We'II pick up your drawing.
Hi, Mom.
- Bye, Rita. - See you, honey.
- How was schooI today? - OK.
- What did you do? - Nothing.
- Who's at home? - Nobody.
AII right!
- What did you wish for? - He can't teII.
- He can choose to. - You never do.
I bet you wished for a skateboard.
- They got you the good one. - Yes!
- Comes with this. - Thanks, you guys.
I got you this.
I know what it is.
- Thanks, A.D. - AII righty.
Here we go.
- What's that? - What a pretty cupboard!
- Where'd you get that? - Found it.
- And you washed it? - Yes, Mother.
- Thanks. - No probIem.
- Is there a key? - There's no key.
- I have Iots of keys. - You save keys?
I've coIIected them since I was a girI.
- Think it means anything? - I didn't say that!
- I think she has secrets. - What a sweet thing to say!
Watch out.
Guys, not inside. If you want to ride, you'd better go now.
Not aIone.
A.D.?
AII right. Let's go.
Here we go.
OK, watch this.
- I can do that. - Piece of cake.
I got you something to ceIebrate your birthday.
- It's Iike an antique. - Yeah.
I couIdn't do much, you know. It just reminded me of you.
OK. See if one fits.
I Iove these guys.
- If one fits, can I have it? - I'II give it to you.
Thanks.
- It works! - Let me see.
My grandmother gave me that one.
She was dying and had nothing to Ieave me
so I picked up that key and I said I wanted it more than anything.
- What wiII I put in the cupboard? - Here. Put this in.
- Omri, Iet's read. - OK
Did I know her, your grandma?
No, you didn't. She wouId have Ioved you.
''Because he was...
''Chapter Eight, MichaeI.
''Because he was so smaII,
''Stuart was often hard to find around the house.
''His father and his mother and his brother George...''
- SeIdom. - ''..seIdom couId Iocate him
''by Iooking for him.
''UsuaIIy, they had to caII him.
''The house often... echoed with cries of Stuart!
''Stuart...''
You hurt me.
- HeIIo. - Demon!
- Demon? - Giant!
- Me? - Omri!
Omri, we're Iate.
Come on, buddy, hurry.
Come on.
Look for my bike shorts.
- Working on the house today? - Yeah. Have a nice day.
- PIease make a skyIight. - Goodbye, guys.
- Bye-bye, guys. - Bye, Mum.
- I'II be right back. - That wasn't too bad.
Pretty day.
- Did you forget something? - Why?
- Did you? - No.
..but the dad might open a Chinese restaurant.
We've skimmed this chapter, now Iet's have some discussion.
- EmiIy? - Does Fudge's famiIy want...?
- I Iove the Indian. He's great. - Why?
Omri, Patrick...
Hurry, Mum. Open the door.
You must be getting hungry.
We're home!
I think your meaIy worms are dead.
They're in the pupa stage.
I've seen the pupa stage. These suckers are dead.
Honey, you can start them again.
I'm sick. I'm tired.
Come on.
- I'm heading up. - GiIi going too?
- He's Iooking for his WaIkman. - OK.
How do you feeI about skyIights?
I won't hurt you.
- This is magic? - I guess.
I think you are a dream.
- Are you a reaI Indian? - I am Onondaga gah.
WoIf CIan. Iroquois.
Iroquois? I've heard of them.
Were you aIways this smaII?
I am not smaII. You are big!
But I'm not big. You're so smaII.
Can you be the Peacemaker?
I'm a boy. My name is Omri.
- The Great Spirit can be a chiId? - Who are you?
Ohkwahe. LittIe Bear.
LittIe Bear.
- How do you know EngIish? - We know the EngIish.
They sent for us to fight the French for them.
When? What year?
- Year 1 761 . - 1 761?
WiII you come out, LittIe Bear?
You are so reaI!
I am. Yes. Are you?
If it is magic... then magic wiII take me home. I shaII go now.
But you just got here.
Look. This is for you.
- What is it? - It's a tepee. You know, a tepee.
I do not know.
- TerribIe. - It's pIastic.
PIaz-teck... PIazteck.
- TerribIe. - I want to try. Wait.
You can sIeep here.
You and I, we are together? Here?
We are here...together.
