The Other

Cripes! It's old lady Rowe!

Come on.

- - Holland?

- Holland! - Keep watch.

It's okay. Go ahead.

Cripe's sake! Hurry up!

- Aha! I finally caught you, Holland Perry! - I'm Niles!

I don't care if you're Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the dirty Democrat!

- You stay out of my piccalilli farrago! -

Let me go! Let me go!

No sass, boy. No sass!

You're gonna go in there and clean up that mess. Hear me?

Rats! Rats! Rats!

Hundreds of rats! My God!

We'll all be down with bubonic plague!

Holland Perry, I'm going to tell your father on you!

Set your foot on my farm, Holland Perry, and I'll do more than take my rug beater to ya!

Do you hear? I'm going to tell your father on you!

Geez, someone oughta tell her Father's dead.

Let's go. Apple cellar!

Wait! Cousin Piggy's out there.

Hey, Winnie! There's Niles!

Niles!

Niles! Niles Perry,!

You know your grandmother doesn't want you boys playing in that barn!

Niles, do you hear me?

You'll miss lunch.

Get on up here right now.

Niles, files, run 20 miles!

Tee-legged, tie-legged, bow-legged Niles!

Little pitchers has got big lips.

- Where you been? - Around.

- - Hi, Uncle George.

What say, skipper? Great day for the race, isn't it?

- What race? - The human race!

What's got into Mrs. Rowe?

I never heard such a caterwaulin'.

Thank God I don't have to work for that crazy old thing.

There's one of my sunshine boys now.

Hi, Aunt Vee.

Why don't you boys set up the card table in the parlor, where it's cool...

and play mah-jongg?

Christ, Valeria, kids don't wanna play mah-jongg.

It's summertime. They wanna go ride old lady Rowe's cow.

Or is that udder nonsense?

- Yowsah, yowsah! - Oh! George!

Russell, you'd better go hose off...

or you're gonna catch flies.

- Hey, Rider! -

Toonerville Trolley's leaving!

Niles, go tell that brother-in-law of yours to get out here.

- We're both gonna get fired. - Yowsah!

Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah!

Yowsah! Yowsah!

Hi, Rider. Hi, Sis.

Hey, kiddo.

Eat! I swear, you kids must think I'm runnin' a restaurant around here.

- What's playing at the movies? - Bet we saw it.

I'll bet we didn't.

We saw it- Naughty Marietta and Murder in the Blue Room.

- Come on, Rider! - Comin'!

You take care of the son and heir.

It's not gonna be a boy. It's gonna be a girl. I told ya!

I know you told me, but you don't say how you know.

He knows. Last year, on Mother's birthday, he predicted a storm.

- And what did we get? - Hail!

Hail Columbia is what somebody's gonna get if they don't eat.

Eat!

- Rider! - Oh, honey, bring home some sarsaparilla.

- I have a craving. - God. Pregnant women.

Can I tune in?

Sure.

Yowsah. It's gonna be a girl.

You witch.

What's in the oven?

Ah! Them is your grandmother's surprise.

Eat!

Alexandra is ready for lunch.

Yes, ma'am. I know.

Let me take it up.

You're gonna have to sit with Mrs. Alexander.

Make her eat. Otherwise she won't touch a thing.

Niles, put the paper under my arm.

Mmm!

That'll only upset her.

- Tell Mother I'll read to her later. - All right.

Ouch! Oh!

Did ya eat?

Did ya eat?

Holland.

Holland. You in here?

Damn you. What are you doing in the dark anyway?

I'm thinking. Close the door.

Thinking? About what?

Old lady Rowe. Damned old bitch!

What is it?

A snowman.

Ada made it.

People always call it a hawk.

It's really a peregrine falcon.

Peregrine for Perry.

It is my ring, isn't it?

You gave it to me, didn't you?

Cripe's sake, yes. I gave it to ya.

Now, will you forget about the ring.

Just wanted to make sure.

Look, the ring was granddaddy's.

When he died, it went to Father, 'cause he was the oldest.

Then when Father got killed I got it...

because I was the oldest.

Only by 20 minutes.

I'm still the oldest.

So I can do anything I want to do with it. Can't I?

I told you you can have it. It's yours, and I don't ever want it back.

What about this?

Shut up about that.

If you ever tell anybody on me-

- - Shh! Listen!

I thought so. You are playing in here.

You know we're not supposed to.

What's that?

That's Grandpa Perry's ring...

and it's supposed to be buried.

I'm gonna tell. You just wait until my daddy gets home.

You just see if I don't tell.

Holland. H-He saw the ring.

I know.

Don't worry, little brother.

- He's gonna tell Uncle George. - No, he's not.

You can have the ring back.

This too.

Take 'em.

I don't want 'em, Niles. I gave 'em to you.

Come on, little brother. Let's get outta here.

Father.

- Father. - Hey, Niles! What you doin'? Now, come on!

I'm gonna tell!

Only Piggy Lookadoo would have rats for pets.

Rats for a rat.

Come on, Holland. Let's get outta here.

You killed it, Holland.

You killed it.

Mother!

Mother!

Niles.

- - Mother, you came down.

So I did.

Are these for me?

Yes. Just for you.

How lovely. From Ada's garden?

Mm-hmm.

Mother, come and sit.

Please sit and talk.

- But I'm not dressed. - No one will see.

- Just the two of us. - All right.

It's all right, Mother. Please!

No.

I can't. Not today.

What have you been doing today?

Oh.

Reading, as usual.

You still reading The Good Earth?

Forever The Good Earth.

The librarian says she'll get Anthony Adverse.

Maybe Monday.

Monday. Now, what's today? Wednesday.

I hope the ashes went out.

It's Friday- fish night. And it's summer.

No ashes.

Of course. How stupid!

Your birthdays are in March.

I remember.

You and Holland both got those cowboy outfits...

with the fancy stitching on the boots and-

What's that?

Just some stuff.

It was Father's.

Mother, are you okay?

Yes, of course, darling.

Russell!

Russell!

Niles, I need a spool of mercerized cotton.

Can Russell borrow your bicycle and go to town and get it?

Sure, Aunt Vee, only it's got a flat.

- Can he borrow Holland's then? - Sure, Aunt Vee.

Thank you, dear.

Russell!

Russell!