Green Years, The (1946)

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Thank you

It's all right

- You were Robbie?

- Yes, mam

My grandson traveled all the way

from Dublin and he arrived late

Mrs. O'Shaughnessy?

That's the lady who put me on the boat

Dear Mom.

I took care of Robert during

your daughter illness

Her last wish, God rest her soul

was that I send the lad to his grandmother

That's all I'm sending for what

with doctor and medicines

There was little else left

except the tricycle

Which is coming

It's just the men coming out from work.

Hello Mrs. Leckie, how is Kate?

- Hi,little man

- Hello, Jamie Nigg

He's sweat on all heat

Now it's a wee bit far to the house,

you're not too tired to walk,are you?

There's a good laddie,Papa will be pleased

A cab here is expensive. Here

It doesn't weigh anything

We're nearly there

This is Drumhead Road.You're living

in a no poor neighborhood,Robbie.

- Murdoch

- Hello mama

- Kate's home

- Here's Robbie

This is my son,Murdoch

I hope you like it here

Oh,dearie,where have you been?

I was just bringing home a

few cloves from Dalrymple's nursery

They were giving me,Mama,

there was no cost

I know dear, but ...

Papa,well,it's riles him so for you to

be wasting your time with flowers

Hello,Mama, I've put the kettle on the fire

And this is my daughter,Kate

Mighty,he's certainly small for his age

Don't look so sorrowful?

You'll get used to us

Well,it's all so strange to him,Kate

I know Robbie.

It's hard for you coming to

know all at once in the new family

Here. Take the bread and cheese up

to Grand Pa. He eats in the attic.

Now,remember to call him Grandpa.

Though in fact he's my father,

which makes him your great Grandpa

It's the end room

So you'd be Robert Shannon?

Aye,it could be more of you

Yes, grandpa

It's a pity you don't have my hair

Your mother had my hair,poor lassie

You'll be living with us I'm told.

Mrs.O'Shaughnessy said there

was nowhere else for me to go

Your tear bags seem precious

close to your eye,Robbie

If there's one thing I cannot

abide,it's a crying laddie

Our friend,Mr Leckie is home

Here's Papa,Robbie.

Well

No one regrets more than I,Robert,

that we meet under these circumstances.

Sit down,boy

I presume you spent good

money on a cab from the dock

We walked,all the way

Our Heavenly Father

give us the strength to bear the burdens

of life and the day's tribulations

You know,Lord, how his mother

deceived her trusting parents

and married a wild irresponsible Irishman.

Not even of the faith of this household

It's been your will that

this boy be left an orphan.

Lord help me to carry this extra burden

and deliver him from deceit,

wild ways and extravagance

That's all

Lord, you might lead your hand Lord to

leading him back to the established Church

before Grandma Leckie comes home

Amen.

Amen.

He brought no belongings?

Well,after all the expenses

and the debt ...

There's a tricycle coming by a carrier

A tricycle?

The letter said the poor

boy hated to part with it

There's so little else.

That improvident Irishman!

All for the daughter of mine run off

with a man we've nothing but a tricycle!

Papa!

Eat boy.

It's Friday.

No,it's just that I'm not hungry.

Waste not,want not

When will you be sending Robert to school?

To the John Street.Elementary

Where our Kate can keep an eye on him.

I teach in a wretched little

school,and you know it

I'll hear no reflections,Kate, on a school

who pays you 15 shillings the week

Why can't he go to the

academy where we all went?

The laddie comes with no money.

Your appearance is to be considered

You don't want to be Assistant

Super Intendant for Sanitation

all your life,do you?

How are the Superintendents gall stones?

Superintendents don't live

forever,you know.

One day you'll be wearing the

double braid on your cap

Aye

Robert will go to the academy.

Murdoch.

Come laddie

Where does he sleep?

Well, Murdoch's bed is too narrow.

- I thought with Kate

- With

Mrs. Leckie,he's entirely to big a boy

- No he isn't!

- Kate.

Well,there's grandma's room

My mother pays good money for it,

besides she'll be back tomorrow.

That leaves grandpa

You're sleeping with grandpa

He snores a wee bit but

you'll get along with him fine

Good night dear.

In what might you be wanted?

They said I was to sleep with you.

Is it your expectation to sleep

with your clothes on?

Here

It's a bonny tricycle

Aye

Do you think it'll fetch 15 shillings?

Papa!

A laddie with no two farthings to his

name can ill afford a tricycle like that

But Papa,he can ride it to school!

Walking is better for him besides

old hills are too steep.

But what about riding down?

And there is a level places in between!

My,it's a lucky thing for all of

you that I was put on this Earth to

guard you from the consequences of folly

Loathful waste makes waffle want

Is everybody gone?

What a pity.

Father,will you now take the

boy on your business today?

I've already extended the invitation

Father,you promise me ...

You understand what I mean

Ah,lassie

What a one you are to fuss.

Come along, Robbie.

Mrs Bosomley.

What a picture you make

we are sun shining like golden

harp strings through your lovely hair

Have you had the honor of meeting

my great-grandson, Robert?

Your great-grandpapa is a poet, Robert.

Poetry is in his blood.

And who wouldn't be that's privileged

to greet such a loveliness in the morning

Dandy,be off with you

Whatever else this day may bring

whatever tides of fortune may

sweep me in the halls of commerce.

This day is mine Mrs Bosomley.

For your hand has touched it

Come along, Robbie.

Take my advice, Robbie.Enjoy the ladies.

They are the human race's better half

Peter Dickey,good morning to you

Hey Dandy,I've learned a bonny new role.

Some other time maybe,

when I fighted with my lawyer

You have a business, grandpa?

There was a time

when I did business in 12 languages ​​

and made my home on the 7 seas.

But now you can call me just

a retired citizen of the world.

Is Papa important too?

I'm to note that you refer to Mr Leckie,

the sanitarian inspector?

Aye,he's a most important man

That is if you can conceive the

importance of poking your nose

in your neighbor’s garbage

bins and water closets

Please be good enough to announce

Mr Alexander Gow to see lawyer McKellar

Well,go on in.

Sit down,laddie

- It's you, Dandy

- Good morning, Sir

Here's the work for you

I'm a wee bit late with it, Sir

Two days,in fact

Such copy fair copperplate

It’s a pity that you couldn't have

done a bonnier job on yourself, Dandy

as you have of your handwriting

Man proposes and God disposes, Mr McKellar.

You're right,you are

Well, I'll credit this with the rest.

Could you be letting me have

perhaps half a crown,Sir?

What would I tell Mr Leckie?

You know the arrangement

Your earnings go to pay

the premium on your life insurance.

I know.

I was hoping I might negotiate a loan

Perhaps a shilling?

I see through you, Dandy.

Demon rum

Right out of site,Mr Gow

Positively,not a penny

May I present my great grandson,Robert?

Yes, I knew his mother.

Mr McCellar, my lawyer.

As fine a man as you'll ever know, Robert.

He's a nice enough boy

If you're ever in trouble and Heaven

help us, you'll probably will be

You know who to come to.

Wait, Dandy

I find as a middle item

of a half a crown to you after all

It's a trivial matter,lawyer

Obviously a place of refreshments

How would you like a bubbly lemonade?

