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The Cavalcade of America.

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country derive keen enjoyment from stories of America's history depicting

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traits of American character that built this nation. It's appropriate that the

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progress of the DuPont company has closely paralleled the progress of

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America. It has been the privilege of DuPont chemists to develop a number of

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This evening's first episode concerns a family who ventured into Ohio territory

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in 1798 when it was a wilderness inhabited by Indians. Our cavalcade

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orchestra sets the scene with Frederick Knight Logan's American Indian melody

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Pale Moon.

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Loyalty to the family, the basic unit of our country's social structure,

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has been a great force for good in America.

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Since it is largely in the hands of women that the care of our families has been placed,

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it is to the history of American womanhood that we look this evening

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for the highest examples of unselfish devotion.

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It is the winter of 1798 in the small town of Harpersfield, New York.

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At the parlor of Alexander Harper home, Colonel Harper is talking to a group of men.

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But in the sitting room, a more informal meeting is being held.

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Two ladies of Harpersfield talk to the Colonel's wife, Elizabeth Harper, and her friend, Dorothy Gregory.

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I cannot see how you and Dorothy can remain so calm, Elizabeth, when your husbands are in there

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planning your whole futures and that of your descendants.

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Well, Elizabeth feels there's nothing so greatly unusual in moving our families to the western wilderness.

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Perhaps you think you'll find a pretty home like this one waiting for you in the western reserve, Elizabeth.

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Oh, no. At first we may not even have cabins, but tents or shelters made of bark.

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But Elizabeth, what in the world will you do in that wild country for neighbors?

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Well, we may have to take to minding our own affairs.

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I think you treat this matter with unbecoming levity, Elizabeth,

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considering that you have induced poor Dorothy Gregory to accompany you.

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Why, indeed, no, Mrs. Bigelow.

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Ezra has long wished to go to Ohio, and when the Harpers resolved on moving and I saw Elizabeth's resolution,

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I consented to the plan.

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Well, you will both be sorry. Come, Mrs. Stevens, we must be going back to the village.

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Why, must you leave? My husband's business will be concluded soon.

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Well, everyone in Harpersfield is so curious to know your plans that we must bring them word.

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Well, good evening, Dorothy. Good evening. Good evening, Mrs. Stevens.

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Oh, did their idle gossiping anger you, Elizabeth? A whole hour of such talk.

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No, I am angry at myself, not them. Their words raised old doubts.

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Oh, Elizabeth, it isn't too late for us to say no. Even now, we can...

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Well, then we'll start the journey by sled, Gregory, before the Thor is set in, Colonel Harper.

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Elizabeth, my dear. Yes?

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This meeting has determined us on final steps.

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The McFarlans have promised to join us. It wants, but our wives consent.

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Well, Elizabeth has been taking the...

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First, darling, will the plan of travel be safe for the children, Alex?

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We go by sled to Rome, by boat to Oswego, thence to Queenstown, and from there, on the Canada side to Fort Erie.

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How far will we find roads?

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There are no roads west of the Genesee River, unfortunately.

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Alex, it is best for the children, isn't it? You have assured me.

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There's no question of it, Elizabeth. You have but to sign this deed.

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Oh, wait, Elizabeth. Look. Look what a great expanse of map without towns or houses.

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But notice, Dorothy, our land is directly south of Lake Erie, near the waterways route, through these great lakes.

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Towns follow waterways. Later trade routes will follow towns.

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Our descendants will be living on a great route from east to west.

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Well, I know nothing of trade routes. You decide, Elizabeth.

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I think we must go, Dorothy. Alex.

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Yes, dear.

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I fix my name to this deed which will take us westward.

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The journey passed safely, but the arrival was tragic.

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Fever struck the little colony, and Colonel Harper died.

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Elizabeth was left to endure a first winter that meant hiding her grief and comforting her children.

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It is early spring. In the forest near her cabin, Elizabeth Harper and her three children are in the woods.

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It is early spring. In the forest near her cabin, Elizabeth Harper and her three youngest children search about through the grasses for wild plants.