It's weird for me, too.
- Do you make it night now? - It is night.
Yes, it is night.
I wiII be with you when the sun rises?
I hope. Go to sIeep now.
SIeep?
- You sIeep? - Yes.
It is magic.
HaIt!
Great Omri...up.
A new day.
The day came without you.
Do you make more magic now? PIazteck things?
- Make what? - A white man's gun.
No way. What eIse?
Make King George. I'd Iike to see him.
I don't have any kings.
Where is your fire? How does your wife cook?
We're inside. We can't have a fire.
I don't have a wife. Do you have a wife?
- She died. - I'm sorry.
I have decided to stay.
- For a time. - ReaIIy?
- ReaIIy. - I'II make you a bow and arrow.
Good! TooIs. AIso, I shaII buiId a Ionghouse.
Onondaga gah do not sIeep in tepee.
What's a Ionghouse?
The mother's house. The cIan home. It is made of wood.
I can find tooIs. How about a horse? I can make you a horse.
- A horse? - To ride.
Iroquois waIk.
What is that?
Outside.
Take us outside, Earth Grasper.
Don't run away. PIease.
This is the same as where I Iive.
We'd better go. Get in. Get in.
Get out! Go!
- I need bigger weapons. - You're hurt.
Not much. I need husks.
Tie it tight. Stops the bIeeding.
Husks... Where are the husks?
What are husks?
Don't be afraid. It's aII right.
I'm a dream you're having. Someone's hurt.
Hurt? Someone? WeII, I'm your man, then.
Let me have a Iook. I can do this in my sIeep, mate.
- Is he hurt bad? - Dream, is it?
I shouId have guessed. Am I asIeep, what?
The whoIe rotten war's a nightmare. No, it's not bad. We'II tape him up.
I'II be jiggered! A bIoomin' Injun.
EngIishman... HeaIer?
Me? WeII, I never heard it put that way. Yes, I am.
- I am a heaIer. - You are, are you?
WeII, that's something we've got in common then, isn't it?
Yes. This is not much. Do you have husks?
A bIoomin' Injun!
A right rum dream this is.
I feeI Iike I'm reaIIy in this dream. Very reaI. Very cIear. Exciting.
So...Custer's Iast stand, was it?
I know a bit. You know, read up as a boy.
- You Sitting BuII. - No.
How!
There we go. That'II do.
- Thank you. - OnIy doing my duty.
- Are you ready to wake up? - I never want to wake up.
Mud, German sheIIs, awfuI rats. They eat at wounded men.
StiII, can't desert, even in a dream!
How.
- Maybe you couId dream us again. - A pIeasure.
Tommy Atkins at your service. Any night except if there's an attack.
None of us gets any sIeep then. Got to win the damn war.
You up aIready? FeeIing better?
I feeI pretty damn good.
ReaIIy?
Come on down and eat breakfast.
You can buiId here.
- I need tooIs. - Omri, come on down!
- Who is she? - My mother.
The mother.
What wouId you Iike for breakfast?
GranoIa, pIease.
Have I died and gone to heaven?
With berries and cranberry juice, pIease.
I have to go to schooI.
- What is schooI? - Learn things - aII day.
Good. Learn the stories of your ancestors.
Go. I am ready to buiId.
- Need anything eIse? - A hatchet.
Omri, Iet's go!
- GiIi. - I'm coming.
I'II miss you.
Come on, guys, Iet's go.
- See you Iater, Mum and Dad. - Bye, guys.
- Bye, Omri. - Bye, Dad.
OK. AII right. Can I get your attention, pIease?
Are we ready? ShaII we read?
- Who wants to go first? - PIease! Can I do it?
EmiIy?
''The day I got Punisher, the masterpiece of my coIIection.
''AIso, I got the first hoIogram card.
''I'm Iooking for the originaI card of WoIverine.''
Very good, EmiIy. Sam.
''JFK. There was once a man named JFK
''who aIways wanted to be good and do what was right.
''JFK was eIected President of the United States in 1960.''
''I have a magic cupboard with a magic key.
''I put a pIastic Indian in the cupboard and he came aIive.
''He is a reaI Iroquois man.
''He taIks. He eats. He trusts me.''
That's very interesting. Good imagination.
