 It's 830 remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best makers of hallmark reading cards bring you Lon McAllister in George Agnew Chamberlain scudder who's scudder hay on the hallmark playhouse Week hallmark brings you Hollywood's greatest stars and outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors The distinguished novelist mr. James Hilton Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton tonight on our hallmark playhouse We dramatize a story by George Agnew Chamberlain called scudder who scudder hay a Summit exciting title well matching the story of a boy whose love for animals filled his heart and mind and nourished the spirit from which Eventually, he drew a lasting personal happiness Now a love of animals is one of the simplest and best ways in which a boy can come to terms with life And I must admit I like mr. Chamberlain story just because it's about this Behind its charm and appeal there is that deeper meaning which every one of us who loves a dog or a horse knows by heart To play the part of the hero We couldn't have chosen better than an actor who not so long ago was a boy himself One of Hollywood's most promising young actors Lon McAllister And now a word about hallmark cards from Frank gas before we begin the first act of scudder who scudder hay When you want to remember your friends There's one way to be sure the card you send receives an extra welcome Look for that identifying hallmark on the back when you select it for words to express your feelings and designs to express Your good taste that hallmark on the back is your guide like the sterling on silver It's a mark of distinction that all quickly recognized and it tells your friends. You cared enough to send the very best And now hallmark playhouse presenting George Agnew Chamberlain scudder who scudder hay starring Lon McAllister The earth comes alive in the springtime and so does the heart of a boy The branches of trees quiver with new life shaking off the sleepiness of winter The birds dance in the wind the snow that lays silent on the hills melts with the first touch of sunbeams And joins the mighty silver rush of streams and Brooks as they hurried to a waiting seat Now Dominic is only 18 but the magic of youngness in springtime makes him feel 18 cubits high Makes you want to leap the fences of the Dominic farms if he wore 20 Now Dominic is in love but with nobody to whisper his love to no living creature to share all the wonder of an 18-year-old springtime Paul yes, no give me a hand for a second unwinding the fishing line Sure snag you hold the pole up rigid now get the knots out in the twinkle new Dominic you get back to work It's your Mrs. Paul. Yeah, I know boy You don't care much for a step my do your snag I'd rather not say Paul. Well, you don't have to tell me I know You hate her the way tomatoes a drain Those I do too Game for you no good son when there's a pastor to be plowed money to be made. Oh, do you want us to starve that finishes it? Woman, I'm sick to death of your yarpening carpet You don't talk to me that way. Well, I'm through. I'm not a farming man. I'm a seafarer man And that's where I'm going you don't dare watch me walk away as I am with not but two feet and my two good hands I'm going to you got to take me with you if you can ship out so can I You got to go back. I won't do it hang around is all asks and hang around until you find out for yourself What it is you really want? Every man's got to find one great love in his life Sometimes it's a woman Sometimes it's a thing like to see Sometimes you're lucky and you find both I hope you're lucky snug But if you find it when you find it making a part of your life Part of 24 hours of every day you'll live Good hunting snag. Goodbye Paul Happy sailing I've sure got no hanklin to go back to the Dominic farm. Well, a husky lad like you has no call to fence it How'd you like to work for me? Maybe how much? Oh Ten dollars a week with dinner Sunday's off and sleep to home starting now you can ride into town with me Gotta size me up a team of mules mules. Yeah, here's the ad right here planes day print it up big in the weekly carrier for sale to prime Texas mules in good condition only three hundred dollars You I think I'd like that Move over Roar you just got yourself a hired hand Adam will you aren't they beauties 17 hands at the withers plenty thick neck some good gray clothes creamy whites more their color Roar and look at them ears Mighty ears standing up as if they was they was paying attention to the whole wide world You like them all right. Oh, I like and fine. Well, so do I I'm going in and buying you wait here's not okay Say you uh, you you the stable boy. Yep. Well, tell me something. What are you them mules? Don't tell you sonny. Oh, I'll keep your secret Well, all right boy. Here's the straight facts Them is one driver mules One driver mules. Yep Ever