Wait here.

Ah,Saddler,you must meet

my great grandson Robert.

Saddler Boag is,like myself,is

a retired man of affairs

Laddie,I'm privileged to meet you

Hey

Spear him,he doesn't bite. And he

has no fleas,not a one

Here you are, Robbie!

My colleagues want my advice

on a certain investment

Why don't you go and play on the green

Lassies, music, what more could you ask ?

Arrevedeci

Would you like some lemonade?

What's your name?

Robert Shannon,I'm new here

I'm Alison Keith. Can you sing?

- You can't sing?

- I don't think so

What are you going to do when you grow up?

- Don't you know even that?

- Do you?

Of course,I'm going to marry a fine

man and have many fine children.

His name is Robert Shannon.And he's new.

And he can't sing

And he doesn't know what he's

going to do when he grows up

This is my cousin, Louisa

What it is this thing?

Where did you say you came from?

Just Dublin, I ...

You're a Catholic, aren't you?

Come on, Alison.

Oh,was Keith's girl,wasn't it?

Seems like they are running

I think I'll go over the bridge.

Dandy Gow!

There he goes! Where did

you get that big red nose?

-Dandy Gow There he goes!

-Ruffians

What are you thinking about,laddie?

I was only wondering, grandpa

Where did you get your big red nose?

Boy,how you talk

No doubt you've heard of the Zulu w*r

Grandpa,grandpa tell me please,the Zulu w*r

Well,boy, I'm no one who brags

You undoubtedly heard of Colonel McDougal

Scottish White Horse Regiment

Well,I was the colonel's right hand man.

There we were cut off in the jungle.

The entire regiment surrounded

by the savage hordes

Colonel Dougal MacDougal wounded

"What shall we do?" He whispered to me.

“Get a message to the

relief column ” I said.

"But who'll carry it?"he moaned

"I'll carry it,Sir!" I cried!

The night was dark,

black as ink in a bottle.

I took a revolver in each hand.

And a knife in my teeth.

Quietly I crawled across the rocky mount

The jungle,that is.

I was almost through the enemy lines

When the moon,oh perfidious moon,the moon

came out from the clouds

"Here here,there there !"

All about me the Zulus

Bam, bam, bam! But how long

could my ammunition last ?

The g*ns were empty!

I swashed with my knife!

Corpses piles up and above me!

But the Zulus still came! And then...

Then?Then

Then a sweet sight!

Out of the dark of the night came

running my great white charger

I leaped on the back !

The Zulus gave chase !

Flights of poisoned spears

darkened the air!

I was wounded I clung to my horse

Oh that magnificent animal.

She carried me to the relief column.

Fainting, bleeding,breathless

I fell into their arms with my message

The flag was saved!

And you were a hero,grandpa?

Well,they seem to think so

When the Queen, God bless her,

decorated me at Balmoral castle

But grandpa, how did you

get you big red nose?

A poisoned spear a direct hit

Oh,how wonderful, grandfather!

"We are a hundred of pipers,

we are a hundred of pipers"

What day, laddie. What day.

And there'll be others.

It's you and me together,

my boy,whatever the difficulties.

Aye,we're in difficulties

at this very moment

It is a sin.It's a sin,I tell you!

Letting the child fallen into

the clutches of heathen!

Oh thank you,could you remember you're

speaking about my father,Grandma Leckie

There was no where else to sleep,mother

Here you are, Robbie. It's about time.

Come into the parlor,

and be seen by your grandma

You are now in the hands of

a good Christian woman.

Come to your Grandma, Robert.

Yes, grandma.

What's this item?

Sundry

Do you think he can go

to the academy in these rags?

The laddie comes with no money.

You're not suggesting

I buy his clothes, are you?

You are mercenary type

fitted penny pinching man

And if you were my own

son I still much say it

Your accounts are in a terrible disorder

Here,boy,so sweetie.

Suck, don't crunch,they last longer

I'll run him up a suit with my own hands.

Good.

So,you've been seeing a bit

of your grandfather Gow?

Yes, grandma.

And he'll be telling you

great stories,I've no doubt

Yes, all about how he

used to sail the 7 seas.

And the coast of Zanzibar.

He told me about the Zulu w*r

and how he got his big red nose.

The Zulu w*r

Didn't you know? It was hit him in

the nose by a spear,a poison spear

Oh,come along, Robert.

We're going up to my room

and I'll measure for your new suit,boy.

Then,after dinner,you'll

sit with me while I cut it out

From now on,I'll take care of you.

You'll have a nice new

suit for your first day of school

Good

Now the material

The material ... The material

No no...

No.

Perhaps.

No.

Oh ,just the one

But grandma,it's green!

What of that?

It's strong and it's durable

It'll last you many a year

But the color, grandma!

And those flowers ...

Wait, till you see how it makes up

You no notice the flowers.

-Night time, Robbie.

-Good night, grandma.

I must talk with you,Robert.

Robbie.

He's no sleeping with you,Mr Gow.

He's sleeping with me.

I want to sleep with grandpa

His nightshirt is in my room!

I'll provide him some with the night shirt

Undress and get into bed.

It's a thing or two,Robbie, you

should know about your grandpa.

The Zulus ... the coast of Zanzibar ...

Heaven forbid I shall speak ill of a man

But that man has never set

foot 50 miles from Loganford

Turn to the wall.

Your grandpa,I must tell you

Has cadged for pennies all his life

Discharged from every

situation he's ever held

Grandma, I ...

He is supported like yourself

by the charity of my son

Grandma

So it was the Zulus who

gave him his big red nose.

Have you never heard of the drink?

Never fear,my lad

You're out of his clutches

You'll live with me,you'll sleep with me.

You'll go to prayer meetings with me

We'll make you a God

fearing man of you,Robbie.

Which is more than can be

said for your grandfather

Oh,there you are

- Adam's here

- Adam?

No marmalade, mama?

Here's some marmalade for Adam.

Take Robbie in to meet Adam.

Let me see your hand

Is your face clean?

Maybe some jelly too,the best jelly

Jelly? Do we have jelly?

Adam is only 27.

And already he is an assistant

manager of his insurance company.

He makes as much money as your Papa

More.

Money isn't all important

You realize what it would

be like living in a town

without cesspools and conveniences

I'm proud to wear this uniform.

You'll like Adam.He is my oldest son

Lives in London but he'll

be your friend for life

You've an eye for business,grandma

It's a mark of your shrewdness

that you agree with me

Thank you Adam

We'll the proposition up to papa

Who have we here?

Robert,I've heard good things about you

How do you like your new family?

Is Loganford to your taste?

Is Scotland agreeable to you?

That's a nice piece of ham

Well,it's a lot of money

You kind of make up your mind

We was speaking about grandpa's insurance

It's about to mature

Grandpa will be getting £ 450 next month

A nice sum

A tidy sun but we can do better

I went to the board of my insurance company

and they've agreed to

change the policy to £ 600

At his death.

Of course that means that we

cannot touch the money now

But Grandpa can't live forever

But don't you think my father

should have something to say about it?

He's the one to pay the premiums

With that little work he does

for the lawyer,it's his policy

Those few shillings he earns are hardly

a proper payment for his bed and board

- But

- It's our policy

-He’s right, Mama

-We'll extend-Good

You'll never regret that decision

here is the application I made out,

get the old man to sign

I barely have time to catch my train.