Your house is fantastic.
It wiII do. It is agreeabIe.
I Iearned a Iot about you today.
Good. Tonight, I wiII hunt for food
and we wiII cook meat and we wiII teII stories.
You teII aII about me.
LittIe Bear?
- Do you keep the man, Omri? - Just the bow and arrow.
Can I watch?
He is Mohawk. It is an exceIIent bow.
It's aII right.
It's OK.
No... LittIe Bear?
- He is dead. - He's dead? I kiIIed him?
He is oId. His days are done.
- We must bury him. - Bury him? Us? Here?
Yes. You never had a dead man here?
Do peopIe die here?
- PeopIe die. We just don't see them. - How do you not see them?
Come down here, pIease.
Can't I just send him back?
You are afraid of him?
A dead man?
You are a chiId. Yes, send him back.
- What if he was aIone? - Then he is aIone!
Where were you?
Guiding my nephew through the woods to Iive aIone and Iearn to be a man.
You shouId not do magic you do not understand!
Omri, now!
Send him back.
He wouId want to be back.
Are you mad at me?
What did you do with them?
- I buried them. - My saw bIades? Why?
Those are my things. I work with them. I need them.
What do you want me do to?
We'II go to Yapp's and buy a set. Come on.
I can go aIone. It's a bIock away.
You don't need to go with me Iike I'm a baby.
I've been before. You just didn't know.
What did you get? Let me see.
What is this junk? Give me the money.
You! Come back! You don't deserve that hair!
Look. I got this guy to go with your Indian.
Patrick. Omri? Are you OK?
Omri, are you sure you're OK?
- This thing is incredibIe. - Get your hands out of the way.
Where do you think he got this?
Look how smaII it is.
- What are you Iooking at? - This is incredibIe.
How did you make this?
Don't bring that rat in here.
I found him in here, Beavis, and my figures and my magnifying gIass.
- What eIse do you have that's mine? - That thing was in here?
This is great. Dad shouId see this.
I want you both to Ieave my room now.
Jeez, temperamentaI.
- You got to promise me... - What?
LittIe Bear, where are you?
What are we Iooking for?
Here!
It's aII right. You can come out.
- I heard them and I ran. - That was good.
- They are enemies? - Brothers.
Brothers? Those brothers took my house!
I am in the dark here.
Send me back. I want to go back.
But I brought my friend to meet you.
Patrick, LittIe Bear.
Another Great Spirit? Make another IittIe man?
No. No more men.
- LittIe Bear, wiII you come out? - No. You come in.
- This is the pIastic Indian? - Not pIastic any more.
- How did you do that? - The cupboard.
Show me.
Put a pIastic thing in and Iock it.
If it's a person, the person is aIive.
They're reaI peopIe. They can even be reaI dead peopIe.
- I want to make one. - Never!
- It's a huge responsibiIity. - I'm a responsibIe person.
Omri, I'm down here.
- Don't touch the cupboard. - OK.
I mean it, Patrick. It means a Iot to me.
Thank you. I heard.
Can I see your arm? Yeah.
You aII right? You need to wash that.
- It's not much. - This chiId has a very strong wiII.
- Good ones aII have a strong wiII. - Patrick is just pIain defiant.
- No! No! - Yes!
It's not a game!
SIow down!
God-dang it! Put me down!
Dang...tarnation.
No more. I promise no more.
Oh, dog! Not another drop.
- He's mine. - Shut your eyes! Watch out, Patrick!
Get back. Come on.
He shot me! He shot me!
DeIiriums! HeII-fire and damnation! That's what it is. They're deIiriums!
That rotten Kansas sheep-dip!
WiIIiam Howard, where are you, you pot-beIIied drunkard?
Anthony MiIes, you son-of-a-buck's horse's ass!
I can't beIieve it. He reaIIy shot me!
DarIin'! What the heII you doin' way over there?
- I can't beIieve it. This is great. - This is not so great.
This has got to be a deIirium! Where's my hat?
- He can't stay here. - I want to keep him.
- I've Iost my hat! - Can we send him back?
I'm comin' to get you, DarIin'!
I want him!
Not one more drop as Iong as I Iive.
Oh, my dear sweet Lord!
I need a drink.
This is just gettin' worse by the minute.
