"There's a bright, golden haze on the meadow" "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye" "And it looks like it's climbing clear up to the sky." "Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'" "Oh, what a beautiful day." "I've got a beautiful feelin'" "Everything is goin' my way." "All the cattle are standin' like statues" "All the cattle are standin' like statues" "They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by" "But a little brown maverick is winking her eye" "Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'" "Oh, what a beautiful day." "I've got a beautiful feelin'" "Everything's goin' my way." "Hi, Aunt Eller!" "Skeer me to death!" "Whut' re you doin' around here?" "Come a-singin' to you." "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" "An' a ol' weeping' willer is laughing' at me" "Oh, what a beautiful Mornin'" "Oh, what a beautiful day." "I've got a beautiful feelin'" "Everything's goin' my way." "Oh, what a beautiful day!" "If I wasn't a ole womern, and if you wasn't so young and smart alecky-why," "I'd marry you and git you to set around at night and sing to me." "No, you wouldn't neither." "Cuz I wouldn't marry" "You ner none of yer kinfolks, I could he'p it." "Oh, none of my kinfolks, huh?" "And you c'n tell 'em that, all of 'm, includin' that niece of your'n," "Miss Laurey Williams!" "Aunt Eller, if you was to tell me whur Laurey was at... whur would you tell me she was at?" "I wouldn't tell you a-tall." "Fer as fer as I c'n make out, Laurey ain't paying' you no heed." "So, she don't take to me much, huh?" "Whur'd you git sich a uppity niece 'at wouldn't pay no heed to me?" "Who's the best bronc buster in this yere territory?" "You, I bet." "And the best bull-dogger in seventeen counties?" "Me, that's who!" "And looky here, I'm handsome, ain't I?" "Purty as a pitcher." "Curly-headed, ain't I?" "And bow-legged from the saddle fer God knows how long, ain't I?" "Couldn't stop a pig in the road." "Well, whut else does she want then, the damn she-mule?" "I don't know." "But I'm shore sartin it ain't you." "Who you takin' to the Box Social tonight?" "Ain't thought much about it." "Bet you come over to ast Laurey." "Whut 'f I did?" "You astin' me too?" "I'll wear my fascinator." "Yeow, you too." "Oh, what a beautiful mornin' ..." "Oh, what a beautiful day" "Oh, I thought you was somebody." "I got a beautiful feelin' Ev'rythin's goin' my way." "Is this all that's come a-callin' and it a'ready ten o'clock of a Sattiddy mornin'?" "You knowed it was me 'fore you opened the door." "No sich of a thing." "You did, too!" "You heared my voice and knowed it was me." "I heard a voice a-talkin' rumbly along with Aunt Eller." "And heared someone a-singin' like a bull-frog in a pond." "You knowed it was me, so you set in there a-thinkin' up sump'n mean to say." "I'm a good mind not to ast you to the Box Social." "If you did ast me, I wouldn't go with you." "Besides, how'd you take me?" "You ain't bought a new buggy with red wheels onto it, have you?" "No, I ain't." "And a spankin' team with their bridles all jinglin'?" "No." "'Spect me to ride on behind ole Dun, I guess." "You better ast that ole Cummin's girl you've tuck sich a shine to, over acrost the river." "If I was to ast you, they'd be a way to take you, Miss Laurey Smarty." "Oh, they would?" "When I take you out tonight with me" "Honey, here's the way it's gonna be" "You will set behind a team of snow-white horses" "In the slickest gig you'll ever see." "Lands!" "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 that fringe an' see how it flutters" "When I drive them high-steppin' strutters" "Nosy pokes will peak through their shutters and their eyes will pop!" "The wheels are yellow, the upholstery's brown" "The dashboard's genuine leather." "With eisenglass curtains you can roll right down" "In case there's a change in the weather" "Two bright side-lights winking' and blinkin'" "Ain't no finer rig I'm a thinkin'" "You can keep yer rig if yer thinkin' that I'd keer to swap" "Fer that shiny little surry with the fringe on the top" "Would you 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." "So y'can tell 'em apart!" "All the world'll fly in a flurry" "When I take you out in the surry" "When I take you out in the surry with the fringe on top." "When we hit that road, hell-for-leather" "Cats and dogs will 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 wish you'd go on forever" "Don't you wish you'd go on forever" "Don't you wish you'd go on forever" "And you'd never stop?" "In that shiny little surry" "With the fringe on the top." "Y'd shore feel like a queen setting' up in that carriage!" "On'y she talked so mean to me a while back," "Aunt Eller, I'm a good mind not to take her." "Ain't said I was goin'!" "Ain't ast you!" "Whur'd you git sich a rig at?" "Anh!" "I bet he's went and h'ard a rig over to Claremore!" "Thinkin' I'd go with him!" "'S all you know about it." "Spent all his money h'arin' a rig, and now ain't got nobody to ride in it!" "Have, too!" "..." "Did not h'ar it." "Made the whole thing up outa my head." "What?" "Made it up?" "Dashboard and all." "Oh!" "Git offa the place, you!" "Aunt Eller, make him git hisse'f outa here!" "Tellin' me lies!" "Makin' up a few-look out now!" "Makin' up a few purties ain't aging' no law 'at I know of." "Don't you wish they was sich a rig, though?" "Nen y'could go to the play party and do a hoe-down till mornin' if you was a mind to ..." "Nen when you was all won?" "out, I'd lift you on to the surrey;" "and jump up alongside of you- and we'd jist point the horses home" "I can see the stars gittin' blurry" "When we ride back home in the surry" "Ridin' slowly home in the surry" "With the fringe on top" "I can feel the day gettin' 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 meader." "Hush, you bird." "My baby's a sleepin'" "Maybe got a dream worth a keepin'" "Whoa, you team an' jist keep a creepin'" "At a slow clip, clop." "Don't you hurry little Surry" "With The Fringe On the Top." "On'y ... on'ythereain 'tnosich rig." "You just said you made the whole thing up." "Well" "Why'd you come around here with yer stories and lies, gittin'me all worked up that a-way?" "Talkin' 'bout the sun swimming' on the hill, and all-like it was so." "Who'd want to ride 'longside of you anyway?" "Whyn't you jist grab her and kiss her when she acts that-a-way, Curly?" "She's jist aching' fer you to, I bet." "Oh, I won't even speak to him, let alone 'low him to kiss me, the bragging', bow-legged, wish't-he-had-a sweetheart bum!" "She likes you-quite a lot" "Whew!" "If she liked me any more she'd sic the dogs onto me." "Aunt Eller, I got to know sumpin'." "Listen, who's the low, filthy sneak 'at Laurey's got her cap set for?" "You." "Never mind 'at." "They must be plenty of men a-tryin' to spark her." "And she shorely leans to one of 'em." "Now don't she?" "Well, they is that fine farmer, Jace Hutchins, jist this side of Lone Ellum" "Nen thet ole widder man at Claremore, makes out he's a doctor or a vet'nary" "That's whut I thought." "Hello, Jud." "Hello, yourself." "Nen of course there's someone nearer home that's got her on his mind most of the time, till he don't know a plow from a thrashing' machine." "Him?" "Yeah, Jud Fry." "That bullet-colored, growly man?" "Now don't say nuthin' agin him!" "He's the best hired hand I ever had." "Jist about runs the farm by hisself." "Well, two women couldn't do it, you orta know that." "Laurey'd take up 'th a man like that!" "I ain't said she's tuck up with him." "Well, he's around all the time, ain't he?" "Lives here." "Out in the smokehouse." "Hi y', Aunt Eller." "Mornin', Ike." "We're goin' over to th' station." "Need anything' in Claremore?" "You c'n take me with you." "There's sumpin on that train I gotta pick up." "Sumpin' personal." "Hey, Curly." "Oh, hey Slim." "Y'git it?" "Git whut?" "Y'git the wagon hitched up?" "Whut wagon?" "They's a crowd of folks comin' down from Bushyhead for the Box Social." "Curly said mebbe you'd loan us yer big wagon to bring 'em up to Mr. Skidmore's ranch." "Course I would, if he'd ast me." "Got to talkin' 'bout lot of other things." "I'll go hitch up the horses now 'f you say it's all right." "Time we got goin'." "Hey, Curly, tell all the girls in Bushy head to stop by here and freshen up." "It's a long way to Skidmore's." "Thanks