since their driver got killed in the war nobody else can take him out When it comes to driving they just won't what's their names? One's moonbeam tothers crowded Hello there moonbeam Howie Crowder My name is snug. All right boys. I can't wait to get them bridled up and watch them pull I'm looking forward to that too Roar look for your pa How does that set with you rad? Makes no never mind one way or the other After chores, um, will you go walking with me sometime around twilight time red? Oh grow up snug. You're just a kid. I'm a whole year older than you. Well, you ain't a man yet. Maybe not Maybe not Anyone ever ever tell you your your hair is like ripe wheat or the color of the rising sun Oh go help Pa with the mule snug Sure rad sure Come on Crowder. Come on moonbeam Meet Tony snug Mind if I come into your shack for a spell? Yeah, howdy boy Beautiful try right, ain't it? Is it I hadn't noticed All right snug spill it old Tony What's eating away at you? Well, I ain't got no place to go Tony. I I can't go back to domini farm and face my step mom Rad won't even look at me twice. Hey, you just got to sell pity snug You know, may I know to get acquainted with the way of mule things Now mule never feels sorry for yourself You know about mules Tony for sure do tell which credit god they were made and the gentlest and the most sensible Rory McGeltis bought a self-appearance mules for only 300 dollars. What's wrong with them? Nothing Uh, Tony you ever hear of one driver mules? Sure That's a blemish. Well, are they dumb or what? Oh, I don't ever use that word around a mule Think mules it's dumb these folks. I know how dumb I am Tony, but But how do you make critters love you? You talking about mules boy or about female girls As for instance that blue white peaches and cream one that rad McGill. I'm talking about murals Tony I remember your maw snug You real maw She always said some as pretty faces I remember But then this doesn't has to make up for it with extra loving hearts Yeah, it's a trick son with mules and with peaches and cream girls too It's rad Snug I tried to bridle the mules and they kicked so it made him mad now He's beaten him with a pitchfork and threatening to kill him come quit. Come on Tony. We got to save them mules Listen to me roar. Listen just for a minute. I'll pay you five dollars a week for a whole year Five dollars a week out of your witnesses here. Here's the deal You pay me fucks again become my property. You agree to that? I I agree. All right. Come on, Tony No easy moonbeam Top of the evening to you crowder. He is fine mules boy. I don't know what good they are if they can't be drove Maybe you'll find a way up Come on. Let's go moonbeam going for a walk crowder You see wouldn't I tell you? Smartest places right this way moonbeam. Come on follow along crowder Come on. Yeah, I'm going to tell you something snub There's a cry other than up or get up It's kind of mystic Designed to reach a mules heart. What kind of a cry Tony? You won't find it in any book or in the memory of many living men What's kind of magic with mules? But you got to save it for a big occasion something special Bigger than a job or money or anything. Talk to me, Tony. What's the cry? He just came over and he said home Scudder who? Scudder hey Scudder who? Scudder hey I'll remember that Tony and we'll save it for a real special time Scudder who? Scudder hey Just a moment. We'll return to the second act of scudder who scudder hey starring lawn mcallister You know words and the way they are used are one of the most powerful forces in our lives They have the power to deepen the affection of those we love to heighten their happiness to comfort their sorrow We all know this and know how important it is to find the right words to express our feelings Perhaps that's why most of us when we try to put words on paper find ourselves chewing on the end of a pencil It's here that hallmark cards can help Because of the almost endless variety and the great care given to the wording of every hallmark card You will find a hallmark card that seems to have been written especially for you The words so accurately and beautifully express your feelings Equally important when you select a hallmark card is the comfortable knowledge that you will find these words Surrounded by beauty and presented in the good taste you demand of anything that bears your personal signature That's why it's so easy to find a hallmark card that says what you want to say Just the way you want to say it and to find one for every person every occasion you want to remember It's because of standards like these that people everywhere have come to look for the hallmark on the back of their greeting cards They know that like sterling on silver The hallmark on the back is a mark of distinction that all quickly recognize And realize you cared enough to send the very best Now back to james hilton