Oh, Adam ...

It's a shame to sadden

you by leaving you so soon

But the train won't wait,Mama

Goodbye Murdoch, grandma, Kate

You've been very shrewd,

Papa,about the policy

Now what are you going to

do about my other proposition?

I don't know

You can turn 50 pounds

into 100 in 3 months

Is it safe?

Safe as the Bank of Scotland.

Yes, but 50 pounds ...

If you're not interested,

Papa,there's plenty that are

- I'll send you the money

- Good

Goodbye Mama

Oh, Adam, we see you so seldom

It's sad,isn't it?

The little man. I really

like to get to know you better.

How would you like to walk to the

station with me?You could carry my bag

Yes, Adam.

There might even be

half a sovereign for you

To commemorate our meeting

Yes, Adam. Thank you Adam

- Adam

- Yes?

Will you be wanting a commission

on the extension of grandpa's policy?

Well, naturally.

Business is business.

Aye

Hi there Robbie.

Hello Jamie Nigg.

Let me give you a hand

Put it on the rack,laddie

Up you go,there you

are,you're doing fine

There, that's all

Good luck to you Robert.

Adam, you forgot about my present

I didn't forget

I've got something for

you better than 10 shillings.

There

A calendar from my insurance company.

Good all the year out.Goodbye, Robert.

Is this what he gave you?

Yes,Kate. It's not gold,is it Kate?

If it's connected with Adam,

you can be sure it's brass

- But is worth something?

- No.

They are free to anybody who take them

Mean,mean!

What sin is there in a

whole calendar of iniquity

Men, men!

Kate. Kate, please don't.

Look what I brought you.

Is it that from Jamie Nigg?

He says it upset his stomach

That boilermaker.I don't want it

I think he's a fine man, Kate.

A fine man !

He works dirty! And not

only that he's bowlegged!

I think it's chocolates.

- Yes it is!

- Oh,you men

You are all alike! Meanness

I know how you grew up, Robbie.

I'm not dignify with my lips with it

You wouldn't disappoint Jamie Nigg

You may have a piece

Love disgusts me,disgusts me

Oh you men

The woman always pay

Is that a hard or a soft center?

Soft.

I wouldn't touch it

What the world we live in,Robbie?

Greed and meanness and a small heart

That's very good chocolate

Maybe Jamie Nigg is different.

Maybe not everybody is like Adam.

No man can buy me.

All right tots,settle down

Well,the new term

And for the coming year

we shall attempt to find the

answer to that eternal question.

Which is the greater bore,

the students or the master?

Good morning,Rector.

I've a new student for you. Robert Shannon.

Oh yes

So we have a new boy.

It seems we have a new suit

What a delightful shade of green.

Where did you buy it?

My great grandmama made it,Sir.

Great-grandmother made it,Sir

Silence!

A remarkable suit,Shannon.

A remarkable and appropriate color

I understand you're of Irish extraction?

Can it be that you're a

disciple of St Patrick,laddie?

-I don’t know,Sir

-You don't know?

He arrives here the very picture

of that half trending ballad

"The wearing of the green"

still he doesn't know

What do you know?

I don't know anything,Sir

You don't know anything

Laddie,that's the first

downright fruitful remark

I've ever heard from the lips of a student

Take your seat

Open your reader

For some years after Bannockburn,

King Robert ruled Scotland wisely and well

The w*r with England still went on,

but it was the Scots who won the battles.

At last King Robert became very ill

He could no longer sit upon a

horse and lead his soldiers to battle.

Shannon.

Bowl of porridge you're a problem

You disturb me. You disturb my mind.

Your paper on natural history shows a

scientific knowledge way beyond your years.

What's this business about

ants having a sixth sense?

A communication sensor

Messages are sent and is yield by

the antenna over a considerable distances

Is your father a naturalist?

No Sir,a Catholic

I mean,was he a scientist?

No Sir,he worked in a shop

Shannon, I regret it exceedingly,

but you have a mind

There's nothing so disturbing

to a master's tranquility

as a presence of a mind in his class

What are you doing in here? It's recess

It's never enough,Shannon,

to be intelligent on paper

Go outside with the rest of the boys

Bowl of porridge

You must

Why aren't you at school?

Grandpa!

No,no,no it's not that bad

And if it's you might search your grandma

It's her fault! If it hadn't

been for this suit

An old friend is the best,eh?

Go on laddie

The boys have been given

you a rough time,I've no doubt?

How did you know?

I am a man of the most unbelievable design

Well,and what are you doing about it?

What can I do? Every time I turn around ...

You'll do what I say.

Oh,I will!,I will,anything

grandpa, I promise!

Who is the strongest,stubbornest and

most independent in his way in the class?

- Gavin Blair.

- The Provost's son?

Then you must lick Gavin Blair.

Gavin? But he's the only

one who leaves me alone

It's a matter of indifference.

If you want to get on top you must

get where the top man is

Punch him in the nose!

You must fight this Gavin

Blair and you must lick him!

No,I can't fight Gavin Blair!

I could write the head master a letter

Saying the boys are picking

on little Robert Shannon

He's a weakly boy and must

be sheltered and protected

No,don't do that,no!

Well then...

But I don't know how to fight

You must be taught the first

principle of the manly art

You're a lucky one, here I am,

at your service.

A man who stood toe to toe

with Billy the Butcher

Winner of the famous 84 rounds

fight finished against Terrible Terry

84 rounds? Do you ,grandpa?

No,Billy the Butcher.

The knuckles down.

The knuckles up.

- The knuckles down

-The knuckles up!

- Down!

- The knuckles up.

Down!

The knuckles of the right hand are

down but the knuckles on the left hand up.

You have the fore of a milkmaid

Gentlemen, gentlemen ...

- Dandy, you're wrong

- I'm right!

No,you're wrong

He is my great-grandson,

and I'll make a fighter of him!

I'll make a k*ller of him!

And teach him the right way

- Knuckles down.

- The knuckles up.

Billy the Butcher kept his knuckles down

He set them up

On your feet Robbie. Come

on and sit down to business.

I'll teach you how to fight.

Come on, come on!

- Let's!

- Come on, Robbie!

What's the matter are you frightened?

No I'm cool

We're going to make a guy out of a fighter.

Listen to me,and listen very carefully.

You must keep your chin

down and lead with your left

Come on!

No, no,keep the chin down!

Head down,the arm up

But I can't see anything!

What do you want to see?

You're supposed to fight!

Come on!

Come on!

Get out of it!

Come on, Robbie, come on!

No!

No no!The left!Lead with the left!

Now I'll show

Give me room

Dandy,you mean Billy the Butcher?

Hey,how are you talking

There's watch how a fighting man

Sad imitation you've given of him

Billy the Butcher was light on his feet

He was a dancing master,I suppose

Billy the Butcher kept his

feet on the ground.

I doubt you ever saw Billy the Butcher

Who are you doubting?

Who are you poking?

You'll fall like a stone.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, stop.

He started.

Hey Peter.

- Here's to us.

- Aye

Hey Robbie.

Now we'll go about this

in an orderly fashion

Peter, you will be my second.