fer the loan of the wagon, Aunt Eller." "That's all right." "Hi, Aunt Eller." "Hi, Will!" "Hi, Aunt Eller!" "What happened at the fair?" "You do any good in the steer roping'?" "I did purty good." "I won it." "Good boy!" "Always knowed y'would." "Cain't stay but a minnit, Aunt Eller." "Got to git over to Ado Annie." "Don't you remember, her paw said 'f I ever was worth fifty dollars I could have her." "Fifty dollars!" "That whut they give you fer prize money?" "That's whut!" "Lands, if Annie's paw keeps his promise we'll be dancin' at yer wedding'." "If he don't keep his promise I'll take her right from under his nose, and I won't give him the present I brung fer him." "Look, fellers, whut I got fer Ado Annie's" "'Scuse us, Aunt Eller" "You hold it up to yer eyes, like this." "Then when you git a good look, you turn it around at th' top and the pitcher changes." "Well, I'll be side-gaited!" "They call it "The Little Wonder"!" "Silly goats!" "The hussy!" "..." "Ought to be ashamed of herself." "You, too!" "..." "Howdo youturn the thing to see the other pitcher?" "Wait, I'm gettin' it ..." "No tellin' what you been up to." "Bet you carried on plenty in Kansas City." "I wouldn't exactly call it carrying' on." "But I shore did see some things I never see before." "I got to Kansas City on a Frid'y" "By Sattidy I larned a thing or two" "'Coz 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 tuk a walk." "'Nen I put my ear to a Bell Telephone" "And a strange womern started in to talk!" "Whut next!" "Yeah whut!" "Whut next?" "Gather 'round!" "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 privies in the rain" "And 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'rythin'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 burleeque." "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," "But latter in the second act" "When she began to peel" "She proved that ev'rythin' she had was absolutely real!" "She went about as fur as she could go," "Yes sir!" "She went about as fur as she could go!" "Whut you doin'?" "This is the two-step." "That's all they're dancin' nowadays." "The waltz is through." "Ketch on to it?" "A one and a two-a one and a two." "Course they don't do it alone." "C'mon, Aunt Eller." "And that's about as fur as I c'n go!" "Yes, sir!" "And that's about as fur as she c'n go!" "Whut you doin' now, Will?" "That's rag-time." "Seen a couple a fellers doin' it on the street." "Yoohoo!" "Ado Annie!" "Hello, Laurey." "My, oh my!" "Miss Laurey!" "Jippity crickets, how high you have growed up!" "Last time I come through here, you was tiny like a shrimp, with freckles." "Now look at you-a great big beautiful lady!" "Quit it a-bitin' me!" "If you ain't had no breakfast go and eat yerself a green apple." "All right, I take my things up to the house." "I see you in a minnit, Baby." "Bing!" "A - li" " Hak -keem!" "Will Parker's back from Kansas City." "Will Parker!" "I didn't count on him bein' back so soon!" "I can see that!" "man's gonna drive me to the Box Social." "I got up sort of a tasty lunch" "Ado Annie!" "Have you tuck up with that Peddler-man!" "N-not yit." "But yer promised to Will Parker, ain't yer?" "Not what you might say promised." "I jist told him mebbe." "Don't y' like him no more?" "'Course I do." "They won't never be nobody like Will." "Then whut about this peddler-man!" "They won't never be nobody like him, neither." "Well, which one d'you like the best?" "Whutever one I'm with." "Well you air a silly!" "Now, Laurey, you know they didn't nobody pay me no mind up to this year, count of I was scrawney and flat as a beanpole." "'Nen I kind of rounded up a little and now the boys act diff 'rent to me." "Well, whut's wrong with that?" "Nuthin' wrong." "I like it." "I like it so much when a feller talks purty to me" "I get all shaky from horn to hoof!" "Don't you?" "Cain't think whut yer talkin' about." "Don't you feel kind of sorry fer a feller when he looks like he wants to kiss you?" "Well, you just cain't go around kissing' every man that asts you!" "Didn't anybody ever tell you that?" "Yeow, they told me... ." "It ain't so much a question of not knowin' hut to do" "I knowed what's right an' wrong since I've been teen." "I heared a lot of stories an' I reckon they're true" "About how girls are put upon by men." "I know I mustn't fall into the pit" "But when I'm with a feller" "I fergit!" "I'm just a girl who cain't say 'no'" "I'm in a terrible fix!" "I always say 'Come on, let's go' just when I aughta say 'Nix.'" "When a person tries to kiss a girl" "I know she aughta give his face a smack!" "But as soon as someone kisses me" "I somehow sorta want to kiss him back!" "I'm just a fool when lights are low" "I cain't be prissy an' quaint" "I ain't the type that can faint" "How can I be what I ain't?" "I cain't say 'no!" "'" "Whatcha gonna do when a feller gets flirty" "An' starts to talk purty" "Whatcha gonna do?" "S'pposin' that he says" "That your lips are like cherrys," "Or roses, or berries" "Whatcha gonna do?" "S'pposin' that he says t" "That yer sweeter than cream and he's gotta have cream or die?" "Whatcha gonna do when he talks that way?" "Spit in his eye?" "I'm jist a girl who cain't say no," "Cain't seem to say it at all" "I hate to disserpoint a beau" "When he is payin' a call!" "Fer a while I ack refined and cool," "A setting on the velveteen setee" "Nen I think of thet ol' golden rule," "And do fer him what he would do fer me!" "I cain't resist a Romeo" "In a sombrero and chaps" "Soon as I sit on their laps" "Somethin' inside of me snaps" "I cain't say no!" "It's like I tole you, I git sorry fer them!" "I wouldn't feel sorry fer any man, no matter whut!" "With Ali Hakim now:" "Ali Hakim!" "That his name?" "Yeah, it's Persian." "You shore fer sartin' you love him better'n you love Will?" "I was shore." "and now that ol' Will has to came home and first thing you know he'll start talkin' purty to me and changing' my mind back!" "But Will wants to marry you." "So does Aii Hakim." "Did he ast yer?" "Not direckly." "But how I know is he said this mornin' when we was ridin' in his buggy that he wanted fer me to drive like that with him to the end of the world." "Well, 'f we only drove as fur as Catoosie that'd take to sundown, wouldn't it?" "Nen we'd have to go som'eres and be all night together, and bein' together all night means he wants a weddin' -don't it?" "Not to a peddler it don't!" "Hi, Aunt Eller!" "Hi, yourself." "Why, it's that ole peddler!" "The one that sold me that eggbeater!" "Tol' me that eggbeater ud beat up eggs, and wring out dishrags, and turn the ice-cream freezer, and I don't know whut all!" "All right!" "All right!" "If the eggbeater don't work 1 give you something just as good!" "Jist as good!" "If s got to be a thousand million times better!" "Now, Aunt Eller, just lissen" "I ain't yer Aunt Eller!" "Don't you call me Aunt Eller, you little wart." "Don't anybody want to buy something?" "How about you, Miss Laurey?" "Must be wanting something- a pretty young girl like you." "Me?" "Course I want sump'n." "Want a buckle made outa shiny silver to fasten onto my shoes!" "Want a dress with lace." "Want perfume, wanta be purty, wanta smell like a honeysuckle vine!" "Give her a cake of soap." "Want things I've heard of and never had before-a rubber-t'ard buggy, a cut-glass sugar bowl." "Want things I can't tell you about... not only things to look at and hold in yer hands." "Things to happen to you." "Things so nice, if they ever did happen to you, yer heart ud quit beating'." "You'd fall down dead!" "I've got just the thing for you!" "The Elixir of Egypt!" "What's 'at?" "It's a secret formula, belonged to Pharaoh's daughter!" "Smellin' salts!" "But a special kind of smelling salts." "Read what it says on the label:" "'Take a deep breath and you see everything dear."" "That's what Pharaoh's daughter used to do." "When she had a hard problem to decide, like what prince she ought to marry, or what dress to wear to a party, or whether she ought to cut off somebody's head-she'd take a whiff of this." "Fiddlesticks." "I'll take a bottle of that, Mr. Peddler." "Precious stuff." "How much?" "Two bits." "Throwin' away yer money!" "Helps you to decide what to do!" "Now don't you want me to show you some pretty dewdads?" "You know, with lace around the bottom, and ribbons running in and put?" "You mean