[♪]
Ooh, she is brisk out there!
Ah yes!
There's nothing like the great outdoors, to give a man...
An appetite?
No a sense of what life is really all about, Girl!
Survival!
Freedom!
Close to nature!
Right Daniel?
Well, I think it's safe to say you'll survive overnight.
Did you remember to pack an extra sweater?
You don't pack to go ice fishing woman!
You wear the clothes on your back.
Travel lightly!
Really lightly
Oh now you make sure you and Felix don't catch cold.
Mother, we are men.
We like to rough it...
Mmh, these would be nice.
Roughing it, indeed!
Why are you looking that way?
Which way?
Your lips are all pursed up.
They are not pursed up.
They are and you look like you're angry with the world.
I am not angry with the world.
Oh, it's just me you're angry with then.
Jasper, I know you'll love the experience.
And I... really want you to do it.
You've made that perfectly clear.
Well, I'm right!
You spend far too much time in that workshop of yours.
You need to be out more, and this is the perfect opportunity
to spend some time with Alec, I think that you could become
friends ... good friends.
You're part of my family now Jasper
...and I want you to like them...
Like them?
It's important to me.
I don't see how going ice fishing with Alec
is going to cement my relations with your family.
Well, it can't hurt.
Goodness, Hetty and Olivia will be here
any minute and I'm not ready.
Hetty and Olivia!
I thought you were going with Abigail?
Well, I was...but you know how Olivia loves an auction and I
couldn't very well ask her and not Hetty...and then I thought,
why not make an event of it and we'll all stay
at the White Sands for tea afterwards?
Won't that be fun!
Just the four of us.
Couldn't handle a day alone with Abigail, hmmm?
Oh Alec, it's not that at all, I just thought that...
Well, she can be a little...
you know...
Safety in numbers?
Hello Uncle Jasper!
Sara.
Jasper stop looking as if you're going to the gallows.
Whatever you say, Olivia.
You'll have a good time!
You'll see.
Oh, we'll all have a wonderful time, won't we Olivia?
We'll see about that.
Oh well, this entire event goes against my better judgement.
You know that Abigail and Janet spending the day together.
Impossible.
They're like oil and water.
They don't mix.
Bound to end in disaster.
Remember we have a wager.
Oh, I remember.
I stil say they'll get along just fine.
Come in!
Come in, ladies!
This is going to be so much fun.
I'll just get my coat & hat.
Morning.
Janet we'll be off.
Ready to brave the elements, Man?
What?
I'm going to take care of you today, aren't I Daniel?
Don't scare him, Sara.
He knows you don't know anything about babies.
I know just as much as you do!
Felix, Quit it!
It's for the ladies supper tonight!
You don't know more than me about anything.
Hah!
- Bets? - Anytime.
Fine! Shake!
So? Go ahead.
Tell me something I don't know!
There, you see?
I win!
Sara, really, such a tone.
I'll think of something.
Hah!
I'm finally ready.
We don't want to be late for the auction.
Abigail's here!
Oh my.
Oh this dog, get this dog down.
Felix, Come & get this dog out of here.
Abigail!
How are you?
How good to see you Janet.
Lucky!
Aren't you getting big!
My little man is growing!
Aren't you Robert?
And how is Daniel?
Is he talking yet?
Oh no, he's only nine months.
But he's crawling to beat the ...
Isn't that funny.
Robert spoke his first words at nine months.
One minute.
That's all it took.
Oh, Abigail dear, you'd think you were staying for a month.
Alec, there are some more things in the buggy.
Do you think you could get them please?
Oh yes, Abigail!
Whatever you say.
Ever, since Digger arrived, I never have to wash the floor.
That's disgusting, Janet.
Robert!
Don't go near that dog!
He'll bite you.
He won't bite.
Digger's never bitten anyone...
Oh, so that's where mother's Spode platter went.
Well, men!
Are we ready?
Yes sir!
Take her easy.
Bye mother.
Now Felicity.
Don't give Robert his applesauce
until he has finished his beef stew, his corn and his peas.