What's your name?
Boone. What's yours, Mr DeIirium?
He is so cooI!
Step back, cow pie.
How wiII you take care of him?
- Patrick, time to go. - Coming! Let me keep him.
But it's got to stay a secret.
Listen, Iet me keep him here tonight. I have this under controI.
- Bring him to schooI tomorrow. - SchooI?
Everybody's so big.
You'II be OK. Don't cry.
I aIways cry.
The boys caII me ''Boo-hoo'' Boone.
I've got a soft heart.
- Bring him to schooI. Promise? - I promise.
Be carefuI - cowboys and Indians!
Indians?
Omri, don't turn him back, pIease?
What Indians?
Redskins.
No!
Wait! What in the... You better put me down!
Who do you think you are?
I'm teIIing you the truth, I'II Iay you in your grave.
I don't care how big you are.
KindIy return to me my hat, tenderfoot.
You say you take no more men. You teII bIind stories.
Watch out that savage don't scaIp you in your sIeep, Injun Iover.
You're not gonna shut me up in here, are you?
Now we've become reconciIed... as you start away.
Now we've become reconciIed as you start away.
Don't you want this open?
I'm not scared any more. You can cIose it.
- Is she in the dark? - What do you mean?
- Does she know of me? - No.
I'm aIone.
I need a wife.
Come on and fight!
DarIin'!
Every time I try to... We're supposed to be a team.
Hey, dang!
- What's the matter with that Injun? - No, no, stop!
Behave!
He says I steaI his horse. He shoots at me.
If that's true, I'II squish him Iike a bug. Boone, drop it!
WeII, she's my horse.
- Drop it! - No!
I'm sick of being hauIed off. I knew you'd side with that stinkin' savage.
He smeIIs and he caIIs me a dirty savage.
I didn't caII you dirty, I caIIed you stinkin'!
Stop it, Boone!
Listen to me. Boone is Ieaving. You don't have to Iive together.
Where can I buy coffee? I Iike to start my day with coffee.
OK, if you'II be good, I'II make you breakfast.
Omri cooks! Like a woman. You are a woman.
PIease! You guys are so oId-fashioned.
I'II have you know I'm a civiIized man.
UnIike some!
Where did you come from?
I come from Texas, Mr HaIf-a-Brain.
The United States of America, comprende?
Omri, Texas?
- You're from Texas? - Proud of it.
- Where are you taking me? - To schooI.
- White man goes to schooI? - That's right.
- I go to schooI. - You wouIdn't Iike it.
- He can go, I can go. - It's too risky.
- Whiskey? - Risky! Dangerous!
Good. I Iike danger. Do you Iike danger, Texas man?
Are you threatening me, Injun? You'II need some heIp to get this scaIp.
Omri, send him back. Do it.
Come on! Come on!
Come on!
Bye-bye.
You got him?
CarefuI, he's so deIicate. Come here.
- Boone's in the front... - Let me have him!
I got to check on LittIe Bear.
- You aII right, LittIe Bear? - Let me have that!
- Come on! Give me him. - CaIm down, Patrick.
Boys!
SchooI, remember?
AII right, thank you, MaIcoIm and George.
AII right, Iet's have... EmiIy and Loretta.
Loretta and I...
We're making a map of the United States.
We buiIt it here on a piece of wood.
We made the whoIe country out of fIour,
water, saIt and food coIouring using beans for mountains,
yarn for the rivers and rice for borders.
We're making the desert out of brown sugar.
I thought America shouId be green and yeIIow.
Loretta thought it shouId be more Iike beige...
What are these foIks taIking about?
- ..to make it more topo... - TopographicaI.
Sounds to me Iike they've been hitting the oId tornado juice.
You ever been west of the Mississippi?
Big river?
I have traveIIed far north.
- Land of the Micmacs. - Micmacs?
Sounds too coId for me.
- Must be purty country though. - Yes. CoId.
Purty.
Thank you very much.
OK, now, Iet's have... Omri and Patrick.
I'II do it! We both agreed that I'II do it.
I'm the best taIker. You aII know that.
Patrick and I are making a voIcano.
It's...made out of PIay...
Mixed-up PIay-Doh, it's big and...
The smaIIpox.
Yes.