fancy drawers?" "All made in Paris." "Well, I never wear that kind myself, but I shore do like to look at 'em." "Yeah, they's all right-if you ain't goin' no place." "Bring yer trapping's inside;" "mebbe I c'n find you sump'n to eat and drink," "Well, ast him, why don't you?" "Ali, me and Laurey've been havin' a argument." "About what, Baby?" "About what you meant when you said that about driving' with me to the end of the world." "Well, I didn't mean really to the end of the world." "Then how far did you want to go?" "Oh, about as far as-say-Claremore- to the hotel." "Whut's at the hotel?" "In front of the hotel is a verand a- inside is a lobby-upstairs-upstairs might be Paradise." "I thought they was jist bedrooms." "For you and me, Baby-Paradise." "Y'see!" "I knew I was right and Laurey was wrong!" "You do want to marry me, don't you?" "Ah, Ado Annie!" "What did you say?" "I said you do want to marry me, don't you." "What did you say?" "I didn't say nothing!" "Yoohoo, Ado Annie, I'm back!" "Oh foot!" "Jist when-'Lo, Will!" "That's Will Parker." "How's my honey-bunch?" "How's the sweetest little hundred- and-ten pounds of sugar in the territory?" "Er-Will, this is Ali Hakim." "How are yuh, Hak?" "Don't mind the way I talk." "'S all right." "I'm goin' to marry her." "Marry her?" "On purpose?" "Well, sure." "No sich of a thing!" "It's a wonderful thing to be married." "Ali!" "I got a brother in Persia, got six wives." "Six wives?" "All at once?" "Shore. 'At's a way they do in them countries." "Not always." "I got another brother in Persia only got one wife." "He's a bachelor." "Look, Will" "Look, Will, nuthin'." "Know whut I got fer first prize at the fair?" "Fifty dollars!" "Ketch on?" "Yer Paw promised I cud marry you 'f I cud git fifty dollars." "'At's right, he did." "Know what I done with it?" "Spent it all on presents fer you!" "But if you spent it you ain't got the cash." "Whut I got is worth more'n the cash." "Feller who sold me the stuff told me!" "But, Will ..." "Stop sayin' "But, Will"" "When do I get a little kiss?" "Oh, Ado Annie, honey, y'aint been off my mind since I left." "All the time at the fair-grounds, even when I was chasin' steers." "I'd rope one under the hoofs and pull him up sharp, and he'd land on his little rump..." "Nen I'd think of you." "Don't start talkin' purty, Will." "See a lot of beautiful gals in Kansas City." "Didn't give one a look." "How could you see 'em if you didn't give 'em a look?" "I mean I didn't look lovin' at 'em- like I look at you." "Oh, Will, please don't look like that!" "I cain't bear it." "Won't stop lookin' like this till you give me a little ole kiss" "Oh, whut's a little ole kiss?" "No, no," "No, no, I won't!" "S'posin' 'at I say 'at yer lips're like cherries," "Er roses er berries?" "Whut you gonna do?" "Cain't you feet my heart palpatatin' an' bumpin'," "A-waitin' fer sumpin, Sumpin nice from you?" "I gotta git a kiss an' it's gotta be quick Er I'll jump in a crick an' die!" "Whut's a girl to say when you talk that-a-way?" "Oh, what a beautiful mornin'," "Oh, what a beautiful day." "I got a beautiful feelin'" "Ev'rythin's goin' my way ...." "Well, don't fergit, Aunt Eller." "You and me's got a date together." "And if you make up a nice box of lunch, mebbe I'll bid fer it." "How we goin', Curly?" "In that rig you made up?" "I'll ride a-straddle of them lights a-winkin' like lightnin' bugs!" "That there ain't no made-up rig, you hear me?" "I h'ard it over to Claremore." "Lands, you did?" "Shore did." "Purty one, too." "Changed my mind about cleaning' the henhouse today" "Leavin' it till tomorrow." "Got to quit early cuz I'm driving Laurey over to the party tonight." "You're drivin' Laurey?" "Ast her." "Hey, Curly!" "Better take the wagon down to the troft and give the team some water." "Right away, Aunt Eller." "At's a right smart turnout." "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" "C'n I come, too?" "Jist love to watch the way you handle horses." "'At's about all I can handle, I guess." "Oh, I cain't believe that," "Curly-not from whut I heared about you!" "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" "Come on boys, better git these hampers out under the trees where it's cool." "Looks like Cully's tuck up with that Cummin's girl." "Whut'd I keer about that?" "Well, I thought Curly's 'spose t'be stuck on you." "I'll say he ain't stuck on her no more!" "Seein' is believin'." "Bye, Bye Curly." "Stop it." "How'd y' like it if you lost yer man." "Don't y'pay 'em no mind, Laurey." "Why should a woman who is healthy and strong" "Blubber like a baby if her man's goes away?" "A weeping' an' a whalin' that 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 have I once looked back to sigh" "Over the romance behind me" "Many a new day will dawn before I do!" "Many a like lad may kiss and fly" "A kiss gone by is bygone." "Never have I asked an August sky" ""Where has last July gone?"" "Never have I wandered through the rye" "Wondering "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 have I once looked back to sigh" "Over the romance behind me" "Many a new day will dawn before I do!" "Never have I chased the honeybee" "Who carelessly cajoled me" "Somebody jist as sweet as he" "Cheered me and consoled me." "Never have 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 red sun will set" "Many a blue moon will shine" "Before I do!" "Ali Hakim" "Hello, kiddo." "I'm shore sorry to see you so happy, cuz whut I got to say will make you mis'able." "... I got to marry Will." "That's sad news for me." "Well, he is a fine fellow." "Don't hide your feelin's, Ali." "I cain't stand it." "I'd ruther have you come right out and say yer heart is busted in two." "Are you positive you got to marry Will?" "Shore's shootin'!" "And there is no chance for you to change your mind?" "No chance." "All right, then, my heart is busted in two." "Oh, Ali, you do make up purty things to say!" "That you, Annie?" "Hello, Paw." "Whut you been shootin'?" "Rabbits." "That true whut I hear about Will Parker gittin' fifty dollars?" "That's right Paw." "And he wants to hold you to yer promise." "Too bad." "Still and all I can't go back on my word." "See, Ali Hakim!" "I advise you to git that money off'n him before he loses it all." "Put it in yer stocking' er inside yer corset where he cain't git at it ... or can he?" "But, Paw-he ain't exackly kep' it." "He spent it all on presents" "See!" "Whut'd I tell you!" "Now he cain't have you." "I said it had to be fifty dollars cash." "But, Mr. Carnes, is that fair!" "Who the hell are you?" "This is Ali Hakim." "Well, shet yer face, er I'll fill yer behind so full of buckshot, you'll be walking around like a duck the rest of yer life." "Ali, if I don't have to marry Will, mebbe your heart don't have to be busted in two like you said." "I did not say that." "Oh, yes, you did." "No, I did not." "Are you tryin' to make out my daughter to be a liar?" "No, I'm just making it clear what a liar I am if she's telling the truth." "Whut else you been sayin' to my daughter?" "Oh, a awful lot." "When?" "Las' night, in the moonlight." "Where?" "'Longside a haystack." "Listen, Mr. Carnes" "I'm lissening." "Whut else did you say?" "He called me his Persian kitten." "Why'd you call her that?" "I don't remember." "I do." "He said I was like a Persian kitten cuz they was the cats with the soft round tails." "That's enough." "In this part of the country that better be a proposal of marriage." "That's whut I thought." "Is that what you think?" "Look, Mr. Carnes" "I'm lookin'." "I'm no good." "I'm a peddler." "A peddler travels up and down and all around and you'd hardly ever see your daughter no more." "That'd be all right." "Take keer of her, son." "Take keer of my little rosebud." "Oh, Paw, that's purty." "You shore fer sartin you can bear to let me go, Paw?" "Are you sure, Mr. Carnes?" "Jist try to change my mind and see whut happens to you." "Oh, Ali Hakim, ain't it wonderful Paw makin' up our mind fer us?" "He won't change, neither." "Onct he gives his word that you c'n have me, why, you got me." "I know I got you." "Mrs. Ali Hakim ..." "the Peddler's bride!" "..." "Wait till I tell the girls." "Trapped!" "..." "Tricked!" "..." "Hoodblinked!" "..." "Hambushed!" "..." "Friend," "Whut's on yer mind?" "Why do you walk" "Around and around," "With yer hands" "Folded behind," "And