Fine

Saddler, you're for Robbie.

That'll do

Now we must have a bell.

Like this.

Now Robbie, when the bell rings, come at me

Put your chin down,lead with your left

Give me everything you

got and don't be afraid

- Come at me!

- Give it to him!

Hold back nothing!

Come at me,Robbie!

Grandpa!

Winner!

Stay for a fight!

Knuckles down!

Stay over the grass!

What's the matter with you, Shannon?

Get the coward!

A fight!

Show him Robbie!

Give him the left! Now with right!

Down

He's down again!

He got up!

Keep it up!

It's Gavin and Green Breeches!

Yes, Robbie, come on!

That's enough,that's enough

Good scrub youngsters

Go home clots, all of you

You'll be all right,less to fear

Get a piece of meek for that eye, Shannon.

You'd better come home with me and wash

Where did you get that suit?

Gavin gave it to me.

There was blood all over mine

I didn't win, grandpa.

So you didn't

Got knocked down so many times,

I don't even remember.

I forgot everything you

taught me. Granddad.

It's obvious,you didn't run away by

the look at that eye and this rag

Good riddance

Let this be a kind of mile

stone in your life, Robbie.

Let this fire put an end to the old

And you look to the new

Robbie laddie you can receive

many of black eyes in this life.

And if you are a man,you'll no be the loser

You don't mean that I'm a man already ?

Aye,I do,you are a man

like your own grandpa

Afraid of nothing!

You can go your own way.

You can attend your own church!

You can stand up to your fellows

and you can spit them in any man's eye!

Robert. Robert!

Stand up to her,laddie.Mind Robbie,

you're a man now!

Get washed,Robert,you're going

to a prayer meeting with me

Where did you get that suit?

Your eye,where did you get that eye?

In a fight, grandma.

What did do with the bonnie

green the one I made you?

I burned it.

I do not think Mr Leckie would like to

see it on her own,blood on it

It was not very sanitary.

Black eye or no black eye,you're

going to prayer meeting with me

No, grandma.

This is your work,you beast of the field

And another thing,I'd better sleep

with grandpa from now on

- What's that?

- I a man now!

You put him up to this!

You heard the laddie say he is a man now

In that case I don't think Mr Leckie

would approve of sleeping in your bed.

I've been expecting you, Robert Shannon.

Gavin!

Gavin!

The golden plover

And I've been hunting it all my life!

It's yours.

Find yours and keep this

No, it's your collection.

- But you found it

-It's yours,Gavin.

You are both serious!Take another egg.

One from the nests.

There are rules of nesting

It's yours.

If you don't take it, I'll ...

Oh you two.

Why can't you be practical?

It's all these eggs

Now,Gavin,you must swap him something

Then the egg will be yours.

- I Agree?

- Agree.

I've got just what you want

On my secret handclasp.

Oh, it's you.

Aye. Hi there Robbie.

What's that thing?

It's a microscope.

Aye?

Walking along?

- Aye

- Aye

Isn't it wonderful, grandpa?

Gavin gave it to me

As a man of science,

I've ever seen a finer one

Many time going out into the night

microscope in hand to explore

the mystery of the stars

You're thinking of a telescope.

We look at little things

for the microscope.

Oh

There you are, grandpa

There's a little bit of cheese

for you to look at

Just think, I've eaten

that stuff all my life!

May I have words with you, Papa?

I'm a busy man. Observed

with the fears of great moment

The superintendent’s gallstones

have taken a terrible turn for the worse

Your papa is studying up

I only wanted 15 shillings.

15...

15 shillings?

He only wanted 15 shillings ...

Robbie,what for?

Not that important

I mean,it's just something I need

He wants 15 shillings for

something that's not even important

Are you out your senses?

Please papa

My burdens. My responsibility!

Hear!Here I had to pay 21 shillings

for an encyclopedia of sanitation!

50 pounds to Adam that I'll

never see hide and hair of!

There's your grandpa upstairs

with an appetite like a growing boy

And you ask me for 15 shillings.

I need a new suit, everyone

else will have them!

Where,boy?

My make up the First Communion.

It's an outrage

Robert, we've been tolerant.

You'll admit that,won't you?

We let you go your own way

and attend the church of Rome

without interference or reproach

Oh Papa

I'll have my say,I'm a

liberal, tolerant man

As you've seen well demonstrated.

But liberty can go too far!

And when it starts costing

money than I'm against it

15 shillings!

Robbie.

I've just had the most

shattering experience

Did you ever look at a drop of water?

All my life I've had an

instinct about that stuff

My instincts were right,look at it

What is it, laddie?

Would you say the microscope

was worth 15 shillings?

Laddie,laddie,you measure a thing like

this in no engine,human life not insurance

- What are you going to do?

- I'll sell it!

Papa won't give me a penny!

I got to have a new suit for communion!

Why laddie? This weezing is

the key to the universe!

This microscope could change your whole

life! I don't want to see you selling it

If I don't have a new suit don't you

think that could change my life?

I'm beginning to see.

It's not just an article of clothe,ah?

Well, you're not the first

man to fight for his faith.

Ah,things went brewing for a long time

That's a q*eer sort of

legacy your mother left you

Why don't you go to the established

church? And rowing with the rest of them

Grandpa,I couldn't!

Grandma would just love you for it.

There is no sense taking the hard way.

But I couldn't, grandpa.

A boy should be where he is born to be

If he had said anything else,

I'd disowned you on the spot

Believe me laddie,we

best not sell the microscope.

You have your faith, I have mine.

Where are you going?

I'm a sinful,irreverent man,Robbie.

And I've little interest in

the church of your choice

But before I see you donning your new suit

I'll burn the town of Loganford!

I believe Mr. Leckie purchased

this for 21 shillings.

Aye,yesterday.

Mr Leckie is most regretful,

it is not comprehensive enough

The encyclopedia is most comprehensive

- Perhaps if Mr Leckie does not

-Perhaps

But he must have his money back

I cannot be lowered than 17

shillings.It's been used.

We accept 15

It's a matter of justice

There was a tricycle.

The tricycle fetched 15.

Thank you

I know I put it here.

Well it must be somewhere!

Oh dear,oh dear

It's not every day I can afford

to pay 21 shillings just for a book

It's not in the bedroom,Papa

I never knew it to fail

I lose nothing except in my own house!

Oh Robbie ...

Have you seen Papa's

Encyclopedia sanitation?

He has not

Robbie looked very nice for his communion.

Now where did he get it?

Please, please come to dinner.

We made spaghetti.

Be sure to come.

I'm an old man.

My life is almost over

Here with the sunset in my face.

It thrills me to see these

young people marching on

Let's drink to youth!

To innocent,joyous youth!

To Angela,to Robert.

Who this day,unstained by the evils

of the world,look to the future.

Today I stood by Robert's side

as he embraced his faith.

May it please the Almighty

I stand by his side as he enters manhood

It is of considerable personal pleasure

that I award this special medal in science.

For once in my 11 years of the academy

the last 3 as headmaster

Not a single student has

warranted this price

Now at last Loganford possesses a scientist

Who I profess will be

some day a great doctor.

Robert Shannon.

Good work Green Breeches

The Boswell history price to Gavin Blair.