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Young Alex speaks.

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Do we have to go on picking, Mother? I'm so tired.

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I feel dizzy.

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That's because you're so hungry. I get wobbly, too.

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Now sit down on this log, children, and rest.

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Yes, Mother.

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There. Well, we've got five baskets full of wild leeks.

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I'm almost sure that when they're boiled, we can eat them.

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Will there, will there surely be some food to eat in spring, Mother? Real food.

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We don't have to wait until spring comes, do we, Mother?

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Oh, I've told you, children. There'll be food as soon as your brothers come back from Pennsylvania.

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Someone there is bound to have food.

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Oh, if I'd only come early enough to plant more grain. Or perhaps if your father had lived.

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Elizabeth? Oh, Elizabeth!

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It's Mrs. Gregory.

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Oh, Elizabeth. McFarland and Ezra sent me out to speak to you.

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They thought, all of us thought, you should consider something.

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What is it, Dorothy?

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How long has it been since James and William sent out to Pennsylvania?

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Six weeks tomorrow.

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It is a long time for such a journey.

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Oh, but the rivers are flowing, and it's the worst time of year to journey.

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So William McFarland said.

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Perhaps they wandered southward rather than forward a stream and fell in with Indians.

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My sons would not take risks when our lives depend on them.

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But they're scarcely grown to manhood, and what do they know of Indians?

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Oh, Mother, have Indians got villain James?

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Robert. Mother, I'm scared.

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Eliza, hush, all of you. You must listen to me a moment.

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Sit down again and be quiet.

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I want to tell you a story about your father.

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Fifteen years ago, when you boys were not yet born, and Eliza was a baby,

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your father fought in the revolution.

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He was captured by a Mohawk chieftain.

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He was?

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He was dragged northward through the forest to Niagara,

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threatened with death at every step, and told he might never return.

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Go on, Mother.

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He was made to run the gauntlet.

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When that did not kill him, he was sent to Quebec, where he laid in prison for two years,

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wondering every day if his wife and his children were safe.

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But he never gave up.

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He came home, didn't he, Mom?

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He came back because his courage did not fail him.

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Now shall we go back to the cabin without fears of what may have happened to William and James?

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Yes, Mother.

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I'll carry two baskets.

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Come along, Rob.

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I'll run ahead and get water to boil.

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Are you coming, Elizabeth?

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I would stay in the woods a moment to gather strength.

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You go with the children, Dorothy.

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Well, I'll spread the news that we'll have something to eat.

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Dear Lord, I pray that you give me the courage I have counseled in my children.

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We are near extremity.

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Oh, I pray they spare the young ones, Amalia, for they suffer without understanding.

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Oh, dear Lord.

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Hello?

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Hello?

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Who is it?

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Hello?

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James!

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Mother?

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Yes?

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Mother, is that you?

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Yes.

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I saw figures in the trees.

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I thought I was dreaming.

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Oh, James.

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Oh, Mother.

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Oh, how good to find you.

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But where is William?

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He's mired on a creek bank two miles back.

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It's these heavy sacks of corn we were carrying.

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Look, Mother, plenty of corn.

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Oh, come with it, quick.

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We're starving.

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We got it from a man on Elk Creek in Pennsylvania.

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Oh, here, give me part of that sack.

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Oh, no.

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Mother.

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No, I feel faint.

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Food.

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Food.

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And I'm too weak to carry it.

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Hurry ahead, James.

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Tell everyone we have food.

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The settlement was saved from starvation, and though hard times followed, no such crisis of hunger ever rose again.

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For the first three years, the settlers saw no end in them.

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They toiled to improve their tiny village and build additions to their cabin.

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At the Harper Cabin in 1802, in the larger room of their two-room home, Elizabeth Harper anxiously instructs her daughter, Eliza.

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Here's a quotation from the merchant of Venice, Eliza.

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The quality of mercy is not strained, not strained.

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It droppers as...

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As the gentle rain from heaven...

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Upon?