yer chin scraping' the ground?" "Twenty minutes ago I am free like the breeze," "Free like a bird in the woodland wild," "Free like a gypsy, free like a child," "I'm unattached!" "Twenty minutes ago I can do what I please," "Flick my cigar ashes on a rug," "Dunk with a donut, drink from a jug" "I'm minding my own business like I oughter" "Ain't meaning' no harm to anyone." "I'm talking to a certain farmer's daughter" "Then I'm looking into the muzzle of a gun!" "It's getting so you cain't have any fun!" "Every daughter has a father with a gun!" "It's a scandal, it's an outrage!" "How a gal gits a husband today!" "If you make one mistake when the moon is bright," "Then they tie you to a contract," "So you'll make it ev'ry night!" "It's a scandal, it's an outrage!" "When her fambly surround you and say:" ""You gotta make an honest womern outta Nell!"" "To make you make her honest, she will lie like hell!" "It's a scandal, it's an outrage!" "On our manhood, it's a blot!" "Where is the leader who will save us?" "And be the first man to be shot?" "Me?" "It's a scandal, it's an outrage!" "Jist a wink and a kiss and you're through!" "You're in a mess, and in less than a year, by heck!" "There's a baby on your shoulder making bubbles on your neck!" "It's a scandal, it's an outrage!" "Any farmer will tell you it's true." "A rooster in a chickencoop is better off'n men." "He ain't the special property of just one hen!" "It's a scandal, it's an outrage!" "It's a problem we must solve!" "We gotta start a revolution!" "All right, boys!" "Revolve!" "Better pack yer lunch hamper." "We shore be havin' a lot of company." "Hello, Laurey." "Jist packing' yer hamper now?" "I been busy." "You got gooseberry tarts, too." "Wonder if they is as light as mine." "Mine'd like to float away if you blew on 'em." "I did blow on to one of mine, and it broke up into a million pieces." "Ain't she funny!" "Better come inside, and cool off." "You comin' inside 'th me, Curly?" "Not jist yet." "... Welldon'tbetoolong." "And don't fergit when the auction starts tonight-mine's the biggest hamper!" "So that's the Cummin's girl I heared so much talk of." "You seen her before, ain't you?" "Yeow." "But not since she got so old." "Never did see anybody get so peeked-lookin' in sich a short time." "Yeah, and she says she's only eighteen." "I betcha she's nineteen!" "What yer got in yer hamper?" "Jist some ole meat pies and apple jelly." "Nothin' like whut Gertie Cummins has in her basket." "You really goin' to drive to the Box Social tonight with that Jud feller?" "Reckon so." "Why?" "Nothin'..." "It's jist that ev'rybody seems to expec' me to take you." "Then mebbe it's jist as well you ain't." "We don't want people talkin' 'bout us, do we?" "You think people do talk about us?" "Oh, you know how they air-like a swarm of mudwasps." "Alw'ys gotta be buzzin' 'bout sump'n." "Well, whut're they sayin'?" "That you're stuck on me?" "Uh-uh." "Most of the talk is that you're stuck on me." "... Cain'timagine 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" fer you." "Don't throw bouquets at me" "Don't please my folks to much" "Don't laugh at my jokes too much." "People will say we're in love." "Laugh 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" "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'rite pie?" "Grantin' your wish I carved our initials on that tree," "Just 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 to 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 alright with me" "People will say we're in love!" "Don't you reckon y'could tell that Jud you'd ruther go with me tonight?" "Curly!" "I-no, I couldn't." "Oh, you couldn't?" "Think I'll go down here to the smokehouse where Jud's at." "makes girls" "See whuf s so elegant about him, makes girls want a go to parties 'th him." "Curly!" "What?" "Nothin'." "Don't sigh and gaze at me," "Your sighs are so like mine," "Your eyes mustn't glow like mine" "Got yer hamper packed?" "Oh, Aunt Eller ..." "yes, nearly." "Like a hanky?" "Whut'd I want with a ole hanky?" "Y'got a smudge on yer cheek jist under yer eye." "Aunt Eller, don't go to Skidmore's with Curly tonight." "If you do, I'll have to ride with Jud all alone." "That's the way you wanted it, ain't it?" "No." "I did it because Curly was so fresh." "But I'm afraid to tell Jud I won't go, Aunt Eller." "He'd do sumpin' turrible...." "Ever go down to that ole osmoke house where he's at?" "Plen'y times." "Why?" "Did you see them pitchers he's got tacked onto the walls?" "Yeah, I seed them." "But don't you pay them no mind." "Sumpin' wrong inside him, Aunt Eller." "I hook my door at night and fasten my winders aging it." "Agin it and the sound of feet a-walkin' up and down out there under that tree outside my room." "Laurey!" "I know whut I'm talkin' about." "You crazy young 'un!" "Stop actin' like a chicken with its head cut off!" "Now, Laurey, I got t'thinkin' 'bout how you don't have a right lot to wear:" "'ceptin' yer mother's ole wedding' dress." "I saved up my pennies and I got y' sumpin'." "Whut is it?" "Well?" "Aunt Eller, thank y'so much!" "Well, open it, cain't you?" "Howdy." "Whut'd you want?" "I done got th'ough my business up here at the house." "Jist thought I'd pay a call." "You got a gun, I see." "Good un." "Colt forty-five." "What do you do with it?" "Shoot things." "Oh." "That there pink picture-now" "that's a naked womern, ain't it?" "Yer eyes don't lie to you." "Plumb stark naked as a jaybird." "No." "No, she ain't." "Not quite." "Got a couple of thingumbobs tied onto her." "Shucks." "That ain't a thing to whut I got here." "Lookit that top one." "I'll go blind!" "..." "That ud give me idys, that would." "That's a dinger, that is." "Yeah, that shore is a dinger... ." "That's a good-lookin' rope you got there." "Spins nice." "You know Will Parker?" "He can shore spin a rope." "'S a strong hook you got there." "You could hang yerself on that, Jud." "I could whut?" "Hang yerself." "It ud be as easy as falling' off a log!" "Fact is, you could stand on a log-er a cheer if you'd rather-right about here-see?" "And put this here around yer neck." "Tie that good up there first, of course." "Then all you'd have to do would be to fall off the log-er the cheer, whichever you'd ruther fall off of." "In five minutes, or less, with good luck, you'd be daid as a doornail." "Whut'd you mean by that?" "Nen folks ud come to yer funril and sing sad songs." "Yamnh!" "They would." "You never know how many people like you till you're daid." "Y'd prob'ly be laid out in the parlor- y'd be all decked out in yer best suit with yer hair combed down slick, and a high starched collar." "Would they be any flowers, d'you think?" "Shore would, and palms, too-all around yer cawfin." "Nen folks ud stand around you and the men ud bare their heads and the womern ud sniffle softly." "Some'd prob'ly faint-ones that had tuck a shine to you when you wuz alive." "What womern have tuck a shine to me?" "Lots of womern." "On'y they don't never come right out and show you how they feel less'n you die first." "I guess that's so." "They shore would sing loud though when the singing' started-sing like their hearts ud break!" "Pore Jud is daid," "Pore Jud Fry is daid." "All gather 'round his coffin now and cry" "He had a heart of gold" "And he wasn't very old" "Oh, why did such a fella 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 down to rest with his hands across his chest" "His finger nails have never been so clean..." "And then the preacher'd get up and he'd say:" ""Folks, we are gathered here to mourn and growl of our brother Jud Fry, who hung himself up by a rope and smoke outs, and then we have been weepin' and wailing' within some of the women"." "And then he'd say: "Jud was the most misunderstood man in the territory'." "People used to think he was a mean, ugly fella and they called 'im a dirty skunk and a northern pick stealer." "But the folks that really knowed 'im" "Knowed that neath them dirty shirts he always wore," "There beated a heart as big as all outdoors" "As big as all outdoors" "Jud Fry loved his fella men," "He loved his fella men" "He loved the birds of the forest" "And the bees of the field," "He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn," "And he treated the rats like equals, which he was right!" "And he loved the little children, he loved everybody" "And