin, twice removed." " Oh, more or less." "Who am I to tell?" "JOHN:" "Hope you can stay for a spell." "Well, there's a lot to be did up at the farm but I expect I can stay through the picnic." " Is there a picnic?" " Well, that's what your grandpa said and I never knowed him to drop back on a promise." "That's a date you made." "That's why you're here." " When'd you and Grandpa make this date?" " Oh, I guess it was along late spring, 1923." "He come up to Boone County and spent the whole day with me." "The last thing I ever said to him, I said:" ""Zeb, now, it's been 10 years since we saw each other." "Now, let's don't make the second time 15."" "And he gave me that little look of his." "You know, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth." "Good old Zeb Walton." " Well, cheese wouldn't choke him either." "JOHN:" "Ha-ha-ha." "And he said that, "If I'm not here in 20 years, Zadok, you come to visit me..." " ...and we'll give you a picnic."" " Well, and by George, he was right." " Ha-ha-ha." " Ha-ha-ha." "Let's have a picnic." "[HORN HONKS]" "[TIRES SCREECH]" "JASON:" "Colonel Usselbury, sir." "Are you all right, sir?" "Why don't you watch where you're going?" "Oh, sergeant, I'm sorry." "I thought you were the post commander." " Are you all right?" " If you had been thinking anything you dumb dog-face, I wouldn't be driving all over the county, now would I?" " I guess not." " And if I had had the colonel in my car you'd be peeling the stripes off your sleeves!" "Absolutely." "Now, is there anything I can do?" "Sure, you can get lost." "You bet." "You raise all these apples?" "Well, me and the good Lord had a hand in it together." "They're better for taste than looks." "That's a telephone." "Oh, I've saw three or four of them in my time." "I just ain't never talked through one." "Well, it's easy." "When it rings, all you do is pick it up and talk." "I'll memorize that and when that feller...." "Cousin Zadok?" "There's a feller after me." "If he rings that telephone, you come and get me, and I'll talk on it." " What's the man after you for?" " Me, my land, my apples." "Calls hisself a lawyer." " You memorize that." " I'll try." "Cousin Zadok, we gotta find you a place to sleep." "Already found one, Cousin John." "All right." "You sure you wanna do this, now?" "ZADOK:" "Well, when I was growing up on this mountain, Cousin John any time the house was full of company, they packed up the little boys and put them out in the barn to sleep on the hay." "Now, I've been missing this Walton's Mountain hay for 75 year." " And I can tote my own budget." " No, you've carried that long enough." "Well, it ain't as heavy as it was when I left home." "I brung some apples for the young'uns." "They in there in the kitchen if you get a hankering for one." "JOHN:" "All right." "Hello." "Oh, not again." "I didn't know there was anybody in here." "They let me use the piano sometimes." "Wouldn't you know it?" "In case I forgot to mention, my name is Jason Walton." "Now that we've got that settled, let's both forget it." "[PLAYING]" "You probably don't have a name, huh?" "Just rank and serial number?" " Tony Hazelton." " That's Tony like in Anthony Adverse?" "Like in Marie Antoinette." ""Let them eat cake."" "That's better." "You're much more an Antoinette than a Tony." "I'm really thrilled you think so." "Look, if you're gonna play the stupid piano, play." "Wouldn't you rather go out to a movie or something, Antoinette?" "I wouldn't be sitting here in the first place if I did." "[TONY SIGHS]" "[PLAYING]" "JASON:" "Ooh." "What are you doing, Walton?" "Composing, Antoinette, a song." "Sounds more like decomposing." "[FIDDLE PLAYING]" "[FIDDLE STOPS PLAYING]" "What's wrong, Daddy?" "Thought I heard some music, fiddle music." "Coming from the mountain." "Spooky." "It would have to be, there's nobody up there." " Maybe you just thought you heard it." " No, I heard it." "It's a tune I haven't heard since I was a little older than John Curtis." "Heh." "Strange." "ERIN:" "What's going on?" " I thought I heard something." "What?" "I don't know, but if I believed in ghosts...." "Now, you're not supposed to be in here." "That's my job this weekend." "You don't look like you was qualified for this kind of work." "Well, I'd like to know just why." " Morning, Daddy." "JOHN:" "Morning." "Howdy, John." "A woman as well-favored as you ought to just sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam." "Well, that's ridiculous, because my sewing is worse than my cooking." "Now, where does that leave me?" "Just sitting there, looking