There will be no price

in Literature this year.

owing to a most unfortunate

and widespread illiteracy

among the geniuses you see before you

However, the Academy takes

profound pleasure in awarding

The Queen Victoria diploma for

music to Miss Alison Keith.

Now may I pray your indulgence,

as for a few words to those who are leaving

Without music.

Well clots

What can I say to you? Very little

You go forth now and Good luck to you.

You'll need that luck

but at least may I say that teaching is

a dry and unrewarding occupation

filled with drudgery and dull routine

But now at last comes the moment

You go forth

And we,the masters go forth with you.

In each of you a bit of us.

And in your happiness and your

success

and your sorrow too

We've find at last

the fullness of our sweet reward

Aye,and our sadness

Good luck to you,clots

God save our gracious King,

Long live our noble King

God save the King.

I wonder what we are

all be doing in a year from now?

Aye

It's more important what

we'll be doing next week

Robbie, I'm going off with my father

for the summer before I go to University

Why don't you come up

Loch Inver for a bit of fishing?

You're not included

-Well,I don’t think I can,Gavin.

-But the salmon is running!

I'm going to work Monday.

You mean you won't come

fishing with me anymore?

I'm going into the boiler works

Aye, start in a foundry, now

that Jamie is married to Kate

he'll soon get me into a machine shop

It's all arranged

Is there no chance at all that you

might be coming to the university?

Of course not.

There are things you do,

and things you don’t do

It was just about here we fought,

what a black eye I gave you

I'll beat you to a pulp again

anytime you're saying

- On our secret handclasp?

- On our secret handclasp

- When are you leaving for Loch Inver?

- Tomorrow.

I'll see you before the autumn.

Good luck to you Robbie.

-You too.

-Good bye,Gavin

So long

-You’ll miss him,won't you?

-Aye

You think he was off to

the end of the world

- Bonnie night

- Aye

It's a bonnie bridge

Aye

You can hear the river Logan,listen

Aye

Put your head over here beside mine

Listen hard

Such a romantic sound.

Aye

Aye, they tell me there is a site

of water power at Lanworth

That is if properly developed

Robbie,isn't there a chance in

the world you can go to the university?

Jason Reid thinks you're going

Never occurred to him you wouldn't

He told my mother that

you had the only first class

scientific mind he'd known

since he came to the academy

That was kind of him.

There's your obligations,I suppose

Aye

Your Grandpa is getting old, and Mr. Leckie

He's very good to you

Aye

He could have sent me to

work at 14, and he didn't.

The Leckies aren't rich,Alison.

But they are not poor,but they think poor

I suppose it's the same

You are the most exasperating

man I ever knew

If you die to be doctor.

You know it,Robbie.

You could go to the university with Gavin.

It's one thing for Gavin and

it's another for me

There's no use hiding it from you.

To be a doctor

To have a laboratory of my own

Well,at least you're not going away

I'll study my thing here in

Loganford for a while.

The moon is rising there

My mother said that in Scotland night

even the moon should be wasted

She does?

And what would you mean by that?

Don't you know? You're the

cleverest boy in Loganford.

Alison

Do you suppose,I mean

Would it be ll right.

But I put my arms about you

It is a bonnie night

Aye

Jimmy, Jimmy!

How's the big laddie?

- Give him to me

- Wait a minute please

Hello Robbie. Will you not

have supper with us tonight?

-Well, I ...

-Oh, Mr Reid

If you hadn't spoken, Shannon,

I wouldn't never have recognized you.

How do you do,Mrs. Nigg

I need a word with this clot

- Get on the step on my bike.

- I'm a wee bit dirty

I must congratulate you,on

discovering among the world's occupations

the one for which you are least suited

I said get on my bike.

Yes,Sir

I got to get off

Here come back!

Get Mr. Leckie's signature on this paper

Aye

- Robbie, what is it?

- You don't know what's happened.

-I had to tell you first

-Tell me what?

I'm sitting for the Marshall

The Marshall Scholarship!Five years

at the University I can study medicine.

- Oh,Robbie!

- Well,I haven't won it yet.

I can’t win,that's

impossible,but I can try!

I didn't know what I was doing.

Excited,well I'll see you later

Good bye!

It sort of a scholarship,Sir John

Marshall founded it almost 100 years ago

Every year there is a competition

The hold the examinations

up at the university.

The winning boy gets 100

pounds a year for five years.

100 pounds?

Oh,it's the honor too, Mama

All sort of famous men started

out by winning the Marshall

No boy from the academy has ever won it

- I can try

- You can win

Mama...

All you need do is to

sign this entry here

Robbie...

You must understand something well

I've no had an easy time of it

I've had burdens, disappointments

Murdoch after all I spent his

education, and works in a nursery.

No more from board from Grandma

Leckie since she went to Kilmarnock.

No financial aid from

Kate since she married.

I've been a good decent man

What's it got me?

I've been been taken

advantage of,even Adam!

Adam down in London

a great successful man,he still owes

me that 50 pounds,and it's almost 10 years

He'll pay.

Mama,I've made up my mind

about that,I've no other recourse

I'm going to pay my fare

out of my own pocket

And go down to London and

collect that 50 pounds from Adam

even if it takes the whole

four-weeks of my holiday to do it

We were speaking about the scholarship,Papa

Don't interfere with me,Mama

I've resolved,I'm going

down to London next week

There's nothing else to do

You see how it is,Robbie?

No,I don't Papa

I let you go to school 3 years

longer than the law demands!

You'll admit,that was generous of me

But this won't cost you any money

But I can't let you go for 5 years more

Without a penny in return

for the support of the house!

Mr. Leckie,you've been

my husband for over 30 years

And I've scraped and

pinched and I said nothing

But you can go too far!

You can't sell Robin's life

With hopes for a few

pennies from the boiler works

I won't have it,I won't have it!

Mama!

Who's spoke of money?

The money concerns me least of all

- What are you saying?

-I'm doing this for you own good

I am older and wiser man than you.

You're reaching above your station in

life and you reap not the disappointment

No.

No! I am no sign the paper

Mr. Reid

Mr. Reid!

Sir, I ...

What can I do for you?

How do I know when this

whole thing is done?

How do I know that you are

quite free to attend me, sir?

If it's about Robert Shannon,

I had the news he's been here

Mr. Reid,I'm not merely that

young man's great-grandfather ...

I am a citizen of the world.

And the defender of the rights of man

Therefore, in the name of decency,

freedom and justice!

I protest.

Even in this dark and unenlightened age

there exist certain liberties

I tell you,Sir when a man sinks low enough

to deny these liberties,I protest!

And if you,Sir,is one of those lowly beings

who would prevent my great-grandson

from seeking an education ...

Well then,Sir,I'll tell you I shall not

stand by and countenance this still!

Mr. Gow,I've heard much about you.

And I must tell you I love you.

I must also tell you that laddie

cannot be entered in the contest

since Mr Leckie has denied him permission

Enter him on the quiet

Oh,I have enough troubles

on my hands already

Besides, the entry must

be signed by his guardian.

I'll sign it.

Mr. Gow,you lost your wit

I still have the wit to sign my own name

But you don't know what this is.