Oh Abigail, You didn't have to bring your own applesauce.
I've got some of my own right here.
Oh Janet, you put far too much sugar in yours.
Janet.
Well, let's just forget we're mothers for a day
and go and have some fun!
Oh dear.
Now Robert.
You give mother a kiss goodbye.
He's so sweet.
No!
- Don't leave me! - Don't leave me!
Don't leave me!
Oh Robert, Mommy will be back.
Don't leave me!
Robert, would you want father to see you like this?
Now Felicity, take the child.
Say goodbye Abigail.
C'mon Lucky.
I'll give you a cookie.
Oh not before lunch Felicity.
It'll ruin his appetite.
Well, it's certainly ruining mine.
Come on.
Come along, Abigail.
Goodbye, darling.
Goodbye! Have fun!
Oh Gracious Providence!
Hey look!
It's Gus!
Hey Gus!
Hey Felix.
Mr. King . . .
Mr. Dale.
We're going ice fishing.
Well, you're welcome to join me, if you like.
I already got a nice warm hut on the ice.
I was countin' on a large catch this winter.
But, the fish seem stayin' away in droves.
Well thank you Gus, we will.
Now, speaking of staying away...
We don't see enough of you.
You should drop by more often.
Well I just might take you up on that.
That old lighthouse gets a bit lonely in the winter.
No one to say hello or goodbye to.
I'm glad my bachelor days are over.
I'm with you there Jasper.
Well I must admit,
sometimes I get to think about settling down.
Get me a farm.
Maybe even a wife.
A wife?
How old was Mrs. King when you first,
y'know started courting her?
- Oh, I don't remember... - Fifteen.
Fifteen?
Now, how did you know she was fifteen?
It was that social, Emit Fraser's.
Ya, so?
So she told her father she was going with me.
With you?
Yea, yea, yea.
He approved of me.
Wasn't so sure of you, you ran with a rambunctious crowd...
Father?
Oh ya, we were quite a bunch.
Bert Potts, Ed Lawson & Amos Spry...
So you don't think fifteen is too young
for a girl to go sparkin'?
Well...I mean...that depends on the girl...
Janet now she was... mature for fifteen.
Ooh Abigail look isn't this beautiful.
Oh I'm so sorry.
Isn't this fun.
Oh, isn't it lovely to be out?
Calm yourself, Janet.
You act as if you've just been released from prison.
Well, you wouldn't know about that, Hetty,
but having young children is a rather like that.
Oh, Nonsense!
You simply have to learn to let them go.
Oh really...well Janet and I happen to think that young
children need their mothers...
Janet, There are so many dressers around.
Did you look for one for the boys?
Oh, Oh yes Abigail, let's go have a closer look.
Look Hetty.
Commemorative spoons.
I only like the Queen Victoria ones.
By the by, everything fine between you and Jasper, is it?
Of course.
Why do you ask?
Oh I don't know.
I thought I sensed a little strain there...in paradise.
You know Olivia, I've always found it best
to try let the live of those we love run their own course.
Not to control, you see.
Hetty.
You really expect me to take that seriously, coming from you?
No I think you're absolutely right Abigail.
This is too high.
But this one is splendid, oh it's beautiful, ooh.
Veneer!
Can't imagine anyone paying good money for junk like this.
Oh really, well its got lots of drawer space.
Not that Felix puts his clothes away anyway...
You've got to teach them young, Janet.
My Robert already knows to put his things
in their proper places.
Isn't he a marvel, Abigail.
And so well behaved, too.
Oh Lucky.
It broke.
Mother's favourite.
She's going to be very angry!
You were supposed to looking after him, Sara!
I was watching Daniel!
Well, I can't do everything.
I'm making the supper.
What's he up to now.
Know something Felix?
What?
Last time Jasper and I were out here ice fishing,
we were your age...
- Twelve years old
A bunch of us played hookey from school.
Now was that Bert Potts who could only skate backwards?
No, I don't think so...
No, it was you.