pretty as red shoes with blue strings in them." "Is something going on between you and my daughter?" "Well, that's what she'd like me to think but soft words never buttered no biscuits." "Your cousin Erin is a speaking likeness of another lady that I fell in love with when I was 5 years old." "Her name was Aunt Sula Walton." "She was Zeb Walton's mama." "She's where all that red hair comes from too." " Really?" " Ben, what are you doing home?" "A weekend pass I didn't expect." "Got in around 1:00 this morning." "Had to get up for 4:00 feeding." "I want you to meet your cousin Zadok." "Zadok, this is Ben." "Just let him wake up, John, and then I'll meet him proper." " Good morning." "BEN:" "Good morning." "JOHN:" "I thought you'd be gone." " I overslept." "John Curtis was fussy again all night." "I left him bothering Elizabeth." "Well, Elizabeth can handle any three kids in the neighborhood." "MARY ELLEN:" "Yeah, but I'm sure she had things of her own to do today." "Everybody's that way these days, except me, I expect." "Thank you." "I'd take John Curtis with me, except he's been acting colicky." "Well, I ain't got no big plans for today except sit around here and dilapidate." "Now, I can put up with that little feller if he can put up with me." "Mm." "Oh, if you're sure it wouldn't be a bother." "Thank you very much." " Bye-bye, Daddy." "JOHN:" "Bye, honey." "BEN:" "Bye-bye." "MARY ELLEN:" "Bye." "Finished that painting, son?" "Taking a break from that turpentine smell." "You know, Zadok, you're a bad influence on me." "I'm supposed to be running all over this weekend, yelling at my suppliers." "War Department wants twice as much lumber twice as quick." "Well, I calculate the Second World War waiting for you to get out and start mallyhacking them poor working people." "I'd hate to think the war's stopping on my account." "This is the fourth big war I've sat through." "And if you've seen one, you saw them all." "JOHN:" "What are you up to, honey?" "I'm just keeping an eye on Cousin Zadok." "Well, you're gonna have to stand back a ways for that." "Because when I finish this rocking, I'm just gonna get up and start callyhooting all over this mountainside, sightseeing and such." "I don't think you should." "You've done enough walking for a while." "You should take better care of yourself." "I don't see why." "It ain't as if they're saving me up for something." "Or as if I was gonna get lost on Walton's Mountain that being where I learned to walk in the first place." "Try this." "It's not very pretty." "That's an apple." "ZADOK:" "They're what you call a hybrid apple." "It's a cross betwixt a wild apple tree and two tame ones I got growing up on my farm." "I thought I knew every apple that grows in these parts." "Well, every kind that will I got growing up there on my farm." "Yeah, I got 12 different kind of apples growing on one tree." " Sure you do." " You're joking." "[WHISTLES]" "Jim-Bob, you and Elizabeth go keep an eye on Cousin Zadok." "He's supposed to be keeping an eye on John Curtis." "Cindy will do that." "Come on, Elizabeth." "Hi." "I keep seeing it, but I don't believe it." " Got you working overtime, huh?" " Sergeant Walton." "Jason." "When the colonel works overtime, then the colonel's driver works overtime." "I hope that's not too hard for you to understand." " Sergeant." " Colonel, sir." "Good morning, sir." "When you finish with my car, sergeant, and with my driver then we can get on with the war effort." "I was just coming up, sir, to let you know the car is here." " Sergeant Walton, isn't it?" " Yes, sir." "Do you have any duties to perform, Walton?" "Because I do." "As a matter of fact, sir, I have a pass for the weekend." " Use it." " Yes, sir." "He took us up to the chimney where Rome Walton and Rebecca Lee used to live." " Uh-huh." " He knew exactly where it was." "And he was telling us how it was in the olden days." "Then he looked at me and Jim-Bob and said he'd forgotten our names." "Do you suppose his mind's going?" "Honey, you know how some folks get when they get old." "Remember your grandpa?" "He could recite 76 verses of Horatius at the Bridge but he could never remember where his hat was." "Because it was on top of his head." "At any hour of the day, his mind was as brisk as a tick in a tar pot." "Well, I hope you're right." "He sure hasn't forgotten the picnic." "Needs more salt." "JOHN:" "Well, how is my grandson?" "Oh, he's asleep, thank goodness." "I finally got ahold of the doctor and he said that it sounded pretty routine." "Just a minor digestive disorder." "JOHN:" "Mm." "Sounds