The studying, the preparation

While for four 4 weeks that boy

must grind himself from dawn

until he fall unconscious to bed

4 weeks of misery!

And his eyes creeping

like eels on the stone

- We can do it

-We can? Can we?

Under that fool, Mr. Leckie's nose?

I send Mr. Leckie away

You will?

I'll get him out of the house by next week.

I might even send him to London.

By Jove,if anybody could

do it,I believe you could

If we could just pull it off

I can see their faces like a

dark horse winning the Derby

We can do it!

Mr. Gow, this is the most unbelievable,

dangerous insane nonsense I've ever heard!

And I'm with you heart and soul

Sign here.

Mathematics, history ,this mean changing

night into day. Work,work,work

We can do it!

Physics, chemistry ...

- 6 hours of sleep only

- We'll take 4

Let Robbie start with these

until you get Mr. Leckie to London.

Now off with you

Mr Reid, I assure you ,with a mind

like ours we'll tear them to pieces!

Your health,Sir

Smokers.Smokers.

Yeah,not a smoker,here we are

Put the things to the right

-I can't believe it,Robbie.

-You can

I can't leave much money for food,

because Papa thinks you're working.

But Kate will help.

I'll see that we don't come

back until middle of August

- Mama, who told you?

- I don't know a thing

I always say,what you

don't know won't hurt you

Robbie,just think

I'll see the Tower of London!

I'll see Buckingham Palace!

Mind you see the new sewer,

I hear it's awful good

And I'll see the king! And I'll see Adam.

There you go

I'm all right

My little Robbie.

Good luck winning the Marshall

There's the whistle! We are on

- Watch out, boy

- Good bye, Papa

I'll remind you of that

condition for disposal

I'll do that

Will you do something for me

see that grandfather helps

with Mrs Bosomley chicken pull out

- Bye!

- Bye!

-Good morning.

-Morning

Where is he?

Not you,you're too distractive, stay here,

and prevent the old boy from poisoning him.

I have to remind that man I made

pancakes for the late Duke of Cumberland

We're just to be sure you won't be

making them for the late Robert Shannon.

I'll help

It is of this moment I'll take

leave of you as a friend

Mathematics. What is a conic section?

Intersection of a plane with a cone.

Define a curve.

It's a single definitively

points all present at once.

Clumsy

What is the formula for

the surface of a sphere.

Paper pencil.

Who were the founders of these

city-states. Sparta,Athens,Carthage,Rome.

How were they governed? By Senate or King?

Give me the dates of the following battles.

Bannockburn, Gettysburg,Crécy,

Trafalgar, Phillipi.

Who were victors? Describe

Faraday's law. The laws of

electromagnetic induction.

Think!

American colonies.

- What was the policy followed by Pitt

- Think!

What is the formula for

solving the cubic equation.

- Think!

- Formula.

Formula!

w*r of the Roses

Lawsuits,defects!

Solving of cubic equations.

Formula, formula, formula!

Root of the b*ttlefield of Europe!

Names, origins, dates!

Think think!

Formula ... energy ... formula!

Potential ..formula ..kinetic ..formula!

Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen!

Formula! Density! Solid state!

Formula! Motions! Formula!

Action! Formula! Equation!

Describe the cheap products

of the Danube valley

-Not today.

-Eh- I said not today

The examination start tomorrow.

But my history,I'm weak on history.

According to Mr. Reid only second

rated study to the last minute

He says as in the case of racehorses

the day before of the event is

given over to relaxation

We let assume you are a horse.

- Yes

- You're in my charge

- Yes,Sir

- Come along

Alison. What will you do when you grow up?

I'll marry a fine man

and many fine children.

What will you do?

Would you say we are grown up?

Not yet. Not quite yet

Don't, Robbie.

I hope you are thinking about the

decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

- Aye

- Alexander the Great.

Keep in mind Alexander the Great.

Aye

Are you sure we've not grown up yet?

You know,you are not keeping

your mind on Alexander the Great

No

All right, Robbie, you'll win

You'll win

I love you so much.

Oh, so it's you.

He's yours, Mr. Reid. For a few days.

Good luck, Dr. Shannon.

I'll leave you here.

Frightened,are you?

How do you think they feel?

There's McQueen.He's the

one you have to watch

A prodigy

Well...

Oh,I forgot,you may need this.

I'll meet you tonight at Loganford Station

Silence, please.

Gentlemen ...

You'll have two hours for your first paper

You may begin

You missed only one question in

geometry,and none at all in algebra

I'm too excited to talk. Good night clot

Get to bed

Good night, grandpa.

Holy Mother of God...

Pray for me.

Help me to win the Marshall

What was I saying?

Oh,yes

William Harvey at Padua demonstrated

the circulation of the blood

Good. Good good!

We mustn't let ourselves go.

You still got physics on Monday.

But I swear to you,Shannon,on the basis

of what you've done, if you

only 50 % on your physics paper

you'll win the Marshall

Physics is his best subject.

Mr. Gow you wouldn't

have a drink in the house?

Not until Monday

What about that cough?

It's just bad cold

I'm tired.

Stay in bed all day Sunday.

If it rains on Monday, I'll bring a cab

- He's a wee bit on the warm side

- I'll get the doctor.

Will you go to the chemist for me?

Keep him in bed.

- The final is on Monday do you think

- Don't be an idiot.

His temperature of 104

He's on the verge of pneumonia.

Cubic Equations ...

Formula...

Formula...

Cubic ur ... Chemistry ...

It's Monday,isn't it?

You are not to worry ahead about anything.

I've got to be there, grandpa.

Steady laddie,I'll be getting

you a nice cup of hot tea.

Some doctors believe we'll

keeping you in bed,laddie

But Dr. Galbraith believes in fresh air.

Personally, I pin my faith

in a little alcoholic stimulant

Mrs McTavish.

Sit down for a while,laddie.You mustn't

overdo it on your first day out

Mrs Bosomley.

Ah,you're looking better every day, Robbie.

They'll have a fine relax tomorrow

the Leckies are coming home.

Have you heard the result

of the scholarship yet?

That Jason Reed is a determined man

He went up to Widdon yesterday

he's seeing the college folk

- Alison!

- Take it easy,laddie

Mr. Reid!

McQueen.

If it's consolation,you were second.

Oh Robbie ...

Alison, will you drive Robbie

home? I'll escort Mrs. Bosomley.

Maybe it was too much to ask

I went down on my knees to them

Begged them to give you

an average on your physics

With only 50%, he'd have won.

But they are guided by rules,not justice

Bowl of porridge,something

else will be coming up

You're young.

I cannot worry about you permanently

It's the measure in

my faith in you laddie

Here's a letter for you

I picked it up at your house when I

went there and found Mr Reid waiting

It's from Gavin.

Will you read it ?

It's from Loch Inver

"Dear Green Breeches,

I just heard the news"

"You could have picked

a more fortunate time

in my opinion,to come down with the flu".

"I want to see you,I'll come

home on the 9 o'clock 30"

"I'll meet him at the station"

Oh,there's no need

You're not going out in the night air

Oh no, I was meaning,Gavin

never goes into the station.

He hops off at the yards

is closer to his house

"If a man can't have a friend

at a time like this ,

then what are friends for? "

Yours Gavin.