It was, remember you were skating backwards full speed,
went right into the open water?
You pulled me out.
Reckon you saved my life.
on that one.
I don't know...but you sure looked a sight!
Clothes all frozen right to your body!
He was freezing to death... and he looked so darn funny...
I suppose so.
Always felt I owed you one on that one.
I don't think we went ice fishing again after that...
guess we went our separate ways...
People change...
You got one!
♪ Woah! And there she goes, ♪
♪ it must be a fish, ♪
♪ cook it in pan, serve it in a dish. ♪
Ladies and Gentlemen, how much am I bid...
Well bid Hetty!
Bid!
Fifty cents!
Fifty cents. Anybody fifty-five?
Oh Hetty don't be so tight. Go higher.
Sold! To Hetty King!
Who has successfully outbid herself!
How could you!
You've made an absolute fool of me!
Oh Hetty! I'm sorry.
But, it's still an excellent price.
Abigail, what number is the dresser?
Thirty-six.
Oh good it's be up soon then!
Janet, where are you going?
Ladies and gentlemen what am I bid, for this fine music box,
which has been in the same family for generations.
Generations, my auntie.
The things brand new.
Made of genuine silver...
Tin.
What am I bid?
Anybody bid a dollar fifty?
One dollar...
One dollar bid.
Anybody bid in at two?
A dollar fifty!
Are you out of your mind?
What about the dresser?
I have a dollar fifty... now anybody want in at two?
Two dollars.
Two fifty!
Janet King!
It's a piece of rubbish!
Hetty, If she wants it... I can't think why, but...
Two fifty - Anybody?
Three fifty!
I have three fifty bid, three fifty, anybody four?
Going once...going twice...
Five dollars.
Oh Janet good Lord!
Five dollars!
Going once, going twice!
Sold!
To the lady with the fur hat!
Fuzzy brain!
Gus?
Yeah?
You're a man, right?
I guess so.
I sure ain't no woman.
And you've been a lot of places...
Yeah. so?
And done a lot of things...right?
Yeah. So?
Well, um...
do you know about women,
and men...?
What about 'em?
Well, you know...women and men...together.
Well?
Well...what...?
Do you know about it?
Well...I...
Sure...I know...
Well, can you tell me?
Well, it ain't really something you can talk about,
you have to sort of go through it, then you'll know...
But how do I know that I've gone through it,
when I don't know what it is...?
You'll know.
Boy, it's cold out here.
Lucky if you don't come back here I'm going
to make you wear this...Lucky.
This is impossible.
You just don't know how to handle him, Sara.
Lucky!
Come back here and finish your stew.
That's never going to work.
NO!
You see?
Lucky!
Left right. Left right.
Company up on the chair!
Company eat!
You see?
All it takes is a little psychology!
Lucky!
Digger will get it!
Really Janet, you must have seen that man wink at the auctioneer.
The two were in cohoots clearly.
You set out to get a dresser, you end up
with this worthless music box.
And I end up paying for it to boot.
Well I was just a little short, I'll pay you back.
That's what you said the last time dear.
Ah, ladies, I have a special table for you.
Would you please follow me.
Looks like the fish are back.
For Mr. Dale, that is.
I really like it here, father.
Good.
It's nice to get away.
Yes, a day like this, I feel like I could ask you anything
and you'd be able to answer it.
Man to man.
Well, I'm flattered.
I'd certainly try.
You would?
Of course.
If you've got any questions for me, go right ahead!
Well, there is one thing that's been bothering me.
What's that?
What do men and women do...you know...
when they're married...?
You cut yourself!
You're bleeding!
It's alright, don't worry.
So?
My question...remember...?
Yes, about...men and women...well,
. . . you know how bees... are attracted to flowers...
well the bee buzzes around and...
um...you know it's buzzing and buzzing...and...
I know all that part.
Well, what part don't you know about?
That's just it.
I don't know the part that I don't know.
I just know that there's got to be a part of it
that I don't know, and that's the part I've gotta know.
Yeah, um...
Have you asked your mother about this?