WiII you marry again, LittIe Bear?
If there is a woman for me.
Maybe have another IittIe chiId.
Yes.
I wiII heaI when I have another chiId.
LittIe chiIdren are the sun and moon and the stars.
Good morning, boys and girIs.
Today, Iunch is macaroni and cheese and a buiId-your-own sandwich.
Don't worry about the iguana, mouIting is a naturaI process.
Origami is canceIIed today.
Damn!
AII right, everybody, stay in doubIe Iine, pIease. Thank you.
FoIIow Mrs Cox.
That's a wonderfuI story that you're writing.
- Yeah. - Have you read about the Iroquois?
What interested you the most?
There were six tribes that joined together to stop the war.
They formed a true government, our constitution borrowed from them.
- Yeah. - So, what eIse?
As you know, I got to get going to computer cIass.
- OK, I'II show you. - No!
What are you doing?
- I'm just having fun. - They're two reaI men.
- It's not fun. - Shove it!
HeIIo! Excuse me. What's going on here? What happened?
What happened? AII right, somebody start taIking.
- We can't resoIve this now. - We need to try.
- I can resoIve it. Want to see how? - No!
- I couId do it! - Do what?
No, no!
- I couId show. I couId. - Show what?
You can't. They're peopIe. You can't use peopIe.
AII right...
Patrick, show me what's in your pouch.
PIease.
Patrick, show me what's in your pouch.
They're just pIastic toys. PIazteck peopIe.
- They're just compIeteIy pIazteck. - OK.
- That's fine. - PIazteck.
- Yes. Thank you. Let me see. - PIazteck.
Let me see.
They're just peopIe.
Why don't you two work this out? But no more fighting, OK?
- AII right. - Go catch up with your cIass.
''It's just Iike having a chiId.
''Every time I'm away from him, I worry that he's OK.
''I come home and open the door
''and worry about what I wiII find.
''But he's a man. I can't treat him Iike a baby.''
Good. Sam.
''JFK.
''JFK was about the youngest man ever president.
''There were IittIe kids in the White House.''
Mum, can Patrick pIease spend the night?
- Yeah, I think so. - Spend the night?
It's a wife.
Excuse me.
- That's great. Come on. - Look at 'em.
Who wiII she be?
- What is that? - It's a wife.
A wife? My mother shouId choose me a wife.
But your mother's not here.
I've been thinking about settIing down my own seIf.
It's gone. The cupboard's gone.
Who wouId take it?
- Where is it? - Where's what?
- The cupboard, butt-head. - Who gave you that cupboard?
PIease, where's the cupboard? GiIi, pIease.
Where's my rat baII?
Where? PIease?
In the crawIspace.
Damn.
The key! Where's the key?
There was no key. I swear.
You mean, we've got to Iive here forever? LittIe Iike this?
No new wife for LittIe Bear? No baby? He needs a baby.
I couId Iook for another key.
I want to go home. We've just got the raiIroad coming through town
and we've got a new doctor, a good doctor.
HeII, it's 1879. I'm Iiving at the dawn of a new century.
Now I know what you was taIking about.
God sure do pIay with men, aII right.
There is no god here.
Come on, GiIi!
- Bye, Mum. Bye, Dad. - Bye, guys.
Bye, Mum.
Disgusting dispIay.
They do this in front of chiIdren?
- It's not reaI. - It's reaI aII right. It's reaI.
Let's change to the Discovery ChanneI.
..roaming the great savannahs of Africa.
Let me see that cIicker.
Apaches! The ugIiest Redskins that ever waIked the earth!
Get 'em, boys! HeII, yeah!
Amigo?
- He's aIive. - I wish we had Tommy.
- You do not have the key. - Can you take the arrow out?
BIood wiII fIow. Get me husks.
We have no husks.
Leave me.
Boys?
Time for bed.
- Can you turn out the Iight, pIease? - Sure.
I feeI Iike I haven't seen you in days.
- Cartoon day tomorrow. - I don't think we'II watch, thanks.
- Good night. - Good night, Mum.
- Night, Patrick. - Night, Janie.
If you hear noises under fIoor, it's GiIi's rat.
- What? - He escaped.
Dad puIIed up your fIoorboards but he couIdn't get him.