and the second act of scudder who scudder hay is starring lawn mccallister Daniel snug dominion made a discovery greater than reaching the north pole or finding gold in his backyard He has discovered a girl But rad seems almost beyond reach And when snug sees her face it gives him the hollow feeling of a hungry kid on the wrong side of a bakery window And to cover up his loneliness. He tries to meet the challenge of two mules two one driver mules Gotta get him bridled up. Tony. We got to drive him. It's awful important. It's a fair snow easy does it Yeah Hey, uh boy Little big wire And they're bright on full straps are all shit to hitch them up. Thanks, Tony Now if I talk to a real sweet, do you think they'll stand still try it? I'm steady moonbeam Look at them ears Quiet crouter. We ain't gonna hurt you none Be old gentle now honest There Tony moonbeam stood still she didn't even twitch a muscle. Hey, it's cause you got respect for now crouter Just a little of the same easy easy He'd done it. I bridled him All the asses come and respect like you shoot her for all the god's creatures. I said to myself They're not stubborn. They're my friends. Yeah, it's what done it boy The man that comes in the mule with thoughts in these minds are fighting it and going to get fought back Mules know what you think hitch up the wagon and and try to ride him, Tony me no Hey, you've got to ride him snug Well, all right, but but you know, I think this light wagon is kind of an insult to him Maybe they can't be bothered pulling such a trifle See how about this fallen log you always wanted to move if we hitched the tow chain to it Well, that's a challenge for anybody. Would you get a ride him snug? Where's the chain? Right over yonder You just tell me where you want your old log pulls and I'll bet you anything moonbeam and crouter will haul it Here here we be Now help me hitch it up. Tony. All right, boy Yes, did he know Yeah, we'd be Yeah These reins blown in your hands. Thanks, Tony You got a mighty job of pulling to do now moonbeam You got a job worthy of all them muscles crouter. Now do it good Pull it good Tony They ain't listening give them time They're getting a feel of it sizing the job up when they mine This is an important time the first one, Tony Should I use the cry the man? Not now not yet Just keep calling them by name With affection Hot moonbeam Do it good crouter They're moving Tony. They're pulling feel good and strong and steady. They're driving for me That's gold man. You got damn boys Any Logan camp in the neighborhood will hire a couple of mules like that when there's a man like you who can drive them A man like me, Tony Yeah, how much I quit you roar I got a job hauling logs with the mule team pays plenty good to 12 dollars a day 12 dollars a day With my mules they ain't your mules now roar. We got a bargain They're my mules if you don't pay me the five dollars you owe me for sundown. It's a saturday night Then what's do's do? Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about roar You see I got a whole heap of money coming but but at the login camp. They don't pay up until monday So if you'll just give me until monday not me not for a second 10 more minutes when the mules are mine again. I'm gonna drive them or I'm gonna kill them Sell their weight for glue or you wouldn't do that Not to moonbeam and crowder. I'm gonna get the sheriff so we can make this good and legal roar You can just the mules to buy right now smart boy. Oh you oh Hello rad. I heard Riggit, do me a big favor snub What kind of favor? Well, I I got some money here. I've been putting it away for a party dress, but I want you to have it here Five dollars I'll pay you back monday sure. Oh, you don't have to but the roar is your own paw Go on run after him and give it to him snug and then Well, remember once you ask me if I go walking with you in the twilight It's almost twilight snuck I'll be right back Roar roar. Are you shouting baboon? Here's your blame five dollars There's so many things a fellow like me Wants to say to a girl like you But they they just can't be hitched up into words I know snuck There's a Something that takes place in the quietness togetherness Don't arrive from words I never wrote a book to you either snuck If anything is I I thought you'd never even look at me twice You were the kid down the road the kid on the domini farm But all of a sudden like I saw you one day And you weren't a boy anymore snug. You were strong and sure and and you held the whole world in your hand I know what done it rad I know learning how to how to love Changes a boy into a man My pa told me it would happen And it's just like pa's fist coming back to help me fight And pa's heart helping mine to beat faster I remember how he said it too Sometimes it's a woman Sometimes it's a thing Sometimes you're lucky and you find both I hope you're lucky he said But