like a stomachache." "Where's Cousin Zadok?" "Oh, he went down to the Godsey's store." "He said he wanted to see if it's changed any since 1908." "I think I'll go see if he's changed any." "You haven't noticed anything different about him, have you?" "Well, he's deaf in his left ear and he has a terrible weakness for well-favored redheads." "Heh." "JOHN:" "Who doesn't?" "Still, in all, it is a most unusual name, Zadok." "From whence does it originate?" "The First Kings, Second Samuel." "The crowning of King Solomon." "Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet." "I been away from here ever since 1880." "Some of my mama's people left me a farm up beyond Big Spruce." "If I'd have known how little the farm was, I wouldn't have went." "I could've had them send it to me." "I surmise that Big Spruce is a considerable distance from here." "Oh, distance ain't no name for it, Sis Godsey." "Why, it's so far back in them hills, they use wolves as watchdogs and the hoot owls mate with the chickens." "[LAUGHING]" "I do not care who he is." "He is crude and backward." " There's nothing backward about him." " And also suggestive." "Aw, come on, Corabeth, he's just a hillbilly, the way the good Lord made him." "You might as well face up to it, we're all hillbillies around here." "Speak for yourself." " Morning." " Oh, hi, John." "How are you?" "JOHN:" "Seen my cousin Zadok around?" " Ha!" "Ha, ha." "Yeah, he's back there in the seed catalog department." "JOHN:" "Cousin Zadok?" "You back here?" "Must have gone outside." "You see an old fella come out here a couple of minutes ago?" "Yup, I seen him." "He come and he went." "Went where?" "Well, a young feller drove up here." "He was lost, asking his way to Westham." "The old man, he volunteered to show him the way and then he drove off with him." "Funny your cousin would leave without saying a word to anybody." "Reckon I'd better go find him." "JOHN:" "Cousin Zadok." "Well, you go traveling, you never know who you're gonna find." " Well, what are you doing here?" " Oh, just looking the place over." "They got one whole big school here that don't teach nothing but farming and such." "Think you might enroll as a freshman or take it up as a hobby?" "Oh, nary a one." "Albeit one of them professors I was talking with proffered to get me a piece of paper I could put a frame around and put up over my fireboard." "He done say I got all the education I can chamber." "They call that an honorary degree." "You think he might give it to you?" "Dar." "Not by a long stitch." "He come right out and said he's joking." "Said them papers was for folks who give them a football field." " Ha, ha." "You ready to go home?" " You know the way?" "Have you people been callyhooting again, or just traipsing this time?" "Oh, we neighbored a bit and then we was out doing a little caucusing" "ZADOK:" "Unh!" " Easy, easy." " Hell fire and damnation." " Are you all right?" "If they put my brains in a bird's head, he'd have flied backwards." "Well, he sounds all right." "Old and brickly boned, and don't evenly watch where I'm going." "Why, you'd thought I'd busted my dad-blistered hip it'd have been Katy bar the door, I'll tell you!" "Ain't got time for such as this." "Cousin Zadok, let me help you in the house." "Cousin Zadok can help hisself right out to the barn." "[ZADOK SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "You know, I hate to say it, but he really does seem pretty far gone." " Hitting on about three cylinders, I'd say." " Oh, come on." "Well, his hearing's gone, and his eyesight too, for all we know." "His mind wanders." "His memory just turns on and off." "I think he's got hardening of the arteries." "We're the only relatives within 1000 miles." "I think he's come here to die." "Why would you say something like that?" "But suppose he did come here for that." " What would we do?" " What can we do?" "We can do exactly what Cousin Zadok would do if someone came to him." "Invite him in and make him feel comfortable." "[SINGING] And when that ram was butchered" "There was an awful flood" "Singing fal-de-rally, raldy Dolly du-dum-do" "And when that ram was butchered There was an awful flood" "Fourteen thousand people Got a-drownded in the blood" "Singing fal-de-rally, raldy Dolly du-dum-do" "Now the wool upon that ram's back It hung down to the ground" "If you think that's bloody, you should let Mary Ellen come in here and hear a few verses." "It's been a strange weekend." "We haven't heard war news since yesterday morning." "Well, Cousin Zadok doesn't listen at all." "He