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Upon the place beneath.

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Oh, I'm so nervous, Mother.

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Why did you insist that Mr. McFarland and Mr. Gregory come over to question me?

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Certainly they will choose me, teacher, because there's no one else to be teacher.

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Eliza, in this rough country, men will quickly forget their graces of life if women do not constantly remind them.

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For that reason, you must know your literature and history, and we must have a proper examination before you take charge of our young ones.

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Oh, oh, Mother, I think that Mr. McFarland and Mr. Gregory now, they're coming into the house.

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Now, don't behave like a little child, Eliza. Answer the door and click the...

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Oh, yes, Mother.

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Ah! Oh, Mother, Indian! Indian, oh, Mother!

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Stay, stay, keep your head.

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What do you want?

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Oh, Mother, Mother, shall I run to get the men?

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Make no sudden movement to alarm them.

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Oh, but what will they do to us?

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I do believe the man is hungry. Else why does he point to his mouth?

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Come, sir, inside, here.

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Mother, now!

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Look, you Indian, do you see where I point those corn cakes?

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To he who?

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Yes, for you, for your friends. Call them.

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Oh, no, Mother.

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Oh, Mother, I pray they'll pass through this room without harm.

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Be calm, Eliza. You are not even looking at them.

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Why did you?

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Oh, they look thin to the point of starvation.

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We are safe.

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Oh, Mother.

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The deep snows must have ruined their hunting.

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Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Harper, oh, there they are.

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Put down that gun, Ezra.

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A tribe of Indians in your cabin?

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I invited them. It was the safest plan.

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Target William and James. They stay there, we have them trapped.

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But, Ezra, they mean us no harm. They could have slain us at once if they had.

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But I cannot make it out.

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You, we have waited for them three years, then they appear and walk peaceably into your cabin.

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It's a stroke of luck, Ezra, and one of our first.

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Look, you, today we planned a school, heard that the post road was coming,

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and now our traditional enemy is eager to try my corn cakes.

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Oh, for these long years I've fretted for the East, but today I am content.

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For even after all the hardships we've been through, I feel that this country is home,

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a safe home for me and my children.

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The Indians become friends of the colonists and often help them.

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New settlers arrive from the East, and Elizabeth Harper watches her children grow up in a well-populated country.

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Her loyalty to her family bore fruit in their success and in their services to the new state of Ohio.

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Loyalty to family is as natural to American womanhood today as at the end of the 18th century

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when Elizabeth Harper fended for her children in the wilderness.

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The second episode in this evening's Cavalcade of America, presented by DuPont, takes place in the autumn of 1922.

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In the office of a department store manager, Nancy Barrett has an anxious talk.

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The manager, Mr. Johnson, is speaking.

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Of course, this is an interesting hobby, Mrs. Barrett.

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Oh, it's more than a hobby, Mr. Johnson. I really work at it in all my spare time.

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I've been giving nothing but my pottery as gifts for years.

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For the last few months, ever since my husband had to go south for his health, I've been selling it.

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How do you do the firing, if I may ask?

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Well, it was just luck that I found a man who knew kilns.

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Francois, he's an old Frenchman who worked when he was young at Limoges.

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He built me a small kiln and a workshop back at my house.

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Well, frankly, Mrs. Barrett, we're not doing much expanding at the present time.

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Even adding a new pottery shop to our China department would come under the head of expansion right now.

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Well, I have a lot of friends.

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See, so many women in town know my work already that I have a ready-made clientele.

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Well, if you'll give me your address.

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It's 458 Judson Boulevard.

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458.

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It's the White House set back in the trees.

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But Mr. Johnson, you don't really intend to come.

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I think I'll have to show you my emergency vase.

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Your what?

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My emergency vase, the vase I brought along to show you in case you simply wouldn't set foot over my doorstep.

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Well, I...

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It's in this box which I'm trying to open.

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Can I help?

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I'm nervous, I do believe.

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Salesmanship is new to me.

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There.

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May I put it on your desk?

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It's very beautiful.