Jasper, mind if I ask you somethin'?
Sure...I don't know if I'll be able...
When did you know you were in love with Miss King?
I mean, Olivia.
Well I hardly, I didn't dare think about it
for quite some time...but, I'd say...
How did you know?
Well, you just do...I mean I just did...I felt...
sort of sick...right here never felt that way before...
sort of a lurching...
Yeah, I know that feeling...sort of right here...
Kinda like bein' seasick.
Yup, that'll be it.
In the gut.
Everytime I'd see Olivia, I felt it...
I still do.
But, there's a lot more to being in love than feeling sick.
Oh, for sure.
Felicity?
Oh...I don't know...
She's somethin'.
She sure is.
Actually, she reminds me of somebody.
Hetty.
Miss King?
Yeah Hetty.
You little...!
We could tie him up.
Your a genius.
Wasn't that fun?
Wasn't that lovely?
Lovely.
Abigail, isn't this the exact pattern
of the china you have at home?
Yes, yes and it's the one thing that mother gave me,
that I cherish the most.
It's the one thing that mother promised me
as a wedding present.
No she didn't Janet.
Oh,
how foolish of me!
I completely forgot
I haven't a cent in my purse!
Here!
Oh, thank you Abigail.
Yes it was lovely.
I'm so glad you talked me into coming, Olivia.
Hetty.
I was only joking, Felicity.
Let me go! ! !
There!
That should do the trick.
Now we can do our work and not have to worry
where that little monster is.
Come back!
Digger!
Go on.
Father always said that was the best part.
Oh well you eat it then.
Gosh, it's good to get together like this, eh.
We used to pal around a lot.
Didn't we?
I'll never forget the day you ran Hetty's bloomers
up the flag pole at school!
Aunt Hetty's underwear!
You can't be serious?
And you were the one who hid the hornets nest
in the back of Abigail Ward's desk?
I remember when we locked Ed Lawson
in the church basement with the skunk?
That was me you locked in the church basement with a skunk.
Oh, that's right.
Your parents wouldn't let you inside the house
for about a week.
I had to sleep in the G.D. barn.
Those were the days...
remember when we used to take those arctic swims?
Arctic swims?
Jump into the fishing holes.
You're joking right?
C'mon let's do it!
What?
C'mon.
We're not old men yet!
You wouldn't dare.
Oh really?
Right, we'll see about that.
You're on!
Nuttier than fruitcakes.
Father!
Gus.
Jasper!
Oh now Abigail, I thought you knew.
That china, the Limoges china was promised to me,
as the oldest daughter.
I haven't the faintest where you got that idea, Janet, dear.
But you're welcome to it.
Thank you.
Heavens knows, how many other things you've spirited away.
Spirited away?
Now, what do you mean?
I have never helped myself to anything
that was rightfully yours.
Janet.
Don't pretend that Spode platter of yours didn't come
directly from my dining room cabinet.
I borrowed it!
Clearly you had no need of it.
My goodness!
One little piece of china!
If you'd wanted it back so badly,
all you had to do was ask for it!
Why didn't you just ask?
All right! That's enough!
That's it, stop and Let me down off this thing!
I'd rather walk than listen to another word of this!
Oh but Hetty!
The girls are preparing supper for us!
Well you can send Sara home immediately!
And the next time you two plan a lovely afternoon together,
you can count me out!
Now don't say something you'll regret later.
Oh now be quiet, Olivia and get down.
My only regret will be if I don't say something!
You two can pussyfoot around each other
for rest of your natural born days, for all I care,
but it makes me sick to listen to it.
Why don't you just drop the ridiculous charade and say what
it is you really want to say to each other and done with.
You Wards are all the same!
You'd do well to grow up, the both of you!
If that's the way you feel, Hetty King . . . fine!
Let's go Abigail.
That's Jasper's cutter!
Hetty King, it's a blasted long walk!
Whose idea was that anyway?
Are you sure you're all right?
Fine, I'm fine.
Alec King you could convince me to do the craziest things,
even when I knew better.