says that good news will keep and bad news will hunt you down." "[LAUGHS]" "I thought you were painting Grandma's room while Rose was away." "Well, I was till Erin kicked me out." "She said I was getting more paint on me than on the walls." "You know, sometimes I think she's got some shingles loose." "What kind of talk is that?" "Cousin Zadok talk." "You know, he reminds me of Grandpa." "He's fun to be around." "Yeah, you know, it's something like a dish of mustard greens after a long winter." " Just what the system needs." " Yeah." "With this war being so unreal, you feel like you've been sick three or four years and then something like this old man comes along reminds you that there's sunshine and fresh air and...." " Vitamins?" "Heh, heh." " Vitamins." "I got a hunch that there's nothing wrong with Cousin Zadok." "It's the world that's got some shingles loose." "ZADOK:" "Cousin John?" "Well, I thought you'd be out peltering them lumber people telling them where the bear set in the buckwheat." "You stop peltering me." "I've gotta be in the right mood first." "Little John Curtis dropped off to sleep for a while." "He don't appear to be as pert, though, as he was this morning." "It just appears to me that that poor little sprout be addled in his gut." "The doctor says not to worry." "He'll get here as soon as he could." "Well, I thought I'd go projecting around and see what's alongside the roadside." "Oh." "If there are any telephone calls, or anybody drops by to see me you just tell them I'll be back in a whipstitch." "JOHN:" "We'll sure tell them." "He told me a lawyer was after him." "Told me he was getting an honorary degree from Boatwright University." "It must be awful to get old." "[PLAYING]" "[SIGHS]" "Small world, but I was here first." "Wherever I go, you're there first." "I'm studying two very hard courses in the Armed Forces Institute and tests are coming up in both of them." "You think if I went to my barracks to study" "It's a WAC barracks, Walton." "All enlisted personnel of the feminine gender." "You think you can try and not be there ahead of me?" "I'll make it a promise." "You're all heart." "You know what might do you a whole lot of good, sergeant?" "Go back to your WAC barracks and when you get there, go soak your silly head." "I may just do that." "Then give the rest of the world the day off." "You're a vain, spoiled, egotistical brat, Hazelton." "Moping around, creeping into a corner when somebody says hello." "You come into the U.S. Army for privacy or something?" "Absolutely none of your business!" "You're a crabby, sneering, sarcastic shrew." "You're narrow-minded, you're ill-mannered, and furthermore" "Furthermore what?" "Furthermore, I'm crazy about you." "[PLAYING]" "[SIGHING]" "Zadok, what is going on here and what is that stuff?" "The baby's forehead is soaking wet." "Oh, he's a mite sweaty, but he ain't fevered." " It's the catnip part that does it for him." " Catnip?" "Yeah, I brewed the little chap a mess of catnip tea." "Then I took a sizeable chunk of rattleweed root boiled that with it." "Oh, it'll fix it meek as Moses." "You're absolutely crazy." "You've poisoned my baby." "Oh, I bet I ain't." "He only taken a middle-sized cupful." "[MARY ELLEN SIGHING]" "Daddy, the old man is dangerous." "He fed John Curtis catnip tea laced with rattleweed root." "Did he throw up?" "No." "While I was talking to the doctor, John Curtis fell asleep." "What'd the doctor say?" "He said if it worked that well, he'd try it himself." "[MARY ELLEN SIGHS] [JOHN CHUCKLES]" "[FIDDLE PLAYING]" "JOHN:" "Cousin Zadok?" " That's his bad ear, Daddy." "Cousin Zadok?" "Great day in the morning, Cousin John." "Whatever are you and all them gentlemens doing up here at this time of night?" "We came up here to ask you that." "Oh, I just came to say goodbye to an old, old friend." "TONY:" "Hi." "I'm looking for Jason Walton." " He's in there." " Thank you." "[KNOCKS]" "Antoinette." "Come in." "Thank you." "First, don't bother to apologize." "Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?" "Because it's my turn anyway." "I know what you think of me, Jason because you very kindly explained it to me." "I just want you to know that if I'm crabby and all that..." " ...there's nothing personal." " Okay, fine." "I've been a long time getting over something and...." "[SIGHS]" "Like I said yesterday...." " It's none of my business." " Thank you." "Nothing at all." " Um, you forgot your music." " I what?" "Um, your song or whatever." "You forgot it in the Day Room." " Oh." "Thanks." "I'd sure hate to lose