00:23Hello out there, Peabody here.
00:25And I'm Mr. Peabody's trusty boy, Sherman.
00:28Right, trusty boy.
00:29And now we'll be off for another exciting journey back into history.
00:33Ready, Mr. Peabody.
00:34What shall I set the Wayback for today?
00:36For the year 1874.
00:38Check.
00:38And the place?
00:39Deadwood, South Dakota, where we'll meet that colorfulness of the old vest, Calamity Jane.
00:44The Wayback responded beautifully, and in less than an instant we were teleported back through time,
00:48where we found ourselves standing in front of the Deadwood Overland Stage Company.
00:52Clear the streets!
00:54Calamity Jane is coming in with the noon stage, and she's at it again!
00:58I beg your pardon, sir, but why all the excitement just because Calamity Jane is driving in the noon stage?
01:04That's just it!
01:05She ain't driving!
01:06She's sitting inside the stage with the passengers.
01:09Look out!
01:10Here she comes!
01:12We just managed to leap to the seat of the doorway when the driver of the stage roared through the
01:16center of town,
01:17narrowly missed a wagon loaded with dynamite,
01:19and came to a thudding, awesome pile of pay near the livery stable.
01:25End of the line!
01:27Everybody out!
01:29Is everybody all right?
01:31Yeah, cuss it!
01:32It certainly is fortunate that you missed the wagon load of dynamite, or it would have been a calamity.
01:37What do you mean, fortunate?
01:38I was hoping something like that would happen.
01:41That's why I was letting the stage run wild.
01:43Golly, what for?
01:45Because nothing ever happens to me, that's why.
01:48What's the use of having a swell name like Calamity if you can't have a Calamity once in a while?
01:54Hmm, you do have a point there.
01:56Folks is beginning to talk.
01:58Watch, I'll show you what I mean.
02:00Before our startled eyes, Calamity walked over to the dynamite wagon and calmly lit a stick of dynamite.
02:05Now, you'd think that a lit stick of dynamite would cause an awful ruckus, wouldn't you?
02:09Well, yeah, yes, I would say that.
02:11Mr. Peabody, make her throw it away. It'll go off any second.
02:14Oh, don't fret, sonny. With my luck, it won't go off.
02:18But, see, it's a dude.
02:21That's dud.
02:22And what a shame. You seem to have a nice little calamity going for you there.
02:26Oh, I've got to start having calamities pretty soon, or I'm afraid it's going to break my spirit.
02:31Curious to see what Jane's next attempt at having a calamity would be,
02:34we followed her to the stockyards, where she entered a corral containing the largest, meanest-looking bull I had ever
02:40seen.
02:43Uh-oh. She's going to get it this time. Look, the bull is charging.
02:47But Jane's unwanted luck still held, for the bull missed her by at least three feet through a fence and
02:51into a tree.
02:56That's incredible. He missed.
02:57He misses every day. The silly critter can't see a thing without his glasses.
03:03For the rest of that day, Calamity Jane tried everything imaginable to have a calamity.
03:08She even tried to sit on a tackle, but was saved by a rivet in her jeans.
03:12That's no use. Guess I'll just have to change my name to Lucky Lucy. Forget the whole thing.
03:18She can't do that. Can't you think of something, Mr. Peabody?
03:22I already have, Sherman. I suggest that instead of changing your name, you simply change your luck.
03:28How am I going to do that?
03:29Very simple. Wait here. Crossing the street to the general store, I made a purchase, then quickly returned and handed
03:34the package to Calamity.
03:36What am I supposed to do with this?
03:37Drop it.
03:38Drop it?
03:39Drop it.
03:40Well, it sounds a little cuckoo, but okay, if you say so.
03:46No, you've done it. I broke something.
03:49You were supposed to. You see, there was a mirror in that package.
03:52I get it, Mr. Peabody. Now she's going to have seven years' bad luck.
03:56That is correct.
03:57Shucks, and you look like such a smart little critter.
04:00I thought you had an ID, but that breaking a mirror business is the silliest thing I ever heard.
04:05Gosh, Mr. Peabody, she doesn't believe in it.
04:08She will. Any minute now, Sherman.
04:12Oh, my God. What's the matter with it? You all right there?
04:15What happened?
04:17Calamity Jane just had an awful calamity. Got run over by a wagonload of chicken.
04:22Chicken what?
04:23Just chicken. There was only one in the wagon.
04:27Well, that looks like the start of her bad luck. You did it again, Mr. Peabody.
04:31Quite. For in the next seven years, Calamity Jane had one calamity after another,
04:35the most famous of which was the time she was trying to light an old stove that exploded.
04:40And covered the countryside for miles around with black soot.
04:45Really, Mr. Peabody?
04:46Really, Sherman.
04:48How do you think the Black Hills of South Dakota got black?
04:51How do you think the Black Hills?
04:52Kind of with black.
04:55All the white locks in the States.
04:56All the white.
05:00Very nice.
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