everything in the world..." "Only he'd never let on," "So nobody ever noticed..."" "Pore Jud is daid," "Pore Jud Fry is daid," "His friends all weep and wail for miles around" "Miles around!" "The daisies in the dell will give out a different smell" "Because pore Jud is underneath the ground!" "Pore Jud is daid, a candle light is daid," "He's layin' in a coffin made of wood" "Wood" "And folks are feelin' sad 'cause they used to treat 'im bad" "Now they know their friend has gone for good" "Good!" "Pore Jud is daid, a candle light is daid," "He's lookin' oh so pretty 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!" "Yes, sir." "That's the way it ud be." "Shore be a interesting' funril." "Wouldn't like to miss it." "Wouldn't like to miss it, eh?" "Well, mebbe you will." "Mebbe you'll go first." "Mebbe ..." "Le's see now, whur did you work at before you come here?" "Up by Quapaw, wasn't it?" "Yes and before that over by Tulsa." "Lousy they was to me." "Both of 'em." "Always making' out they was better." "Treatin' me like dirt." "And what'd you do-git even?" "That?" "Nanh!" "They's safer ways than that, if you use yer brains... ." "Member that far on the Bartlett farm over by Sweetwater?" "Shore do." "'Bout five years ago." "Turrible accident." "Burnt up the father and mother and daughter." "That warn't no accident." "A feller told me-the h'ard hand was stuck on the Bartlett girl, and he found her in the hayloft with another feller." "And it was him that burned the place?" "It tuck him weeks to git all the kerosene-buying it at different times" "feller who told me made out like it happened in Missouri, but I knowed all the time it was the Barlett farm-what a liar he was!" "And a kind of a-a kind of a murderer, too." "Wasn't he?" "Git a little air in here." "You ain't told me yet whut business you had here." "We got no cattle to sell ner no cow ponies." "The oat crop is done spoke fer." "You shore relieved my mind consid'able." "They's on'y one other thing on this farm and it better not be there" "But that's jist whut it is." "Better not be!" "You keep away from her, you hear?" "A fella wouldn't feel very safe in here with you ... 'f he didn't know you." "But I know you, Jud." "In this country, they's two things you c'n do it you're a man." "Live out of doors is one." "Live in a hole is the other." "How'd you git to be the way you air, anyway... setting' here in this filthy hole-and thinkin' the way you're thinkin?" "Why don't you do sumpin healthy onct in a while, 'stid of staying' shet up here-a-crawlin' and festering'!" "Anh!" "You orta feel better now." "Hard on the roof, though." "I wisht you'd let me show you sumpin." "They's a knot-hole over there about as big as a dime." "See it a-winkin'." "I jist want to see if I c'n hit it." "Bullet right through the knot-hole, 'thout tetchin', slick as a whistle, didn't I?" "I knowed I could do it." "You saw it, too, didn't you!" "Somebody's a comin', I'spect." "Who f'ard off a gun?" "Was that you, Curly?" "Don't set there, you lummy, answer when you're spoke to." "Well, I shot onct." "What was you shootin' at?" "See that knot-hole over there?" "I see lots of knot-holes." "Well, it was one of them." "Well ain't you a pair of purty nuthin's, a-pickin' away at knot-holes and skeerin' everybody to death!" "Orta give you a good Dutch rub and arn some of the craziness out of you!" "'S all right!" "Nobody hurt, jist a pair of fools swapping' noises." "Mind if I visit with you, gents?" "It's good to get away from the women for a while." "Now then, we're all by ourselves." "I got a few purties, private knickknacks for to show you." "Special for the menfolks." "See you gentlemen later." "I gotta git a surrey I h'ard for tonight." "Who you think yer takin' in that surrey?" "Aunt Eller-and Laurey, if she'll come with me." "She won't" "Mebbe she will." "She promised to go with me, and she better not change her mind." "She better not!" "Now, I want ye to look at these straight from Paris." "I don't want none o' them things now." "I tell you whut I'd like" "Ever hear of one of them things you call" ""The Little Wonder"?" "It's a thing you hold up to your eyes to see pitchers, only that ain't all they is to it... not quite." "Y'see if s got a little jigger onto it and you tetch it and out springs a sharp blade." "On a spring, eh?" "Y'say to a feller," ""Look through this."" "Nen when he's lookin' you snap out the blade." "It's jist above his chest and, bang!" "Down you come." "A good joke to play on a friend ..." "I-er-don't handle things like that." "Too dangerous." "What I'd like to show you is my new stock of postcards." "Sick of them things." "I'm going to get me a real womern." "I'm t'ard of all these pitchers of women!" "So you want a real woman... ." "Say, do you happen to know a girl named Ado Annie?" "I don't want her." "I don't want her either." "But I got her!" "Don't want nuthin' from no peddler." "Want real things!" "Whut am I doin' crawling' and a-festerin'?" "Whut am I doin' in this lousy smokehouse?" "The floor creaks," "The door squeaks," "There's a fieldmouse a-nibblin' on a broom." "And I set by myself" "Like a cobweb on a shelf," "By myself in a lonely room." "But when there's a moon in my winder" "And it slants down a beam 'cros my bed" "Then the shadder of a tree starts a-dancin' on the wall" "And a dream starts a-dancin' in my head." "And all the things that I wish fer" "Turn out like I want them to be," "And I'm better than that Smart Aleck cowhand" "Who thinks he is better'n me!" "And the girl I want" "Ain't afraid of my arms" "And her own soft arms keep me warm." "And her long, yeller hair" "Falls across my face" "Jist like the rain in a storm!" "The floor creaks," "The door squeaks," "And the mouse starts a-nibblin' on the broom." "And the sun flicks my eyes" "It was all a pack o' lies!" "I'm awake in a lonely room..." "I ain't gonna dream about her arms no more!" "I ain't gonna leave her alone!" "Goin' outside" "Git myself a bride" "Git me a womern to call" "My own." "Take your card!" "Girls could you-could you go som'eres else and tell fortunes?" "I gotta be here by myself." "Look!" "She bought 'at ole smelling' salts the peddler tried to sell us!" "It ain't smelling' salts." "It's goin' to make up my mind fer me." "Lookit me take a good whiff now!" "That's the camphor." "Please, girls, go away," "Hey, Laurey, is it true you're lettin' Jud take you tonight 'stid of Curly?" "Tell you better when I think ever'thin' out clear." "Beginnin' to see things clear a'ready." "I c'n tell you whut you want" "Out of your dreams and into his arms" "You long to fly" "You don't need intentions and insults to tell you why." "Out of your dreams and into the hush" "Of falling' shadows" "When the mist is low" "And stars are breakin' through" "Then out of your dreams you'd go" "Into a dream come true, oh!" "Make up your mind, make up your mind thoroughly," "Laurey dear," "Make up your own, make up your own story," "Laurey dear!" "Old fairies won't stop just to tell you what to do" "Ask your heart, whatever it tells you will be true" "Oh..." "Ooh ooh oh!" "Out of my dreams and into your arms" "I long to fly" "I will come as evening comes" "To world of waitin' sky" "Out of my dreams and into the hush" "Of falling' shadows" "When the mist is low" "And stars are breakin' through" "Then out of my dreams I'll go" "Into a dream with you..." "Wake up, Laurey." "It's time to start fer the party." "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends," "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "One man likes to push a plough," "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 farmer's daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals." "Territory folks should stick together," "Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals." "I'd like to say a word fer the farmer" "Well, say it!" "He come out west and made a lot of changes" "That's right!" "He come out west and built a lot of fences," "And built 'em right across our cattle ranges." "Why don't you dirt strangers go back to Missouri where you belong?" "We got just as much right here!" "Shut up!" "The farmer a good in criticism" "No matter what the cowman says or thinks" "You seldom see 'im drinkin' in a bar room" "Unless someboy else's buyin' drinks" "Oh, 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," "That's no