this." " No offense, but parts of it you should." " Yeah?" " I don't mean to start another fight or anything but, may I?" "There's a couple places I don't think you were watching where you were going." "I'll show you." "Here." "Okay." "Um, for instance, where you have:" "[PLAYING AND SCATTING]" " Mm-hm." " You could have done something like:" "Play that again." "I hate to say this, but I think you're absolutely right." "I thought I was." "And where you had:" "I could have gone, maybe:" "[PLAYING AND SCATTING]" "Yeah, something like that, in my opinion." "Okay." "Well, let's try it your way and see what we've got." "Okay." " It's supposed to have words." " Oh, words I can't do." "I'm so glad." "Move over." " Let's try it from the chorus." " Okay." "[SINGING] Antoinette, Antoinette" "You're kidding." "You're not kidding." "[LAUGHS]" "Antoinette" "You sing." "Antoinette" "BOTH [SINGING]:" "You're the kind of woman" "Who's not easy to forget" "Won't you say you'll stay?" "Won't you say you'll stay?" "Won't you say you'll stay, Antoinette?" "[BOTH LAUGH]" " Good morning." " Good morning, sir." "Mr. Zadok Walton said I might find him here." "I'm Arthur Harrington from Charlottesville." " I've heard that name before." " I'm serving as Zadok Walton's attorney." "I have a paper here that he asked me to draw up for him." "You're a pretty expensive lawyer for an old dirt farmer from Boone County." "Well, if I am, it's his fault." "I told him my fee would be one bushel of fruit and he refused to settle for less than two." "He's a feisty old character." "That he is." "These gentlemen have known my client a lot longer than I have." "Dean Beck and Professor Bohannon both of the School of Agriculture at the university." "Mm." " Come on." "We'll see if we can find him." " Thank you." "Now, if you'll just look that over...." "Uh, if you'll just peruse all that, John, I ain't got my right spectacles." "Be glad to, Cousin Zadok." "It's an old-fashioned form of conveyance, and so is some of the language but so is my client and you can't argue with a mule." "If there's anything you don't understand...." "If we ever get to it." "Well...." "Briefly, it's a deed of gift inter vivos between the living by which Zadok Walton in consideration of the goodwill and esteem he bears for Boatwright University and for the furtherance of its work in the field of agriculture hereby gives and grants unto said university a certain plantation and parcel of land in Boone County containing 21 acres" "Being the same more or less." "HARRINGTON: --with all buildings, orchards, watercourses privileges and profits, after my death, to have and to hold." "With certain restrictions to it." "And the next three-quarters of the page tells precisely what this said university can or cannot do with his 21 acres if and when said Zadok ever decides to die." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "Let me tell you something, Mr. Walton." "This dirt-farmer cousin of yours is the most opinionated, unreasonable..." " Obstinate." " ...cantankerous old man this neighborhood has seen since Thomas Jefferson." "Anyone else would have let us buy the damned farm." "Well, it's more than just a farm." "It's a remarkable workshop." "A laboratory for an untrained, natural-born horticultural wizard." "We've learned as much up there about fruit and trees as we've been teaching." "Have you ever seen a tree with 10 or 12 different kinds of apples on it?" "Or an apple tree with pears growing on it?" "We've often said we'd like to have Zadok on the university faculty uh, if he could speak English." "You could have went further and did worse." "Oh, this is a big day for the school, Mr. Walton." "We're gonna use the farm, study it, preserve it long after Zadok is gone." "You mean sort of as a remembrance museum or something." "No, no, no." "Something very alive and busy." "Sentimental only to us." "It's a very rich gift your cousin Zadok is giving to the people of this state." "BECK:" "Just part of it is one little stand of apple trees up there worth a small fortune to Virginia agriculture." "Well, I'd admire to think so." "Because I never got a pure-D dime off in it myself." "This old coot has developed the most promising new strain of apple since the Albemarle Pippin." "It's not an awfully big apple and not very pretty." "Well, neither was the Albemarle Pippin." "Back off." "It's still my apples and I've still got work to do on it." "JOHN:" "This is mighty generous of you, Cousin Zadok." "Now, if you'll just sign there...." "And if you'll sign there as witness...." "I still think