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I think this aquamarine color catches an under-surface sheen that I'm working for.

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How do you get these magnificent swirls of color?

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Oh, that's a secret.

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But I'll tell you one thing.

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I'm using native clays from right down on our own riverbank.

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It means a lot of fuss with the firing because almost anything's got to go wrong.

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But from there on, it's not...

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Mrs. Barrett, I'm impressed with your work even though I don't know much about pottering.

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I'll certainly have a look at your shop.

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Oh, I'll be so happy.

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My secretary will make the appointment.

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If we make a deal at all, it has to be for the holiday trade.

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Can I help you get that vase in the box?

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Thank you.

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You packed it well.

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I'm shipping it.

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Oh, you have an out-of-town trade?

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No, but I've got a husband in a sanitarium down south who sometimes gets flowers when I feel prosperous.

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Goodbye, Mr. Johnson.

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And thank you very much for answering my letter and for seeing me.

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I've enjoyed our talk.

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Goodbye.

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A few weeks later in Nancy's home.

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It is just before daylight.

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But in the dining room, Nancy sits asleep, her head fallen over her drawing board spread on the dining room table.

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Randy, her young son in pajamas and bathrobe, comes in, sees her, and shakes her gently.

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The

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children are all asleep.

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They are all in their bed.

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They are all in their bed.

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They are all in their bed.

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The young man in pajamas and bathrobe comes in, sees her, and shakes her gently.

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Mother.

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Hmm?

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Can't you come to bed?

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Oh, Randy.

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You're getting almost as bad as dad was about staying up.

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And that was pretty bad.

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Oh, Francois and that new man are on the oven.

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They're going to call me as soon as this firing is finished.

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Don't worry about it so much, Mom.

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Oh, I'm not so terribly worried.

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Well, you act like it.

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Won't the store take it if you don't get it done on time?

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Not so much that.

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But if anything goes wrong, I haven't money enough to pay for another firing.

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What would happen to us then?

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I don't know.

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Read dad's letter again.

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Oh, no, Randy.

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Why not?

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Because it's only a letter.

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What good does it do?

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He's so far away.

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Oh.

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All right.

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Oh, I'm sorry, Randy.

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Of course I'll read it, darling.

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Here, here it is.

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Let's see.

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He says, well, he misses us terribly.

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He likes the doctor down there.

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And the doctor says it's been six months of progress.

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And it'll only be two years more.

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Maybe you'd better not read it.

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What's that?

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It's the alarm clock going off in the kitchen.

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Oh, I got it.

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But what?

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Why is it going off?

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I don't know.

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Didn't you say it?

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Yes, but for six o'clock.

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That's what it is now.

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Oh, it couldn't be.

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Why, I sat down here at 10 o'clock to rest just a few minutes.

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Oh, they're going to draw the oven at midnight.

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Something's gone wrong, or they'd have called me.

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Mother, where are you going?

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To the oven.

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Wait, I'm coming.

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Wait, mother.

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Francois.

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Yes?

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Yes, yes, what is it, Mrs. Dow?

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Oh, what happened?

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Why didn't you call?

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Nothing happens.

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I come to the house, you asleep, and the new man and me withdraw.

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Oh, let me see it.

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Why, it looks all right.

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The wear in this dagger looks fine.

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Sure, it is fine.

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Other daggers just as good.

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Oh, thank heaven.

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I feel like shouting.

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Mother.

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Yes?

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It's getting light.

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Look at the sky.

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If they don't hurry, you won't get any sleep.

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I don't need sleep.

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Francois, you and Randy and I'll have breakfast right away.

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Then before I start on that sorting, I'll write a letter south.

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The ability to endure separation and loneliness is one of the

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sternest tests of loyalty to family.

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Two years later at the railroad station, Nancy Barrett and Randy are talking together.

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I guess we've been here about an hour now.

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Well, we did get here a little early.

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I can see it the minute it comes around that curve.

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Yes.

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And boy, am I going to yell.

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Not too loud now, Randy.