I am fine will he'd be

feeling sorry for myself

Gavin!

Robbie!

Why did this happen?

There are so much I don't understand.

I'm young I know

Perhaps I have no right to understand.

But Gavin was young

You know how it is,a man

got to understand something.

You have your faith and then things happen

out of no where and they make no sense

A man got to understand something.

Why?

Why, why did this happen?

Help me to understand.

Help me.

- Grandpa

- Hey lassie

Well,isn't that bonnie?

I'll do my best

Of course, a man with my background

finds himself a wee bit limited

with a tree of Mr Leckie's purchase

Where is Robbie?

He'll be here soon,what's up?

Robbie's coming to the

concert tonight,isn't he?

Is it likely he'd miss it?

As a matter of fact he's coming

as my guest on his money.

As a music lover of long

standing,I never allow myself

to miss a rendition of Hamlet's Messiah

Handel's Messiah

That's what I said.

Grandpa,I wanted to see

you before Robbie came on

Aye

There'll be a friend of mother's

a singing teacher coming

to the concert tonight

If he likes my voice,mother will insist

I go to the Academy of Music

If I'm good enough

I've always been afraid I was good enough.

I don't want to go away and study.

I don't want to leave Robbie.

You'd come back,lassie

Oh I come back

But he's the one to should

be studying and not me.

He's the one with a

gift,one that matters

Oh, grandpa,what a doctor he could be!

When I think of him

down at that boiler works

If you've the voice,you'll go to Winton.

There's things,lassie,that no man can stop

Like storms of the sea

Sun through the clouds.

Bad or good,you cannot stop them

But what about Robbie?

Let him enjoy the singing,don't

tell him until the concert is done

Here's Robbie now

Perhaps you'll make such

an eternal mess of it

that there'll be nothing to worry about

Alison ...

Well about time,I've got to run.

You're supposed to

wish me well for tonight

I was coming to you house

when I cleaned up a bit

You saved me a trip

Would you turn your back like a

decent citizen

and stop your ever lasting nosiness

I got to wash,you go and trim your whiskers

Here's she's left it for your buttonhole.

It's a bonnie night

-It's a bonnie bridge

-Aye

- Robbie, I ..

- You needn't say anything.

Grandpa told me,you're going away

Just to Winton

You'll go further than Winton

Oh no...

I heard you singing tonight

Then I'll not go to the Academy of Music

You must.

Say it,Robbie,say the word,

ask me to marry you.

Oh, Alison

What do I care about the singing

What good is the singing

if there's nothing to sing about?

Say it, Robbie

I can't

How could I,Alison?

Do you love me or don't you?

If you love me then as carry on

You don't know what you're saying.

Look at my hands.

Are they the doctor's hands?

What do I care about that

What I'll be doing for

you if I married you?

I know my place.

Whether I am suited or not,

whether I chose it or not

I've a place at the boiler works,

and I'll not share it with you

Alison ...

If I loved you less,

I might speak differently.

We're young,I suppose we'll get over it

I maybe young,Robbie

I'm likewise tired.

Will you take me home?

Well?

I'm looking for a Professor Ruttree.

He's not here,he's gone

to London for holidays.

My name is Blakely.

Can I help you?

Well...

Well,yes Sir,you can tell me,

I want to study medicine.

I haven't the money,but I'll work

I'll do anything

I brought my collection.

- Oh?

- Would you look at it,Sir?

Yes...

I've got the ability,professor.

I collected some of these

specimen when I was 9 years old

It's an amateur collection I know

Look at this paleocence hydra.

Hm

And look at this,this one it's a

fresh water desmed

It's so rare it's never been classified.

- Would you slip into your microscope?

- Yes...

I can do the work,professor.

You can tell by the slides I've fair hand

You'll admit that they are not bad.

Not bad at all

I used to have a collection like this,

myself when I was at your age

Thank you, thank you, professor.

Would you tell me?

Could I get some kind of a job?

I'll do anything,

I'll be a laboratory assistant

I am a laboratory assistant

I'm not a professor

Well,maybe I didn't mean

laboratory assistant

Just you have a lab boy perhaps

Johnson

I think there's some purple

dye in the stock room

Would you be a good fellow and just

Johnson is my lab boy

He probably thought that he'll

be another Pasteur

You may take my advice

or not, as you please.

There's no backdoor to medicine,my boy.

And without money and a University degree,

the front door is shut in your face

I wish I could tell you otherwise

Robert Shannon

I've always done all I could for her

You always done what you could for her

A body can't stand that

so much wear and tear

Worn out, that's what she is

Worn out!

There's nothing I can do to save her.

It's in Gods hands now.

I doubted my Redeemer,forgive me.

Why not punish me.

Not Mama

She never doubted.

Oh,what fun did she ever have?

None at all hardly

Intercede for her

Let her live and have some peace

I ask you.

I make this bargain

Let her live and I'll never doubt again

Never.

I heard Mrs Leckie was ill

- She's dead

- God rest her

Can I help you laddie?

Careful,Shannon.

I'm weary of medals

This maybe God's way of testing you.

Show you the way you must go

What way?

You'd do the priesthood, my son.

God didn't want me to be a scientist

it's too late to oblige him

by being a priest

There are many branches

in the priesthood, lad.

You want to be a doctor.

The mind is father of many ears

As a champion of the truth,

you cure the body as well as the soul.

I've no desire to serve God or man.

It's too late.

It's never too late to turn to God.

I don't believe in God anymore!

But God believes in you,Shannon.

You're late

- Am I?

- Aye,you're late.

It doesn't done for my old age,

I must care for a house full of men.

You come late to meals likewise

Where's Murdoch?

Murdoch is late too,I suppose

We'll eat

And that old man upstairs,what of him?

- I'll take him his tray

- You'll not

I gave him his orders yesterday

He'll eat downstairs with the rest of us,

like a civilized,God-fearing man.

Or he won't eat

Oh Heavenly Father

We thank you for all the blessing

you supply to this motherless household

Amen.

Sit down, farmer.

Where's grandpa?

He is in his room

Are you sure?

It was found floating on the common's pond.

They found his coat by the footbridge.

When did you see him last?

I don't know, Murdoch. The man avoids me.

That sinful, insufferable beast

of the field! He's off drinking again!

His bed has not been slept in

The common's pond did you say?

Murdoch, is it possible ...

I say anything is possible,

the way he's been treated lately.

But when grandma nagging him night and day

and you threatened to send

him to the workhouse.

What? Papa wouldn't do that.

And what would you know about it?

When have you been home

lately except for sleep or eat

I support with my pay as

keep, papa has got no right ...

You pay the keep and that's about all

You treat him like a stranger

like you treat everybody lately,

since Alison went away

I've been stunned with your Mum,

but he stood in need of discipline!

Murdoch, do you think he ...

I was just about to say that ...

He's been out to the nursery a good bit

He was been looking forward to

the flower show and fair

And you'd think my carnations were his own.

He's got the gold medal at

the flower show one already

I don't know

You don't,well I do! He's off drinking!

He could have an accident,Mother

The first thing we must wire for Adam.

Adam was just devoted to the old man!

Poor old fellow

I'm mighty glad to see you, Robbie.

- So you came

- No signs

No.