reason why they cain't be friends" "Territory folks should stick together," "Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals." "I'd to say a word for the cowboy" "You would!" "The road he treads is difficult and stoney" "He rides fer days on end" "With just a poney fer a friend" "I sure feeling' sorry fer the poney!" "The farmer should be sociable with the cowboy" "If he rides by an' ask fer food an' water" "Don't treat 'im like a louse" "Make 'im welcome in your house" "But be sure that you locked up yo' wife an' daughters" "Who wants a ole farm womern anyway?" "Notice you married one, so's you c'd git a square meal!" "You cain't talk that-a-way 'bout our womern folks!" "He can say whut he wants." "They ain't nobody goin' to slug out any thin' this here's a party!" "Sing it, Andrew!" "Dum tiddy um tum tum" "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends." "One man likes to push a plough," "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" "An' joins the Union jus' like all the others" "The farmer, and cowman and the merchant" "Mus' all behave theirselves and act like brothers" "I'd like to teach you all a little sayin'" "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 damned if I ain't jist as good!" "I don't say I'm no better than anybody else," "But I'll be damned if I ain't jist as good!" "Territory folks should stick together," "Territory folks should all be pals." "Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters," "Farmers dance with the ranchers' gals!" "C'mon everybody!" "Time to start the Box Social." "Now you know the rules, gentlemen." "Y'got to bid blind." "Y'ain't s'posed to know whut girl goes with whut hamper." "Of course if yer sweetheart has told you that hers'll be done up in a certain kind of way with a certain color ribbon, that ain't my fault." "Now we'll auction all the hampers on t'other side of the house and work around back here." "Follow me." "Hello, young fellow." "Oh, it's you!" "I was just hoping to meet up with you." "It seems like you and me ought to have a little talk." "We only got one thing to talk about." "Well, Mr. Hakim, I hear you got yerself engaged to Ado Annie." "Well..." "Well, nothin'." "I don't know what to call you." "You ain't purty enough fer a skunk." "You ain't skinny enough fer a snake." "You're too little 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?" "Well ..." "'Cuz if I thought you didn't" "I'd tie you up in this bag and drop you in the river." "Are you serious about her?" "Yes, I'm serious." "Would you spend every cent you had for her?" "That's whut I did." "See that bag?" "Full of presents." "Cost fifty bucks." "All I had in the world." "If you had that fifty dollars cash ..." "I'd have Ado Annie, and you'd lose her." "Yes." "I'd lose her." "Let's see what you got in here." "Might want to buy something." "What would you want with them?" "I'm a peddler, ain't I?" "I buy and sell." "Maybe pay you real money ..." "Maybe as much as-well, a lot." "Ah, what a beautiful hot-water bag." "It looks French ..." "Must have cost plenty." "I'll give you eight dollars for it." "Eight dollars?" "That wouldn't be honest." "I only paid three-fifty." "All right." "I said I'd give you eight and I will... ." "Say!" "That's a cracker-jake!" "Take your hands off that!" "That wuz fer our weddin' night!" "It don't fit you so good." "I'll pay you twenty-two dollars." "But that's" "All right then-twenty-two-fifty!" "Not a cent more," "Want to buy some more?" "Might." "D'you ever see one of these?" "Whut made you buy this?" "Got it in fer somebody?" "How d'you mean?" "It's jist funny pitchers." "That all you think it is?" "Well, it's more'n that!" "It's ..." "Whur is ev'ybody?" "Whur's Aunt Eller?" "On t'other side of the house, Laurey." "Laurey!" "Whur'd you run to?" "How much'll you give me fer this thing?" "I don't like to handle things like this." "I guess you don't know what it really is." "Shore do." "It's jist a girl in pink tights." "Either of you two see Laurey?" "Jist went to th' other side of the house." "Auction's goin' on there." "Hey, Jud!" "Here's one of them things you was looking for." ""The Little Wonder."" "How much?" "Three dollars and fifty cents." "Lotta money but I got an idy it might be worth it." "Let's see," "three-fifty from him and forty-five-fifty from you" "'At makes fifty dollars don't it?" "No." "One dollar short." "How much for all the resta the stuff in this bag?" "... Onedollar!" "Done!" "And when I tell her Paw who I got mosta the money offa, mebbe he'll change his mind 'bout who's smart and who's dumb!" "Say, young feller, you certainly bunkoed me!" "Now, here's the last two hampers." "Whose they air I ain't got no idy!" "The little un's mine!" "And the one next to it is Laurey's!" "Well, that's the end of that secret." "Now whut am I bid then fer Ado Annie's hamper?" "Two bits." "Four." "Who says six?" "You, Slim?" "Ain't nobody hungry no more?" "" "Whut about you, Peddler-man?" "Six bits?" "Naw!" "Come on." "Six bits!" "Six bits ain't enough fer a lunch like Ado Annie c'n make." "How about you, Mike?" "You won her last year." "Yeah." "That's right." "Hey, Ado Annie, y' got that same sweet pertater pie like last year?" "You bet." "Same old sweet-perlater pie, Mike." "Whut d'you say?" "I say it give me a three-day bellyache!" "Never mind about that." "Who bids a dollar?" "Bid a dollar." "Ninety cents." "Ninety cents, we're gittin' rich." "'Nother desk fer th' schoolhouse." "Do I hear more?" "You hear fifty dollars!" "Hey!" "Fifty dollars!" "Nobody ever bid fifty dollars for a lunch!" "Nobody ever bid ten." "He ain't got fifty dollars." "Oh, yes, I have." "And 'f yer a man of honor y' gotta say Ado Annie b'longs to me, like y'said she would!" "But where's yer money?" "Right here in my hand." "'At ain't yours!" "Y'jist bid it, didn't you?" "Jist give it to th' schoolhouse." "Got to say the Peddler still gits my daughter's hand." "Now wait a minute." "That ain't fair!" "Goin' fer fifty dollars!" "Coin' ..." "Fifty-one dollars!" "You crazy?" "Fif" "Wait a minute." "Wait!" "'F I don't bid any more" "I c'n keep my money, cain't I?" "Shore can." "'Nen I still got fifty dollars." "This is mine!" "You feeble-minded shike-poke!" "Goin, goin', gone fer fifty-one dollars and 'at means Ado Annie'll git the prize I guess." "And I git Ado Annie!" "And whut're you gittin' fer yer fifty-one dollars?" "A three-day bellyache!" "Now here's my niece's hamper." "I took a peek inside a while ago and I must say it looks mighty tasty." "Whut do I hear, gents?" "Two bits!" "Four bits!" "Whut d'you say, Slim?" "Six?" "one dollar." "A dollar fifty." "Two dollars." "two dollars and two bits." "four bits." "Three dollars!" "And two bits." "Ain't I goin' to hear any more?" "I got a bid of four and a quarter- from Jud Fry." "You goin' to let him have it?" "three and a half." "Three and a half!" "Goin'" "Three seventy-five." "Three seventy-five." "Come on, gentlemen." "Schoolhouse ain't built yet." "Got to git a nice chimbley." "Four dollars." "Goin' fer four dollars!" "Goin'" "And two bits." "Too rich for my blood!" "Cain't afford no more." "Goin' to Jud Fry" "Goin' ..." "Goin' ..." "Who'd you say was gittin' Laurey?" "Jud Fry." "And fer how much?" "Four and a quarter." "I don't figger 'at's quite enough, do you?" "It's more'n you got." "Got a saddle here cost me thirty dollars." "Yo' cain't bid saddles." "Got to be cash." "Thirty dollar saddle must be worth sump'n to somebody." "I'll give you ten." "Don't be a fool, boy." "Y'cain't earn a livin' 'th'out a saddle." "Got cash?" "Right in my pocket." "Don't let's waste time." "How high you goin'?" "Higher'n you-no matter whut!" "Aunt Eller I'm bidding' all of this ten dollars Joe jist give me." "Ten dollars-goin' ..." "Ten dollars and two bits." "Curly ..." "Most of you boys know my horse, Dun." "She's a a kinda nice horse-gentle and well broke." "Don't sell Dun, Curly, it ain't worth it." "I'll give you twenty-five fer her!" "I'll sell Dun to you." "That makes the bid thirty-five, Aunt Eller." "Curly, yer crazy!" "But it's all fer the schoolhouse, ain't it?" "All fer educating' and larnin'." "Goin' fer thirty-five." "Goin'" "Hold on!" "I ain't finished bidding'!" "You jist put up everythin' y' got in the world, didn't yer?" "Cain't bid the clothes off yer back cuz they ain't worth nuthing'." "Cain't bid yer gun