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Oh, say, you'll yell too.

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How are you doing, Mrs. Barrett?

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Oh, how do you do, Mr. Light?

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Hello there, Randy.

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Hello.

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That was a mighty nice piece about you in her favor last night, Mrs. Barrett.

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Your husband should be very proud of you.

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Thank you, Mr. Light.

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Are you expecting him on this train?

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Yes, we are.

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So am I.

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I'm missing him on that curve.

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Hooray!

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Randy, Randy, take my hand here.

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Yes, you'll get it.

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Come on, Randy, I don't know what car he's on.

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Oh dear, you don't suppose he missed connections?

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Oh, he wouldn't do that.

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Yeah, I shouldn't think he would.

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Oh, I hope not.

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Oh, where is he, Mom?

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Where is he?

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Oh, there he is.

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We're always as brown as an Indian.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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How are you, dear?

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Oh, terribly happy, darling.

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Terribly glad you're back.

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And now everything's all right again.

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Oh, I'm so happy.

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Oh, I'm so happy.

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Oh, I'm so happy.

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Oh, I'm so happy.

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And now everything's all right again.

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Loyalty to family.

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In the most difficult times, it has triumphed over every obstacle and presented to children

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an example of courage and faithfulness.

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Though many kinds of idealism have appeared in the cavalcade of America, the devotion shown

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by pioneer women and by their enduring sisters today is of a distinguished sort.

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To those members of families who have contributed to their country's welfare by guarding the

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welfare of their loved ones, we pay a special tribute.

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They are true leaders in the cavalcade of America.

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This evening, the cavalcade of America has brought you two episodes exemplifying the

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American spirit of loyalty to family.

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Now we want to share with you another true life story of loyalty as related in a sincere

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and human letter recently received from one of our listeners.

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Mr. C.A.F. of Washington, D.C. writes, I have been listening over the radio ever since there

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were sets available and I've never heard anything that has been interesting like the cavalcade

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of America.

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It's wonderful and I look forward to it every week.

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I am proud of America and what Americans have done and I hope you'll keep up your good work.

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When I was a boy in Michigan, I learned to use dynamite to blast out rocks on my father's

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farm.

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I got the blasting rocks and stumps for the neighbors and ordered the dynamite directly

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from the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware.

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I thought your company just the greatest thing in the world, for I was able to make enough

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money at this work to buy all my clothes.

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I never had much chance to go to school, but finally got a job at a Detroit power plant

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and went to night school and worked up to be an engineer.

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When the war came, I enlisted and upon returning, learned photography and started a studio in

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Illinois.

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I got along real well and married.

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It didn't seem to be our luck to have any children, so we adopted two orphans, a boy

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and a girl.

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We had just taken these two children when the big crash came and we lost our business.

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Things are a little better with us now and with the educational advantages here, I hope

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to make the boy what I always wanted to be.

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Since I was associated with your company when a boy, I could not help telling you the above

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story.

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Keep up your wonderful program and I'll be listening to you.

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Thank you, Mr. CAF.

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Chemistry is truly a story of loyalty and of faith in America as a land of opportunity.

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Letters like yours furnishing at first hand the experiences of listeners tell better than

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any words of ours could possibly do how chemistry touches the lives of the American people.

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In your case, it was your skill in using agricultural dynamite to clear farms of stumps and boulders

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that gave you a start in making your own way in the world.

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The DuPont Company, of course, makes many other useful chemical products and we hope

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you have enjoyed learning about some of them through the brief stories of research usually

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given at the end of these programs.

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Your experience and that of millions of others throughout the country emphasize the phrase

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which DuPont chemists hold as their guiding principle, better things for better living

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through chemistry.

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Next Wednesday evening at this same time, DuPont will again present the cavalcade of

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America.

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Since next Wednesday is February 12th, the birthday anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, it

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is fitting that our program for that evening should dramatize some of the less familiar

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incidents from the life of the great emancipator.

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This is the Columbia Broadcasting Service.

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W-A-B-C, New York.