if you find it and when you find it Make it part of your life Part of 24 hours of every day you live There you be rad My pa's words Proposed to you I want you to be a part of Of every day I live Oh snug You don't have to write me a book rad I know I know Sure rad. What's up? Well, you know pa got so blame and busting mad about you and your mules that he brought himself a tractor A big mechanical giant But now he's got it stuck midfield in the mud and he's shouting so i'm afraid he's gonna bust a blood vessel More than demon crowded me will fix him But he says he'll kill you if you ever come on his land. He's that mad That'd be a harsh way to treat me if if i'm gonna be a son-in-law Every time I even start to mention your name. He shuts me up with a holler Come on Let me and my mules could pull you out Well, if I don't pull out that tractor for a sundown you get the mules and me as a hand for a whole year But if I do I owe you nothing and you give rad me your blessings if she'll have me You're on come on moonbeam. Come on crowder. We got work to do all hitched up and ready to move You please god make it work. All right moonbeam It's time now crowder Casting it with their hearts and their muscles beyond with their brains Figuring just how important it is. He's got our heart roar. You I know it is tony. Now's the time Now listen to me moonbeam perk up those beautiful ears Fascinating history surrounding the word hallmark that has its parallel and the public's preference for hallmark cards today Back in the 13th century in the reign of edward III The hallmark law was passed requiring that every silversmith guild in england used an identifying hallmark The hallmark of a particular group became famous and respected in direct proportion to the skill and artistic abilities of the people who made it And today collectors of old english silver can quickly judge the worth of a piece by looking for the hallmark on the back Also today discriminating people recognize hallmark on the back of a greeting card As they have found through the years that hallmark on the back of a card has a meaning of its own It represents the skill of craftsmen who for years have designed greeting cards with but one thought in mind To give you a card you'll be proud to send and one that will be received with pleasure Because it says what you want to say the way you want to say it Because the message is surrounded with beauty and presented with the good taste you demand of anything that bears your personal signature That's why hallmark on the back of a card has come to mean you cared enough to send the very best Here again is james hilton We were very glad to have you with us on hallmark playhouse tonight on the callister your performance as snug was excellent Thank you. Mr. Hilton was nice being here again. You always select such interesting stories for hallmark playhouse How do you manage to do it week after week? Well, it's not easy But the world's so full of interesting and kindly people long and we have a tradition of friendliness to uphold you know That's right hallmark cards Say i think you folks are doing a great thing in reminding all of us of the the need for mail to the boys in the service As a former service man yourself, you certainly know what it means. You were in the air force, weren't you? Yes, I was and I remember mail call time was the highlight of our day I'm sure it is to all the boys long and we hope our reminders help to increase their mail What are you having on hallmark playhouse next week, mr. Hilton next week on our hallmark playhouse We shall dramatize one of the great legends of america the story of johnny apple seed Adapted from a novel by new world white hillis entitled the quest of john Chapman And as our star we have invited that distinguished actor lures to be with us Our hallmark playhouses every thursday our director producer is bill gay Our music was composed and conducted by lin marie and our story tonight was dramatized by london's and lee Until next thursday then this is james hilton saying good night Well only in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best The role of rad tonight was played by barbara eiler bill conrad was rora mcgill Earl lee tony and judith and mill dominey by virginia greg and ted decorsia Remember inflation is everybody's business and you can help fight it by buying only what you need when you need it By paying no more than fair prices Asking no special treatment making no under the counter deals by doing a better job at your work By not raising prices for what you sell Remember inflation hurts everybody but everybody working together can kill inflation This is frank goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when hallmark playhouse returns to present New heirs in the story of johnny apple seed adapted from white new or hillises the quest of john chaplain on the hallmark playhouse