Bloody fool.
That's what I am.
Jasper...
I don't know how I can... you know If you hadn't been...
I could have drowned...
Well...guess we're even.
Well, Felix and I are sure glad you came along.
It's been um,
an experience.
Everything's all packed up.
Better get out of here right quick.
There's a big blizzard on the way.
Good.
Well, Hetty's certainly cut off her nose to spite her face.
She's going to miss a darn good dinner.
All because you and I have a little disagreement.
Oh, and thank you for picking up the bill for our tea.
I'll reimburse you as soon as we get home.
What are sister's for?
I left the house in such a hurry I didn't even think
to take enough money.
Oh silly you.
Is something wrong, Abigail.
No.
I guess it's just that it's a little draining to be
with someone who so obviously refuses to act her age.
I beg your pardon?
Carrying on like that at that auction,
and disgracing us all in public.
Abigail...I didn't...!
You acted like a witless schoolgirl over
that cheap ugly music box.
And then humilating me even with that waiter at the White Sands.
"Oh how foolish of me!
I haven't a penny in my purse!"
Abigail...I didn't...!
Father,
he must be turning over in his grave in embarrassment.
Mr. Dale.
Mr. Dale...
Yes, Mr. King?
I've been trying to get some... information.
Good, good... information's always useful...
That's good to hear from you.
Knowing that you're a married man and all,
and that you know all about...life.
Life?
Yeah...you know...life.
Life...you know...
Life...oh...oh, I see...well,
what's your father told you about it?
Nothing.
Something stupid about bees buzzing.
Well, I've always been one to think that you don't find out
anything until you ask the right question.
So you're right to ask.
You see, it's all quite scientific in one way...
the whole question comes down to true, strong,
basic human emotions.
Are we talking about the same thing?
Yeah, I think we are.
Knowledge is never a bad thing if it's used to good purposes.
Maybe we should bring in the little culprit inside.
They'll be back any minute and I'd hate for Aunt Abigail
to see her beloved little Robert tied to the clothesline.
Yeah, I suppose you're right.
Oh no Sara!
He's gone!
Oh, Abigail, say something
You're...so childish.
Well you are!
You're...you're sulking...
just like when we were children.
Everytime you were losing an argument
you just stopped speaking.
Abigail?
Cecily!
You stay here and watch Daniel!
What?
We've lost Lucky!
Goodness that's cold.
Cecily, what's wrong?
Where's Felicity?
They've gone out.
Gone out where?
To look for Lucky.
Oh my dear God!
Oh Janet!
My baby!
Abigail, calm down.
We'll find him!
Abigail! ! !
Calm down!
Cecily, you stay put.
Now don't you move out of this house.
Abigail, it will all be fine!
Abigail!
Come!
Digger!
Lucky!
Where were you?
We were worried.
Come back here.
When I catch you you're in trouble.
Get back here you little monster.
I don't care what you say, just patch things up,
for the sake of the girls.
Olivia.
Go on.
Lucky!
What's going on here?
Where's your mother?
They all ran out looking for Lucky and now he's back
and driving me crazy!
Now Cecily, start from the beginning.
Well...
Lucky!
Lucky, Where are you?
Lucky!
Don't worry Sara, we'll find him.
I know these woods like the back of my hand.
Lucky!
Why have we passed this tree stump three times?
Lucky!
Sara!
Felicity!
Lucky!
Robert!
Don't confuse him!
Lucky!
Sara!
Janet!
Felicity!
Abigail!
Anybody! !
Janet has no sense of direction whatsoever.
They'll probably find themselves hopelessly lost.
Janet!
We're lost and you know it.
We haven't found my Robert.
Or Felicity.
Or Sara.
What are we going to do, I just can't bear it...
Abigail...
Oh, my baby.
Oh Lucky!
Lucky?
Sara!
Felicity!
Janet!
Over here!
We're over here!
- Lucky? - He's fine.
He's...he's fine?
He's at home with Cecily, right as rain.
And the girls?
Oh they're probably home by now, too.