cuz you need that." "Yes, sir." "You need that bad." "So Aunt Eller," "I'm jist as reckless as Curly McLain," "I guess." "Jist as good at gittin' whut I want." "Goin' to bid all I got in the world- all I saved fer two years, doin' farm work." "All fer Laurey." "Here it is!" "Forty-two dollars and thirty-one cents." "Anybody want to buy a gun?" "You, Joe?" "Bought it brand new last Thanksgivin'." "Worth a lot." "Curly, please don't sell your gun." "Give you eighteen dollars fer it." "Sold." "That makes my bid fifty-three dollars, Aunt Eller." "Anybody going any higher?" "Goin'-goin'-gone!" "Whuf s the matter with you folks?" "Ain't nobody gonna cheer er nuthin'?" "That's the idy!" "The cowman and the farmer shud be friends." "You lost the bid, but the bidding' wuz fair." "C'mon, cowman-shake the farmer's hand!" "Shore, I'll shake hands." "No hard feelin's, Curly." "That's better." "Say, Curly, I want to show you sumpin." "'Scuse us, Laurey." "Ever see one of these things?" "Jist whut is that?" "Something special- You jist put this up to yer eye like this, see?" "Curly!" "Curly, whut you doin'?" "Doin'?" "Nuthin' much." "Whut you want to squeal at a man like 'at fer?" "Skeer the liver and lights out of a feller." "Well then stop lookin' at those ole French pitchers and ast me fer a dance." "You brung me to the party, didn't you?" "All right then, you silly ole woman," "I'll dance 'th you." "Dance you all over the meadow, you want!" "Pick 'at banjo to pieces, Sam!" "Well, Ado Annie." "I got the fifty dollars cash, now you name the day." "August fifteenth." "Why August fifteenth?" "That was the first night I was kissed." "Was it?" "I didn't remember that." "You wasn't there." "Now looka here, we gotta have a serious talk." "Now that you're engaged to me, you gotta stop having' fun!" "... I mean with other fellers." "You'll have to be a little more standoffish" "When fellers offer you a buggy ride." "I'll give a imitation of a crawfish" "And dig myself a hole where I can hide." "I heared how you was kickin' up some capers" "When I was off in Kansas City, Mo." "I heard 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 of 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 or drink" "In the back room down at Flannigans!" "I give up lotsa other things" "A gentleman never mentions," "But before I give up anymore," "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"" "Hmm Hmm!" "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 purty and bright" "Big enough fer two but not fer three!" "S'posin' that we should have a third one?" "He better look a lot like me!" "Yer spited 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," "There's no use waiting' up fer me!" "Oh, Ado Annie!" "No use waiting' up fer me!" "Come back and kiss me!" "Why we stoppin'?" "Thought you wanted to dance." "Want to talk to you." "What made you slap that whip onto Old Eighty, and nearly make her run away?" "Whut was yer hurry?" "'Fraid we'd be late fer the party." "You didn't want to be with me by yerself- not a minnit more'n you had to." "Why, I don't know whut you're talking about" "I'm with you by myself now, ain't I?" "You wouldn'ta been, if you coulda got out of it." "Mornin's you stay hid in yer room all the time." "Nights you set in the front room, and won't git outa Aunt Eller's sight... ." "Last time I see you alone it was winter 'th the snow six inches deep in drifts when I was sick." "You brung me that hot soup out to the smoke house and give it to me," "and me in bed." "I hadn't shaved in two days." "You ast me 'f I had any fever and you put your hand on my head to see." "I remember ..." "Do you?" "Bet you don't remember as much as me." "I remember eve'ything you ever done ..." "every word you ever said." "Cain't think of nuthin' else... ." "See?" "... Seehowitis?" "I ain't good enough, am I?" "I'm a h'ard hand, got dirt on my hands, pigslop." "Ain't fitten to tetch you." "You're better, so much better." "Yeah, we'll see who's better-Miss Laurey." "Nen you'll wisht you wasn't so free 'th yer airs, you're sich a fine lady... ." "Air you making threats to me?" "Air you standing there tryin' to tell me 'f I don't 'low you to slobber over me like a hog, why, you're gonna do sumpin 'bout it?" "Why you're nuthin' but a mangy dog and somebody orta shoot you." "You think so much about being a h'ard hand." "Well, I'll just tell you sumpin that'll rest yer brain, Mr. Jud." "You ain't a h'ard hand fer me no more." "You c'n jist pack up yer duds and scoot." "Oh, and I even got better idys'n that." "You ain't to come on the place again, you hear me?" "I'll send yer stuff any place you say, but don't you's much 's set foot inside the pasture gate or I'll sic the dogs onto you!" "Said yer say!" "Brought it on yerself." "Cain't he'p it." "Cain't never rest." "Told you the way it was." "You wouldn't listen" "Who's 'at?" "It's me, Laurey." "Hey, have you seen Ado Annie?" "She's gone aging." "Will!" "..." "Will, could you do sumpin fer me?" "Go and find Curly and tell him I'm here." "I wanta see Curly awful bad." "Got to see him." "Then whyn't you turn around and look, you crazy womern?" "Curly!" "Well, you found yours." "I gotta go hunt fer mine." "Now whut on earth is ailin' the belle of Claremore?" "By gum, if you ain't cryin'!" "Don't mind me a-cryin'," "I cain't he'p it. ..." "Cry yer eyes out!" "Oh, I don't know whut to do!" "Here." "I'll show you." "My goodness!" "Whew!" "'Bout all a man c'n stand in public!" "Go 'way from me, you!" "Oh, you don't like me, Curly" "Like you?" "My God!" "Git away from me," "I tell you, plumb away from me!" "Curly!" "You're setting' on the stove!" "Godamighty!" "Aw!" "'S cold's a hunk of ice!" "Laurey, now looky here," "you stand over there right whur you air, and I'll set over here" "and you tell me whut you wanted with me." "Well" "Jud was here." "He skeered me ..." "he's crazy." "I never saw nobody like him." "He talked wild and he threatened me." "So I" "I f'ard him!" "I wish't I hadn'ta!" "They ain't no tellin' whut he'll do now!" "You f'ard him!" "Well then!" "That's all they is to it!" "Tomorrow, I'll get you a new h'ard hand." "I'll stay on the place myself tonight, 'f you're nervous about that hound-dog." "Now quit yer worrying' about it, er I'll spank you." "Hey, while 1 think of it-how- how 'bout manying' me?" "Gracious, whut'd I wanta marry you fer?" "Well couldn't you meybbe think of some reason why you might?" "I cain't think of none right now, hardly." "Laurey, please, ma'am-marry me." "I-don't know whut I'm gonna do if you- if you don't," "Curly-why, I'll marry you- 'f you want me to... ." "I'll be the happiest man alive soon as we're married." "Oh, I got to learn to be a farmer," "I see that!" "Quit a-thinkin' about th'owin' the rope, and start in to git my hands blistered a new way!" "Oh, things is changin' right and left!" "Buy up mowing' machines, cut down the prairies!" "Shoe yer horses, drag them plows under the sod!" "They gonna make a state outa this territory, they gonna put it in the Union!" "Country a-changin', got to change with it!" "Bring up a pair of boys, new stock, to keep up 'th the way things is goin' in this here crazy country!" "Now I got you to he'p me- I'll 'mount to sumpin yit!" "Oh, I 'member the first time I ever seen you." "It was at the fair." "You was a-ridin' that gray filly of Blue Starr's, and I says to someone" ""Who's that skinny little thing with a bang hanging down on her forehead?"" "Yeow, I 'member." "You was riding broncs that day." "That's right." "And one of 'em th'owed you." "That's" "Did not th'ow me!" "Guess you jumped off, then." "Shore I jumped off." "Yeow, you shore did." "Heeey!" "If there's anyone out around this yard who can hear my voice" "I want jist want fer you to know that Laurey Williams is my girl!" "Curly!" "Aha!" "An' she's jist got me to ask her to marry me!" "They'll hear us all the way to Catoosie!" "Let people say we're say we're in love!" "Who keers whut happens now." "Jist keep yer hand in mine" "Your hand feel 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!" "Time for the lonely gypsy to go back to the open road." "Wisht I was goin'- nen you wouldn't be so lonely." "Look, Ado Annie, there is a man I know who loves you like nothing ever loved nobody," "Yes, Ali Hakim." "A man who will stick to you all your life." "And thaf 's the man for you-Will