you should let us give you the money." "I'd hate to have it on my books at the Day of Judgment." "What I got and what I learnt, the good Lord never charged me for it." "JOHN:" "We're having a little picnic for Cousin Zadok." "We'd be happy to have you gentlemen join us." "BOHANNON:" "Oh, thank you." "JOHN:" "Well, you did a real good thing." "It was a pleasure meeting you gentlemen." "Thank you very much." "JOHN:" "I'm not sure I believe about this pear...." "[CHATTERING]" "Elizabeth." "Who are those people?" "Oh." "They're just professors from Boatwright University..." " ...friends of Cousin Zadok." " Friends of Zadok?" "Mm-hm." "People from the university are really excited." "He's giving them a big endowment." "I find that scarcely credible." "What could he give them?" "Just an apple." "Try one." "JOHN:" "All right." "Okay, if you say so." "All right, everybody!" "I've got an important announcement." "Come on over." "Come on, gather around." "Jason." "Cousin Zadok decided he wants to make a little speech after all." "That's good." "I was worried he was gonna play the fiddle." "Dog my cats, Elizabeth, I heared that." "Now, come on, you young'uns and settle down." "I got something to talk to you about." "You know, it's a proud thing being back on the mountain where I growed up meeting all you fine kinfolks I never seen before." "I had a hankering to see what the back-home Waltons was like after all this long time." "Well, I ain't met one of you I didn't like." "And another thing." "Since I'm about four years older than Methusalem I calculated I'd better settle my affairs before the bell rings." "Now, I got rid of most of my worldly goods since breakfast this morning." "Well, while we're all here together I wanted you to meet the oldest friend I've got on God's green earth." "Jason, hand me my music." "Yeah." "This old fiddle, it don't belong to me but I've looked after it for quite a while." "Now, I think it's about time somebody else looked after it." "Zadok, I'm not sure what you mean." "Well, if you hold your tater a minute, Cousin John, I'm gonna tell you." "This old fiddle is 108 year old." "It belonged to an old gentleman named Rome Walton." "He's my granddaddy, your great-granddaddy." "Ha-ha-ha." "Well, I'll be damned." "Yeah, he made it and he played it during the time of Tippecanoe and Tyler too." "And then he died." "And my grandma said he wanted me to have it." "And whilst I'm still around to see that it don't go to just any branch of the family here." "Cousin Zadok." "We're mighty proud to get this." "I reckon I'll just turn it over to the musician in the family." "Cousin Jason, can you play "Rosin the Beau"?" "That was the favorite ballad of my old granddaddy." "Is everybody ready?" "[JASON PLAYING FIDDLE]" "[SINGING] I've lived for the good of my nation" "And my sons are all growing, Io" "But I'm hoping the next generation" "Will be more like old Rosin the Beau" "Join the chorus." "ALL [SINGING]:" "Be more like old Rosin the Beau, my boys" "Be more like old Rosin the Beau I'm hoping the next generation" "Will be more like old Rosin the Beau" "Oh, when I was youthful and handsome" "The girls, they all called me their beau" "But now that I'm old and I'm ugly" "They call me old Rosin the Beau" "ALL:" "They call me old Rosin the Beau" "The girls, they call me Old Rosin the Beau" "But now that I'm old and I'm ugly" "They call me old Rosin the Beau" "When I'm dead and laid out On the counter" "And the people all come for the show" "Pour sassafras tea and corn whiskey" "All over old Rosin the Beau" "ALL:" "All over old Rosin the Beau, whiskey All over old Rosin the Beau" "Pour sassafras tea and corn whiskey" "All over old Rosin the Beau" "[ALL CHEERING]" "[JASON PLAYING FIDDLE]" "[CLAPPING]" "Hey!" "Come on, you do it." "JOHN-BOY:" "Cousin Zadok had the picnic that had been pledged to him 21 years before." "And having found our family suitable custodians for the fiddle he left it with us when he departed on Monday morning." "My father wanted to give him a ride back to Big Spruce Knob but he set out on foot." "He said, "It's such a pretty day, I think I'll walk."" "ELIZABETH:" "Daddy?" "JOHN:" "Yes, Elizabeth?" "ELIZABETH:" "You reckon Cousin Zadok's home by now?" "JOHN:" "I don't expect it matters, honey." "He just seems to enjoy traipsing around." "ELIZABETH:" "Caucusing." "JOHN:" "And callyhooting." "ELIZABETH:" "It was almost as good as having Grandpa back with us." "JOHN:" "Almost." "ELIZABETH:" "Good night, Daddy." "JOHN:" "Good night, honey." "Good night, everybody." "[ENGLISH" " US" " SDH]"