Come on now let's head in that direction.
Come on.
Oh no Hetty, I think it's this way.
Oh no, no Janet this way.
Oh but...but Hetty...
Don't forget the lantern, Jasper.
Gus, I want you to stay here and look after the children.
Alright.
Let's go.
I don't want to stay with the babies.
I know that woods blindfolded.
If anyone can find 'em, I can.
I'll come with you.
Cecily, you stay here.
I know.
Come on Digger!
Hetty, this doesn't feel right.
We've passed that tree with the broken branch before.
Olivia the woods are full of trees with broken branches.
Hetty King.
I thought you said you knew the way out of here.
Why do you always think you know everything?
I'm head of the family, that is why.
No Hetty King you're not the head of the family,
It's just a long time ago
the rest of us realized life would be a whole
lot easier if we just let you think you were!
Oh, is that so?
Oh we're never going to find our way home!
Why did I ever leave my baby alone in your house.
Oh heaven's sakes Abigail.
He wasn't alone.
He was with the children.
Children can't mind other children.
I'm amazed your brood are all in one piece,
the cavalier way you treat them.
Well I don't believe in coddling them every step of the way,
spoiling them rotten.
Is that what you think I do.
Do you?
Yes Abigail.
Yes, that is what you do!
Stay out of this, Hetty King.
Be quiet!
All of you!
Don't you realize that the snow is getting heavier
and it's getting colder by the minute.
We have to stick together here and figure out what to do.
We need to build a shelter.
Janet, start scraping the snow away from underneath
that broken tree.
Abigail, I want you to collect some long thin branches.
Now Abigail!
Hetty, come with me!
I saw some fallen bows back there.
You know, I've been trying really hard to be friends...
you have no idea how you've embarrassed me
in front of my sisters-in-law.
Oh Janet!
I embarrass you?
I could barely hold my head up!
It's just like when we were little.
I was ashamed to even say that you were my sister.
The way you galavanted around
playing hooky,
running away!
Well, do you think it was easy having you as a sister?
You always thought you were better than I was,
smarter than I was!
I was, I am.
If you really feel that way how can we be friends?
We're not friends!
We're sisters!
Oh Janet.
I'm sorry that I said all those things.
I didn't mean a word...
You meant every word of it,
but it doesn't matter...
I'm sorry too...
Good Lord Olivia, look.
I must be delirious.
Shhh!
I thought I heard somethin'.
Janet!
Felicity!
Olivia!
Felicity!
Digger!
Gus!
Oh thank goodness.
I've never been so frightened in my whole life.
It's alright.
Everything's fine.
We've lost Lucky!
He's at home.
You mean the little devil is safe?
Thank goodness.
Of course, we were fine.
We were just resting.
Oh sure you were.
You two were a bunch of scared rabbits.
Come on let's go.
Oh hello there Digger!
Digger!
Uncle Alec!
Alec!
Thank heavens!
Jasper!
Oh Jasper.
Here, the two of you just need one cup between you, huh?
Here you go Gus.
So, how was the auction?
Oh, well,
I think it was very successful.
♪
It's the song you used to sing to me when we were courting.
So it was.
Jasper.
From now on I promise I'm never going to try
to talk you into anything you don't want to do.
No, you're absolutely right, Olivia.
I'm glad you made me go.
But you promise me one thing,
you'll never make me eat fish fried in lard.
Alec King, did you make Jasper eat fish fried in lard?
It's a family tradition.
One that we could do without.
Whatever happened to that King family spirit.
Alec remember that time you and Father
caught all those fish...
And he asked how many are in that sack?
I said 24, thinking he meant fillets.
But he meant fish.
And he kept asking and asking and you kept saying 24, 24.
I thought he'd never speak to me again.
He was purple with frustration.
I win again Felix.
Sara you know the bet we talked about?
Yes.
I know something that you don't know.
What?
Felix, I knew that.
I'd like to um...
make a toast...
seeing I'm so good at them...
To friends...
Hear,hear!
And relations!
And relations.