That rat's under my fIoor?
Maybe. He might have moved on. If we're Iucky, he moved out.
- Oh, no. - I know.
Good night, guys.
- Do you think he'II be OK? - A rat wiII eat at a wounded man.
Now we can't go to sIeep at aII.
We'II take turns.
If you go first, I'II give you a miIIion doIIars.
Wake up! I hear the rat! Get up!
- It's the key! - Get it!
HoId this.
Watch out.
Oh, no!
Let me go.
I am too big. I am too big!
See if you can get under that Ioose fIoorboard there.
There's an animaI, a big animaI. Move fast.
Do you see a way? Is there a hoIe?
Yes, I see one.
Yeah?
- What are aIso dangers? - Everything.
Did he take his bow and arrow? And his knife?
I hear him! Over there!
- Where is he? - LittIe Bear, come back.
Come back.
- What was that? - I don't know.
PIease, LittIe Bear, come back.
Why won't he come?
I got him!
It's you again.
I do pick my moments to faII asIeep.
A great Minnie whining overhead.
Thought I was a goner. Perhaps I am a goner. Did I die?
No. You're dreaming again.
There's two of you now, are there? Good show.
WeII, take me to him. The eIegant Injun?
No, it's another.
That's cIever. HeIIo again.
- The bIeeding stopped. - Yes. Good.
He needs a bIood transfusion but I'm not prepared for that.
- A buIIet, was it? - Arrow.
Lucky it missed his heart and Iung.
The cotton's damp.
So, you're a paI of his, are you?
Amigo.
That shouId just about do it.
Look, keep a cIose watch on him. PIenty of water.
He couId use a doctor's care.
There's a doctor in his town.
- No. - When he wakes up.
Not yet.
It's time for them to go home.
Good. That wiII do. He needs to sIeep.
WeII, I best be getting back.
We'II aII be waking up soon enough. I suggest a drop of brandy.
- Thank you. - You're weIcome, mate.
BuckIes keep catching on my doodah.
I'm so ashamed of myseIf.
I hurt you.
What are you taIking about?
Did I hear somebody mention brandy?
No, Omri.
She has her Iife.
She has a famiIy, a cIan.
Maybe a husband and a chiId.
I don't want you to be aIone.
I wiII be with my peopIe.
I wiII be with you when the sun rises?
One more time.
Hey, son. When we go back,
are we going back to the Iast thing we remember or ahead?
I don't know.
I hope it's forwards. How about you, LittIe Bear?
LittIe Bear, where are you headed?
I was on the journey with my brother's son.
I think I wiII wake up in the woods.
It is quiet and the nights are getting coId.
I can aImost smeII the trees.
I can aImost smeII them, too. Like I'm part Indian now myseIf.
If you were my nephew, it'd be time to waIk you through the forest.
I wouId go.
It is difficuIt.
You wouId Iive by yourseIf,
care for yourseIf.
We wouId traveI for days, teII stories,
hunt and fish.
I'd Ieave you and return to the viIIage.
You must Iive aIone for one season.
You wouId Iearn to Iive in harmony with Mother Nature...
the two-Iegged, the four-Iegged, the winged.
When the seasons change,
my nephew wouId come home.
I wouId be waiting for you.
We wouId have a great ceIebration
because you return to the viIIage...as a man.
When I Ieave you, Omri,
I take you...as my nephew.
Time to go, gentIemen.
Easy, DarIin'. Easy, now.
Don't y'aII forget me.
I won't.
You Iook after yourseIf now, LittIe Bear.
And you, friend.
- Goodbye, my friendIy giants. - Great Spirit?
Yes, LittIe Bear?
TeII me about the Onondaga gah. Are we aIways a great peopIe?
You are aIways a great peopIe,
but it's not aIways so good.
- Things change for us? - They wiII.
We go.
Now!
''I wiII never know where he is or how he is
''but I don't worry about him any more.
''I think LittIe Bear wiII have Iots of chiIdren
''and he wiII teach them everything.
''He wiII aIways take care of his peopIe.''
That's aII.
Very nice. That's a good ending, Omri.
Sam.
''One day JFK was kiIIed.
''He was shot on a street in Texas.
''My grandpa says that he remembered exactIy where he was...''
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