I've looked everywhere

He was a fine man, Robbie.

We're hoping grandpa is still alive, Adam.

Hope brings eternal in the human breath

There's Mr McKellar now

Oh, have you heard the latest?

Mr. Parkins,who keeps the boathouse.

Heard a distinct splash on Wednesday night.

-Mrs Bosomley,have some tea.

- I can't

Oh, Robbie ,how my heart brakes for him

I was just saying a finer

man never breathed

He had his faults

A weaknesses or two? But what's

that? It's only human

Now that's Mr. McKellar.

Come and sit down,Mrs. Bosomley.

Ah, his great and good friends

Come on in,gentlemen.

We've want you to know

we sympathize with you

We'll miss Dandy.

He was a good friend.

- And good company.

- That's what I'm thinking

Why don't you say what

you are really thinking

And he's worth more to you dead than alive

I'm shocked for you, Robbie!

Where's your manners?

Oh,Mr McKellar,come in,Sir,come in.

The police would like to speak to you.

- The Police?

- Did they find his body in the pond?

They found him

In jail

Grandpa

Grandpa!

Mr. Gow, you're intoxicated!

Thank you,laddie

Aye,it could stand re blocking

Anybody,anybody coming through the rye

Anybody is a body and everybody cry

Each laddie has a lassie may they

All the lassies smile at me

when coming through the rye

Come on, Robbie!

If everybody coming through the rye ...

In a word kiss the body anybody cried

Every laddie has a lassie they may say hey

Are you awake?

Who what? Oh, aye,aye

Don't take it

Doctor's orders

What? Can't you content

yourself with beating me to death

much as same with that poison man

I've been taken that stuff for two weeks

I'll tell you Robbie,

it's too thick for my blood.

Come on now

No,no,no,Robbie. Let's inspect

the situation like two reasonable men

Now you'll admit a babe

can't be weaned overnight

Nor can a man at my age change the type

of his liquid marriage within a moment

If that foul liquid that

you hold before me.

Could just be changed into let

us say, a wee drop of whiskey

What's this?

They all will be wearing tartans

Do you think you're going to leave this

house and go to the flower show and fair?

When did I ever missed it?

Never in my life! It's my duty, Robbie!

How could the Loganford fair proceed

without the attendances of

the head of the Gow clan

properly clad in the Gow tartan

But this is a McDoon tartan

Aye,my grandmother was a McDoon.

A step sister was at least

Grandpa

It wasn't me who laid down rules

to you ,it was Dr Galbraith

You're to stay in bed.

Do you know what he said?

One more spur like the last one,

and you'll meet your maker!

That'll be an embarrassing

meeting,for the both of us

You've got to keep off the whiskey, grandpa

I swear to you Robbie on

my honor as a gentleman

I can go to the fair and

no touch this stuff

Well,not had a drop in weeks!

I'll stay home,grandpa

Go on, go on,and enjoy yourself

No,no I'll keep you company,I won't go

You stay in this house,

and I'll never speak to you

Go on,go on

Leave me here to die

Here you go

Papa

Off you go,driver

Oh yield that the high

road and I'll dug the low road

Is that Mr Gow?

He's here contrary to

my explicit instructions

Let him stay,Papa I'll look after him.

We're doing fine Robbie,

we'd just won that one

40 feet and 3 inches!

- A puny toss

- The best of the day!

Aye,it's obviously, young folks

aren't what they used to be

Aye,aye I remember at the Balmoral Games

I tossed the gable so

far it took all day to find it

How the lassies smiled

On more puny toss,and I'll

have the mind to show them

Grandpa, grandpa ...

Alison! Wait here.

Don't you stay unput!

I'll stay like a rock.

We were a hundred of us pipers,

there were a hundred of us pipers ...

Alison!

- Robbie

- Alison

What are you doing away from Winton?

If you'd answered my letters,

you'd know more about me.

Well,anyway I'm glad you're back

But only for the day.

I couldn't miss the fair.

Alison, where can I

see you in a few minutes?

I'll be here.

There were a hundred of us pipers,

there were a hundred of us pipers ...

Robbie, we were just looking for you.

Aye

I was looking for you.

- Alison is here.

- Aye?

Could I trust you for a few minutes ?

Aye Laddie,for eternity!

Grandpa,how do you do it?

Do what?

I'm 18 years old,compared

to you,I'm an old man.

How do you do it,Grandpa,I like to know

You're in the green years, Robbie.

You suffer the critical

disease of being young

The Lord deliver me for me

for having to go to that again

Go on,find your lassie.

I'll no budge an inch.

Murdoch.

Keep an eye on him.

I'm trusting you,grandpa

Murdoch.

I'm trusting you,Grandpa

Beautiful

All come over here, they are all OK!

They are all coming!

All come here!

Come on,try your strength!

The winner will win a cigar!

Better luck next time Mr!

Come on Sir, win a cigar!

Show what you're made of!

Show your strength!

Come on, grandpa! Show us!

Disperse, let him get up!

Take the hammer in your hands!

Come on, old man, come on!

Hit it hard!

Cigar

You were wonderful

It's grandpa,at the flower show

Alison!

- What is it?

- It is his heart

Don't let anybody move in.

I'm going to get an ambulance.

He came back just as they

gave me the silver medal

He shook my hand, he said he was proud.

He started to pick a carnation

He wanted it for his buttonhole.

Thank you lassie

He said God save the king lately

And last I said

Stay up,Robbie,

Stay up for both of us.

I've been expecting you, Robert Shannon.

He was a man of many follies

But he was incapable of meanness

He never bargained with God.

He did good things because

he enjoyed doing them

How do you think God

wanders to my great grandfather ...

Might forgive me?

For having doubted

It was a fine funeral.

Expensive but tasty

Just make yourself comfortable

in that chair,Mr McKellar.

How's the light? Good enough?

Where is Robert?

Somewhere about,this hardly concerns him.

Here you are, Robbie. Mr. McKellar

was just asking about you.

We're about to take up

the matter of the will.

If you excuse me, I ...

I want the entire family present.

Now according to my figures

The insurance comes to a matter of

658 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence.

In round numbers

Exactly.

658 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence ...

We must say it, Papa, he was a fine man.

Oh,aye

Sit down.

You respected him before he died,

you might stay and respect him now

We'll read the will.

There's no need,we all

know what it's in it

The formality of the occasion

It's a very simple document.

He left all he possessed,the

insurance that is to your late wife.

And in the event of her death

- to her executor,yourself

That's proper

There's a codicil however

The codicil was drawn shortly

after Robert Shannon failed

his examinations for the University

Dandy Gow ,I called him Dandy.

He was my friend, I hope.

Left everything he possessed

to Robert Shannon.

He was insane!

He was as sane as I am.

He couldn't, it's not legal!

It is as legal as the crown.

It's a fraud!

I 'll take it to the Law,

I'll take it to the Law!

Take it to Law

Yes,do so,I may promise you

I'll fight you in county court

I'll fight you in the high court

I'll fight you to the floor

of parliament itself

It was Dandy Gow's hope, Robert

That you'd spend the sum wisely

on your education.

But I seemed to mind him saying

sort of afterthought it was

If you prefer to invest it

in wine, women and

song,that's your privilege

That man!

That man!