Parker." "Oh ..." "yeh ..." "well, I like Will a lot." "He is a fine fellow." "Strong like an ox." "Young and handsome." "I love him, all right, I guess." "Of course you do!" "And you love those clear blue eyes of his, 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." "Good-bye, my baby." "I will show you how we say good-bye in Persia." "I am glad you will marry such a wonderful man as this Will Parker." "You deserve a fine man and you got one." "Hello, Will." "Ali Hakim is sayin' good-bye." "Ah, Will!" "I want to say good-bye to you, too." "No, you don't." "I just saw the last one." "Ah, you were made for each other!" "Be good to her, Will." "And you be good to him!" "You don't mind?" "I am a friend of the family now?" "Good-bye, my baby" "Friend of the family." "Persian good-bye." "Lucky fellow!" "I wish it was me she was marrying instead of you." "It don't seem to make no difference hardly." "Well, back to the open road, the lonely gypsy." "You ain't goin' to think of that ole peddler any more, air you?" "'Course not Never think of no one less'n he's with me." "Then I'm never goin' to leave yer side." "Even if you don't, even if you never go away on a trip er nuthin', cain't you-onc't in a while-give me one of them Persian good-byes?" "Persian good-bye?" "Why, that ain't nuthin' compared to a Oklahoma hello!" "Hello, Will!" "Let's have three cheers for the happy couple." "Hip-hip" "Hooray." "Hip-hip" "Hooray." "Hip-hip" "Hooray." "Say Curly, wuz you skeered when the preacher said that about do you take this 'ere womern ?" "I wuz skeered he wouldn't say it." "I wuz afraid Curly'd back out on me." "They couldn't pick a better time as that 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!" "Brand new state, gonna treat you great!" "Gonna give you barley, carrots and pertaters," "Pasture fer the cattle," "Spinach and termayters!" "Flowers on the prarie 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, Ev'ry 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" "Yeeow!" "Ayipioeeay!" "We're only sayin'" "You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma O.K." "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, Ev'ry 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" "Yeeow!" "Ayipioeeay!" "We're only sayin'" "You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma O.K." "Okla-okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla" "Okla-okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla..." "We know we belong to the land" "And the land we belong to is grand!" "And when we say" "Yeeow!" "Ayipioeeay!" "We're only sayin'" "You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!" "Oklahoma O.K." "L" " A" " H" " O" " M" " A" "OKLAHOMA!" "Yeeow!" "Hey!" "Y'better hurry into that other dress!" "Gotta git goin' in a minnit!" "You hurry and pack yer own duds!" "They're layin' all over my room," "Hey, Will!" "Would you hitch the team to the surrey fer me?" "Shore will!" "Have it up in a jiffy!" "He's gone upstairs." "Yeah." "Whut you goin' to do, Paw?" "Give Laurey and Curly a shivoree?" "I wisht you wouldn't." "Aw, it's a good old custom." "Never hurt anybody." "You women jist keep outa the way." "Vamoose!" "It ain't goin' to be rough, is it?" "Sh!" "Stop gabbin' about it!" "Gertie!" "Thought you was in Bushy head." "Jist come from there." "Too bad you missed Laurey's wedding." "Been havin' one of my own." "Lands!" "Who'd you marry?" "Where is he?" "Is that him?" "That's him!" "Ali Hakim!" "Hello." "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." "But if you married her, you musta wanted to." "Sure I wanted to." "I wanted to marry her when I saw the moolight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun!" "I thought it would be better to be alive." "Now I ain't so sure." "Ali ain't goin' to travel around the country no more." "I decided he orta settle down in Bushyhead and run Papa's store." "Hey!" "Will!" "D'you hear the news?" "Gertie married the peddler." "Mighty glad to hear that, peddler man." "I think I orta kiss the bride." "Friend of the fambly ..." "remember?" "Hey, Gertie, have you ever had an Oklahoma hello?" "Hey!" "Where you goin'?" "I'm goin' to stop Ado Annie from killin' yer wife." "Mind yer own business!" "Hi!" "Andrews!" "Why don't you go back to the fun and stay drunk?" "Ev'rithin' stay so so for the weddin' party!" "I was scared all that." "Scare Judd Fry came back and start upon Curly." "Judd Fry is fer out the territory for three weeks." "He's back!" "Seen him at Claremore, last night, Drunk as a lord." "Whut you doin' down there, makin' all thet racket, you bunch o' pig-stealers?" "Come on, fellers, lef s git 'em down!" "Hey, Laurey!" "Here's a girl baby fer you!" "And here's a baby boy!" "Here's twins!" "Weddin' party still goin' on?" "Glad I ain't too late." "Got a present fer the groom." "But first I want to kiss the bride." "An' here's my present fer you!" "Whaf s the matter?" "Let me look at him." "'s he all right?" "Fell on his own knife" "Whut'll we do?" "Curly-is he-?" "Don't say anythin'." "It cain't be that-a-way." "I didn't go to." "Cain't be!" "Like that" "Cain't do a thing now." "Try to get him to a doctor, but I don't know" "Here, some of you, carry him over to my rig." "I'll drive him over to Doctor Tyler's." "Mebbe it's better fer you and Curly not to go 'way tonight." "All right, ready!" "I don't see why this had to happen, when every thin' was so fine." "Don't let yer mind run on it." "Cain't fergit," "I tell you." "Never will!" "'At's all right, Laurey baby." "If you cain't fergit, jist don't try to, honey." "Oh, lots of things happen to folks." "Sickness, er bein' pore and hungry even-bein' old and afeared to die." "That's the way it is-cradle to grave." "And you can stand it." "They's one way." "You gotta be hearty, you got to be." "You cain't deserve the sweet and tender in life less'n you're tough." "I-I wisht I was the way you are." "Fiddlesticks!" "Scrawny and old?" "You couldn't h'ar me to be the way I am!" "Oh, whut ud I do 'thout you, you're sich a crazy!" "Shore's you're borned!" "They're takin' Jud over to Doctor Tyler's till the morn in'." "Is he-alive?" "Laurey honey, Cord Elam here, he's a Fed'ral Marshal, y'know." "And he thinks I orta give myself up-Tonight, he thinks." "Tonight!" "Why yer train leaves Claremore in twenty minutes." "Best thing is fer Curly to go of his own accord and tell the Judge." "Why, you're the Judge, ain't you, Andrew?" "Yes, but" "Well, tell him now and git it over with." "'T wouldn't be proper." "You have to do it in court." "Oh, fiddlesticks." "Le's do it here and say we did it in court." "We can't do that." "That's breaking the law." "Well, le's not break the law." "Le's just bend it a little." "C'mon, Andrew, and start the trial." "We ain't got time." "Andrew" "I got to protest." "Oh, shet yer trap." "We can give the boy a fair trial without locking' him up on his wedding' night!" "Here's the long and short of it." "First I got to ask you:" "Whut's your plea?" "'At means why did you do it?" "Why'd I do it?" "Cuz he'd been pestering' Laurey" "Jist a minnit!" "Jist a minnit!" "Don't let yer tongue wobble around in yer mouth like 'at..." "Listen to my question." "Whut happened tonight 'at made you kill him." "Why he come at me with a knife and-and" "And you had to defend yerself, didn't you?" "Why, yes-and furthermore ..." "Never mind the furthermores- the plea is self-defense" "Quiet!" "Now is there a witness who saw this happen?" "I seen it." "Shore did." "Self-defense all right." "Tried to stab him 'th a frog sticker." "Feel funny about it." "You'll feel funny when I tell yer wife you're carryin' on 'th another womern, won't you?" "I ain't carrying' on 'th no one." "Mebbe not, but you'll shore feel funny when I tell yer wife you air." "Laugh, all you like, but as a Fed'ral Marshal" "Oh, shet up about being a marshal!" "We ain't goin' to let you send the boy to jail on his wedding' night." "We just ain't goin' to let you." "So shet up!" "I ain't even told the verdick yet!" "Well- the verdick's not guilty, ain't it?" "'Course, but ..." "Well, then say it!" "Not guilty!" "Court's adjourned!" "Why, Ado Annie, where on earth have you been?" "Will and me had a misunderstanding'." "But he explained it fine." "Hey, there, bride and groom y'ready?" "Here we come!" "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."